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AEOUT THE WAR
British airmen drop tons of bombs
upon Zeebrugge, Oat end and Bruges.
Germany is seeking to obtain
island near United States for sub
marine pase.
Russians near Kovel and in the
Carpathian mountains defeat the Ger
mans.
An Austrian torpedo boat was tor
pedoed and sunk by a hostile subma
rine in the northern Adriatic.
Closer union of Central powers is
made under organization of “Federa
tion of central European empires.”
French official statement declares
that the Germans lost more than
52,000 prisoners during the French
and British driveß against German
lines.
Unusual activity is shown by avia
tors and several desperate air bat
tles have been fought, the French in
two days bringing down six German
airplanes and one captive balloon.
Ivondon papers figure that 713 aero
planes were shot down on the west
ern front in May, of which 442 were
German and 271 British and French.
The total air losses in April were esti
mated at 709.
According to information received
by the Norwegian Legation at Lon
don, forty-nine Norwegian steamships
with a gross tonnage of 75,397, were
sunk in May. Twenty five lives were
lost.
The French steamship Yarra, 4,163
tens gross, was torpedoed and sunk in
the Mediterranean on May 29. Of the
690 persons on board thirty-six are
missing, including eight Arabian fire
men.
A combined land and sea engage
ment was fought off the West Flan
ders coast. British warships bom
barded the German base of Ostend,
the admiralty announced. At the same
time British cruisers and destroyers
engaged a German fleet at long range,
sinking a torpedo boat.
Germans gained a foothold in ad
vanced trenches near Moulin de Laf
faux. French artillery fire checked
German efforts against hill 304, Ger
mans suffering heavy losses. In
creased artillery firing in the Ypres
sector in Belgium. London and Ber
lin comment on activity of heavy guns
in that region. British capture during
May 3.412 Germans and one large Ger
man gun. In April the British took
more than 19.000 prisoners and 257
large guns and howitzers.
WESTERN
About 100,000 registered in Colorado.
Chicago’s Liberty army headed for
the colors 300,000 strong.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers has subscribed for $500,000 of
Liberty Loan bonds.
Early indications point to a regis
tration of 25,000 in Wyoming while
the estimated quota was only 18,200.
The Carranza government has is
sued an embargo on all foodstuffs
and cattle from being shipped from
Mexico to the United States.
The largest purchase of Liberty
Loan bonds in Chicago thus far made
was recorded when the Fields sub
scribed for $4,500,000 worth of the
war securities.
The Chicago Board of Trade direct
ors fixed a maximum price for corn
as was done with wheat several
weeks ago. The price fixed was $1.65
on all contracts of corn for future de
livery.
A nationwide search for Lloyd Keet
the 14-months-old boy kidnapped from
liis parents' home at Springfield, Mo.,
was begun. Pictures of the child
have been sent to all parts of the
country by his father.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Lane outlined reasons for
war with Germany.
Italian war mission indefinitely
postpones tour of United States.
Business conditions throughout me
United States reported excellent.
Contracts have been awarded to an
American firm for the construction of
a two- squadron aviation field in
France, where American army flyers
will receive final preparation before
taking their place at the front.
Regular army recruiting established
a new daily record June 5 when 4,201
men were obtained as against an av
erage daily figure of 1,500 since Apr. 1.
“This nation was kept united for
the great world-purpose it was meant
to serve,” President Wilson told the
United Confederate Veterans at their
convention.
Secretary McAdoo left for New
York, the first stop on his second
speaking tour in behalf of the Lib
erty loan, which will iaclude the East
ern, Mlddlewestern and Southern cit
ies.
FOREIGN
Vice president of China presented
his resignation.
Zeppelin route from Hamburg to
Constantinople is planned.
Gen Michael V. Alexleff, command
er in-chief of Russian armies resigned.
Austrians made a furious attack on
the Italians, gaining ground, but were
driven back with heavy losses by a
counter attack.
Eleven provinces of China, includ
ing the prorvince of Chi Li. in which
Peking is situated, no longer recog
nize the authority of ths Peking gov
ernment.
Marshal Joffre has been designated
by the minister of war to continue
his work, begun in Washington, of
assisting to organize American partic
ipation in the war.
China is now in the hands of a dic
tator, and a provisional government of
militarists has been formed. President
Li Yuan Hung is held virtually a pris
oner at Peking and is expected to re
sign forthwith.
