Gilpin observer., 1917-07-26
CALL WILL BE MADE IN FEW
DAYS FOR MEN TO TAKE PHYS.
lcAL EXAMINATION BY LOCAL
BOARD.

Drawing of numbers for men who
are to make up the first increment
of frcm 500 900 to 100000 in the
big army the United States is to use
in the war with Germany was COM
menced last Friday morning and was
completed at o'clock Saturday morn
ing. Interest in the drawing spread
to every city and hamlet throughout
the country, relatives and friends
anxious tc know who would be called
The system of drawing was such that
all the registrants in a sense were
drafted, it being only question as
to their exemption on Physical or
other grounds. The drawing really
determined merely the order in which
the men are to be drafted.
There were 1873 registrants in Gil
pin county and each mans number
was drawn. The first in this coun-
ty was JoseIh Dudley Enos, Of New
adaville. The numbers came out of the
box in the following order: 1875, 1O7,
43, 10, 140, IS, 1872, 46, III, rs, 15, 81,
1888, Sc, 5, "a, 70, 112, 1913, II, 6, SO,
10S, 154, 81, 80, 25, 12e. 121, 80, 100,
1853, 175, 49, 8, %. 1O2, SO, II, 113,
156, 1853, 1856, 1873, 146, 5s, $50, 10, 4,
lis, 1876, SO, 1873, 81, II, 1874, 124. 76,
1853, 1, so, 1O5, 36, 40, 100, 157, 20,
ia, ISL, 81, 33, 80, 63, GA, Al, 4S, 3S,
1877, SS, 80. 145, 9S, "A, Z. 26, 80, 55,
AZ, 106, 81, 176, 65, 62, 81, n, 100, SO,
"a. "a, 14s, IA, 1O9, 1SO, 50, 174, 1923,
163, 80, 104, 70, 83, 142, 119, 175, 13,
20, 131, 81, 81. 95, 80. SO, 1853, "a, 81,
27, 1872, "a, 149, 81, As, 179, 12, 1903,
17s, 8, 20, 16, 173, 166, 60, 1877, 80,
1923, 139 81, 15e. 165, Is, %, I'll, SO,
s5 73. 1852, 2S, 1862. 1S1, 101, 116.
147, 80, 35. AZ, ILL.,, 125, "a, 1T, 167,
141, 6S, &c, 40, 143, 12O, 2, 3, 11S,
172. Missing numbers in list are Al.
1874, 1876. 144, 161, ITO. Number IT'S
is duplicated. These numbers are not
official but taken from the newspaper
reports. The official list that will
be sent out from Washington will be
correct, although the numbers given
above are fairly accurate and there
will be very little change from this
list.
The local exemption board will not
make a call for the examination of
registrants until the official list is
received frcm Provost Marshal Jchn
Evans in Denver All exemptions
must be filed within seven days from
the date the call is posted and mail
ed. Registrants must apply for phys
ical examination whe her claiming ex
emption or not. They will be given 10
days after filing exemption claim to
furnish proof in support of it.
Those who have grounds on which
to claim exemption are:
An officer-legislative, executive or
judicial-of the United States, the
state of Colorado or the District of
Columbia, regularly ordained minis
ters or priests, students preparing
for the ministry in amy recognized
theological or divinity school prior to
May IS, 1917; those in the military
CIR naval service; subjects Of Ger
many, whether they have taken out
first papers or not; resident aliens
who have not taken out first citizen
ship papers, county or municipal of
ficers, custom house clerks, those em-
ployed in the transmission of United
States mail, employees of the United
States government, married men with
wife and child dependent upon the
fruit of their labor for support, men
with widowed mothers, aged or in
firm parents; fathers of a motherless