Cheyenne record., 1919-02-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

With a heavy blanket OF snow, and as
1 result the wheat farmers are smil-
ng.
An army Y. M. C. A. Club for re-
turning soldiers and sailors is to be
Yanks in the future.
Thomas b. Bishopp, famous in the
early history of Colorado AZ an In
iian fighter. freighter and prospector,
is dead at Greeley at the age Of 81.
An old landmark and relic Of Gree
,ey's earlier days will disappssr soon
when the old Colorado house is torn
down and a modern business building
is constructed.
Notice has been issued by the land
office at Montrose that on April Z,
1919, Twp. 12, south. r. 81 west. 9Th
o. m, which has been withdrawn for
resurvey, will be reopened to entry.
J. A. Clay, general manager of the
Western Colorado Power Company,
which is moving its main offices from
Montrose to Durango, has been elect
ed president of the Durango Ex-
change
The Denver G. Rio Grande has be-
gun laying sixty-five-pound steel from
Montrose east toward Salida. The
steel will be laid until it meets the
heavier steel which has been already
placed on the Marshall pass part Of
the line
Pablo Martinez, a Mexican section
hand. who pleaded guilty to wrecking
Union Pacific fast train No. 109 last
October by throwing a switch, was
sentenced to fifteen years In the state
penitentiary by Judge Bradfield at
Greeley.
The second annual convention OF
the American Sugar Beet Agricul-
turalists will be held in Denver late
in January. 1920, it was decided at its
meeting at Logan, Utah, at the clos
ing session of the first gathering of
the organization.
As memorial to her son, Lieut..
Harry Wray, who died recently of
wounds received on the battlefields of
France, Mrs. U. S. Okey has donated
to the Canon City Young Mems Chris
tian Association her splendid private
library of 260 volumes.
Supervisors OF agriculture for the
leading railroads In Colorado con-
ferred in the offices of the State
Board of Immigration to make plans
for furnishing information to home
seekers and returned soldiers desir
ing to settle on Colorado land
Two aliens now in the county Jail
at Leadville, Sam Nelson, Swedish,
and Gus Lipkins. Russian, are to be
deported. They will leave here and
start east on special train coming
from San Francisco to pick up en-
route all undesirable aliens who have
been ordered deported.
Thieves broke into the office of the
Climax Molybdenum Company at Gil
max. forced the company's safe and
escaped with registered Liberty bonds
of the fourth issue valued at between
$1,000 and $4,000. The bonds were
the property of employees of the COM
pany that had been left in it's safe for
security.
A million-dollar copper enterprise
for western Montrose county was an
nounced by James N. Mcbride, rep
resentative of a syndicate OF Michi-
gan and Colorado mining men who
have obtained an option on the old
Cash In mine, long owned by a Mich
igan widow. Mcbride is on his way
to the mine to arrange for a flota
ton mill which will employ 500 to
1000 men. The mine is the only
one with a native vein OF copper in
Colorado.
Colorado has the greatest extent
and widest variety of mountain
scenery found in the United States 1t
has more than forty mountain peaks
above $4,000 feet high and approx
mately 1925 above 10000 feet.
The Steamboat Spring Ski Club will
hold tournament this year, the dates
selected being Feb. q and 22 AS has
always been the case. the tournament
this year will eclipse all others as
added attractions are being obtained
and the top notch professionals of the
world will be in attendance to try
again to lower the worlds record
jump made on the local track.
Complete casualties have been an
nounced for the Eight y-ninth division,
which is largely made up of Colorado
men. The division obtained its fame
in the war beginning with the first
day of action when the men of the
Eighty-ninth entered the St Mihiel
salient on Aug. 6 and fought through
the succeeding days until the armis-
rtice was signed by the sacrifice of g..
t73 men. according to a dispatch from
the army of occupation This total
includes the men that were killed,
wounded or missing in action during
the three months period.
Owing To the severe Minte er Xeathe