Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-05-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

1Our pr010o304D NJ tho COlOI2oo
State School of Mines 1t Golden failed
Of reappointment At the meeting Of
the board Of trustees. They are G. r.
Burger and q. p. r. Sherwood Of the
department Of mathematics, and J. G..
Bailar aud @. D. Test Of the depart
ment OF chemistry. DIR. v. @. Alder
son. president. notified the four q
week ago that II they would tender
their designations he would recon-
mend acceptance. but the resigna-
4 lions were not presented.
There are 100000 persons in Colo
RADIO who were born In foreign coun-
tries, according to Prof. George Nor
lin Of the University Of Colorado, who
has just completed a 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 so per cent against SO per cent
last year, and with an estimated pro-
duction this May of 10,2S6,000 bushels
in comparison to 7,728,000 bushels last
May. The state average in 1916 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 640-acre
grazing act $4,000 acres Of land in Moi
fat county and at the same time &C.
cepted lat 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 twen-
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 a member of
the famous Russell Gulch party, died
at st. Anthony's hospital in Denver.
He had been an invalid and blind for
tho 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. Norey. head Of the
Rocky Mountain division, who states
that for every dollar raised in the first
drive for s100.ooo,0 900 there has been
$1.O2 available for war relief
I. AS their contribution to Greeley's
three-day May Music festival, young
women students gave dance drama
followed by a one-act operetta entitled
'tThe 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
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 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 $4,000.
The world-old triangle was RESPONSE
BILE for another life in Denver when
Mrs. Gussie Simms Watson, negress,
bride Of three days, was shot and
instantly killed by negro man, iden-
tilted by persons who saw the shoot.
ing as Dennis or, Dimes Humphrey.
By vote of IS 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.
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 Love field, Dallas,
Tex.
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