The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-15
Pithy News Notes
From An Paris of
Colorado

Colorado oil shale deposits are state
and national asset.
All the Weld county sugar mills are
assured long campaigns next season,
because of the immense beet tonnage
contracted for the county.
A committee of citizens from Fruta.
in Mesa county, is in Denver urging
the State Legislature TO pass law
creating the county of Pabpr on the
| Western Slope.
The value of farm. orchard and gar
den crops grown in Colorado ir l9lS
was approximately $150,0O0,0O0, as
| compared with S50,o74,95S for 1909
and $16,5SS for 1899.
Hundreds of farmers are making
good profits every year on nonirri-
gated land in Colorado that was con
sidered worthless for agricultural pur-
poses ten years ago.
Prof. William Black, instructor of
mechanical engineering at the Univer
sity of Colorado since 1917, died at
Boulder mt the university hospital fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
Being ut the crest of the continent,
Colorado contains the headwaters of
some of the principal rivers of the
United States, including the Colorado.
Rio Grande, Platte, Arkansas and Re
publican.
The asidents of Lake county are
solidly in favor OF the proposed $2l,-
600 for repairs for the Battle Moun-
tain road, in Eagle county, in place of
the proposed repairs to the roads in
the western part of that county.
Two Cripple Greek boys who fought
with the famous Devil Dogs at Cha
teau Thlerry 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.
The flu situation here continues
with little Improvement in Leadville.
There is crying need for nurses, for
as vet but few women have proffered
their services More than one-third of
the school pupils are absent, due to
flu. Fear of the dread disease is tenn
porarily crippling many business
| houses.
Although Il. Lee Craft, special
agent of the Department of Justice,
| went to Fowler to arrest one man on
charge of evading the draft, he
| brought to Pueblo another on the same
charge, and through a peculiar cir
cumstance, the name of the man
caught is the same as the man sought.
| He is James NJ. George, and he is held
| in the local jail awaiting action on
the part of government officials.
All the Weld county sugar mills are
assured long campaigns next season,
because of the immense beet tonnage
| contracted for in the country, accord
ing to Hi Tymothy, agricultural super
ntendent of the Greeley factory. He
says that the Greeley factory has con-
tracted bnore than 5000 acres, and
| that Windsor and Eaton have con-
tracted about 10000 acres between
| them. 4.
Original jurisdiction was assumed by
| the Colorado Supreme Court in TIL.
civil service wrangle arising from the
appointment of two commissions, one
| by the outgoing governor, Julius =.
| Gunter, and the other by Gov. Oliver
H. Shoup. The court, sitting en- banc,
authorized writ of custer to issue,
which compels the members of the
Gunter commission to make reply as
| to why they should not be removed
from office In announcing that the
writ may issue, the court let it be
known that it would consider no dis
puted facts This will limit the de-
| cision as to who in law constitutes the
civil service commission.
The grand encampmeut of Odd Eel
lows will be held in Denver Feb. IL.
1t was scheduled to be held in Fort
Collins last October, and was post
poned on account of the Influenza
epidemic. The military council of
| Patriarchs Militant will meet the eve
ming of the opening day at 1851
Champa. The final feature of the pro-
gram will be grand ball
The mysterious disease which has
been killing many cattle around Crest,
| Colo, and which started in the west
ern part of Morgan county, where it
destroyed entire herds, has been d.
| agnosed as corn stalk disease by vet
| erinarians from the State Agricultural
College Mt Fort Collins, and there is
no cure for it save to keep the cattle
out of the corn fields.
DR.. George Norlin, acting president
OF the University of Colorado, an
nounced at Boulder that the resigna-
tion OF DIR. Livingston Farrand. presi-
dent of the university, was expected by
the board of regents This statement
follows closely upon the announcement
from Washington that President Will
son had appointed DIR. Farrand as
president Of the American Red Cross,
the appointment to take effect
March /.