Gilpin observer., 1912-04-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pueblo is holding Home Industries
week.
Ground has been purchased in
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from a
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis of the brain.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
tion. which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secur
ity.
For the first time this season. wa
ter Is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale. through the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high scl,rol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm for
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
The Colorado Library Association
will hold its annual meeting at Pueblo
May and s. An interesting program
has been prepared
The corpse of Joseph C. Halowell,
a war veteran, aged about seventy Of
Boulder. was found west of the city
dump at Nederland.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans. it is said. and that the licenses
of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Shade trees for Milliken is the slo-
gan of the Commercial Club and hun
dreds of trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Meekers' new Town Council has
named April l6 as Cleanup" day and
instructed the city marshal to see that
all property owners do their duty
At Fort Collins Robert I.angford
was acquitted of the murder of Clar-
ence 7. White. Denver railroad man,
who was stabbed to death on Dec s.
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May 1 on the
for the erection of high school build
ing
Among the finest deposits of brick
clay to be found in the state are those
on the north side OF the Arkansas riv-
er, some five or six miles from Rocky
Ford.
There are about twenty cases OF
smallpox within the limits of Lafay-
cite, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting
State Senator John S. Cary died at
the Denver Club building in Denver.
He was taken ill with an acute attack
of edema of the CLOTHS. a swelling of
the glands of the throat.
All the eleven nurses at the univer-
sity hospital, in Boulder presented
themselves in body at the office OF
the matron, Miss Elizabeth V Miller.
and notified her of their resignation.
Colorado women. members of the
Daughters of the War of 1872, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September IL. the one-hundred,h
anniversary of that memorable coz.
flict
Abraham La Gale. known also to
many as Hubert La Croix, an old-time
miner, was found dead in his cabin at
Central City. He was sixty-five and
came here ten years ago from Cripple
Creek
For the fourth time within the last
two months, Frank Perry, an Italian
truck gardener of Grand Junction. re-
ceived a letter signed with black
hand demanding the payment OF $2.-
coo.
One more railroad station near Den.
yer will be added to the Union Pacif.
les map. 1t will be known at Roy's
Crossing. near Aurora. and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build a depot
there
Mayor Speer will ask the leading Or
ganists of Colorado to help him select
an organ for the Auditorium In Den
yer. The $4,000 purchase money is
to award the contract.
One hundred and fifty gypsies. who
have been living in three small ter.
races in Denver for more than week,
will be made the subject Of investi.
cation by State Humane Officer Nor
ton David.
Beginning May 1, daily reports of
the conditions of the roads through
out the state will be received at the
headquarters of the Denver Motor
Club for the benefit of tourists and
members of the club.
Aviation has been made part OF
the course of studies Of the signal
corps of the Colorado national guard,
and with two Curtiss graduates as In.