Gilpin observer., 1911-10-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

A. L. Atherton. miner of Telluride.
committed suicide.
Several new buildings are being
erected in Gunnison.
Earl West was fined 800 for sell
ing intoxicating liquors in Lamar.
A light frost recently visited Rocky
Ford but no serious damage was done.
The fall tennis tournament at Den
yer closed with Russell B. Wells cham
pion.
The Colorado Electrical Association
is holding its second annual Electric
Show in Denver.
The Union Pacifics shopmens
strike in Denver continues to be noted
for the peacefulness of the strikers.
Active work has begun in Denver
to get one or both Of the great party
national conventions to Denver.
| The La Junta High School team was
defeated by the Centennial High
School eleven of Pueblo, by score of
II to 6.
| Hundreds of members of the Reju-
venated Sons of Jove attended the
national congress of the organization
in Denver.
The cornerstone of the new Park
Street Presbyterian church in Pueblo
was laid recently with appropriate
ceremony.
After twenty years residence in
Boulder county. Mrs. Theresa Benei-
John. left for Italy.
A record yield of beets in the Gill
vicinity is reported by Howard Bris-
coe whose patch of five acres is yield
ing thirty tons per acre.
Fred Edwards, aged twenty-eight.
was terribly mangled in fly-wheel at
the Golden Cycle mine at Cripple
Creek and died as a result.
The annual revenue of Greeley for
the coming year will be $1OS,000, Of
which $4,000 will come from twen-
ty-mill levy and the remainder from
water rents.
Harry Riede. the Aspen Whirlwind,
has started active training in Denver
for his twenty-round bout with
young" Shoskey of Trinidad which
will take place at Walsenburg, Octo-
ber &c.
A. c. Conlin, prominent mine own
er of Salt Lake, was probably fatally
wounded when stabbed in the back by
w. NJ. Mcdonald, porter on Colo
RADIO Midland train, just as the train
arrived at Manitou.
George Morris, aged fifteen, gate
tender at the Minnequa steel works at
Pueblo, went to sleep on the track
Just inside the plant yards, and was
run over by an ore car. Both legs
were severed at the knees and he died
two hours later.
After conference with the Fire
and Police Board and Chief of Police
Armstrong, Mayor Speer of Denver is
sued an order that all cribs on Mar
ket street be vacated and the crib
system in Denver's red light district
go out of existence for good.
Colorado's gold production in 1910
amounted to $2O,526.500, as against
$21, $4,000 in 1909, according to re-
port made by the bureau Of the mint
and geological survey. The silver pro-
duction for 1910 amounted to $685.
900, as against $S,s46,300 in 1909.
The Colorado Springs police while
surprised at the similarity of the Ellis
worth, Kan, murders with those in
that city recently, do not believe tina.
the murders have any connection.
They will take no steps to aid in the
hunt for the Ellsworth slayer unless
requested to do So
10 hai n
the state by the sociability and endur-
ance automobile run from Denver to
New York, being fostered by the land
show committee of the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce. Reports from many
cities of the state indicate that there
will be many entries from outside Of
Denver.
The contention raised by railroad
attorneys that the State Board of
Equalization has no power to change
tax assessments after October 1st is
not good one according to an opin
ion rendered by Deputy Attorney Gen
eral A. A. Lee. He holds that the
board still has power to change as.
sessments.
The Longmont sugar factory has
been running about two weeks and
has never made such record before.
1t has averaged 1000 tons of beets per
day, the best days run being 1900
tons. The largest output of sugar for
one day was 5.420. the average sugar
content has been 16k per cent and
the yield per acre will average 13 to
IA tons.
That the statement OF John Ar
buckle, New York refiner and coffee
magnate, that he will go before Con.
gress next winter to fight for free
sugar, is the first gun in battle be-
tween the beet sugar manufacturers
| and the cann supar refineri1,s, La the