Gilpin observer., 1911-08-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMA
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

Citizens of La Sale have offered to
donate site for "a canning factory.
w. e. Meek. resident of Colorado
Springs for thirty-eight years. is dead.
Eaton people have invited President
Taft to visit that city on his western
trip.
The E. L. Holland eighty.acre farm
near Greeley sold recently for 5000 an
acre.
]. P. Carraher killed himself by
shooting at rooming house in
La Junta.
C. l.. Seymour of Buffalo, N. Y,
died in Meeker following an operation
for appendicitis.
Louis Gorch, a steel worker, was IA
tally injured at Pueblo when he was
struck by car.
Grand Valley will celebrate Fruit
Day September 20. The fruit crop is
in fine condition.
The three-day harvest festival to be
held at Brush Sept. 6, and promises
TO be big event.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist church will open in Colorado
Springs Aug. 80.
Herbert Carlson was killed in Tom
Boy mine at Telluride by being caugh.
in the shafting.
Myers Liant. fifteen years old, of La
Junta. was fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of powder.
In the Bohemian community, near
Ramah lightning killed three cows be-
longing to Mike Dzurochin.
F. E. Armstrong of Colorado Springs
was killed in Denver & Rio Grande
accident near Salt Lake, Utah.
Water will be distributed in part of
the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district
in time for the crop next year.
At the Davis Wolgamott place, near
Hayden. lightning struck the big gran
ary, smashing it to kindling wood.
1t is estimated that $500 people
have visited Estes Park this summer
and as yet the park is full of tourists.
Albert Compton of Fort Collins was
arrested in Denver charged with rails
ing checks and returned to Fort Col
Inns.
Nearly one thousand employees of
the Colorado & Southern took part in
the family reunion" at Dome Rock
recently.
Edward Johnson. fifty years old, OF
Pueblo, was found under a bridge in
that city in a critical condition and
may die.
Miss Mona Shockley, living on
homestead east of Grover, lost her
cabin and its contents, valued at 500.
by fire.
Edward Beeson, one Of the three
oldest men in Weld county. a pioneer
OF the seventies. and known far and
near as Uncle Ed" died in Evans
Florence CLASSY. of Fort Morgan, is
winner Of the $40 state prize for the
best temperance essay in a contest
conducted by the State w. C. 7. u.
A $4,000 blaze destroyed the lum-
ber yards, hardware store and resi-
dence OF C. o. Cooper at Nucia, in
the western part of Montrose county.
William Stacy, aged 20, OF Devers,
Texas, who stopped in Pueblo a few
days ago, while on his way to Cali
fornia on an extended pleasure trip,
died.
]. F. McCreery, secretary of the
Weld county and the Greeley Com
mercial clubs. has invented an ex-
hibit box for grain, which promises to
be widely used.
Thousands of acres. twelve miles
southeast OF Greeley, are being
brought under cultivation by means of
wells sunk deep enough to tap the
underflow.
Miss Mary Rush of Yuma. Colo,
showed the grit Of a true Western
woman at Cheyenne when she made a
thrilling ride in ladies' cowpony race
with broken hip.
Manager w. A. Groom, of the Bould-
er Fruit Growers Association, pre-
diets the most successful year in
Boulder county's history. Already
three carloads of apples have gone to
Texas. The crop has been unusually
large.
The first school of pharmacy to be
established in Colorado will be op.
ened next fall at the State University
at Boulder, under II. c. Washburn, b.
s., Phi. c., who for seven years has
been member Of the faculty Of the
University OF Oklahoma.
Announcement has been made that
the Santa Fe railroad will inaugurate.
about December LIST. a special extra
fare train between Chicago and the
Pacific coast. cutting five and one
hours from the eastbound running
.he.
A common house fly with a body
one inch long and measuring two
inches from tip to tip of It's wings is
In captivity at Erie, II ia believed IN