The Elbert County tribune., 1918-10-25
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


gave their lives to the cause were un-
der 25 years of age. The mother and
father are bearing their sacrifice with
fortitude. George Gouger was killed
in action Sept ~ in the fighting on
the Soissons-Rheims sector Grover
Alva Douger was killed in the wreck
of troop train near Kansas City.
Sept. 22, and Albert Douger was killed.
in action in France Oct. ). Mrs. Dou-
ger resides on the family ranch near
Monument. Colo.
Three Denver boys are on the cas-
ualty lists made public by the War
Department Oct IS. They are Sergt.
Laurence X. Peyton, killed in action;
Howard J. Scheib, wounded severely.
and Anthony Seganti, wounded. degree
undetermined. Five Colorado boys
previously reported missing in action
are reported now in cabled corrections
to the list to be affected as follows:
Ralph A. Kennieott, Boulder, killed in
action; Eugene F. Clark, Colorado
Springs, and William C. Arnett Pa
droni. wounded, degree undetermined
Oliver NJ. Daniel. Sterling. aud Ruther-
ford B. Kinds, Rocky Ford, slightly
wounded.
Colorado officially went over the top
of its s37,47S, $50 Fourth Liberty Loan
quota, with final figures promised. to
pass $40,000.000 mark Such was the
message flashed by Chairman Samuel
ID. Nicholson of the Colorado State
Liberty Loan committee Saturday aft
ernoon to Deputy Governor ]. l.. Cross
of the Tenth Federal Reserve bank in
Kansas City. This record gives Colo
RADIO the honor of being the first state
to reach its quota in the entire Tenth
district. while only a few have been
ahead anywhere in the United States.
Corn meal and corn flour show re-
duction in price of from 10 to so cents
per 100 pounds over week ago. This
reduction has been announced by mills
and the price control committee of the
United States food administration de-
mands that retailers make a proper
tionate reduction. An increase of 2
cents per pound in the sale price of
lima beans is noted in the quotations
announced
Governor ]. G. Gunter approved the
sentences of Walter Frady and Rus
sell Wharton, privates in Company f
of the Third infantry regiment, Colo
RADIO National Guard, for desertion.
They were tried by court-martial
and given 120 days each at hard labor,
which they are to perform at the rifle
range at Golden. The men deserted
while on guard duty at a smelter near
Leadville.
DIR. Il. E. Kennedy. secretary of the
State Board of Health, sent a dispatch
to Surgeon General Blue in Washing
ton stating that with the cooperation
of doctors and nurses the influenza
situation in Colorado was under CON
troll, and that there were no indica
tions of its reaching dangerous proper
tions.
Miles r. Jain, a marine from Boul-
der, is among the killed in action re-
ported in the casualty lists made pub
lie by the War Department and marine
corps. Sergt. Arden II. Mitchell, Trim
idsd, and William r. Ross, Lamar, are
enong the severely wounded in action
Sozirc Yoritomo, Denver, is wounded,
degree undetermined.
A change has been made in the hour
during which the stores will be open
in Denver to avoid crowded street
cars, not because of conditions in the
stores but on account of the influenza
During this period the stores will open
at 8 a. m. and close at p. IN.
AS evidence of the revived interest
of Eastern capitalists in Colorado min
ing. s2,5O0,O0O corporation. to be
known as the Colorado Consolidated
Metals Mining Company, has filed pa
pers of incorporation with the secre-
tary of state.
The State Board of Land Commits
sioners will sell on "Wednesday, Nov.
6. at the state house, more than fifty
tracts of land from forty to 160 acres
in size and situated in various
counties, including Ell Paso, Jackson,
Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Moffat,
Ouray, Phillips, Rio Grande, Washing
ton and Weld, half the land being in
the two counties last named.
Harry b. Tedrow, United States at
torney for the District of Colorado, has
been instructed to send no more pris-
oners to the federal penitentiary dur
ing the influenza epidemic. The order
will work no hardship, as there are no
men being held under sentence.
Actuated by the shortage of labor in
essential industries, the United States
community labor board for Denver de-
clared a number of enterprises and oc-
cupations non-essential and announced
that labor will henceforth be recruited
from them without reserve.
Mary c. c. Bradford, superintendent
of public instruction, announced the