Gilpin observer., 1912-02-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

recently visited BSeckenrldge.
= On the 18th of February Rio Blanco
county was twenty-three years old.
Lamar has secured a five-number
course Of lectures for its high school.
An unusually heavy snow fall is re-
ported in the mountains west Of Sa-
Ida.
There were 1000 fewer deaths in
Denver in 1911 than in the preceding
year.
Richard Richardson, one OF the
earliest settlers of Cripple Creek, is
dead.
Western slope convention of w. c.
T. U. will be held in Delta March A
to 6.
A man, his wife and four sons are in
Jail in Walsenburg awaiting sentence
by the court.
The Yampa Commercial Club has
been organized by the business men
of that place.
Four children of Diego Seracina, an
Italian miner of Segundo, have died
within week.
The Louden Irrigation district has
decided to enlarge the capacity of its
ditch at Loveland
Mr.. and Mrs. John Camp Of Platte
vile, recently celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary.
The Douglas Irrigation Company,
capitalized at $213,O00. has been incor-
porated at Greeley.
A new Sunday closing ordinance
has been passed by the City Council
of Colorado Springs.
The twelfth district convention Of the
w. c. T. U. will be held in Salida Feb
ruary 20 to March l.
George Kennedy, aged fifteen, was
run down by An automobile in Den
YER and fatally injured.
Mrs. Hannah Dutton, sixty-five, the
largest woman in Colorado, weighing
450 pounds, died in Rifle.
Civil Service examinations will be
held March 13 and IA for school
teachers in the Philippines.
For failure to take out city license
to run an employment agency in Pu-
eblo, Japanese was fined 500.
State Treasurer Kennehan has an
nounced that his office will accept no
transportation from the railroads.
A heavy snow slide occurred on
Ruby mountain, near West Argentine,
and considerable damage was done.
Rev. D. X. Roberts, for the past
iuh nf hn
byterian church in Denver, has re-
signed.
Nearly every portion Of the state
has been visited by heavy snowfall,
ranging in depth from one inch to
seven feet.
The voters of Elbert county want
the question Of erecting $4,000 court
house at Kiowa submitted to the peo-
pie.
Fred w. Springer, prominent
young man of Trinidad, was instantly
killed when he was struck by an auto
mobile.
In Weld county there is an entire
school district owned by one man and
the pupils in the district are all his
children.
Following his conviction for bootleg
ging at Fort Morgan, l.. b Pitney was
given $50 days in Jail and fined $500
and costs.
Rev. G. w. Noble, a veteran of the
Civil War and for over fifteen years
a minister of the Methodist church,
died at Collbran.
The Boulder post. G. A. R., has be-
gun plans for the entertainment OF the
Grand Army encampment there May
IA, Is and 16.
School teachers OF El Paso. Teller.
Douglas and Elbert counties will hold
their annual institute in Colorado
Springs July %.
The government has discontinued
the handling of mail on Sunday over
several hundred miles Of star routes in
northwestern Colorado.
The Colorado Midland road has or
dered two extra trains put into SER
vice daily between Denver, Grand
Junction and Salt Lake.
The state auditor has refused to pay
the employees Of the penitentiary until
the warrants have the o. X. of the
Civil Service Commission.
The tenth annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Hardware and Imple-
ment Dealers Association is being
held in Denver this week.
All races on the Western slope are
to be classified and purses arranged
SO that owners OF strings OF horses
may enter at every county fair.
As the result of practical joke,
his pipe being filled with gunpowder.
John Craig, a farmer near Platteville.
may lose the sight in both Of his eyes.