The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-22
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Denver
Aug. 22-2i-Colorado state Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. 2S-2s-colorado state Fair at
Sept. 26-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Hugo.
The Grand and Gunnison rivers are
at flood stage and threaten the rail-
way tracks in many places.
Wilson l.. Burns of Cripple Creek
was arrested in Trinidad on charge
of bringing liquor into the state.
With admissions placed at l, 3 and 3
cents, the Fort Collins Juvenile Circus
Company raised s59.40 for the Red
Cross.
r. d. Thompson has been appointed
postmaster of Cripple Creek, to sue
ceed j. E. Hanley, who died several
weeks ago.
julius A. Meyers, pioneer Denver
bushes man and thirty-third degree
Mason, died at his home following an
attack of pneumonia.
Orders to consolidate the American,
Adams and Wells-Fargo Express COM
panies in Denver was received, to be
completed by July /.
Helen Snyder, IL, suffered a frac-
tured skull and other injuries when
she was struck by an automobile
driven by S. B. Buckley of Denver.
The 1918 assessments against rail
roads and public utilities in Colorado
aggregate s247,S26,75O, according to
the schedule issued by the State Tax
Commission.
Vernon, 19-year-old son of S. E.
Keepers, former county commissioner
at Hugo, was instantly killed by light
ming while at work in fields on his
ranch.
Wolf Creek pass, that portion of the
Spanish Trail highway between South
Fork and Pagosa Springs, has been
cleared of snow, and automobiles are
now crossing in each direction.
A school for teaching telegraphy, gas
engine work, radio operation, auto me-
chanics and concrete work will be
opened by the government in Boulder
at the State University July 10.
Compulsory military training will be
enforced in the Colorado School of
Mines at Golden, beginning with the
school year Sept. /. Every student
who is physically fit must take the
course.
Prof. Melville F. Coolbaugh, head of
the department of chemistry at the
Colorado School Of Mines, departed for
Washington, where he will enter the
services Of the government as a
chemist.
A girl of years was killed at Sa-
Ida by a youth, seven years older,
who sought to frighten her. Sallie B.
Lamb was the victim, and Harold Kel-
logg held the rifle from which the shot
was fired.
Twenty-Five hundred is the estimate
of Mark A. Skinner, collector of in
ternal revenue, of those who have
failed to respond on the last day un-
der which income tax could be paid
without penalty.
Thomas ]. lyman, warden of the
state penitentiary at Canon City, will
speak at mass meeting to be held
June 22 at Englewood. The mass
meeting will be to aid the Red Cross
and an auction of livestock is to be
held.
Chief among the points brought be.
fore two members of the Tariff Com.
who met in the federal build
ing with tungsten operators in Den.
yer, was the matter of the cost of min
ing a unit of the metal and price re
ceived.
Banker John B. Cosgriff of Denver
died from a stroke of paralysis.
The State Board of Nurse Examin
ers has modified the regulations gov
erning the training and examination
of nurses In way which will shorten
the course of training and makes avail
able for home service many women
who can replace those registered or
nurses called into active
service.
A Mexican who refused to give his
name, but who answers the descrip
ton of 1sadore Saltillo. was arrested
at Grand Junction in the railroad
yards lying flat on a pile of cinders.
Saltillo is wanted at Montrose for the
murder of Manuel Rojas, shot through
the liver. 1t is said an old grudge ex.
listed between the men.
Henry C. Holdsworth, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert E. Holdsworth of Den.
yer, is one of the Colorado men who
have died while in the service of their
country within the last week. He died
at Douglas, Ariz., where he wat sta.
toned with Troop H of the First cav.
airy. The body reached Denver ac.
companied by his father and a mill
tary escort.