The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-15
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

versity of Colorado, at the university
auditorium tell of his visit to Franco
in the interest of the Rockefeller foun-
dation crusade against tuberculosis. lr
Farrand declared that the methods
now employed in France in fighting
the white plague would soon be ADOPT
ed generally and that France in this
work would soon lead the world unless
the United States aroused itself.
Mrs. Louise F. Mellen assistant
superintendent in the Denver office OF
the State Free Employment Bureau,
has sent her resignation to Secretary
of State James r. holland, effective
June 20. She has been in the employ
of the state for three years. Her res
ignation follows close on the announce
ment of her engagement to Maj. r. M.
Bren, United States army medical
corps, stationed at Manila, P. !. He
formerly lived in Denver.
Union bricklayers and the contrac-
tors for the army recuperation camp
entered the second week with their
controversy over wages at deadlock
Meantime, while the bricks are on the
ground and everything is in readiness
to rush to completion the construction
of the hospital and camp for the
wounded and sick soldiers now COM
ing from the battlefronts of France,
the building work is at standstill.
Dooryard apiaries-a beehive or two
set under the poplar trees, or beside
the hollyhocks-owned and cared for
by women, are sights growing daily
more frequent in the suburbs of Dem
yer. Beekeeping on small scale is
becoming an important war service. 1t
means the production of a substitute
for sugar than which few more useful
things can be done in the present dire
need for food conservation.
Colorado has united to win the war.
Under the name of the Colorado De-
yelopment Federation a union has
been begun that is to link the vast in
terests of every city and county in the
state into an institution under one
head that will offer to the nation ev-
cry ounce of resources to the end that
the war may be pushed forward.
Democrats representing the state or
ganization launched the party cam
paign for the coming election at a BAN
quet in Denver, given by Chairman
Raymond Miller to members of the
Democratic state central committee
and members Of the Colorado Demo
cratic Editorial Association. About
$50 men and women were present.
The Tonopah Placers Company is
keeping its three gold dredging boats
steadily at work on the rich bedrock
deposits of the stream beds of the
Breckenridge district with good re-
suits. Several gold bricks worth in
the neighborhood of $1,000 to $4,000
each were shipped during May to the
United States mint at Denver
The molybdenite deposits in the Ten
Mile district will be very actively de-
veloped this year and a number OF
promising prospects" will probably
be developed into producing mines.
The heavy snow-three to four feet
deep in the timber-will delay new
prospecting until the middle Of July.
John Holmquist, who has been leas-
ing on the lower levels Of the old
ped a twenty-seven-ton car recently of
silver-lead ore that brought him re-
turns of more than s11, 900. The sill
yer content of the shipment ran 440
ounces silver to the ton.
When James Bright, an old-time San
Juan prospector, relocated the Jumbo
No. claim, which endlines on the
main street Of the town of Ironton, he
did not realize that the ten-inch streak
of quartz that showed on the hanging
wall carried nearly per cent oxide OF
molybdenum.
w. N. W. Blayney of Denver was
among the state federal directors of
the public service reserve announced
by the Department of Labor at Wash
ington.
Mrs. Vera Tiedemann Rose, who was
arrested by the police Immediately fol-
lowing the shooting of Ray Chamber
lain at 143S Stout street, in Denver
confessed to Chief of Police Armstrong
that she had held the gun when
Chamberlain was shot. Her only COM
ment on the shooting was "He beat
me once too often"
Close to Silver Cliff the Bassick
mine has been taken over by the Bas-
sick Mining and Reduction Company
under a long term lease, a company
organized for the purpose by Harry 8.
Thayer of Boulder. A 100-ton flotation
mill will be built to treat ore from
both the mine and dumps.
The Woman's Relief Corps, In its
session at Colorado Springs, after
holding a memorial service for de-
ceased members, held the election
Mrs. Anna s. Mills of Arvada, former
ly patriotic instructor of the depart