Cheyenne record., 1918-08-15
COLORADO
. STATE NEWS

Aug. 22-24-Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown
Sept. mining Engineers meeting In
Denver.
ence of Colorado NJ. e. Church at
Delta.
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept Arkansas Valley Fair at
Rocky Ford.
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
s'R,; RRS.bis. Is-ss-c'i0fa'o State Far at
Sept 2s-2s-Lncoln County Fair at
F. B. Schorr, a Denver carpenter.
was shot by holdup on Stout street.
There were 292 deaths in Denver in
July. compared with 244 in July last
year. - -'-
Water rates at Boulder have been
advanced rs per cent by the City
Council.
Lieut.. Henry P. Reynolds of Denver
was killed in the Marne drive In
France.
Mrs. Mollie Griffin of Pueblo was
accidentally shot and killed by her
husband.
The body of a woman was found in
the Platte river, near the Swift plant,
in Denver.
Colorado will get $19.273 of the fed
eral fund of $2,3O7.460 for vocational
education 1888.
DR.. Nelson Drew Wells Of Fort Nor
gan was commissioned . captain In
the medical corps.
William Lamb, Jr., IL years old, was
instantly killed at Pueblo when run
over by an auto truck.
Nina May Coates left Denver for
France, where she will be an execu-
tive secretary in the Red Cross.
Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado
Springs has filed his petition as Re-
publican candidate for Governor.
Kern H. Copeland of Grand Junction
was awarded q commission as 4 Sec
ond lieutenant In the sanitary corps.
Members Of the International Union
of Mine. Mill and smeltsrmen in ses-
sion In Denver decided to hold all OF
their conventions in the future in
Denver. a.....
A forty-ton ore shipment was load.
ed recently from the Pueblo mine Of
the Free Coinage Gold Mining Com
pany, on the southwestern slope of
Bull cliffs.
Mildred Scarf. characterised by the
police as "the most confirmed forser
in Denver" n I'm again" She was
arrested on . charge Of passing q
worthless check for 50.
The first statewide organization of
women in Colorado to set aside five
minutes at noon for prayer for tho
American soldiers overseas is the Jane
jefferson Democratic Club.
The Silver Chief mine. on Bear
creek. near Telluride. is being cleaned
out preparatory to resuming opera
tions on the property, which has been
idle for a number of years.
The Salvation Army has been given
the hearty approval of the State Coun.
ell Of Defense in its plaps for raising
$4,000 in Colorado for the Salvation
war work among the soldiers In
France.
The Vernon property, Ironton dis
triot, on the equipment and develop
msnt of which $25O.OOO was expended
during 1916-1917. is now idle as a re-
contraction.
A. e. Bauer, manager of the Walsh
Hidden Treasure group, Imogene ba
sin. sent out a twenty-two-ton ship
ment of ore that shows an absence Of
the zinc content that characterized the
early-day shipments.
|. Over $500 Colorado boys are help
ing win victory by working on farms.
Interpretation Of the rights of com.
mitteemen and committeewomen and
the manner of their election in Denver
developed a controversy between the
Republican county central committee
and the city elections commission that
is to be decided in the courts.
Twenty-seven game refugees, one of
them established by the city Of Den
yer. should be located throughout the
state. according to Smith Riley, dis
trtct forester OF the United States for.
est service. who has made an exten
sive study Of this phase Of the game
problem. 50 that the state might en-
joy constant supply of game.
All properly qualified youths of Col
orado are urged by Governor Gunter
and the State Council of Defense to go
to college this fall and enlist in the
Students Army Training Corps, organ
lied by the War Department. Then
they will be called upon to serve the
government in the capacities in which
they are the most valuable whenever
wanted by the government. While 60
ing to college they will be soldiers,
drilling daily.
A patriotic poster soon to be dis