The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-14
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado
II ID :. A.narer L-nlnn NeNs seryIee.

sept 20 .s-Lincoln County Fair at
Hugo.
Sept 2G-2S-Grand County fair and
lace meeting.
oct Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
A camp for tourists has been estab-
lishcd ut Monte Vista.
The Brunswick mine above James
town is being reopencd.
1t is reported that hotel will be
built at Lay, near Craig.
a Pueblo ordinance will prohibit
the teaching of German in the public
schools.
A Christian Science church edifice
viii be erected in Sterling at a cost
OF $1,000
The Bessemer ditch syphon under
the ST Charles river near Pueblo Is
being repaired.
Mrs. Frances Beebe OF Silver Plume
dropped dead from heart failure while
preparing a meal.
A subway III feet long will be con.
stIucted under the railway tracks at
Colorado Springs
O. II Doty of Paeoda will use a
motor truck to haul the mail between
Hayden aud Pagoda
Citizens of Estes Park are planning
the erection OF large log fort as an
advertising novelty.
Near Westcliffe the Passiflora Min.
ing and Milling Company is sinking
its Herman shaft to the 33ofoot level.
Curtis Henry Betty OF Tmpas.
Otero county, is among those reported
missing in action in the army casualty
list
A new flotaton mill will soon be
erected on the property OF the Gar.
field Mining Company in Taylor Gulch
near Salida.
An important strike has been made
on the Golden Mining Company's
property in the Upper Union District
near Empire.
Mr.. and Mrs David Johnston OF
Malta confirmed a report that the
son. Harry T., Johnston. had been
wounded in France.
Despondent because he had been
discharged from the army Frank f.
Knight. "a shot and killed himself in
his room in Denver.
j. d. Hunter, Texas man, paid a
fine of $25 and costs of $l2.95 in the
Justice court at Loveland for fishing
without a license.
Miss Zorayda Lorimer of Ordway
departed for New York and expects tc
sail for France, where she will do wal
work for the Red Cross
About 225 ministers of the NJ. e
church attended the annual confer
ence at Delta. Bishop Thomas Mich
olson, of Chicago. presided.
Seven labor boards to assist in the
recruiting and distribution of labor
have been appointed by the depart
ment of labor in Washington for Col
orado.
In Custer county, which is aided in
n mining sense by the better prices
for copper, silver and lead. activity
is more apparent than for several
past years.
The Sand Hill Telephone Company
which was organized a few months
ago by farmers south of Hugo, has
connected its line with the Mountain
States Telephone Company.
The Rev. John l.. Boyd, rs died at
the Denver County Hospital of a frac-
tured skull received when he was
struck and knocked down by a motor
truck driven by Enrol Johnson.
The Denver & Salt Lake depot at
Fraser was destroyed by fire.
Twenty-six Colorado men received
commissions as second lieutenants of
field artillery at Camp Zachary Tay-
lor. Kentucky, according to list
made public by the War Department.
Stuart McKeown, the Fort Collins
aviator who made such good record
in France and was reported missing
since July Z, has been reported as II
prisoner of war in Germany
The members of the Mining Engi-
neerS' Institute went to Pueblo from
Colorado Springs TO go through the
steel works and coke oven plant at
Minuequa, and attend banquet
Three thousand babies have been
registered and between 1000 and
5000 are still to be registered,
weighed and measured before Den
ver's part in the national Baby census
will be complete.
Saturdays casualty lists officially
confirm the death of Daniel J. Allen,
son of Mrs Susan Leahmann, Arvada,
He was killed by a bomb dropped
from Hun airplane while he and his
chum were asleep in their tent Al
len was instantly killed, but the
chum was unhurt.
Nine months after the resumption
OF work at the Lewis mine, Telluride
district. the property has again been
nIacnd in the LIST of nrndmcnrs with