The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-10

Jan. 1J-SO-lSlNt SlOCh ShOW d. DSh' SA'
More knitted goods asked of Red
Cross.
A lone bandit got $4,000 from Den
yer pawnshop.
Chas. e. Cherrington was reelected
mayor of Grand Junction.
Colorado's farm loan law legal,
says State Supreme Court.
Supreme Court affirms conviction of
Clyde B. Pearson on murder charge.
Contracts for building houses and
a hotel at Rocky Ford have been let.
Little girl given Trades and Labor
Assembly prize for best war garden
at Pueblo.
The sheriff has a right to destroy
gambling paraphernalia, says Su-
preme Court.
Hundreds of persons visit Mineral
Palace in Pueblo to view annual ex-
hibit of chrysanthemums.
The Overland Petroleum Company
of Wyoming has agreed to drill on
Rock Canon dome in Pueblo county.
The Denver knights of Columbus
lodge mailed 200 Christmas boxes to
Catholic soldiers of Denver stationed
in this country and Europe.
New farmer near La Veta named
Firm, in his first years experience,
got 100 bushels of oats to the acre, rs
bushels barley, 20 bushels wheat.
A Trinidad investigator brings out
the information that Las Animas coun-
ty supports $4,000 people win only 3
per cent of it's land under cultivation.
That war emergency" exists and
that all Colorado troops should be re-
membered with Christmas gifts, is
the gist of proclamation by Govern
or Gunter
E. l.. Brown, president of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad, returned
from New York and assumed his du-
ties at the offices of the company in
Denver.
Elmer Smith, 80, a negro, shot his
sweetheart, Bessie Epperson, 25, and
then slashed his own throat with
razor, following quarrel at her
rooms in Denver.
Ex-Governor Alva Adams went to
w u. S., W nave lSu
upon him the unusual rank of 33rd
degree in Scottish Rite Masonry by
the supreme body of that order.
Announcement was received from
Washington of the promotion of L.
Claude Way from chief ranger in
charge of the Rocky Mountain Nation
al Estes park to superintendent of the
big playground.
Ralph w. Smith, chairman of the
food conservation committee of Den
yer county announced that $4,000
families in the city and county had
signed the pledge cards during the
first week of the drive.
Every Colorado soldier must have
a Christmas present to remind him
that in the happiest time of the year
he is in the thoughts of "the folks
back home for whose safety he has
volunteered to give his life.
The amount of potatoes at Monte
Vista awaiting cars had been reduced
in one weeks time from 900 carloads
to $50 carloads, the transportation
committee reported at the last meet
ing of the Colorado Council of De-
fense.
Three hundred members of the Den
yer postoffice clerks and the Denver
letter carriers met in joint session
and adopted resolutions protesting
against being paid salaries inadequate
with the high cost of living which is
in force.
The Y. M. G. A. campaign to raise
$4,000 in Pueblo for the use of Y. M.
C. A. army Y's will start November
18th and continue through November
10Th. The Y. M. c. A. of the United
States will need sS5,O0O,OOO for work
in the army camps of the United
States and the allies.
The transportation committee of
the Colorado Council of Defense re-
ports that the shortage of coal cars
is now serious in the state, but will
probably soon be relieved. Two weeks
ago Governor Gunter asked the state
public utilities commission to investi-
gate the coal car situation and it is
doing so.
Marjorie Wilhelm and Gladys Will
ters, each IT years old, were arrested
in Denver and will be taken back to
Kansas City. They have been using
the names of Bobbie Robertson and
Ruth Mcintyre. According to word
received by Chief Armstrong from In
spector of Detectives j. l.. Client in
Kansas City, the girls were employed
as telephone operators in a Kansas
City hotel, from the safe of which
$1,000 is missing.
= On the platform that conditions pro-
duced by the world war call for the
entrance into active politics of every