The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-26

Fred D. Stackhouse will be the next
city auditor oc Denver.
A lodge of Yeomen is being organ
lied at Monte Vista.
Wholesale milk price increased by
10 per cent in Denver.
Refinery employees at Florence get
change in working hours.
The San Juan creamery at Durango
i~ now manufacturing cheese.
Two horses were killed near Bay
field during an electrical storm.
A Pueblo hotel man was fined 5000
OIL charge of gambling and selling
Liquor.
The heavy snow at Leadville on
Sunday caused a two-story brick
building to collapse.
Figuring on ratio of recruits to pop
ulation, Breckenridge claims to be
the most patriotic town in the West.
Two Denver boys, Donald C. Har-
din and Fred W. NARROW, have been
appointed to West Point Military
Academy.
The Gold Foil at the foot of Carson
this summer by G. d. Jordan and Rubs
Johnson.
An attempt to ford the north fork
of the Cache la Poudre river near
Fort Collins cost Eugene Benton, aged
II, his life.
The campaign for more silos and a
better use of silos in the great dry
land region OF eastern Colorado is now
we'll under way.
Sam Rose, about 20 years old, who
has been employed as bellboy at
Denver hotel for the last year, was
accidentally killed.
Greatly increased summer coal pro-
duction is assured by the granting of
a new through rate from the north
ern fields of Pueblo
Committee appointed at Craig to
plan for building of elevator and
storage houses by issue of coopera-
tive shares at 800 each.
Governor Gunter has appointed DR..
E. c. Webb of Canon City to the po-
sition of penitentiary physician as the
successor of DR.. r. E. Holmes.
Registration for war service, set by
President Wilson for June 5th, is to be
a day of dedication and of patriotic
fcrvor in Denver and other Colorado
cities.
L John R. Champion, widely known
among mining men of Colorado, and
until recently superintendent of the
Yak tunnel at Leadyille, died at his
Arvada home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggin, so, died al
the county hospital in Denver of in
jrries suffered when she was struck
by an automobile at Broadway and
Colfax avenue.
Breckenridge girl, was instantly
killed in Chicago. when an automo-
bile in which she was riding was
struck by a Rock Island train.
Liberty loan headquarters, where
loyal Coloradoans may do their share
toward shouldering the burden of the
$L.000,000,000 war bonds, opened at
Twenty Japanese women members
of the Denver Buddhist church pledged
their loyalty to their adopted country
when they formed an auxiliary to the
Denver chapter of the Red Cross so
ciety
With six sons, six daughters and
twenty-four grandchildren present, in
addition to about thirty-nine other rel
atives, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vein
berger celebrated their golden we'd
o,ng anniversary.
Three thousand men and women
rose and sang "The Star-Spangled
Banner" to the martial strains of a
military band following an inspiring
address by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
at the Auditorium in Denver.
j. L. Williams, a miner at Mount
Harris, near Steamboat Springs, ar
rested by revenue agents on a charge
of conducting a moonshine brewery.
has been bound over to the next Fed
eral Grand Jury sitting in Denver, on
$500 bond.
In response to orders issued by
Governor J. C. Gunter, Adj. Gen
Frank d. Baldwin assigned a COM
pany, or perhaps a battalion, of the
Colorado National Guard to guard
bridges, depots, telegraph and tele
phone stations and public buildings.
Operating officials of the Denver &
Rio Grande, the Colorado e Southern
and the Denver & Salt Lake railroad
have under consideration demands of
Eiachinists, shopmen, electricians,
pipefitters and other men employed
in shopg for an increase in wages.