The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-13
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Deen assigned 10 special uu+y WIN 'hN
French forces, writes tragic "flnis
to romance that began III Denver
twenty-one years ago. Colonel Gin
ton, whose army career ended with a
bullet through his heart from his own
revolver, began his military life as a
trooper at Fort Logan in 1897, where
he met and married Isabel Howell,
daughter of Lieut.. Daniel L. Howell,
now Colonel Howell, commanding Of
ficer of the big Colorado army post.
Playing Germany and her vassal
states with stinging sarcasm, explain
ing the mistakes of the allies toward
his country, describing her steadtast
ness and the heroism of her soldiers,
and praising the United States, Lieut.
Bruno Roselli, Italian army attache
of the Washington embassy of Italy
and a representative of the commit
tee on public informatior brought a
different phase of the war to 200 sol
diers at the Fort Logan Y. NJ. C. A.
hut.
j. NJ. Collins of Eaton has reported
to the State Council of Defense that
there is a slight improvement in The
situation confronting the milk con-
denseries of the state which have
been unable to sell their products.
letter from the head of the canning
division of the U. S. Food Administra-
tion says that the Loveland condens-
cry was really little favored, receiv-
ing orders for 16,111 cases when its al
lotment under the restrictions in force
was 1870 cases.
Before her daughter Elizabeth, who
was on her way from New York TO
spend a vacation with her parents
could reach Denver, Mrs. Charlotte
Grace Selden Moffat, wife of Freder
ick G. Moffat, died at her home in
Denver Mrs. Moffat had been ill for
a year and half. Her husband is
nephew of the late David H. Moffat,
builder of the Moffat railroad and
former recognized financial leader OF
the state.
Mystery surrounds the murCer and
the burial of the body of Mrs. Matte
Baker, a rooming house keeper at
Pueblo. The body was found half
buried in an arroyo near Eden and
She had been murdered and her as
sailants apparently had used blunt
instrument of some sort because the
forehead was crushed by the blow.
The body was discovered by two Mex
lean section men.
Sixteen hundred acres of wheat, be-
longing to Summer brothers of Ster-
ling, were pounded into the ground by
a hailstorm that swept over the Gray
lin district, sixteen miles west OF Ster-
ling. The brothers had 2,1S0 acres in
wheat. so have something of a crop
left II. c. Lewis lost sixtytwo acres
of crops and Joseph w. Sherer seven
ty acres. Many other farms were
devastated by the storm.
Mrs. Eva Cove, % years old, of Den
yer, died at the county hospital from
the effects of carbolic acid she had
taken less than an hour before in her
home Brooding over the suffering OF
her 12-year-old son, Elmer Cove, who
lays mangled on a white cot in anoth-
er ward of the same hospital, and the
death of another child, years OF age,
only three months ago, caused her TO
swallow the poison, the police say.
Il am not allowed to tell you many
things | would like to, but / assure
you that the American army is meet
ing with great victories and with COM
paratively few losses of men. to what
the Germans are losing wrote Jim
Goodheart, Denver city chaplain, from
Paris under date of June 8 in a letter
Il -,
W. Speer.
Colorado has furnished more and
better aviators per capita than any
other state. The number of men ac-
cepted has been slightly over so per
cent, while the average for all other |
states is approximately 80 per cent, |
and but one Colorado man has failed |
at ground school.
AS the quotas for military service |
continue to be called month after |
month, these inroads on the labor sup
ply is causing serious results, from a |
purely mining point of view, and, un-
less offset by some other source than |
Is now known, they will cause mater
ial reduction in the output of the pre-
cious metals.
Corporal Leon H. Harlow of Rifle,
has been cited by General Pershing
for valor on the field of action in
France. Here is the citation: He
left sick cot and volunteered to
fight. He repaired five breaks in a
wire during a heavy artillery and ma
chine gun fire and carried a message
safely to the regimental commander"
Denver's application for a reopen.
ng of the rate order granted the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company June IA was denied
,y the Colorado Public Utilities Com
mission.