The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-05-24

Pueblo.
Englewood gave $1,000 on the first
day OF the Red Cross drive.
Logan county went over the top
in the first days drive for the Red
Cross.
Eads oversubscribed its quota for
the Red Cross on the opening day OF
the drive.
School census in Ell Paso county TO-
tails IL ,335 persons between the ages
of and q years.
Putting in casing has been the work
the past few days at the oil well at
Kiowa and drilling is to be resumed
Already the federal authorities are
planning to boost for increase OF stor'
age facilities in western Colorado this
year.
Denver citizens gave $4,000 on the
first day of the Red Cross drive, which
was increased to $267.4G3 on the sec
ond day.
Daughters OF the American Revolu
ton of the state of Colorado have pur-
chased car for the use OF Base Hos
pital No. 20.
Twenty cans of young trout from
state fish Matching tanks at Buena
Vista have been liberated in creeks OF
Custer county.
Lieut.. T S. Abbot. formerly of Tel
luride, member of the American e1pe-
dictionary force in France. is in Ger
man army prison.
Plateau Oil Shale Company has been
organized at Grand Junction to deyei-
op 5000 acres of oil land nine miles
south OF Cochran.
The boys of Silver Cliff and West
cliffe have organized military com
pany and can be seen out in drill prac-
tice almost every evening.
A service flag. bearing twenty-one
stars, one of them representing Father
Donovan. the former pastor, was raised
at st. Philomena's church in Denver.
The convict crew is still at work on
the Poudre canon road in Larimer.
They are nearing completion OF the
big narrows in the most difficult sec
tons of the entire road.
Monte Vista flour mill has been do
ing its best the past month grinding
flour for shipment overseas. A $500
barrel order for the Y NJ. C. A. in
France has been finished.
Chris Bisterfeldt, the Fort Collins
man who was painted and feathered
recently by crowd of men who
charged him with disloyal utterancee,
has disappeared, together with his
family.
A man or a mine Is not to be ignored
or condemned merely because OF age.
In the Dante, one of the first mines
opened on Bull hill thirty years ago.
twenty-ounce ore is now being tapped
at 600 feet
One of the youngest Denver boys In
the army, Wesley B. Wentworth, has
been seriously wounded in France, &C
cording TO Gen. Pershing's casualty
list. Wentworth enlisted at the age
of II last May.
A switch locomotive cut off the left
foot OF Peter Maffeo, 40 years old, a
section hand on the Colorado & South
ern railroad The accident occurred
on the railroads right OF way at Sixth
street in Denver
Through efforts of the Denver Tour.
list bureau cooperating with church Of
ficials in the West the 1919 meeting oil
the Northern Baptist convention will
be held in Denver, the 1918 convention
in Atlantic City decided.
Enrolment of the Colorado junior
reserves, to be composed of boys be
tween the ages of 16 and Is years
will continue for ten days.
Eagle county over-subscribed IT.
loan quota CT per cent, its total be
ing about $ss,000, including: Eagle
$4,000. Gypsum $1,000, Basalt SIS 900
Minturn $4,000, Gilman $4,000, Bells
Camp $1,000, Red Cliff $4,000.
Negroes who are DESTROYS of enter
ing the service of Uncle Sam are want
ed by the navy to serve as mess at
PENDANTS aboard vessels at sea. The
monthly pay is $3.50, with a rapid in
crease for those who prove capable.
There are fourteen employees at the
Denver postoffice who served under
Robert W. Speer when he was post
master from 1885 to 1889, according
to Isaac p. Kelley, superintendent OIL
carriers, who is one Of the twelve.
In Boulder, Gilpin and Jefferson
counties the road known as the Goa
Creek road will be finished this sea
son by completion of the four mile
stretch near Pine Cliff This will fur
nish a new gateway into the Rollins
Vile and Mcfarland section Of the
State.
The Table Mountain Red Cross 70
allied 1868 from a combined auction
sale and chicken dinner at Altons
grange hall ten miles northwest OF Nj