Gilpin observer., 1911-05-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

some damage to fruit.
Carl Rydin, resident of Weld coun-
ty for twenty years, is at Greeley.
Twenty-nine employees of the State
Land Board have been asked to resign.
The farmers near Greeley will seed
about $4,000 acres to potatoes this
year.
Mrs. Emma Kalbaugh, one of Gold
ems earliest pioneers, died at the age
of eighty
The Colorado Association of Letter
Carriers will hold convention in Boul-
der June 28th.
For the first time in many years
Montrose will celebrate the glorious
Fourth this year.
The two-year-old son of Human
Straub of Rocky Fork, was drowned in
the High Line ditch.
Mead schol house to be ready for oc-
cupancy in September.
Windsor schools are the first in
northern Colorado to install the bub-
bling drinking fountain.
Mrs. Emmett Barton, wife of a
wealthy sheep man and one of the old
est residents of Fruita, is dead.
Prof. Thompson of the La Junta
high school and six of his assistants
went on strike and refused to teach.
Broadmoor casino, Colorado
Springs most popular summer resort.
will open for the the season June
22nd.
Ira Masser, aged IS, son of Henry
Masser, a prominent ranchman, was
instantly killed at Grote, by passen-
ger train.
T. w. Thomas, former sheriff of
Garfield county, died suddenly at
Glenwood Springs, of heart failure,
aged SO.
The largest payroll at the Minnequa
steel plant at Pueblo, this year has
$175,00O.
Hotel men from over the state to
the number of 200 will spend June
End, 3rd and 4th in Colorado Springs
and Manitou.
Montrose will produce it's regulation
bountiful fruit crop again this year,
and the fear of loss by frost is now
practically past.
A great many of the Alamosa resi-
dents are planning to cooperate in
building club house in the Conejos
Canon this summer.
An old fashioned camp meeting is to
be held in the grove at Fort Lupton
beginning May 21st. Great prepara-
tions are being made.
$26,000 has been secured to complete
the twelve miles of road near Parkdale
and thus open the road from Canon
City to Salida.
Mills in Boulder county have been
ordered closed down because they are
communicating the water in streams
and destroying fish.
About three hundred skilled beet
raisers from Globeville have reached
Alamosa to take up the culture of
sugar beets in the valley.
James lyman of Golden was award
ed $4,000 in the condemnation suit
brought against him by the Farmers
Reservoir and Irrigation Company.
James Salzar, 14-year-old son of
Adam Salzar, living three miles east
OF Berthoud. accidentally shot and
killed his 6-year-old brother at the
ranch.
The recent high temperature and
warm wind has melted the snow in the
hills and the Gunnison river is rising
rapidly. At Delta the river has been
running bank full and threatens to
overflow.
William X Burchinell, secretary of
the Board of Control Managers at Den
yer. announced that bids for work on
the Colorado State Museum building
18th.
The fourth annual convocation of
the Episcopal diocese of western Colo
rado was held in Grand Junction.
Delegates were present from all over
the Western Slope. Bishop Spalding
of Utah spoke.
The Johnstown Milling & Elevator
Company Is making extensive improve.
ments at their elevator and dump for
unfolding grain and have installed a
set Of rolls for grinding feed for max
ing corn meal.
While working on the county road
near Fort Collins. and near a point
where one of the frontier highways
formerly crossed the 'Poudre river,
men discovered human bones. an old
iron kettle and rusted barrel of a
rifle. mute evidences of some from
tier tragedy.
tice from the executive council of the
American Bankers Association to the
effect that a new national system
designed to facilitate the forward