The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-13
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

earned MS ChpldlnCy hI lue OlllCcIb
training camp at Fort Riley and al
most Immediately thereafter was sent
East and later to France.
Government attention to the Denver
& Salt Lake railroad is one Of the rec
concentrations made by the governor
to the director OF railroads, William
G.. McAdoo. as a war necessity. Proper
financial backing, or even control,
temporarily, by the government OF the
railroad would mean increased coal
production from 100000 tons during
1918 to 100000 tons, it was pointed
out.
The weight of heavy fall of snow
at Crested Butte, caused the roof of an
old two-story frame structure in which
Z. r. Won Kielgass was sleeping to col
lapse, burying him beneath eight feet
of snow and debris. rescue party
was formed and after several hours OF
digging, Kielgass was rescued, unin-
jured except for a few bruises.
The molybdenum fields near Climax.
SummitScounty, are considered the
largest known molybdenum mines in
North America. This enterprise was
only recently started. but it is estimat-
ed that the production of molybdenum
In Colorado will have reached ST..
600 per month by the middle of the
year.
Everything from "Victory" crackers
to pianos, imitation butter and vacuum
cleaners, pinto beans and Liberty
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matted milk and motor oils, and many
more exhibits greeted visitors to
Uncle Sans show in the Auditorium
in Denver.
After telephoning DR.. w. B. Collier
of Littleton that she had swallowed
poison, and refusing to say where she
was, Mrs. Ruth Reed, 81 years, of 321O
South Sherman street, Denver, found
her way to the Littleton hospital She
staggered into the hospital and was
Immediately given attention.
Colorado farmer boys who are in
camps receiving military training are
to be granted furloughs this summer
to assist in crop production, according
to Gov. julius G. Gunter, who returned
from Washington, where he had been
in conference for two weeks with
President Wilson and other officials.
The Humane Society has been asked
by the State Council of Defense to in
yestigate a report that herd of sheep
near Glenwood Springs is being neg
lected, causing losses in the meat sup
ply, and to prosecute the owner If in
vestigation warrants action.
"I'n be all right in a day or two.
and can get crack at the Kaiser yet. "
is what d. C. Hart of Montrose, ex-
claimed on gaining consciousness af-
ter being found in a dying condition
in one of the coke ovens near Crested
Butte.
Orders have been issued for all per-
sons who have more than thirty-day
supply of flour on hand to report to
the u. S. Food Administration in Den
yer or to the nearest county food ad-
ministrator OF his deputy before May
LIST.
John Schaedel, 80. was shot and in
stantly killed in the front yard of his
home in Denver by Edward Thompson.
who had gone to the house earlier and
found his wife, Minnie M. Thompson,
acting as housekeeper for Schaedel.
William E. Van Etten of Boulder,
who came to Colorado in his fifty
third year for his health, has cele-
brated his 101st birthday and remarks
that the climate of the state has GER
tainly done wonders for him.
Charles Alvin Davis, aged 10, sta
ton agent and operator for the Union
Pacific at Deer Trail, while kindling a
fire with kerosene, was burned SO that
he died from his injury at st. Luke's
hospital, Denver.
Walter A. Patterson, a salesman of
Denver, is seeking $4,000. he alleges
as damages from Charles Leftwich,
former member of the state Legisla-
ture, in suit on file at Fort Collins,
in which Patterson charges Leftwich
with alternating the affections of Pat
terson's wife.
The anniversary of the entrance of
the United States into the war was
celebrated at Breckenridge with spe-
cial services at Grand Army hall,
which opened the Liberty loan cam
paign.
George F. Phurmond, AZ, recruit
of the Ninth Company Of the general
service infantry, whose home is Falls
City, Neb., killed himself at Fort
Logan by cutting his throat with a
razor.
Children have been forbidden to at
tend any public meetings in Golden
until the present epidemic of scarlet
fever and measles or some disease that
resent bles each of them, is ended.
Provost Marshal John Evans called