The Elbert County tribune., 1918-03-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

a Missouri Pacific train at the track
crossing in Devine, ten miles east OF
Pueblo. Mr.. Wayt is in the hospital
here with fracture of the skull and
other injuries and is believed fatal
ly hurt. Morris Pierce, a ranchman
of Vineland, who was in the machine.
suffered a broken arm and several
scalp wounds.
Clarence T. Gibbens, 80 years old,
of Pueblo, was killed and his wife and
Corporal G. S. Jones, in charge of the
United States Army recruiting sta
ton in Pueblo, and Mrs. Jones were
injured when an auto in which they
were riding struck deep sand on re-
Gently graded stretch of road. turned
over on the Canon City-Colorado
Springs road in Dead Mans Canon.
The fact that enlistment by boys
in the U. S. Boys Working Reserve
for farm work is purely voluntary and
is asked of the boys merely as pat
riotic duty is being emphasized by ].
S. Jaffa, Colorado director of the re-
serve. BY enrolling. the boys will be
merely placing themselves in readi-
If Colorado farmers ask for their help
Indications of Colorado's greatest
silver output since the early days Is
being written into the records in the
office of the secretary of state. James
r. holland. In the last three months
fully 1000 companies were in arrears,
but now are being reinstated. in antici-
patton of s1-an-ounce silver. There is
agitation also in copper.
All county councils of defense haye
been urged by the State Council of
Defense to make surveys to assure
that all properties and particularly
those concerned with food production
are fully insured and guarded.
The government crop reporting bu-
reau reports the stocks of grain on
Colorado farms on March as follows:
Corn 3.724.000 bushels; wheat. 2,S43.-
900 bushels; oats, 3,563,000 bushelJ,
and barley, 1,497,000 bushels.
Unpatriotic evidences have been re-
ported in fourteen towns out of seven
ty-two from which the speakers COM
mittee of the State Council of Defense
its work
Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the en-
gineering school at the State Univer-
sity at Boulder, has been appointed as
sistant government dire ctor of the con-
struction of United States munitions
plants.
DR.. C. r. Van Hise, president OF
the University of Wisconsin, will soon
make a tour of the Pacific Coast,
speaking on behalf of the third Liberty
Loan. He will be in Denver March %.
A jury at Brighton found Frank H.
Mulligan guilty of completely in the
holdup and robbery of Mrs Harry T..
Nolan and the Rev. Father Garret ].
Burke in the Model road house, jan 2.
Many cattle owners of Pixies Peak
district met with Forest Ranger Pat
at woodland Park and were issued
permits for grazing this season.
The trial of Philip Cohen, charged
with the robbery of Mrs. Irene Nolan
when she was at the Model roadhouse
with Father Burke on Jan. 2, was
opened at Brighton on Tuesday.
A jury in the Denver District Court
acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on
the charge Of numbering Mrs. Mar
garet Manning In the office of James
M. Gingrich in a creamery.
Members of Base Hospital No. 20,
the Denver unit which will leave for
Camp Cody. Deming, N NJ, attended
a special service at the Central Pres
byterian church In Denver.
April 6, the first anniversary of the
declaration Of war with Germany, has
been designated Dedication Day by
the speakers committee. of the State
Council of Defense.
Japanese farmers in the neighbor-
hood of Rocky Ford have formed
cantaloupe growers association.
Charles H. Williams, widely known
milling man, owner of a plant at
Brighton. died in Denver
Members of the Reformed Presbyter-
ian church at Greeley will erect
$4,000 church building.
Two Denver firms nave co-operated
to build a new factory to produce
huge order of tents.
Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance
the erection of Catholic church at
Colorado, Springs.
The Longmont sugar factory closed
the most successful run in its history,
lasting 101 days.
The Miner Bank and Trust Con-
pany at Steamboat Springs has been
closed.
Architects have prepared plans
for Congregational church at Red
vale.