The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-05
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


mer Congressman ii. ii. Seldomridge
of Colorado Springs, is dead from the
effects of poison.
Harry @. Chapman, manager OF a
mercantile agency at Colorado Springs,
who was struck by an automobile while
crossing street, is dead.
Teller county ranchers estimate that
$4,000 worth of cattle have died in
that county during the winter from
starvation and exposure, according to
stock growers.
There are in Colorado 257,SS4 chill
dren between the ages of and 20
years, according to the latest school
census. This includes 1924 boys
and 12S,641 girls.
The Rev. John ]. Shingler, former
pastor of Montrose, Colo, dropped
dead while in the pulpit of church
in Portland, Me-, according to a dis
patch received from there.
There is plenty of work in Weld
county for all returning soldier boys,
according to John W. Henderson,
chairman of the home service section
of the Red Cross at Greeley.
There are forty-four railroad COM
panies represented in Colorado, oper-
ating an aggregate of 5,5S6.96 miles of
main line track. Every county except
Baca has some railroad mileage.
All the bodies of the thirteen miners
have been taken from the Empire coal
mine at Aguilar, following the explO-
sion that entombed them. Twenty-Five
years ago to the day like explosion
occurred in this same mine, killing sew
eral men.
Thirty minutes after he had stolen
motor car from in front of "A resi-
dence in Colorado Springs, Burtch wy
lie, IS, was killed when the car turned
over on the Pueblo road. His death
rounded out days toll of motor acct
dents in which two persons were killed
and four injured in that vicinity.
Eihar Seastrand, Greeley boy who
was cited for distinguished service
while a private in the medical corps,
has returned home. On July is, 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 scissors sector.
Liquors and tobacco taxes from this
district, consisting of Colorado and
Wyoming, VIII be more than 100000,
according to Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector Charles o. Berry. Returns
had to be filed Mt the office or be in
the mail Wednesday night. Taxes on
liquor stocks in Wyoming were large
ly responsible for the amount of the
collections.
A. c. Ridgway, vice president of the
Rock Island Railroad Company, with
headquarters at Chicago, and Col. D.
B. 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 if there was a railroad con-
Meeting the San Juan basin with trans
continental lines to the south or west.
Colo, who died of disease on Feb. 8,
has been posthumously awarded 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 Yerdun, France, Oct. 9, 1918. Cor
poral Marshall voluntarily went for
ward to silence sniper who was pour
ing dangerous. fire into his position.
He crept through the brush for dis
lance of 300 yards and then crossed a
machine- gun-swept area, killing the
sniper with his rifle" .
A. G. Hamel, supervisor of the San
Isabel national forest reserve, has adj
vised the Chamber of Commerce of
Florence that he has received the mon
ey appropriated for improvements on
the Florence municipal camping
grounds in the South Hnrdscrabble
canon.
Mrs. William A. Campbell, wife of
prominent Colorado Springs physi-
clan, is the second victim of the sleep
ing sickness in that city. She has
been suffering from the ailment for
two weeks and has been conscious
only at brief intervals. The other vic
tim, Miss Bessie Nash, who has been
suffering for n month, is unchanged.
Attending physicians are not worried
over the condition of their patients
When registration day for the
spring quarter of Colorado State
Teachers College at Greeley arrived
eight young men students who are
keeping bachelors half appeared in
body at the desk of Miss Helen
Payne, head of the domestic science
department. I'VE want to learn to
cook" the spokesman said. "Will you
teach us?" So a male class of eight
in home economics was organized to
meet twice a week.