Gilpin observer., 1912-01-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While,

"A ACSShI AAo ELL OIlpplc SESCA
caused damage of $4,000.
Ice at thirty inches thick on the
Poudre river at Zimmerman.
Greeley's car seal factory will be in
operation within thirty days.
w. D. Snow, aged sixty-eight, . pio-
neer of that district, died in Ault
Frank Vance, a noted gun-man. was
shot and killed at Kokedale recently.
The Knights of Pythias of Rocky
Ford have dedicated their new build.
ing.
John F. Morgan has been appointed
to third term as postmaster of Colo
rado City.
The Rock Island railroad is contem-
plating numerous improvements in
Colorado.
A masked robber entered saloon
at Leadville recently and carried
away $3.50.
Mrs. Fred Allen. a farmers wife,
living near Wray. killed herself by TAX
ing strychnine.
A vanadium alloy manufacturing
plant is in prospect for Denver in
the near future.
The Montrose Chamber OF Com
merce has been e-organized with sew
enyt-one members.
Rev. Father Richard De Palma,
widely known. in that section, died in
Trinidad of cancer.
Charles L. Hill. pioneer mining op-
orator. Of Colorado. died recently at
Santa Monica. Cal.
Beginning February /, the mint at
Denver will coin nickels for the first
time in its history.
The "Old Time Cowboys reunion
was held in Denver recently and
closed with big banquet.
Thirty persons who have lived in
Denver twenty-five years or more,
have died SO far this month.
The Eaton High School basketball
team defeated the Denver Y. NJ. C. A.
team by score of 35 to 16.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado-Wyoming Lumber Dealers
Association was held in Denver.
Harold F. Henwood will be placed
on trial in Denver for the killing Of
Tony Won Phul. February -.
Boulder Troop D. Of the Colorado
National Guard has begun a campaign
for an increased enlistment.
John F. Moore, for fifteen years
napaU oP tho Grand Tup,fiop LSr,,;t
Growers Association. has retired.
Mangled beyond recognition, the
body OF Anton Manzarita, an Italian,
was found on a railroad in Pueblo.
John NJ. Dunn. one of the old-timers
Of Meeker and the White River val
ley. died recently at Goldfield, Nevada.
Richard McCloud of Durango. has
been appointed county Judge OF La
Plata county to fill the unexpired term.
Two hundred thousand dollars will
be paid into the state treasury by the
ectate OF the late Charles B. Kountze.
Within the last two months about
twenty men have been convicted in
Greeley for selling liquor without IL
cense.
The jury in the case of Clark Hol-
comb. charged with murder. at Grip
pie Creek, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
A manual training department is to
be established in the new high school
now under construction in Steamboat
Springs.
The Denver-Greeley irrigation prof.
ect has been completed and water
turned into the Milton reservoir near
Platteville.
Rev. Greer A. Foote. pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at Glenwood
Springs. died following an operation
for appendicitis.
A mountain lion weighing forty
pounds and measuring eighteen inches
long was trapped by Arthur Hunt near
Georgetown recently.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth Of
good whisky was wasted when q run
away team dashed into q plate glass
window OF saloon in Pueblo.
The Jackson Resort Company. about
eight miles east OF Boulder, sustained
a loss of $4,000 when their main build
ing and several smaller ones burned.
County Judge Henry j. Hechtman
of Durango, took his own life recent
ly by placing a revolver to his mouth
and firing a bullet through his brain.
He lived alone and was found dead by
friends who called to visit him.
Rio Blanco county commissioners
have appropriated money for the pur-
pose of changing the course Of White
river distance OF a mile below
Meeker, thinking this will prevent fur
ther damage from ice gorges.