The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Gerald B. Seldomridge, son of for
mer Congressman H. H. Seldomridge
Of Colorado Springs, is dead from the
effects of poison.
Harry c. Chapman, manager of
mercantile agency at Colorado Springs,
who WAS struck by an automobile while
crossing ii street. is dead.
The source OF much Of Telluride's
bootleg supply was discovered when
officers raided room in the business
section and discovered a lively young
still in operation.
There are in Colorado PSI, ,SS4 chill
dren between the ages of 8 and 20
years, according to the latest school
census This includes l29,234 boys
and l2s, ,641 girls.
What is believed to have been the
only possum at liberty in Colorado was
captured at the home OF l. H. Burr. su-
periniendent of Green Mountain GEM
etery at Boulder
Alfred T. Bell was elected mayor
OF Englewood in the city election at
Englewood He is head Of the Tax
payers ticket Bell won by a vote
OF approximately l.
DIR. J. A. Jeannottee. Democrat, was
elected mayor OF Leadvilie. over Hyde
Heller. Republican. in one Of the quiet
est elections ever held in that city.
The Republicans elected five of the
six city aldermen.
approximately 2,5OO0OO acres Of
excellent agricultural land in Colorado
would be irrigated. in addition to that
now being watered. IL all partly con-
structed irrigation systems in the
state were completed.
The Republicans carrier the city
election in Trinidad by the heaviest
vote in recent years. E. d. Wright
was elected mayor by l,10S majority.
The present city officials, with no pol
itics. were all reelected at Sterling.
Benjamin Fowler, 18-year-old son OF
Mr. and Mrs T. f. Fowler. ran away
from home at Colorado Springs. He
was killed near Peabody. Kan, when
he fell from a passenger train on
which he was taking a ride and pass
ing freight struck him.
With a ma jority of two to one, the
two improvement bond issues carried
at the election in LongmOnt. One is
for So. 1000 for park work and the 9th
er for 5000 for new city hall. On
ly one city ticket was in the field and
Mayor Ray Fl. Kitely was reelected.
Thirty minutes after ne had stolen
motor car from in front OF resi-
dence in Colorado Springs, Burtch Wy
lie, IS, was killed when the car turned
over on the Pueblo road. His death
rounded out a days toll of motor acci-
dents in which two persons We're killed
and four injured in that vicinity
Promotion from the rank of major
to that of lieutenant colonel has been
awarded to DIR. Rae p. MCGEE of Den
ver who served through the st. Mihiel
and Argonne, fighting with Mobile
hospital No /, and was twice cited for
its record in caring for the wounded.
Colonel MCGEE is still in France. but is
expected home soon.
Corp. Leroy F. Marshall OF Simla,
Colo, who died of disease on Feb. 8,
has been posthumously awarded a dis
tinguished service cross, according to
announcement made by the War De-
partment. The citation accompanying
the service cross reads as follows ::
For extraordinary heroism in action
near Verdun, France. Oct. Q. 1918. Cor
poral Marshall voluntarily went for
ward to silence Il sniper who was pour
ing dangerous fire into his position.
He crept through the brush for dis
tance of 800 yards and then crossed a
machine gun swept area, killing the
sniper with his rifle"
Eihar Seastrand. a Greeley boy who
was cited for distinguished service
while n private in the medical corps,
has returned home. On July 1S, 1918,
young Seastrand was cited for aiding
; wounded men under the most dis
tressing conditions and while subject
to heavy shell and machine gun fire"
in the Soissons sector.
A. c. Ridgway. vice president of the
, Rock Island Railroad Company. with
l headquarters at Chicago, and Col. D.
h. X. Sellers Of Albuquerque, have
. made tour of inspection throughout
the San Juan basin, securing data as
to possible tonnage that could be fur
nished II there was railroad con-
, Meeting the San Juan basin with trans
continental lines to the south or west.
Returns from the Colorado Springs
election show the first use Of the re-
, call in Colorado against Il city official
has failed, and Mayor Charles E.
: Thomas was reelected by about 500
! Inajority over Charles Chapman, who
was the opposition candidate and
: headed the recall ticket filed by tho
, labor factions Of the city, who waged