Gilpin observer., 1918-12-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

by the War Department Dec. /. Three
Colorado boys killed in action are VIII
liam James Feely. Denver; Christian
H. Haas. Pueblo, and Axel E. OQuist,
Loveland. Two dead of wounds 70.
ceived in action are Charles E. Ey-
lens, Silver Plume, and Edward ]. Hol-
land, Brighton. Disease caused the
death Of fifteen as follows: Cecil M.
Jones and Cliffe H. Hellis, Denver;
David Peltier, Lafayette; Ennis C,
Denny, Hudson; Floyd R. Dyer.
Briggsdale; Corney ]. Barnhart, La
mar; Frank B. Collins, Colorado
Springs; Roy r. Dwyer, La Junta;
Jacob ]. Jack, Johnstown; Norman N.
Miller, Seibert; Joseph e. Nelson,
Boulder; Lewis H. Roober, Paonia;
William C. Stratton, Ouray; Raymond
G. Whitmer, Clark. and William Kin
serlow. New Raymer. Other Colorado
casualties are Joseph w. Fitch, Ber-
wind, wounded severely in action; An
drew A. Garrison. Creede. wounded.
degree undetermined. and Noel
Rocker, Fort Collins. missing in &C.
ton.
A Union Pacific relief train made
what is believed to be a record run
over that part of the line Thanksgiv-
ing day, when a caboose attached to
an engine made the twenty miles from
Brighton to Denver in seventeen min
utes. The train was run to bring q
fireman. Hugh c. Norvell. to Mercy
hospital. after both his legs and his
right hand had been severed when he
fell under the engine at Brighton. The
fast run enabled the victim to see his
wife at the hospital before he died.
bonds.
The fluorspar industry in the
jamestown camp, Boulder county.
which was revived in 1917 by the gov
ernment demand for the nuxing
metal. has grown to the volume OF
fifty tons daily and is still increasing
as rapidly as man power and road con-
ditions will permit. Most of this spar
ore is hauled to Boulder for treatment
and shipment to the east. A small
amount 10 milled in the little red mill
Just at the lower end Of the camp.
more Colorado boys, according to the
casualty lists made public by the War
Department Nov. 30. This section of
the list includes Richard Harvey and
George H. Wallwork, Denver, Ray o.
Hall, Fowler, and lotto D. Stoddard,
Cedar. Ella Peternka, Fort Morgan,
has been killed in action; Paul P.
Rice, Banning, is missing in action,
and Pascoe Solas, Clark, is wounded,
degree undetarmined
James Larsen, proprietor of small
grocery at 3091 West Thirty-eighth
street, Denver, was shot and instant
ly killed Saturday night by two youth
full highwaymen who entered his store
wearing flu masks and attempted to
rob him. After numbering Larsen the
bandits left the store without tamper-
ing with the cash register, and es-
capped.
Plans for the further enlargement
of the army's big recuperation camp
near Aurora, calling for an addition of
thirty-six buildings, providing 1900
more beds, have been completed. ac-
cording to word from official sources
at Washington. With these new struc-
lures, the hospital will be the largest
Of its kind in the world, and will care
for $500 patients.
First Lieut.. Raymond w. Lamb, a
Denver boy, one of the heroes with
General Allenby and winner Of the
military cross with bar, died OF pneu-
monia In Cairo. Egypt, according to
word received by his parents, DR.. and
Mrs. Percy Lamb. The notice states
that he died Nov. IA and that he was
buried in Cairo.
Maud Dahl. %. and Jerry Miragow-
ski. 35, were killed. and Earl Parker,
26, is at the county hospital with
bullet through his right lung, and the
police are looking for Joe Sosa who
is alleged to have done the shooting
at the girls room in hotel at 1928
Lawrence street in Denver.
An urgent call was sent out by the
Denver Chapter, American Red Cross,
for nurses, nurses aides or practical
nurses of any kind to take charge Of
patients who will soon begin to come
into the two emergency hospitals
fitted up by the Red Cross in the Sol
diers' and Sailors Club and Ell Jebel
temple.
Mrs. Arthur Robinson and Mrs.
Wayne Robinson, sisters-in-law, are
the mothers Of the first war babies
born in Keota. The children were
born at the Arthur Robinson home
within the same hour. Both fathers
are in the army and neither is yet
aware OF the arrival OF the stork.
Contract has been let by the Colo
RADIO State Highway Commission. with
the approval OF the United States
Highway Council, for the $4,000 fed
eral aid project to improve and sur
face the forty miles between Rifle and