The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Portland to guard the railroad bridge.
A second motor mail route will soon
be in operation at Eads.
Police are asked to arrest all negro
troopers found in Pueblo without
passes.
The Colorado boys at Fort Kearney
are doing very well in instruction and
practice.
Three Las Animas men were found
guilty of Illegally importing liquor in
to Colorado.
Uncle Sam gets a Del Norte man
named Gold and Monte Vista man
named Young.
Samuel Downer, one of the early
settlers of Prowers county, died in
hospital at Lamar.
Mason Seavey, member of the Byron
L. Carr post, G. A. r., and a Colorado
pioneer, died in Denver.
Buena Vista is to have a flour mill
which will take care of the wheat
raised in the uppef valley.
ordway proposes to put up two
dozen lights and have a White Way
as good as that at Rocky Ford.
Collections of the inheritance tax.
for the period between Nov. 1 and
Nov. Is amounted to S11,533.29.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ended Nov. Is were S23,S04 900, an in
crease of SAG per cent over the CORE
spending week of last year.
Four hundred farmers in Moffat,
Routt and Grand counties are facing
the problem of getting approximately
45O cars to move their potato crops.
The evangelistic department will
ask every clergyman of Denver to
stress the Importance and need of
prayer in one of his sermons and serv-
ices of Dec. 2.
Coincident with the announcement
that the building of a canning factory
ON Beaver Park is an assured fact
came the further news that Penrose
is to have electric lights.
District Attorney Foley said that
criminal charge would be lodged
against Ed Allison, deputy sheriff, in
connection with the mysterious death
by shooting of Mrs Margaret Manning
in Denver.
The coroner's jury in Denver held
that Mrs. ]. Forbes Manning came to
1er death from gunshot wound and
held Ed Allison responsible, with j.
w. Gingrich and Edgar H. Watson ac-
cessories.
H. A. Tomsick, aged A, employe at
the Minnequa plant, was instantly
killed at Pueblo when an automobile
in which he was driving alone turned
over on the lower approach of the
Spring street viaduct.
Lee R. Harrison, president and
cashier of the Sulphur State bank.
Hot Sulphur Springs, was named by
John Evans, provost marshal, as chair
man for Grand county for the war
certificate campaign.
Denver detectives are engaged in a
search for an unidentified man who
fired two shots at Capt Henry B.
Cassell, organizer of Denver's home
guard, near the garage of his home at
351 Lafayette street.
More cottages for the Myron STRAIT
ton home at Colorado Springs will be
erected as soon as building material
becomes available and the structural
! steel market is settled. A waiting list
of 165 is now on file with the trustees.
Col George E. Bushnell, chief of
staff of Surgeon General Gorgas' Of
flee and generally recognized as a
final authority on the subject of tuber
culosis in the various phases under
| to- Il,s
service, arrived in Denver to inspect
sites for the establishment of a large
| United States army sanatorium in
this state.
| A plan of action to stamp out the
hog cholera wherever it develops in
any part of the state, has been put
quickly into effect in Weld county by
| a special committee of the Colorado
| Council of Defense. 1t involves a
combination of NATIONAL state and
county authority that can and will be
utilized for most drastic action when
necessary.
Edgar Hopper. secretary of the Den
yer Coal Merchants Association,
wired w. j. Galligan, Colorado coal ad'
ministrator, in Washington in confer.
ence with National Coal Administra.
tor Garfield, asking him to secure
from Mr. Garfield permission for Den
yer retailers to charge a uniform
price of IS for bituminous lump and
to establish uniform prices for other
grades of coal.
In connection with two bills that
have been introduced into Congress to
obtain the governments protection OF
embalmers in the war zone to preserve |
the bodies of the soldier dead, Rex B,