Cheyenne record., 1918-05-02
COLORADO NEws NoTEA

- plDoo0 " inc O0AIo0 6tato 0oOAO8P
cal Survey ct 10000 short tons. valued
at $3.50 per ton. or $500. 900 for the
year. And now cogees A. 2. Carlton.
president Of railroad. sugar, banking.
mining and ore reduction companies
and also . membsr Of the board Of
trustees Of the Colorado School Of
Mines. with an assurance-sent out
from Colorado Springs--that the Col
den Cycle Mining and Reduction Com
pany, after careful experiments at
Colorado City. 70 prepared to produce
yearly an amount Of clean potash
which will exceed Americas total pro-
duction in the second year Of the war.
Joseph w. Boyd of Denver was
placed in the awkward matrimonial
predicament Of havingtwo wives when
District Judge Robert g. Strong In the
Arapahoe County Court .at Littleton
rendered the decision that the decree
Of divorce obtained by Boyd from his
first wife, Mrs. Nello May Boyd, in
1911 was procured on forged sigma
lures Of Mrs. Boyd and was conse-
quently held for naught and annulled.
This case has been pending before the
Littleton courts for seven years.
There is no "let up" to the dollars
that continue to roll into the third
Liberty loan Golfers of the state Of
Colorado. Outside Of Denver the six
ty-two counties made gain Saturday
Of $1.s03.900, reporting total Of $1b.-
OF, 900. Denver stands officially at
SO 0.097,750, making total oversub-
e. .k~k4 80 -
85S.450. and grand total Of $25.171.-
$50.
Following recommendations by Lieut..
Col. H. S. Graves, chief forester Of the
United States forest service, after an
investigation made while in Denver,
the expenditure this year Of $4,000 on
a road to be constructed to Mount
Evans by the federal government in
conjunction with the city and county
Of Denver has been approved by the
secretary Of agriculture.
Colorado's crop acreage this year
will be 12 per cent greater than last
year, according to estimates received
at the office of the State Board Of I'm
migration. The 1917 yield was the
largest in the state. The acreage of
winter wheat is approximately 10 per
cent greater than last year. and the
area devoted to spring wheat shows .
decided increase.
So successful was Governor Gunter's
tour on the Western Slope ON behalf
Of the third Liberty loan that the
Liberty Loan committee persuaded
him to make a second short tour. The
governor urges that Colorado keep up
its efforts to make az big an oversub-
soription as possible until the very last
minute Of the time limit on the loan.
Public and private schools thruout
the nation are expected to eliminate
German language study next septem-
ber. in compliance with recommen-
dation Of the National Education asso
citation, of which Mrs. Mary G. G.
Bradford is president.
Among the Denver women who en-.
listed and have been accepted for Red
Cross work in France are Mrs. Harry
English, Miss Agnes Wolcott Vaille,
Mrs. Elizabeth Budrow Mauff, Miss
Sheridan Whipp and Miss Elizabeth
Dimes.
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Carey, wife of the owner of the fam.
GUS Carey ranch, near Steamboat
Springs, who died Of heart trouble,
was held from her sisters home in
Denver.
Twenty Denver nurses enlisted In
Base Hospital No. 20 have been called
for dHty In the cantonments. This is
the third group which has been called
within the past months from the Den
YER unit
P. 8. Roy, a resident Of Colorado
since 1873. and identified with the
early mining interests of Central City
and Black Hawk, died at Black Hawk.
He had been in poor health for a year.
Twenty-Five miners were arrested at
Leadville for alleged disloyal remarks.
State employees we're granted half
holiday and Friday was generally OBJ
served as Liberty day to aid in pledg-
ing resources for successful prosecu-
ton of the war.
State Senator George e. West has
received an appointment as head OF
one of the seven Red Cross divisions
in France, according to statements
made in Durango.
The fly does not cackle when 1t lays
eggs, and the first unswatted flies OF
the season are now making arrange
ments to populate this and adjoining
counties.
Orlando A. Summers Of Kokomo,
lad, commander-in-chief Of the G. A.
R., paid an official visit to the Colo
RADIO department at . meeting In Dem
ver