Gunnison news-champion., 1916-07-07
COLORADO NsuS IN b. I-r


Haue-y b is now enrolled to it..
-.l.MuTn strength
" p Horan was appointed coroner
,. Deav@r BY Mayor speer
Lyan 7 Ioyce Of Siiye.ton sas nom
-aret oy President wilson for regis
e- yl Tie land Office at Durango
a reward of $500 has been offered
y. Hformation lea ling TO the arrtsi
= he person who on the night o.
10 shot and killed Mrs. Rose Al
Of Greeley
.-ectors OF the Colorado Fuel anC
...- company declared a dividend u
.er cent on the deferred stock to
account of accumulated dividends
lat issue. There vas in all SO pei
unpaid.
&c turn OF events in Mexico tbs
~. few days mas given a decide! i'm
-. 81 TO recruiting N Colorado. Tn,
raj opinion among all OF the mil
...y heads in Denver is that wal
Mexico is sure TO come.
aptain Walter I. Bates. UniteC
les army officer stationed in Zen
Tor the last two years as Inspector
instructor OF the militia, has beer
1!nted colone! OF the First regi
q. Colorado national guard
a.torney General F'arrar submitted
q. state Treasurer Stocker an opinion
1ding the right Of the state 20 is
certificates OF Indebtedness up tC
sum OF $4,000. to meet the expen
incurred b. the state in mobiliz
The militia
A slight decline in meat prices ii
-.IiCted by Denver dealers. At pres
the prices are the same as hav,
allied for the last month. but 1t IL
.r ,-oted that within two weeks taer,
d lie an appreciabie decrease in tno
rs OF mutton and lamb. and per
IS a slight decrease in the prices
rest beef.
"Atholic societies of Denver s.anC
-.ady to volunteer nursing aid AMI Sc.
~ wards in all Denver hospitals
the use of the Red Cross society
. never the need may arise II !.
tcyed that because OF the climau
der. many wounded will be sen; tt
Drado from the front should wal
a m Mexico become fact.
Joseph Gould. a university studn
md a former resident of Denver. was
astantly killed in cavein at the Eu
--ha mine at jamestown. His part
Ter Edward c. Lewis Of Boulder. alst
! university student. had a narrow es
ape from death. He was struck BY
s"veral small pieces OF rock. but wa.
not injured. The young men wer,
raking preparations TO timber a por
ion OF the tunnel when the cave IL
,ccurred.
Mrs. Rose Stratton Allen OF Kansa;
City has brought suit in the fedora
,ourt at Denver 10 break the will o
The late Winfield Stratton. who lef
his $4,000, 900 estate for the establish
ment of home for the aged. She al
leges he was fraudulenSy induced II
make his will. leaving his property e
charity. Stratton diea in 1902. i
woman who claimed TO be his com
mon law wife recently lost a suit Il
share in the estate.
Two million dollars was voted b,
the house for the construction of road.
in and adjacent to rational forest re
Berves." This appropriation was par
pf the bill covering Tie larger bill pro
vidins federal aid to public highways
As Originally made up. the bill did no
contain this sl0.000,000 appropriation
but Representative Taylor finally sue
reeded in having 1t included. TIL,
forest service estimates that 100,
miles OF roadways are needed through
the national forests of Colorado
These roads will COS, s3.000,OO0 Col
prado will receive about 100000 from
This new Taylor bill this year.
The protracted drouth in the noun
tAins every day increases the necessi
~ for campers and automobiiists tt
L8hG SAAia dSdiiiSt stdi I
Ing fires in the forests. Not in twenr,
years has the menace from fires beer
% great in Colorado. Three fire.
started in the section west of For
Collins. Superintendent Wheeler o
the forestry service called on the Den
yer department for assistance in prt
ting them out. Seven incipient fire.
have been nipped by the rangers l.
The Colorado national forest north o
Boulder. Only prompt action in ever!
case prevented vide devastation
In a dispute over two eggs, william
Pttchford killed his father-in law. Sam
uel B. SAMSON, on Sansom-s farm. tw,
miles east of Lafayette. The KILN,
was witnessed by Pitchford's wife an,
the four small Pitchford children
Pttchford fired twice with shotgun a
; distance of twenty-five feet. Th
arst shot hit SAMSON in the lett arm
and side and brought him to tn
ground. The age. man raised himsel
IN one elbow and Pitchford fired
aA.oFd shot into hic hact pifchfnr,