The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-05

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 1s-Republican State Convention
at Colorado Springs
July 22-Democratic state Assembly In
Denver.
Aug. -2i-Colorado State Firemen 9
Convention at Georgetown
Sept. 23-2s-coiorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
John Calvin Davidson. a resident OF
Colorado since 1879. died at his home
In Golden.
Householders in Berkeley Gardens
are producing $4,000 worth Of garden
truck this summer.
Six Morgan county men entrained
for Camp Cody. N. M. they being Civ,
en- q great ovation.
Estes Park raised $1,000 more than
Its allotment Of $l5,4G5 in the War
Savings Stamp campaign.
Voluntary enlisted recruits arriving
at Fort Logan outnumber the drafted
men more than four to one.
Cadet Thomas Clifford Anderson OF
Trinidad was killed at Fort Worth.
Tex, in an airplane accident.
Another Colorado youth, Clifford w.
Poland, %. OF Colorado Springs. mas
died for his country in France.
There were 1854 women registered
for war service by the Ell Paso coun'
ty Womens Council OF Defense.
Organized labor In Colorado will
fight all attempts to abrogate the pro
visions OF the state eight-hour law.
Every Colorado community in agri.
cultural districts must tackle the
problem OF providing labor for the
farms.
-Four sons OF Mrs. Robert Morrison
OF Denver are In the service. All OF
the boys enlisted soon after the dec
laration of war.
Tho FL Paso county Women's Coun-
ell OF Defense has finished its regis
tration OF women for war service with
. total registration Of 11.541.
Five U. g. soldiers were injured. one
probably fatally, when the auto in
which they were riding was struck by
The American Federation Of Human
Rights. a co-Masonic organization. will
hold its annual national convention At
Larkspur. Colo. July 7-lS.
One OF the series OF freight hear
ings that the Interstate Commerce
commission will hold in cities OF the
United States will be held in Denver,
Sept S.
A bank Of the Apishapa river caved
in near Pueblo crushing to death
James w. McClain. commissioner OF
Otero county and acting highway COM
missioner.
Judge John A. Denison Of Denver
ordered the school board to pay into
the fund of the State Industrial Com
mission $16,6S6 As the districts share
Of the workmen's compensation insuT-
ance.
Figures given out by Col. D. L. How
ell, commandant at Fort Logan, show
that 3O.S27 voluntary enlistment re-
cruits and 7,25s draft recruits have
passed through the fort since Juno 80,
1917.
The May production from properties
OF the Granite Gold Mining Company.
on Battle mountain, Cripple Creek. in
cluding both company and lessees'
shipments, closely approximated 5000
tons Of ore, with an average value Of
about one ounce gold to the ton
When the cable message came tell
~ 7 n
France. the first Denver boy to be
killed in action. his father lay at
deaths door and arrangements were
being completed for the funeral Of the
wife OF his brother, James T. Leyden.
For the advice of drafted men and
their dependents five thousand copies
Of q booklet upon the laws protecting
soldiers and sailors are being dis
tributed by the State Council of De-
tense.
Business and professional men OF
every community in or near the agri-
cultural districts OF Colorado will be
asked to roll up their sleeves this
summer and help harvest bumper
crops.
The State Council OF Defense is urg-
ing all county councils to hold meet
ings for instruction of men who are
drafted or may soon be drafted. The
instruction should be given on medi-
cal, legal and military subjects.
Colorado will be placed on sugar
permit" basis July Is. After that date,
no one In the state will be allowed to
purchase sugar without permit from
the United Stxtes Food Administrar
ton.
Food conservation in wartimes will
be the subject OF a practical course for
housewives to be held at the State Az
ricultural College in Fort Collins, July
8 to IL. 1t was announced at the meet
ing of the Colorado Council of DE-