Gilpin observer., 1912-10-03
LIrTLE coLoRApo IrEMe.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Wsstern Newspaper Union News Service.
Basketball practice at the Univer-
sity Of Colorado has started at Boul,
der.
A hold-up disguised in woman's
dress is the latest in Denver Grim
inals.
A new postoffice building costing
100000 has just been completed in
Fort Collins.
The first miners and farmers jubi-
lee at Firestone was attended by up
wards of 1000 visitors.
A forest fire is raging In the I'm
compahgre national forest twenty-five
miles southwest of Delta.
B. Knwamata, Japanese, Is dead
from gun wound received in a res.
taurant, kept by countryman at
Eaton.
Nine fairs were in progress last
| week in Colorado, and at all of them
there was evidence of abundant pros
perity.
September output of gold ore from
the Cripple Creek district amounts to
72,200 tons of a gross bullion value of
| $1,146,034.
Steps have been taken to make the
Colorado chautauQua in Boulder mu-
| nicipal institution supported out of mu-
| nicipal revenues.
Ten thousand dollars is the value of
| five sacks or ere weighing less than
500 pounds shipped from Cripple
Creek to Denver.
| A stay of execution will be granted
Fred Walker, negro. condemned to be
hanged for murder within the week
beginning October 6.
One million dollars is to be spent in
Colorado on roads over which the
mails are carried and on automobile
highways within year.
l. w. Hotel of the Montrose mills
has agreed to buy next year of Uncom-
pahgre valley farmers 100000 bushels
of Turkey Red winter wheat at $3.50 a
| bushel
The thirty-third annual convention
of the Woman's Christian Ter perance
Union of Colorado met in Ca An City
Wednesday,. October 2, and continued
Thursday and Friday.
James Jarman, twenty-five years
old, a salesman, WAS returned 10 Den.
YER from Council Bluffs. Ia, by Deputy
Sheriff McElroy, to stand trial on a
grand larceny charge.
The funeral services of WSliam E.
Swan, veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, who was shot and killed by
Charles W. Frickey in Denver. were
held by the Order OF Owls.
Riley Hamilton, Moffat county
stockman, says 5000 deer are brows-
ing in the section tributary to the Flat
Top mountains. And this is the open
season. and hunters are busy.
More than fifty classifications for
competition are announced by the Col
orado Kennel Club for its eighth an
nual dog show, to be given in the Den
yer Auditorium, October "a to 26.
Driving an automobile for the first
time since he killed Edward Nellie. a
Limon farmer, two years ago, George
w. Roe of Pueblo ran down and killed
John Sinner, aged sixty-five.
Gustave Kostopulos. Greek barber,
slayer of Mrs. Augusta Robinson, who
was thought TO be under arrest in Mil
waukee, escaped. according to advices
received by Chief of Police O'Neill of
Denver.
The fate of five men and one wom-
an, on trial for the taking of human
life, rested in the hands of juries in
Colorado Wednesday. All five of the
men were found guilty. The one wom-
an was set free.
The eighth annual National Western
Stock Show dates have been set for
January 2O-25. inclusive, and 1t Is
promised that this big annual exhibit
tion will be even greater and more ex-
tensive than ever before.
Struck by scraps of iron from a six.
hole kitchen range which exploded at
48 South Broadway. Denver, Ridgway
Zeller, five-year-old son Of R. e. Eel
Ter, was blown fifteen feet across the
room and probably fatally injured.
Harry Hyatt. Denver collector,
who was convicted in the Juvenile
Court Of Turing young girls. for which
he received a ten-year sentence In the
penitentiary, twice attempted suicide
while being taken to the county jail.
Fire caused by spontaneous com.
bustion in pile Of coal completely
destroyed the Colorado Zinc Works
in Denver. entailing loss Of about
$250,000. The plant was completely
consumed. 1t was without insurance.
While standing before a blazing
crate, the clothing Of Clara Smith OF
Denver caught fire and she rushed to
the street enveloped in flames. She
was taken to the County hospital. but
30 badly burned that there is no hope