The Colorado statesman., 1917-04-14

foods, deplete stocks in stores.
Telephone company is organizing
company of reserve signal corps.
The employees of the United Oil
Company at Florence have organized
the Kendrick Mountain Golf Club.
Ten indictments were returned by
the federal grand jury when it made
its report to Judge John A. Riner at
Pueblo.
The people of both Florence and
Fountain voted in favor of purchase of
ground for park and public recreation
purposes.
]. H. Stagner, 81 years old, a car
penter, died at the county hospital in
Denver from injuries received when
struck by an automobile.
To Miss Ferol Boyd of Denver may
fall the honor of being Colorado's first
woman aviator. She is a junior at
North Denver high school.
The Denver tourist bureau has re-
ceived notice of the reduced summer
railroad rates. The season starts
June 1st and closes Oct. Goth.
The Denver Jewish Congress has
passed a resolution pledging the 10y
atty and service of it's members to
President Wilson and the nation.
w. R. Selby, formerly of Telluride,
where he was in partnership with
Alexander Calhoun in the cattle bust
ness, died at his home in Denver.
Upwards of 1900 inquiries from
prospective tourists have been re-
ceived at the office of the Denver
tourist bureau within two months.
DIR. H. T. Low was elected by the
Modern Woodmen lodge No. I'LL of
Pueblo to be delegate to the state
camp which will meet at Canon City
May End.
Wage scales of the workers in 80
per cent of the coal mines of Colora-
do have been voluntarily increased by
the operators to meet the advanced
cost of living.
Orders to dismante within forty
eight hours all radio stations in Colo
RADIO were received by Capt. E. F.
Doig, secretary of the Colorado Wire
less Association.
Two hundred Colorado employees or
the Armour Packing Company were
included in $500, 900 bonus which the
company divided among its employees
Easter. Every employe receiving un-
der $1,S00 a year participated in the
bonus.
Placing $50 new official markers
this spring along Colorado's 550-mile
scenic link of the Pixies Peak Ocean
to-Ocean highway will be part of ex-
tensive promotion work provided for
| by the convention held in Colorado
| Springs of the Colorado division of this
transcontinental motor route.
That a German sympathizer tore
down the large American flag she had
raised on her porch Immediately after
she had caused the arrest of Karl
Burke and Charles Nelson, alleged
German propagandists, was the COM
plant of Mrs. j. e. Larson, 1875 Ma.
rion street, to the police of Denver.
A blood relation of Abraham Lin
coln-the daughter of a cousin of the
martyred President-a Denver woman
enlisted in the United States navy
as stenographer. Mrs. Josephine
Louis Lincoln Parry called at the head
quarters of the Womans Navy League
and enrolled.
German subjects who applied for
second papers of citizenship prior to
April 6, the date the state of war was
officially declared will not be barred
from becoming citizens, according to
instructions received from Washing
ton by Paul Lee Ellerbe, chief ex-
aminer of the Denver bureau of nat
uralization.
To meet the needs of the increased
cost of living, twenty-five of the lead.
ing coal mining companies of Colo
rado, affecting about 80 per cent of the
coal mines in the state, announced a
general wage increase of approximate.
ly 10 per cent to their employees, to be.
come effective May 1st. The action was
purely voluntary.
The Church Federation of Denver,
comprising all the Protestant congre-
cations of the city, will give its unit
ed support to the work of prepared
ness being conducted by the Red
Cross and the various military
agencies of the government to meet
emergencies that may arise as re-
suit of the war.
Alarming conditions in the food sup
ply of the west as well as of all the
crop producing sections of the coun-
try were vividly set forth in a report
to Gov. julius c. Gunter by the state
committee on ways and means, ap-
pointed recently to investigate con.
ditions in Colorado.
Resolutions asking that maximum
charge for foodstuffs be set by state
and city authorities, and that those