Gilpin observer., 1918-06-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The Denver district routing commit
tee of the railroad administration has
ordered the Santa F6 to discontinue
tween Denver and Canon City, Port
land and Florence, Colo. This order
was made to avoid duplication of serv-
Ice with the Rio Grande. The business
between Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. destined for Trinidad, will be
handled by the Colorado & Southern
and the Rio Grands roads. The Santa
F6, however, will maintain the service
to the points named, but only In car
load lots.
Declaring that Frank w. Keeler OF
Denver was selected by Mrs. Jacque-
mena Russum as good pickings." and
that 1t was not case of the mans
chasing the woman but of the wom-
ans chasing the man, the attorney for
the Denver man argued before Judge
Harry 8. Glass in the Denver District
Court for a reopening of the suit in
which Thomas Russum of Chicago
! was given $4,000 for alleged aliena.
ton of his wife's affections.
| A legal booklet, giving the laws of
use to attorneys and courts in pro
tecting the rights of the men and wom-
en- in military service, has been pre-
pared by the legal committee of the
State Council Of Defense and is being
distributed to all attorneys in the
state. A similar booklet intended spe-
cially for the men in the service is be-
ing prepared and will soon be distrib-
uted.
Miss Marguerite Williamson, Den
yer girl who has been engaged in Y.
W. c. A. work at Camp Macarthur.
Waco. Tex, for the last year, has re-
turned to the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry M. Williamson, to
await the call to work at the Hotel
Petrograd in Paris, which is being
conducted by the association.
Notice of Scent increase in the
fare between Denver and Golden on
the Denver & Intermountain Electric
Railway Company. in accordance with
provisions of the McAdoo rate order,
was lodged with the State Public Util.
tiles Commission by w. T. Price, traf-
fic manager. The new rate will be 20
cents instead Of Is cents.
Two July draft calls. operative about
the middle of the month, will induct
into service 9O3 Colorado registrants,
according to word sent out by Provost
Marshal John Evans. One call is for
718 men for general military service;
the other for 1856 men who are gram
mar school graduates for training in
mechanical lines.
Governor Gunter has excused Cass
q. Harrington from attendance at the
meetings of the State Council of De-
tense until September SO that he can
devote all of his time and energy to
organization Of the Colorado Develop
ment Federation as a means Of help
ing the government and COlorado's in
dustries.
The final act In the Savageau mat
rimonial triangle, which has at times
reached the acme Of bitterness in its
progress through the courts, was
staged in Denver when Mrs. Elizabeth
Philips Savageau was granted d.
vorce from Frederic LIE Pere Saw.
ageau on the ground of desertion.
The body of a man which was dis,
covered floating In the Platte river
near Littleton and which was carried
away by the current of the stream
when an attempt to recover 1t was
made, was found by a party of SOL
diers, one mile north of Littleton.
Corp. Howard Dickerson. former
Colorado man. is reported dead from
wounds received in battle in the casu-
atty list issued in Washington. He en-.
listed in May, 1917, In Trinidad and
went to France for active duty in the
engineering corps in September.
Jim Goodheart is the same old ven.
turesome man in France that he has
always been in the United States and
he demonstrated that fact In a letter
received by his wife. He took fly
through the air with one OF the United
States aviators.
Floyd Franklin, . ranchman living
on Round creek. twenty-five miles
north of Debeque, believes he was
fired on by an airplane far up In the
sky according to report sent to Sher.
III jeff Watson Of Grand Junction.
Four hundred and fifty-six draft So
lects, representing Kansas and Mis-
souri,, passed through Denver en- route
to Vancouver barracks for service in
the forest department of the aviation
corps.
Jasper Fata, 2s years old. Q resident
Of the Italian colony in North Denver.
was found in an alley with q bullet
through his head. He died several
hours later at the county hospital.
Federal officers have started search
fora slackers' camp reported located
in the widest part of the San Juan
mountains between Montrose and the