Gilpin observer., 1911-07-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

The Salida Commercial Club will
give it's first annual banquet soon.
The Colorado Springs carnival takes
place July 81 to August 5, inclusive.
The contract for the new county
Jail at Greeley has been let for $4,000
The school census of Mesa county
shows 6,121 children in the scholastic
age.
The Fort Collins branch OF the I'm
ion Pacific will begin business on July
18th.
ne cottonwood trees on the streets
of Loveland will be cut down Lext
winter.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation held it's tenth annual conven'
tion in Denver.
Conditions in northern Colorado and
than ever before.
Fred Allen has killed seventy-sev-
en- rattlesnakes on his quarter sew
ton near Fooston.
]. NJ. McCutcheon, wealthy pion-
eer of La Sale has donated land to
that town for park.
C. w. Jones, aged sixty, who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder, died.
Dan Cassidy. one of the motorcycle
riders at Lakeside park, Denver, was
badly hurt in an accident recently.
Ignacio Revoc, miner from Old
Mexico, was killed by fall of rock
In the c. F. & l. mine at Berwind.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band.
The Pueblo state fair and the Den
yer interstate fair have agreed to CO.
operate in an effort to have better at
fractions.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture will attend the
Dry Farming Congress in Colorado
Springs.
E. B. Burke. who was injured some
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek. has been awarded $4,000
damages.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for the appointment of an addi-
tional federal Judge for the district
of Colorado.
The customs department in Denver
handled s23s.s66.74 worth of business
for Uncle Sam during the month end
ing June 30th.
Martin Van Buren Kelsey, one OF
the first settlers of the Platte valley.
and resident since 1859, died at Fort
Lupton, aged 72.
The public playground at Montrose
has been opened and 800 children are
using the swings and teeter boards
and played games.
The Grand Junction $450,000 water
bonds have been sold for 81 cents flat
The bonds call for the delivery OF
$2SO.OOO on August 31st.
Spontaneous combustion caused a
fire which threatened the Hillrose al
, falfa mill, but the blaze was extin
/ guished with damage of 5000.
r John Herman, a rancher. aged fifty
, Of Salida, fell head first from tree
, eighteen feet above the ground. He
, ran home and fell unconscious. He
: was seriously hurt.
, Jim Flynn of Pueblo has gone te
+. New York to make arrangements tt
meet Carl Morris, the white mans
r hope" in a boxing contest in the lat
) ter city in the near future.
, Driving his own engine from Delta
to Grand Junction, fifty-one miles, ir
less than forty minutes, Enginer vii
liam Scholtz won a race with deotf
and arrived at the bedside OF his wife
before she passed away.
The Palisades orchardists who art
in controversy with the government
over the construction OF low line
canal in connection with the Gunnisoi
, project have been given more time II
the negotiations going on.
. After every arrangement had beer
l completed for the funeral OF Thomas
Carr, Jr., who died in Chicago, Jul.
Z 3, the remains of another man sen
l to Trinidad from Chicago, reached thu
. home of Mrs. Thomas Carr, Sr.
!. Dexter T. Sapp, of Gunnison. thu
: newly elected commander Of the De
, partment of Colorado and Wyoming
! of the G. A. r., has been appointed ;
!. member of the board Of trustees o
the Soldiers and Sailors Home a
Monte Vista.
Governor Shafroth has been serve,
with papers In the case brought II
the Supreme Court OF the Unite,
: States by the state OF Wyomin,
: against the state of Colorado for tn
3 purpose of preventing the diversion O
! water for the Laramia-Poudre irriga
J ton project in the northern part o
the state.
Ten miles OF track Of the Soutl
Park line OF the Colorado & South
n arm railroad are either washed ont O