The Elbert County tribune., 1918-05-24
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


necessity? This il the question that
is going to be put to them in the two
hours between and 4 o'clock on the
afternoon Of June %. Those days will
De known as war savings days and UNI
der proclamations by President Wilson
the governor. and the mayors Of all
cities, all patriotic residents will be
called in assemblages in every school
house In the state and there requested
to sign pledges to save as much as pos
sitle between those two dates, with
ST. 100000 as the goal. The states
quota for war savings stamps and GER
tificates is $4,000. 900. To date $1,000
600 worth have been sold.
Mrs. Helen Allen Rood, formerly OF
Denver, who has often occupied the
spotlight of Denver publicity through
tho probable loss of one husband on
the Titanic. her method of mourning
for another, her purchase of Seattle
theater and, most of all, by virtue OF
her part in a good, old-time spite fence
war, has again plunged into the matri-
monial sea. This time Commander
Mark St Clair Ellis, U. S. N, COM
Z
performed in San Francisco.
The food license of c. E. Bingham.
u baker OF Glenwood Springs, was sus-
pended by Robert J. Grant Of the Colo
RADIO Food Administration for violation
of the food laws. 1t also was an
nounced at State Food Administration
office that w. L. Philbin, food admin
istrator of Chaffee county, had fined
Frank Gill;. a Salida baker. $500 for a
similar offense, the money being given
to the Red Cross.
That Colorado farmers are going
"over the top with vengeance to
help the nation win the war by in
creased acreage. greater production
and more intensive farming is evil
denced by the federal crop report for
May, by the United States Department
of Agriculture, which shows immense
increases in wheat, rye and hay, the
three great Colorado crops treated by
the report.
Thirty-eight persons, men and wom-
en-, were caught in a raid made by the
Denver bootleg squad and four patrol
men on a roadhouse at Mississippi and
Jason streets, which, according to the
police, was being conducted by John
dip Evans, who was bartender at
the Model roadhouse when Mrs. Irene
Nolan was held up and robbed of thou
sands of dollars worth of diamonds
Jan. last.
Benjamin J. Salmon, Denver pacifist
and conscientious objector," was
taken to Camp Funston. handcuffed to
a military guard. to be tried there by
court-martial on charge of wilful de-
sertion in time of war, in having failed
and refused to entrain, under orders
from the draft board of district No.
of Denver for the mobilization camp,
as required by the draft law.
A modern Golden Fleece will BE sold
by Governor julius c. Gunter for the
benefit of the American Red Cross.
President and Mrs. Wilson have given
to Colorado two pounds Of wool shorn
from sheep that browsed on the White
House lawn. Competitive bids for this
historic wool will be received by mail,
telegraph or otherwise by the governor
at the state capitol
still at work upon the Nederland high
way which they expect to complete
early this season. The camp will then
be transferred to the South St. vrain
road which will give the State anoth-
er entrance to Estes via Aliens park.
The action of the Colorado sugar
companies in the matter of the price
to be paid for this years beet crop is
/ already producing favorable results,
and the outlook for a larger acreage
than last year can be pronounced
much more encouraging.
Creede, the famous old silver mining
camp of Mineral county, raised ST.
1880 on the first day of the Red
Cross drive.
Pneumonia ended the life of William
S. Adams, S5, resident of Colorado
since 1890, at his home near Denver.
Mr.. Adams was one of the pioneers
who braved the desert in an ox-cart
when he made the journey from the
Middle West
Organized labor of Denver, as rep
resented by the Trades and Labor AS
sembly, applauded the record of the
late Mayor Robert w. Speer as a con-
sistent friend of the toilers through
thirty-two years of official life.
Colorado has contributed to the milf.
tary service 10000 men. of whom 49,
500 came under the operation of tho
draft, according 20 report submitted
to the Colorado Council of Defense by
Provost Marshal John Evans.
Following three-day conference be-
tween employers and union officials,
ndAr tI.a aoI.,ris ion