Gilpin observer., 1911-07-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Moi gan county mas ndQ one Oh ln'
best rains of the season. "a
Felix Hogberg has been arrested at
Loveland on charge of forgery
The old electric light plant at Buena
Vista has been destroyed by fire.
G. c. Bruce, for three years post
master at Fort Lupton, has resigned.
Horses are beginning to arrive for
the racing matinee at Grand Junction
July 9th.
Steps have been taken to petition
the county Judge to incorporate the
town of Clifton.
A man named Gus Beidler was found
dead in his rom at the Victoria hotel
in Telluride
A party of forty-one tourists. in
automobiles have reached Denver from
Philadelphia.
The Colorado Interstate fair and ex-
position. usually held at Denver, has
been declared off.
The third quarterly conference OF
the Colorado Commercial Executives
was held in Fowler.
A thief stole big pistol from the
desk of the night sergeant in the po-
lice station in Pueblo.
The boys in Logan county between
the ages of six and twentyone exceed
the girls by fifty-seven.
Weldon defeated the Merino ball
team by score Of to 4, securing 16
hits off Herb Bandemoor.
Robert Heizer, aged fifty. and one
of the best known citizens in Bent
county, died at Las Animas.
August 18th Millikin will hold an
election on the question of issuing
water works bonds of $4,000
Charles Holcomb was drowned in
the Uncompangre river near Delta,
while in swimming with friend.
Four crops of alfalfa are to be cut
on number of farms in the Peckham
vicinity. while three is the usual har
vest.
Antoine Johnson, miner, was fata.
ly suffocated by mine gas in the Hia.
watha shaft ON Beacon hill, Cripple
Creek
Nine hundred and sixty persons
have filed on 25O.24O acres in the
Sterling land district since January 1
OF this year.
The Tri-State Telephone Company.
operating in New Mexico and Arizona,
has been merged into the Colorado
Telephone Company.
A Grand Junction man has invented
machine. by the use of which one
man can operate and care for forty
acres of smudge pots.
Greeley claims to lead all other
towns of its size in number of post
cards sold within two months, which
is $4,000 or 300 per day.
FL Paso county is to have a dry
farming exhibit of its own in connec-
tion with the International Congress
show at Colorado Springs.
There will be no lack of ex-
hibits at the second annual Electric
show TO be held by the Colorado Elec-
trio Club in Denver August IA to 81.
w. H. Barger. pioneer ranchman of
eastern FL Paso county. was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law. Thomas l..
Almond. on mis- ranch near Kendrick.
Denver is to have a new industry,
one to manufacture steel castings to
supply standard repair parts for loco
motives and rolling stock of all kinds.
NJ. II. Aylesworth. prominent
young attorney of Fort Collins. has
been appointed county attorney by
the county commissioners of Larimer
county.
Fire destroyed the boiler house, en-.
gine room. tipple and all machinery at
the Slope coal mine, owned by the
Frederick Coal & Coke Company at
Frederick.
Charged with selling opium and be-
ing white slave traders. Thomas B. Nc
Cleave and his wife. Dorothy, were ar
rested in Colorado Springs by secret
service men.
Morris Swain, aged 16, and son of
Thomas Swain. an old-time resident of
Paradox. in western Montrose county,
was killed while stacking hay when
the stacker broke and the crane fell
upon him.
The estate of Frederick d. Wight,
pioneer and prominent cattleman. who
was found dead in his home about two
months ago. in Denver. is worth 81,
041,511.03, according to the report OF
the appraisers.
Albert Johnson. an employe of the
Dillon Stone Company. which is put
ting in sewer from the Evangelical
Lutheran sanitarium to Clear creek, at
Arvada. was caught in cave-in and
probably fatally injured.
Four of the buffaloes shipped to
Trinidad by Buffalo Jones, died at the
Colorado & Southern stockyards while
being held pending a controversy be-
tween Jones and the railroad officials
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