Cheyenne record., 1919-01-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western N-wspnper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
The Chamber of Commerce at Mont
ose is starting strong movement
0 secure for this city dehydratlng
liant.
The resignation of Colonel Frank
adams as superintendent of the State
Department of Safety was accepted
~ Governor Gunter Monday morning.
A gun club will be organized in
Fort Morgan if number of the crack
hooters of this vicinity succeed in
arrying out their plans as per sched-
lle
Under the direction of the City
Federation of Women's Clubs a Wig
,rous campaign will soon be started
.or the establishment of q modern
hospital in Sterling.
An organization, known as the
Monte Vista Stock Sales Committee,
hot on the trail of stock-selling
concerns and agents who sell stock
lnder misrepresentation.
Telluride is battling new wave OF
Influenza and a number of new cases
lave been reported lately. The city
authorities have requested dlScontln-
lance of public funerals.
Summit county during 1918 bought
Var Savings and Thrift Stamps of
otal value of $45,910.75. The coun-
US quota was $4O,O6O Dillon and
Breckenridge are banner towns.
After seven years of successful op-
sration Longmont today owns, free
rom debt, it's municipal electric light
plant, the last $4,000 bonds having
oeen paid by the city during the year
1918.
The new issue of War Savings
Stamps, costing $4.12 this month, are
IN sale at the postoffices and other
agencies. The stamps are redeemable
January l, 1924. Colorado's quota is
s2O,000,O00.
Orders for the dismantling Of a
major part of the Colorado Midland
-ailroad were issued by the State
Board of Public Utilities. Sixty days
are allowed before the order is to be
carried out, in the hope that the gov
,rnment, the state or industrial agen-
lies will take over management Of
he road and endeavor to make it pay.
Denver may obtain the annual con-
vention of the American Medical As
,ociation, which will be held in June,
1920, The Civic and Commercial As
sociation has received an inquiry from
The medical body asking about accom-
modations for delegates to the, con-
vention and for the convention itself
hat can be provided by Denver.
officers of the Great Western Sugar
Company state that beet growers in
Northern Colorado in large numbers
are signing contracts for the 1919
season, many of them increasing their
acreage from 80 to 100 per cent. The
sugar company officers believe that
more sugar beets will be grown in
Northern Colorado this year than ever
before.
By unanimous vote, former Gov
ernor Ammons was reelected chair
man of the Agricultural and Livestock
Bureau of the Denver Civic and Com
mercial Association. Other officials
elected at the meeting are: W. N.
w. Blayney, vice chairman; Lee A..
Reynolds, treasurer, and David w.
Thomas, secretary. Mr.. Thomas was
fense.
Drilling on the property of the Bed
Rock Oil and Gas Company will be
been done on this property since No
vember 16. The property is located
thirty-five miles south of La Junta
and the we'll is down to a depth of
$40 feet, and the company expects to
go about 1900 feet before pay sand
is struck. The we'll had been cased
awaiting the arrival of new cable
A service flag for Institute District
No /, comprising the counties of Lo-
gan, Morgan, Washington, Yuma
Phillips and Sedgwick, is shown in
the office of the county superintend-
ent of schools. The flag bears TWEEN.
ty-eight stars and represent the num-
Der of teachers in the district who en-
gagged in war service. The flag is
the property of the six counties in the
district and is sent to the superin.
tendents of the counties in their order
Because of the drop in lead anG
copper, since the armistice, the mines
at Rico, heavy producers of those
minerals, have closed down.
The Board of County Commission.
ers of Grand county have sent to the
State Highway Commission protest
against the construction of what is
known as the High Line" section OF
the Fall River road, between Estes
Park and Grand county, and urging
the commission to reconsider the rout.
ing of the highway at that point.
Fort Collin citizens have oversub.
scribed the 100000 bond issue fol
the purchase and improvement OF
their street railway system by so pei
cent Instead of offering the issue
to Denver or outside firms, the city
council decided first to give local peo.
pie chance to purchase. The result
is that Sl50,OO0 have been spoken fol-
in that city.
The Federated Trades Council al
Colorado Springs has decided to pro.
ceed at once with the circulation of pe-
titions seeking the recall of Mayor
Charles f. Thomas. This action was
taken in lieu of the general strike
voted some time ago to enforce the
demands of the local fire department.
for higher wages and the reinstate.
ment of the men when Strik ehreaL ore