Gilpin observer., 1912-06-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.


ent sugar factory.
Philip Petrie. pioneer. aged ninety
two, of Cripple Creek, is dead.
There has been organized at Colo
rado Springs Young Mems Demo.
cratic Club.
After thirty years of petitioning,
road is to be built from Hudson to
Fort Lupton.
On June 1S Guy Buckles of Omaha
will fight Howard Baker of Boulder at
Cripple Creek.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmaster at Delta and Frank
Silonton at Victor.
Six Grand Junction youths were
fined $500 for using An automobile
four hours without leave.
Colorado Woman's college boasts
an enrolment of 103 students in the
third year of it's existence.
Last month was the wettest May for
Colorado Springs since 1874. The total
precipitation was 2.49 inches.
Five full grown bears were killed
and two cubs captured by a party of
Alamosa big game hunters recently.
Gov. Shafroth announces he will not
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to re-enact House bill No. 200.
Directors of the Larimer County
Fair Association have decided to erect
an art building on the fairgrounds.
June 25 to July 13 are the days when
the great Denver Chicago run will be
the main automobile event in the
West.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise. having already
reached height unusual for this time
of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario.
charged with the murder of Felix Mar
tinez on January 9th. were acquitted
at Trinidad.
J. II. j. Ramsey of Cripple Creek has
been arrested. charged with embez
zling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank
William Menagh, a ranchman living
near Greeley, lost his house by fire
twenty-four hours after his insurance
policy had expired.
Business men in the Hudson district
will grubstake twenty prospectors and
send them into undeveloped mineral
districts of Colorado.
Jim Bailey and Jack Murphy, self
the pest house, Grand Junction. both
suffering with smallpox
Former Senator A. T. Stewart of
Pueblo has been appointed to succeed
Felix O'Neill as warden of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista.
Thomas c. Bunyan, organizer of the
Bank of Berthoud, now the First Ma
tional bank, and well known man
throughout the state, is dead.
A bill is now before Congress allow
ing 100000 for the Denver postoffice.
completing the appropriation of s2,.
100000 for site and building
The jury in the case of Fred Piel.
charged with killing George Kesler at
Greeley last October. returned ver-
dict of voluntary manslaughter.
The first excursion has been run
over the new Colorado-Kansas rail-
road to the Turkey Creek district.
twenty-five miles northwest of Pueblo.
1t is reported that oil has been
struck at Cross Hill, near Steamboat
Springs, and that the flow from the
well is filling the basin in front of the
derrick.
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Board, District No. 20, has just 1n.
nounced the purchase of a site for a
new school building to be located on
the East Side.
Farmers of Weld county are rejoic-
ing over ten hours of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at time when it
was most needed by the newly-planted
beet crop.
Twenty-Five horses have already ar
rived at the fairgrounds race track
at Montrose for the spring race meet
of the Western Slope Fair Association.
which takes place June 13 and IA.
State Treasurer Roady Kenehan is
the donor of a gold mSdal which he
will award this year for the first time
to the student at the State university
taking the highest rank in geology.
Moving pictures will be used by the
Colorado Congress OF Mothers in
campaign to educate the women Of the
state in housewifely duties If the pres
ent plans of the organization are car
ried out.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout
northwestern Colorado. following
heavy windstorm, blowing down tele.
phone poles, uprooting threes and un-
roofing the recently completed hotel
at Oak Creek.
Directors of the Colorado state Fair
Association at Pueblo are preparing