Gilpin observer., 1912-05-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


ed by a heavy rain, the first Of the
season.
One hundred Denver business men
have organized the Mountain Park
League.
Eight deaths have occurred in Den
yer from scarlet fever caused by in.
fected milk.
Yeggmen entered a jewelry store in
Denver recently and stole $4,000
worth Of diamonds.
Johnstown will hold an election to
vote 100000 in bonds for the construc-
tion of water system.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, aged ninety
three, for seventeen years resident
of Colorado Springs, is dead.
After sixty days of strict enforce
ment, the hydrophobia quarantine on
dogs in Windsor was lifted.
The annual convention of the Fre-
mont County Sunday School Associa-
tion was held at Canon City.
Boulder county fruit men say cherry
and plum trees have been damaged
very little by the recent cold.
Nearly every locality in the state
has been visited by heavy rain. accom-
panied by considerable snow.
Veterans of the Civil War who have
homesteads near Raymer, are plan
ming reunion on Decoration Day.
The Burns theater. at Colorado
Springs, built at cost of 100000
has been opened to the public.
De Kalk Sternberg, a popular pio-
neer, died of heart trouble in Boulder.
He settled in Boulder county in 1872.
Greeley will send out 5000 postal
cards May IS. the day designated by
Governor Shafroth as State Post Gard
Day.
A modern biplane, designed upon
original lines, is being constructed by
Charles Hammondtree of Grand Juno
ton.
The shaft house at the Gem mine
at Idaho Springs. was burned, entail
ing loss of about 100000, partially in
sured.
Fifty-one men compose the gradual.
ing class of 1912 from the Golden
School of Mines. Commencement ex-
ercises May "a.
w. F. Edmundson. Grover ranch
man. is installing an irrigation pump
ing plant consisting Of one large pump
and forty wells.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, ninety-three
years old. who said she was a distant
relative Of President Taft, is dead in
Colorado Springs.
Good Roads Day was observed in
nearly every locality of the state. but
in many places the road work was in
terfered with by rain.
Construction work on the new st.
Johns German Lutheran church, be-
ing built in Denver at a cost of $780,.
900. is progressing rapidly.
During the recent storm, snow to
the depth of ten inches fell in most
parts of the state. No freezing tenn
perature has been reported.
Work has been begun on the Maroon
creek bridge. at Aspen. which the
state has voted $4,000 to help build
Much will be done by citizens free to
the county.
A sheriff's deed has been given B.
F. Lowell of Colorado Springs for the
property of the Colorado Consolidated
Mines Company of Georgetown to sat
isfy a judgment of s3S.475.S4.
Denver fight fans may soon have an
opportunity of seeing Rudie Unholz,
the come back" Boer. and Mike Ma.
lone. the Denver fighter. in a ten.
round bout.
Six new voting precincts have been
added in Weld county at Raymer. Os-
good. Herford. Gault. Olive Branch
and Briggsdale. There are 16,5OO reg
istered voters in the county.
A resolution demanding that Cover
nor Shafroth call an extra session of
the Legislature to re-enact House bill
200 was passed by the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners at Grand Junction.
imposed the first sentence under the
new non-support law. when he gave
Tom Macy one years Imprisonment
for refusing to care for his wife and
children.
Between 5000 and 10000 men will
be put to work on Denver &c Rio
Grande improvements at once, and the
expenditure of millions of dollars in
Colorado and Utah will be made this
summer.
q Cut worms are taking beet fields in
the Platteville vicinity and one man
lost twelve acres in one day by them.
Farmers say If warm weather follows
the worm will disappear. Fields raw
aged will be replanted.
A check for the largest single
amount ever received by the State
Land Board was made out by the city
of Denver recently and sent to the
board in payment OF eighty-one acres
of state school land valued at S1la.-