Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While,

was dedicated recently
Meeker's postal savings bank is
proving marked success.
All the rural schools in Pueblo coun-
ty have closed for the season.
The Elks of Grand Junction have
decided to erect a $4,000 home.
The International Association of Auc.
tioneers will meet in Denver June 8.
The contract for water works at
Miliken, to cost $12,9S5, has been let.
School census shows that Mesa
county has 6,242 children of school
age.
Water is running into the Milton
reservoir near Eaton, for the first
time.
The estate of Robert A. Austin will
pay $4,000 inheritance tax to the
state.
Grand junction sugar factory has
secured the largest acreage OF beets
in it's history.
May "a Lamar celebrated the twen-
ty-siXth anniversary OF the sale of it's
tlrst town lots.
The highway from Boulder to Estes
Park has been opened and is in per-
tect condition.
Fire destroyed the Big Bear stamp
mill at Telluride. The plant was val
ued at $5OO.0OO.
Grand Junction is building a $780,.
300 mountain water system to be COM
pleted in June.
The Idaho Springs baseball team de-
feated the Gilpin Mines team of Cen
trail City, 6 to 3.
Robert l.. Thasteen, one of the early
scettlers of Loveland and a pioneer Of
Colorado, is dead.
Wednesday. June 5. has been set for
the observance of Pixies Peak Day at
Colorado Springs.
The largest class in the history OF
the Colorado School OF Mines was
graduated this year.
A new state anthem has been writ
ten for Colorado by Miss Marie Anne
Singletary of Denver.
Improvements planned to cost $780,
300 for the state insane asylum at Pu-
eblo have been started.
The acreage pledged for the pro-
posed La Sale Independent sugar fac
tory has reached 5000.
The 1000 laborers at work in the
Weld county beet fields are in
sufficient to handle the crop.
n ~ hae
completed filtration basin at the
head of its water works system.
Delivuk. the Austrian wrestler, de-
teated Tommy Ryan of Colorado
Springs, getting two falls out of three.
Milliken's City Council has planted
the City park. consisting of several
acres. with tomatoes in place of grass
Warm weather has caused rapid
rise of the White river, until 1t Is
now on the verge of breaking its
banks.
Sixty-five men have been enlisted
during the month OF May at the Den
yer United States marine recruiting
station.
The preferred creditors of the long
since defunct State Bank of Rocky
Ford will soon have their claims set
tied in full.
The Redland dam, two miles south
OF Grand Junction. is threatened with
destruction by high water in the Gun
nison river.
David H. Wilson. a prominent Den
nf tot
pal Facts, died suddenly in his home
in that city.
Potato planting has been started
throughout the Greeley district. At
least $4,000 acres of potatoes will be
planted in the county this season.
from the Pueblo iron works will un-
dergo thorough inspection before be-
ing accepted by railroads.
J. +. Coulter. bird fancier of Meeker,
is undertaking to raise for game pur-
poses in that section the Chinese
ringed-neck pheasants.
Before 900 spectators. the annual
May Day frolic at the Teachers col
lege at Greeley too place. 400 students
participating in the Greek festival.
Petitions for submission of the con-
stitutional amendment that will give
cities in the state commission govern
ment have been circulated in Pueblo.
A call for a charter convention has
been signed by citizens OF Delta TO
nominate twenty-one members of
charter committee to be voted for at
an election later
Twenty-Five miles of the Rio Grande
Southern railroad is washed out and
the town of Rico is entirely cut off
from communication with the outer
world except by wire.
Charles burning was fined 800 in
Rocky Ford for bootlegging. With