The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-09-20

race meeting.
oct l-Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
About 10000 men in Denver regis
tered for selective service
Tag day in Denver for the blind
melted several thousand dollars.
Experimenting with the battery of a
telephone and dynamite cap at Fort
Collins cost Earle Williams. Is years
old, three fingers and an eye
g. A. Lawrence, 67 years old. pio-
neer of the Cripple Creek district and
a charter member OF the Victor lodge
Of lslks. died at his home in Cripple
Creek.
The sum of s1,270,000 has been APP
portioned to Colorado as her share of
the s17O.500,000 to be raised over the
United States for the united war work
campaign.
Walter r. Chiles of Paradox, and
Oliver N. Goodson of Fort Collins, are
among the missing in action in the
casualty lists made public by the War
Department
) Findlay L. MacFarland will be gen
eral manager of the water plant when
the city assumes control in November.
according to announcement made by
the Denver water board.
Lloyd Simpson of Grand Valley, 90
years old, has been killed in action in
France. He has two brothers, Frank
and Alexander. in France, and the lat
ter was wounded several weeks ago.
Eighteen members of the old Cooks
Drum Corps, all of them bandsmen in
he 18th infantry, have arrived safely
IN Europe, according to message re-
ceived by George E. Turner of Den
yer.
Gov Julius C. Gunter has been
asked by the Civic and Commercial
Association to speak early in Deem
Der on reconstruction policies to come
before the Colorado Legislature this
winter.
Sergt Robert P. Land, who lived in
Denver for about four years and who
enlisted in the national army from
Idaho, died at Tours, France, Aug. 4,
from wounds received in the battle O,
the Marine in July.
The fuel administrator skip-stop
for street railways will not become eff
fective until after Oct Is under a de-
cision reached at conference in Den
yer between city officials, Tramway
officials and the local fuel administra-
ton.
Martin Martinsen, an employee OF
the Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs
railway at Cripple Creek, was killed
rlA., al,
tached from a moving train bumped
into the car under which he was
working.
After living the life of nature
man in the rugged hills of Box
Canon mountains in Larimer county
for two weeks, following his escape
from penitentiary road camp, ]. Ar
thur Montague, itinerant curio mer-
chant, was captured in a cave near
Liyermore by the Colorado constabu-
larry.
Patriotic citizens of Colorado will
hold convention in the Auditorium
the night of Sept. 90 under the aus
pieces of the League to Enforce Peace.
TO organize a Colorado branch of the
league. The object of the league is
to aid the President. to make the
world safe for all time in the COM
plete defeat of German militarism and
to keep the world safe by a league of
nations
The Deadwood mine of the United
Gold Mines Company has been LEASED
10 q. C. stumpff of Denver for per
iod of eighteen months.
The first call to the colors in Octo-
Der was issued by Provost Marshal
General Crowder, and includes sos
COLORADO white men. They are to be
eptraHed for Camp Keaney during
the five-day period beginning oct Z.
The call viii affect about so per cent
OF the men remaining in the special
class of registrants of date Aug. "a of
this year, according 10 instructions.
Two of the original band of seven
bandits involved in the series of shoot
ing affrays with police officers in
Denver and Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday, have been lost in the
shuttle and the authorities are pro
ceeding on the theory that there We're
hut five members of the gang, aside
from the women Three of that num-
Der are under arrest and of the where
abouts of the two still at large-sup-
posed to be the murderers of Chief of
Detectives Rowan of Colorado Springs
and presumably the slayers of Patrol
ran Luther McMahill of Denver
there was no tangible cIew on Mon
day.
Heads of fifty machine shops repre-
senting both small and large concerns
of Denver, organized preparatory to