The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

died very suddenly in Baltimore.
Citizens Of Tiff have voted favorably
on the issuance of $4,000 of water
works bonds.
The warehouse Of the Grand juno
ton sugar factory was destroyed by
fire The loss il estimated at $4,000.
Ten dollars has been added to the
Golfers Of the Denver chapter of the
Red Cross through the sale OF hen
and ten baby chicks.
Everything that can be done on the
broom corn situation to help farmers
in southeastern counties has been
done. DIR. Charles A. Lory has re-
ported.
They do honor to themselves and
TO their state" That is Gov julius
c. Gunter's verdict of the 341st field
artillery band that Is touring the state
boosting the third Liberty loan.
More than $1,000 was raised for the
Red Cross at the minstrel show and
dancing party given by the Mountain
States Telephone Society. chapter No
6, at Ell Jebel in Denver
Colorado, though thirty-second in ra-
ito OF population, has mounted, accord
ing TO the United States marine corps.
to thirteenth in proportion of enlist
ments for that branch of the service.
Gov Julius Gunter of Colorado, an
nouncing that he would not permit the
Willard Fulton championship fight,
suggested Berlin as the battling
ground for the fighters to show their
wares.
The Baruch commission in Washing
ton. after conference with some of the
larger producers, has fixed the price
of lead at cents per pound. drop of
S. per ton from the settlement price in
Colorado.
The international "children's week"
will be observed in Denver May to
IL. when Sunday school workers will
visit homes throughout the city. max
ing a survey of social and religious
conditions and securing the coopera-
ton OF parents with teachers of the
church and the school.
At a meeting called by Judge Ira
{ Itolu6ci DtIp " hlNA AAA'itSO CANSu
tors, administrators, trustees, guard
ians and conservators of estates pend
ing in the County Court of Denver, in
the court room he succeeded in obtain
ing subscriptions to the third Liberty
loan amounting to $171, 300.
Mrs. Florence NJ. Doty is about the
only woman in Colorado engaged in
active mining operations. In the Lead
Vile district. where one metal comes
to the front when another recedes.
Mrs Doty secured lease on a large
bleck In the Poverty Flats section, and
10 installing a plant OF machinery at
the old Seeley shaft.
The surprise of the Russum-Keeler
$4,000 alienation suit was sprung in
Denver District Court before Judge
Harry S. Glass, when counsel for
Francis w. Keeler, Denver broker &C
cussd by Thomas Russum of breaking
up his home In 1918, placed upon the
stand "the woman in the case" Mrs.
JacQuemena Russum.
Perry Van Gorder, general mechanic
at the Greeley plant Of the Great West
ern Sugar Company, was instantly
killed by the explosion of an air tank
In the plant. H. o. Banta, machine
foreman. lost his left hand and the
sight of his right eye. Thomas Hou'
ton, another employe. was rendered
unconscious, but his injuries were
slight. Banta will recover.
The Rev. H. A. Schmidt, pastor OF
the Evangelical Lutheran church OF
the Missouri synod at Greeley, was
placed in Jail as a protection from citi
zens. who threatened to lynch him
The cause is ascribed to reported ut
terances in his pulpit when he is said
to have denounced the American Red
Cross and to have advised against buy
ing bonds in the third Liberty loan.
Work on the opening of the ditches
of the Water Supply and Storage Com
pany at Fort Collins has commenced.
spreading the News" a comedy
was presented before the soldiers at
Fort Logan by the Stage Woman'a
War Relief.
One hundred and forty-nine Denver
men will be sent to Fort Logan with
SAT others from various counties o1
the state during the five-day period
beginning May 10 for training a. 8
part of the second draft call, according
to orders issued by Provost Marsha
John Evans Colorado's quota Is q part
of the 49,843 registrants that are being
sent to forts for training with regular
army units there.
Statistics compiled by the Colo
RADIO immigration Board indicate tina,
Colorado has passed the 100000 mari
in population. The exact total is /.