Cheyenne record., 1918-06-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
| July 8-13-Meeting National Associa-
tion Of c4iored Women IN Denver SpN:n-
tion at Colorado Springs.
| Aug. 22-24-Colorado State Firemen's
Sept. Ss-2sIcolorado state Fair at
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Army worms have attacked the su-
gar beets in the Mansanola district
Colorado will get an army nursing
school. according to. word received
from Washington.
The Vienna and Watrous Cafes IN
Denver were closed for violations OF
the food regulations.
Denvers war gardens earned $S.l2
per capita last year, according to
George w. Skouland.
| Brighton has entered q new era OF
prosperity with a paid secretary Tor
its commercial association. hs
At the commencement exercises at
the State School of Mines at Golden
thirteen students were given their d.
plomas.
Offices of all members of the Dem
yer Real Estate exchange will close
at noon every Saturday in June, July
and August.
In telegram from Madame iSchu-
mann -Heink to Mayor w. B. R. Mills,
she expresses her sorrow over the
death of Robert w. Speer.
National army men are learning the
art of trench warfare very rapidly,
according to Capt. Francois sturpin OF
the French army. who stopped IN
Denver.
Machinists, blacksmiths, boilermak-
ers, firemen and mechanics drafted
for service in the United States were
sent to Washington by the Denver d.
vision boards.
Mrs. Emma Riley, accused of kill
ing her husband, Patrick Henry Riley,
in Denver on Sept. %, must stand trial
as the result of findings by alienists
that she ia sane.
The Ouray Sampling Works of the
Mum Brothers has been running on
ore from the Bachelor district, which
Is maintaining steady output under
the leasing system.
The first American soldier of the
14sth Field artillery to gain promo
tion on foreign soil is William Wright,
of Denver, who has been given the
rank of first lieutenant Of Battery B.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr, and his par
ty arrived in Colorado Springs for .
social affair at country house. Mr..
Rockefeller has been touring the coal
mining camps Of southern Colorado.
Ms Hanson, Lake City junk deal
er, who is registered as an alien enc.
my, is under arrest charged with
stealing $500 pounds Of giant powder
from the Hidden Treasure mines mag
azine. t.
After forty years of married life and
the rearing of a family of ten children,
cloud has darkened the home of Mr.
and Mrs Begio Perry, gardeners, liv-
ing near Denver, and divorce suit
is pending.
Enough wheat is wasted through
careless threshing and handling every
season to feed an army Of 1O,OOO,0OO
men, according to Howard Crocker, an
official of the Colorado State Food
Administration.
Reports Of the county agricultural
agents for the third week in May
showed an increasing demand for
farm help, good crop prospects gen.
orally throughout the state and ade-
| fnrilitins
The State Board Of Live Stock in
spection has issued an emergency war
order that all veterinarians and
stock growers must report the exist
ence of anthrax or other stock dis
ease at once to the state veterinarian.
The employees of the Union Pacific
railroad subscribed total of $55,S56
to the Red Cross second war fund.
Five men were killed. four others
were badly injured, one perhaps fatal
ly, and a dozen others were more or
less shocked and burned at Campo.
twenty-five miles south OF Springfield,
during a violent rain and electrical
storm.
Federal inquiry into the activities
of Colorado tungsten mining is to be
conducted in the Denver postoffice
building beginning June II by the
United States Tariff Commission.
| Word to that effect reached Fred Car
roll, commissioner of the State Bureau
of Mines, from F. w. Taussig, chair
man of the commission, at Washing
ton.
Inasmuch as coal miners who go on
strike are fined 81 day for every
day they do not work, State Labor
| Commissioner w. L. Morrissey has
suggested that the superintendent of
the Allen Coal Company's mine in
Routt county be fined 81 a day for
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