The Colorado statesman., 1917-08-04

Rank, Pytnlan an
of Khorassan, at Colorado Springs.
Sept 4-7.-Frontier Days ceiepra'ioh
at Fort Morgan. u pa,r at
Sept 4-7.-Arkansas Naliey FaH ~
Sept. e.s.-Firemen's State Convention
at Colorado Springs. p
Sept; i7-2z-Coiorado state fA'r
eblo.
Over 10000 acres of beans are being
cultivated in Weld county.
The Legislature appropriated $40
each for Colorado soldier boys.
Wyatt Boyer of Burlington chosen
on state fair board in place of Spencer
Penrose.
Over $1,000 in prizes will be Of
fered at Fort Morgan's Frontier Show,
Sept. At.
Eighteen autos alleged to have been
stolen by a man arrested at Pueblo are
recovered
First exemption board call summons
fifty-two Denver men to report in Dis
trict No. 5.
Officers reserve men have been
called to report at Fort Smelling.
Mimi, Aug. 26. There are S13 appli-
cantS IN COlOTduO.
Colorado will be the next field for
/. w. WIS and their work." asserted
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners.
George R. Broad, son of Richard
Broad, Jr., of Golden, has been ap-
pointed an assistant paymaster in tho
United States navy with the rank of
ensign.
The net receipts from the national
forests under the Denver jurisdiction
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1917, show an increase of S29,600 over
those of the preceding year.
Nearly all of the women of Lead
vile and many from outside the city
were in attendance at big meeting
which organized a women's advisory
council for good work in war time.
j. M. Taylor has been elected cap
tain of the Denver Grand Army Vete-
ran Military Company. R. H. McGill
has been named as first lieutenant and
R. M. McElrose second lieutenant.
A family named East, from Indiana.
camping on the Rio Grande river
above Creede, had little daughter,
aged 5 years, who fell into the river
and was drowned. The body was re-
covered
1t is reported that during the last
month the Tomboy company of Tellu-
ride, which is an English-owned cor
poration, paid s75,330, or "a per cent,
in spite of the English tax of 30 per
cent for war purposes.
The old mine near Lake City in
which Walter Mendenhall made the
recent sensational strike, giving fabu-
lous assays, is owned by Mrs. F. E.
Williams of San Diego, and is under
lease to Mendenhall.
A score or more of the Indians who
have been working in the vicinity of
Lamar during the summer are eager
to join Company d, but they have not
yet succeeded because of the failure
of the Indian agent to grant the neces-
sary permission.
Fifty-four members of the headquar-
tiers and supply section of the engineer
train, Colorado National Guard, for
merly known as Truck Supply Com
pany No. l, modified at Colorado
Springs, preparatory to going into
camp near Golden.
Agents of the United States Depart.
ment of Justice, after a conference
with United States District Attorney
Tedrow, decided to charge Mrs. Anna
Smith of Louisville and Hugh Mcleod
with bringing intoxicants into the
state in violation of the Reed law.
Driven to dependency through her
inability to obtain work, Mrs. Kitty
Evans, So, attempted to drown herself
In an irrigating ditch near the Nine
Mile house, on the Brighton road
north of Denver, and would have been
successful had it not been for the
timely arrival of w. E. Grouse.
M. L. Baldwin, proprietor of a no.
tel at 1dledale, was seriously injured,
and Alvin Laub of Memphis, Tenn.
suffered fracture of the collarbone
when an automobile in which they
were riding plunged over an embank-
ment two miles east of Morrison and
tumbled distance of forty feet
Echoes of the factional fight in the
German Evangelical Lutheran church
of Windsor, which occurred last
March, were heard in the District
Court at Greeley in the case of the
Rev. William Wilk, discharged pas
tor, against trustees and members of
the church. Mr.. Wilk is suing for
$4,000 damages on charges of false
arrest, false imprisonment and mali
etous prosecution.
possibilities that the Colorado Ma
uonal Guard now encamped at The
colorado State Fair Grounds, might in