The Elbert County tribune., 1918-04-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Council of Defense against low prices
4for broom corn that they are being
Noffered. They contend that buyers
are trying to force them to sell for
800 or 5000 a ton when as a fact the
corn is worth from 5000 to $500 a ton.
\A ]. Turner OF Canon City is the
new chairman of the Fremont county
Council of Defense which now has one
OF the best war organizations in the
state and Is carrying on a campaign of
patriotic education in all school dls
tricts of the county.
That Denver is one of the most
healthful cities in the United States
is the information contained in fed
eral census report published In Wash
ington, the official statistics credit
ing Denver with only fifteen deaths
annually in each 1000 of population.
Six hundred and six registered
nurses have enrolled to date with the
State Nurses Survey Board OF the
State Council of Defense. In addition
200 Red Cross nurses have been en-
rolled and 10s graduate nurses who
are not registered.
Seven hundred and sixty-four Den
yer boys in the service of Uncle Sam
have taken advantage of the city's
generosity in offering to pay the pre-
MUM for one year on $1,000 of gov
ernment insurance carried by any
Denver Sammy.
John Gallouaghy, 71-year-old al
legged miser, was. found dead in his
squalid room at 1452 Blake street in
Denver. and in his coat pocket de-
tectives found bank book showing
$6.0O1 to his account in a Denver
bank.
Charles Davis, telegraph operator
and station agent for the Union Pacif-
ic railroad at Deertrail, died at Mercy
Hospital, Denver, as result of burns
received while attempting to light
Signal lamps in his station.
colorado residents will be expected
to eat and buy 70,0O0,0 pounds of
potatoes during the week of April 22
to 27. and Buy EN-. Eat EN-" will
be the slogan that week of the State
Food Administration
Pedro Jimenz, a Mexican of Erie,
As years old, shot and killed his COM
mon-law wife, Frances Alva, after the
woman had refused to make up after
quarrel and had threatened to leave
the man.
John Gazoni, Tyrolean, was made
to kiss the flag at Crested Butte by
crowd of citizens after he had refused
to place some tobacco in box which
is to be sent to the American soldiers
in France.
DR.. Charles L. Mead. pastor of
Trinity Methodist church in Denver,
who joined the Y. M C. A. war serv-
ice, has arrived safe in France, ac-
cording to word received by Mrs.
Mead.
William B. Milliken, prominent as
mining engineer In Colorado, was
charged with cruelty in suit for di-
ytrce filed in Denver by Mrs. Mill
ken, prominent socially in Denver
Members of the carpenters union of
Fort Collins are now receiving 10
cents an hour for their labor-an in
crease of 25 per cent over the wages
heretofore paid them
The Ell Paso County Women,s Coun-
Gil of Defense has made a report to
the Woman's State Council of Defense
showing many splendid accomplish
ments in war work.
An investigation of the broom corn
market to aid farmers of southeastern
counties in getting proper prices for
their stocks of broom corn is being
made.
Col. VIM. L. Guthrie of the 309th
Engineers died at Camp Zachary Tay-
lor. KY. after brief illness with pneu-
monia. His home was at Rocky Ford.
The fire at Mosca was more serious
than heretofore stated, destroying the
pQstoffice, Irwin Blacksmith shop and
Social hall. Loss $4,000.
1t is stated that active preparations
for mining are being made at the old
camp of Bonanza. The Copper Queen
mine is to be worked.
Farmers in the Black Hollow dis
trict near Windsor are putting over
5000 feet of tilling in the lateral ditch
supplying their lands.
In the newly organized Industrial
Association Rocky Ford now boasts
one of the livest commercial associa-
tions in the state
Grand Junction and Mesa county
sent away twenty-one cases of clothing
for Belgians and French, there being
3,700 articles.
The department of the Woman's
State Council of Defense on women
in industry has divided its work into
six divisions.
The Bertha B. mine on Raven hill
is now on the shipping list.