The Dolores star., 1919-02-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Sheriff Sam Thomas of Pueblo has
sworn In fiftyseven deputies ut the
steel mills to replace former guards.
Harry j. Wolf, mining professor at
tle State School of Mines. states that
Colorado oil shale deposits are u state
and national asset.
All the Weld county sugar mills are
assured lorg campaigns next season,
because of tlr immense beet tonnage
contrac,e.l ;or IN, county.
Prof William Back, Instructor of
mecRanlcal engineering At the Uniyer-
sity ot Colorado since 1917, died at
Bcnldrt' at the university hospital fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
Being at the crest of the continent,
Colorado contains the headwaters of
some or the principa! rivers of the
United States. including the Colorado.
Rio Grandc, Platte. ARKANSAS and Re
publican.
John johnson. his wife and four
children, of NiWut, miraculously e.
,u,ru death sunday, when his cat
l'il ll' lpd'l IL SiluiF 'h'N' i'"'
miles outside OF boulder and plunged
into = creek.
Reports show that M Denver last
year there We're l.O cases of typhoid
fever. ~ Of scarlet fever, 394 of diph-
iberia, S4l of whoopmg cough, 2,64i
100 Of mumpS.
The residents of Lake county are
solidly in favor of the proposed ST.
600 for repairs for the Battle Noun
tain road, in Eagle county, in place of
the proposed repairs TO the roads in
the western part of that county.
Two Cripple Creek boys who fought
with the famous Devil Dogs" ut Cha
teau Thicrry have returned To their
homes in Cripple Creek for visit
with relatives Both We're wounded in
action They are Dewey Nulph and
Willard Allen.
Opposition to the proposed 100000
O1A bond issue for good roads was
unanimously opposed by resolutions
passed by the Weld County Farmers
Union. which is composed of repre-
sentativcs Of tl,e twenty or more To-
cal unions in the county.
The grand encampment of Odd Eel
lows will he held in Denver Feb. Il
II was scheduled to he held in Fort
Collins last October. ana was post
p0red un account of the mfluenz,
epidemic. The military council oi
I, ,,-iII
ming Of The opening day at l1al
Champa. The final feature of the pro
gram will he IL grand ball.
The mysterious disease which has
been killing many cattle around Crest
Colo. and which started in the west
"ra part of Morgan county, where i
destroyed entire herds, has been Ill
m&nosed as corn stalk disease by vet
erinaranS from the State Agricultural
College nj Fort Collins, and there il
no cure for il save to keep the cattle
out nf The corn fields.
All The Weld county sugar mills arr
assured long campaigns next season
because of the immense beet tonnas
contracted for in the country, accord
ing to Hi Tymothy, agricultural super
intendent of The Greeley factg y. Ill
| says that the Greeley factory has con
tiucted more than 5000 acres, AM
that Windsor and Eaton have con
tracted about 10000 acres betweel
| Them.
Although L. Lee Craft. speci;,
| agent of the Department of Justice
went TO Fowler to arrest one man o.
II charge of evading the draft, h
brought TO Pueblo another on the sam
| charge. and through a peculiar eli
cumstance, the name of the ma
| caught is the same as the man sough
He is James NJ George. and lie is hel
in the local Jail awaiting action o
the part of government officials.
Hundreds of farmers are maxim
good profits every year on nonirr
gated land in Colorado that was cor
sIdered worthless for agricultural pul
Il poses ten years ago.
DR.. George Norlin, acting presider
Of the University Of Colorado, al
nounced at Boulder that the resign;
| lioH Vi IT. LifiHsstoH cdTTdHu. pres
dent OF the university, was expected b
the board of regents. This statemer
follows closely upon the announcemer
from Washington that President Wi
son had appointed DR.. Farrand a
president of the American Red Cros
the appointment to take effet
March l.
Colorado's own. the 157th infantr
has been ordered home. The al
nouncement was made at Washingto
that the 40th division. the "Sunshin
DIVISION" composed of men from Col
rado, Utah, New Mexico. Arizona an
California, would soon be aboard tran
ports bound for the United State
Other Colorado units, in addition
the 18th, attached to the 40th divisiO
are the 115th ammunition train an
trench mortar battery; the 115th e.