Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-01-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Wsstsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Jan, 12-2s-conference of food Off
cials at Denver.
Jam ciss sa1su.s saow It D
Feb; a2-as.Annu.l Winter Sports Car
Jan. s2-s4sAnnnai mesting Colorado
y. Metal a,.., Mining siIf,E Assosiatlon at State
Work has been resumed on the Big
Forty tunnel at Idaho Springs.
seventy-three building permits were
issued at Craig during the year 1917.
Routt and Moffat counties during
the past year shipped out 10000 cat
tie.
The stone abutments of the Chap
man bridge near Craig have been COM
pleted.
The Golden Methodist church is dis
playing a service flag containing thir-
teen stars.
Fire at the Royal coal mine in
Aguilar district destroyed the fan
house. Loss $4,000.
Honey and syrups instead of sugar
will make victory just as sweet and
bring it much sooner.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held a two-day session in Denver, and
members attended banquet and the
stock show.
Thousand dollars each, and costs Of
$32, is the fine assessed against each
Of three bootleggers arrested by Sher-
iff Russell of Saguache county.
The Kansas Day Club Of Colorado
will hold it's thirteenth annual BAN
quet in Denver. January 20, the ami
versary Of the admission OF, Kansas
to the union.
Ninety-five Puebloans applied for
civil service Jobs through the local
board during seven days. Thirty-five
of these were seeking Jobs in the ship
building yards.
Mesa county is to receive the larg-
est allotment for any county on the
Western Slope this year from the
State Highway Commission for Its
roads. namely, 100000.
Two full wheatless days instead of
one and more economy in the use of
wheat products at all times. are
measures the Food Administration is
considering. to reduce consumption.
The production of molybdenum in
Colorado during 1918 will amount to
between $10,000,O00 and $1,000, 900,
according to an estimate made by
Fred Carroll, state commissioner Of
mines.
Denver's big annual winter event,
the National Western Stock Show,
| opened at the Denver Union stock
yards with entries SURPRISING both in
numbers and quality all of the eleven
previous shows.
The king Oil, Gas & Refining Com
pany, which has for its purpose the
drilling Of an oil well on the King
ranch south of Loveland, has forward
ed papers of incorporation to the Sec
retary of state.
A large number OF exhibits and big
crowds featured the opening of the
Western Stock show at Denver on the
18th. An interesting program has
been arranged for the show until the
26th, when 1t closes.
w. J. H. Doran has been appointed
volunteer expediter of manufacturing
by authority of Secretary of War Bak-
er. His duties are those of expediting
the manufacture and forwarding of
material ordered by the War Depart
ment.
The convention of the Colorado Met
al Miners Association was held in
Denver at the capitol Jan. 20, 23 and
"a, and meeting with 1t was the Amer.
ican Mining Congress, the Colorado
and Wyoming oil sections. and large
attendance Of mining and oil men
from the neighboring states.
The hearing of Paul Baird, Of Den.
yer, who is charged with murderously
assaulting his five-year-old stepson,
Ray Desermia, was postponed in the
West Side Court. The reason given
for the postponement is that Mrs.
Baird Is facing trial for the murder
OF her first husband at Brighton.
While the immediate problem is
stricter conservation. the Food Ad-
ministration in Colorado will prepare
at once to stimulate food production
in 1918. Farmers will be urged to
farm every acre." Every means will
be used to furnish help on the farm.
No one will be allowed to remain
idle. Back yard and community gar
dens will be encouraged.
The closing months OF 1917 wit.
messed the elimination of the boom
idea in tungsten mining. Production
in Boulder county was on standard
level but little less than the tonnage
of the most exciting period. The de-