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Delta. Colorado. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1884. STATE NEWS. The ice crop to be put up in Denver this winter is estimated at 200,000 tons. Silverton paid over $70,000 last year in freights to and from Red Mountain. Nellie Dean. a Leadville cyprian, micided by taking morphine on the 19th. Addison Baker, a Colorado pioneer, died on the 20th, at his residence, on Grand avenue. Col. L. C. Ellsworth was on the 24th appointed Receiver of the First National Bank, Leadville. Chapman's flouring mill at Canon City burned on the 21st. Loss between $15,000 and $16,000. Insurance $11,000. The Catholics at Gunnison are buildmg a neat addition to the church, which will be used as a residence by Rev. Father Quinn. While the millers report a surplus of 100,000 bushels of wheat in Colorado, the Farmers' Alliance finds a shortage of some 50,000. Cyrus King, colored. was instantly killed at Denver on the 25th, by being thrown from a wagon, the wheels passing over his head. On the 22d, the failure of the First National Bank of Leadville was announced. Its liabilities to depositors were stated at $325. 000. Governor Grant has appointed John M. Freeman, of Weld county, a delegate to the Western Water Way convention at Washington. The Pryor brothers pay 8877.84 taxes in Huerfano county. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad pays $11,069.11 in the same county. The Arapahoe county commissioners contemplate the purchase of an eighty-acre tract of land down the Platte on which to build a poor house. On the 21st a quarrel at Gunnison over a game of cards ended when old man Kissee was killed and Jack Kellogg war shot in the abdomen. On the 23d Jesse B. Tate. a brakeman slipped and fell under a freight car at Windsor'Station, and his left arm and left leg were terribly crushed. The City bank of Leadville has been summoned to appear in the Supreme court Ton February 11, to show cause why its charter should not be forfeited. P. M. Hinman, of Longmont, died from an over dose of morphine at the St. James hotel, Denver, on the 21st. The deceased had lived in Colorado since the war. Allen L. Johnson,a miner at Alcante, was killed on the 25th, by the explosion of a stick of Hercules powder. which he held in his hand near a fire in order to thaw it. The question of water works is agitating the minds of the people of Telluride, and there is a popular move on foot for establishing such works in the near future. A committee from the Wyoming Territorial Council and House was in Denver on the 19th, for the purpose of buying a portion of the Exposition for Wyoming exhibits. Colonel S. H. Baker, of Montrose, has a party of men at work prospecting the placers on Cutler Creek, near Portland. The result so far has been"very satisfactory. The "conservative" element in the Geeeley Alliance has been overcome, the offers of wheat at $1.25 have been withdrawn, and the asking price has been advanced to $1.50. It was recently discovered that exCounty Treasurer Blair was short in his accounts to the amount of several thousand dollars. His bondsmen will probably adjust the matter. A boulder rolling on the track wrecked Engine No. 49 near Curicanti on the Denver & Rio Grande, killing George Hutchinson, the engineer, and slightly injuring the Areman. Ex-Senator Dorsey filed his answer in the United States courts to the claims of the London creditors. He denies his responsibility for the indebtedness and sets up the plea of bankruptcy. On the evening of the 25th a meeting of bank, was were Leadville, the depositors held in and the funds First National subscribed for pursuing and capturing De Walt, the fleeing president. The residence of Samuel Jacks, at Gardner. was destroyed by fire on the 8th instant. It was said to be the largest adobe building in Huerfano county. The loss is estimated at about $1,500. A Durango hotel clerk endeavored to start a fire in the office with a pint of coal oil, and the consequences were that he caused a fire alarm, fooled five hundred people and burned his face quite badly. A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred at a mine belonging to the Colorrdo Coal and Iron Company at Crested Butte on the 24th, by which fifty-seven men were killed and many more terribly injured. Mrs. Caroline Wharton, an aged
