The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


of Defense have recently been organ
ized.
The state fish commissioner has d.
rected that 100000 trout fry be placed
in the creeks above La Veta.
A test oil we'll being sunk at the
Model mining camp in the Trinidad
district reached a depth of $50 feet.
Five special classes in agriculture
have been organized by the Logan
womens Council OF Defense this year.
Ten thousand dollars has been sub
scribed towards the erection OF an
alfalfa mill and mixing plant at Platte
Vile.
Mira. e. d. Smith of Durango is
chairman of the newly formed La
Plata county women's Council of De-
fense.
The largest consignment of trout fry
ever received for the Pixies Peak
streams arrived last week, $4,000 baby
trout.
Plans for a proposed $4,000 munich
pal auditorium have been drawn for
the approval of City Engineer Getty OF
Montrose.
Twenty-Five young men from Canon
City are known to be now in France
Three of them are second lieutenants,
one is a major.
Acting President Norlin of the Uni
versity of Colorado has been made a
member of the State Council of De-
fense by Governor Gunter.
County commissioners of Larimer
county have opened bids and awarded
contracts for nine bridges to be con-
structed at once, involving a cost of
$4,000.
The sun shone in Denver rs per cent
of the possible sunshine time during
the month of March. There were 28O
hours of real sunshine out of the 81
possible hours.
Miss Marion Crandall, sister of Mrs.
Richard NJ Greene of Pueblo, was
killed in France by the explosion of
a German shell near Red Cross field
hospital camp.
The Denver tourist and publicity bu-
reau received a telegram from the Chi
cago. headquarters stating that Mrs.
Emma Tollman East is in a hospital
at Sheboygan, Wis.
Colorado's apportionment of the
third Liberty Loan will be $2O,312,9OO,
which is $685. 400 less than the
amount of the subscriptions to the sec
ond loan in the state.
Rowland X. Goddard, United States
secret service agent, seized 1,600 iron
crosses in Denver that read ITO he'll
NIT der United States,' but as
camouflage could be construed to
mean ITO hel-mit der kaiser"
AS the result of the success of the
war garden movement in Denver last
year the State Agricultural College
faculty has decided to hold an "exten-
sion course" on gardens in Denver,
from April to 13, inclusive.
One thousand cards to register wom-
en- for war service have been asked for
by the Clear Creek county women's
been formed by Mrs. James Underhill
of Idaho Springs as chairman.
The Ouray Consolidated Reduction
Company has closed deal which adds
a third reduction mill to the machin-
cry that will be manned and started
this spring in the campaign to work
the rich dumps in that mining camp.
According to the official examina-
ton of the books of the treasurer's
office for the past twenty years, Jul
ius H. Clark, who was deputy state
treasurer for a fifth of century, was
short s50,911.5 so at the time of his
death.
Eighteen months in the federal pris-
on at Leavenworth, Kan, was the SEN
tence given to Charlie w. Huffman,
formerly pastor of a church at New
Palestine, Ohio, by Judge Robert e.
Lewis in the Denver Federal Court.
Huffman was convicted few weeks
ago of violating the Mann white slave
act. He brought Gladys Oberlander.
an 1S-year-old parishioner of his, to
Denver an dlived with her as his wife.
The will of Maj. William Cooke
Daniels, who died in Buenos Tires, Ar
gentina, March IS, was presented for
probate in the Denver County Court.
The will names but three legatees.
Cicily Banner Cooke Daniels, wife of
Major Daniels, now residing in Swift
zerland, receives one-half of the es-
tate; Florence Martin, daughter of the
late Sir James Martin, chief justice of
New South Wales, who has lived in
his family and been his wife's friend
for many years, being now with Mrs.
Daniels in Switzerland, receives one
fourth, and Charles MacAllister Will
cox, manager of the Daniels & Fisher
Stores Company in Denver, who also
receives one-fourth. The estate is
valued at S765,000.