Gilpin observer., 1912-03-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

state worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Loveland reports heavy fall Of
snow.
Five feet of snow has fallen at Sill
verton during the past week.
A Roy Scout organization has been
perfected in Grand Junction.
Loveland is asking for the establish
ment of an additional rural route
Denver's Automobile Show opened
on March II for four days session.
Thomas Scott Hayden, president of
the Denver Union Water Company, is
dead.
The first shipment of spring lambs
from Gill. 2.400 head, were sent to
Chicago.
Clarence Milton Smith, one of the
test known newspaper men in Denver,
is dead
Greeley school districts SAILS bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
$1,713.95.
Trinidad will not enter team in
The Rocky Mountain Baseball League
this year.
La Junta has given a franchise to
company for lighting the> streets Of
that town.
No trains have reached Silverton in
several days on account of heavy
snowslides.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
n Inn .-k-
and Hancock.
Water is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
Plans have been drawn for the Den
yer armory, which is to be erected at
cost of $15O,OOO.
John w. Springer of Denver has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
United States Senate.
The temperance people of Evans are
making a strong fight against the re-
establishment of saloons.
The Cripple Creek offices OF the
Cripple Creek Short Line are being
moved to Colorado Springs.
H. A. Danielson, who has lived in
Colorado for the past thirty years,
died recently at Loveland.
Hudson's high school building. re-
Gently constructed at a cost of IS 900.
has been destroyed by fire.
Eight mines belonging to the Amer
ican Fuel Company in northern Colo
rado have resumed operation.
The War Department denies that
Fort Logan is to be abandoned and
the property placed on sale.
City authorities of Greeley have
ruled that snowballing in the business
district of that town must stop.
Colorado Springs will make an ef-
fort to secure the next national meet
ing of the knights of Columbus.
The question of disseminating the
corporation of the town of North
Longmont will be voted ON April 2.
G. R. Murphy of Grand Junction
was seriously injured recently by be-
ing kicked in the stomach by a colt.
John L. Church, aged seventy-three,
one of the best known men in Boul.
IL
dead.
Since the Hudson school building
was destroyed by fire, church is be-
ing used temporarily to house the
pupils.
Patrick Flemming, an old-time min
er in the Animas Forks district, re-
Gently committed suicide by shooting
himself.
Colorado suffragists refuse to nelp
pay for the windows smashed by the
English suffragettes on their recent
rampage.
The Humane Society is feeding large
herds of cattle near Bennett, and hay
by the carload is being shipped from
Platteville.
Burglars looted a saloon in Cripple
Creek recently, taking away $500 in
gold ore, but overlooking s2,5OO in ,he
cash drawer.
John Valentinsic, under arrest at Sa.
Ida for dynamiting a saloon several
weeks ago. has been bound over to the
District Court.
The high line of the Colorado g.
Southern at Ten Mile canon. near
Breckenridge, is blockaded, following
a big snowside.
Nineteen and eight-tenths inches of
snowfall is the total thus far in 1912. |
February smashed all the known rec.
ords for snow.
The committee to have charge of
the G. A. II. encampment at Boulder.
May IA, 10 and 16, has been named