The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-11-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Denver printers have asked that
Nov. II be made . world holiday.
The gauze rooms OF the Red Cross
have been ordered closed until fur
| Their notice. according to word re-
ceived by the Denver chapter.
Patrolman Patrick William Dugan.
sc. late Of 514 Thirteenth street, Den
yer. died after sending a bullet
through his heart while in Q delirium
due to influenza.
Lightless nights are q thing OF the
past in Colorado. The coal situation
is such that w. J. Galligan. fuel ad
ministrator. has lifted the ban on the
two lightiess nights each week. The
curtailment OF street and window
lighting has been in effect almost con-
tinuously since Nov. 9. 1917.
There will be no inaugural ball early
next year. according to Governor
Elect O. H. Shoup. Mr. Shoup an
nounced that the money formerly Law
ished on this function was to be used
for Red Cross purposes and instead OF
the elaborate function that there
would be only simple ceremonies.
Three Colorado casualties are re
ported In the lists made public by the
War Department Nov II. They are
Corp Austin Draper, Grand Lake. died
Of wounds received in action; Cheste
A. Alstrum. Cripple Creek. killed in
action, and Harold H. Davidson. Pu-
eblo, dead Of disease.
The authorities at the State Agri.
cultural College at Fort Collins stated
that the institution will not be re.
opened until Nov. IS. The influenza
situation again became worse, TWEEN
weight new cases being reported
James NJ. Cole OF Aspen died Nov.
at the students training camp.
Twenty-six young men whose minds
had not been tuned up to concert
pitch for the grand symphony of evo-
luton now being played In unison
with the roar of cannon. walked out in
red-capped and red headed Indignation
when four women appeared among
them as porters at Denver's Union
station.
Following the verdict of a coroners
jury that Miss Mary Lareau came 10
her death as the result of an illegal
operation performed without warrant
of law, Miss Helen Stoughton has
been arrested. and Mrs A. De Foe
will be arrested. according to a state
ment made by District Attorney Will
liam E Foley of Denver
Influenza is raging among the
Southern Ute Indians at the Ignacio
agency, twenty-five miles south of Du-
range. One hundred cases are re-
ported among the 400 Indians on the
reservation and twelve deaths have
been reported No whites have died.
Ignacio is quarantined tightly against
either entrance or departure and all
stores have been closed
II you go to a Boulder picture, so
long as there is influenza in the land,
and sneeze or show the slightest indi-
cation that you have the disease, you
may expect the tap OF policeman on
your shoulder followed by a request to
leave. This ruling was decided upon
by the city health board to take effect
with the lifting Of the ban upon
amusements and public meetings.
AS bombs. the shrill OF factory
whistles and church bells tolled the
glad tidings of the end OF the worlds
war at 1915 o'clock Monday morning,
sleeping Denver arose from its leth-
argy. rubbed its eyes, swarmed onto
the streets and joined in a glorious
saturnalia Of noise. Joy and enthus-
| iasm at the announcement. following
| closely upon the heels of the Kaiser's
| abdication, that the most terrible war
| in all history has been brought to q
successful conclusion
Mrs. Mcdonald. wife Of Former Gov.
| ernor Jesse F. Mcdonald, died at her
home in Denver.
| Colorado elected "A woman as state
| superintendent OF public instruction
and two other women to the Legisla-
| ture.
Lieut.. J. H. Cover, former Denver
municipal golf champion. and one Of
| Colorado's most popular golfers, is
| credited with the honor OF having
| bombed the Kaiser. In letter to his
mother. Mrs. John H. Cover of Den.
! yer, Lieutenant Cover says that, &C.
cording to the official intelligence re-
| port, the night he bombed Mannheim
the Kaiser was paying an official visit
| to the town and had to take refuge in
| a cellar
The influenza epidemic brought
| down fully 300 persons within forty
eight hours the first Of the week in
the territory from Dolores and Monte
yuma on the west and Baca and
Prowers counties on the east, accord
ing to DR.. Erlo E. Kennedy, secretary
of the State Board of Health Lamar
has asked for medical assistance, and
the board has assigned DR.. J. H.
Moore Of Aurora to help care for the
900 cases in that community.