The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

lily OF New Orleans, and one Of three
heirs to the $G,000,000 estate OF his
father. ended when Roy o. Samson,
district superintendent OF the United
States Department Of Justice, discov.
cred the fugitive living as hermit In
a tent In Platte cahon, traced him to
Denver and placed him under arrest
while he was lounging in the lobby Of
a Denver hotel. Monteleone is wanted
by the United States marshal Of Lou.
isiana on a charge Of violating the
Mann white slave act.
Mrs. Mae v. Milne, alias German.
who was arrested at Colorado Springs
charged with defrauding the United
States government by posing as the
wife of one John r. German. a sailor
who is said TO have wife and family
In Denver. and who Is said to have
been receiving an allotment from the
government as a soldiers wife, was
given preliminary hearing before the
United States commissioner at Pueblo
and bound over TO the grand jury for
further action.
Eight hundred and eight Colorado
registrants. including about 200 from
Denver. will entrain during the five
day period beginning Oct. Z for Camp
Kearny at Linda Vista, according to
the call for draft men received by Pro.
yost Marshal John Evans from Wash.
ington. The call will affect about so
per cent OF the Colorado men remain.
ing in the special class of registrants
who were enrolled Aug. "a.
! Work OF filling out the question.
naires, filing exemption claims and
classifying those who registered for
the draft Sept. IL may begin any day.
The blanks are in Denver and have
been distributed to the various advis.
ory boards. That the work will follow
much sooner after this draft than II
did year ago. that It may begin even
In September. possibly in a day or
two, is the present expectation.
A bear cub weighing 200 pounds
was trapped and killed on Squaw pass
near Mount Evans where Q mountain
park roadway Is being built by workers
from the Denver City park department.
The carcass of a horse attracted the
bear. which was caught in a trap set
by rancher. The skin of the animal
was sent to Golden for dressing.
Production OF eight important metals
on commercial scale-gold, silver,
lead. zinc, iron, graphite. tungsten and
molybdenum-is the record for Pitkin,
Gunnison county. known in early days
as a silver camp. 1t Is now likely to
be best known as producer OF graph
lite. tungsten and molybdenum.
NJ. Henri Chagnoux of Paris, France,
one of the worlds most famous ex.
perts in radioactive minerals, has
been sent to Colorado by the French
government for the purpose Of pur.
chasing carnotite ore, OF which
France has great need at present for
I national defense.
Three hundred OF the Colorado boys
who recently entered military service
and who have been training at Fort
Logan. Fort Collins and at the State
University at Boulder, passed through
Denver en- route for Eastern camps,
most of them with prospects for early
embarkation for France.
The sugar division of the federal
food administration announces that
the sugar allotment for the state OF
Colorado for the months of July and
August was underdrawn 10000
pounds. This poundage will be added
to the quotas for September, increas
ing the individual portions for the
month by some ounces.
Non-essential Industries in Colorado
and other Western states should be
allowed to operate their plants witt
slack coal because Of the surplus Of
this commodity, according to resolu.
tions passed by fuel administrators Of
states Of the Rocky Mountain region
who met in Denver to discuss the coal
question.
The names Of ten Colorado men and
one Denver man have been added to
the list of those receiving commits
sions at the fourth officers training
school at Camp Zachary Taylor, KY,
making total Of approximately forty
men from this state to be commits.
stoned second lieutenants Of field ar.
tillery.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state su.
perintendent Of schools, has issued a
request to county superintendent
that they cooperate with her and with
the United States Department OF Edu.
cation in working with the labor
unions for the purpose of keeping in
school as many children as possible.
Citizens OF the Timnath school dis.
trict voted to issue bonds In the sum
Of $4,000 for the erection of a new
school building.
Leadville is now the headquarters
for six counties for employment serv.
ices under the government employ.
ment bureau.
Five Colorado men were awarded