Italy's offensive in the Isonzo bat
tles of the last nineteen days ha 9 cost
her 160,000 in killed and wounded and
20,000 in prisoners taken by the Aus
trian forces, an official statement
from Vienna asserted.
Details of the heroic action which
recently won a citation in the order*
of the day for George Struby, an
American college man from Denver,
are revealed in the official war of
fice citation published in Paris.
A program for the general dismem
berment of Russia was put forward
at a meeting at Essen of the newly
formed Rhenish-Westphalian branch
of the independent committee for a
German peace, the organization of the
Pan-Germans.
The Council of Soldier*' and Work
men’s delegate* at Petrograd sent a
long statement to th* Socialist parties
and central federations of trade
unions of the world repeating Its ap
peal of March 28th to the peoples of
the world to unite in resolute actions
In favor of peace.
By a vote of 453 to 55 the Chamber
of Deputies, in secret session at Paris,
has adopted a resolution declaring
peace conditions must Include the lib
eration of territories occupied by Ger
many, the return of Alsace-Lorraine
to France and Just reparation for dam
age done In the Invaded regions.
SPORTING NEWS
Standing of Western I.eague (laba.
CLUBS— Won. Lost Pet
De» Moines 25 15 .62$
Lincoln 24 17 .686
Sioux City 22 18 .560
Omaha 22 19 .517
Joplin 20 18 .526
Denver 18 18 .600
St. Joseph 13 23 .361
Wichita 12 28 .100
Officials of the Women's Western
Golf Association decided to set apart
the week of June 24th for Red Cross
play.
The 4-year-old Transvaal-Ethei
Simpson colt King Corin, owned by
E. L. Baker & Co. of Lexington, Ky.,
won the fifth renewal of the Kentucky
handicap at Douglas park at Louis
ville by a neck from John W. Schorr’s
3-year-old Broomstick colt Cudgel.
Half a length back was Andrew Mil
ler’s Roamer, which made hi 9 third
try for the event.
Final tribute of this country to the
memory of James (Les) Darcy,
the pugilist, who died in Memphis,
was paid at San Francisco when the
body was escorted through the prin
cipal thoroughfare to a steamer to
sail for Australia. The casket was
draped with the colors of the United
States and Australia, and there were
many flowers from various parts of
the country.
GENERAL
Maximum price on corn is placed by
Chicago Board of Trade.
By an order of the general staff of
the army issued at Havana the 25,000
militiamen enlisted for service in put
ting down the recent revolution are to
be mustered out.
The Russian bark Imberhorne of
1,958 tons gross, from Mobile, Ala.,
March 18, for Greenock, Scotland, was
sunk by a German submarine on May
Ist, off the west coast of Ireland.
Tornadoes, high wind and heavy
rains through portions of Kansas and
Missouri Tuesday night caused ten
deaths and injury to many persons.
Much property and crop damage re
sulted.
Prohibition for the period of the
war was advocated in New York at a
meeting held under the auspices of
the American Medical Association’s
Committee on the treatment of alco
holism and narcotic addiction.
Without a semblance of disorder
and with every evidence of willing
ness to serve, approximately 600,000
of New York’s sons went to 2,123 reg
istration places and inscribed their
names upon the nation’s roll of honor.
Brazil was forced to break her neu
trality because Germany was virtually
declaring war on all Latin-America,
according to a formal note of explana
tion forwarded all nations except the
central powers by the foreign min
ister.
That the whole Western hemisphere
will be directly engageed. in the war
before another year passes was the
statement made by John Barrett, di
rector of the Pan-American Union, In
a speech on the Liberty loan before
a mass meeting of Baltimore churches.
The police announced In New York
they had information that the head of
the German wireless system came to
this country, made plans regarding
outfits and other details through
which information was to be conveyed
to Berlin, and then departed, probably
for Mexico.
THE IDAHO SPRINGS SIFTINGS-NBWS.
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western N««»t»p«r Union News Service.
COMING RVENTS.
June 16. —Annual Strawberry Festival
and Carnival at Glenwood Springs.
June 21-22- Christian Endeavor Con
vention at Kallda.
June 18-25—Red Cross Week.
Aug. I—National Convention ot Afri
can Race at Denver.
