Gilpin observer., 1911-09-14
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Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Denver postal savings bank is doing
fine business.
The safe of James Abo. at Morrison.
was robbed of 5000.
A postal savings bank has been
>pened in Denver.
The Platteville cannery is putting
but 10000 cans daily.
Ten people were injured In the
Union Pacific wreck near Kersey.
William Clark Of Pierce, aged 50,
lied from the effects of hiccoughs.
A new industry. the Castle Rock
Brick & Tile Co.. will be launched
loon.
Meeker will soon have the first wire
ess telegraph station of the Western
slope.
The enrolment of the State univer-
iity of Boulder is something over 400
,tudents.
The thirty-fifth session of the Uni
versity Of Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
ail in Colorado City charged with
orgery.
The new county of Crowley is now
doing business with Ordway as the
county seat.
The Colorado Springs police have
been asked to locate Frank Russell,
90, who has disappeared.
Ninety days in Jail is the penalty
lin Sebers must pay for trying to flirt
IN the streets of Greeley.
Robt. Witt, watchman for the
Santa Fe at Colorado Springs. was
struck by a train and killed.
The prize stalk of corn for Boulder
county bears eleven large ears and
was grown by o. L. Linch.
The Salida high school has made ar
rangements for splendid lecture
course of five numbers.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair, to be held at
Greeley September Is to %.
Lloyd Clark, aged twelve, son of J.
A. Clark, of Alamosa, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting.
Frank Pollock of Greeley is sleep
ing under one of his peach trees every
night with gun under his head.
Pumpkin pie. coffee, doughnuts, ap-
pies and cider will be the menu at the
Longmont Pumpkin Pie Day. Sept. 2s
The four-year-old daughter of Bert
Reynolds OF Kersey, fell into tub OF
boiling water and her injuries are
fatal
| After twenty-four years of service as
general claim agent for the Denver
City Tramway Company, Samuel c.
Dorsey has resigned.
Jacob. five-year-old son of John
Hoff of Greeley, is in hospital with
fractured skull, as the result Of
colt stepping on his head.
Milliard Hill. aged thirty-eight, was
killed in the Mohican mine, on Battle
Mountain, at Victor. his head being
crushed under 5o0-pound boulder.
R. w. Hadkinson. fifty-five years
old was struck by Rock Island train
at Colorado Springs and fatally In
iured.
The fifty-first annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ. OF
/ Colorado will be held in Denver. Sept.
10 and 90.
Twyman Kisinger. OF the Little
Beaver, near Meeker. threshed $50
acres of fall wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
The twenty-two-year-old son of NJ.
C. Phelps. superintendent of the Colo
rado Midland. died in Colorado
Springs following an operation.
Cabbage will bring the growers of
Weld county close to $230.000 this sea
son, as the yield is the best in years
and the market price so cents per 100
pounds.
The Fremont County Horticulture
Society has decided to make an ex.
haustive exhibit at the American Ap
| ple Exposition at Denver November
| IL to IS.
| A demonstration train showing the
progress of railroading during the last
thirty years is being run over the sys.
tenn Of the Atchison, Topeka G. Santa
Fe railroad. and 1t will arrive in Den.
yer the evening of Sept. 2S.
A gain of six per cent is shown in
the building activity in Denver as COM
pared with the figures for August,
1910, according to the official reports
compiled by the American Contractor
of Chicago.
| Potatoes weighing over half a
pound each have been shown by
To Uynoda whOae farm Ia ClCsa IN
Gill. He also dug twenty-five pota,
toes from one hill and found that they
weighed altogether ten and halt
pounds.
The activity Of the La Plata min.
ing district has become 80 pronounced
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