Gilpin observer., 1912-07-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


project is being completed.
w. B. Monson, Doyleville pioneer.
died at his home in Ohio City.
New alfalfa hay is selling on the
Uintah reservation for IS per ton.
The Methodist Episcopal church in
Sterling is rapidly nearing completion.
The rainfall thus far this year in
Colorado has been 3.31 inches above
normal.
Gunnison County Cattlemen's con-
vention at Gunnison was an absolute
success.
The assessed valuation of the city of
Grand Junction will exceed $2,000,OOO
for 1912.
DR.. l.. G. Stadler of Ouray has been
arrested on a charge of selling cocaine
to young men.
The meeting of the Colorado Stock
growers Association in Glenwood
Springs was well attended.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Windsor
will employ girls in the hay fields this
season, according to reports.
Strawberry harvesting has COM
menced at Steamboat Springs, and the
first shipments are being made.
Ethel Myrtle. infant daughter OF
Thomas Parrot, coal miner of Superior,
was smothered to death in bed re-
Gently.
The Crowley County Agricultural
Fair Association holds the second an
nual fair at Sugar City Sept. "a. 25.
26 and 81.
Former Governor Alva Adams has
formally announced his candidacy for
United States senator as successor to
Senator Guggenheim.
Farmers in the dry land districts,
nea Keota, have cut and stacked hun
dreds of tons of Russian thistles to be
used as fodder.
Painters from all parts of Colorado
attended the third annual convention
of Master Painters and Decorators AS
sociation in Pueblo.
Anderson H. Young, aged sixty-nine.
veteran of the Civil War and Colo,
rado pioneer, died of complication of
diseases recently at Boulder.
Thirty feet of the water main Of
Canon City leading down the Royal
Gorge, was washed away by the flood
waters and number of cattle
drowned.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
Blackstone. July 6, and badly beaten,
died at the Miners Union hospital at
Silverton.
n. Esqueville was shot in the neck
by Alonzo Gomez in quarrel follow
ing. an all-night dance at the Marty NJ.
Howell ranch at Garfield, ten miles
each of Boulder.
The farmers of Morgan county
should receive in excess of 100000 for
sugar beets. This estimate is based
upon supply from 5000 acres for eacn
of the two factories.
Frank S. Smith. president of the
board of the Denver-Greeley Valley Ir-
rigation district. was indicted for per-
jury by the grand jury that has been
in session In Weld county.
From January to July 20 a total
of 1912 inches of water has fallen in
Weld county. according to Govern
ment Observer Nelson Reynolds. This
is the wettest year since 1909.
Reformatory officers identified the
unknown man shot and killed in Lead
vile as Stephen Marko. convict who
escaped from the institution. No trace
of his assallant has been found.
Farmers near Durango who planted
300 acres of sugar beets wholly as an
experiment are chiding each other for
not going twice as strong into the VEN
ture. for the crop is passing all expec-
tations.
The largest tract Of land In the
White river forest reserve, comprising
SO, $50 acres. will. it is believed by SUI
pervisor ]. A. Blair of Meeker, be
open for public entry by the end OF
this month.
District Judge Cavender of Grand
Junction upheld the report of Referee
Sternberg in the adjudication of wa
ter rights in the Grand valley, declar.
ing valid priorities filed by districts
before 1908.
A party of British and local scien.
lists who have been exploring the fos-
sill beds at Florissant have unearthed
the fossilized bones of hand and fore
arm of a human being which may
prove to be the missing link which
Darwin describes.
Ten thousand acres Of sugar beets.
the largest crop in the history of west
ern Colorado, will bring the growers
of Garfield. Mesa. Delta and Mont.
rose counties approximately 100000
when the beets are harvested and de-
livered to the sugar factory.
Damage resulting from the cloud.
burst in Clear Creek canon Monday,
n is estimated will reach Soh 00O