The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

I'm OF the university Oh COLORADO, WIN
has Just completed a survey of aliens.
He is gathering statistics for use in
the Americanization of aliens, ma
| tional organization, for which he Is
/ the Colorado director. Other figures
show that there are 10000 persons OF
| foreign extraction born in Colorado.
America First" Societies are being
formed as one of the means of solv-
ing Colorado's problem to make citl-
zens of her aliens.
! According to the federal figures
there are 100000 acres in wheat in
| Colorado this May as against 336,OOO
acres a year ago this time, with the
| condition of the present crop averag-
ing 92 per cent against SO per cent
last year, and with an estimated pro-
duction this May of 10, 0,286,000 bushels
in comparison to 7,72S.000 bushels last
May. The state average in 1916 was
6,392, 900 The price as given in the
report is now S1.93, drop of cents
from the current price of May, 1917,
and an increase of $107 over the 1910
Ia prices.
Colorado is to resume its fight in
Washington for the establishment by
the War Department OF the Rocky
Mountain National Military highway,
according to developments at the state
house. Plans of Thomas ]. Ehrhart,
highway commissioner, include the
call for a meeting in Denver, possibly
next month, of the commissioners OF
Montana, Wyoming anS New Mexico.
The proposed highway extends from
Canada to Mexico and is 1,696 miles in
length.
Il. L. Crumley, known to the Pueblo
police as Skeets Crumley, received
what probably will prove to be fatal
wound when he engaged in an alterca-
tion in a roadhouse at Blende, a few
miles from Pueblo. Three men whose
names the police have been unable to
learn, although they have lived in
Pueblo for some time, are under ar
rest, as is also a woman claiming to
be Crumley's wife. The Crumleys re-
Gently went to Pueblo from Denver.
In order to aid in helping win the
war in increasing production by help
ing deserving farmers to secure funds
for planting a larger acreage in beans
and wheat the livestock and agricul-
tural bureau of the Civic and CONNER
cial Association of Denver voted that
at least $4,000 be raised in Denver
through the Civic Association to fl
nance increased agricultural produc-
ton on at least 5000 acres of Colo
RADIO land.
Capt. James A. Merritt of the Re-
serve Officers Training corps at the
Colorado State University has an
nounced that forty-four members will
report at the Presidio, Cal, on June
3 to receive intensive training for
period of one month. The Colorado
State Agricultural College and the Uni
versity of Denver will send men. They
will serve without pay, but will be al
lowed travelling expenses.
Some idea of the tremendous eff
cheney of the American Red Cross ad-
ministration is gained in the state
ment of John w. Morey, head of the
Rocky Mountain division, who states
that for every dollar raised in the first
drive for $1O0,OO0,0O0 there has been
$1.02 available for war relief.
AS their contribution to Greeley's
MAY ltollNdi, youh6
women students gave a dance drama
followed by one-act operetta entitled
"The Contest of Nations" in which
the spirit of fair play sits in judgment
upon the folk dances and folk songs
of the nations, Columbia, of course,
carrying off the prize.
BY vote of rs to 16, farmers of the
Henrylyn irrigation district, lying east
of Denver near Hudson, reached an
agreement to accept a bonded indebt-
edness of $40 an acre upon their land,
thus settling litigation of some years
standing.
The Supreme Court granted a re-
view in the case of A. f. Enyart Ord
way banker, who faces a five-year
term in prison for killing ]. W. Black.
He is 20 years old. His bond was
fixed at $4,000.
NJ. F. Rose, a merchant of Mansfield,
Pa, was instantly killed at Lamar
when he became confused and stepped
between the baggage car and first
coach of a Santa Fe passenger train
on which he and his wife had arrived
en- route to visit his nephew, Assistant
City Attorney Rose of Pueblo. His
body was practically severed at a
point few inches above the hips.
AS the knights Templar of the cru
sades pressed forward against the op-
pressors of the middle ages, so SYM
bolically the knights Templar of to-
day marched for right against the
same foe in formal array in the annual
Ascension day celebration in Denver.
Included in the list of graduates
from the third officers training camp,
Fortieth division, Camp Kearny, Cali
fornia, are the names of twenty-five
Colorado boys, all listed as eligible for
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