Gilpin observer., 1912-06-13
little COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Ouray, is dead.
A terrific storm recently did consid-
cradle damage to Routt county.
The Summer School for State
Teachers opened at Greeley with 1000
teachers enrolled.
The Colorado & Kansas, Pueblo's
new railroad, twenty-one miles long,
has been opened.
If plans of Greeley men work out,
alfalfa breakfast food will soon be man.
ufactured in Weld county.
Montrose Chamber of Commerce is
preparing to issue 10000 postal cards
to advertise the county.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has started campaign to raise $780,
600 for advertising purposes.
Dr. C. A. Stewart of Denver has de-
parted on an automobile tour from
Denver to New York and Boston.
Golden is greatly excited over the
finding of free gold by G. w. Parfet in
his clay drifts south of the city.
Longmont has decided to send an au-
tomobile on the Socability run to Chi.
cago, which leaves Denver June 25.
The government has appropriated
$4,000 for the commencement of the
federal building at Grand Junction.
John Daniels, for years prominent
fish culturist of Colorado, died in Den
yer at the age of eighty-five years.
The Hotchkiss Fair Association
gave barbecue on June Z in place OF
the spring races which were called off.
Jammed into flume in the North
side lateral, at Gill, the body of John
Losser, aged three. was found by l. N.
Ball.
Mrs. "A. d. Droll of Greeley was Sc
verely burned about the head when
she attempted to relight fire with
coal oil.
AS a result of hail storm. which
visited the vicinity of Fort Morgan,
garden truck. alfalfa and sugar beets
were damaged.
In the District Court at Greeley,
Charles G. Shelley pleaded guilty to
the charges of bribing County Com
missioner Devinny.
Rev. c. w. Dyer of Hastings, Neb.,
has accepted the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Pueblo. The
salary is $500 annually.
Within the next two months hun
dredS of entrymen in Weld county will
prove up on their homesteads under
the new three-year homestead law
There will be no work done on the
dam for the Boulder city water works
this year. the contract for which was
let last November for $52,196.2O.
C. r. Mohr, of Cripple Creek. was
perhaps fatally shot at Trinidad by
Miss Ethel Doyle of Colorado City.
who claims to be his wife.
Gioacchina Lananna. under arrest in
Pueblo on a charge of murder commit
ted in San Francisco June 10, 1901,
will be returned to that city for trial.
The new experimental ore-dressing
and metallurgical plant built for the
School of Mines at Golden, at
cost of $125.OO0. will be opened July l.
w. L. Carroll, Perkham mer-
chant, poured vinegar down his baby's
throat Immediately after the little
one had swallowed lye water. and may
have saved the child's life.
Jewelry and money to the amount
Of $500 was taken from the home OF
Robert E. Hall of Denver, recently,
while the family was spending the ev-
ening at the theater.
All available space in Denver hotels
has been engaged for delegates and
visiting members OF the Knights
Templar, who will hold their triennial
conclave there in 1913.
Work has been resumed on Meek
er's Catholic church, after a suspen-
sion since last fall Construction will
be pushed in an effort to complete
the building by midsummer.
The damage by the flood IN the I'm.
compahgre river and its tributaries in
Montrose county Is believed by the
County Commissioners to be 10000.
Several bridges have been washed
away and others are almost gone.
Finding his wife In conversation
with another man on a street corner
in Pueblo, where they met by appoint
ment, w. II. Senior. railroader. shot
Ed Bavousett twice in the back as the
latter retreated.
Hereafter there will be fraternities
at the secondary schools of agricul-
ture controlled by the State Board OF
Agriculture. the board having passed
a resolution forbidding students In
these schools from joining organiza-
tions of this character.
A wall of water four feet high swept
down Cherry Creek Sunday, carrying