The Dolores star., 1918-05-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

-Four professors NJ Inc Soioi e~O
State School Of Mines at Golden failed
of reappointmsnt ut the meeting OF
the board of trustees. They are c. K
Burger and G. e. F. Sherwood OF the
department of mathematics. and J. e.
Bailar and C. d. Test of the depart
nent of chemistry. DR.. v. c. Alder
son, president, notified the four
week ago that II they would tender
their designations he would recon-
mend acceptance. but the resigna-
tons were not presented.
There are 100000 persons in Colo
RADIO who were born In foreign coun-
tries, according to Prof. George NOT
lin OF the University Of Colorado, VINO
has Just completed a survey OF aliens.
He is gathering statistics for use III
the Americanization Of aliens, ma
tional organization, for which ne Is
the Colorado director. Other nsures
show that there are 10000 persons Oh
foreign extraction born in COLORADO.
America First" Societies are pelns
formed as one OF the means OF SOW
ing Colorado's problem TO make citi-
gems of her aliens.
According to the federal flgures
there are 100000 acres in wheat IN
Colorado this May as against 336'ooo
acres a year ago this time, with the
condition Of the present crop aVefas.
ing 92 per cent against S6 per cent
last year, and with an estimated pro-
duction this May of 1O.2S6,0OO bpsheis
in comparison to 7,72s,0OO bushel last
May. The state average In 1910 was
G,392, 900 The price as given IN the
report is now $1.93. a drop OF cents
from the current price of May, 1910
and an increase Of $1.07 over the l9lo-
II prices.
Colorado gained lat farmer citizens
when the United States Department
of the Interior formally designated as
omen to homestead under the 640-acre
grazing act 10000 acres Of land In Mof-
fat county and at the same time &C
cepted 147 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, a 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
the last eight years. He was Is years
old.
Some idea Of the tremendous eff
cheney Of the American Red Cross ad
ministration IL gained in the state
.ment of John w. Morey, head Of the
Rocky Mountain division. who states
that for every dollar raised in the first
drive for 800. 100000 there has been
3l.02 available for war relief.
As their contribution to Greeley's
three-day May Music festival, young
women students gave a dance drama
followed by q one-act operetta entitled
"The 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
a file clerk in the accounting depart
ment Of the Mountain States Teie
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 fol
appointment as second lieutenants.
The Supreme Court granted a re
view in the case Of A. F. Enyart, Ord
way banker, who faces a five-yeal
term in prison for killing J. W. Black
He Ia 70 years old. His bond wa.
fixed at $4,000.
The world-old triangle was responsi
BILE for another life in Denver wher
Mrs. Gussie Simms Watson, negress
a bride Of three days, was shot ant
instantly killed by negro man, iden
titled by persons who saw the shoot
ing as Dennis or Dimes Humphrey.
By a vote of IS to 16, farmers of tn,
Henrylyn irrigation district, lying cas-
of Denver near Hudson, reached al
agreement to accept a bonded indebt
edness Of $40 an acre upon their land
thus settling a litigation of some year,
standing.
John King Sherman. son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman of Este,
Park, has won his commission as sec
ond lieutenant in the aviation service
flying section, at Love field, Dallas
Tex.
The name Of one Colorado man, Ern
est o. Foss, Pueblo appears in tn,
casualty list cabled by General Per
shing. Foss Is reported to have beer