Gilpin observer., 1911-02-02
LITTLE COLORADO lTEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


The Ingleville mine at Trinidad has
suspended operations indefinitely.
The business men of Grand Junction
have organized social club.
The total tax levy for 1910 in Rio
Grande county is $140,904.1O.
Mrs. w. H. Conklin, aged Sc, and
resident of Sterling for thirty years. is
dead.
Edgar Buchanan has been reelected
president of the Durango Board OF
Trade.
Greeley has organized a motor
cycle club with charter membership
of twenty.
Walter Cheney of Leadville. with
his bare hands captured a bobcat and
Gagged it.
The residence Of William Orwig in
North Cripple Creek was burned, with
loss Of $1,000.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for a position on the fire
department of that city.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society Of Colorado
February 10th, in Denver.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
contract for joint use Of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February II, 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec
ognition from the Santa Fe in being
made a Colorado common point.
In the wrestling match in Denver re-
Gently between Hackenschmidt and
Westerguard, the former won after a
hard contest.
James White. a veteran Of the Civil
War, a pioneer Of Georgetown and a
resident of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead.
The sixth annual banquet of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Den
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho-
tel January 30th.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Crow Creek district. east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising of hogs is an important in
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu-
in packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
with big dance.
The 100000 French loan for the
Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Com
pany has been authorized by Judge
Allen in the District Court at Denver.
District Judge Rizer of La JuntA
rendered a decision quashing the in
dictment against John E. Godding,
president of the defunct Rocky Ford
bank
For the first time in thirty-six years
Judge Hart of Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man, w. w. Hart of
Corning, Cal.
After three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver, the annual con-
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard
ware & Implement Association came
to close.
AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters, C. B. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks, at Copperfield. in the western
part of Fremont county.
NJ. d. Thatcher, president of the
Capitol National bank of Denver and
of the First National bank of Pueblo,
has purchased control Of the Ameri-
can National bank of Alamosa
Official notification has been re-
ceived by Superintendent Burkin of
the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction that the school will be closed
June 30th as a government school
The San Luis Southern, running
Gouth from Blanca, and which is ex-
rected to extend south to Taos and
Santa Fe in New Mexico next sum.
mer. is opening up some of the finest
farming lands in the Western country.
The first batch of deeds of trans.
fer of real estate to the Colorado &
Southern railroad for its right of way
for the Wellington-Cheyenne connect.
ing link has been filed with the coun.
| ty clerk for record at Fort Collins.
For four days, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, February 9th,
10th, 11th and 18th men from all Sec
tlons of the state will be gathered in
Fort Collins for the twenty-fourth an.
maui state convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
In the recent state bar examination
IN Denver, the results of which were
centage made by any of the twenty
six applicants was made by Butler Dis
man of Salida. his percentage being