Cheyenne record., 1919-02-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
E. B. Field ST., president Of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, is dead at his Den
yer home.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground work will be started on the
electric light plant which is to be the
latest addition to Craig.
Government reports show that there
are now 100000 hogs in Colorado,
worth $s,932, 900. as compared with
1924 in 1910, worth $1,56s, 1853.
Proposals for an appropriation of
$75O,OOO for, q tubarcular hospital in
Colorado we're rejected by the United,
States Senate, according to dispatch
from Washington.
r. d. May, % years old, fireman on
the AIOffat road, was overcome by gas
III the snow sheds at Corona and died
two hours later in the railroad eating
house at Kremmling.
That Colorado is likely to receive
large appropriation for the building or
roads and trails in the national forests
of Colorado is the prediction Of fOres-
try officials in Denver.
The acreage of wheat harvested in
Colorado in 1918 was $4,000, as COM
pared with $40, O,729 acres for 1900. The
increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
Julio Chavon, a Mexican, pleaded
guilty to killing mountain sheep in
Glen canon near Glenwood Springs,
and was fined 500. This is the first
conviction of it's kind in a number
of years.
At the city election April LIST the
taxpayers will vote on bond issue
of $4,000 for the building of a new
city hall at Longmont, and an issue
of $65,OOO for the improvement of
city parks.
At monster smoker of the Alamosa
Automobile Club committee was
named and plans made to erect a
$4,000 building here as a memorial
to the soldier and sailor dead of the
San Louis valley.
Work on the memorial gateway at
the army recuperation camp, the gift
OF union labor of Denver, will begin
within a few days. The contract for
the memorial was let Monday. The
gateway will cost $4,000.
Officials of eight Denver bonding
companies appeared before the Little
ton town board and offered tentative
bids for the floating Of $4,000 bond
issue, the money to be used in the con-
struction of a new municipal building
at Littleton.
Colorado holds first rank among the
states in acreage of land cultivated
under irrigation, with a total of nearly
100000 acres; yet there is nearly as
large an area which might be irrigated
by the completion of contemplated ir-
rigation systems.
Building permits asked for and re-
ceived in Greeley seem to indicate
flat the spring may open with a good
amount Of building to be done. The
city council at the last meeting acted
favorably upon applications involving
an expenditure of $4,000.
Willford Burwell and Morey Good
man Of La Junta have been awarded
buttons by the United States Treas
ury Department for their work in war
savings and thrift stamp sales. They
will also each receive a letter of COM
mendation from officials in Washing
ton.
A novel means of concealing liquor
4 t. hx,N mt
Hannebuth and Policemen Kelly and
Pitt when an examination of steam
heating radiator in the home of Nick
Reitto, 1857 Larimer street, proved 1t
to be fitted up with tiny faucet and
used as receptacle for whisky. 1
The field artillery branch of the ar
my at Washington has recommended
the establishment Of field artillery
unit at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege, Fort Collins, rs well as the es-
tablishment of an engineering corps
unit at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, according to information re-
ceived in Fort Collins.
Authorities of the United States i'm
migration service have started to in
vestigate the circulation in Denver of
pamphlets, said to PROFOUND Bolshe-
visit principles. The circulation of the
pamphlets has been under way for sew
eral days. Several of the leaflets have
fallen into the hands of the officials,
and they are now consulting with the
Washington office with reference to
handling the situation.
Liquor interests in the hope of re-
versing the stand of the nation on the
prohibition issue are seeking referen-
DUN elections in fourteen states, of
which Colorado is one. Announce
ment of the movement was made by
the National Association of Distillers
and Wholesale Liquor Dealers in Gin
cinnati. 1t is rumored that the cam
paign in Colorado will be directed by