Gilpin observer., 1911-09-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

| Railroads Of the state have banished
all public drinking cups.
The grounds around the union de-
pot at Eaton are being improved.
A thief entered the residence of G.
J. Diehl of Montrose and took $1S5.
The Milliken State bank has made
application for national bank char
ter.
DR.. B. F. Wooding has been dis
missed from the State Board OF
Health.
Frank Hough, a mine employe Of
Ouray, recently shot and killed
black fox.
Great preparations are being made
for Fruit Day at Grand Valley, Sep
tember 20.
Guiseppi Amatesa shot and instantly
kill Salvatore Polauntonio at Valdez.
near Trinidad.
The capital stock of the Denver Ma
tional bank has been increased from
s75o,OOO to $1,OOO,OoO.
William Seymour. convict. No. 1918.
paroled Aug. &c, is in Jail in Trinidad
charged with burglary and larceny.
In Colorado Springs, fire damaged
the elevator and warehouse of the
Seldomridge Grain Company to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Boulder claims. the record for law
abiding citizens, the records for Au-
gust showing no arrests and no cases
in Police Court.
Rebekahs are making preparations
to celebrate the Goth anniversary of
the founding of the Rebekah branch OF
Odd Fellowship, Sept. Is.
La Junta is shipping three to four
carloads of melons per day. The
Berry, Gems" are bringing top prices
in Chicago and are in great demand.
Canon City is to have new banking
and trust company, which has been or
ganized under the state law with a
capitalization of $4,000. fully paid up.
With ten new instructors, five from
the State university and five from
Eastern colleges, the State Prepara-
tory School at Boulder, opens Sept. II.
E. Lorge OF Denver has been ap-
pointed state meat and slaughter plant
inspector by Dr. w. W. Yard, state
veterinarian. He succeeds Walter ].
Miles.
Report on the condition of the grow
ing crop August 25th, which was esti-
mated at 1872 per cent of a normal,
as compared with SOL per cent July
| 25th last.
| Thomas ]. Mowery, who escaped
from the penitentiary at Canon City,
where he was serving a term for
swindlng, has been recaptured in Ia
coma, Wash.
John Leavy, one of the founders Of
Greeley, an original Union colonist,
scientist, philosopher and often called
at the age of so.
Howard p. Seeds, secretary of the
Cripple Creek lodge of Elks and one
of the best known men of the district,
is missing, and considerable anxiety
is felt by his friends.
Work will soon begin on Olathe's
new water works system. A tract OF
land COO feet square has been secured
for the reservoir which will have a ca
| paclty oil 2oO,OOO gallons.
One of the largest land transactions
of the year was put through when 49,
900 acres of land owned and con-
trolled by the Teller Reservoir and IT.
rifgation Company was sold for $780,
900.
Motion pictures taken in the Royal
Gorge, Black river canon and other
points on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, are now being shown in Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and other Eastern
cities.
| The Moffat road is pushing work on
he construction Of its six-mile spur
track from Utah Junction to the Den.
yer Union stockyards, where it will
make connection with the Union Pa
cific tracks.
The Rev. Ison Roberts. pastor OF
the Christian church in Montrose for
the past year, departed for Oklahoma
City, where he has accepted a pastor
ate. He is succeeded by the Rev.
Walphal of Wray.
State Auditor M. A. Leddy has
turned over to the State Board OF
Equalization the tax returns from all
counties Of the state for the 1911 as
sessment.. and the figures show a de-
crease of $1,cS3.376.
Holders of 10000 acres of land un-
der the Riverside Irrigation district.
Fort Morgan, are up in arms against
the United States General Land Office
as the result Of recent ruling, which
holds that the district has only fifty
one per cent of the water supply neces-
sary to properly irrigate land lying
within its boundaries and that the re-
naming forty-nine per cent has to be
purchased by desert entrymen before
they can make final proof upon their