The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-27
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
COLORADO
6@6C

vim, state game and fish commissioner.
Denver.-The white plague caused
232 deaths in Colorado during Septem-
ber, the monthly report issued by the
State Board of Health shows. Dlph-
sherla is next on the list with 1913
deaths, according to the report.
Julesburg.-Mrs. II. d. McCllntock,
wife of teacher in the Sedgwick
County High school here, was killed
accidentally when she was shot
through the heart by shotgun lean
ing in a clothes closet of her home. Her
body, discovered by her S-year-old son,
Robert, was lying in the closet with the
shotgun underneath.
Golden.-A. ]. Weinig of Telluride
has been appointed director of the ex-
perimental plant at the Colorado
School of Mines, according to an an
nouncement by the board of directors
of the school Weinig is n graduate
of the school and also of the Univer-
sity of Colorado. He is widely known
as a mining expert.
Fort Lupton.-SiXty Japanese chill
dren attending school in Il two-story
brick structure here, narrowly escaped
suffocation from smoke when the up
per portion of the building was de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin.
Several of the children were overcome
by the smoke and had to be carried
from the burning building.
Fort Collins.-Competitiv drill on
the campus of the Colorado Agricul-
tural College, which was won in Glass
A by Canton Rogers Nc. 1 of Denver,
and in Class b by Canton Fort Collins
No. 81 of Fort Collins was the high
spot in the program of the second day
of the fifty-siXth annual Grand Lodge
of the Independent Order of odd Eel
lows.
Denver.-Prior to his departure for
the East, Governor Sweet issued two
proclamations, one designating Oct. 10
as Constitution day, the other setting
aside Oct ~ as Navy day. Everyone
is asked to observe these two days in
some manner and the schools are re-
quested to pause long enough to con-
duct exercises appropriate to the oc-
caSion.
Denver-A total of 81, ,249 ,40S.46 was
spent by the University of Colorado
during the fiscal year which ended
Nov 30, 1922, according to the state
auditors report, made public here.
According to the report, the outstand-
Ing feature of the audit is the fact that
S16,67O79 was expended by the univer-
sity to rMse S76, ,552.77 for the medical
department of the institution.
Denver.-Research work on oil shale
is being conducted by the Department
of Interior at Washington, through
the bureau of Mines in cooperation
with the state of Colorado, the Univer-
sity of Utah, and the department OF
conservation of the state of Indiana.
The object of this work is twofold ::
First, to determine the conditions of
retorting that produce the highest
Yields of the best oil from various
shales, and second, TO make thorough
study of methods of refining shale Oil.
Denver.-Farmers on the Grand VAL
ley project are sitting pretty, according
TO a Department of Interior report an
nounced in Washington. The third
crop of alfalfa has been harvested and
some of it already is being marketed.
Beet growers received their final pay
ment from the Holly Sugar Company,
bringing their total return to 5000 a
ton. Potatoes yielded well and have
brought fair prices. The report states
that the grain harvest on the Uncom-
pahgre project is virtually complete
and that prospects are excellent for
good Yields of sugar beets with high
sugar content. The potato crop was
one-third below normal.
Denver-The board of directors of
the American Wheat Growers Associ-
alton will meet in Denver Oct. 80, to
perfect plans of cooperative associa-
tions of growers controlling 10 per
cent of the wheat grown in the United
States.
Boulder Homecoming day at the
University of Colorado will be Nov. 2
this year The cornerstone of the new
gymnasium is to be laid in the after
noon and the usual homecoming day
play is to be given in the evening. "A
Woman's Way" has been chosen as the
vehicle, and members of the Players
Club, under the direction of Carl
Click, will take part.
Greeley.-Weld county as a county
government or political unit has no
right to appeal from the order of the
State Board of Equalization which sus-
tanned the Colorado Tax Commission
in boosting the assessment OF the coun-
ty more than $4,0O0,000 over the fig
ures set by County Assessor Homer f.
Bedford, according to an opinion gwen
TO Assessor Bedford by Attorney Gen
eral Russell Fleming. Aggrieved tax
PAYERS may contest the assessment in
the courts, however, the opinion
states.
Boulder.-University of Colorado CO.
eds are to make dolls and other toys