Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-16

L
laries shot bootlegger to death on
the highway leading from Cheyenne
to Denver, there has been danger
open warfare between the govern
mental officials of Colorado and
Wyoming. A truce, however, was de-
clared this week when Attorney Gen
eral Leslie Hubbard issued an edict
to Superintendent Frank Adams of
the state constabIlary, forbidding his
SOLDIERS" from firing upon an occu-
pant of a car that fails to stop on
signal Under this new general order
members of the constabulary will be
permitted to fire on bootleggers only
after the battle has been opened by
the booze traffickers. AS further
precaution against shooting innocent
travellers, spiked boards are to be
placed in the roadway and danger
signals erected 100 yards ahead of
the obstruction to warn the auto driv-
ers. If the driver seeks to escape
search of his car, he must cross this
spiked barricade which, it is under
stood, is practically impossible stunt.
At night red lights now warn the
autoists of approaching danger. In
the meantime, the citizens of Wyom-
ing are lining up to drive the booze
business from that state by prohibi-
tion amendment at the general cleo
tion next November.
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OUR STENOGRAPHER CAME TO
the office one day this week with
clipping from paper ostensibly pub
lished by woman, which she dared US
to print Being a full grown man
with ideas of our own, we refused to
be bluffed and print the "sourkasm"
herewith as evidence that all the bra
very is not confined to the fighting
front in France. 1t says:
"Most any man can be an editor"
says the town knoCker.
''All the editor has to do is to sit
at a desk six days week and edit
such stuff as this:
Mrs. Jones of Cactus Creek let
can opener slip last week and cut
herself in the pantry.
"a mischievous lad of Piketown
threw a stone and cut Mr.. Pike in the
alley last Tuesday.
Joe Doe climbed on the roof of his
house last week looking for leak and
fell, striking himself on the back
porch.
"While Harold Green was escorting
Miss Violet Wise from the church So
cial last Saturday night a savage dog
attacked them and bit Mr.. Green on
the public square.
Isaiah Trimmer of Running Creek
was playing with a cat Friday when
it scratched him on the veranda.
Mr.. Frank, while harnessing a
broncho last Saturday, was kicked
just south of his corn crib"
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A LETTER FROM UPTON SIN
clair, who has begun the publica-
ton of Sinclair's Magazine at Pasa-
dena, Cal, he writes the o. p. as fol-
lows: 81 thank you very much for
your kind letter. 1t is certainly gen
erous of one editor to subscribe to
another's publications. very gen
erous that | am moved to call it ex-
ceptional" All of which only goes to
prove that the lady linotypist on the
day, to the effect that we were stingv
but had good disposition, was at
least making a 50-50 prophecy.
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THE FOREMAN OF THE Bull
letin's mailing department has discov-
cred some humor in the long lists of
names he each week pastes upon the
wrappers which carry this paper to its
readers. For instance, he has discov-
cred that William Haymaker at Grass,
Kan, is one of our subscribers and
that said Haymaker is a coal miner.
This might be played up to better eff
Line" in the Chicago Tribune.