Bept 17-22—Colorado State Fair at Pu
• blo.
Nearly 25,000 registered in Denver.
At Colorado Springs 1,760 registered.
Supreme Court ordered that Lawson
be given new trial
Pueblo chapter, American Red
Cross, reports 5,721 members.
Vineland residents protest against
bad roads and threaten recall.
Pueblo women plan service to be
rendered during present war.
You can volunteer, although regis
tered. at any time before the draft
selection.
Reports show that Colorado's crops
are in good condition except being
delayed by cool weather.
The Masons had charge of the bur
ial of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
on Lookout Mountain on Sunday.
Two carloads of high-grade ore have
been taken out of the new strike In
the Doctor mine, Gunnison county.
Patriotism and order marked regis
tration day in Colorado, when 100,000
young men enrolled for selective serv
ice.
A company is being organised at
Las Animas for the purpose of build
ing an alfalfa meal mill at Melina
station. -x.
The labor shortage In Colorado is
becoming acute in all lines of indus
try and will be intensified when con
scription goes into effect.
The Methodist Church of Barnum
makes the claim of being the first
church organization in Denver to ar
range for the purchase of a Liberty
bond.
The decision of the District Court,
convicting Dr. Noble O. Hamilton, a
Denver physician, of performing a
criminal operation, was affirmed by
the Supreme Court.
Colorado has raised $40,000 of the
$50,000 fixed as the quota for the state
in the Y. M. C. A. campaign to obtain
$3,000,000 to aid the civilian welfare
work to be done for soldiers.
Resolutions repudiating the action
of a committee purporting to act for
them in a demand for an increase of
wages was adopted at a meeting of
the Denver Tramway Brotherhood, at
tended by 450 employes of the com
pany.
Manager R. W. Coates of the Fanny
Rawlings mine at Leadville reports
that high-grade gold ore is still being
extracted from the rich vein that was
encountered in the property two
weeks ago and that two shipments
have been made.
Enrollments in the Fifth National
Service School of the Women's Sec
tion of the Navy League at Denver,
under the direction of Mrs. Alexander
Sharpe, have been pouring in. The en
rollment books close June ISth. Near
ly a hundred have joined.
A guard will be stationed at the
grave of Buffalo Bill until the monu
ment in his honor is raised on Look
out mountain. Night and day a force
of police will be maintained to pre
vent curio and memento seekers from
committing acts of vandalism.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
ination to be held at Pueblo on July
14th, as a result of which it Is ex
pected to make certification to fill a
contemplated vacancy in the position
of fourth-class postmaster at Beulah.
That all the Masonic lodges of Den
ver, together with those of Golden, Ar
vada and Littleton, will unite on June
21st in celebrating the 200th anniver
sary of the founding of the grand
I lodge of England, was announced by
j the Masonic Officers’ Association.
| which has arrangements for the cele
; bration in charge.
The Denver & Rio Grande tracks at
Seventeenth and Wvnkoop streets in
Denver, used by the company for
switching purposes, must be torn up
in compliance with city ordinance No.
34. to give way to a loop to be built
by the Denver Tramway Company.
That was the decision of the Colorado
Supreme Court.
On confession of error by the attor
ney general, two of Colorado’s famous
murder cases were reversed by Su
preme Court decisions. The action of
the court practically releases John R.
Lawson, charged with slaying John
j Nimmo in 1914. The other man who
i was convicted of murder during the
j trouble in the southern Colorado coal
I fields was Louis Zancannelli, who was
accused of slaying a detective hired
by a coal company. Zancannelli’s case
was reversed because the attorney
general confessed errors.
That the late Mrs. Mary Luthe
signed away her $30,000 estate under
the direction of the “spirits” of her
dead father and mother, and that she
made Mrs. Mary E. Holland and Etta
Dunfee, through whom she received
messages purporting to come from her
parents, the chief beneficiaries undei
her will, to the exclusion of relatives,
are among the charges contained in a
caveat to the will filed in the County
Court in Denver.
John R. Lawson has accepted a po
sition as labor agent for a mining
company.
MASTER SCOUT BURIED
LAST TRIBUTE PAID TO MEMORY
OF BUFFALO BILL.
Ten Thousand Attend Services on
Mountain Top When Body la
Placed in Last Resting Place.
TT X««npiip*r I'nlun New* Service.
