The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-04


Pueblo.
A bean elevator is to be built at
Rocky Ford.
Bean elevators may be erected at
Holly, Las Animas and Trinidad.
There were 5,s62 permits for liquor
issued by the Denver county clerk in
March, and there was $2,929.50 paid
in for the permits.
Liberty bonds to the value of $685.
$50 have been subscribed for in the
Third Liberty Loan campaign by Den
yer postoffice employees.
Charles Schermer and Stanley Kol.
man of Cripple Creek and Joseph
Schrieber of Victor were arrested on
a charge of sedious differences.
Women's committees to increase
food production and conservation
have now been organized by twenty
five women's county councils of de-
fense.
Fifty Denver women have already
adopted cots in the new recuperation
hospital which is to be erected near
Aurora. There are to be 1000 cots in
the new hospital.
Members of organized labor have
begun a drive on Washington officials
through petitions and letters for the
establishment of an army cantonment
at Fort Logan barracks.
Charles H. Shaw, for thirty years
president of a pneumatic tool company,
died at his home in Denver, aged so
years. Mr.. Shaw was member of
Denver lodge No. 5, F. & A. NJ.
Benjamin B. Brown, SO, for twenty
years president of the Western Nation
al bank of Pueblo, died at a Pueblo
hospital. Brown had just returned
from Illinois, where he went for the
benefit of his health.
General instructions concerning en-
listment for the fourth officers train
ing school May Is to Sept. l were
given out by Adj. Gen. Frank D. Bald
win, following receipt of word from
the militia bureau of the War Depart
ment.
Leslie Fraser, aged years, son of
James Fraser, a feeder, was drowned
in a cistern at his home five miles east
of Fort Collins. His mother, who
jumped into the cisteM after him
when she saw him fall, was badly in
jured.
The first work in the construction
of the governments s1,000,000 Colo
RADIO recuperation camp was the loca-
ton of the main flagstaff, exactly in
the center of the $40 acres. The sec
ond bit of work was starting the plow
ing for the administration building.
Frank Mulligan, former Denver de-
tective, sentenced to from five to
seven years in the penitentiary for
participation in the Nolan diamond
robbery, asked the Supreme Court for
supersedeas, so he may be released
on bail while his case is pending be-
fore the court for final decision.
All efforts of the administrators of
the Maj. William Cooke Daniels es-
tate to communicate with two of the
chief beneficiaries have been unavail-
ing since the document was presented
for probate in the County Court in
Denver. The widow, Mrs. Cicely Ban
ner Cooke Daniels, when last heard
from, was residing at the Grand hotel,
Bernehoff, Berne, Switzerland. By the
terms of the will, she inherits one
half of the estate, and Miss Florence
Martin, who inherited one-quarter of
1t, is supposed to be with her, aiding
in the conduct of an army hospital.
hoc LOT nf N
beans for seed, stored at Denver,
Greeley and Trinidad, that can be had
at cents per pound in 100-pound lots.
Seven hundred young American sol
diers, as husky an aggregation as has
ever been seen in Denver, arrived
from Camp Logan, Houston, Texas,
paraded in four companies up Seven
teenth street for few blocks, and
then boarded train of twenty-five
coaches bound for Camp Lewis, Wash.
A two-days state war conference is
to be held in Denver on Tuesday, May
7, and Wednesday, May s, under the
auspices of the national and state
councils of defense. DR.. ]. A. B.
Scherer and George B. Chandler of the
Council of National Defense, DR.. Guy
Stanton Ford of the committee on pub
lie information and Lieut.. Paul Peri
CORD of the French army will be the
speakers from Washington. There
will be big mass meeting in the Den
yer Auditorium Tuesday night. On
Wednesday there will be divisional
conferences of the chairmen of the
county councils of defense, women
state and county leaders of war work
and of chairmen of speakers bureaus.
The critical necessity for immediate
action to remedy the sugar shortage
has reused beet growers of northern
CnInradn to action With an anfhu.