Cheyenne record., 1919-02-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Sheriff Sam Thomas of Pueblo has
sworn in fifty-seven deputies at the
steel mills to replace former guards.
Harry j. Wolf, mining professor at
the State School of Mines, states that
Colorado oil shale deposits are a 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,"
Prof. William Black, instructor of
mechanical engineering ht the Univer-
| sity of Colorado since 1917, died at
Boulder at the university hospital fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
/ Being at 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
John johnson, his wife and four
children, of NiWot, miraculously es-
capped death Sunday, when his car
left the road on II sharp curve four
miles outside of Boulder and plunged
into Il creek.
Reports show that in Denver last
year there We're 100 cases Of typhoid
fever, TT of scarlet fever, 394 of diph-
iberia, S4l of whooping cough, 2,644
of measles, SS4 Of chicken pox and
1O5 of mumps.
The residents of Lake county are
solidly in favor Of the proposed $21.-
900 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" at Cha
teau Thierry have returned to their
homes in Cripple Creek for a visit
with relatives. Both were wounded in
action. They are Dewey Nulph and
Willard Allen.
Opposition to the proposed $40, ,OOO,-
600 bond issue for good roads was
unanimously opposed by resolutions
passed by the Weld County Farmers
Union, which Is composed of repre-
sentatives of the twenty or more To-
cal unions in the county.
The grand encampment Of Odd Eel
! lows will be held in Denver Feb. II.
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 1t
destroyed entire herds, has been d.
ngnosed as corn stalk disease by vet
crinarians from the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins, and there 10
no cure for it save to keep the cattle
out of the corn fields.
| 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
intendent of the Greeley factory. He
says that the Greeley factory has CON
tracted more than 5000 acres, and
| that Windsor and Eaton have con-
| tructed about 10000 acres between
them.
Although II. 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 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.
Hundreds Of farmers are making
good profits every year on nonirri.
gated land In Colorado that was CON
sdered worthless for agricultural pur
| poses ten years ago.
Dr. George Norlin, acting president
of the University of Colorado. an
nounced at Boulder that the resigna.
ton of Dr. 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 VIII.
son had appointed DR.. Farrand as
president Of the American Red Gross.
the appointment to take effect
March l.
Colorado's own. the 18th infantry,
has been ordered home. The an
nouncement was made at Washington
that the 4Oth division, the Sunshine
DIVISION" composed of men from Colo
RADIO, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and
Colifornia would aoOn be aboard trans
ports bound for the United States.
Other Colorado units, in addition to
the 18TH. attached to the 40th division
are the 115th ammunition train and
| trench mortar battery; the 115th en-