The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-09-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado


| Wsstsrn Ne xspsper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. ia-zs-coiorsdo state Fair at
s' Ra.o ,s-s'-L''s0'" County '''
Sept. .s-as.-Grand County fair and
race meeting.
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Washington reports state that 1922.
244 Colorsdoans registered on Sept. H.
Negro settlers in Weld county held
their third annual fair at the Deerfield
settlement near Masters. Sept. 10.
Mrs. Sallie A. +. Warner. 90. Of Den
yer. died at her home. She had been
blind for many years.
Under the recent call for $4,000
men, sos Coloradoans will leave for
Camp Kearny. Cal. Oct. III.
Mayor W. +. II. Mills must sign his
name 1890 times to the Denver bonds
issued for the payment OF the water
company.
The State Home for Dependent Chill
dren received big American flag
| WAth luc SOio1 auo oOStetS Va tAC eS''~
of Revolution made presentation.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
at Colorado Springs has installed ma
chinery In Its mill for testing mangan-
csc and potash bearing ores.
1t is planned that all courts In Den
YER shall be closed during the month
and half during which the legal ad-
visory boards are aiding draft men IN
the making out Of their question
naires.
Five men were arrested at Cripple
Creek charged with thigh grading"
from the Portland mine. The men are
Jack Haley. George Haynes. Fred
Holxdurn, Henry Hoffman and Carl
Proctor.
1t has been officially announced by
the Portland Company that shoot
four feet wide. averaging $50 per ton,
has been cut on the Roosevelt tunnel
level in Portland ground, at q depth Of
2.l3l feet.
Philip Hornbein Of Denver was Sc
lected ~ state chairman Of the Dem
ocratic central committee to succeed
Raymond Miller Of Kiowa, in a meet
ing Of county committeeman and com.
mitteewomen at Denver.
A. g. Marcus. supreme Judge Of the
trail Of the National Order Of Cowboy
Rangers, with headquarters in Denver.
has enlisted for overseas work for the
Red Cross and has gone to New York
and will sail for Saloniki. Greece, on
Oct. I.
Samuel Todroff. As. Bulgarian.
helper at the Colorado Power Plant At
Sterling. was instantly killed when
he picked up . guide wire to remove
1t. The wire was crossed with an.
other wire carrying $500 volts of cleo
tricity.
The body of Boyd Powell. IS years
old. a young man Of Longmont. was
found in the shaft Of the Cuckoo coal
mine. near Frederick. William or
Philip Lafferty. 10 years old. Ii In
jail at Greeley. charged with having
killed Boyd.
Emil Zimmerli Of Denver. Dudley
scilley OF Loveland. Glenn Turner Of
Fort Collins and Leroy Daniel Van Vol
kenburgh Of Peetz were among the ten
Coioradoans killed In the train wreck
at Marshfield. Mo-. In which score or
more were injured.
The amended Lane bill. before the
United States Senate on q favorable
report from the committee on mines
and mining. will probably provide for
war bonus on new gold. together
with other items OF assistance. with a
view to increasing the supply Of war
metals. such as manganese, tungsten.
chromite, etc.
A call has been issued for sos Colo
RADIO men to entrain for Camp Kearny.
Oct. Ill.
Delegates from six states, including
Colorado. will meet in Denver Oct. 4
and for the third annual conference
Of the Southwestern tuberculosis As
ISOLATION. The conference will be un-
der the direct Jurisdiction of the Den
yer Antituberculosis Society. Calitor-
mia. New Mexico. Arizona. Texas and
Utah Will send delegates. '--
Guilty Of murder in the first degree
with the penalty OF life imprisonment
At hard labor. is the fate meted out to
Richard II. Baugh, alleged murderer of
Celina Haberl on June In Denver.
Baugh. blinded In both eyes, main.
tanned the same immobile expression
, when the verdict was read that he held
throughout the trial.
Former Ambassador to Germany
James w. Gerard addressed capacity
audience at the Denver Auditorium
Friday night, telling OF the Kaiser's
cunning and cowardice, hurting invec-
tion at the imperial German govern.
ment. and urging Americans to stand
behind the soldiers, and the great
thrnn1 cheered aG no foretoId III, x al,