The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-10-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Corp. Clarence H. Bruce OF Meeker
and Millard A. Holland OF Rule were
killed in action Among the dead from
wounds received in action are Edward
A. Mitchell. Denver; Orvle C. Trout,
Fleming: Albert Robbins. Akron;
Clyde G. Duffy. Canon City. Among
the dead OF disease are Norris H. Mel
son, Boulder: Orol r. Millikan. Rocky
Ford, and Walter B. Hardy. Maxey
James Gray. Holly. died Of accident
and other causes. Floyd L. Ridgway,
Boyero. is among the wounded severe
ly. while Capt John C. Haziett. Ber-
thoud. IL listed rs wounded. degree un-
determined.
An official order prohibiting every
kind of gathering throughout the state
for the duration of the epidemic OF
Spanish influenza was issued by the
State Board of Health. meeting in the
office of DR.. Erlo E. Kennedy In the
capitol building. This action followed
that of the health board Of the city
Denver, which ordered that there
should be no public meetings of any
kind in Denver, either indoors or in
the open. The order OF both city and
state prohibits meetings OF every ma
ture, even social gatherings at private
homes.
E. E. Schuyler, secretary of the
Chamber Of Commerce at Montrose
and a member of the widely known
and very numerous old Dutch family
of Schuylers whose ancestors settled
in New York, when 1t was still
New Amsterdam, aud whose Amer
icanism antedates that of most Amer
leans of English descent, has received
a copy of newspaper from his homo
county in New York which tells the
story of Schuyler family from which
six sons out of ten are in the war and
the other four are willing to go If
needed.
Scarcity of gold-or the cost of
mining gold from ores and placers-
would express it normally If govern
ment standards and government in
reference did not stand in the way.
Platinum. wheat, cotton. rubber and
other articles have responded in price
to war conditions, and as rule these
articles now sell for prices which bal
ance the admitted advance in the cost
of living Gold and silver are held in
restraint and do not represent q fair
profit on the actual cost of produc-
ton.
Sergt. Perry W. Tiff, Denver. is
dead from wounds, according to the
casualty list made public by the War
Department Oct Is. Joseph Bassea,
Keating, has been killed in action,
John r. Vance, Virgins, is missing in
action. Two Denver boys are among
the wounded in action: James J..
O'Connor is severely wounded, and
Earl Kane is wounded, degree unde-
termined. Lincoln S. Wise. Wray, and
John NJ. Heggen, Longmont. is
wounded severely.
For relief works in European Russia
the Red Cross has spent to date 81
S07019 OF this, $531,000 was for
milk Tor the babies of Petrograd. $685.
975 for 125 motor ambulances, and
s3S4,l63 for medical and surgical sup
plies. One hundred and twenty thous-
and dollars were spent for the relief
of refugees in Switzerland and Siberia
and for destitute families of soldiers in
Russia.
With Colorado's total Fourth Lib
erty Loan subscriptions unofficially
beyond the states entire quota of $37,-
47S,550, bank reports Oct. Is gave Of
ficial recording of $15.031,70 Of the
$19,566, 800 required from the counties
outside OF Denver, while three more
counties individually went over the
top of their quotas and Denver raised
it's total subscription to about SIS,
100000.
by John E. Willard. son-in-law Of Mil
ward Hewitt, stating that John M
Hewitt, only son of Milward Hewitt
had died from Spanish influenza at
Camp Meigs, Washington, D. c.
Seventy-five new cases Of Spanish
influenza were reported by the health
department of Colorado Springs, Oct
IS. and physicians declare that the epi
| demic has not as yet reached its
worst. At Colorado College the dis
ease has been almost eradicated, only
| four cases being in isolation there The
| total number of cases in the city is
240.
| Spanish influenza, followed by
pneumonia. has caused the deaths oi
four members of the family Of ]. H
Perry OF Denver and the serious Ill
ness of three others.
Forest service rpad projects in Cole
RADIO are likely to be discontinued OF
account of the labor situation, accord
ing to Robert E. Pratt, district engin
eer of the service.
The Allen Cattle Company of Colo
RADIO Springs received many of tn,
prizes awarded for shorthorn cattle a
| +ho Nonxora 0fofo fo{r hold in ualouo