Gilpin observer., 1911-04-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

The Salida ball team has been or.
ganized for the season of 1911.
The ministers of Grand Junction
have organized baseball nine.
The second election within two
weeks was held in Colorado Springs
Glenwood Springs big annual festi-
val, Strawberry Day, will be held June
18th.
A. Sumoto, Japanese was struck
by an engine at Cripple Creek and
killed.
The government has selected the
site for the Federal building in Du-
range.
The public school building at Glen
wood Springs was recently damaged
by fire.
H. c. Roberts. who disappeared
from Montrose April 1st has not been
heard of.
T. E. Nycherley, a miner, was at
tackled and killed at Lafayette by four
Mexicans.
June Srd is set for large county
meeting in Greeley of members of the
Farmers Union.
The county board has let the con-
tract for the new high school building
at Castle Rock.
Fruit men of Fremont county say
their fruit crops have not been dam
aged by the cold.
A chapter of Sons of the American
Revolution has ben organized at Fort
Collins with eighteen members.
In last and exciting game OF base
ball the Lupton Blues defeated the La
Sale reds by score of 2 to 1.
La Plata county, as usual, escaped
damage from the cold spell, owing to
apples and pears not being in bloom.
Lee Holmes Hilton, banker, son
of James l.. Hilton, of Denver, was
killed in a street duel in Sylvana
Ga.
Helen Walker, aged 4, daughter o.
George Walker Of Loveland, died as
the result Of a kick received from
colt.
The tri-weekly service of the star
route between Highmore and De
Beque will be permanently resumed
May 1st.
The saloon and residence of Joe
Mantilli. at Starkville. also a public
dance hall, burned with loss of
$1,000.
The State Board OF Pardons has
ordered the release from the peniten-
tiary Of John w. Reeve and Frank E.
Kiser.
The State Industrial School base
ball team of Golden defeated the Man.
ual Training team of Denver, score
13 to 3.
There are sixty men after municipal
jobs in Greeley and the new City Coun-
Gil has held secret session to consid.
er their claims.
Sunday funerals may be barred in
Greeley If a committee appointed by
the ministerial alliance report favor
ably on the plan.
Stopped by two masked highway
men in. Pueblo. A. 7. Thomas. presi-
dent of the Pueblo Feather Company,
was robbed of $53.
No damage has been done to fruit
around La Junta by the cold weather
of the last few days. Buds are not
far enough developed.
Canon City will become a postal
savings depository on May 1st. max
have that distinction.
The Town Council has passed an or
dinance extending the fire limits OF
Manitou SO as to eliminate many If
the tent shacks that increase tire
risks.
Forest Rutherford, former Pueblo
man. was wounded at Douglas, Arz.,
by stray bullet fired during bat
tie across the line in Mexico, re-
Gently.
Attorney Rodelphos II. Gilmore OF
Denver, upon the motion of Irwin b. |
Linton, has been admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court of the
United States.
C. @. Elliege of Denver, a dining car
conductor on the Rio Grande, was al |
most instantly killed In Pueblo by be.
ing run down by an engine in the
Union depot yards.
The elegant new home of st. Mary's |
academy in Denver has been reared to
one-half its full height of four stories,
and will be complete and ready for oc-
cupacy by the school August 1.
There is good prospect that Gree.
ley will have salaried team Of first
class ball players this summer. or
the $4,000 needed, $4,000 has been sub.
scribed to finance the kind OF team
that Greeley wants.
A report reached Telluride that the
headless body Of man had been
found In cabin near Norwood and
the sheriff, coroner and district attor-