Gilpin observer., 1912-02-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Durango is to have an 100000 su-
gar beet factory.
Horace w. Ferguson. a pioneer Of
Evans, is dead.
Denver postoffice is to have two ad-
ditional mail carriers.
A beet dump will be built in the new
farming country east of Eaton.
The next municipal election in La
mar will be held in April, 1913.
The Sacred Heart church at Boul-
der suffered $500 loss by fire.
The total value of assessable prop
erty in Colorado is $1,267 100000.
James H. Smith, one of the WEALTH.
est citizens in Mesa county, is dead.
During the recent snowstorm about
fifteen inches of snow fell in Denver.
At Windsor the temperature recent
ly went to fifteen degrees below zero.
Eastern and southern Colorado are
suffering from the effects of the bliz-
zard.
Arbor day Erie will plant a tree for
every man, woman and child in the
town. E, y Al
The cornerstone of the First Baptist
church at Grand Junction was recently
laid.
Jerome L. Terry, an employe OF the
d. & r. G.. at Salida, shot and killed.
his wife.
The turkey trot and the bunny hug
dance hav been introduced in Grand
Junction.
The Mineequa steel works at Pueblo
has received an order for $1,000 tons
of steel rails.
Not in several years has Colorado
experienced as heavy a snowfall as
the recent one.
Derricks are being erected in the
Gross oil field sixteen miles from
Steamboat Springs.
Rudolph Unholz, the fighting Boer,
and Eddie Johnson. fought ten ROUNDS
to draw at Pueblo.
The state fish hatchery at Steam
boat Springs has just hatched out
100000 brook trout.
Italian, Archuleta county's famous
sub-chief, died recently at his home
near Pagosa Junction.
James A. King, a well-known pio-
neer of northern Colorado, is dead at
his home near Boulder.
Business men Of Weld county de-
clare there is more money in the coun-
ty than there is borrowers.
Farmers of La Sale plan to shower
Congress with postcards requesting
passage of the parcels post law.
Weld county's new Jail is completed
and has room for 100 prisoners. The
cost of the building was $4,000.
The Fort Morgan high school de-
feated the Brush high school at bas-
ketball by a score Of SO to 13.
Frank Du Cray of Grand Junction
threw Lars Olson of Indianapolis twice
in wrestling match at Montrose.
Holly now has an anti-horsethief as
sociation whose members are con-
stantly on the outlook for evil-doers.
Indications are that every locality
in Weld county will have a dairy as
sociation within the next few months.
Fat lambs are being shipped from
Greeley to Eastern markets, several
carloads having already been shipped.
At Windsor. in fight which result
ed from a quarrel over jug OF whis-
key, Otto Hinkle had an ear bitten
off.
In the Greeley district twenty-one
thousand five hundred acres have al
ready been pledged for the growing Of
sugar beets.
L. C.. Moore of Leadville has been
placed in the federal ward of the Dem
yer Jail ON the charge Of impersonat-
ing an officer.
The Colorado Whist League held
one of the most successful tourna-
ments in the history of the Organiza-
tion in Denver.
Evergreen has subscribed $1,000 to-
ward connecting the Bear Creek road
with the route connecting Idaho
Springs with Denver.
In a wrick on the Colorado Midland
recently at Niger. five coaches were
thrown into the Grand river. The en-
gineer was injured.
The city Of La Junta has bought six
acres of land adjoining the town on
which wells will be sunk to increase
the city's water supply.
John Fox, a farmer Of Garfield
county, was recently fleeced OF $2.700
in Denver in a fake match. Police
are looking for the sharpers.
John Edgar, a miner, aged fifty, was
killed by being crushed between
cage and mine timbers in the Gold