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Show INFLUENZA CLAIMS 311 LIVES IN COLORADO Public Telephone Booths Closed in New York City. By A cecal ate Preea. DEN VER, Oct. gi. Tha Influenan epidemic In Colorado haa claimed 111 vict i ma and there ara 897 caeca In tha state, accord Ins to a report flven out hy tha atate board of health. The re port a ahowed that 171 of tha In-fluensa In-fluensa cases were new today. A marked a bat amen t of tha epidemic epidem-ic tn Denver whs reported by tha city health authorltlea. although twenty-four twenty-four deatha were recorded In tha twenty-four hour period ending laat nlaht. Tha number of new casea In Denver reported today waa 222, aa compared to 254 yeeterday. CALIFORNIA HIT. By Associated Preea. TRAMKNTO, Cat. Oct. II. Governor William D. Htephena, In a atatement laeued laat night, urged every reetdent of California to cooperate coop-erate with tha ata'te, county and city off Ida la In com hating the apread of tha epidemic of Kianlah lnfluensa. fMU-Ucularly by wee ring jUuse mask a. TELEPHONES CUT. By Aaaoclated Press. KEW YORK. Oct. 2J The New York Telephone company haa suspended sus-pended service In half of the public bootha hero becauae of 4 shortage of operators caused by the Hpa.nl eh lnfluensa ln-fluensa epidemic. It waa aaid that IOoO, or about IS per cent, of the operator are 111. DRUG LAW MODIFIED. By Aaaoclated Press. KEW YpRK, Oct. 21. Dispelling the hope that tha Spanish InfluAnza epidemic epi-demic waa on the wane In the city. H0 new rases, the greatest number ! ainca the beginning- of tha epidemic, were reported today. Thia ia an in crease of Hi cases over yesterday's! hopeful report and la 177 more than reported for 'any prevloua day. ( NOT ON THE WANE, y Associated Praea. WASHINGTON. Oct 2a To help ' fight Spanish lnfluensa Internal Revenue Reve-nue Commissioner Hnr today mollified molli-fied the regulation prohibiting the re- ( filling of narcotic prescriptions to per- j mil the duplication when apeclflcally . reiiented bv phvslclsp. |