Gunnison news-champion., 1918-01-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


"s'ssrs ks-spsssr ussea Ns-s Service
COMING EvENFs.
jan. Sa-3s.coafersacs OF food eff
an Is-Ss-tivs stock show at Denver
jan ss-kansas Club banquet In Den
Feb sa-1s-Annp.l wintsr Sports Car.
nivel at Steamboat Springa
jan s;-aS-Annuai meeting Colorado
cspiso, baildlns N,IS,as.9 IL psnve1. A. s'A's
The city Of Flasler ID displaying
service flag containing $50 stars.
J. Carroll Hale has been appointed
agricultural agent for Routt county.
The new consolidated school at
kuner has been formally opened.
The farmers Of Crowley county last
season received 100000 from the
sale Of alfalfa hay.
The school board at Kerssy has ~.
thorised the construction of q $4,000
school In that town.
Lessees Of the Deerhorn mine at
Cripple Creek have made an initia.
shipment Of promising ore.
About GOO people attended the re.
cent flag-raisins exercises at the Y.
N. c. A. building In Pueblo.
The Grand Junction sugar factory,
which was recently damaged by an
explosion. is again in operation.
A pickle company will erect a two
story kraut factory and a four-sto.y
daylight cannery at Greeley.
Thomas b. Stearns. federal food ad.
ministrator Cor Colorado. Is preparing
to inaugurate one potato day" each
week.
Beginning Sunday. new train sched.
ules were put in effect on the Denver
& Rio Grande and the Burlington rail.
roads.
Through the. efforts of County
Agent X. Kohey. farmers in the vi.
cinity OF Craig will try their hands al
dairying
Charles Smith of Grand Junction
cleared over $1,000 on five acres of
peaches the past season. or about $3.50
yan acre.
Building permits issued In Long,
mont during 1917 amounted to $685.
$40. gain OF 100 per cent over the
preceding year
The program for the annual conven-
tion OF the Retail Grocers OF Colorado,
to be held in Colorado Springs Jan. Il
| to % has haan arranrod
The members OF the Colorado Metal
Mining Congress will hold their fifth
annual meeting In the assembly cham.
ber Of the state capitol. Jan. 20 to "a.
Ray Baker. director Of the mint, an
nounced at Washington that he will
ask Congress for a deficiency s~r-o-
priation Of 100000 for the Denver
L...ni.
| Denver women leaders In the fight
for equal suffrage were jubilant over
the passage by the House Of Repre-
sentatives Of the Susan D. Anthony
suffrage amendment.
A motion to go ahead with the reg.
ulation Of water rates At Boulder with
out taking into account the State
Public Utilities Commission was lost
in he city council by tie vote.
A resolution urging the anendnsnt
Of section n Of Senate bill No. fS13.
known as the Walsh Pittnan oil leas-
ing bill. Was adopted at . meeting of
the oil section of thu Colorado Chap.
ter q the Amsrican Miping Coasrsss
held in Denver.
IN urgent iavitasien was tsis-
sraphsd TO ErankIin 4. Lane. sscrs.
tafy ef the interior. 70 v4sft Denver
during Stock Show week. and TO ~.
kdress rstockmep, oil men. mining msn
and others st The Denver Auditcripn
IL evening" - Jan. -.
Twice ssocssdins, wifhin t1o days,
IN lifting Slo0 IN Gold from the teilssss
counters Of the H$osrpia hank In Dsn.
yer, Lee tulbriSht. 50, negro Pulimsp >
porter. attempted to Get ! third 800.
4 y ALLEGED and vas detected n ~
act Of pocketins ten ,tsn-doIlar gold
pieces. After a-chase Of half bleck
hs was eastursd BY B. }. Whaslss.
head boolskeeper Of the hank.
The mystery which hss surrounded
three recent hpldups IN Denysr has
been cleared BY the confession of
Ernest R. VOL. at Los Angeles, that
he. was guilty Of the crimss. VOL.
who is dying in . Los Angeles hospt.
tai, says he held up University Park
street car Oct. "a. 1917; . Rocky
Mountain Lake street car ON Oct. 26.
and the Cooper pawnshop at 935 Sew
enteenth street, Nov. 6.
La Junta lost 19 men by the draft.
but had already sent 250 volunteers
who couldn't wait to get started to
push the war. Almost . hundred
thousand dollars was La Junta's sub.
scription to the first Liberty Loan.
and to the second Liberty Loan her