Gilpin observer., 1912-02-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


sold for $4,000.
During January Denver enjoyed 202
actual hours of sunshine.
The Farmers Institute held three
days session in Boulder.
Jennie Ross has been made post
master at Cheyenne Wells.
There are 1851 pupils attending the
public schools in Colorado Springs.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa-
tion is making fight for 5000 mem
bers.
George Heron, one of the most prom
inent miners in the Telluride district,
is dead.
Mesa county farmers held a three
days farmers institute at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Sarah Thomas, aged seventy
nine, pioneer of Rio Blanco county,
is dead.
The postal receipts for the City of
Denver for the month of January were
$109,900.
UP to January 1, 1912, $4,700.OO0
had been spent on the Uncompahgre
reclamation project.
1t is reported that deer are being
killed in large numbers in the noun
tains west of Loveland.
The Union Pacific railroad will
spend half million dollars this year
advertising Colorado.
Fort Morgan high school defeated
Julesburg high in basketball game
by score of 81 to 15.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Steamboat Springs have received $751;
612 for hay shipped this year.
The ladies of Hudson are planning a
bands of their friends as escorts.
The First National bank of Pueblo
will erect new building which will
cost between s250,000 and 100000.
The residence of John A. Thatcher
of Pueblo, was entered by burglars
and diamonds valued at $4,000 taken.
DR.. A. l.. Gresher has been arrest
ed at Fort Morgan on charge of
practicing medicine without license.
Solomon Gonzales has been sent to
the penitentiary from Pueblo for ten
tc twelve years for assaulting a small
boy.
Loveland Is to have a municipal
light plant costing 100000 If the
present plans of the council are car
ried out.
Farmers in the vicinity of Fort
Lupton are naming their farms and
recording such names according to
the new law.
The Longmont sugar factory will be
called upon to handle the largest
amount of sugar beets ever grown in
that section.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to maintain an informa-
tion bureau in the Union depot for
the benefit of tourists.
Four boys have been sent to the re-
fcrmatory from Colorado Springs for
stealing potatoes from farmers in east.
ern Ell Paso county.
Judge Shackelford of Grand juno
tion has issued an order calling a spe-
cial grand jury to investigate the sale
of liquor in Mesa county.
The Supreme Court has dismissed
the suit attacking the validity of the
s5,1O0,000 bond issue OF the Greeley.
Poudre irrigation district.
Rev. Miss Rachel Dangerfield, the
only woman preacher in northern Col
orado. will begin series of revival
services at Delta soon.
The total assessed valuation of the
property of the new county of Crow
ley. according to the recent report of
the assessor. is s2,1O2,551.
The three-year-old daughter of
Former Sheriff C. C. Hobson, of
Ouray, was probably fatally burned
while playing with other children.
Felix Martinez, the wealthy ranch
er of Trinidad. who had been missing
for some time, was found dead fifteen
miles from Aguilar and it is supposed
he was murdered.
Farmers in the Johnstown vicinity
who are interested in the dairy busi-
ness will form an organization hav-
ing for its purpose the establishing of
better herds of milk COWS.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
will have printed several thousand
circulars on How to cultivate arid
lands" and they will be distributed
to the farmers of the state.
Perry II. Brewington, formerly Of
Eaton, has been sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for fifteen months and must
pay a fine of 5000. at Reno. Nevada,
having been convicted of bigamy.
With $4,000 acres pledged to beets
for the Eaton, Greeley and Windsor
factories, it is now claimed that 3O,-
900 acres will be pledged. the largest
in the history Of the industry.
A deal which will mean much to ir.