The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The dwelling of L. H. Mortenssn At
Sanford was destroyed by fire.
Grover celebrated the laying Of the
| corner stone of its new $40. 900 school
building.
The Benskin farm. near Ksrsey.
consisting of 12o acres, was sold for
$4,000.
There was not a single death from
a contagious disease in Denver in
/ February. according to the report OF
I the department of health.
Another contingent of 135 men Of
/ Colorado's draft left Denver for Camp
( Funston to take their places in the
/ ranks to fight Prussianism,
Mrs. w. (Fanchon) Rose was
( taken to the Brighton Jail last week
4 and held as witness in the case. set
for March 6, growing out of the No
/ Ian robbery at road house.
I Mike Roosi of Denver. was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Sedgwick. near
1 Grover and his automobile and thirty
one cartons of whiskey and sack
/ filled with bottled beer were confls-
Gated Rossi was taken to Greeley and
placed in Jail
Colorado's activities for entertain
/ ment and protection of soldiers are to
I be conducted by a committee on war
camp community service operating CO.
I operatiyely with the State and Nation
1 al Councils OF Defense and with the
| National Commission on Training
/ Camp activities.
! After conferences with the State
| Council of Defense and the special
! committee appointed by Governor
Gunter to investigate the conditions
existing in southwestern counties OF
the state because Of long freight
| hauls and consequent high food prices.
John D. Shanahan will make a COM
plete report on the conditions to the
United States Food Administration
Grain Corporation.
With testimony divided between
suicide and murder as the theory Of
the death OF James C. Houf, engineer
| in q Denver hotel, a coroners jury OF
six brought in a verdict fastening the
crime OF muroer upon some person
unknown to the authorities Houf
was found in a furnace Of live Goals
early Friday morning, March /. by
! John Cusack, night clerk at the hotel.
| Twelfth and Larimer streets.
Farmers in seventeen counties have
responded to the patriotic call sent
/ out by the Colorado immigration Blu
reau to help crop stimulation by en-
couraging the tillage OF all vacant
tracts this summer. As a result Of
this campaign, instituted early in the
winter by Edward D. Foster. imlni
grafton commissioner. the bureau
completed the first list OF available
tracts that are to be turned over to
the tenants rent free
The United States Supreme Court
in Washington handed down . final
decision in the Denver Union Water
Company rate case that definitely
ends the water controversy of twenty
years. The court sustains the inJunc-
ton granted by Judge Lewis in the
United States District Court of Colo
RADIO. This enjoined the city of Den
yer from enforcing an ordinance de-
claring a 20 per cent reduction In
water rates The decision sustains
the findings OF Special Master w. ].
Chinn, that the valuation OF the water
companys plant, May l, 1914, was $13..
1889
Never before has the demand for
increased production in agriculture
been SO imperative. The operation
of the selective service law and en-
listments in the various branches Of
the service have materially reduced
the number Of employees on the
FARMS" declares Governor Gunter in
a proclamation designating the week
of March 1928 as special registration
week for the United States Boys
Working Reserve. and urges all able
bodied young men between the ages
of 16 and 81 years, and not regularly
employed, to enlist for their summer
vacation in this branch of the service.
Administration forces among the
United Mine Workers declared the in
ternal troubles In the district were
increased instead OF decreased, with
the resignation OF John r. Lawson rs
president of the Colorado State Fed
Grafton of Labor Lawson and Ed. L.
Doyle, represent the anti-administra-
tion forces among the miners. and
their efforts resulted in the organiza-
tion of a new miners union at Pueblo.
Frank H. Mulligan, former Denver
city detective, was the first defend
ant tried On the charge OF highway
robbery In connection with the hold
up of Mrs. Harry T. Nolan at the
Model roadhouse Jan. 2. A venire Of
forty jurymen was summoned to ap-
pear in the District Court at Brighton
March 6. when the trial was scheduled
to begin
"A dosen hens In every back yard