The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

al army. WORD TO tnat erect was sent
to local boards by Provost Marshai
John Evans. There are two calls. one
is for 800 men, the states allotment
toward the 2S0,000 ordered by provost
Marshal General Crowder. They VIII
entrain for Camp Cody, Deming, N. M
during the five-day period beginning
June "a. Eleven counties need supply
no men. They are Costilla, Douglas
Jackson, Lake, Logan, Phillips, Pueb-
10 Except Pueblo city District No. H.
San Juan, Sedgwick, Washington and
Yuma counties. The other call is tor
206 registrants who are grammar
school graduates to take a special
course in auto mechanics at the state
Agricultural college in Fort Collins
June 15.
Prof. G. E. Morton, chairman of the
live stock committee of the State
Council of Defense, has reported to
Governor Gunter that the meat sup
ply situation of Colorado is in good
shape, that all classes of animals are
! being increased, that present prices
are satisfactory and that close atten-
ton will have to be paid to the sup
ply of feed stuffs for the animals.
The proportion of forage crops to live
stock is smaller than usual and rough
feeds must be made to go farther by
use of silos. A surplus of dairy pro-
ducts which 1t is hoped is temporary,
has made dairymen uneasy and the
low price for butter-fat is serious
Poultry is showing big increase.
Through arrangements of the waI
camp community service board, Lieut.
Pat OBrien visited Fort Logan and
told the officers and men of mis- ex
periences in absenting himself from
German prison train. Lieutenant o.
Brien told the men that he felt that
the fact that he always maintained his
sense of humor was responsible for
his being there to tell them about 1t,
for no one could have passed through
the seventy-two days of hardships;
swimming rivers, living in trees dur.
ing the day and travelling by night, on
rations to be found in the fields If he
had not kept the brighter side of the
experience before him. That was to
get on friendly soil.
Unsuccessful after seven years oil
litigation to obtain the custody of her
son, Gordon Hugh Craig, the 10-year.
old son of Roy H. Craig of Denver,
from whom she is divorced and to
whom the custody of the boy was
awarded by the courts of Georgia, Mrs.
P. o. Pickrell, the wife of wealthy
broker in Omaha, was the subject of
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police officials as the result of the dis.
appearance of the boy while on his
way home from the Wyman school in
Denver. She was arrested on train
at Reno, New.
In its decisions the Colorado Su.
preme Court gave Pete Soto, SEN
fenced from Larimer to pay the death
penalty for killing his son-in-law, Er
nesto Mondrano, new lease on life
pending another trial; held that
George w. Schell of Denver com.
mitted bigamy when he married Helen
Baber, and gave Nellie Engle Kelley
of Colorado Springs $4,000 damages
for personal injuries. The defendant
in the latter case was the Colorado
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Supporters of the Colorado Anti-Sa
loon leagues bone-dry petition for
constitutional amendment to the II.
| quor laws appeared at the office OF
| Secretary of State James r. holland
and filed four volumes containing 49,
356 signers. Under the constitution
and the election provision p, ,467 sig.
natures are necessary.
In little, old-fashioned, yet neat
and immaculate home at S2S South
Logan street in Denver sits an old.
gray-haired man, Reuben Williams.
In spite of his 95 years, he is happy,
for June his daughter, Mrs. ]. d.
Marshall, who is 6S years of age, and
his son-in-law who is IA, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary.
Federal farm help specialists in Ne.
braska will supply northeastern couu'
ties of Colorado with farm help this
summer, federal officials in Wyoming
will care for the North Park district
| of Colorado and Colorado officials will
look after the needs of farmers around
Pennington, N. M.
Louie Seeley pleaded guilty in the
District Court at Boulder to the
charge of numbering Fred E. Bill, post.
master and Moffat road station agent
at Crescent, on the night of Feb. 16
last. In eXtenuation for the crime,
Seeley declared he was temporarily in.
sane at the time.
The seed committee of the State
| Council of Defense will begin a cam
paign in August urging farmers to
gather their seed corn and dry it out
before freezing weather. Properly
dried seed corn terminates well no
L ttcr. hn, cold IL