The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-19

can Race at Denver.
eblo.
Penrose is to have a w. o. w. camp.
A case of anthrax was reported at
Manzanola.
Prospects are reported good for
higher prices for tungsten ore.
Over fifty citizens of Canon City
have financed potato planters.
Society of the Red Cross started at
Ridgway with membership of "a.
appointed receiver of the Denver land
office
Mrs Daniel Danielson. prominent
Vineland resident, killed in automo-
bile accident
Olney is to have fire truck with
thousand feet of hose and two
chemical tanks.
Clear Creek mines in the Idaho
Springs district are being reopened
by many lessees.
Senator Shafroth introduced in the
Senate bill appropriating Sl50,000
for a federal building at Montrose.
News stands have been ordered off
the streets of Pueblo and hereafter
newsboys will handle daily papers.
Henry Hoffman, 55, was instantly
killed by falling 100 feet in the Gid
bug claim of the Last Dollar mine at
Cripple Creek.
Over forty university students and
n
report at Fort Riley, Kan, at the Of
ficers training camp.
The lists of applicants for admis-
sion to the training camp at Fort Ri
ley were closed by order of the War
Department at Washington.
Members of the Cigarmakers' I'm
ion of Denver, who struck for an in
crease in wages of 81 per 1000, COM
promised on an increase of 81 per
1000.
Six Sunday automobile accidents, in
which sixteen persons participated
of which number seven were injured
one probably fatally-kept the Denver
police busy.
AS a result of proclamation issued
bONtl CSa1tdyb hoE
goth, has been designated as Young
Mems Christian Association War
Work Sunday.
Joseph Ward Denver railroad man,
left for st. Louis, where he will join
the division of engineers which is be-
ing recruited by the government to be
sent to France.
The Patriotic League of Clifton has
adopted resolutions calling on Con
gress and the President to stop the
manufacture of liquor and to prohibit
traffic in it during the war.
Jack s. Means of Denver, gradu-
ate of the University of Colorado, has
been designated for a commission as
second lieutenant in. the engineering
corps, United States army
Full military burial honors were ac-
corded the body of Eugene o. Pratt,
member of Company C of the Colo
RADIO National Guard. who was killed
in the hastings mine disaster.
Dwight L. Skinner, son of United
States Revenue Collector Mark Skin
ner, and a freshman at Colorado Col
lege, was one of the successful appli-
cants for the student training camp at
Fort Riley
Peter De Soto, long known as the
king of the bootleggers" in Larimer
county, was sentenced to death in the
District Court at Fort Collins on a
conviction of having killed his SON.
in-law July 25th.
Mai. Charles B. Hardin, United
States army, retired, was appointed
by Adjt. Gen Frank D. Baldwin to the
new post of chief quartermaster of the
Colorado National Guard. He sue
ceeds Maj. George M. Lee.
Members of organized labor in Den
yer who answer their countrys call
will be kept on the rolls of their un-
ions as active workers in good stand
ing. Their dues will be suspended
during their period of enlistment.
The business interests of Denver
will give hearty support to the G. A.
X. and the several other patriotic or
ganizations in plans to make Memo
rial Day of 1917 an effective event in
arousing support of the nations war
undertakings.
Denver officialdom, bankers and
other business men, as well as the
general public, are awaiting only posi-
tive announcement of details of his
trip to prepare a stirring patriotic
welcome to Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo on his visit to
Denver, scheduled, according to dis
patches from Washington for May 23.
On Monday a joint meeting of the
governors war council the ways and
means committee, the State Editorial