The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

ana COlumnlu, nave Deen utSlShh'SN
by the War Department as field ar
tillery training school and S2oO'oOo IN
equipment will be sent to Fort Col
Inns. The school will open with the fall
term in September and the work Will
be compulsory u certain number OF
hours n week with all men except sen
iors. This action of the War Depart
ment follows conferences between
President Lory and A. A. Edwards,
president of the board, with Brigadier
General Danforth and Col. Thomas
Sloan, and recent visit of inspection
to the school by Colonel Sloan. The
battery equipment for the school will
consist of five guns, including how
itzer and French 10, two tractors,
two trucks and ninety-six horses with
Il number of noncommissioned officers
and instructors.
Five employees of the Denver & Rio
Grande, Walter +. Robertson, Ira Da
Wis, Harold Foster Ray II. Bartlett
and Alva Brown, are prisoners in the
county Jail at Grand Junction on a
charge of robbing merchandise car
of large amount of whisky December
18th. Robertson, it is said, confessed
his part in the robbery, duplicating the
others. The men are charged with bur
glariZing car of '7ky en- route TO
California. Accordil, to the confess
sion of Robertson the car was entered
through an end door, the head was
knocked out of barrel of whisky and
the men carried the whisky away in
milk cans, later bottling it.
The Bigelow House bill regulating
the practice of dentistry in Colorado
was the subject of lively debate
when efforts were made to amend GER
tain of its provisions. Senator w. II.
O'Brlen, who introduced an Identical
bill in the Senate, took the lead in sup
port of the measure. He is a dentist.
The bill amends in a number of re-
spects the present law regulating dem
tistry, bringing under its provisions
dental hygienists as well as regularly
licensed dentists, and providing legal
machinery for procedure in cases
| where licenses are revoked by the
State Board OF Dental Examiners.
The establishment in Colorado of an
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diers by the United States public
health service is an assured fact. Word
has been received from Washington by
the officers of the Colorado Develop
ment federation that both Senate and
House have agreed upon bill which
assures the hospital to Colorado and
that $1,50O,000 will be available for
the institution. The hospital will be
conducted separately from the recuper-
alton camp at Aurora.
The dream of the American dough-
boy that some day he might sleep in
the Kaiser's bed has almost been real
iezd by Lieut.. Gilbert II. Osincup, son
of DIR. and Mrs. C. II. Osincup, Colo
RADIO Springs, who is in the medical
corps in the army of occupation. Lieu
| tenant Osincup is occupying the room
of the crown prince in his country
estate near Cologne. He has bathed in
the princes Turkish bathroom and he
has pounded his ear on the pillows
| that the crown prince used.
Dr. Frost Craft, secretary of the cor.
poration of the University of Denver.
died at his home, 2O52 South Fillmore
| street, Ill ltHNtI, Willie WIS pre-
pairing for breakfast. Members of the
family heard DIR. Craft choking and his
slster-in-law, Miss Annie McKeen Shu
Ter, dean of women at the university,
went to him He was dead in ten min
utes, of apopleXy. Death came in
similar way to DR.. Henry NJ. Mayo of
the university on February 1sr.
| Clifford Sproules, aged "a, negro,
must hang for Staying w. w. Green,
turnkey at the Pueblo county jail, Oc-
tober 18th, when Sproules endeavored
to make his escape from the jail.
Green died after being shot twice by
the negro in the corridor of the Jail. A
jury brought in verdict of first de-
gree murder, with death penalty rec
commended.
The contract to build the new road
between Georgetown and Silver Plume,
for which $500 had been appropriate
ed by the state, the county and the two
towns, was let to August Swanson or
Georgetown, whose bid was $4,675. The
road will form part of the state high
way from Denver to Leadville and the
Lincoln highway on the Western slope,
by way of the old Lovelano pass stage
| route.
The Allen bill to submit constitu-
tional amendment exempting the prop
erty of civil war veterans of the Union
army or navy from taxation to the
extent of $1,000, has passed the House
as was also the Colgate bill to estab-
lish department of social diseases in
the state board of health.
The La Junta Industrial Association
staged record get-together meeting
recently. More than 100 We're present