The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Rainbow lake, a group OF fifteen min
eral claims has been taken up and de-
yeloped by Bryant, Ray and Bartles
Of Nederland and Caribou. These
claims are located on Haystack noun
tain, between the two branches OF the
North Boulder and are known as the
Red Warrior group. including the Big
horn mine. the Mary Jane. the Sep
tember Morn, the Silver Crescent and
others.
Harry b. James OF Denver. superin-
tendent of bridges and buildings for
the Colorado and Southern, was dan
gerously. If not fatally, injured, and
John Falk, roadmaster was seriously
hurt when motor handcar on which
they were riding while inspecting the
roadbed and bridges suddenly left the
rails and plunged thirty feet to the
rocky bed of Fossil creek, seven miles
south of Fort Collins.
Line haul charges on Ignite coal
from Boulder and Weld counties into
Denver were announced by the Colo
RADIO Public Utilities Commission.
They are 65, 60 and 55 cents a ton,
respectively, on lump, mine run and
slack, with a 15-cent switching charge
to foreign lines where necessary. alb
sorbed by the railroads themselves.
Miss Marguerite williamson, Den
yer girl who has been engaged in Y.
W. C. A. work at Camp Macarthur,
Waco, Tex, for the last year, has re-
turned to the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry M. Williamson, to
await the call TO work at the Hotel
Petrograd in Paris, which is being
conducted by the association.
Notice of a Scent increase in the
fare between Denver and Golden on
the Denver & Intermountain Electric
Railway Company, in accordance with
provisions of the lIcAdoo rate order,
was lodged with the State Public Util-
tiles Commission by w. r. Price, traf-
fic manager The new rate will be 2S
cents instead of % cents.
The final act in the Savageau mat
rimonial triangle, which has at times
reached the acme of bitterness in its
progress through the courts, was
staged in Denver when Mrs. Elizabeth
Philips Savageau was granted a di-
vorce from Frederic LIE Pere Saw
ageau on the ground of desertion.
Railroad men of Denver began to
reap the benefits of the raise n wages
ordered by the government to become
retroactive to Jan. l, 1918, when the
first installment amounting to S27,-
931.66 was paid to 500 employees OF
the Colorado & Southern railroad
through Paymaster G. C. Shindel.
The four draft calls in July will take
1888 registrants from Colorado, and,
it was announced at the capitol, will
leave remaining in class one only l..
562 registrants. OF these 2T1 are ne
groes. That leaves available 1921
white men.
Jim Goodheart is the same old ven.
turesome man in France that he has
always been in the United States and
he demonstrated that fact in letter
received by his wife. He took fly
through the air with one of the United
States aviators.
Floyd Franklin, a ranchman living
on Round creek. twenty-five miles
north of Debeque, believes he was
fired on by an airplane far up in the
sky according to report sent to Sher
iff Jeff Watson of Grand Junction.
Denver draft boards, with the ex-
ception of District s, will be called on
to furnish 259 registrants toward the
call for 1,1OO men to go to Camp
Travis at San Antonio, during the
five-day period beginning July %
Men of draft age who left the coun.
try with the passage of the draft law,
and subject to arrest as soon as found,
according to Harry B. Tedrow, Unit.
ed States district attorney.
Rains, which were general through
out the state during last week brought
relief to the thirsty and gasping Colo
RADIO, except in the eastern part of the
state.
The date for the special election to
be held on the question Of bond Is |
sue by the city of Denver of $13,970, |
900 for the purchase of the Denver |
Union water works system and plant |
is set for Aug. 6.
A pledge to buy War Savings |
stamps is a pledge to your govern
ment that you are standing behind the |
boys over there-it is a loan to your
government with the guarantee OF
good interest.
Hundreds of persons crowded the
Union station in Denver to witness
the departure of 200 selective draft
boys of Colorado, bound for Camp
Cody, Deming, N. NJ.
Sallie B. Lamb, the 9-year-old daugh.
ter of Mrs. A. l.. Patten, was accident,
ally shot and killed at Salida by Har.
old kellogg LIZ son of Mrs RnY Kal. |.