Gilpin observer., 1912-07-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Two canning factories are now in op-
Grafton at Loveland.
A recent cloudburst did severe dam
age to the town OF Boulder.
Arthur Johnson, aged twenty-six, of
Greeley was killed by lightning.
Grand JWction's new $4,000 high
school building has been completed.
Pueblo and vicinity have been visit
ed by heavy rains within the last few
days.
Milliken is to have $4,000 flour
mill and elevator, to be erected imme-
lately.
The rainfall above the town of Sui
livan caused heavy loss of livestock
and crops.
Boulder and immediate vicinity suf-
fered little damage from the recent
cloudburst.
Mrs. Augusta H. Gleason, aged eigh.
ty-one, a pioneer Of Gunnison county
died recently.
Harry N. Haynes of Greeley has
been elected president of the Colorado
Bar Association.
Seventy-five thousand cans Of peas
were put up at the Greeley factory
one day recently.
According to reports crops in tn.
vicinity of Elizabeth were damaged
by the recent rains.
San Luis Valley Drainage district
No. l, at a recent election at Alamosa,
voted unanimously for bond issue.
The Loveland Ratchet Wrench Man
ufacturing Company, capitalized at
$4,000. has filed articles of incorpor
alton.
The new Colorado School of Mines
metallurgical plant. at Golden. cost
ing $4,000, will be completed this
month.
Work on the development of the i'm
mense deposits OF cement and plaster
near Montrose has been abandoned on
account of fire. - A.fh
The Y. NJ. c. A. conference at Estes
Park is being attended by two hun
dred delegates, representing nearly ev-
cry state in the Union.
Helen Hopper, nine years old. daugh-
ter Of T. H. Hopper of Boulder was
killed by falling off of Santa Fe train
No. 5, near Howell. Kas.
Three hundred teachers are expected
in Colorado Springs to attend the an
nual institute of the Fifth normal dis,
trict, July % to August 2.
John Sederlun, twenty-one years old,
son of farmer near Sterling, was
drowned in Dillon reservoir, about
five miles south of Tiff.
Christopher Jensen. nine-year-old
son of August Jensen of Castle Rock,
was drowned in the flood that came
down Plum creek recently.
The forest ranger reports that deer
and elk In the hills around Meeker are
increasing. They are now running in
lunches of dozen or more.
An eighty-horsepower Seagraves au-
tomobile fire-truck has replaced the
horse drawn hook and ladder wagon Of
the Trinidad fire department.
Sufficient guarantees have been Sc
cured from the business men of La
mar to insure the running of the
County fair at Lamar this year.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad is making arrangements
to extend its line from Greeley to Sew
erance, a distance of twelve miles.
The initiative, referendum and re-
call and the system OF three commits
,;a 1T y,n ;pn IT,, th al
ia charter, now in process of forma-
tion.
A storm cyclonic in fury swept Sui
phur Springs recently tearing down
barns, fences, telephone poles and
breaking windows downtown. Heavy
rain followed.
David Ashbrook, sixty-five years old.
a pioneer, who gave all his earnings
to religious organizations, died recent
ly in Greeley. He bought 500 valen-
tines on February IA. and distributed
them from house to house.
The June payroll for all state. edu-
cational and penal institutions,
to $4,000. is being held up
because Secretary A. l.. Fribourg of
tie Civil Service Commission has re-
fused to O. X. the bills
Two known deaths, the serious in
jury of eight persons, and $4,000,0O0
worth of private and city property de-
vastated. is the toll paid by Denver to
the flood which swept down Cherry
creek Sunday night, vaulted the shat
tered retaining walls and inundated
miles OF adjoining territory in Its fu-
rious onslaught.
Weld county, 1t is expected. will
harvest $S,000.0O0 worth of crops this
season. The grain crop promises to be
the greatest the Greeley district has
known. The first cutting Of alfalfa is
in the stack. making more than the
entire crop of last season. and the sec.
ond cutting is making luxuriant