Gilpin observer., 1912-02-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over ths
State Worth While.

Ouray.
Mat Ggurrich, miner, was almost
Instantly killed at Rugby in rock
slide.
The death rate in Colorado Springs
last year was 6.21 per 1000 inhabi-
tants.
The title to the Durango postoffice
site has passed to the federal govern
ment
George F. Thomas, a pioneer, aged
seventy-five years, of Grand Junction,
is dead.
The nine miles of road between Fort
Lupton and Hudson is to be i'm
proved.
The La Junta High school basket
ball team defeated the Rocky Ford
team by score of "a to ~.
The cornerstone of the new Metho-
dist church being constructed in Den-
yer has been laid
The new drop curtain recently hung
in the Burns theater in Colorado
Springs cost $2,50O.
An election will be held in Gilcrest
March to vote on the question of in
cooperating the town.
A movement has been launched to
secure the Democratic state conven-
tion for Cripple Creek.
Greeley is making an effort to get
the Christian Endeavor congress to
meet there in February.
The Fort Lupton town hall has
been completed at cost of O,0OO.
1t includes jail and fire house.
The twenty-fourth annual Farmers
Institute closed at Longmont after a
three days successful session.
Roy Paul, who was found dead re-
Gently at Delta, is said to have been
the victim of headache powders.
The breaking of twelve-inch water
main in the city of Gunnison, has
caused shortage in the supply of wa
ter.
A vigilance committee is being Or
ganized in Greeley to rid that town
of bootleggers and undesirable citi-
zens.
Falling down the shaft of the old
Broadhead mine near Aguilar, Rafael
Saccommini, Mexican, was instantly
killed.
William Maniece, aged seventy
three of Meeker, and known in that
locality as the dean of the freighters.
Is dead.
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implement Association will hold its
annual convention in Denver the week
Of February 10.
Mrs. B. F. Thompson, aged fifteen,
Of Durango, has been given a divorce
from her husband, B. F. Thompson,
aged .wenty-one.
Residents of the Eastern Creek dis
trict, twenty miles from Num-, are
putting in phone system, using their
barbed wires for lines.
Marshal Tucker and Deputy Sheriff
Justice of Valdez were exonerated by
the coroner's jury for killing ]. c.
Smith, the alleged bandit.
While lighting a fire with kerosene,
Rose Amicarelli, aged twelve, of near
Glenwood Springs, was so severely
curned that she may not live.
A new law in Pueblo makes it pos
sible for drug store to dispense
liquor for license of $40O year
while saloon 10 required to pay
$1,000.
The Old Soldiers Home at Monte
ington $5,125, being the governments
quarterly payment of their regular do
nation of 500 per year per inmate.
All arrangements have been per-
fected for the construction of a good
sized flour mill and elevator at Holly,
the wheat growers of that section of
the state.
The farmers in the Greeley district
and Weld county are buying milch
cows, building silos and working to es.
tablish condensers and creameries.
Hereafter they will combine dairying
with forming.
According to reports there are no
more than 200 carloads of potatoes in
the Greeley district and tsese are rap
idly being shipped out. One week re-
Gently there were thirty-five cars
shipped to Wichita, Kansas.
The matrimonial bureau, recently
established at Grand Junction, has re-
ceived letter from a young widow
in Arkansas, who proposes matri.
mony, and who says she is the mother
Of eight children.
The estate Of the late Alfred Muller,
according to an inventory Just filed in
Denver, amounts to $125.000 Muller
was for ten years secretary of the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump-
tives, in that city.
The differences which existed be-
tween the Holley Beet Sugar Company