Gilpin observer., 1912-07-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

ldpliSueQ at aurora.
Lakes in the vicinity of Greeley are
completely filled with water
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount of $4,000.
A new school building is to be con-
structed at Stewart Mesa, near Paonia.
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
Thirty-eight thousand dollars in life
insurance was paid in Grand Junction
during 1911.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
Greeley dog owners contribute about
$3.50 year towards maintaining the
city government
Forest rangers report the mountains
In many sections of the state still
piled high with snow.
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres is being organized in
the Grand valley. near Silt.
Every thirty-third person of the $780,
600 that go to make up Denver's popu-
lation owns an automobile.
Ground has been broken for $4,000
city hall at Sterling. The building is
to be completed by October l.
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
the conclave in Denver next year.
An average of S100 day has been
paid into the office of the clerk of the
Denver District Court. for alimony for
June.
Clinton Farrar, a pioneer, who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years, died
recently at Boulder. aged seventy
three.
A special election will be held with
in sixty days to decide whether or not
Trinidad is to have commission gov
ernment.
President Taft has sent to the SEN
ate the nomination of George H. Charl-
ton to be register of the Land Office
at Durango.
Education of the people in packing
apples will be taken up this year by
the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Fifty-seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
keota has a Coursing association.
The membership is large and there are
a number of good dogs in the bunch
owned by the club.
A cloudburst between the forks of
Clear Creek and Golden washed out
several miles of track from the C. & S.
railroad in Clear Creek caflon.
Mrs. Sarah Crabb will bring suit
against the Salvation Army at Greeley
for $1,000, the amount left by her
husband in his will for the army
H. F. Manley, aged "a. county clerk
and a resident of Hinsdale county
for more than 80 years, committed
suicide at Lake City by shooting.
The State Land Board has declined
to invest school money in irrigation
bonds or securities, until further leg
islation on the subject is enacted.
The State Home for Mental Defec-
tiyes has opened at Arvada under tn.
direction of A. p. Busey. superinteu-
dent of the State Insane Asylum at
Pueblo.
While riding his motorcycle, Father
Antonine the aged priest of the South
Boulder Catholic church, was gravely
injured in collision with a horse and
buggy.
C. H. Rhodes, his wife and daughter,
comprising the entire family, were
found guilty of disturbance in Justice
Court at Num-, and Rhodes was fined
$25 and costs.
Fruit prospects never were brighter
around Gunrison, Montrose and Pail
sade than this year. according to AL
bert Mcfarland, fruit grower living
about six miles from Montrose.
Mesa county has taken the lead In
preparing for a complete exhibit OF
fruits and other products to be ex-
hibited in Denver in June. 1913, dur
ing the great Blondes funniest.
John Brady, an employe of the
Golden Cycle mill at Colorado Springs
was instantly killed when a brok IN
belt striking him on the head knocked
him against moving machinery.
The earnings of the Moffat road for
the fiscal year ended June 80 will he
close to Sl,2O0,00O, which is consid-
erably greater than the gross revenue
for any previous year
Capt. w. N. Rogers died in Colorado
Springs from blood poisoning resulting
from a slight scratch on finger re-
ceived a few days ago. Capt. Rogers
owned the Sunnyside hotel at Manitou,
which he built about thirty years ago.
A strange freak was played by
lightning when 1t struck Gus Ander-