Cheyenne record., 1918-08-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

residence ~ 1434 Larimer street, Den
yer. was arrested at Boulder by police
officers charged with violating the
state prohibition law. Mrs. McCaig's
suitcase. according to the authorities.
contained thirteen quarts Of whisky.
which she was bringing to Denver
from Wyoming. The whisky, she said.
was for an invalid brother, whose
name she refused to divulge. In JUS
tice Court Mrs McCaig was fined 5000
and costs and given sentence of
twenty days in the county Jail.
John F. Wallace of Leavenworth.
Kan, and Herbert r. Chase of Fort
Worth, Texas, army draft registrants.
confessed that they robbed the Craw-
ford State Bank at Crawford. Delta
county, Of $4,000 worth of Liberty
Bonds. Thrift Stamps and postage
stamps found in their possession when
arrested had been identified by Off
GERS of the bank at Glenwood Springs.
Names of candidates for the Repub-
lican and Democratic primaries to be
held Sept 10 were sent to county
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flee. The oertification in Denver went
to the city elections commission.
There are fifty-one state and county
candidates among the Republicans in
Denver. and forty-ohe Democrats. ac-
cording to the certification sheets.
Thrift Stamps to the total value of
$7,30O.000 have been sold outright in
the state since Jan. last, or pledged
to prospective purchasers under prom
ise to buy according to statement
1T War Savings headquarters. The
statement was supplemented with a re-
quest that those who have promised to
buy make good the pledge at the ear.
liest opportunity.
Announcement from Washington
gives the names of rural carriers ap-
pointed by the Postoffice Department.
Eric g. Erickson is appointed from
the Denver office to fill the. place Of
John W. Hart. At Atwood, Benjamin
M. Fish; Collbran, Asa o. Merrick;
Julesburg, George A. White, Kirk
Minor, A. Edman Rush and w. F. p.
Munnsey.A
Mrs. Kate Christie was killed. Mrs.
Albert Jones sustained . broken arm
and other injuries. and her 3-year-old
son Harold was internally injured
when the automobile driven by Albert
Jones left the road in Cliff Dwellers'
canon, near Manitou, and rolled down
a forty-foot embankment, crushing
Mrs. Christie and the Jones boy under
the car.
Colorado farmers in 1917 lost 1.160,-
900 bushels of grain through the use
of unclean and non-tested seeds and
because of preventable diseases. ac-
cording to resolution passed by the
Colorado Council of Defense, which
calls on growers to prevent a recur-
renee in future years.
AS war measure for protection OF
the public Governor Gunter will re-
quire certificates of approval from a
dehydration committee of the State
Council of Defense, which he has ap-
pointed, before incorporation papers
will be granted organizers of dehydra.
tion companies.
J. N. Bundick, chairman of the su.
gar division of the federal food admin.
istration for Colorado. announced
there was plenty of sugar for canning
and that twenty-five pounds could be
obtained by any housewife for canning
purposes.
Already $595,OO0 of the $500, 900
pledged to the Denver chapter of the
American Red Cross in the second Red
Cross drive has been collected. The
date for final payments of the pledges
expires in October.
Homer McCullah, graduate of the
Agricultural College at Fort Collins,
has been promoted to a captaincy in
the army camp to which he is at.
tached in California.
Mrs. Anna C. Hoffman, bride of
about a month, is suing her husband,
George Hoffman, at Loveland for di-
vorce
In accordance with the government
request for military training in the
schools and colleges, a unit of the stu
dents army training corps has been
established at the State University at
Boulder.
Roy w. Westercamp has been trans
ferred from Camp Travis, Tex, to
Camp John Wise. Tex Westercamp
was drafted in Denver July 25. He will
attend the balloon school at Camp
Wise.
Miss Loretta Tighe, former Love
l. l.
American forces in France serving
with the United States army as a den
tist.
The Missouri Society of Colorado
will hold patriotic basket picnic at
Washington park in Denver, Saturday
afternoon and evening. Aug. 81.
At Hayden the church bell will be