Cheyenne record., 1918-05-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


-Four professors ct tho Colorado
State School Of Mines at Golden failed
of reappointmsnt at the meeting Of
the board Of trustees. They are G. R.
Burger and q. =. r. Sherwood Of the
department Of mathematics. and J. C..
Bailar aud G. d. Test Of the depart
ment Of chemistry. DR.. v. G. Alder
son. president, notified the four a
week ago that II they would tender
their designations he would recon-
mend acceptance. but the restgna-
tons were not presented.
There are 100000 persons in Colo:
rado who were born in foreign coun-
tries. according to Prof George Nor
lin Of the University of Colorado, who
has Just completed q survey of aliens.
He is gathering statistics for use in
the Americanization OF aliens, a 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. citi-
zens of her aliens.
According to the federal figures
there are 100000 acres in wheat In
Colorado this May as against $4,000
acres year ago this time, with the
condition of the present crop averag-
ing 80 per cent against 86 per cent
last year, and with an estimated pro-
duction this May of 10, 1856, 900 bushels
in comparison to 7,728,00O bushels last
Nav Tho state ovara0 In 1Q1G & WAS
6,392,000. The price as given In the
report is now $l.93, drop Of cents
from the current price of May, 1917,
and an increase of SLOT over the 1910
IA prices.
Colorado gained lat farmer citizens
when the United States Department
Of the Interior formally designated as
open to homestead under the 64O-acre
grazing act 10000 acres Of land in Moi
fat county and at the same time ac-
cepted 147 out Of 1853 applications for
the land, according to an announce
ment made by M. D. McEniry, chief
of the United States general land Of
flee in Denver.
s. Harrison White, justice of the
Supreme Court OF Colorado, with twsn-
ty-three other men and women from
the state, left Denver for Philadelphia
to participate in the win-the-war-for-
permanent-peace convention to be held
under the auspices of the League to
Enforce Peace. Judge White is ma
tional committeeman of the league.
Charles B. Patterson, resident of
Colorado since 1859. when he crossed
the plains and became member of
the famous Russell Gulch party, died
at st. Anthony's hospital in Denver.
He had been an invalid and blind for
the last eight years. He was 78 years
old.
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 dallar raised in the first
drive for $10o,000,000 there has been
$1.02 available for war relief.
As their contribution to Greeley's
three-day May Music festival, young
women students gave dance drama
followed by a 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.
Miss Ruth Ada Kimball of Denver,
a file clerk in the accounting depart
ment of the Mountain States Tele-
phone Company for seven years, has
received her appointment with the
American Red Cross in France and
will report in New York city for serv
ice overseas.
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
appointment as second lieutenants.
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 70 years old. His bond was
fixed at $25,o00.
The world-old triangle was RESPONSE
BILE for another life in Denver when
Mrs. Gussie Simms Watson, negress,
instantly killed by a negro man, iden-
titled by persons who saw the shoot.
ing as Dennis or Dimes Humphrey.
By voto of 7S to 16. farmers of the
Henrylyn irrigation district, lying east
of Denver near Hudson, reached an
agreement to accept bonded indebt.
edness of $40 an acre upon their land, |
thus settling litigation of some years
standing.
John King Sherman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman of Estes
Park, has won his commission as sec |
ond lieutenant in the aviation service,
FLYING section at I0va field Dallas |