Cheyenne record., 1917-05-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. s.rv,c..

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
May 17-2o-Convention Colorado Sun
day School Association at Colorado
June 1s.-Annual strawberry Festival
June 21-22-Christian Endeavor Lon
Aug. 1-Nationai Convention of Afri-
Sept. 17-22-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
,eblo.
Lambs sold at 17@17.1o on the Den
yer market.
Canon City celebrated Blossom day
on May Gun.
Prominent Pueblo men organize
new oil company.
Site selected by Missouri Pacific
officials for new depot, at Sugar City.
Town of San Luis has contracted
for installation Of electric lighting sys-
| tenn.
Up to Saturday. 81 bodies had
Hastings.
The editors will meet in Denver May
14th to hear the governors plans for
war publicity.
Governor Gunter issued an appeal
| to people to give greater support to
the Red Cross.
Already preparations are being
made in many towns for observance
Of Memorial day.
Plans have been made to water
thousands Of arid acres west Of Pu-
eblo through use of artesian wells.
An association has been formed in
Boulder county for protection of auto
mobiles and capture Of auto thieves.
Men Of the Ohio and Colorado smell
ter at Salida, 275 in number. have had
wages advanced 20 cents each per
shift.
People of Rye are collecting old pa
per in every form and proceeds of its
sale are to buy new song books for the
church.
Mrs. George Redden, who was acci-
dentally shot with q revolver by her
husband in their home at Trinidad.
died at hospital.
Jack" Prestidge, second lieutenant
in the British army, son Of Frank
Prestidge of Denver, was killed while
| fighting with the Allies.
Railroads are doing their share to
assist in the campaign for q larger
production Of food throughout the
United States this year.
AS result of recent order issued
to division commanders OF the regular
army, 200 acres of land will be put
under cultivation at Fort Logan.
Father w. M. Donovan, pastor of St.
| Philomena's church of Denver, was Of
fered commission as captain in the
Colorado National Guard by Adjt. Gen.
Frank D. Baldwin.
Landslides due to melting SHOWS in
the last few weeks have given the op.
| Grating force OF the Denver & Salt
Lake road great difficulty in main
tanning prompt schedules. ,a.
The Hayden ranch at Crow is being
sold in divided tracts, an unusual fea-
ture Of sale being that the buyer is
asked to pay in annual instalments
one-half the crop he garners from the
| land itself.
Henry F. Brooks, president of the
Colorado Mountain Club, was ap-
pointed by Mayor Robert w. Speer of
Denver as member Of the Mountain
parks advisory committee to succeed
William P. McPhee.
In Gunnison county, a move is on
| foot to put auto trucks on the wagon
road from Glazier to the Star mine on
Italian mountain. to be used in NOV
ing the large bodies of low-grade lead
silver ore of these mines to the rail-
road.
| New flotation plants mark the open.
ing of the spring season in Ouray dis
trict, where activity in the smaller
producers is gradually making up for
the disappearance from the shipping
list of the Camp Bird and Wanahka
| groups.
| Virtually all the unmarried men OF
Denver between the ages OF 81 and 35,
who are physically qualified, are
storming the headquarters of the Of.
| ficers' reserve corps to make applica.
tion for entrance to the training camp
at Fort Riley.
Colorado sportsmen have begun a
movement to conserve the states fish
and game during the war crisis and
after, by offering to turn over many
thousands Of dollars to Walter B.
Fraser, head of the State Fish and
Game Department.
In Cripple Creek district the Gillard
Tungsten Mining and Leasing com
pany, operating the Gold Bond Con.
solidated Mines company's estate of