The Raymer enterprise., 1918-04-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

DIl0e OF d lew Netks III Och'S'i Wv
20, 1897, was granted Communication
reducing the term TO forty'fiye years.
by the Colorado Board OF Pardons,
More than twenty OF the forty-five
years have been served. The cases Of
f. o. Boston. sentenced from Eibert
County May s, 1916. to ten years for
murder, and Allen II. Downen, sen.
fenced from Arapahoe county Dec. 70,
1896, to life Imprisonment for murder
were continued.
Exaggerations OF farm labor short.
ages are harmful and should be dis
couraged, according to Field Secre.
tary Thomas OF the State Council OF
Defense. Nobody knows exactly what
the farm labor shortage will be but II
will not be nearly SO bad as some
alarmists paint II, exciting both grow
ers and workers. One thing Is Ger.
tain-the government will do its best
10 help the farmers.
Secretary OF State ]. R. Noland
turned over $4,000 in collections from
auto licenses to the highway depart
ment fund, and apportioned a like
amount among the counties as their
share OF the fees. The collection Of
$4,000 represents the business Of jan
uary and February, and indicates that
the receipts are 20 per cent greater
than the corresponding period last
| year
! Petitions seeking an increase OF ~
cents a ton for coal at the mines In
the Walsenburg and Trinidad dis
tricts, where coal veins are less than
four feet in thickness, were present
ed to the Colorado division Of the
Fuel Administration by the Aztec
Coal Mining Company and eleven 9th
er operators having a combined daily
output Of l.5o0 tons.
Efforts of the State Industrial Com
mission to settle the machinists
strike by arbitration have failed. The
striking members OF the union per
mitted the time In which they were to
accept the offer OF arbitration to ex.
pire without having given an answer
to the members OF the commission
The employers had accepted the offer.
Students who are pursuing course
in electrical engineering In Colorado
Institutions recognized by the War De
partment may enter the signal enlist
ed reserve corps through local draft
boards, according to word received by
Maj. w. A. Spangler Of the provost
marshal's office In Denver from Pro
yost Marshal General Crowder.
John Drummond, 60 years old. for
nerly OF Wray, died at the County
hospital in Denver OF q complication
Of diseases, just as several orderlies
carried his wife. Mrs. Rose Drum
mond. a patient in the surgical ward.
Into his room on stretcher. The
couple had been patients there for
several months.
A dispute which is causing agita.
lion In Holyoke has been caused by
the fact that the power company's
whistle. which has In the past been
sounded at noon. o'clock and time
TO go or come from work, has not
been used In accordance with the
change In time made throughout the
nation.
An estate appraised at 100000 was
left by Lieut.. Raymond ]. McPhes,
whose death from pneumonia oc.
Cured March rs at Fort Riley. Kan.
No will was left and the sole heir un.
der the law is his widow. Alaine B.
McPhee Of Denver, who applied to the
County Court for letters testamantAry.
Two Denver women have made ap
plication to 60 to France in the serv.
ice OF the government and the Red
Cross. Miss Sheridan Whip has
placed an application with the Red
Cross for a position as secretary and
Mrs. Thomas McCue has offered to
assist In the canteen service.
Applications to raise the fare from
Englewood to Littleton from s to 10
cents because of the increased cost Of
operation was made by the Denver q
South Platte Railroad Company to the
State Public Utilities Commission.
The company desires to put the new
rate into effect May 10.
II Colorado continues her smashing
financial drive for democracy at the
same ratio shown in the first four
days, the third Liberty loan quota Of
I'll l.630.s00 for the state, outside OF
Denver, will be raised on April 20,
two weeks before the date set for the
close Of the campaign.
Howard Allies OF Wray, who is reg
istered for the draft In division Z, Ia
far down on the list, but he wants to
go to the training camp with the next
crowd and SO suggests that he be Civ
en- the place Of some man who has q
good job or has somebody dependent
upon him.
Papers were served by an attorney
representing the Farmers Life Insur.
ance Company, against John A. o..
Shaughnessy. former treasurer OF the
company, demanding an accounting
Of s240,oo0 OF the company's funds.
The gold dredging season in the