The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Judge Robert Il. Lewis in the United
States Court to serve nine months In
the county jail. And / think you're
getting off pretty easy" remarked
Judge Lewis after sentence was pro-
nounced. Salmon was convicted Feb.
12 of refusing to fill out and return
his QUESTIONABLE.
Emmett Knight, we'll known Colo
RADIO Springs mechanic, who enlisted
in the aero branch of the signal corps,
is in military hospital at San Antonio,
suffering from a broken ankle, caused
by the fall Of an observation balloon.
Knights escape is declared to be mir
aculous as the big gas bag fell $3.50
feet.
Her coffin draped with the tricolor
and her body buried in a cemetery
containing 5000 French soldiers, Miss
Marion G. Crandell, sister of Mrs.
George L. McCord of Denver, rests in
French soil, honored by the entire
French army as a brave soldier who
fell at her post of duty.
Colorado's county Councils of De-
fense have been urged by the State
Council of Defense to form community
councils as they find it possible in ac-
cordance with national recommends
tion. 1t is expected that the school
houses will often be the centers of the
community councils.
The National Association of Colored
Women will convene in Denver July s
to 13, according to Mrs. Isabel Stew
art, one of the Denver representatives
of the organization. The convention,
it is stated, will mark the greatest
gathering of negro women in the his
tory of the country
The funeral of Lieut. Raymond ].
McPhee, who was buried with full
military honors due his rank, was held
in Denver. Business and professional
men, soldiers and others thronged the
Immaculate Conception cathedral,
where requiem high mass was sung.
The Denver Federation for Charity
and Philanthropy secured during the
month of March 41O new subscriptions
amounting to $2,682.50. The total num-
ber of subscriptions to date is 1896.
The total amount subscribed towards
the s85,000 years budget is $79,0S2.50.
Shot as she sat in a chair in her
home on the main street of Erie, Mrs.
Frances Alva, AZ years old, died an
hour later. Frank Alva, husband of
the woman, is accused of firing the
shots, after an Intellectual effort to
smooth over family troubles.
Caught in blizzard on the state
highway between Ration, N. M, and
Wash, an automobile tourist, was froz-
en- to death, his body being found in a
snowbank near where his automobile
was blocked by drifts.
Colorado and Denver added to their
"bit" when eight cars of the pick Of
the young manhood of the state and
city rolled out of the Denver Union
proximately 200 men were on the
train.
I Carefully worded soldier letters
from Funston indicate that many men
have been departing for the Atlantic
coast in the last month. 1t is said
considerable number are on the way
east from San Diego also.
Casualty lists given out from Cana
dian army headquarters at Ottawa,
contain the name of Frank Romans,
81, a Denver boy, among those who
have been returned to England after
having been in enemy hands.
A farewell demonstration for A. L.
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G. A. work in France and for the twen-
ty-six drafted men who left for Camp
Funston Saturday, was held in the
Pueblo city Y. NJ. C. A.
During the year that America has
been preparing its national army to
war on Germany, APP men who vol
unteered in Colorado have been ac-
cepted, according to an announcement
by the War Department.
e. E. Drach of Glenwood Springs,
former state banking commissioner, is
not entitled to draw pay for the per-
iod from May 6, 1915, until July 5,
1916, according to decision rendered
by the Supreme Court.
Edgar Smith, who for years was
clerk of District Court at Colorado
Springs, and went away with Battery
c, was found dead in a suburb of San
Antonio, lying in park, with a bottle
of poison near by.
All records for liquor permits issued
by Charles A. hammers, county clerk
and recorder of Denver county, were
broken in March. Last month there
were 5,S5S permits issued to bring
liquor into Denver.
Fred Schlada, an Austrian, said to
be pro-German In his utterances, was
taken to the center of the business