The Colorado statesman., 1918-12-07

ia NOVtmper Ao,lso hQuoi P''hD
were issued.
Seven employees of the State Land
Board have been dismissed.
James l.. Wright OF Yuma was
wounded In action in France.
Franklin n. Richie, pioneer Colo
radan and for fifteen years secretary
10 the public librarian in Denver, was
buried in Riverside cemetery.
The sugar division clerical depart
ment of the Federal Food Adminsstra-
tion for Colorado has closed. The
canceling OF the sugar cards ended
the clerical work.
Colorado draft boards will not con
tinue their organizations until the ma
tional army men have been discharged
from service, as was generally be-
lieved in military circles.
Lieut.. Col. Rice Means and Lieut..
Harry NJ. Gambrel are recovering In
a hospital at Bordeaux, France. They
were gassed just few days prior to
the signing of the armistice.
That the second wave of the Span
ish influenza epidemic in Denver is
subsiding was the opinion expressed
by Mayor w. F. r. Mills and DIR. VIII
liam H. Sharpley, manager of health.
Flu masks went off the people OF
Denver, except in certain cases, Sun
day, the exception being of nurses,
doctors and others attending suffer
ers OF influenza in hospitals or private
homes.
Plans of the government to cooper
ate with employers of labor by dis
charging skilled men from the army
on request were announced by the
United States employment service in
Denver.
Every citizen is asked by the Den
yer County Council Of Defense to en-
courage soldiers to stay in the army
until regularly discharged and to
work against deliberate or thoughtless
desertion.
Colorado is expected to enroll 5000
boys for work on the farms next sum
mer, as q part OF the activities OF the
United States Boys Working reserve.
during national enrolment week
early in 1919.
The body OF an unidentified man
WIS IOuuu az lHt lOOI VI d Silll hCoA
the Good Night ranch. fourteen miles
west of Pueblo. by Freeman Frazier,
boy of IA years, who was out hunt
ing rabbits.
Frank Murphy, stockman of North
Park, Colorado, and former member,
of the Colorado Legislature, died at
Walden. He was about 80 years old
and was unmarried. He was y gradu-
ate of the University OF Wyoming.
The people of Colorado are now un-
der a verbal pledge to save and e1-
port an enormous tonnage of food next
year. 1t is figured that for every thir-
ty pounds saved last year fifty-two
must be saved this year SO that Fed
eral Food Administrator Hoover's
plan of feeding the world may be ac-
complished. Mr.. Hoover is now
abroad studying food conditions.
Senator and Mrs. John F. Shafroth
are planning a family reunion for
Christmas day at their Washington,
ID. c., residence, expecting to have
their sons, Jack and Morrison Shat
roth, with them for the holidays. Both
of the boys are in the army and Morri-
son is still in a hospital in France,
suffering from wound which, it is
feared, will disfigure HIM perma-
nently.
Fewer cases and deaths from Span
ish influenza are reported from towns
throughout the state.
Colorado may yet add 100000 to its
inheritance fund through the assessed
taI against the 100000 estate OF
John H. Harbeck of Boulder.
The will of Sarah Hanrahan, aged
Denver woman who died Oct. 13 at
4053 Vallejo street, leaves all of her
canned fruits. pickles. eggs, kindling.
coal and bedding" to the Craig colony.
BeQuests of 81 each are made to five
brothers and sisters. Her bank ac-
count of $115. after her funeral ex-
penses have been paid and debts set
tied, is left to brother, j. H. Herlin-
ger, and wife.
Returning Colorado soldiers will be
given every assistance through the
United States employment service to
obtain employment in their chosen
trades, and the Colorado Council of
Defense will assist in this movement
through community effort. The coun-
ell has sent out word to the county
organizations telling of bureaus to be
established throughout the state. u.s.
ing local offices of community labor
boards and public service reserve
agents to further the plan.
AS his s-year-old son, Raymond,
screamed in terror and his wounded
wife, Mrs. Daisy Center. So years old.
begged him not to shoot her again, as
she was already fatally wounded,
Pearl Center fired a second bullet
.l,~o,rh bar haart IiI1ing bpr instant.