Gilpin observer., 1912-10-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

Chief of Police O'Neill of Denver has
given rders that minors be kept Off
Of Market street.
Mrs. Carrie Sophia Hetzler. age thir-
ty. died suddenly at Boulder from
eclantsia.
A big good roads convention is
booked for Denver, to open Oct. IA,
and last two days.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has ap-
pointed committee to audit the
books of all the city and county Of
ficials.
Judson Harmon. governor of Ohio,
was the guest of honor at an informal
banquet given by Colorado Democrats
in Denver.
Estimates by sheep feeders place the
number of sheep to be fed this year in
the northwestern Colorado district, at
about 100000.
An interesting experiment is being
conducted by the Bank of Meeker and
a prospcctor who claims to be radi-
um expert.
Plans have been completed and ST.
500 subscribed for the rebuilding and
enlargement of the First Baptist
church at Salida.
S. p. Wear has been appointed game
warden for the district comprising Rio
Blanco, Routt and Moffat counties,
vice Robert Norvell.
In collision of two automobile
trucks at Pueblo, Fred Elgin, sixteen,
was thrown to the pavement and prob
ably fatally injured.
The home OF Barcley Sanders was
the scene of pleasant gathering
planned by his Boulder friends in COM
memoration of his eighty-eighth birth
day.
| When Judge Graham convened Dis
trict Court at Boulder he faced the
heaviest docket in years, forty-two
criminal and over two hundred civil
cases.
Following night of drinking, John
r. Hanson committed suicide at Du-
range in the county jail by shooting
himself through the head with a re-
volver.
More than 100 persons are securing
the hills in the vicinity of Browns
lake in search of Howard Carpenter,
who disappeared from hunters camp
on Elk creek.
The body OF Frank Kostansky, at
tired in woman's garb, was found in
the cellar of his home at Loveland by
his daughter He ended his life by
| strahgulation.
y Advances averaging more than ten
Per cent. in prices of foodstuffs in
Denver ir the last year are shown by
a bulletin just issued by the United
States Bureau of Labor.
The Rev. ]. C. Jacoby, d. D., pastor
Of the Trinity Lutheran church OF
Boulder. has rendered his resignation
to accept a call to the st. Johns Luth-
eran church in Wellington, Kan.
The funeral of Mrs. Theobald, who
was accidentally killed at her ranch in
the Bergen Park region, occurred at
the home place, interment being made
in the Idaho Springs cemetery.
"The second coming OF Christ Is not
figure OF speech. but fact Of Scrip
ture," declared the Rev. ]. c. Page of
the Second Congregational church in
his Sunday morning sermon at Denver.
Charles w. Frickey. who shot and
killed William e. Swan. September 25.
pleaded not guilty to the charge of
murder in the West Side Court in Den.
yer. The case was set for trial No
vember IS.
Two thousand Greeks in Colorado
are ready to respond to war call of
the fatherland in less than week, ac.
cording to George Allison and A.
Rally, leaders among the Greek people
OF Denver.
Acting on the recommendations OF
the State Board of Stock Inspection
| Governor Shafroth has raised the
| quarantine declared five weeks age
| against the importation of horses and
mules from Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri
James and Jess Mccarthy, who are
mining a copper claim above timber
| line on Mount Blanca, report a herd
| of wild horses running loose on the
| sand dunes of the Uncompahgre range
| Of mountains. southwest OF Mount
Blanca and Mosca pass.
Three persons probably were fatally
injured, two others, one a woman
painfully hurt, a score or more miracu
| lously escaped death and traffic on the
| railroads was blocked for hours as the
result of wrecks in widely separated
sections Of Colorado, entailing none
tary loss of tens of thousands Of dol
lars.
Neither work nor age have terrors
| for the brave heart Of Mrs. Mary
Jones. who, though eighty-three years
| old and possessed of sixtytwo.ycar.
old son, three, grandchildren and flf'
teen grost-grandchildren, is as spry as
q cricket Recently she ate hreakfast