The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-12-20
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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Marine Corps. Among the dead OF
disease 10 Eben L. Smith. Denver.
Two missing in action are r.. S. Hoag.
Colorado Springs. and Frank b.
Clark. Lamar. The longest list 10 OF
those wounded severely in action. II
includes Paul n. Lodwick. Greeley
Jose S. Apodaca. Longmont: Guy H.
kennedy. Pueblo; Lee Curtis Kent.
Wellington; William Z. Mcmahon.
Opal; William J. Vennins, Denver.
Earle Z. Olney. Colorado Springs;
Harold J. Rogers, Denver; John r..
| Craft. Grand Junction: Carl f. Hart,
Denver: Carl Peterson, Victor; John
A. Mclaughlin, Denver; Channel vii
cox. Hastings: Horace C. Franklin.
Yoder; Roy Tallman. Parker, ana
Bernie o. Gilpatrick. Bowers. Among
the wounded. degree undetermined.
are Frederick Muhlenberg, Denver;
George s. Kirkpatrick, Akron, and
Chris Larsen, Victor. The following
are In the list of slightly wounded
in action: Neil W. Northey, Crook;
Thomas G. Galehouse, Denver: Alfred
D. Ash Haswell: Elmer +. Garner.
Denver; William NJ Lining, Kirk.
and Walter S. Wood, Denver
Seven more deaths among Colorado
soldiers are recorded in the lists OF
casualties made public by the War
Department Dec .16. Four killed in
action are Joseph Antrille, Williams
burg. Joseph Aloysius. Leadville:
George A Robbins, Grand junction,
and William r. Sands. Pueblo. Three
dead OF disease are Otto c. Dunbar,
Boulder. Roy c. Evans, Durango, and
| Wendell w. Jacobs, Carbondale. Two
missing in action are William o.
Kulbe Padroni. and Harold Caldwell.
| Denver. Among the severely wounded
In action are Lawrence Bert Wilson
MaIey; Bert w. Malin, Pueblo; Thane
| B. Smith, Denver, Joseph j Martello.
| Goldfeld; Homer F. Elliott, Eckert;
Benjamin Levitt, Denver, and William
| r. Isom, Brush The list OF wounded,
| degree undetermined. includes Alloy
| sius o. Kasel. Pueblo, and Ralph ia
| cober Hermes. The list Of slightly
wounded includes Ragnar Lofquist.
| Dillon. and Fred H. kalbfel, Pueblo
With the announcement that the
15sth infantry has been selected as
President Wilson's honorary body
| guard while in France comes another
| honor to Denver and Colorado. for
many men of the Centennial state are
among the soldiers under the COM
mand Of Col. E. T. Grinstead. This
regiment was formerly entirely COM
posed of troops of the Arizona Nation
al Guard which. with the National
Guard men of Colorado, were sent to
Camp Kearny to train. 1t was during
the training period that many Denver
men were transferred to the Arizona
unit At the signing of the armistice
they were slated for an early return,
but these plans were changed when
the selection for the Presidents guard
was made.
Eleven commissions in the Navy
were given to Colorado boys with the
closing of the training camp activities
at Quantico, Va The successful
youths are William Thomas Burrls,
Cyrus Moorehouse Birney and Webster
S. Rutledge of Denver; Randolph D.
Thomas. Boulder: Fred Clinton How
ard and Claude W. Geiser, Colorado
Springs; Charles Shaw cambridge,
Fort Morgan; Frederick C. Beibush,
Greeley; William X. Sheets, Iona;
Walter Bagley, Rouse: and Bert l.,
Beatty, Trinidad.
The Denver Tramway Company
was authorized by the Colorado utili-
ties commission to charge a fare of
I cents for adults and 312 cents for
children under u. Where a transfer
is issued an additional cent may be
charged.
Denver men returning from recent
trips to Idaho Springs and Central
City report a lot of new mining activ-
ity in that district, particularly in Rus
sell gulch, situated about half way be-
tween the two camps.
Approximately 300 soldiers stationed
at Fort Logan were examined Monday
for discharges from the service, and
upon receipt of authority from Wash
ington these men will be honorably
discharged and returned to the place
where they enlisted or were inducted
into the service. There are approx
mately 1,2OO men on duty at the fort
Mrs. Nancy E. Lamb, 81, of Denver,
has answered the call of the Woman's
Council Of Defense for rag rugs for the
recuperation camp by making and Civ
ing five of them. Aside from knitting
the rugs. Mrs. Lamb has made six
teen pairs of woolen socks for the
Red Cross. and assisted in getting do,
nations of clothes for the Belgians.
The work OF the boys of America
was praised and nerpetuat tion of the
Boys Working reserve demanded in
q number of addresses made before
the delegates to the Denver confer
ence of the leaders in the reserve
movement.