The Elbert County tribune., 1918-04-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.
mardi gras ball at CRANKY netted
the Red Cross $115.1o.

There will be no deliveries by Colo
rado Springs merchants hereafter Of
parcels valued under 80 cents.
The third annual Redpath Chautau-
qua for Pueblo will start July 16. 1t
will be Of seven days duration.
The annual meeting Of the Colora-
do Educational Association will be
held at Grand Junction Nov. GO.
The President has appointed Mar
shall l. Starr postmaster at Hayden.
and Cornelia c. Simpson at La Veta.
Work has been resumed on the dis
tilling plant of the OIL Shale Mining
Company on Dry Fork, Grand Valley.
A fine new ore vein has opened in
Georgetown tunnel, which is being
driven into the base OF Democrat
mountain.
Canon City is shortly to receive
from the state big consignment Of
trout fry to be used in the restocking
of the Arkansas river.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Wilson. former state
superintendent of public instruction.
was called to Washington for con-
ference on war work activity
Harry Bowes, an alleged ex-convict.
is being held In Dalhart. Tex. where
he was arrested on March 81 on a
charge of robbing several postoffice
boxes in Denver and Greeley.
James r. Noland, secretary of state,
has Joined the Colorado speakers bu-
reau of the American Alliance for La
Dor and Democracy, at the request of
President Samuel Gompers.
Children have been forbidden to at
tend any public meetings in Golden
until the present epidemic of scarlet
fever and measles or some disease that
resembles each of them. is ended.
Charles Alvin Davis. aged 10, sta
tion agent and operator for the Union
Pacific at Deer Trail, while kindling a
fire with kerosene, WAS burned SO that
he died from his injury at st. Luke's
hospital, Denver.
Corn meal production in Colorado
and the nation is on the jump upward
because of the conservation of flour,
In the nation the output has increased
from 100000 barrels a month last
October to 100000 barrels in March.
The Humane Society has been asked
by the State Council of Defense to in
vestigate report that a herd of sheep
near Glenwood Springs is being neg
lected, causing losses in the meat sup
ply, and to prosecute the owner If in
vestigation warrants action.
AT the meeting of oil men in the
Senate chamber of the Capitol build
ing in Denver. Prof. R. d. George,
state geologist gave thorough dis
cussion of oil shales and methods
which are being improved upon for
their refinement. Incidentally the
general oil situation of Colorado was
summed up.
John Drummond, 60 years DID,. for
msrly of Wray, died at the County
hospital in Denver of a complication
of Diseases, just as several orderlies
carried his wife, Mrs. Rose Drum.
mond, patient in the surgical ward,
into his room on a stretcher. The
couple had been patients there for
several months.
Petitions seeking an increase of so
cents a ton for coal at the mines in
the Walsenburg and Trinidad dis
tricts, where coal veins are less than
four feet in thickness, were present
ed to the Colorado division of the
Fuel Administration by the Aztec
Coal Mining Company and eleven 9TH
er operators having a combined daily
output Of 1900 tons.
Exaggerations of farm labor short
Iar f,,I et1 l.. 1tr
couraged, according to Field Secre-
tary Thomas of the State Council of
Defense. Nobody knows exactly what
the farm labor shortage will be but it
will not be nearly so bad as some
alarmists paint it, exciting both grow
ers and workers. One thing is GER
tain-the government will do its best
to help the farmers.
The Montrose Farm Bureau has a
membership of hundred.
Capt. Eugene Milliken, secretary to
George A. Carlson when the latter was
governor, is believed to be in the
midst of the fighting in Picardy,
France. according to word received
from him by Mr. Carlson Milliken
earned his captaincy at the officers
training camp at Fort Riley and al
most Immediately thereafter was sent
East and later to France.
Colorado farmer boys who are in
camps receiving military training are
to be granted furloughs this summer
to assist In crop production. according
to Gov. julius C. Gunter, who returned
from Washington, where he had been
In conference for two weeks with
President Wilson, and other officials
Government attention to the Denver
G. Salt Lake railroad is one of the rec