Gilpin observer., 1912-09-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


25O, 900 beet crop Is now on.
Boulder county ID soon to have an
other big cannery. to be built at Nj
Wot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira T. McAllister of
Boulder celebrated their forty-third
wedding anniversary.
A murderous assault was made at
Durango upon Juan Josea by Jesse
Mccoy, white cook.
The forty-fourth annual meeting of
the Colorado Congregational confer
ence was held in Denver.
Col. Geo. T. Shackelford. aged sew
enty-five, a pioneer resident of Den
yer, veteran of the Civil War, died of
cancer at his home.
Fire of unknown origin, but be-
lieved to have been incendiary. de-
stroyed property in Haxtun worth
from $25,00O to $4,000.
Murray Graham. the seven-yeaf-old
son of Lawrence Graham of Del
Norte, was kicked in the head by
race horse and may die.
Gerald Tetan. age five, son of H.
Tetnn of La Sale. may lost his life as
result of an effort to prevent his
pet dog from being injured.
City Marshal C. l.. Williams of
Longmont raided a bootlegging joint
in North Longmont and placed John
Helms under arrest and confiscated a
quantity of liquor.
The twenty-ninth annual session of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the Methodist Church will be
held In Denver October 16. 1t is ex-
pected that 1000 women will attend.
A twenty-five per cent. reduction in
water rates will be made by the city
of Grand Junction the first of the year
as the result of economy of manage
ment Of its new $500,000 water system.
Two burly and heavily armed foot
pads held up three persons at different
times at an early hour at Pueblo with
in few blocks of the Union depot,
obtaining about 500 in money besides
two valuable watches.
Because he had been reprimanded by
his, mother for a minor fault, Samuel
Jacobs, schoolboy. sixteen. son of Mrs.
Eva Jacobs. swallowed strychnine tab
let's at his home. in Denver, and died
in the county hospital.
Denver will be on the route of the
new macadam roadway to be built
from New York to San Francisco, a
distance Of 3.34O miles. by the auto
mn ~, Oh, nf hn ty.xy
at a cost of s25.o00.OO0.
After he had shot and killed Juan
Montoya, coal miner, at the Del
aqua coal camp at Trinidad Jose Lo-
pez fled up the canon and was only
captured after he had emptied his re-
Vandebur.
Father Thomas NJ. Conway, pastor
OF st. Joseph's church at Grand
Junction, has announced that erection
of a $4,000 Catholic school will start
next spring and a high school for
Catholic students will be erected a
year from next spring.
Roland Fox, a member of Battery B,
stationed at Fort Russell, Wyo., who
has been serving a ninety-day tail SEN
tence at Boulder for creating dis
turbance at Lafayette. where he de-
serted his company on July 9th. es-
caped/from the Jail.
Holding that the initiative and refer
endum amendment, proposed by the
extra session of the General Assem-
bly, in 1910, was submitted to the peo-
pie in accordance with provisions OF
the state constitution. the Supreme
Court revei sed the decision of District
The reverence that a nation shows
to a fnartyred president was displayed
by the hosts of Colorado clubwomen
to the memory of Mrs. Sarah Platt
Deckcd. A beautiful tribute to othenoted
clubwoman was spoken by Mrs. Ar
thur Horace McLain of Cahon City,
President of the federation at Trini-
dad.
At the baby show in the County fair
at Montrosc, with thiity-four babies
on exhibition, the judges awarded
first prize for the prettiest baby to
Florence, the nine-months-old daugh-
ter Of Riley Trickett; second prize to
Sarah, fourteen-months-old daughter
of A. N. Mckee. and third prize to
John, the eleven-months-old son OF
Charles Monahan.
Miss Helen Hilton Baker, daughter
of DR.. James II. Baker, president of
the University of Colorado. was mar
ried at Boulder to Hamilton McRary
Jones. superintendent of the lighting
division OF the Porto Ricau Light,
Transit and Power Company and con-
sulting engineer for the United States
government in Porto Rico.
The state .penitentiary graft cases,
in which John Cleghorn, former war
den, A. r. Frisbie, his chief clerk, and
officers of the Gibson Lumber Com
pany of Canon City. are charged with
defrauding the state out of $25,000 in