Gilpin observer., 1912-08-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While,

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Platteville is making arrangements
for pickle Day." Aug 81.
The new $4,000 Catholic church at
Montrose has been dedicated.
The relief fund ror the Denver flood
sufferers has reached approximately
$500.
Southern Colorado Pioneers Associ-
alton held a big celebration in Pueblo
Aug. 1.
Wheat in the vicinity of Briggsdale
is yielding from fifteen to forty bush
els per acre.
Sterling and Logan county are plan.
nidg to have an old.fashioned harvest
festival this fall.
Two Denver men have been arrested
charged with carelessly firing the for
est at Estes Park.
The Festival of Mountain and Plain,
to have been held in Denver, has been
postponed till 1918.
The annual conference of the Ger.
man Congregational church of Colora-
do was held in Loveland.
During the run of two weeks at the
Johnstown pea huller. 25O,000 pounds
OF early peas were handled.
A gain in income of $4,000 is what
Fort Collins beet growers are going to
receive over that Of last year.
Saloons in Marshall, mining camp
in o1n
for the first time in thirty-five years.
William Morgan, one OF the best
known residents of the Snake River
valley, died at his home in Craig re-
Gently.
c T. Irwin, former president of the
La Plata County bank at Durango has
been arrested on charge of embezzle-
ment.
Fred Tiller, miner working at the
Aduddell mine in Russell district. was
severely injured by a cave-in at that
property.
Meeker's Catholic church has beel
completed. The edifice ia one of the
most substantial and beautiful on the
Western slope
Farmers on the Western slope are
making an effort to prevent laborsrs
coming there before the crop is ready
to be harvested.
The two-year-old daughter OF Ig-
mace c. Palpnek. an Austrian coal
miner, was drowned in an irrigating
ditch at Canon City.
Loveland is sending a carload OF
raspberries to Denver and Colorado
Springs every other day. for which the
growers receive 81 per crate.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
Blackstone and terribly beaten, July ..
died at his home in Silverton.
The De Beque Town Council is look
ing for a man who is willing to dis
charge the duties Of mayor OF the vii
lage for the salary OF $40 a month.
DR.. ]. H. Spencer of Colorado
Springs was elected president OF tho
Colorado Baptist assembly, which
closed it's ten-day session there re-
Gently.
Van Fields, nineteen, OF Pueblo. Is
mentally unbalanced by trip to the
summit of Pixies peak Sunday, when
he experienced high altitude for the
first time.
The body of Arvita Martinez. the
Mexican girl. who drowned herself in
the Arkansas river near Salida recent.
ly, was found in the Royal Gorge. near
Canon City.
Following a quarrel over pool
game, Frank Florris was disembow-
eled at Delta by Carlos Acuma. beet
worker, who attacked Florris at his
home with a knife.
All records for gain in acreage, quail
ity and enthusiasm in the Arkansas
valley have been broken during the
past month by the strides the beet
crops have made.
The Jefferson County Fair Associa-
tion has decided to hold the fair Sep
tember 8 to Z. Two thousand dollars
in premiums will be offered. with
many special prizes.
The Rocky Mountain Climbers Club
is arranging for trips to include the
ascent OF several of the highest noun
tain peaks. The first trip will start
from Boulder Aug. 16
Denver citizens. who suffered H..
nancial losses by the recent flood OF
Cherry creek in that city, will prob.
ably sue the city for damages caused
by the backing up OF water by bridges
built too low.
According to figures compiled by
Emil Pefeiffer. state bank commission.
er. there is on deposit In the Colorado
banks $111, 1,510.73731. The per capita
bank deposit wealth Of the United
States is only $34.
Morris Blackford, gold dredger.
was electrocuted when he came In con.
tact with a live wire In the transfer.