The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-28
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

institute at Denver.
Fire at Grand Junction on the 22nd
did S275,00O damage.
Free delivery of meats and groceries
has been suspended in Brush.
Fourteen women are now employed
in the Santa Fe shops at La Junta.
The marine corps death list includes
John w. T. Nelson of Sanford, killed
in action.
In the casualty list Anasticio Tru-
jillo of Walsenburg is reported killed
in action.
Strong domestic and export demand
is responsible for a scarcity of aniline
dye stuffs.
Several new residences for miners
are under construction at Mount Har-
ris, near Steamboat.
A movement is on foot among Ar
Nada business men to put all bust
ness transactions on cash basis.
Construction is well under way on
the road from Leadville to Summit
county by way of Climax and Fremont
pass.
over 100000 acres of land have been
eliminated from the Routt National
Forest by proclamation of the Presi-
dent.
At a recent meeting of citizens of
voted in order to increase the water
supply.
Amos Walker of Denver is reported
severely wounded. Moses Benavidez,
Walsenburg, was killed in action in
France.
Postmaster General Burleson has is
sued an order requiring charges here
after for the installation of tele-
phones.
A new sawmill has commenced oper-
cut the Mitchell tract of 900 acres of
heavy timber.
Denver's quota of $1,27O,0O0 to be
raised in Colorado by the united war
work campaign has been fixed at
minimum of s545,000.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
at Colorado Springs has installed ma
chinery in its mill for testing mangan-
ese and potash bearing ores.
A rural mail route has been estab-
lished from Castle Eock 10 Franktown,
Irving and Cherry, returning to Cas-
tie Rock by way of Lake Gulch.
Among those missing in action are
Alva D. Evans of Colorado Springs,
George b. Lance of Thatcher and
Claude L. Mccoy of Olney Springs.
Thomas F. Appel succeeds Harry
as city councilman from
the Fourth District in Denver. Mr.
has entered the army
A new road to the sulphur beds on
Trout creek in the Creede section
will be constructed to replace the one
which was washed out some years
ago.
A party of Hungarian investors
spent several days at Telluride recent
ly looking at various ranches with
view to purchasing improved proper
ties.
Two more carloads of workers left
Denver to work in the government ex-
plosives plant at Nitro, w. Va, max
ing more than $50 men recruited for
this purpose.
Ernest G. Chaplin, mail clerk in the
Salida postoffice for the past eight
or nine years, was arrested by Deputy
United States Marshal Mcclellan at
the request of the postal authorities,
with using the mail for fraud
ulent purposes.
Six hundred uniformed men were
the guests of the citizens of Denver
and the War Camp Community Serv-
ice at picnic in Bergen park.
Delegates from six states, including
Colorado, will meet in Denver Oct.
and 8 for the third annual conference
of the Southwestern tuberculosis AS
sociation. The conference will be I'M
der the direct Jurisdiction of the Den
Yer Antituberculosis Society. Califor-
mia, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and
Utah will send delegates.
Buy Colorado products, To help
win the war by relieving the railroads
of unnecessary freight burdens, to sup
port home production so that we can
buy Liberty bonds, the State Council
of Defense urges everyone to sign and
to observe the pledge to purchase,
whenever possible, goods made, pro-
duced or grown in Colorado.
With the government taking over
the Moffatt road and assurances that
there would be cars for hauling the
coal, miners who left the Routt county
fields are flocking back according to
made in Denver. These
miners were fearful that they would
not have work thru the winter, so left
the fields
The State poard M ond Co,,n,;.