Gilpin observer., 1910-11-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

ttaRRSHtuSo occurring ONSt buC
State Worth Telling.
Governor Shafroth expended ST.
670.75 to be reelected.
The tax levy for Pueblo for next
year will be twenty mills.
Stephen Helps of Bracewell harvest
ed 1000 sacks of potatoes from 80
acres.
Fort Lupton has granted franchise
to the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany.
Efforts are making to form basket
ball league Of Western slope teams Of
Colorado.
Recently at the city hall the dent
lists of Larimer county held a very in
teresting meeting.
Ed Smith of Masonville had the
misfortune to be badly injured by
vicious hog recently.
The demonstration train will arrive
at Rocky Ford Wednesday, December
30th, and will remain over night.
Ordway Lodge A. F. and A. NJ. has
been chartered by the Grand Lodge Of
Masons and given number 1876.
Manitou may get letter carrier
system, as the postoffice there did
over $4,000 worth of business this
year..
Hon. w. H. McCaskill, representa-
tive from Otero county, died very
suddenly in Rock Ford, the result Of
apoplexy.
Davis C. Ortiz, bartender Of
fueblo, threw himself under the
wheels of freight engine and was in
stantly killed.
Victor Peterson, a farmer in the
Fort Collins district grew beets test
ing as high as % per cent sugar and
bringing $500.
The sounding of bugle may be
adopted as the official signal in the
grade schools of Denver for assem-
bling the children.
Pansies are blooming in Greeley
gardens. P. H. Davis picked large
box full from his yard, covering them
for the first time.
Shortly after beginning work Will
liam Roddy, aged 55, a machinist in
the Colorado Midland shops at Colo
RADIO Springs, dropped dead.
! General Albert H. Jones, one of the
best known of the older citizens OF
Denver, and former United States
marshal of Colorado Is dead.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual poultry show of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Associa-
tion in Fort Collins next month.
Road Master w. ]. Trainor reports
that the county has put in some ce-
ment bridges and corrugated culverts
on range line roads, west of Ordway.
The Farmers union of Mesa county
was formally organized at a meeting
in Grand Junction of delegates from
Palisade, Fruita. DeBeque and Clifton.
A special train from Colorado to
the Chicago land show on Colorado
day, December /, is planned by the
Arkansas Valley Commercial Associa.
tion.
A permit has been granted for the
erection of machine shop in Fort
Collins. Kansas capital is interested
1t will make alfalfa mill and farm
machinery.
The effective advertising being
done at Grand Junction, on behalf of
the Grand valley in the East is al
ready having its effect in the influx
of homeseekers.
Plans are being perfected for
good roads convention which will be
held in Denver. probably in January,
under the auspices of the Rocky Noun
tain Highway Association.
James Dairymple, chief deputy mine
inspector under John d. Jones. has
been appointed temporarily to the po-
sition of state mine inspector by Gov.
ernor Shafroth to succeed Jones.
Colorado railroad and land men are
flocking to Chicago, which will be the
Mecca of the agricultural interests of
the country during the United States
Land and Irrigation Exposition, Nov.
10 to Dec. 3.
Milton Fish, pastor OF the Mesa Bap.
tist church, Pueblo, caused a sensa-
tion in his congregation when he read
his resignation and gave as his main
reason the irregularity with which his
pay was coming.
The students Of Colorado college,
Colorado Springs, have started cam
paign to raise $500 to pay the salary
OF Harry Ewing, missionary in
charge Of Y. M. c. A. work at Buenos
Ayres. who is supported by the col
lege.
The tax levy for 1911 on the as.
sessed valuation Of all real, personal
and mixed property in Denver. which
was fixed by the board of aldermen
in special session, is slightly higher
than that of last year. For general