Gilpin observer., 1911-12-21
LITTLE COLORADO irEMs.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

A highway from Fort Lupton to
Hudson will be built soon.
Fire in Cheyenne Wells did damage
to the amount of about $4,000.
The basketball season at the School
Of Mines has started in earnest.
John c. Wells has been appointed
head coiner at the Denver mint
The amount realized by the P. e. o.
Sisterhood at Longmont, tag day, was
$275.
A municipal market is being con-
sidered by the city commissioners of
Pueblo.
Charles Burnt, farmer of East Ell
Paso county, killed his wife during a
quarrel
The department has authorized the
establishment of postal savings bank
at Saguache
The new high school at Grand
Junction, to cost $4,000, will be COM
pleted by January 1st.
Rev. Frederick Carmon, rector of
Shiiot EpioCOpdl ChuICu dI Sdhoh
City, died in Buffalo, N. Y.
The Douglas County High school
basketball team defeated the Littleton
High school quintet SO to Is.
Representative Rucker has intro
duced bill appropriating 100000 for
public building at Fort Morgan.
Nineteen boys and girls were recent
ly suspended from the Denver public
schools for belonging to forbidden Sc
cret societies.
c. w. Price, formerly of Lincoln.
Neb., and recently resident of Den
yer, has been chosen cashier of the
bank of Evans.
More than seven hundred birds Of
different kinds were exhibited at the
recent show of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association.
Miss Katherine Norris Lower, treas
urer of the Territorial Daughters of
ty years. is dead.
About two inches of snow fell re-
Gently over Weld county and will be of
great benefit to 10000 acres of tall
wheat already up.
Rev. Horace E. Warner, for sew.
eral years presiding elder of the Den.
yer Methodist Church, died at his
home in that city.
Thieves broke into the Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad for the third time
in two months and stole a barrel OF
whisky and a case of cigars.
At the next meeting of the Kersey
Town Board. the Kersey Ice Company
will make application for franchise
to light the city with electricity
Over 200 high school boys from
practically every town in the state at
tended the annual Y. NJ. c. A. confer
ence for older boys of Colorado at
Fort Collins.
The United States Zinc Products
Company will start the old U. S. r. r.
Company's plant in South Canon.
Canon City. January 1st, with so or
60 men.
Motor-propelled section cars have
been ordered by the Colorado G. South
ern railroad to replace the old style
handcar long in use on all roads of the
country.
j. G. Ridge of Pueblo. was arrested
by Game Warden Mccall OF Gunnison,
charged with shooting a deer out of
season near Sargent. Ridge was taken
to Denver
One of the largest real estate deals
made at Fort Lupton for some time
was completed when 7. C. Winbourn
sold his l20-acre farm near Tracyville
to w. w. Burge for $1,000.
George F. Dayton of Colorado
Springs, formerly undersheriff OF FL
Paso county, is testing the city or
dinance that requires dealers in sec
ond-hand wares to have e license.
Work has ben started at Greeley on
the Swedish Baptist church. 1t will
cost more than $4,000 when complet-
ed. Until the edifice can be finished
the basement will be rooted over and
services held there.
Mrs. Lucy p. Jones. prominent
business woman of Salida, is In the
hospital as result of the explosion
Of five gallons Of gasoline She has
numerous burns about the face and
arms. hut is expected to recover.
AS a result of the wonderful show
ing made by the University of Colora-
do football eleven this fall, the cham
pions of the Rocky Mountain division
have been recognized by eastern
football mentors and the football fans
of Colorado will probably witness two
of the biggest football games ever
staged in Colorado next fall.
The offers of settlement for the
right OF way for the High Line canal
have reached the ranchers and the
matter may be closed up within very
few days. The government has of.
fered 20 settle with the ranchers on a
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