The Colorado statesman., 1918-11-30


diers' Mandolin club at Fort Logan
Colorado's Third regiment of Nation
al Guard infantry is ready to be re
ceived as complete unit by the war
department.
A youth was killed at Fort Morgan
and man was so severely injured
that ne probably will die when autos
turned over on the road.
Mrs. Lucille VanGrundy, 25, a wild
ow OF Lafayette, was fatally injured
and William Weyman, also of Lafay-
ette, was badly wounded in an auto
mobile accident
Robert ]. Grant, Denver food admin
istrator. wired Herbert c. Hoover Of
fering his services TO the government
for duty in France during the recon
struction period.
A campaign for statewide support
of the Colorado Development fedora
tion as a permanent body to advance
Colorado industries on a national basis
is being made.
Former state Humane officer Nor
David of Denver, has been promoted
TO corporal in the Quartermasters
corps at Camp Funston.
Word of the death of Otto Metzger,
long a resident of Colorado, at his
ranch near Meeker, was received by
friends in Denver. Funeral services
were held at the ranch on White river.
The meeting of the federal grand
jury, first scheduled to be held Nov.
3, then postponed until Nov. 25, has
been put off until Jan. 6 because OF
the latest closing order of the Den
yer health department.
M. de Golyer, late manager of the
Vernon Mining Company, lronton, has
secured an option on the McLennan-
Dunmore tungsten property on Mount
Hayden. The property is considered
by those competent to judge to be the
most promising tungsten proposition
in the San Juan region.
October production of Colorado coal
mines shows a falling off over the Au-
gust production and an increase over
the September output, according to a
statement issued by James Dalrymple,
state coal mine inspector. The Octo-
ber output was 1,121, ,101 tons, and the
total for the first ten months 10,812,-
54S tons.
Reports through the state out
side of Denver indicate that the
Spanis h influenza epidemic has
spent itself in virtually every commun-
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secretary of the state board of health.
No new outbreaks have been reported,
and in several of the towns the re-
strictions will be lifted before the
week is ended
Adventure, mingled with romance,
was brought to happy Climax in Den
yer when Capt Carl Nelson, the hero
OF a dozen adventures, and Miss Char
lotte Lawhead. daughter of Capt. Ed
ward NJ. Lawhead of Seattle, partner
in Captain Nelson's adventures, were
married in the office of Governor Gun
ter by Chief Justice S. Harrison White
of the Supreme Court.
Five Colorado boys are on the lists
of casualties made public by the War
Department Nov. 23. They are:
George N Arndt, Blaine, missing in &C
ton; William NJ. Wickhorst, Brighton,
wounded, degree undetermined and
the following severely wounded in &C
ton: Louis Everett Baldwin, Den
yer; Lloyd b. Dunn, La Sale, and
Joseph p. Cough, Rocky Ford.
The biennial moving season preced-
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on at the state house.
Sergt. Edward Willis of Durango,
cited for bravery at the front in
France, was the first boy OF La Plata
county to enlist in the United States
service after the declaration of war.
vice. One of these, Sergt. Herbert
Willis, died of influenza at Camp
Dodge Oct. &c. Another brother, Mark
ley, died at Camp Funston of influenza
Oct s.
Return of s1,350,00O in dividends to
stockholders within a period of three
years is the record of the Wellington
mine at Breckenridge. owned and op-
Grated by the Wellington Mines Com
pany. An index of the productive
capacity of the property is had in the
fact that during the past fiscal year
alone the company paid federal taxes
amounting to no less than $145,000.
AT present the property is working
reduced force, owing to the labor
shortage resulting from draft induc-
tions, demands OF Essential" INDUS
epidemic and other general nanoicaps.
Voters in the recent election who
expressed the desire for absolute pro-
hibition by carrying the amendment
Iponsored by the Colorado Anti-Saloon
league may find that the operation of