The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-10-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western N-w-psp~r Union News >erste-
Road work on the Crested Butte
Somerset route 10 progressing.
L. J. Brinkerhoff OF Mancos shipped
1000 lambs and ewes to market
Denver's total registration tor the
general election Nov. is 1913.
A silo il under construction on the
property Of =. H. Hoffman OF Two
Buttes.
Sergt. LAwreoce r. Peyton OF Den
yer was killed In action In France on
Sept s.
1t Is more thas a passing fancy that
everyone IL asked to do your Cnrist'
mas shopping early"
There are strong indications that the
Spanish infiuen1s epidemic has about
run its c0urse in Denver.
Denver Will have aeropiane mall de-
livery after the war. according to 40
vices received from Washington.
School children In 6.000 Colorado ro-
raj schools are taking a census OF
the states livestock and farming acre
age.
Sergt. Earl Riest. 20. son OF MIS-.
Nancy Flint of Aurora, was severely
wounded in action ON the western
front Sept. IL.
The board Of directors of the Colo
RADIO Education Association has voted
to cancel the annual November con
vention for 1918.
The Colorado State Council OF De
fense has issued bulletin exhorting
the people of this state not to be mis-
led by peace talk.
r. W. Belden OF Las Animas. died OF
wounds. and w. A. Chalmer of Edge
water was wounded. according to the
Canadian Casualty list.
Mrs. Martha j. Cranmer was reap
pointed a member Of the State Board
of Pardons by the governor. Her ap
pointment II for four years.
Dr. Richard B. Moore OF the U. 8.
Bureau of Mines at Golden announces
that he has discovered substitute for
radium which he calls mesothorium.
Colorado products captured almost
all the first prizes awarded at the re-
cent exhibition held by the Iterna-
tional Soil Products Association at
Kansas City.
The Colorado railway mail service
has taken into its ranks its first won-
en- clerks and these young women are
now sorting circular mail at the union
station in Denver.
The Zang Brewing Company has Of
fered its Denver plant to the go ern-
ment for the manufacture of munitions
or for whatever purposes the govern
ment wishes to use It,
The Council of Defense has inter
ested thousands of people in Colorado
In saving all the peach seeds, as well
as many other seeds. such as plums,
prunes, apricots, etc.
-Wideawake men, 2l to 40 years, fOf
paymasters and deck officers, are be-
ing soues,t by the Denver navy mobil-
ization substation in accordance with
orders Just received.
There DE two women in Denver who
feel sighted. They made an &sserEt
to enlist in the motor tran~Ifr< .urps
and we're refused becaues Of their
sex.
The Colorado coal mines are now
approximately 100000 tons short In
the production of fuel for this year. A
serious shortage of labor is said to be
the cause
The State Board of Equalization re-
duced Colorados taxes by $49S, 900 In
establishing the 1918 tax levy at 81
mills. This is reduction OF .35 mill
from the 1917 levy, which was 3.12
mills.
That General Hospital No. 21, known
as the Aurora recuperation camp, will
be increased to a capacity Of 5000
beds instead of 1000 originally
planned is the belief Of members OF
the, State Council OF Defease.
The Longmont hospital, having in
sufficient capacity to handle all Of the
influenza cases offered, the local Odd
Fellows hall has been converted into>
temporary hospital and placed in
charge of the Red Cross.
A board has been formed by Gov
ernor Gunter and the State Council Of
Defense at the request Of General
Crowder to centralize. aid in the way
of instruction of men before they are
inducted into the service.
Reports received by DR.. Erlo e. Ken
nedy at the State Board of Health Oct.
%, from number OF the small towns
throughout Colorado indicated that
more than 800 persons have been vic
tins of the influenza epidemic.
Frank w. Thompson, vice president
of paper company. committed suicide
at his home at Pueblo, by shooting
himself with a revolver through the