The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'satern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMIN0 EvENTS.

New Methodist church at Stoning-
ton is to be dedicated Dec 9.
The schoolhouse OF District 13 near
Castle Rock burned with all contents.
The one-delivery plan Went into eff
feet with the retail grocers and
butchers in Pueblo.
Two carloads Of the municipal organ
arrived in Denver and the remaining
three cars are expected soon
The Canon City coal dealers have
petitioned the state fuel administra-
tion for . raise in retail prices.
Henry II. Clark was elected presi-
dent OF the Denver Bar Association at
that organizations annual meeting and
banquet.
S2.100 worth OF honey from 2o6 hives
OF bees located in the West orchards,
east OF Olney.
The first allotment of thrift stamps
received by the Denver postoffice,
amounting to $22, 500. was sold in less
| than two days.
The Denver Retail Coal Merchants
| Association has petitioned the Colo
RADIO fuel administrator for permission
| to raise the retail price Of coal.
| Henry W. Dutsch. OF Hugo. was
tarred and feathered and forced to
kiss the American flag for alleged pro-
German utterances, by one hundred
enraged citizens.
The body OF DIR. Henry C. Watt.
son-in-law of the late Gen. William
J, Palmer OF Colorado. Springs, was
cremated in Denver and the ashes
taken back to the Springs.
II is reported that the Yankee Girl
Genessee-Vanderbilt and Custom prop
critics. situated in the Red Mountain
mining district near Silverton. have
been taken over by the Mary Murphy
company.
The Colorado Council of Defense.
through the markets committee. sent
word to the chairmen Of the county
councils urging them to prevail upon
farmers to sort their potatoes before
shipping
Fred Hoile, recently arrested in
Longmont on charge of having es-
capped from an interned German mer-
chairman at Boston three years ago,
was taken to Denver and placed in
the county jail
William Bruno, MEXICAN con-
| victed by q jury in the Denver West
Side Court Nov 26 for the murder OF
his wife June %, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the Colorado
state penitentiary.
The receipts of the Denver postof-
flee for November were slSS,5 Ga.
an increase OF s5567G22, or 419 per
cent over November OF 1916, and the
biggest months business in the his
tory of the office.
An indignant protest over the high
| prices being charged by Colorado coal
profiteers was Officially made to
Fuel Administrator H. A. Garfield at
Washington, by Congressman Edward
keating of Pueblo.
A million new testaments for the
American boys in France is the plan
| OF the joint carraign now being
waged in every part of the country by
the army and navy chaplains and the
national war council of the Y NJ. C. A.
Louis r. Sheldahl 90 years old, a
senior in the University of Colorado,
has sacrificed his diploma, which he
| was to have received next spring, to
do his bit for democracy by enlist
ing in the Gas and Flame Thirtieth en-
gineers.
President Wilson's recommendation
for war with Austria, if carried out by
Congress, will materially affect the
coal mining industry of Colorado. It
is estimated that one-half of the coal
| miners in this state are Austrian sub
jects who come here for the sole pur-
pose Of working in the mines.
While awaiting definite word from
Washington, NJ. B. Tomblin, secretary
of the Colorado Metal Mining Asso-
citation, declared that petty differ
ences had been buried and that the
American mining congress and all To-
cal Colorado silver organizations were
ready to unite to boost the production
of silver for the government if the
federal purchasing price permitted a
fair profit.
Maj. c. N. Barney of the Denver
army recruiting office is in receipt of
instructions from the War Department
that any registrant, even though he is
called by his local board to report for
physical examination may, from Dec
until Dec. 10, enlist on the presen-
tation to the recruiting officer of a
, certificate from his local board stat
ing that he will not be needed to fill
any deferred percentage of the boards
quota.
The woman's state auxiliary to the
Colorado National Guard, which, al
though the guard has lost its identity