The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-11-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

in action are Percy r. Preston. Den
yer. and Gabino Gutierrez. Swink.
Francis Dobbins. Durango. is among
the missing in action. The following
were wounded. degree undetermined:
Walter E. Brown. Barr Lake: John f.
Cook. Cahona: Robert E. Kinsman.
Colorado Springs: John p. McHugh.
Aspen; John A. Vigil. Walsenburg;
Harry r. Anderson. Sibert: James
Howard Chiles. Arena. and Paul A.
Junge, Fort Lupton. The list of
wounded slightly includes Lloyd M.
Dobson, Oak Creek.
Legislation for placing motor truck
operators under the common carrier"
act. and furnishing protection to the
shipper, operator and public alike.
will be asked for at the coming SEES
sion Of the Legislature by the High
ways Transport Committee Of the
Colorado State Council Of Defense.
Bills are now being drawn. trying to
place motor trucks on substantial
basis with rigid legal safeguards.
The movement has received the en-
dorsement of the motor truck men
themselves. as they realize the need
Of developing business along the diff
ferent lines in this state.
The remarkable results obtained by
DR.. George H. Curfman of Salida In
the treatment Of influenza patients
by intravenous injections of the Car
rell-Dakin solution are attracting the
attention Of medical authorities. both
| locally and nationally. DR.. Curfman's
results are conclusive to the extent
that he has had marked improvement
In thirty-three out of thirty-five cases
| in which the solution has been admin
istered. In both cases where death
occurred pneumonia had set In before
the solution was injected.
A telegram from the Field Division
Of the National Council of Defense to
the Colorado State Council OF De-
tense, Department of Publicity and
Information, reads: please give wild
| est publicity to the fact that more
than ten thousand additional nurses
will be needed for the Army Nurse
Corps by January 1. Another twenty
five thousand will be needed by June
/. An impression that no more nurses
are needed in military hospitals has
gone out. This must be killed imme-
diately."
Saturdays report says more than
| 1000 citizens of Colorado have died
| of Spanish influenza since the cpl
demic entered the state. The exact
| figure is 1909. OF this total, 361 died
! in Denver and 808 outside the city.
| The total number of cases in Colorado
| is 32.9S1. OF this total, ALL were
| among residents of Denver Despite
these huge totals, both city and state
| health authorities feel that the situa-
| ion 10 improved-that the epidemic
has spent its greatest force in Colo
RADIO.
The state provost marshal an
nounced the county and distric'
| quotas for Colorado under two pend
ing draft calls, for which men are To
i be entrained for Camp Pike, Little
Rock. Ark, during a five-day period
beginning Nov. IL. A call for 1913 men
| from class /, division A of the Il to
| 81 registrations made prior to Sept
IL, will take practically all the men
| left in this class, while call for 1882
OF the men who registered Sept. II
| will be filled from those of 10 to sc
years of age.
Continual fighting is the only thing
| that keeps us from getting desperate
ly homesick over here writes Corp
Walter Haynes, "a, son of Mr.. an;
hrs. A. NJ. Haynes of Denver. There
are times when We are inclined to get
disconnected, lonesome for home, then
the order comes for us to report and
the whole atmosphere changes. Smiles
jokes and happiness prevail again, AM
the thicker the gunfire and the great
er the danger the better the spirits,
James Tomlinson of Rocky Ford, re
ported some time ago as missing in
,ction, is now found to be in a Frcnco
hospital.
Four Colorado boys are on the cas-
atty lists made public by the War De
artment Nov l. Daniel ]. KillmeGe
'enver, is among those dead of d
ease. Lieut.. Brannin s. Woodland
'.nyer; Corporal Edward Sears. Co
iran, and Sherman Bonnet, Somerse-
re among the slightly wounded.
The War Department announced tn
granting of commissions to three Coo
RADIO boys. Gustav w. Akerlow, Den
yer, was made captain in the quartz,
master corps and Tom A. Clark
Fruita and Paul S. Jones of Windso
were commissioned as second lieuter
ants in the engineering corps.
Mrs. Dixie T. Winnek, one OF the
most active Red Cross workers in
Denver, left for England to take up
work as a casualty searcher in the
hospitals In which American wounded
soldiers are being cared for.