The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
CnvING ryENTs


Work is progressing on the new
Rio Grande depot at Delta.
Federal farm loans to the amount
of SAL 300 have been made in La Junta
district, with many more applications.
The Christmas dollar membership
campaign committee of the Red CrcSs
started the drive for eight days, until
Dec. &c.
To determine the cost of bread from
practical experience the city of Den
yer has established a bakery in the
county jail.
At a public sale at the Tecklenburg
ranch near Sugar City there were 300
people present and cows were bid up
to $130 and $3.50.
The first company of state constab-
ulary created by the Twenty-first
General Assembly will be placed in
service early in January.
Caroline Pelc, 1S, an Austrian girl
with a crippled limb, was criminally
attacked at Pueblo in an alley near
the down town district by negro
soldier.
Chaffee county chapter of State
Metal Mining Association met at Sa-
Ida and elected five delegates to the
state convention which will meet at
Denver Jan. 10.
The board of county commissioners
of Las Animas county is considering
the purchase of an entire block north
of the court house at Trinidad, to be
used as a civic center.
Three hundred and seventy-seven
sweaters were packed and shipped
from Denver to the members of the
Colorado engineers, who are now sta
toned at Camp Kearney.
Henry Clay Barnabee, famous char
acter of robin Hood" who died in
Boston, was a grand uncle of Mrs.
William R. Thomas and of Miss Flo
renee George of Denver.
From 20 to rs per cent of the num-
ber of babies born in the last three
months in Denver have been boys, ac-
cording to the statistics given out by
the Denver hospitals and physicians.
The Tungsten Mines Company of
Beaver Creek in Boulder county, is
now operating six of its eighteen pat
ented claims, having struck a twenty
inch vein of ore in the Mammoth
No. 1.
Drastic action against cold storage
establishments that fail to label but
ter, eggs and meat that have been on
ice for more than thirty days is being
planned by the state food administra-
ton.
The citizens of Crowley county
have launched a campaign whose slo-
gan is "20,000,000 for Crowley county,"
meaning 2O,OOO,OoO pounds of sugar
are desired from that county during
the 1918 season.
Mrs. Georgia Scott Townsend, mil
lionaire society woman of Denver and
Fort Worth, Tex, will sail for France
sometime in the near future to become
actively engaged in Red Cross work
on the battle fronts.
G. H. Thompson, superintendent OF
the Estes Park fish hatchery, states
that 100000 eggs of eastern brook
trout now in the process of Matching.
will be placed in the Estes Park
streams in April and May.
w. F. Finch of Fountain had SA
acres of beans and threshed over 12,-
500 pounds therefrom-an average of
1862 pounds per acre. They were
well filled out and pretty uniform in
size|a fine crop, yielding $125 per
acre.
Among the victims of the Boche is
Ernest Smith, Denver boy who enlist.
ed in a Canadian unit some time ago
who was killed in battle Oct. 29, ac-
cording to word received by his
brother-in-law. Carl S. Everett of
Edgewater.
Thomas B. Stearns, Federal Food
Administrator for Colorado, has been
advised from Washington, that for the
present bakers may make sweet
dough products resembling a prohibit
tion against these products made
some time ago.
Colorado has taken the lead in the
tourist industry of the country, accord
ing to the annual report to Horace M.
Albright, acting managing director of
the National Park Service of the De-
partment of the Interior; and official
reports of visitors to other than fed
eral Fairgrounds in the state.
Denver is to have the first woman
United States deputy marshal in the
country. She is Miss Lola Anderson,
daughter of Edward Anderson, secre-
tary of the Colorado State Federation
of Labor. Miss Anderson was ap-
pointed by Samuel ]. Burris, United
States marshal.
Colorado farmers owning land un-
der the Grand Valley and Uncom-
pahgre reclamation systems will,