Gilpin observer., 1911-10-05
LITTLE coLoRAoo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


ton has been Incorporated.
Fire destroyed one of the buildings
of the Columbia mine, near Ouray.
A warm rain, the first in three
months. has fallen over Weld county.
District Court is in session in Boul.
der, with Judge Neil Graham presid-
ing.
In Denver one hundred men were
affected by the strike on the rail
roads.
The Longmont high school football
team defeated the Greeley Normal
team.
C. A. McLea, who was charged with
robbing the depot at Hotchkiss. was
acquitted.
Seventeen thousand people celebrat-
ed the eleventh annual Pumpkin Pie
Day at Longmont.
Prowers county has instituted suit
to test the validity of the state high
way appropriation.
Big game hunters are crowding into
Meeker and outfitting themselves and
going into the hills.
The State Board of Equalization cut
the original assessment of the rail-
roads of the state $50.O0O.
Idaho Springs business men have
subscribed $4,000 for the building of
the new Floyd Hill wagon road.
An attempt was made by striking
miners at Lafayette to blow up the
store of Bermont G Van Derbergh.
Three hundred delegates attended
the annual convention OF the Colora-
do Federation of Women's Clubs in
Denver.
A summer resort is to be built three
miles below Georgetown. 1t Is said
the resort will be ready for business
in 1912.
One person in every ten who died
in Colorado during the months of
April, May and June were victims
of murder.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Miller, pio-
neer residents of Grand Junction. eel
niversary recently.
Plans for establishment of an indie
pendent sugar factory at Greeley are
being made by Eastern men and farm
ers of that district.
During the county fair at Cortez the
Indians gave the greatest dance ever
held in the state. Thousands of In
dians participated.
Walter Foster, a former Greeley
boy, who escaped from the reforma-
tory at Buena Vista. was re-captured
at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, county
superintendent of schools of Denver,
was the only woman speaker at the
Public Lands convention.
The government revenue agents in
Colorado have been notified that they
are hereafter to enforce the law con-
crning the adulteration of butter.
The first annual fair of Saguache
county was held in Moffat. The ex-
hibits consisted of agriculture, horti-
culture. live stock and poultry.
Caught on the railroad bridge over
the Cache la Poudre river, one mile
north of Greeley. an unknown man
was struck and instantly killed by a
southbound Union Pacific flyer.
James O'Neal. of the Western Fed.
Grafton of Miners. who was on trial
at Cripple Creek for killing Tom Jones.
was found guilty and given four
months in jail.
Charged with having stolen $500
worth of gems and jewelry. the prop.
erty of Lady Moon. owner of stock
ranch near Fort Collins, Mabel Hicks.
a girl who has been working for her.
vas arrested.
When officers went to the home of
John Rhine. on a dry farm west of
Pueblo, they found supply of gro-
csries, provisions and tools which
Rhien admitted he had stolen at diff
ferent times in Pueblo
Thursday, Oct. &c. has been decid-
ed upon as the date of the annual
banquet of Union Colony Pioneers.
| The men and women who founded
Greeley will meet at noon at the Bap-
tist church in that city
A total distribution of nearly a half
| million dollars has already been made
| to the growers of the Grand valley
for the fruit and cantaloupes shipped
out this season, and the bulk OF the
harvest Is yet to be marketed
Montrose will be made the central
distributing station for electro light
and power for the towns Of Ouray,
Delta, Ridgway. Hotchkiss and Paonia
The electric company proposes to
spend 100000 in improving their plan.
In Montrose provided that city gives
them twenty-year franchise.
Judge r. e. Lewis in the United
States Circuit Court issued temporary
injunctions restraining the county of.
ficials of Pueblo and FL Paso counties
from collecting the 1911 taxes as
| sessed against the Santa Fe Railroad