Cheyenne record., 1919-06-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENT.

SoMlN~
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet in Denver. July IL. II, 1919.
The first codling moth spray, which
is the most important, should have
been made as soon as the blossoms
were well off the trees.
Two hundred and seventy-nine grad
yates of State Teachers college re-
ceived degrees or life certificates at
the commencement held on the college
campus at Greeley.
The state inheritance tax depart
ment will make thorough investiga-
ton of the reported shrinkage of the
estate of w. s. Jackson, Colorado
Springs pioneer banker, from $1O,OOO,-
600 to little more than $1,OOO,OOO.
A balance of $9,65O, ,769.Os on May 81
is the amount on hand in the state
treasury, according to Harry e. Null
nix, treasurer. This is an increase Of
$1,9OO,OO0 over the balance on hand
Feb. g. The receipts for the last
quarter were $4,643, ,045.49 and the dis
bursements 1881, ,4s597.
The first distinguished service med
al presented in Colorado was given to
Wendell w. Jacobs Of Colorado
Springs by Lieut. Col. g. NJ. Barney,
commander of the Denver army re-
cruiting station. Private Jacobs was
with Company G, 341st Machine Gun
Battalion, and was cited for extraor-
dinary heroism.
Maintenance of the government guar
anteed price Of $226 a bushel to the
wheat producer is absolutely neces-
sary to assure the production needed
to care for the world wants, it was de-
clared by julius Barnes, United States
wheat director, presiding at confer
ence of $50 representatives Of all the
grain industries of this country in New
| York
The bids for the making Of 100000
front tags and 30oae rear tags for au-
tomobiles have been let by Secretary
of State James R. holland. Another
company of Denver, has been given
the work of making $4,000 badges
which the law requires must be worn
| by chauffeurs. Colorado concerns are
being given preference in the bidding,
said Secretary of State NOland.
Il would rather die than 60 to
| Canon City" was the remark Of Frank
| De West, who broke Jail at La Junta
| after being sentenced to the peniten-
| tiary to from eighteen months to two
years De West was recaptured In
Pueblo, after making the trip by con-
| cealing himself underneath the coal on
| l,n Tho fret cQrton
was revoked, and he was resentenced
to serve from five to eight years for
his brief liberty.
| Among the arrivals from France re-
| Gently was Vernon r. Alspaugh and
| his wife, charming little French girl
| whom he married in Nantes, France,
| last December while member Of the
| sixteenth infantry of the A. E. F. The
young couple went to Craig, Colo,
where they will live on Private Ais
paughS ranch Alspaugh was a men,
Der of the first American unit under
| fire and was gassed during an engage
| nent in the TOul sector in January,
| 1918.
Reports received by the cooperative
! crop StlNltS Il
| stantial increase in the number of
| chickens on farms in Colorado since
| the report of the census bureau in
| 1910. The total number of chickens
| on farms in 1910, as reported by the
| Census Bureau was 1,G44, Al. The in
| quiry this year applies only to number
| of hens on farms, and though reports
will not be nearly so complete as
were obtained by the census bureau,
they will apparently show an increase
of at least 35 per cent in the number
| of chickens over 1910
A building pymit has been issued
| for the first hangar to be built by the
Curtiss-H Humphreys Aeroplane Com
| pany of Denver, which starts it's Estes
| Park aerial bus line in a few weeks.
| The hangar, frame structure 7OXSO
| feet in dimension, will be built at 69O1
East Twenty-sixth avenue, on the
| Oneida street flying field,
According to a current report of the
| State Highway Commission a total Of
| $375OOO will be spent on federal aid
road projects in District of Colo
RADIO. All of the money will be spent
| for grading and draining. The roads
to be improved are Cherry Greek road
to Colorado Springs Junction, Il dis
tance of fOrty-eight miles, the Burling-
ton road in Kit Carson county for ten
miles north, east and west, the Limon
east road for ten miles, the Colorado
Springs-CanOn City road. the Colorado
Springs Cripple Creek road, the Castle
Rock river road, the Cheyenne Wells,
either north or west: Woodland Park
to Cripple Creek in Teller county
Buena Vista-Salida road in Chaffee
county Buena Vista to Divide in Chat
fee county; Peyton-Ramah road in Ell
| Paso and Park counties and the Farm
| ers' highway in Lincoln county.