Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Street crossings are to be put in by
the city of Salida.
The Chaffee County Sunday School
convention was held in Salida.
La Sale is the only town in the
state where no city marshal is en-
eloyed.
Women of Auburn have organized \
club from which gossip is absolutely
barred.
June 10 has been set as the date
on which Johnstown will vote on
100000 water works bond issue.
Daniel Healey. prominent business
man of Leadville, was drowried in Tur.
quoise lake, near that city, recently.
The Weld County Retail Merchants
Association has been organized at
Greeley with w. c. Wilson, president.
H. P. Tucker. lineman at the Sun
nysides mines, near Silverton, fell
from the tram and was instantly
killed.
The "J.J." ranch, near Rocky Ford.
has recently shipped to the Kansas
City market nearly four thousand head
of cattle.
Business men of Colorado Springs
are considering the advisability of Or
ganizing a $1,0OO,OO0 electric light
company.
Lack of funds will prevent the ap-
perance Of Colorado university ath-
letes in this years intercollegiate
meet at Chicago.
The st. Vrain river is running bank
full at Longmont and the bottom lands
will be flooded. This has not been the
case for years.
The First National Bank of Engle-
rency association of Denver. Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
The town Of Oak Creek is lighted
by electricity for the first time. The
plant installed by the Oak Creek Ser
vice Company is completed.
Charred almost beyond recognition,
the body of N. D. Madden, prospec.
tor was found in his cabin, seventy
miles northwest Of Fort Collins.
Lewis Kolb, aged twenty-five, a un-
ion miner employed at Matchless
mine, near Louisville, was crushed to
death under 1,5OO-pound rock.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
delegates to the National conference
of Charities and Correction, which will
be held in Cleveland, o., June IL to -.
The bureau of education Of the In
terror Department Of the United
States has notified Colorado college
that it has been rated in the first
class.
Mrs. David Monroe. one OF the first
settlers of the Big Thompson valley,
near Greeley, who crossed the plains
in an oxcart in 1862. is dead at Pres
colt, Ariz.
Fifty business men and members OF
the l. o. o. F. lodge Of Platteville.
donned working clothes and laid 265
feet of cement sidewalk about the
lodge lot.
The Montrose City Council has in
structed the city engineer to prepare
plans and specifications for enlarging
the water works system at an expense
OF $4,000.
Edwin Kirchbaum, the seventeen
year-old son of George E. Kirchbaum,
a well-known resident Of Trinidad, was
fatally hurt when he was struck on the
temple by baseball.
William NJ. Graves, former jefferson
mi fnr nfy
three consecutive years president of
the Arvada school board. died at the
age of sixty-six years.
The farmers of eastern Colorado are
jubilant over the prospects for this
year and conditions were never better
for record crop in that section OF the
state than they are now.
With three OF his five brothers in
penitentiaries and jails, on conviction
of burglary. John Dicks, was taken
back to Marysville, Mo-. from Pueblo
to stand trial on the same charges.
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
La Sale Commercial Club commit
tee appointed to investigate the mat
ter of an Independent sugar factory
made a report indorsing such a step.
The movement among Colorado
Springs business men to raise $1,000
for the purchase of baseball park for
Ira Bidwell's proposed Rocky Noun.
tain league team has been abandoned.
Mrs. Cora E. Smith Of Denver was
elected president OF the Colorado and
Wyoming departments. Women of the
Grand Army OF the Republic, at the
in Boulder. which has Just
closed.
The heavy precipitation throughout
the Holly section the last year has put
the soil in fine condition and the
round about never looked
nor the outlook more
promising at this time