The Holly chieftain., 1919-03-06
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

The Colorado State Agricultural
college, together with Yale, Harvard
and Columbia, have been designated
by the War Department as a field ar
tillery training school and $25O,0OO in
equipment will be sent to- Fort Col
Inns. The school will open with the fall
term in September and the work will
be compulsory certain number of
hours week with all men except SEN
iors. This action of the War Depart
ment follows conferences between
President Lory and A. A. Edwards,
president of the board, with Brigadier
General Danforth and Col Thomas
Sloan, and a recent visit of inspection
to the school by Colonel Sloan. The
battery equipment for the school will
consist of five guns, including how
itzer and French IS, two tractors,
two trucks and ninety-six horses, with
number of noncommissioned officers
and instructors.
Blue-sky legislation to be considered
by the Senate is confined to one meas
ure. 1t is Senate bill No. 3 and was
reported out of the judiciary commit
tee by Senator Henry O. Andrew,
chairman. The bill bears the names
of Senators Knauss, Peterson, Dun
klee, TObin and Andrew. The measure
is a composite bill representing what
the committee believes to be the best
features contained in several submit
ted by Republicans and Democrats. 1t
is not designed to interfere with spec
uative securities that have merit, but
does contain provisions that will drive
the 'wildcatter" from the state and
provide penitentiary terms for those
who msrepresent facts.
The Bigelow House bill regulating
the practice of dentistry in Colorado
was the subject of lively debate
when efforts were made to amend GER
tain of its provisions Senator w. F.
OBrien, who introduced an identical
bill in the Senate, took the lead in sup
port of the measure. He is dentist.
The bill amends in number of re-
spects the present law regulating den
tistry, bringing under its provisions
dental hygieniStS as well as regularly
licensed dentists, and providing legal
machinery for procedure in cases
where licenses are revoked by the
State Board of Dental Examiners.
Under the provisions of bill by
Senator Barney Napier, passed on third
reading, cities and towns of Colorado
may soon be fighting the packing COM
panies for control of the meat bust
ness The measure provides that cities
and towns may operate abattOirs and
cold storage houses. Senator Napier
declared that such municipal owner
ship and operation would be a weapon
against the packing trust" and be a
far step toward bringing meats to Il
fair level of prices for the consumer
A dozen snow slides have run in the
section around Ouray and played
strange pranks but with little damage
The Guadalupe mine buildings, eight
miles south of Ouray, We're swept sew
eral hundred feet to the bottom of a
Su'Siis iShNIhS X'Ilic aChtI sui
marooned and partly buried in tun-
mel. The one thing left intact was the
telephone switchboard, which Acker-
son managed to reach and summon
miners who dug him out.
The automobile races up Pixies Peak
probably will be resumed this year, ac-
cOrding to plans being made by Presi-
dent Spencer Penrose of the highway
company. Motor car manufacturers
in all parts of the country are being
interviewed relative to entries and If
they are able to catch up with their
war orders in order to give time to
the race the event will be staged in
August. 1t is planned to make them
all stock car events.
Death has snatched patient from a
hospital, a prisoner from the county
Jail and criminal case from the Dis
trict Court in Pueblo when John Rene
gar reported well enough to be return
ed from the hospital to the county Jail,
collapsed on the steps of the hospital
and died three minutes later.
Five employees of the Denver & Rio
Grande, Walter f. Robertson, Ira Da-
Wis, Harold Foster, Ray II. Bartlett
and Alya Brown are prisoners in the