Denver. —Last tribute was paid
Sunday, June 3d, by a vast assem
blage to the memory of Col. William
F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) when the body
of the famous scout and plainsman
was laid to rest in a grave blasted
from the solid rock on top of Lookout
mountain, twenty miles from Denver.
More than 10,000 people went from
Denver to Lookout mountain by auto
mobile and electric train. For four
hours before the ceremony at the
grave there was a steady procession
of automobiles winding up the moun
tain side toward the summit, far
above the plateau on which Denver
is situated. More than 2,000 persons,
it was estimated, who had gone by
trolley to Golden, at the foot of the
mountain, climbed steep trails or
trudged along the automobile road to
Wildcat Point, where the burial was
held.
Tha ceremony at the grave was not
elaborate, only the Masonic ritual be
ing used, and was under the direction
of the Golden Masonic lodge. A dele
gation of Knights Templar from
North Platte, Neb., where Col. Cody
held his membership, acted as an es
cort for the body at the grave.
As the last shovelful of earth was
thrown into the grave a bugler sound
ed taps. When the last note had died
out a battery of Coloradp National
Guard artillery fired a salute of thir
teen guns. As the last shot ceased
reverberating among the mountains,
the Stars and Stripes broke out from
a flag pole at the grave and the burial
oeremony was ended.
Brains Mexican for Attacking Wife.
Greeley.—G. Valdes, a Mexican, is
in the Greeley hospital with a gaping
wound in his head, made by the sharp
edge of an axe wielded by Thompson
Epperson, proprietor of a hotel here.
Epperson is tentatively under arrest
on the charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. Valdez is not expected to
live. The attack arose out of an al
leged affront by the Mexican upon the
19-year-old wife of Epperson while a
guest at the hotel. It is claimed that
the Mexican attempted to force Mrs.
Epperson into his bed room and when
she screamed and told her husband of
the attempt, Epperson ordered the
Mexican from the house, offering him
back the money he had paid for the
room, but the man refused to go and
showed fight. The proprietor then
picked up an axe and struck him a
blow on the head that opened the
skull and exposed the brain. Epper
son then gave himself up to the of
ficers.
Complete Company Mustered In.
Denver. —John A. Martin of Pueblo,
former congressman, in charge of en
listment there for the Colorado Na
tional Guard, wired the adjutant gen
eral he had mustered in one complete
company and expected to muster in
two more. Mr. Martin will have com
mand of one company. Two detach
ments from Troop A of the cavalr>
were sent out for guard duty at Red
Cliff and Cafion City.
Three Jailed at Spies at Glenwood.
Glenwood Springs.—Three men sus
pected of being German spies and car
rying with them films of tunnels and
the big Shoshone dam near Buena
Vista, were arrested at the dam and
brought to the Jail here. The arrest
was made by members of the Colorado
Guard, who had been retained in the
federal service, and who were com
manded by Capt. Joseph Lill of Rocky
Ford.
Swedish Pastor Named Chaplain.
Colorado Springs.—Rev. A. R. Hed
strom, pastor of the Swedish Evangeli
cal Lutheran church, has been ap
pointed a chaplain in the army, ac
cording to word received from the
War Department at Washington. Rev.
Hedstrom has lived here a number of
years and his church has the largest
Swedish congregation of any In this
section of the state.
Bumper Crops in San Luis Valley.
Pueblo. —The San Luis valley and
parts of northern New Mexico will
have the first 100 per cent fruit crop
in several years, according to Infor
mation received here. Indications
point to record crops in all branches
of farming in the district with par
ticular emphasis laid upon the fruit,
which is in better shape than In many
years.
Values to Be Made Uniform.
Greeley.—County assessors of all
northern Colorado counties w’ill have
a uniform valuation on irrigated land,
live stock and other property, and
this assessment will be acceptable to
the State Tax Commission.
Sixteen Chickens From Fifteen Eggs.
Greeley. —A record-breaking hatch
for a setting of eggs was secured by
Mrs. A. L. Talbot, a farm woman hav
ing a place near here. Sixteen chicks
from a setting of fifteen eggs is re
ported by her, one of the eggs pro
ducing healthy twins from a double
yolk.
Youth Is Killed by Train.
Alamosa —Henry Lewis, employ* of
the Rio Grande railroad here, was
knocked from a freight transfer plat
form. falling under a moving train.
