The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-04-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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J. r. McMasters of Denver drew
the seventh best tract of land in the
government drawing at Montrose.
Samuel c. WATSON Of Avondale cap
tured the first tract. Joseph Neuman
Of Chicago, Edith Haslett Of Delta.
Chester Torrey Of Olathe and Frank
Whitemack Of Boncasbo were drawn
In tho order named. There were log
units of land offered for settlement
Of which thirty were taken. There
were 1854 applicants for the thirty
tracts disposed Of.
When the body of Raymond e. voll
mar, the 2z.year-old son of Charles L
vollmar, . pioneer dairy farmer OF
Platteville. was found In the karbor
at Norfolk, Va. the stigma Of being .
deserter from the United States Navy,
which had attached to the young sail
or's name, was. removed. Foul play
il suspected in the death of Vollmar
and the naval authorities have started
q thorough investigation. Young Voll-
mar enlisted in the navy at Denver
July rs. last year. and was soon sent
into active service.
With reports pouring in to state
headquarters from all sections OF Colo
RADIO showing that many counties fully
met their maximum quota, while
number oversubscribed from 300 to as
high as 900 per cent Of their allotted
quota on Saturday, the first day of
the third Liberty loan drive, indica.
lions were that the people OF the Cen
tenEial state would far oversubscribe
the state quota Of $20,s12,O0O.
Eight thousand acres OF farming and
grazing lands owned by the state were
disposed Of at the monthly sale of the
state land board. One quarter section,
designated az the northeast quarter of
Soc. ~, T. s., R. 44-W, was appraised
at SIS and brought $40 an acre. Tracts
sold included acreage in Larimer.
Lincoln, Saguache. Sedgwick, Wash,
ington and Weld counties.
Proposed increases in rates ON cleo.
tricity and gas furnished by utilities
companies for power and domestic
uses show gradual growth of produc-
ton costs over year ago, according
to schedules filed with the Colorado
public utilities commission. Advances
in coke. oil. labor, coal and supplies
are given as reason for increased
rates.
Convinced that the interests of the
country would be better served in war
times II labor for government work
could be mobilized through one source.
the Colorado labor advisory commit
tee sent resolutions to this effect to
President Wilson. Secretary of Labor
Wilson and President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation Of Labor.
The entire wheat supply Of Colo
RADIO must be turned over to the gov
eminent at the nearest mill or grain
elevator before May /, according to
an order issued by Herbert Hoover of
the u. 8. Food Administration and ap-
proved by the Southwestern Food
zone Of which Colorado is a part, at
a meeting held in Kansas City April 4.
Mulligan and Cohen, convicted at
Brighton of robbing Irene Nolan while
she was at the Model roadhouse with
Father Burke on Jan. 2, were SEN
fenced to five-year terms at Canon
City by Judge Glass. A thirty-day
lease on bond pending appeal was de-
MED. -,
A preliminary estimate Of the gold
and silver production of the United
States in 1917 has been made by the
Bureau Of Mines. 1t places the total
yield of gold at $92.59O, 300. and that
of silver at SOL ,140. 300. Colorado is
credited with $15,955,100 in gold and
$6,722,70O in silver.
Declaring the national organization
of the Non-P Partisan League to be one
of the most dangerous movements at
work in the United States, Mark T.
Mckee, Michigan Red Cross worker.
compared the league with the Bolshev-
list movement in Russia, in an address
before the insurance bureau at Den
yer.
The board of trustees of Colorado
College at Colorado Springs issued a
formal statement to the alumni of the
college in which 1t is stated that the
dismissal Of former Dean Edward Par
sons will stani, and that no further
consideration will be given to appeals
for his reinstatement
Clearlngs of the Denver banks for
the month of March totaled 1914, 1885,.
1913 establishing new record. For
the same month of 1917 the total
clearings were $65.740.5O7. SO that the
increase for March of this year was
$29,026,371.
Deputies in the office of Mark A.
Skinner. United States internal reve-
nue. collector at Denver, are organic
ing to begin the drive on income and