The Elbert County tribune., 1918-04-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Cltlzeub Oh uliI nave FOteu laNOraDiy
on the issuance of $4,000 of water
works bonds.
The warehouse of the Grand juno
tion sugar factory was destroyed BY
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Ten dollars has been added to the
Golfers of the Denver chapter Of the
Red Cross through the sale of hen
and ten baby chicks.
Everything that can be done on the
broom corn situation to help farmers
in southeastern counties has been
done, Dr. Charles A. Lory has re-
ported.
They do honor to themselves and
to their state." That is Gov. julius
C. Gunter's verdict of the 341st field
artillery band that is touring the state
boosting the third Liberty loan.
More than $4,000 was raised for the
Red Cross at the minstrel show and
dancing party given by the Mountain
States Telephone Society. chapter No.
6. at Ell Jebel in Denver.
Colorado. though thirty-second in ra-
ito of population, has mounted, accord.
ing to the United States marine corps.
to thirteenth in proportion of enlist
ments for that branch of the service.
Gov julius Gunter of Colorado, an
nouncing that he would not permit the
Willard-Fulton championship fight,
suggested Berlin as the battling
ground for the fighters to show their
wares.
Ihe Baruch commission in Washing
ton, after conference with some of the
larger producers, has fixed the price
of lead at cents per pound, drop of
30 per ton from the settlement price in
Colorado.
The international "children's week"
will be observed in Denver May to
IL, when Sunday school workers Will
visit homes throughout the city, max
ing a survey of social and religious
conditions and securing the coopera-
ton of parents with teachers of the
church and the school.
at a meeting called by Judge Ira
Rothgerber. to which he invited execu-
tors. administrators, trustees, guard
ians and conservators of estates pend
ing in the County Court of Denver, in
the court room he succeeded in obtain
ing subscriptions to the third Liberty
loan amounting to $171,900.
Mrs. Florence M Doty is about the
only woman in Colorado engaged in
active mining operations. In the Lead
Vile district, where one metal comes
to the front when another recedes,
Mrs. Doty secured lease on a large
block in the Poverty Flats section, and
is installing plant of machinery at
the old Seeley shaft.
The surprise of the Russum-Keeler
$4,000 alienation suit was sprung in
Denver District Court before Judge
Harry S. Glass, when counsel for
Francis w. Keeler, Denver broker ac-
cused by Thomas Russum of breaking
up bis home in 1913, placed upon the
stand "the woman in the case" Mrs.
Jacquemena Russum.
Perry Van Gorder. general mechanic
at the Greeley plant Of the Great West
ern Sugar Company, was instantly
killed by the explosion of an air tank
in the plant. H. o. Banta, machine
foreman. lost his left hand and the
sight of his right eye. Thomas Hou-
ton, another employe, was rendered
unconscious. but his injuries were
slight. Banta will recover.
The Rev H. A. Schmidt, pastor of
the Evangelical Lutheran church of
the Missouri synod at Greeley, was
placed in jail as protection from cit-
zens, who threatened to lynch him.
The cause is ascribed to reported ut
terances in his pulpit when he is said
to have denounced the American Red
Cross and to have advised against buy
ing bonds in the third Liberty loan.
Work on the opening of the bitches
Of the Water Supply and Storage Com
pany at Fort Collins has commenced
"Spreading the News" a comedy.
was presented before the soldiers at
Fort Logan by the Stage Woman's
War Relief.
One hundred and forty-nine Denver
men will be sent to Fort Logan with
SAT others from various counties of
the state during the five-day period
beginning May 10 for training as
part of the second draft call, according
to orders issued by Provost Marshal
John Evans. Colorado's quota is a part
of the 49,S43 registrants that are being
sent to forts for training with regular
army units there.
Statistics compiled by the Colo
rado immigration Board indicate that
Colorado has passed the 100000 mark
In population. The exact total is l.
022,600. This is an increase of nearly