The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-08
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

killed Willard Cope last summer, was
convicted of second degree murder at
Akron.
Two machines, driven by NJ. Il. LAT
ferty of Leadvllle and NJ ]. Hedke OF
Denver hold the honor of being the
first to make the trip from Denver to
Leadville this year.
De Beque is preparing for big
building boom this spring as the devel-
opment of the oil shale field this year
is going to be enormous and DE Beque
is the center, according to reports.
Hundreds of residents of Fort Col
Inns turned out to see Lieut.. Otto f.
Benell, one of their home heroes, deco.
rated with the distinguished service
cross by order of the Secretary of War.
H. NJ. Watkins and Carl Sherry of
Merino We're arrested at Willard,
northwest of Sterling, when they
alighted from Cheyenne train with a
suitcase. 1t contained thirty-seven
pitts.
Five thousand dollars damage was
done and ten nuns were forced to flee
hurriedly in their night clothing when
fire caused by an overheated furnace
partly destroyed the school conducted
at Sterling by the Sisters of st. Fran
els.
Eleven hundred jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been obtain
ei through the Rocky Mountain Auto
Trades Association. This statement
was made by Harrison Goldsmith, sec
rotary, at the annual convention in
Pueblo.
A 15-year-old negro boy surrendered
to the police the other night at Pueblo
and asked that he be sent to the State
ReformatOry because he feared that
his mania for stealing anything he
could get his hands upon would finally
land him in the penitentiary.
Recruiting for the army is to begin
at once in Colorado and Wyoming.
Lieutenant Barney received instruc-
tons from the War Department to re-
sumo the task of finding men in the
Denver district to fill the standing
army.
DIR. Livingston Farrand of Colorado,
recently appointed chairman of the
central committee and eX-officio head
of the national executive committee of
the Red Cross, has assumed active
leadership of that body. DR.. Farrand
succeeds Henry =. Davidson.
Building is on the increase in Den
yer, judging by the number of building
permits issued for the month of Febru-
airy. During the last month permits to-
falling 141 and valued at $219,500 We're
issued. For the same month year
ago, 132 permits valued at $173,630
were taken out
Lieut. Edward Smith, Tiger quarter
back in 1915, has returned to Colorado
Springs from France, where he brought
down two German airplanes while
serving on the French front in the
American aviation forces. Smith will
re-enter colleges and will try out for
the football team next fall.
The Great Western Sugar Company
will build n Steffens plant in connec-
ton with its Fort Morgan factory
which will cost about 100000. The
work of construction will start in
April and material has already arrived
for the building, which will be COM
pleted for the fall campaign.
A banquet, reception and ball in
honor of the soldiers and sailors of
eastern Fremont county was given at
the Elks' home in Florence. The Cham
Der of Commerce gave the banquet and
the Florence lodge, No. GIL, b. Z. O.
Elks, gave the dance. The reception
was given by the citizens of Florence.
A. d. Kenyon and associates of Den
yer have bought in Red Mountain In
cline railway at Manitou from Richard
Clough of Colorado Springs. The con-
sideration was not made public, but it
is understood to be approximately 3d.
600. The sale includes the right of
way up Red mountain, the terminals
and all the cars and trackage of the
company.
Finding little to do since the cessa-
ton of hostilities the Women's Council
of Defense of Trinidad has formed it.
self into Community Welfare League.
The business men of the city have set
out to raise $1,000 as a sinking fund
necessary to equip the headquarters of
the organization. Late reports show
that considerably more than the de-
sired amount had been raised.
1t has become known at Leadville
that between 400 and 500 unnatural
lied aliens, most of them Austrians,
intend to return to their native land
as soon as the government lifts the
bars on emigration. THE minute the
government raises the bars, between
400 and 500 unnaturalized men in
Leadville district will start back to
Austria and Italy," stated Michael ID.