The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
An automobile driven by Charles D.
Wayt. merchant. Of Vineland. ran into
a Missouri Pacific train at the track
crossing in Deyine, ten miles east Of
Pueblo. Mr.. Wayt is In the hospital
here with fracture Of the skull and
other injuries and Ii believed fatal
ly hurt. Morris Pierce, q ranchman
OF Vineland. who was in the machine.
suffered a broken arm and several
scalp wounds.
Clarence T. Gibbens. 35 years old.
OF Pueblo. was killed and his wife and
Corporal c. S. Jones. in charge Of the
United States Army recruiting sta
ton in Pueblo, and Mrs. Jones were
injured when an auto in which they
were riding struck deep sand on a re-
Gently graded stretch OF road, turned
over on the Canon City-Colorado
Springs road In Dead Mans Canon.
The fact that enlistment by boys
In the U. S. Boys Working Reserve
for farm work is purely voluntary and
is asked of the boys merely as q pat
riotic duty 10 being emphasized by J.
S. Jaffa, Colorado director Of the re-
serve. BY enrolling. the boys will be
merely placing themselves in readi-
ness to do work for food production.
II Colorado farmers ask for their help.
Indications OF Colorado's greatest
silver output since the early days 10
being written into the records In the
office Of the secretary OF state. James
r. Noland. In the last three months
fully 1000 companies were In arrears.
but now are being reinstated, in antici-
patton OF $1-an-ounce silver There is
agitation also in copper.
All county councils Of defense have
been urged by the State Council of
Defense to make surveys to assure
that all properties and particularly
those concerned with food production
are fully insured and guarded.
The government crop reporting bu-
reau reports the stocks Of grain on
Colorado farms on March / as follows
Corn. 3.724.000 bushels; wheat. 2.S43.-
900 bushels; oats. 3.5s3.000 bushels.
and barley. 1.497 900 bushels.
Unpatriotic evidences have been re-
ported in fourteen towns out OF seven
mittee OF the State Council of Defense
has received replies in connection with
its work
Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the en-
cheering school at the State Univer-
sity at Boulder, has been appointed as
sistant governmen director Of the con-
struction OF United States munitions
plants.
DR.. c. r. Van Hise, president OF
the University OF Wisconsin, will soon
make a tour OF the Pacific Coast,
speaking on behalf OF the third Liberty
Loan. He will be in Denver March 2S.
A jury at Brighton found Frank H.
Mulligan guilty Of completely in the
holdup and robbery Of Mrs. Harry T.
Nolan and the Rev. Father Garret J.
Burke in the Model road house, Jan. :.
Many cattle owners of Pixies Peak
district met with Forest Ranger Pat
terson at Clyde and Ranger Truman
at Woodland Park and were issued
permits for grazing this season.
The trial of Philip Cohen, charged
with the robbery of Mrs Irene Nolan
when she was at the Model roadhouss
with Father Burke on Jan. 2, was
opened at Brighton on Tuesday
jury in the Denver District Court
acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Mar
garet Manning in the office OF James
Nj (luRrlch in n creamery
Members of Base Hospital No 20,
the Denver anti which will leave for
Camp Cody, Deming. n NJ, attended
a special service at the Central Pres
byterian church in Denver
April 6. the first anniversary OF the
declaration of war with Germany, has
been designated Dedication Day by
the speakers committee of the State
Council Of Defense
Japanese farmers in the neighbor-
hood Of Rocky Ford have formed q
cantaloupe growers association.
Charles H. Williams. widely known
milling man, owner OF plant at
Brighton, died in Denver
Members OF the Reformed Presbyter-
ian church at Greeley will erect .
$4,000 church building.
Two Denver firms nave cooperated
to build new factory to produce q
huge order of tents.
Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance
the erection of Catholic church at
Colorado Springs.
The Longmont sugar factory closed
the most successful run In it's history,
lasting 101 days
The Miner Bank and Trust Com
pany at Steamboat Springs has been
closed.
Architects have prepared plans