Gilpin observer., 1912-04-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

mayor of Black Hawk.
A Chautauqua is planned for Gree.
ley, to begin June %.
Ward lines in Pueblo have been to-
tally eliminated by the commissioners.
Rocky Ford has "Hugging Jack"
who is causing CONSERVATION among
the fair sex.
Farmers in Weld county have begun
their spring work and are plowing for
the first time
John Liebinger died at Los Angeles,
Cal. He was 3S and lived at Central
City most Of his life.
Work on the main line of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific between Pueblo and Kan
sas City will begin at once.
May Day celebration will be given
May 4. on the university campus of
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mrs E. p. Fink will build the new
state armory at Fort Lupton, to be
leased to Company l at cost OF $S,,
900.
A new electric light system for Gree
ley will be installed if the franchise
asked from the City Council April 16
is granted.
Joe Fishencord, stockman of
Greeley, says he was robbed of $50
in currency while travelling between
Denver and Greeley.
Farmers around Windsor have be-
gun a series of meetings with the OBJ
lect of promoting the dairy industry
of that district.
A. 7. Stewart OF Pueblo has been
chosen president of the State Insane
Asylum Board and DR. Louis Haugh of
Denver. secretary.
j. w. Ewing received a record price
for fat lambs shipped from Greeley
this season when he topped the Chi
cago market at $S.25.
At a meeting of the directors of the
| Brighton Sugar Company, the PROPOSE
ton of raising sufficient money to
build factory was adopted.
E. II. Abbott, an original Union Col
| onist, resident of Greeley for forty
one years, and the city's first mayor,
William Neiheisel, proprietor of
a garage in Boulder had his neck
slashed from ear to ear by G. e. Shli-
yer, barber, following a quarrel.
W. C. Winbourne of Fort Luptoi.
will pioneer corn growing and plant 100
ceres of corn on his dry farm east of
that place, if he can rid it of prairie
dogs.
Interest is already aroused over
postcard day in Colorado when on May
is thousands of postcards will be sent
out advertising the resources of the
state.
1t fas been decided to hold the JEFF
ferson county Democratic convention
at Arvada on Saturday, April 20. 1912.
The convention will have 100 dele
gates.
commercial invasion of southern
Colorado and a portion of New Mexico
has been decided on by Pueblo jobbers
and manufacturers to start April 20
and last week.
One of the largest eagles in captivi-
3
in Denver j. w. Davis, Byers.
Colo, ranches. 1t is said to be per-
feet type of the American eagle.
The grand jury which has been in
Lession at Grand Junction for the past
month has completed labors, report
ing twenty-eight indictments and max.
ing a number of sensational recon-
mendations.
Jimmy Sullivan, for several years
star backstop of the Lincoln team OF
the Western league and manager of
that club two years ago, has been en-
gagged to manage the La Junta team of
the Rocky Mountain leagde.
Both batteries of the Colorado Ma.
tional Guard have been invited ami
will attend the joint camp of instruc-
tion to be held under the direction OF
United States army officers at Fort
Riley, Kan, June Is to June "a
Following an operation for enlarged
tonsils and adenoids. which had not
been regarded as dangerous, Kathleen
Seaman, the threeyear-old daughter of
X. e. Seaman of Idaho Springs, died
in Boulder at the University hospital.
The first smelter to be erected on
the Moffat railroad is now being con-
structed by the Mollie Groves Mining
g. Milling Company on its properties
near Parshall. The smelter. which will
cost about $4,000, will have a cape.
city Of thirty tons daily.
All midwives and other persons
practicing obstetrics have been placed
under the control of the State Board
of Health by an opinion given by the
attorney general. 1t was made on re.
quest of DR.. Paul s. Hunter. secretary
of the board.
To get $4,000 names In two weeks
on q netition to iniLiata q new law Ia