Gilpin observer., 1911-01-19
little COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

give an exhibition in Denver January
S0th.
Olathe is soon to have another rail-
Valley.
There are on deposit in the six
banks of Colorado Springs $1O,251,-
566.OS.
Colorado sheriffs want a change in
the laws governing the fees paid into
their offices.
After a fight of nearly two years
rural free delivery has been secured
for Arvada.
A movement Is on foot to establish
a commission form of government in
Fort Collins.
The fifteenth attempt to make an
aeroplane flight in Pueblo resulted in
another failure.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Retail Merchants Association
was held in Greeley.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch, at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
Over 200 dairymen of the state
gathered at the Windsor hotel in Den
yer in annual meeting.
The Postoffice Department has au-
thorized the establishment of free
mail delivery in Sterling.
Articles of incorporation of the In
vestors Mining Company, capitalized
at $4,000, were filed in Boulder.
Mack F. Bebee, pioneer of the
state, died at his home in Denver. Mr..
Bebee was in his eightieth year.
Pinned under his automobile when
1t turned turtle, A Wood, a homestead
er living near Cornish, was fatally
hurt.
Neil F. Graham of Fort Collins, has
been appointed to succeed Judge Gar
rigues of Eighth Judicial District
Court.
Joe Anstead, miner about so years
old, was found dead in cabin in
Longfellow's gulch, four miles east of
Salida.
Work on the abutment of the new
concrete and steel bridge across the
Platte river. Evans, commenced re-
Gently.
George Truckermille is installing
machinery to utilize the natural gas
from an artesian well on his ranch
near Hooper.
There were a number of snow
slides ION the run" recently, on both
the Sneffles and the Red Mountain
roads, near Ouray.
/, Charged with robbing the postoffice
at Gardner. Dewey Miller. sixteen
year-old Walsenburg boy, was arrested
at ranch house near Pueblo.
A movement is on foot to organize
Western Slope Teachers Association,
composed of the educators from the
seven counties of the twelfth normal
district.
A reduction from nine to eight hours
day and from six to five days per
week has been announced to in the
Trinidad shops of the Colorado G.
Southern.
Sixty county commissioners of Col
orado, delegate from each county in
the state, attended the meeting of the
Colorado County Commissioners Asso-
citation in Denver
II the dispatches from Washington
are correct, the Uncompahgre valley
project has been allotted the total sum
of $3.545, 900, in the recommendation
from the army board.
That wild magpies are learning to
talk is the report brought in by George
Somers. who. while hunting on the
plains near Grover. says he heard Il
flock of magpies in tree speak tho
words Hello" and Goodbye" dozens
Of times.
Lumber made from cottonwood
trees has been tried, tested and found
the superior of all other for floors of
beet dumps and bridges, and thou
sands of cottonwood trees, whose
owners wish to replace them with
hardwood, will be marketed for good
price and sawed into lumber at a saw
mill, one mile northwest of Greeley,
erected especially for this purpose.
If the proposed plan submitted by
the Northern Colorado Power Compa-
ny to the merchants of Boulder for the
installation OF lighting system along
the four principal blocks, consisting OF
thirty-two poles, each carrying two
150-wat Tungsten lamps, costing
about 5000 to install and $1,000 an
nually to maintain. is successful, that
city will be as well lighted along its
main thoroughfare as is Denver.
That the measures suggested to Sc
cure good roads in Colorado at the
meeting of the good road conference,
which closed a two-days' session at
the Albany hotel in Denver will be
vigorously pushed and that the slogan
Good Roads in Colorado" has real
significance. was declared in an en-