Gilpin observer., 1911-12-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tn
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
George Wann, an old time assayer
ure.
Nearly every portion of the STATE
has been visited by heavy snow re
Gently.
The department has authorized the
establishment of a postal savings bank
ut Saguache.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris, Denver's old
est pioneer, died recently at the age
of ninety-seven years.
Christmas Day the miners Of the
Cresson company at Cripple Creek
will each receive a five dollar GOLD
piece.
c. w. Price, formerly of Lincoln,
Neb.. and recently resident of Den
yer, has been chosen cashier of the
bank of Evans.
Work has begun on the factory OF
the Greeley Chemical Company which
will manufacture insecticide for crop
destroying insects.
Mrs. ]. N Ross, aged 70. died sud.
Denly at Greeley from pneumonia.
She leaves a husband, and has been
= resident of Greeley for years.
William Bashmore. the Monarch
mine guard who was shot with his
own weapon by Bill Adams. a miner,
Tuesday night. died at Boulder.
At the closing session of the most
successful poultry show ever held In
northern Colorado, Fort Collins was
selected for the next exhibition.
The Hassell Iron Works of Colorado
Springs has just been awarded $40,
900 contract for work on sugar fac
tory at Huntington Beach. Cal.
The Farmers institute is to be held
in Loveland the last week in January
and continue four days. There will
be a poultry show in connection With
the institute.
Active work is expected to begin
soon on the proposed northern Colo
RADIO interurban electric railroad from
Denver to Estes park, via Fort Lup
ton.
Coin and old newspapers, evidently
buried by prospectors more than thir
ty years ago on the east slope OF
Pixies peak, hav been uncovered BY
Frederick Parker.
Using hatpins to defend their prop.
erty, Anna johnson and Gladys
Pressly. pretty school teachers of Mil
liken, saved their months wages from
q highway robber.
Eleven men claim the $500 Offered
by Fort Collins and Larimer county
for the arrest of Luoro Garcia, con
fessed murderer of Night Officer
E. Brockman of Fort Collins.
By fire caused by defective flue
the farm house of Charles Thomas,
three miles northwest OF Fort Collins,
was destroyed. The loss is estimated
at about $4,000 with $500 insurance
The coal mines of Colorado pro
duced 10,075,S6l tons of coal last
year from 15S properties in operation.
Las Animas county heads the counties
of the state with production of 4,
55S,9S5 tons.
The Colorado State Federation OF
Labor has commenced the circulation
of petitions to initiate an eight-hour
day law for women. Seventeen thou
sand names are necessary to get the
measure before the people.
The Empire Water & Power Com.
has nffnra1 In coll fc land
water rights and reservoir sites in Ute
Pass to Colorado Springs, at a price
to be fixed by appraisers, and the city
council is considering the proposi.
ton.
Governor Shafroth is "over one box
of apples and short the name Of the
donor" Governor Shafroth doesn't
receive presents. The name of the
sender being missing, he is forced to
break his rule or give the apples te
some charity.
President Slocum of Colorado Col
lege has been asked to accept appoint
ment on the list OF college preachers
for Amherst and Smith colleges. For
Vassar. Wellesley and Mount Hol
yoke.
Mrs. Anna Anderson, widow who
makes a living by doing washing and
housework, at Steamboat Springs, LOST
her pocketbook. containing $73, the
savings of year and to have been
Used as final payment on little home
she purchased three years ago.
Colorado state banks have gained
$2,709.S20.32 in total resources over
1910. With 1872 state banks, savings
banks and trust companies in Colo
rado under control OF the state bank.
ing commissioner. the years business
was closed on December s, showing a
grand total of $45.922 .s99.66 in re
sources.
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