Gilpin observer., 1911-01-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Rumor says the Kuenzel Process of
smelling ores is to be established at
Salida.
The town of Hungerford, on the
Union Pacific railway, had it's first
fire recently.
| George Gary, aged SO, resident of
Evans for many years, was asphyx-
lated recently.
| The first annual Mesa County Doc
tors. institution was held in Grand
junction recently.
The first annual reunion of Colorado
cowboys, held recently in Denver, was
a great success.
Ten new cases of small pox have
come to the attention of the Boulder
city health officer.
The will of James H. Hilliard was
filed in the County Court in Denver
and amounted to $4,000.
T. A. McLachlan of Trinidad has
been appointed assistant general man.
ager of the Wootton coal mines.
An effort is to be made by Post.
master Harrington of Montrose to
have the postoffice closed Sundays.
Chronic illness led Charles Duncan,
fifty-two years old, laborer, to kill
himself by cutting his throat in Den
yer.
The county commissioners have
granted two saloon licenses in Mar,
shall, which was voted wet in the last
election.
Senator Guggenheim has been noti-
fled that new postal service has been
established between Longmont and
Estes Park.
formed an association for their mutual
protection against irresponsible peo-
pie.
The Colorado & Southern has sold
1,400,0O0 worth of it's refunding and
extension bonds to Proctor & Borden
of New York.
The body Of Fred Barry. an old
time miner of Silverton. has been
found near that place, where he was
caught by a snowslide.
The bunk house and other buildings
of the big Yellow Medicine mine in
Hinsdale county, were badly damaged
by fire recently.
Kit Carson county claims the dis
tlnction of having built more roads
without state aid than any other coun-
ty in Colorado.
Carson B. Wilson. superintendent of
mails in the Denver postoffice, has
been arrested on a charge of embez- |
zling government funds.
thorough examination of the
fruit trees around Grand Junction,
shows that the recent cold snap has |
rot injured the fruit crop.
Twenty-Five of the liquor cases, filed |
in police court in Colorado Springs, |
against thirty-one druggists and their |
employees, were dismissed.
The Denver Club has leased Wind
sor reservoir, three miles north OF |
Windsor and will build bungalow
for members from the city.
White attempting to light the oven OF |
gas range Mrs. A. w. Franklin of |
Greeley was seriously burned about the .
head and face by an explosion of gas.
According to the figures compiled |
by Forest Supervisor Wheeler's Of
flee, 100000 fish are necessary each
year to stock the streams of Colorado.
Herbert C. Hayden of New York,
aged Is, is coming to Pueblo to ex-
pertinent with new model of mono
plane, which he has been working on
for some time.
Within twenty days bids for the
house will commence, and it is hoped
to have it finished long before the end
of the school year.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Godding Ditch Company, to oper.
ate in Weld county. The capital stock
is placed at 100000.
Colorado Springs realty company
reports the sale of $4,000 acres IN San
Luis valley, south of Alamosa, fo-
100000 to the George H. Paul Devel-
opment Company of Washington, d. C.
Della Jones, negress has notified
Mayor Todd and all the members of
the night police force of Grand juno
ton, that within ten days she will file
suit for damages on the grounds of
false imprisonment.
The Colorado Sportsmens' Associa.
ton is not satisfied with the payment
of fines in punishment for violation
Of the state game and fish laws. That
tody has prepared proposed legisla-
tion substituting Imprisonment as a
punishment for those offenses in.
stead Of fines. 1t Will be presented
10 the General Assembly.
For the first time in its history the
town of Greeley is to be published in
the Colorado-Utah passenger tariff
sheet, effective February 21st, which
will give nassenqers from TINT nain4