REGISTRATION OF
TEN MILLION MEN
SHOWS YOUTHS OF THE NATION
READY TO DO PART IN DE
FENDING LIBERTIES.
READY FOR SELECTION
COLORADO GIVES HER QUOTA OF
100,000 ELIGIBLES FOR UNI
VERSAL SERVICE.
WMltro Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver, June 9. —Registration fig
ures from nineteen counties out of six
ty-three in Colorado had been received
by midnight Wednesday night by Pro
vost Marshal John Evans. They show
that, outside of Denver, 23,401 persons
had registered. The official figures
for Denver were given as 18,468, and
It is believed the number in the state
will exceed 100,000.
Washington.—Although the com
plete returns officially reported from
a few states Wednesday night fall be
low the Census Bureau's estimates ol
the number of men from 21 to 3C
years old, the administration is still
confident that more than 10,000,000
men answered tae call of the nation
June 5.
Provost Marshal General Crowdei
announced that he expects to bt
ready in about ten days to proceed tc
the drawing by lot of the names of the
men In each state from which the lo
cal and district exemption boards will
select those who are to go into the
army and those who are to remain be
hind engaged in industry and agricul
ture.
Complete returns so far received
compared with the census estimate in
each Btate follow: Census
State— Registered. Est.
Wisconsin 218.700 229,89<
New Jersey 302,868 306,362
Dlst. of Columbia 32,327 36.93 C
Delaware 21,864 29,82$
Vermont 27.658 36,826
It is expected that the deficiencies
In the registration in these states will
be more than offset by registration in
excess of census estimates In many ol
the larger states. It is estimated, foi
example, that 950,000 men registered
in Pennsylvania although the Census
Bureau estimated that there were not
more than 879,378 males of the re
quired age in the state.
Incomplete returns from Michigan
place the registration at approximate
ly 325,000 compared with the census
estimate of 328,154.
“Registration marks the completion
of the first well-defined step in the
execution of the selective servlos
law.” said General Crowder.
"The actual recording ha i been prac
tically finished in a single day but tne
arrangement and copying of the cards,
their segregation into appropriate
groups, the publication of lists and
the garnering in of delayed regions
will consume a week or ten days.
“In the meantime the machinery of
the registration is being readjusted to
serve as machinery for the further ex
ecution of the law. This work is pro
ceeding rapidly and should be com
pleted coincidentally with the tying
up of the loose ends of registration.
‘‘When this is all done regulations
governing the Jurisdiction of the local
boards will be issued and the machin
ery will then be ready to proceed to
the drawing which will result In a de
termination of tne order in which reg
istered men will be examined for the
purpose of their selection for military
or industrial service.
“When this list of order is deter
mined it is expected that the War De
partment will be able to make a defi
nite call for men, and as soon as this
data is available the quotas necessary
to fill the first call will be assigned
to the several states.”
About 25,000 Register in Wyoming.
Cheyenne —The registration under
the compulsory service act was ac
complished in the 595 precincts of
Wyoming without a single untoward
incident. The young men of the state
flocked to the registration points In
such numbers that the registration
supplies furnisued many precincts
were inadequate. Instead of Wyo
ming’s estimated quota of 18,200, It
now appears probable that 25,000 men
were registered in the state. Com
plete Wyoming returns will not be
available for several days because of
the remoteness of scores of precincts
from county seats.
San Juan Registers Fifteen Per Cent.
■ . 'iwwn rcr v*eni.
Silverton —The total registration of
San Juan county was 380, approxi
mately fifteen per cent, of the popula
tion. The day passed quietly.
Wine and Beer Tax Stands.
Washington —The Senate commit
tee decided not to change the House
war-taxes on wine and beer, estimat
ed to yield respectively 16.000,000 and
$37,500,000. Present ratea are doubled
substantially by the House bill.
Changes in tobacco ratea previously
announced were formally adopted by
the committee excepting that it in
creased the tax on clgarattas to $2.00
a thousand for those weighing less
than three pounds a thousand and to
$4.80 for those above that weight
STATE CAPITOL
NEWS
Wastern Newspaper Union N«wi Service.
PERFECT DEFENSE BOARD.
Governor Gunter Telle Members of Ad
visory Committee of Importance
of Work.
