Gilpin observer., 1912-08-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Mrs. Jean Hooper Page. writer and
poet, died recently at her home in Den.
yer.
Cantaloupes in carload lots will ne
shipped from Rocky Ford by August
18th.
The beet and potato crops in the vi
cinity of Hardin have been destroyed
by hail.
Hail did severe damage in some in.
stances destroying crops. around Hugo
recently.
| A large amount of small fruits and
vegetables is being shipped from
Canon City.
The highway between Meeker, Colo,
and Vernal, Utah, will be put in first
class condition.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept
the Virgins country, causing great
damage to crops and roads.
For beans which are allowed to dry
on the vines the Fort Lupton canning
factory will pay the farmers $1O5 per
acre.
Harry Winslow, forty years old, a
farm hand, was drowned in Seeley's
lake near Greeley at the inlet of No.
ditch.
An organized band of horse thieves
is operating in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford, and the losses have been con-
siderable.
Gophers, burrowing in the bank of
the Evans town ditch, caused a leak
that inundated crops. causing losses
estimated at $4,000.
A heavy hailstorm swept the Eaton
district, covering path twelve miles
wide and twenty miles long. Hundreds
of acres were destroyed.
Christian Maniatis, Greek restau-
rant keeper in Denver, has received a
black hand letter ordering him to quit
business and leave the city.
Thirty-two persons were killed in
Colorado mines during the first four
months of 1912. according to the Bu-
reau of Mines in Washington.
DR.. F. A. Bushee. head of the depart
ment of economics in Colorado college.
has resigned to take a professorship
in the State university at Boulder.
A hailstorm, almost cyclone, swept
the Lakespur district. destroying
everything in it's path and causing
damage to crops estimated at 100000.
Mrs. ]. w. LASER, sixty-two. was Sc.
riously injured at Grand Junction
when an unknown person in a speed
ing auto struck her on the head with a
rock.
Perry Lewis, foreman of switch
crew on the Santa Fe, was instantly
killed at La Junta by losing his bal
ance and falling from swiftly moving
freight train.
The flow of water from the Roose-
welt tunnel at Cripple Creek has in
creased to 10000 gallons per minute or
more, as against 5000 gallons two
weeks ago.
Benny Chavez. the Trinidad Mexi-
can prize fighter. has been matched
for twenty-round bout with Monte
Attel of San Francisco, at Santa Fe,
Labor Day.
Maldartz Gomez of Fort Collins was
arrested for beating his sixteen-year-
old wife with a knotted "blacksnake"
until blood dripped from her shoul-
ders and back.
Actual construction of the womans
building at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. to be erected as a me-
mortal to Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker.
probably will be started soon.
F. j. Bawden, treasurer of San
Juan county. and Socialist. has re-
fused to collect the military poll tax
in that county. His political views
caused him to take this action.
The Chicago, Rock Island e Pacific
is the third railroad running into Dem
yer to organize safety bureau for the
protection of its passengers. The Den
yer e. Rio Grande and Union Pacific |
have within three months. adopted
this method.
Robert W. Speer. publisher of the
Times, and former mayor of Denver. |
was fined $1,000 and given jail SEN
tence of five days in the county Jail by |
Judge Shattuck in the West Side |
Court on a charge of publishing ar
ticles in contempt of court.
For the purpose of discussing ways |
and means to prevent discrimination |
against wheat growers of northern |
Colorado and II possible to combine |
forces that better prices may be Sc
cured and better rates obtained, rep. |
resentatiyes of northern Colorado |
merchants associations and various
farmers organizations held confer. |
ence in Fort Collins recently.
Governor Shafroth, having written |
President Taft and received reply |
from him, about the Engle dam case.
states that he is doubtful of the con-
troversy being settled satisfactorily to
all concerned. The case is that in
which the secretary of the interior has
forbidden Colorado irrigation and re-
servoir men from levying further upon