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COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. An automobile driven by Charles D. Wayt, merchant, of Vineland, ran into Pacific train at the track in Devine, ten Mr. Wayt is in crossing a Pueblo. Missouri miles the hospital east of with a fracture of the and is other here injuries believed ranchman skull fatal- and ly hurt. Morris Pierce, a of Vineland, who was in the machine, suffered a broken arm and several scalp wounds. Clarence T. Gibbens, 35 years old, of Pueblo, was killed and his wife and C. S. Jones, in States Army tion and Mrs. Corporal United in Pueblo, recruiting charge Jones of were sta- the injured when an auto in which they were riding struck deep sand on a recently graded stretch of road, turned over on the Canon City-Colorado Springs road in Dead Man's Canon. The fact that enlistment by boys in the U. S. Boys' Working Reserve for farm work is purely voluntary and is asked of the boys merely as a patriotic duty is being emphasized by J. S. Jaffa, Colorado director of the re serve. By enrolling, the boys will be merely placing themselves in readiness to do work for food production. If Colorado farmers ask for their help Indications of Colorado's greatest since the written into the silver being output records early state, days James in the is office of the secretary of R. Noland. In the last three months fully 1,000 companies were in arrears, but now are being reinstated, in anticipation of $1-an-ounce silver. There is agitation also in copper. councils of been the State All county urged by defense Council have of Defense to make surveys to assure all and concerned with food that those properties particularly production are fully insured and guarded. The government crop reporting bureau reports the stocks of grain on Colorado farms on March 1 as follows: Corn, 3,724,000 bushels; wheat, 2,843, 000 bushels; oats, 3,563,000 bushels. and barley, 1,497,000 bushels. P Unpatriotic evidences have been re in fourteen towns from which the ported ty-two speakers out of of Defense seven- committee of the State Council has received replies in connection with its work. Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the engineering school at the State University at Boulder, has been appointed as sistant government director of the construction of United States munitions plants. R. Van Hise, the of Dr. University C. Wisconsin, president will soon of make a tour of the Pacific Coast, speaking on behalf of the third Liberty Loan. He will be in Denver March 28. A jury at Brighton found Frank H. Mulligan guilty of complicity in the holdup and robbery of Mrs. Harry T. Nolan and the Rev. Father Garret J. Burke in the Model road house, Jan. 2. cattle owners of Pike's Peak met with Forest terson at and district Many Clyde Ranger Ranger Truman Patat Woodland Park and were issued permits for grazing this season. The trial of Philip Cohen, charged of Mrs. was at the when with the she robbery Model Irene roadhouse Nolan with Father Burke on Jan. 2, was opened at Brighton on Tuesday A jury in the Denver District Court acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on the charge of murdering Mrs. Margaret Manning in the office of James M. Gingrich in a creamery Members of Base Hospital No. 29, the Denver unit which will leave for Camp Cody, Deming, N. M., attended a special service at the Central Presbyterian church in Denver. April 6, the first anniversary of the declaration of war with Germany, has been designated Dedication Day by the speakers' committee of the State Council of Defense. Japanese farmers in the neighborhood of Rocky Ford have formed a cantaloupe growers' association. Charles H. Williams, widely known milling man, owner of a plant at Brighton, died in Denver. Members of the Reformed Presbytera ian church at Greeley will erect $10,000 church building. Two Denver firms nave co-operated to build a new factory to produce a huge order of tents. Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance the erection of a Catholic church at Colorado Springs. The Longmont sugar factory closed the most successful run in its history, lasting 101 days. The Milner Bank and Trust Company at Steamboat Springs has been closed. Architects have prepared plans for a Congregational church at Red
