The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-05-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July s-l3-Meeting National Associa-
Iion Of cqloIed women s;. IN DenyeI: cann.n
tion at Colorado Springs
sept. z3-2s-Colorado State Fair ~
Pueblo.
James Etchslls. 2s years old. was
In Marshall mine No.
u Boulder.
Denver will vote on q proposition TO
issue 3l3,s7o 900 bonds to buy the va
ter works.
Lester J. Barkhausen OF Denver has
reported at Fort Logan for service In
the army.
There will be no horse racing meet
inEs in Denver during the war the city
cabinet decided.
A string of All lambs. averaging II
pounds, sold on the Denver market at
S19l5 per cwt.
First operations OF the season in
canning were begun at Canon City.
starting on spinach.
Two knitted quilts that sixteen Den
yer school girls had made. netted the
Red Cross $3.50 at an auction.
II. r. Welter OF Denver has been
appointed assistant secretary OF the
State Council Of Defense.
Libraries Of Colorado collected Sc.
4l2 volumes In the recent book drive
for soldiers and sailors libraries.
The seventeen large hotels In the
Rocky Mountain National Park will &C
on a wheatlsss basis for the summer
season.
Denver exceeded its quota OF $500.
600 for the Red Cross by about $3.50.
600. The state also largely exceeded
its allotment
A vast crowd gathered in the Audi
torium in Denver, Sunday. TO pay trib
ute to the memory OF the city builder
Robert W. speer.
"America's War" is the subject sug
gested for Memorial Day addresses by
the speakers bureau Of the State
Council OF Defense.
Colorado shippers have made quick
response to an appeal by State OH In
spector Duce for prompt unloading Of
tank cars and oil barrels.
AT Fort Collins, the stores all closed
In order that all might join in bidding
Godspeed to forty-three draft men who
left Camp Cody at Deming. N. n.
Forty officers OF the Colorado Ma
tional Guard and 120 sergeants ant
corporals will go into training during
June at the rifle range near Golden.
A Denver & Rio Grande freight
train was wrecked in the Royal Gorge
and seventeen freight cars are report
ed to have been turned over into the
river.
At a meeting Of the Farmers Non
parti3an League at Mead, $3.50 wa.
subscribed to the Red Cross. the mon
ey to be sent through the Weld count,
organization.
The Colorado Springs Light, Heat
and Power Company was granted per
mission to increase gas and electric
light rates by the Colorado Public Utii
tiles Commission.
The Fort Logan military band viii
furnish the music for the Red Cross
ball to be given at Ell Jebel Temple
June 5 under the auspices Of the st
Joseph's hospital Lurses.
Albert Combs, Denver boy who II
with the Canadian aviation forces IL
France. is reported to have been in
jured In a flight In midair in which
his plane was set on fire.
Chief Justice W. A. Hill OF the state
Supreme Court and United States Dis
trict Attorney Harry B. Ted-ow were
the principal speakers at an Italian
patriotic celebration In Pueblo.
Harry Smith, who was severely in
jured in an explosion at a mine at Sill
yer Plume. died at a Denver hospital.
William Stumpff. an experienced
leaser. backed by Denver capital, has
commenced work on the Deadwood
mine of the United Gold Mines group
Former flat veins in the Deadwood
produced very high grade ore.
Horace N. Hawkins succeeds j. A
Burnett as Denver councilman. When
w. F. R. Mills succeeded the late Rob
ert w. Speer as mayor, he named
Councilman Burnett manager of i'm
provements and parks
The total eclipse OF the sun which
will occur the afternoon of June 8, ID
attracting professors and astronomers
from all parts Of the country. A mum
ber have already arrived and have sta
toned themselves in the mountains
and at other advantageous points foI
observation.
All cases Of anthrax or other con
tagious disease among cattle must be
reported to Charles G. Lamb, state
veterinarian at the capitol building as
soon as detected in compliance with a
nnw 0pdar faaned In offorf IN rhork