Gilpin observer., 1912-08-15
LITTLE COLORADO lTEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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grand Labor Day celebration.
Otis Perry, twelve, OF Platteville,
died from eating green cucumbers.
Only one arrest has been made by
The Boulder police in two months.
George Sherman, fifty-two. commit
ted suicide at his livery stable in Mof-
fat.
| Golden is to have a new postoffice
If the government does not renew its
present lease.
The City Council of Greeley has de-
cided to have the streets of that town
sprinkled with oil.
| Thrown from horse while riding to
Pueblo, Albert Milsey of Fisher. re-
ceived injuries from which he died.
With the exception of fruit, the low
er Arkansas valley, clear to the Kansas
line, has the best crops in its history.
Six OF the seven men who escaped
from the Uinta county Jail after over
powering Jailer Fife, are still at large.
Fifteen hundred Methodists of the
state gathered at Stratton park, Colo
rado Springs, Aug. 6, for basket
picnic.
A buffalo barbecue will be feature
of the entertainment at the convention
of the State Bankers Association at
Pueblo.
Work will be commenced on three
irrigation projects in Routt county in
the near future, involving over 200, 900 |
acres of land.
Seventy-nine residents of Ell Paso
county are seeking nominations for
county offices at the coming primaries, |
September 10.
Charles Bowman, well known cat
tie man of Grand Junction, has
bought an automobile which he will |
use in rounding up his cattle.
The Colorado Scientific Society will |
go to Houghton. Mich, to attend the |
meeting of the Lake Superior Mining |
Institute, August 2S, 20 and 80.
On the Suter place. near Kersey.
where there was over $50 acres of
grain harvested, the average was near
ly sixty-four bushels to the acre.
Mayor Arnold has announced thai
he and the city administration we're
going to back up fall festival for
Denver which will be held this year.
The highways leading into Denver
are to be patrolled at intervals by men
on motorcycles to prevent the over
flow of irrigation bitches on the roads.
AS result of the visit of thirty-five
farmers from Nebraska and Kansas TO
The San Luis valley, more than 5000
acres of land in that valley has been
sold.
Simon Schwalm, business man OF
Johnstown, is the victim of tropical
disease, amoebic dysentery. although
he has not been outside Colorado for
twenty years.
Thomas B. Wilmington, for thirty
eight years an employe of the C. F.
and |. Company, most of that time
superintendent of the pipe foundry at
The Pueblo plant, is dead.
Mayor Arnold has signed the Nc,
1auran bill, which provides that
growers of fruits and vegetables shall
have the right to sell their products
in Denver without a license.
The finding of the body of ]. Z.
Marthar floating on Sloan's lake, at
Manhattan beach, Denver, marks the
thirty-eighth violent death that has. oc.
CURED in that city since July /.
Miss Signe Carlzen, thirty eight
years old, music teacher. was as
saulted and killed near East Alameda
avenue and Forest street. in South
Montclair. Denver. by an unknown
fiend.
May Doran and Daniel Eisenberg
of Denver are being held in custody
in Canon City pending an investiga-
tion into the death of Morris Williams,
convict No. S205. at the state peni.
tentiary.
The body of Mrs. Mabel Flannery,
thirty-two, who committed suicide by
drowning in the Grand Valley irriga.
ton ditch near Palisade was found
floating in the stream by several
children.
AS result of a peculiar accident,
which occurred when huge furniture
car in the center Of train "buckled"
in the Royal Gorge. left the track and
plunged into the Arkansas river. three
men will probably die.
The damage done to the twin spire
of the Immaculate Conception cathej.
raj at Denver. which was struck by a
bolt Of lightning during a rainstorm,
is estimated by Rev. Father Hugh l..
McMenamin. pastor, to be 100000.
There has not been time in three
years when machine shops. foundries,
ateel mills. bridge and structural iron
fe ctories "and similar manufacturing
concerns in Denver and all Colorado
employed more men or worked full.
er hours than now.
Jean Talbot Miller. who fired four
shots into the head of his sweetheart,