The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


| for entry in tracts of 800 acres 100,19
acres in Colorado; Washington was
second with S1,917 acres taken up,
while Montana is third with 1882
acres designated. Wyoming furnished
eighty acres. The total during the
month for the seven states is 434,539
acres-hence Colorado lands taken up
constitutes one-fourth of the total. In
classification work under the stock
raising act resulting in designation for
entry in tracts of $40 acres. Colorado
stood second in a group of four states.
In Colorado 447,620 acres were taken
up.
| Magdelen Hartman, II, a member OF
the junior class at East Denver high
school and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
b. A. Hartman, probably will be Grip
pied for life as the result of injuries
received on the Fourteenth street via
duct when a motor truck carrying a
party of high school students return
ing from a beefstead "fry" in Bear
Creek canon was "sideswiped" by an
other truck, and both her legs frac-
tured. Ellen Sharp, 16, daughter Of
Mrs. Ellen B. Sharp; Gerald Aymer,
1S, president of the senior class of the
Denver Manual Training high school,
also were injured, but less seriously.
Governor Gunter has appointed a
committee headed by Engineer John
e. Field of the State Land Board to
bring about more efficient use of ir-
rigation waters as a means of increas-
ing food production. State Engineer
McCune and Prof E. B. House, of the
Agricultural College, are the other
members. They have made nine sug-
gestions for better use of water and
have asked that conferences between
water officials and consumers be held
in the different irrigation districts.
After, it is alleged, he had declared
Ben. ]. Salmon of Denver did right in
refusing to go to war, and remarking
that he considered Fort Collins resi-
dents fools for being so patriotic,
man giving his name as George Rog-
ers, Denver piano salesman, was
struck on the jaw by Elmer l. Cooke.
sheriff of Larimer county, begged to
fight, and finally escorted to the Fort
SOlllUS ucpOI AOASCu W ASd'O
town.
In Telluride mine district the bonus
system has been discontinued and the
flat scale is now paid by the Tomboy,
Smuggler, Belmont, Humboldt, Liberty
and Primos companies, as follows:
Machine men in drifts, $4.75; machine
men in slopes, $3.50; timber men,
$3.50; timber men helpers, trammers,
shovelers, track men and miscellan-
eous mine labor, 81. Board at COM
pany houses continues to be 81 per
day.
The official call for the Republican
state assembly, to be held on the
morning of July 16 In Colorado
Springs, was sent to county chairmen
and others by John F. Vivian, chair
man, and l.. E. Girard, secretary, OF
the Republican state central commit
tee. The apportionment Of delegates
cording to the call.
The University of Colorado Is
building an engineering shops build
ing to be able to house and train
drafted men for the army after school
opens again next September. Two
hundred and fifty drafted men are
now being trained at the university.
Among the survivors of the Molda-
via, which was torpedoed in the Eng
lish channel is Charles Ross of Den
yer. Ross is corporal in company B,
Fifty-eighth infantry. Fifty-six men,
bers of Ross company lost their lives
when the vessel went down.
The largest contingent of men that
has left Fort Morgan since the iepar-
ture of Company l, entrained for Camp
| Cody, near Deming, N. M. There were
forty-five boys, and a large crowd as
sembled at the station to pay them
tribute.
At the semi-annual meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture, held at
the Agricultural College at Fort Col
Inns, the resignation of Mrs. ]. B. Bel
ford was accepted, and ]. S. Calkins
of the Westminster district was elect
ed to succeed her.
The executive committee of the
State Council of Defense will keep In
constant touch with the state manu-
facturers to aid them in transferring
their work from non-essential indus
tries to essential war work.
Lee Smith, convicted at recent
term Of the District Court for an as
sault on Mary Pelc, an Austrian girl
who is crippled, was sentenced by
Judge j. Ed Rizer of Pueblo to the
state Denitentiary for life
There never was brighter outlook
for fruit In Pueblo county than right