The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-11

Pueblo.
Women carried flags in a draft pa
rade at Pueblo.
over 2,20O women in Pueblo county
purchased third Liberty bonds.
In Logan county the Platte river
road has been graded and grayeled
throughout the entire county.
On the Brighton highway the state
maintenance outfit has scarified and
reshaped the entire road to Brighton.
Eagle, Jackson, Lincoln and Pitkin
are now the only counties in which
there are no Womens Councils of De-
tense.
Delta will be host TO $50 Methodist
preachers who will hold their state
conference there the last week OF
| August.
Widening and improvement of the
Floyd Hill road in Clear Creek and
jefferson counties will be undertaken
this season.
The annual spring cleanup of stray
dogs in Denver was begun under the
direction of DR. w. II. Sharpley, man
ager of health.
Many thousand of baby trout from
the state fish Matching tanks at Pit
kin were placed in upper branches of
Gunnison river
The funeral services of Mai. Will
liam Cooke Daniels were held in New
York, according to dispatches re-
ceived in Denver.
The difficult hill between George
town and Silver Plume will be re-
duced to six per cent grade during
| the coming season.
Fowler made application for city
mail delivery and the postmaster has
notified that free delivery will begin
the first of next month.
When the Third Liberty Loan drive
closed at Cripple Creek, the total
reached S326, 700, while Teller county's
quota was only s2SO,sOO.
Colorado topped her loan quota by
81 per cent-156,SS7 subscribers TAX
ing bonds totaling $27,766,S5O. Denver
people took s1O.122,10
The production made in March from
properties of the Granite Gold Mining
Company on Battle mountain, closely
approximated $500 tons.
In Adams county work is nearly
completed on the new bridge over
Clear Creek on Boulevard F just
north of the Denver city limits.
Brisk recruiting continues at the
Denver marine office, fifty-six men
being transferred during the last week
and fifty asseptances are pending.
Workers on the Moffat tunnel in
Park county received orders to quit
drifting and start a winze at point
1000 feet from the adit of the tunnel.
A memorial service for the late Col.
William Guthrie, who died at Camp
Taylor, KY, April s, was held at st.
Peters Catholic church at Rocky Ford.
The Red Cross will benefit to the
extent of 100000 if the plans of the
directors of the National Western
Stock Show Association are carried
| out.
Three hundred workmen began the
excavations for the administration
building and the permanent storage
building for the recuperation camp
near Denver.
In Morgan county the Platte river
road has been graveled from the
Weld county line through Fort Nor
gan to Brush and to the Washington
county line.
1t is stated that Richard F. Ryan,
assistant attorney general of Colo
rado, was attacked in the office of
District Exemption Board No. 8. in the
state house, by Roady Kenehan, secre-
tary of the board.
AS soon as some 1000 acres of land
near Boulder, says a Boulder dispatch,
can be obtained, G. e. Stubbs of Bill
ings, Mont, and j. T. Hurst of Grey
bull, Wyo., will begin digging for oil
by putting down large number of
test wells.
The Denver office of the United
States forest service announced that
the national forests of Colorado would
be opened this year for the grazing of
an additional ISL, 900 head of sheep
than the number allowed last year
through intensive use of the ranges.
What is believed to be pro-Ger-
man propaganda movement has been
found in some of the coal camps of
Colorado, where many Austrians are
employed. Reports reaching the state
food administration officials are that
these Austrians threaten to quit work
If they cannot have more than their
present allotment of bread.
The city of Denver must pay Harry |
A. Lindsey, former city attorney, !
back salary amount to s10,047.61, six |
sitting Judges of the. State Supreme |