The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21

race meeting.
oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Snow fell in Denver Sunday night.
Denver telephone workers have or
ganized "A union.
The Holyoke hospital is rapidly
nearing completion.
Tag day in Denver for the blind
netted several thousand dollars.
Chris Bracken has taken lease on
the Good Friday mine in Boulder
county.
A school house will he erected in
western Moffat county, near Iron
Springs.
The Masonic grand bodies held then
annual meetings in FL Jebel temple in
Denver.
A beet dump is under construction
at Croft Spur, between Ordway and
Sugar City.
A rich strike was encountered in the
Congo Chief mine in Caribou at the
125-foot level.
Grand Junction streets from Sixth
to Seventh avenues have been sur.
faced with cinders.
Charles Black has made a shipment
of concentrates from the Nasco mine
in Boulder county.
Henry Brennan has sold his 160-acre
irrigated farm near Mead to John An
derson for a consideration of $4,000.
A large concrete flume at the sugar
factory at Fort Collins will greatly ia
cilitate the work of carrying beets into
the factory.
Albert r. Klaus of Avondale, Pu-
eblo county, is reported missing in ac'
tion in telegram sent to his brother
at Avondale.
Frederick d. Anderson was ap-
pointed by Governor Gunter as his pri-
vate secretary to succeed Wendell
Stephens, resigned.
Experimenting with the battery of a
telephone and a dynamite cap at Fort
Collins cost Earle Williams, Is years
old, three fingers and an eye.
The Mountain States Beet Growers
Association sent a delegation to Wash.
ington in an effort to secure from the
War Finance Corporation a permit to
build and operate sugar factory at
Fort Morgan.
The government has sent out an S.
o. S. for stenographers. One bureau
alone at Washington needs 600. Re
quests are filed for 5000 women
stenographers and typists. The mini
mum initial salary is $l,1OO.
w. G.. Gmter and o. f. Victor of FL
dora are doing extensive development
work on their claims on Tennessee
mountain. Location work is completed
and prosecuting is now in progress
for lead-silver vein forty feet east of
the main tunnel.
Herbert C. Howe, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles L. Howe of Pueblo, is re-
ported as missing in action. Howe,
who is 23 years of age, enlisted in am
bulance corps No. >, Third Sanitary
division, at San Antonis Tex, last De-
cember and has been in France since
last May
The first call to the colors in Octo-
Der was issued by Provost Marshal
General Crowder, and includes sos
Colorado white men They are to be
entrained for Camp Kearney during
the five-day period beginning Oct. Z.
The call will affect about so per cent
of the men remaining in the special
class of registrants of date Aug. "a of
this year, according to instructions.
County Supervisor A. L. Strawn has
a small force clearing the brush on
the survey of the La Manga state high
way from the mouth of Elk creek to
the Los Pinos below Cumbres pass.
After living the life of nature
man. in the rugged hills of Box
Canon mountains in Larimer county
for two weeks, following his escape
from a penitentiary road camp, ]. Ar
thur Montague, itinerant curio mer-
chant was captured in a cave near
Livermore by the Colorado constabu-
larry.
Two of the original band of seven
bandits involved in the series of shoot
ing affrays with police officers in
Denver and Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday, have been lost in the
shuttle and the authorities are pro-
ceeding on the theory'that there were
but five members of the gang, aside
from the women. Three of that num-
ber are under arrest and of the where
abouts of the two still at large-sup-
posed to be the murderers of Chief of
Detectives Rowan of Colorado Springs
and presumably the slayers of Patrol
ran Luther McMahill of Denver
there was no tangible clew on Mon
day
Attacked by two submarines, one of
which was sent to the bottom of the
ocean and the other towed triumph
antly at the stern of the vessel on
which American troops We're being