Gilpin observer., 1912-07-11
LITTLE COLORADO IrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

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Small Happenings Occurring Over thu
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Two new sanitary drinking foun.
tains have been erected in Rocky
Ford.
The Cross orchards, west of Clifton,
VIII ship some forty cars of fruit this
year,
The new Methodist church at Rog.
ers. Mesa, Delta county. has been ded.
icated.
For the third time in three months
the Miles drug store in Pueblo has
been robbed.
The Grand Junction canning factory
mas opened for the 1912 season. About
1orty people are employed.
Farmers in the Maybell and Lay
valleys are sure of the greatest crop
in the history of the country.
Floyd w. Paige of Wigwam, is dead
as a result of having his left leg
caught and crushed in hay press.
A lighted match thrown into a five
pound keg of powder caused the death
or rudolph Petranschke in Denver.
Fifteen men were injured when a
fire truck hit the curb while answer
| ing false alarm of fire in Loveland.
Lying face-down on pillow in a
box, the month-old baby of William
Rutz of Windsor, was found dead by
the mother.
Between $50 and 400 Colorado edi-
tors attended the State Editorial AS
sociation's convention in Steamboat
Springs July Sth.
Mrs. A. Guiraud, pioneer woman
of Colorado, died in Cripple Creek re-
Gently. aged eighty-three. She came tc
Colorado in 1859.
Two barns at Rocky Ford burned
down recently. the result of careless
ness of boys who were smoking. The
loss will not exceed 5000.
Secretary of State Pearce will sub
NIT thirty-three bills filed with him for
initiation and popular vote at the gen.
eral election in November.
The railroad from Golden to the
summit of Mt. Lookout. which has
been under construction for several
months, has been completed.
Joseph Shaw, age five of Meeker,
swallowed scent piece with which
he was playing and died at the Grand
Junction hospital few hours later.
The farmers OF the Nederland dis.
trict, in Boulder county, are beginning
the hay harvest which promises to be
unusually heavy and of excellent grade.
The State Land Board has voted to
refund about $4,000 to some twenty
five settlers who had made first pay
ments on land in the San Luis valley.
The number of visiting automobiles
in the state this year greatly exceeds
that of any previous one, as is shown
by the records kept in different towns.
David l. Bailer, rancher, aged fif-
ty, was instantly killed near Glenwood
Springs when the derrick with which
he was stacking hay fell, crushing his
skull.
Bennie Chavez, the bantamweight,
was given the decision over Harry
Reide of Aspen July 4. in the eighth
round of the fastest fight ever seen in
Trinidad.
The flags on city hall and the state
house In Denver were placed at half
mast as a mourning emblem to Mrs.
Sarah Platt Decker, who died recently
in California.
A pretty, welldressed girl, aged
about sixteen. and believed to be Vita
Martinez, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Arkansas river a mile be-
low Salida.
Patrick McColgran. an insane man,
who for the past three weeks has been
terrorizing farmers wives in Crowley
county, has been placed in the asylum
at Pueblo.
The Yampa Valley Railroad Compa-
ny. organized to build branch OF the
Moffat road from Steamboat Springs
to Craig, is preparing articles of in
corporation.
An employment bureau to supply
district fruit growers with help will be
maintained at Paonia by special ar
rangements accepted by numerous
commercial and growers associations.
AT a meeting of the county high
school committee at Montrose G. A.
Wright of the Colorado Agricultural
college was employed to inaugurate a
farm department in the county high
school course.
The twenty-sixth annual session of
tha Gtata NprmaI Institutp District
No. 2. will be held at the Teachers
College in Greeley, August 9Th to 10th.
The district includes Weld, Larimcr.
Boulder and Jackson counties.
The Colorado Stockgrowers' Associ-
alton will hold its annual state meet