The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

teen AQAOIC0 anu tWcAhy ON~
Denver men were affected N Ameri-
cas- second drawing OF draft numbers
at Washington, the government lot
terry including all men who have at
tanned their majority since the first
draft drawing in 1917. These men,
who registered June in Denyer's nine
districts. are receiving their question
naires and win be classified soon, TAX
ing their places at the bottom of the
respective classes In which they are
to be placed by their boards.
Mrs Bette Dawson Green, daugh'
ter Of the late James A. Dawson, first
Judge of the Superior Court OF Colo
rado and surveyor general OF ths
state, died at her residence in Denver.
She was well known because of her
long service under Mayor H. V. John
son and later under Governors Shat
roth, Ammons, Carlson and Gunter al
executive clerk. Mrs. Green was born
in Frankfort. KY. In 1864 and came to
Denver in 1880.
A seven passenger motor car carry.
ing five well-known Denver persons
turned turtle in sardy stretch of the
road few miles south OF Larkspuf,
Colo, throwing the occupants out OF
the machine and instantly killing Mrs.
Helen Murray Niles. wife of Raymond
Niles, now in the q. s. navy on the
battleship Wisconsin, and slightly in.
Turing her three-year-old daughter.
and two others.
Passage of the bill recommended by
the director of reclamation service ap.
propriating s1S5,00O for the mainten.
ance, operation and continuance OF
construction of the Uncompahgre, and
s3is.000 for the Grand valley reclama'
tion project. guarantees that these i'm
portant irrigation enterprises of the
government will go forward without
interruption through the war period.
The University of Denver proposes
to establish, facing the Civic .enter in
Denver. Peoples Institute fer
Americanization." where courses Of In
struction will be offered every evening
In American history and American po-
litical ideals and American literature
In an assembly hall will be given ev-
cry night lectures and entertainments
for the education OF the public mind.
Lieut.. Robert R. Cooper. whose
name appears in General Pershing's
casualty list as having been seriously
wounded in action, is resident Of the
Stoneham district, in the extreme
eastern part Of Weld county. His par.
ents operate a ranch in that section.
Lieutenant Cooper won his commits
sion in the officers training school at
Fort Riley.
Initial steps in the city's fight
against the increase in telephone
rates In Denver were taken by James
A. Marsh, city attorney, when he filed
with the State Utilities Commission .
protest against the advance in tele-
phone rates in Denver authorized by
the commission, which he. charged the
board had no right to grant In the city
Of Denver.
Salary increases dating from July l
are coming to employees of the inter.
nal revenue office in Denver. The
commissioner of Internal revenue in
Washington is now working on a new
schedule to cover the various revenue
districts of the country, taking them
up one by one and trying to adjust
salaries to the living cost in the vari.
ous cities.
Under an order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the clocks in
Sterling were set back one hour after
2 a. m, June 80. This cancels the hour
recently gained under the daylight saw
ing plan. The order was issued when
the town was transferred from the
central time division to the mountain
time division.
Field agents will be put to work i'm.
mediately finding out the cost of mo-
tor truck hauls and other Information
as means OF establishing motor truck
routes to aid farmers Of the state.
Governor Gunter has granted an am
pie appropriation for the work to the
highway transport committee Of the
State Council OF Defense
Fire, possibly of incendiary origin.
destroyed the derrick, outbuildings
and all other property OF the Colum-
bine Oil Company's wildcat we'll, eight
cen miles northwest of Pueblo. Of
dcers of the company say that they
have no insurance to replace the loss.
which is estimated at $4,000.
S. Harrison White and William A.
Hill. the incumbents. and District
Judge John H. Denison have been So
lected as candidates for Supreme
Court judges by the Colorado State
Bar Association in its primaries. The
first-named two are Democrats. Judge
Denison Is . Republican.
The Boy Scout training camp. which
was recently organized about two
miles from Eldorado Springs. Is the
scene Of q great deal of intensive
training and Boy Scout activities and
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