Gilpin observer., 1919-02-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Ford to investigate the city manager
form and the commission form Of gov
ernment and to report at the next
meeting to be held March 4. There
are a number who are in favor of a
decided change in the city manage
ment who believe that action should
be taken at once in season to get the
proposition before the people at the
coming election in April, who have al
ready taken the situation in hand, and
charter to embrace the needs of a
city the size of Rocky Ford is being
prepared.
There still remains another bill pro-
viding for the repeal Of the law Great
ing the cOnstabulary, but this bill is in
the Senate. Here, If the Democrats
show the same solidity Of sentiment
against the police body as they did in
the lower house, the fight for its pas
sage promises to be even more strenu-
Gus than that waged in the lower
house. The Senate bill was introduced
by De Busk of Trinidad In the Senate
the Democrats are in the majority.
But the Republicans hope to win over
sufficient number of Democrats to
save the constabulary when the test
comes.
Operations of the merit system in
Colorado may not be confined to state
and district appointments, but may ex-
tend to public offices in the smallest
political subdivisions of the state, it.
developed in the discussion OF the
Lambert civil service bill. The bill
went through on second reading in the
House, in spite of Democratic opposi
ton to block it's passage. The bill is
believed to be broad enough to in
clude certain county appointive off,
cerS.-
The favorable report of the House
Public Buildings and Grounds Commit
tee of the United States Senate on
the omnibus public buildings bill,
which includes an increase of S25O,00O
to the 100000 appropriation for the
Durango public building to house all
federal offices located in the city, has
caused number of concerns there to
contemplate the erection of several
modern buildings
The fossil remains of an antidelu-
vian monster, half fish and half reptile,
believed to have lived millions of
years ago when the great Uintah ba-
sin was an ocean, has been discovered
in the elaterite deposits of Indian cafI-
on. The snake fish fossil was found
completely embedded between two lay
ers of elaterite, and had shiny, jet
black scales of diamond shape.
The Colorado Public Utilities Com.
mission denied the application of ship
pers of Park county for rehearing
in the case involving the dismantlinR
of the Colorado Midland railroad.
This gives the owners the privilege of
permanently abandoning all but fifty.
four miles Of the main line, which In
cludes the twenty-six miles between
Colorado Springs and Divide.
Corp. Henry Rendering of La Junta,
% years old, died in embarkation hos
pital No. / at HOboken, n. ]. He ar.
rived in Hoboken the first of Febru-
airy, and was taken from the trans.
port suffering from influenza, which
developed into pneumonia. He is sur.
brother and sister.
At countrywide meeting of the
farmers and stockmen of Larimer
county, the Larimer county farm bu.
reau was organized with more than
hundred members. Farmers and their
wives from all sections Of the county
are joining this bureau daily, and II
promises to reach membership OF
several hundred before summer.
The formal resignation of President
Livingston Farrand Of the University
of Colorado was received by Acting
President Dr. George NOrlin, who will
present it to the board Of regents. The
regents are expected to accept the res
ignation and will probably name DIR.
Norlin to succeed DR.. Farrand.
Colorado's $16,OOO,OOO investment in
War Savings Stamps last year was
most excellent showing, according to
Associate Director w. Ward Smith of
the savings division Of the United
States Treasury Department who was
in Denver on four to study organiza'
tion methods and results.
Ralph Berglund, the 1S-year-old uni
versity freshman, who confessed to the
attack upon Miss Leda Frye, pretty
coed at the university, was taken to
Boulder from Denver after dark and
at secret night session of District
Court was sentenced to the reforma-
tory Mt Buena Vista.
The magnificent Hotel Colorado, at
Glenwood Springs. together with its
ample, and beautiful grounds and hot
and cold mineral springs, may be pur-
chased by the United States govern