The Delta independent., 1904-10-07
GENERAL News items
News from Over the Country
Briefly Told.

A holdup robbed four men in saloon
at l547 fremont St. Denver last Sum-
day night about o'clock.
/ Mine owners say that the injunction
recently allowed against them does
not prevent their notices being posted.
Half the town of Watrous, N NJ.
was destroyed by food and at least
twelve pc. sons were drowned last Sum-
day night.
The French government is said to be
constructing number of submarine
torpedo boats that will be able to make
% knots an hour.
Colorado Christian Endeavorers will
hold their sixteenth annual state Chris
tian Endeavor convention at Boulder,
October 13 to lG.
Joseph Smith. president of the Nor
mon church recently delivered sermon
in which he advised his followers not
to sell their land to gentiles.
George A. Page, charged with COM
pGcity in the Criminal operation which
caused the death of Jennie Price in
Denver on July 26. was discharged
Tuesday by Justice W. A. Rice.
George Bruce Cortelyou former sec
retary of the department of commerce
and labor and now chairman of the Re
publican national committee, will be-
come postmaster general in the death
of Henry c. Payne
Harry c. Payne postmaster general
of the United States. a member of the
Republican national committee died at
his apartments at the Arlington hotel
in Washington D. C. Tuesday after an
illness of several days.
All Rome is singing the praises of ].
Respont Morgan, who has returned to
the cathedral at Ascol- -Piceno the cope
of Pope Nicholas ~, which was stolen
some time ago and which the American
fuancier had bought in London.
The Odd Fellows of Colorado are
planning to build state home, to cost
in the vicinity of $50, 600. Glenwood
Springs, the world-famous summer re-
sort of the Centennial State, probably
will tender the Grand lodge a building
site.
Congressman H. NJ. Hogg addressed
l, 100 people in the opera house at Vic
tor last Monday night The audience
was most enthusiastic and gave him a
royal reception when introduced. His
speech was along the same line as the
one delivered in Cripple Creek Saturday
night.
A representative from the office of
Attorney E. NJ. Richardson of Denver
appeared before the supreme court
Monday morning and asked that the
petition for rehearing in the Meyer
habeas corpus case be dismissed. The
matter was taken under advisement by
the court
Four tons of pure gold is the estima
ted output of the Cripple Creek district,
Colorado's greatest gold camp, for the
month of September, 1904. Many new
properties have begun to ship ore dur
ing the last few months, and recent
valuable discoveries have aroused new
interest in the district.
District Judge Booth Malone decided
Tuesday that the ordinance authorizing
$400. 900 bond issue for the purpose of
constructing an auditorium in Denver
was illegal and granted an injunction
against the issuance of such bonds.
The city will appeal the case to the
supreme court.
Angry because of his attempts to
force his undesired attentions upon her,
and determined to repulse him at any
cost, Mrs. Rosa Barbadi, - years old.
in New York City Monday shot and
killed Michael Rago in an east side ten
ent house. She held baby in her
arms while doing the shooting.
Thomas Carr, a colored laborer and
old time citizen of Gunnison met death
Tuesday by breaking his neck. Carr
was working at George Lightley S ranch
on Ohio creek and while talking with
the other men stepped backward off a
hay stack which was only few feet
high and broke his neck in the fall.
Trinidad was damaged to the extent