Gilpin observer., 1911-08-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over tho
state Worth While.

held up by highwaymen in Delta.
Eight referendum petitions have
been filed with the secretary of state.
The first term of District Court
for the new county of Moffat, opened
at Craig.
Olathe will erect water works sys-
tenn to cost not over $65,O0O, immedi-
ately.
Company D., N. G. c., won the
sharp-shooters' cup at the rifle shoot
In Golden.
Sothrina West, age seventy-five
long a resident of Denver. died at
Briggsdale.
Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured $40O and large
quantity of liquor.
The state board is considering the
proposition of investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
The trial Of the negro, Bob Harris.
who killed the two marshals Of Rocky
Ford has opened in La Junta.
Oil in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells in Range
ley district, in Routt county.
Railway passenger and freight re-
ceipts at Gunnison are $25,000 more
this year than in the previous year.
s. S. Kingsbury. the new head mas
ter of the State Preparatory School.
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
State Engineer Comstock is Of the
opinion that his office will be almost
self supporting under the new fee sys..
tenn.
New York capitalists have for $3.50.
900 bought the Colorado Railway,
Light and Power Company at Trini.
dad.
The new Court of Appeals judges
appointed by Gov. Shafroth will not
assume the duties of their office until
Oct. l.
Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
been pushed with so much activity as
at present.
]. v. Blake owns garden spot near
Canon City, and from one acre Of
ground he marketed $4,000 pounds Of
early beans.
The Trinidad Transmission Railway
& Gas Company, with capitalization
of $4,OOO.00O has filed articles of In
corporation.
AS the result of a premature explo'
sion Of a giant powder cap the son OF
James McClaren of Cripple Creek will
lose one eye.
Mrs. C. NJ. Conrow is dead from the
effects of shock received when
lightning struck near Trinidad about
two weeks ago.
On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas, ]. s. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger train
No. at Aguilar
The first electrically operated fu-
nicular railroad ever built west Of the
Mississippi river is being constructed
up the face Of Lookout mountain, just
west of Golden.
Tom Archuleta, who was arrested at
Lafayette for bootlegging, pleaded
guilty to two charges of botlegging in
the Boulder County Court and was
fined $4O0 and costs.
The Masonic temple, at Montrose.
just completed by the order at a cost
of $4,000 has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. 1t has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The Durango Board of Trade has
guaranteed that the people of Durango
will contribute $1,000 toward the sup.
port of the Fort Lewis agricultural
school the first year,
At the first annual flower exhibit CIV
en- by Loveland school children IL.
handsome boquets made up from
flowers grown by the children this
year, were entered for a variety OF
prizes.
After a search OF twenty-four hours.
a party discovered the dead body of
Urbano Vigil, fifteen-year-old son of
F. Vigil, lying on the bank OF Tru-
jillo creek, forty miles northwest of
Trinidad, with a bullet in his heart.
To test the commercial value of the
clay beds recently found in Sunshine
canon, Boulder county, Secretary Eek
ell Of the Commercial Association will
send 400 pounds OF the clay to the
potteries of GAINESVILLE. o., where 1t
will be made into pottery.
Representative Rucker appeared be-
fore the Ways and Means committee
in Washington to urge the incorpora-
tion of his bill, appropriating $4,000
for public surveys in Colorado, in tho
Forthcoming emergency appropriation
measure.
Since the recent Rangely oil strikes
the settlers around Meeker have be.
come still more interested in oil. In
dications Of oil have been found in
several places in the country adjacent
to Meeker, and many homesteaders