Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-06-06
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


81 army. Word to that effect was sent
to local boards by Provost Marstal
John Evans. There are two calls. One
is for 1900 men. the states allotment
toward the 100000 ordered by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. They will
entrain for Camp Cody, Deming. N. M.
during the five-day period beginning
June "a. Eleven counties need supply
no men. They are Costilla, Douglas.
Jackson, Lake, Logan, Phillips, Pueb-
10 Except Pueblo city District No. ~
San Juan. Sedgwick. Washington and
Yuma counties. The other call Is for
'206 registrants who are grammar
school graduates to take a special
course in auto mechanics at the State
Agricultural college in Fort Collins
June Is.
Through arrangements Of the war
camp community service board, Lieut..
Pat O'Brien visited Fort Logan and
told the officers and men of mis- ex-
periences in absenting himself from a
German prison train. Lieutenant o.
Brien told the men that he felt that
the fact that he always maintained his
sense of humor was responsible for
his being there to tell them about 1t.
for no one could have passed through
the seventy-two days of hardships:
swimming rivers, living in trees dur
ing the day and travelling by night, on
rations to be found In the fields if he
had not kept the brighton side of tho
experience before him. That was to
get on friendly soil.
There were tears for the hero dead;
cheers for the heroes of now. Denver
in greater spirit of solemnity than
ever before, celebrated Memorial day
with the music Of bands and flying
flags, with flowers and services of sad
significance. And with prayers for
victory in this greatest Of wars. vi
cariously. Denver laid its wreath of
homage on the graves Of the heroes
sleeping now in France, fallen in the
fight for freedom.
Obsessed with the fear that he had
become a burden upon his wife, fol-
lowing slight paralytic stroke re-
Gently, John Haynes, 80, one of the
pioneers of the Fort Lupton district,
shot himself through the head with a
revolver while his wife and son were
attending Memorial Day exercises at
the Fort Lupton cemetery.
Inheritance tax collections by the
state during the last half of May
amounted to $4.273.74, according to u
statement issued by Richard F. Ryan,
in charge of the department. This
makes total to date for the biennial
period amounting to s50O,O35.70. Tha
period ends Nov. 80, 1918.
Federal farm help specialists in Ne
braska will supply northeastern coun.
ties Of Colorado with farm help this
summer, federal officials in Wyoming
will care for the North Park district
Of Colorado and Colorado officials will
look after the needs Of farmers around
Pennington, N. M.
Louie Seeley pleaded guilty In the
District Court at Boulder to the
charge of numbering Fred E. Bill. post
master and Moffat road station agent
at Crescent. on the night of Feb. 16
last. In sxtenuation for the crime,
Seeley declared he was temporarily in
sane at the time.
The seed committee of the STATE
Council of Defense will begin q cam
paign In August urging farmers to
gather their seed corn and dry it out
before freezing weather. Properly
dried seed corn terminates well no
matter how cold 1t gets so long as 1t
is kept dry.
A daughter and two sons in the war
service of the United States and fiji
teen other relatives fighting on the
side of the allies, is the distinction en-
joyed by Mr. and Mrs. ]. B. McHugh
of Eckert, Delta county.
George L. Goulding, prominent
business man of Denver for thirty
years and widely known in Masonic
circles. died suddenly at Camp Johns
ton. Jacksonville. Fla, following
stroke Of apoplexy.
If Denver holds to the rule of ratio,
1000 young men will register June 5
when those who have reached the age
Of 81 years since June 5, 1917, or will
be Fl years old June 8, 1918, must reg
lister. This is the estimate of H. B.
Teller. chief registration officer of
Denver.
The federal government, through w.
]. Galligan. Colorado administrator OF
the United States Fuel Administra-
ton, made Las Animas and Huerfano
counties strictly prohibition territory
in order to assure an adequate produc-
ton and movement of coal until
Aug. l.
Men numbering 1875 from the re-
serve officers training corps of the
University of Denver, University Of
Colorado and Colorado Agricultural
college left Denver In q special car
for San Francisco, where they will
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