Cheyenne record., 1918-09-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Ssrvics.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Fire at Grand Junction on the 12nd
did $275.00O damage.
Negro settlers in Weld county held
their third annual fair at the Deerfield
settlement near Masters. Sept. 10.
Mrs. Sallie A. =. Warner. 80. Of Den
yer. died at her home. She had been
blind for many years.
Under the recent call for $4,000
men, S0s Coloradoans will leave for
Camp Kearny, Cal, Oct I'll.
Six hundred uniformed men were
the guests of the citizens of Denver
and the War Camp Community Serv-
Ice at picnic in Bergen park.
The State Board of Land Commits
sioners announces a sale of state lands
to occur at the office of the board in
the state capitol building. Denver. at
o'clock p. M. Oct. 2.
1t has been officially announced by
the Portland Company that shoot
four feet wide, averaging $50 per ton,
has been cut on the Roosevelt tunnel
level in Portland ground, at depth of
2,131 feet.
Philip Hornbein of Denver was se-
lected as state chairman Of the DEM
acratic central committee to succeed
Raymond Miller Of Kiowa, in a meet
ing of county committeeman and COM
mitteewomen at Denver
Rewards totaling $1,000 for the ."
rest of the bandits who killed Chief
pf Detectives John w. Rowan at Colo
RADIO Springs on Sept. 13, have been Of
tered by the city, the county and
through a popular subscription fund.
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,
charged with using the mail for fraud
alent purposes.
The body of Boyd Powell, 1S years
old, young man of Longmont, was
found in the shaft of the Cuckoo coal
mine, near Frederick. William or
Philip Lafferty, 10 years old, is in
Jail at Greeley, charged with having
killed Boyd.
/ 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.
Delegates from six states, including
Colorado. will meet in Denver Oct. 4
and for the third annual conference
of the Southwestern tuberculosis As
ISOLATION. The conference will be un-
der the direct Jurisdiction of the Den
yer Antituberculosis Society. Califor-
mia, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and
Utah will send delegates.
/ Guilty of murder in the first degree,
with the penalty of life Imprisonment
at hard labor, Is the fate meted out to
Richard H. Baugh, alleged murderer of
Celina Haberl on June in Denver.
Baugh, blinded in both eyes, main
tanned the same immobile expression
when the verdict was read that he held
throughout the trial.
! Former Ambassador to Germany
James w. Gerard addressed capacity
audience at the Denver Auditorium
Friday night, telling of the Kaiser's
cunning and cowardice, hurting invec.
ton at the imperial German govern.
ment, and urging Americans to stand
behind the soldiers, and the great
throng cheered as he foretold the Kai.
sers' fall.
Denver's quota Of $1,270,O0O to be
raised in Colorado by the united war
work campaign has been fixed at a
minimum Of s545,O0O.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
at Colorado Springs has installed ma
chinery in its mill for testing mangan'
csc and potash bearing ores.
Notice was served on the State Util
tiles Commission by the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad Company and the
Santa Fe road that they will begin the
, operation of a double-track system be
tween Denver and Pueblo Oct l. The
, Rio Grande track will be used as the
southbound right of way, and the
Santa Fe track as the northbound.
At Denver the grand chapter of the
Eastern Star in convention at the Au
ditorium elected the following Off
oers: Worthy grand matron, Mrs
Mollie 8. Richmond of Colorado
Springs; worthy grand patron. Clay
/ ton Whiteman of Hayden; associate
worthy grand matron, Mrs. Mary
Rhoades of Denver; grand conductress
Mrs. Eugenia Barney, Sterling; wor