Cheyenne record., 1919-07-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

I JuuitS w. buCkllu, ld"yer, Stillt itS
islator, capitalist and one of the found
ers of Grand Junction, died at his home
in PalO Alto, Calf, according to mes
sages received.
| Michigan, Colorado and Utah show
big increases in beet sugar prospects.
Forecasts show COlOrados crop as =.
O24,O 900 tons, an increase of 6SoOoo:
and Utah's POS. 600 tons, an increase
of 100000 tons.
All the jefferson county rpen VIII"
served in Uncle Sans military or nav
al forces during the war were guests
of the city of Golden and people came
from all section of the county t" at
tend the "Welcome Home day cele
brntion held there.
| Greeley business men will furnish
funds to provide Il life guard and safe
| ty equipment for Seeleys lake. the
scene Of several recent drowning> dur
ing the remainder of the bathing sea-
son. They have also inaugurnlrd IL
campaign to construct a large concrete
bathing pool in one of the city parks
which will cost at least S1OmO.
Louis Mantz, u years old, of Colo
RADIO Springs, was arrested at Mont
rose by Sheriff J. II. Gill and con-
fessed to stealing the car he was hrir-
ing to visit his sister, critically i'll in
Lewiston, Idaho. The youth showed IL
telegram from his sister asking him to
visit her. The sheriff took the car and
the boy back to Colorado Springs.
What is believed to be the first case
of typhus fever ever recorded in Den
yer caused the death of Harley Will
son, a decorator. Wilson, who was 81
years of age and has been employed
by the Denver Omnibus and Cab Com
pany, became i'll June %. The attend
ing physicians recognized the disease,
but were unable to stop its progress.
That the beet acreage tributary to
the Windsor factory of the Great West
ern Sugar Company has been reduced
from 14,50O to about 10000 acres by
the rnvnges of web wOrlus and drouth
is the estimate of factory officials.
The officials expect another attack
from the worms early in August and
have made big preparations to fight
the pest.
A tent city, splendidly decorated.
will be established at City park in
| Denver as part of the Colorado day
celebration on Aug. | this year The
forty-thrd anniversary of the adnis-
sion of Colorado to the sisterhOod of
states will take the form of a wei
come home" for the returned fighting
men of the army and navy and for the
war nurses.
Mrs. Guy U. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy Of the Third Congress
sional district of Colorado, has accept
ed nn invitation to sponsor oGOO-ton
steel steamer. which Is to be launched
in Seattle Aug. l6. Mrs. Hardy will 60
to Seattle with her husband to attend
tho convention of the National Edi.
inrial Association, of which her hus.
band is president.
Denver will begin the construction
nf the south wing to the Colorado Mu'
scum of Natural History in city Park
shortly. rs the result of IL gift of $1OO.-
nm for that purpose ro the city by u
Denver citizen whose name is being
withheld for the present by Mayor
Dewey &. Bailey. The name of the
h"nor will be revealed at the formal
opening of the Civic Center Aug. l.
Colorado wiIl.prn'luce this year 49,.
N2I. 900 bushels of wheat, compared
with II production of 13.3:1.,. 900 bushels
last year, according to estimates just
completed by the Colorado tO-opera-
tive Crop Reporting service. The pro
ducton of corn. if conditions remain
favorable until harvest. will be approx
imately 3.l4S,000 bushels, compared
with 23,5S5.0OO bushels for 1918.
\ team composed of seventeen men
of Colorado's National Guard will rep
resent the State nt the national rifle
matches to be held at Caldwell, N. j.,
the week of August 25.
The old ear barn on COlfnN avenue,
near Aurora, which thcS tate highway
commission recently purchased from
the Tramway company in Denver, is
being repaired for the storing of some
Of the army trucks now being received
from the War Department. Forty-sev
rn trucks have been received thus far,
and viii be sent to the counties for
use on county roads as soon as hey can
be replaced with the dump bodies.
Mrs Jennie Murphy, six months
bride of John J. Murphy, is in jail with
her husband charged with attempting
) to aid him to escape from the county
Jail where ne is held on a charge of
forgery at Pueblo. 1t is claimed that
Mrs. Murphy visited the Jail and gave
her husband some bananas Inside
each banana was hard steel saw ca
pahle of cutting through the steel bars
in rapid time. Murphy hid the saws in
his cell. hut the iailer in making his
rounds and searching the prisoners dis
| cu cred them