Cheyenne record., 1918-06-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tee of the railroad administration has
ordered the Santa F6 to discontinue
the transportation of merchandise be-
tween Denver and Cafon City. Port
land and Florence, Colo. This order
was made to avoid duplication of serv-
ice with the Rio Grande. The business
between Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo, destined for Trinidad. will be
handled by the Colorado & Southern
and the Rio Grande roads. The Santa
Fe, however, will maintain the service
to the points named, but only in car
load lots.
Declaring that Frank w. Keeler of
Denver was selected by Mrs. Jacque-
mena Russum as good pickings," and
that it was not case of the mans
chasing the woman but of the wom-
ans chasing the man. the attorney for
the Denver man argued before Judge
Harry g. Class in the Denver District
Court for reopening of the suit In
which Thomas Russum of Chicago
was given 100000 for alleged aliena-
tion of his wife's affections.
A legal booklet, giving the laws of
use to attorneys and courts in pro-
tecting the rights of the men and wom-
en- in military service, has been pre-
pared by the legal committee of the
State Council of Defense and is being
distributed to all attorneys in the
state. A similar booklet intended spe-
cially for the E:len in the service is be-
ing prepared and will soon be distrib-
uted.
Miss Marguerite Williamson, Den
yer girl who has been engaged in Y.
w. C. A. work at Camp Macarthur.
Waco. Tex, for the last year, has re-
turned to the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry M. Williamson, to
await the call to work at the Hotel
Petrograd in Paris, which Is being
conducted by the association.
Notice of q Scent increase in the
fare between Denver and Golden on
the Denver & Intermountain Electric
Railway Company, in accordance with
provisions of the McAdoo rate order,
was lodged with the State Public Util-
tiles Commission by w. T. Price, traf-
fic manager. The new rate will be %
cents instead Of Is cents.
Two July draft calls. operative about
into service 9O3 Colorado registrants.
according to word sent out by Provost
Marshal John Evans. One call is for
718 men for general military service;
the other for 1856 men who are gram
mar school graduates for training in
mechanical lines.
Governor !Gunter has excused Cass
meetings of the State Council of De-
Tense until September SO that he can
devote all of his time and energy to
organization of the Colorado Develop
ment Federation AZ q means Of help
ing the government and Colorado's in
dustries.
The final act in the Savageau mat
reached the acme of bitterness in its
progress through the courts, was
staged in Denver when Mrs. Elizabeth
Philips Savageau was granted a d.
vorce from Frederic LIE Pere Saw.
ageau on the ground Of desertion.
The body Of q man which was dis
covered floating In the Platte river
near Littleton and which was carried
away. by the current Of the stream
made, was found by a party of SOL
diers. one mile north of Littleton.
Corp. Howard Dickerson, former
Colorado man, is reported dead from
wounds received in battle In the casu-
atty list issued in Washington. He en-
listed in May. 1917. in Trinidad and
went to France for active duty in the
engineering corps in September.
Jim Goodheart is the same old ven
turesome man in France that he has
always been in the United States and
he demonstrated that fact in letter
received by his wife. He took q fly
through the air with one of the United
States aviators.
Floyd Franklin, . ranchman living
on Round creek, twenty-five miles
north Of DebeQue. believes he was
fired on by an airplans far up in the
sky according to report sent to Shsr-
iff Jeff Watson of Grand Junction.
Four hundred and hfty-six draft So
lects, representing Kansas and Mis-
souri,. passed through Denver en- route
to Vancouver barracks for service in
the forest department Of the aviation
corps
Jasper Fata, 2S years old, . resident
Of the Italian colony in North Denver.
was found in an alley with bullet
through his head. He died several
xAl
Federal officers have started search
for q slackers' camp reported located
in the widest part of the San Juan
mountains between Montrose and the
Utah line.