The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30

Denver contributed $65S,444 to the
Red Cross fund.
Broken pipe line crlpples Canon
City water supply.
The man who enlists in the National
Guard is enlisted in the regular army.
Approximately 1000 acres have
been planted to potatoes in Moffat
county.
The new cheese factory at La Junta
has capacity of $4,000 pounds Of
milk per day.
The new Denver and Salt Lake
Railroad station at Hayden is near
ing completion.
Denver formally invited the Belgian
commission to the United States to
pay Colorado a visit.
Work of paving the main street of
Littleton has been completed and it is
again open to traffic.
Men who registered for military SER
vice at Trinidad will be provided with
distinctive arm bands.
Contracts have been awarded for
the construction of twenty new silos
in the vicinity of Ordway.
Weld county, asked for $4S,000 for
the American Red Cross fund, re-
Sponded by contributing $4,000.
At a reorganization meeting of the
Denver Civil Service Commission AL
bion X. Vickery was elected president.
The Christian church at Ault has
started the erection of an addition
that will double the seating capacity
of the auditorium.
More than 300 persons appeared in
the county recorders office in Denver,
Monday, to obtain permits to have
liquor shipped in to them.
The first cutting of alfalfa in the
Arkansas Valley shows a better quail
ity of hay than has been harvested
in that district in many years.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has granted the employees at all of
its factories advanced wages amount
ing to approximately 10 per cent.
A resolution calling for the enforce
ment of the child labor law during the
war was passed unanimously by the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly.
A coroners jury in Denver brought
in verdict that William Bruno fired
the shot which killed his wife last
Sunday night with felonious intent.
John and Rex Nisley, aged and 8,
respectively, were swept from their
horse and drowned willie trying to
icIa in
Grand Junction.
All employees of the city of Denver
receiving less than $1,000 a year will
receive an increase amounting to not
more than IS per cent of their present
wages after July 1st.
Five persons were injured, two of
them seriously, when the car of Welsy
Frasier, driven by Will O'Driscoll, ran
into culvert six miles west of Mont
rose and turned over.
Members of the Colorado National
Guard and the enlisted reserve corps
paraded the downtown streets of Den
yer by way of opening the National
Guard recruiting program.
Practically every man who has had
previous military training in Denver is
applying for the second training camp
at Fort Riley which opens Aug 27th,
according to Charles R. Dudley.
The State Agricultural College at
Fort Collins put force of workers
in the field to give demonstrations
throughout the state on the proper
methods of canning fruits and vege-
tables.
The Trinidad Chamber of Com
merce is recruiting volunteer COM
pany of automobile owners to aid
in the transportation of troops, am
munition or supplies in the event of
an emergency.
The offer of the presidency Of the
State School of Mines at Golden has
been declined by Prof. Milo S. Ketch-
um of the University of Colorado.
Prof. Ketchum will remain as dean of
the engineering school at Boulder.
According to provision passed by
the last General Assembly that a wom-
an be appointed a member of the
board of control of the State Soldiers
and Sailors home at Monte Vista, Gov
ernor Gunter named Mrs Lora M.
Gindners of Monte Vista to the posi-
tion.
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, true to their traditions, are be-
ginning the self-appointed task of en-
rolling themselves into a citizen army
for Service on industrial economic,
agricultural and all patriotic lines"
that they may be of definite service
as body in the world war.
rich discovery at depth for the
Ironclad Hill section has been made
by the Cripple Creek Deep Leasing
Company on the property of the Jerry
Johnson Gold Mining Company.