The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-23
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado

yer SCHOOLS Will Dt ueiu APAh ~ 49,
the Auditorium.
Mrs. Ella Altvater, 2s, wife of Coun-
ty Treasurer Henry p. Altvater, died
In Central City.
Logan county with production and
sale of 1.795,22O pounds of beans
claims the pennant.
The Montrose Farm bureau, organ
lied short time ago, already has a
membership of over one hundred.
Philip Cohen was found guilty at
Brighton of robbing Mrs. Harry t.
Nolan at the Model roadhouse on
Jan. 2.
A seven-foot vein of coal has been
opened on the Roubideau about two
miles above the Nucla-Delta road
crossing.
Twelve hundred and thirty children
attending 81 rural schools of Pueblo
county are now members of the Junior
Red Cross society.
The price of lump coal was cut rs
cents ton at Pueblo under the gov
ernment order reducing the price of
coal at the nine.
Within a few weeks all fire insur-
ance policies written in Denver will be
subject to a 10 per cent increase over
the customary rate.
Nine months in the county jail was
imposed upon Paul Baird, convicted of
the beating of his 6-year-old stepson,
Ray Desermia, in the West Side Court
in Denver.
One hundred draft registrants, who
have been drafted as chauffeurs and
mechanics, eft Denver for the aero
station of the signal corps at San Au-
tonic, Texas.
Jim Goodheart, Denver's city chap
lain, applied to Mayor Speer for six
months leave of absence and will start
for France soon as the spiritual envoy
of the Rotary Club.
Mrs. Emily Riley, who shot and
killed her husband, Patrick H. Riley,
in their apartment in Denver, Sept.
29 last, was released from the coun
ty Jail on bonds of $2,500.
Twenty-four young men of the city
and county of Pueblo have been Sc
lected as the quota for the national
army to leave Pueblo sometime be-
tween March 20 and April 8.
The Ell Paso Extension Company,
operating the Index mine, on the
southwestern slope of Gold hill, under
bond and lease, will shortly have the
property back on the producing list
Women of Denver made 1884, sur
gical dressings, 5,516 hospital gar
ments and 9,305 knitted garments in
port of the Denver chapter of the Req
Cross.
The working force at the Roosevelt
tunnel of the Cripple Creek Deep
Drainage Company was increased re-
Gently to two shifts in all headings,
save in the Cresson and Portland
drifts.
Up to March 10th, $500 permits for
the use of free water service on va
cant lots had been issued by the Den
yer Union Water Company to take
care of the war garden tracts during
the coming summer.
T. B. Hiskey, for twenty-six years
partment and for the past nine years
in charge of the office at Sterling,
died at the age of 81. He is survived
by a widow and three children.
Howard Holiday of Denver, a fly
ing cadet at Kelly field at San Anto-
nio, Tex, was killed, when his aero
plane fell 1000 feet. He was return
;nn from, q crocc-couptry fliObt uia
mother is Mrs. Duncan A. Holiday of
Denver.
Brick are being hauled from Monte
Vista to the State Soldiers home, to
be used in building new cottages.
The Denver District United States
Marine Corps mark in efficiency for
the year 1917, according to the War
Departments yearly report is 1864.
This means that the Denver office is
664 points efficiency pluss and sets
a record for the office.
Denver will be called upon to fur.
nish seventy soldiers to the new draft
installment of $4,000 authorized by the
War Department recently, and the en-.
tire state 323, according to official an
nouncement from the office of Provost
Marshal John Evans. The men will
go to Camp Funston.
On March 29 and April 5, respective
ly two drawings will occur in western
Colorado by which 10000 acres of ir
rigable land will be thrown open to
settlement. The government farms
contain from forty to eighty acres
each of irrigable land, and are located
in two of the most beautiful mountain
valleys of the Western Slope. These
farms are included in two of the great
irrigation systems built by the Recla.
nation Service known as the Grand
Valley and Uncompahgre projects.