Gilpin observer., 1918-12-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Fourteen OIL the tWouty-olxnC COLO
RADIO soldiers mentioned in the casual
ty lists made public by the War De
partment are among the dead. Tht
killed in action are Herman w. Pip
pert, Fred A. Thompson and Corp
Bernard r. Schwartz, Denver; Petel
F. Calligan, Aspen; Russell Steinback
Lake City; Corp. Christian H. Hass
Pueblo; Lester R. Pierce. Fort Collins
and Mike H. Duzeneck, La Veta. Two
dead of wounds received In action are
Samuel j. Cook, Loveland, and George
Wasinger, Byers. Included in the
dead of disease are James r. Robert
son, Denver; Arthur j. Berger, Cen
ter; Paul l.. Roscio, Smuggler, and Ear
w. Dennis, Loveland. Capt. Edmund
C. Glenn, Jr, Denver, is among the
missing in action. Among the severe.
ly wounded in action are Ray L. Lin
dendoll and Jerry Tramulto, Denver;
Frank F. Kruglet, Pueblo; Neale e.
Paris, Green Knoll; Bartlett s.
Bankston, Cedar; Gust r. Lager. Idaho
Springs; William C. Lovall, Canon
City, and Fred ]. Peterson, Boulder.
Elmer w. Hargis, Denver. is among
the wounded, degree undetermined.
The list of slightly wounded includes
Phillip s. Morris, Denver; Otto Evans.
Leadville; Max A Brown; Colorado
Springs, and Howard L. Stone, Grip
pie Creek.
Fifteen Colorado casualties are re-
ported in the lists made public by the
rtr nAa
of disease are: John Lubardo, Den
YER; William H. Freeman, Monument;
Richard E. Probert, Buffalo Creek.
and Otto Engel. La Sale. Included
in the list of wounded, degree unde-
termined, are: Harry NJ. Bussey, Pu-
eblo, and William p Kern, Fort Col
Inns Among the wounded severely in
yer; Dale H. Myers, Loveland. and AL
mon Heath Pueblo. Four wounded
slightly in action are: Leslie M.
Strain, La Junta: Thomas B. Green
street, Eads; Charles A. Kiester, Ken
drick, and Paul P. Clark, Rico.
Sergt. John D. Trone and Balentine
Trujillo, Denver, are among the miss
ing in action.
A parole breaker in Colorado and a
hero in hospital of France, Warren
Hazlett, % years old, can rise from
his little white bed in that hospital,
look the world in the face and say,
81 am an American citizen" for Gov
ernor J. c. Gunter granted him an abb
solute pardon and restored him to full
citizenship. For eighteen long months
Of hell and torment Warren Hazlett,
who broke his parole as convict in
the state penitentiary at Canon City.
faced the shell, the gas and shot of
the Hun.
The face of Marian Rowley haunts
him." say Boulder officers of the 8.
A. T. c., in speaking of Jack Nance,
who was sentenced to serve three
in the Fort Logan guardhouse
by summary court-martial Nance Is
a member of the medical corps sta
toned at the university, and was tried
after pleading guilty to charge of be-
ing absent without leave. He was ar
rested in Denver on Nov. 16. at no.
tel, few minutes after Marian Row
ley, a Boulder girl, committed suicide
there.
Returning to Denver from a two and
months absence in Washing
ton, d. c., where she was called by
the Army and Navy Commission on
Camp Activities, otherwise
known as the Fosdick commission,
Mrs. Ida L. Gregory, chief clerk of
the Juvenile Court. declares that
moral conditions among the 10000
extra girl workers in that city are ex-
ceptionally good.
Charges that the Bankers Mortgage
Company. a newly created company
with headquarters in Denver has been
operating gigantic fraud upon busi-
ness men, farmers and banks of the
state are contained in a suit flied in
the District Court by the Monument
State bank of FL Paso county 1t is
stated that at least twenty Colorado
banks and several hundred individuals
are involved.
A. B. Hinkett, an artist who for
merly had offices in Denver Is the de-
in an information charging
him with obtaining money under false
pretenses. Hinkett left Denver in No
vember and nothing has been heard
from him since. Prior to leaving Den
yer he was choir leader and church
worker in Edgewater. The amount of
his alleged defalcations is expected to
reach $4,000.
Irrigation and insurance laws to aid
Colorado development and special tax
levies or bond issues for ample funds
to build permanent highways through
out the state. provide lands for re.
turned soldiers and broaden the scope
and service of all state schools and
other institutions, were urged by Gov.
julius G. Gunter at reconstruction
meeting Of the Denver Civic and Com.
morcial Association