The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
y Newspaper Union News Service.

Aug. - 2i-colorado State Firemen
Convention at Georgetown
sept Fifty y-sixth annual confer
ence u Colorado II. l.. Church al
Delta.
sept Is-Beayer Park fair at Penrose
sept -5--e-Colorado state ra.r at
pueblo
sept. 6-2s-Lincoln County Fair a,
Hugo.
4 Harry B. Pendleton OF Denver Was
killed in action in France.
Large number OF sheep were sheared
at the Davis ranch near Haswell
Colorado is asked to furnish iSo
trained nurses under the recent call.
Prospecting work is being done Oh
lhe Black Raven group of mines in
the Ward district.
, Less titan dozen lots that can be
watered are unoccupied by war gar
dens in Canon City.
/ The American marine casualty list
contained the name OF George E. Duclo
/ OF Cascade as killed in action.
i The first boy workers camp al Fort
Lupton has been opened with thirty
boys 1t will be quickly enlarged.
Community councils have been or
gauiZed in all communities by the
Larimer county Council of Defense
/ Ten thousand pounds of meat Will
be added to the meat supply BY the
sixty-tlye boys pig clubs OF Fremont
county.
/ Good reports come from the carno-
I lite fields in western Colorado Radi-
um ore being shipped from Naturita
right along
The fifty-sixth annual session OF the
/ Colorado conference OF the NJ. L.
/ church will assemble in Delta the first
week in September.
Wages OF 40 cents an hour were de-
cided upon as the prevailing price for
workers in the fruit harvest around
Palisade in the fall
The old Solomon mine near Creede
VIII be reopened. In former years the
mine was one Of the largest producers
in the Creede section.
David Warnock and son OF Loveland
shattered all state live stock records
When their stock averaged $1,375 a
head at an auction sale.
While the output of ore from Tellur-
ide district Is at the maximum the
shipments on the railroad are being
much reduced by car shortage.
There were l.35S women registered
for war service in Chaffee county and
1871 in Morgan county by the wom-
ems County Councils of Defense.
Five sticks of dynamite were found
under the dwelling of Vincent Belan-
di miner at Valdez, some miles fro
Trinidad A fuse had been lighted but
had gone out
j. L. McGinn. auditor for the Royal
mine at Aguilar, has volunteered in
The radio service and has been or
dered TO the training school at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Lake county has benefited by five
miles of newly surfaced road through
the activities OF the Derry Ranch GolG
Dredging Company and ranchmen
near its dredge southwest of Leadville
The greater demand for local timber
is given as the cause for an increase
OF more than $1,000 in the timber sales
this year of the Denver district of the
forest service over any preceding year.
Young men who have reached q
years OF age since June of this year,
or who will attain their majority be-
fore June ). 1919. will not be required
to register under the draft law until
next June, according TO the latest re-
ports.
Five camps Of convicts from the
| state prison are working on highways,
about go men being thus employed
| They are located in Larimer. Weld,
| Garfield, Boulder and Pueblo coun-
| ties
/ AT the Republican state convention
| at Colorado Springs Lawrence C.
! Phipps received 461 and Charles w,
/ Waterman 426 votes for United States
senator. and both names will 60 on the
/ primary ballots.
! Every able bodied man between the
/ ages of l6 and SO is expected to en-
I gage in some useful work for six hours
( day on at least five days in the week,
according to proclamation issued by
/ Gov. Julius c. Gunter
! Inheritance tax collections during
the first fifteen days Of July totaled
s11,220.32, according to the semi
monthly report These collections
brought the total for the current bien
nial period up to 1851 .39141
Twelve Denver hOys a day ora nou
being sent to work on farms by the
state headquarters of the U. s. Boys
! Working Reserve for Colorado. One
hundred and ninety Denver boys have
already been placed on farms.
Hemorrhagic septicemia, an old dis
ease among cattle, but which has only
recently made its temperance In Col