Cheyenne record., 1919-01-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

district do not want their potatoes
graded before they are sent out to
The consumers.
has unloaded two cars of steel piling
to be used in the construction of a
big reservoir near Bloom.
Nebraska Aggies repeated their
last years performance and defeated
the Colorado Aggies in the stock
Judging contests at the Western Ma
tional Stock Show in Denver.
Grand Junction and Grand Valley
business men are after a settlement
Of soldiers in the valley under the
plan suggested by Franklin X. Lane,
secretary of the interior.
Samuel Cheesebrough, employed at
the Terrible mine, Silver Plume, was
killed when he was caught under Il
| rock fall. ChesebrOugh is survived
| by six small children. His wife died
from the influenza some time ago.
| Prof. C. NJ. Heron of La Junta en-
tered several of his Single Comb
Buff Leghorns in the Chicago Ma
tional Poultry Show and won first
prize on hen. first on pullet and sec
ond on cockerel.
| VIII Mathieson, farmer of the
Timnath district. accidentally killed
his 18-months-old daughter by back
ing his automobile over the child.
Her neck was broken and she died
within a short time
The Myron Stratton Home Corpor-
alton, as the holding company own
ing the Colorado Springs and Inter
urban Railway Company, has agreed
| TO sell the street car lines to Colo
rado Springs, but no price has been
named.
A dairy COW belonging to C. S.
Donher of Great Bend pays for her
self every fifteen days. She was pur-
| chased for s35 three years ago, and
| in fourteen months produced $847.SO
worth of milk, an average of $2.24 a
day.
Following the filing of a protest
petition by all the men of the stu
| dent body. military drill has been
suspended at Colorado College and it
Training Corps program will be
abandoned.
The annual ski carnival which was
| to have been held in Steamboat
| Springs next month, has been called
off. it was announced by the Steam,
l,,h
of the expert ski jumpers of the
country are in military service.
Senator Charles S. Thomas mott,
fled the Civic and Commercial Asso,
citation of Denver that the acting
quartermaster general had declared
that the War Department had the
| power to establish in Denver a mill
tary purchasing headquarters and a
quartermaster's depot.
Plattevilles commercial club has
received definite assurances from the
kuner company that the next fac
tory for putting up pickles and other
vegetables which the company estab.
| fishes will be at Platteville. bu: that
the sudden ending of the war has dis.
arranged their plans so that it is moi
| likely to be this year.
That the Colorado Development
| Federation continue its Washington
| bureau and other activities as 4 pro,
| tective measure to Colorado interests
was the request made by the state or.
| ganization of county commissioners
BY unanimous vote. the organization
passed resolution that each count!
| pay at once its share of fund 10 car.
ry on the work OF the federation
A tragedy which saddened the
| hearts of all occurred at Holyoke when
the life Of year-e,d babe was snuffed
out by flames, burned to death while
asleep.
Arapahoe cOunty's valuation has
increased $536.2lO in the last year
according to figures of the county
assessor. Settlers proving up land
titles and general increase of the
county's prosperity are given as the
reasons. The 1919 valuation OF
the county is s19.722.11O.
| 1t is the opinion of the acting quar-
termaster general in Washington that
the War Department has power. un-
der existing law and without addi-
tional legislation, to establish mill
tary purchasing headquarters and n
quartermaster's depot in Denver, &C
cording to telegram to the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association
from Senator Charles S. Thomas.
An inquiry concerning Colorado pro-
duction Of steel, iron and small tools
for markets in France, Italy, Spain,
the Balkan states and North Africa
was received by the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association from = firm in
Paris distributing supplies to the
French army. All Colorado concerns
turning out such products were noti-
fled at once by Executive Secretary L.
R. Lewis of the association.
An oYerheated stove in the Thomas