The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Boys working Reserve IN Noiorooo'
The camp is near Crowley. A school
principal of La Junta il supervisor OF
the camp. The boys buy their owA
food and pay their cook Most Of
them walk or ride bicycles to the
farms, which are near by. A few
farmers take the boys to work In their
autos. A second camp for boys who
will help in canning work il to be es-
tablished near Fort Lupton about
July IL.
Judge John |. Mullins in the Dem
yer West Side Court ordered jury
sitting in the trial OF Frank Mulligan.
former city detective convicted Of the
robbery OF Mrs. Irene Nolan and the
Rev. Garrett j. Burke formerly pas
tor OF the Holy Ghost Catholic church.
and Phillip Cohen. his accomplice, to
return 4 verdict Of not guilty on
charge that they had influenced Fan
chon Rose. a show girl. to leave Den
yer in order to escape testifying AZ
the roadhouse trial at Brighton.
Harry B. James Of Denver. superin-
tendent OF bridges and buildings for
the Colorado and Southern, was dan
gerously, II not fatally. injured, and
John Falk. roadmaster. was seriously
hurt when a motor handcar on which
they we're riding while inspecting the
roadbed and bridges suddenly left the
rails and plunged thirty feet to the
rocky bed Of Fossil creek. seven miles
south OF Fort Collins.
The death of two boys at Adobe
Park. near Salida. was one OF those
strange freaks not uncommon in the
mountains, where fearful lightning
comes down out Of q clear sky. Leon
ard Spence. aged II. was driving a
cultivator in a potato field. and Lyle
Spence. of Saguache. aged 8. was rid
ing and driving. The boy and horse
were all stricken, with the sun shin
ing and no storm in sight.
A statewide movement. probably
destined to become national, has been
launched in Denver for the military
training OF boys between the ages OF
16 and Is years They will be enrolled
in an organization to be known as the
Junior Colorado Reserves, and will
prepare to serve their state and coun-
try under drillmasters appointed by
Adj. Gen. Frank d. Baldwin.
The annual election Of the Colorado
conference OF Seventh Day Adventists
was held at Rocky Mountain lake.
where the annual camp meeting is in
progress w. A. Gosmer was re-elect-
ed president OF the conference and
all the other officers were reelected
with the exception that G. w. Angle
barger was chosen to fill the place OF
G. r. Pearson.
A company organized three years
ago at Colorado Springs is credited
with intention and financial backing
to put up distilling plant to treat
Colorado oil shale by use of patents
and processes of original nature, by
which the material is kept at a high
temperature a long time and thus
made to yield not only oil but various
by-products.
Line haul charges on Ignite coal
from Boulder and Weld counties into
Denver were announced by the Colo
RADIO Public Utilities Commission.
They are 65. so and SO cents a ton.
respectively. on lump. mine run and
slack, with 15-cent switching charge
to foreign lines where necessary, alb
sorbed by the railroads themselves.
At meeting in Denver Carl T. Hin
ton was elected secretary of the new
ly formed Colorado Development Fed
GRAFTON, organized for the purpose OF
unifying and protecting the states
industries in time of war and OF CO
ordinating their activities as service
to the country as well as for building
Colorado. in the future OF peace.
Leonard w. Stromberg, who IL re-
ported by the War Department to
have died of disease at the front in
France, was the son of Mr. and Mrs
William Stromberg. well known ranch
people residing six miles northwest
Of Wellington.
Michael Lynch, . nephew of the
Rev. Father David T. O'Dwyer, pas
tor of st. Patrick's Mission church
Denver, has been killed In action, 40
cording to an official casualty notice
received in Denver.
Three men are under arrest and .
fourth is being sought by the police
as the result Of q shooting affray IL
the North Denver Italian colony,
which cost the life Of Jasper Fata, Is
discharged soldier
The State Agricultural College will
give practical course in food con
servation for Colorado housewives al
the college in Fort Collins from July
to II. The only cost will be board
and . fee of u.
Sallie B. Lamb. the 9-year-old daush.
ter OF Mrs. A. L. Patten, was accident.
ally shot and killed at Salida BY Har.
old Kellogg, 16, son of Mrs. Roy Kel.
logg.