Gilpin observer., 1912-09-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


Pueblos 100000 court house prob
ably will be opened NovemberH.
w. w. Roam was chosen head of the
Elks at the reunion held at Idaho
Springs.
The thermometer fell to eighteen
degrees above zero at Leadville Sun
day morning.
The Elberta peach harvest is prac-
tically completed and the apple harvest
is on in the Grand valley.
Ornamental side lights are to be
placed in the down town section of
Erie at once. There will be twenty
four posts.
James Thomas fell from swiftly
moving Rio Grande passenger train
north of Pueblo escaped without brok-
en- bones.
The new st. Philomenas Catholic
church i'll Denver was dedicated by
Bishop n. c. Matz. before a congrega-
ton of 600.
Melvin Blum. eighteen, son of ia
cob Blum and senior at Centennial
high school, died at Pueblo from spin
al meningitis.
Philip Strubel of Denver has been
appointed by Governor Shafroth as the
three-year member of the board of ex-
aminers of BARRIERS.
A bandit wearing a piece of light
colored cloth over his face held up
and robbed siy men in saloon in Den
yer and obtained $35.
Work at the Rocky Ford sugar fac
tory will begin Sept 26, and orders
have been issued to beet growers to
begin hauling beets.
Denver, as far as all surface indica-
tions now point, will have the G. A.
r. encampment in 1913, according to
General George w. Cook.
Meeker has brand new curfew law.
and marshal who intends to enforce
it. Eight o'clock is the hour set for
the children to be off the streets.
Rio Blanco county, in case the trans
continental automobile highway goes
through that section. will make "Scen-
cry gulch' the show place of Colorado.
The fortieth annual convention of
the International Association of Fire
Engineers, better known as Fire
Chiefs, held a four-day meeting in
Denver.
Many persons from Rocky Ford at
tended the exercises in connection
with the unveiling of the monument
erected by the d. A. R. at old Fort
Benton.
Mrs. ]. E. Mulnix was seriously and
Mrs. George Devore slightly injured by
jumping from a runaway while return
ing to Montrose from the Ashenfelter
fruit farm.
That the hair of Colorado women is
brittle, faded and generally in poor
condition in majority OF cases is the
statement of Paul Jergelot, French
hair importer, visiting in Greeley.
Lost on a bleak stretch of prairie,
miles from any human habitation, in
the severe storm that has swept the
section near Trinidad, Porter Hover
and Harry Caldwell almost perished of
exposure.
The use OF scarf pin which she
grasped while held in the arms of an
unidentified man, saved Mrs. Margaret
Waters Collins, a bride of three
months at Colorado Springs from be
ing assaulted.
Following a raid on their apartments
in fashionable part of Grand juno
tion, "rs. C. F. MidIaugh and daugh-
ter, ry, twenty-one, two prominent
society women of western Colorado,
were ordered to leave the city.
The Women's Club will open a
school of eugenics and practical nurs-
ing in conjunction with the confine-
ment bureau established by the Uni
versity of Colorado to care for poor
mothers at childbirth, free of charge.
Floyd McKenney, the sixteen-year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nc
Kenney, is in a serious condition at
his home, as the result of being struck
in the abdomen by a baseball during
a game between the Kersey and La
Sale teams at La Sale.
one of the oldest pioneer settlers OF
Colorado, a resident of Denver for
more than fifty years and widow of
Judge Amos Steck. died at her home,
300 East Bayaud avenue. She had
been in feeble health for more than
two years and her death was attribut.
ed to old age.
The Colorado Springs police have
been notified of the theft of chata-
laine bag containing money and jew
els to the value OF 1000 from the
lavatory of Pullman car on Denver
| &. Rio Grande train. The owner OF
the money, amounting to $500 and the
| jewels, has not divulged her name cx.
| cept to the railroad officials.
With her wrists and ankles tightly
| bound and her head enveloped in a