Denver. —Forty women met in the
Senate chamber at the statehouse and
perfected the organization of the wom
en's advisory board to the governor's
war council. They came away im
pressed with the seriousness of the
tremendous task undertaken, and
determined to spread propaganda that
will everywhere stimulate the produo
tion, conservation and transportation
of all of life’s necessities.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs. W. H. Kistler, chairman of the
advisory board, following which Gov.
Julius C. Gunter addressed the wom
en. Later a number of committees
were appointed to carry forward the
work of organizing every county in
the state, as suggested by the gover
nor, and in large measure carrying out
the ideas of the woman’s committee
of national defense in 'Washington.
The women also decided to co-oper
ate with the Women's Volunteer Poll
Tax Association, organized several
weeks ago, believing that the princi
ple of getting women to subscribe a
poll tax would greatly stimulate the
many phases to be undertaken by the
advisory board.
Governor Gunter told the women of
the great value their services would
be in helping to see that no crope
were wasted, the protection they could
give through proper legislation to the
women and children* and the good
that would come from their practical
economy in all foodstuffs, fuel and
other necessities.
He suggested that tha women ap
point a legislative committee to co
operate with a similar committee of
men on the governor's war council. He
urged that the poll tax for women be
considered by them, and that they
help In every way to formulate the
general plans of the war council to
prepare places for storing fruits and
crops to forestall hardship and suf
fering In Colorado and the country
next winter.
Officers chosen were as follows:
Mrs. W. H. Kistler, chairman; Mrs.
Alva Adams, Pueblo, first vice chair
man; Mrs. Z. X. Snyder, Greeley, sec
ond vice chairman; Mrs. Price Dan
leavy, Trinidad, third rice chairman;
Mrs. E. C. Goddard, Colorado Springs,
fourth vice chairman; Mrs. Rosepha
Pulford, Durango, fifth vice chair
man; Miss Mary E. Wilkins, Fort Col
lins, sixth vice chairman; Mrs. W. W.
Grant, Jr., Denver, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Horton Pope, Denver, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Harold
Kountxe, Denver, treasurer; Miss
Merle McClintock, Grand Junction,
auditor. These officers, with the fol
lowing, comprises the executive com
mittee: Mrs. Thomas McCue, Miss
Annie Ensminger, Mrs. Gerald Schuy
ler, Mrs. John A. Maxwell, Mrs. James
B. Grant, Mrs. Charles H. Jacobson.
Mrs. Fred Dick, Denver; Mrs. B. F.
Stickley, Leadville; Mrs. C. P. Coch
ran, Fort Morgan, and Mrs. W. J.
Williams, Cripple Creek.
Guard Ordered at War Strength.
Adjt. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin re
ceived orders from the secretary of
war at Washington to recruit every
unit of the National Guard to the max
imum prescribed by law. With the
orders came the adrice that all guard
units now in federal service would be
drafted into the service Aug. sth. The
coast guard artillery Is excepted. As
fast as men are recruited they are to
be held at the armories until Aug. sth,
when they are to be sent with their
regiments to concentration camps in
the Western department.
Foresters to Form Regiment
District Forester Smith Riley re
ceived orders to assist in forming a
\olunteer regiment of United States
foresters which is to comprise a unit
in the corps of engineers to serve in
France. Field agents throughout Colo
rodo, Wyoming and portions of Ne
braska, Kansas and Minnesota were
asked to submit n&mea of men avail
able for service.
Miner It Awarded $6,500.
The Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
must pay George Pappas, Greek ooal
miner, $6,500 for permanent Injuries
he sustained March 7, 1915, while at
work in the Simpson mlne # near La
fayette. This was the verdict re
turned by a Jury in the United States
District Court in Denver.
Northcutt to Be Colonel of Second.
Jesse G. Northcutt of Trinidad will
bo colonel of the Second Infantry of
the Colorado National Guard which is
now rapidly being recruited.
Good Wages Paid Boys «n Farms.
Many of Colorado’s crops this sea
son will be harvested by an army of
boys under 21 years of age. ihe Ro
tary Club’s labor committee, with
headquarters at room 17, second floor
of the state house, Is enlisting a dos
en or more a day. Careful investiga
tion is made of the farmers to whom
boys are sent, and also as to working
conditions. The volunteers are told
to report to the oommittee. The boys
are receiving $25 and SBO a month
and board.