The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1919-02-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| eminent and to report at the next
meeting to be held March 4. There
are 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
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
a 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 OPPOSE
ton to block its passage. The bill is
believed to be broad enough to in
clude certain county appointive off,
GERS.
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,OOO
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-
Wan 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 can
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 4 rehearing
In the case involving the dismantline
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 embnrkatiOn hos.
pital No. | ut HobOken, n. ]. He ar.
rived in HObOken the first Of Febru-
AIRY, and was taken from the trims.
port suffering from influenza, which
developed into pneumonia. He is sur
vived by his father and mother, and II
brother and sister.
At n countrywide meeting OF the
farmers and stOckmen of LarimeI
county, the I.arimer county farm bu
reau was organized with more than II
hundred members. Farmers and theii
wives from all sections of the county
are joining this bureau daily, and II
| promises To reach II membership OF
| several hundred before sumner.
The formal resignation OF President
Livingston Fnrrnnd OF the universit!
of Colorado was received by Acting
President Dr. George NOrlin. who will
present IL to the board Of regents The
regents are expected to accept the res
ipna,ion and will probably name DR.
Norlin to succeed DIR. Farrnnd.
Colorndo's xlG,OOO.OOO investment In
War Savings Stamps last year was II
most excellent showing. according 10
Associate Director W. Ward Smith OF
the savings division Of the United
States Treasury Department. who was
| In Denver on II tour to study OrgnnlzA
tiOn methods and results.
Ralph Berglund. the ls-year-Old uni.
verslty freshman, VIII" confessed 10 the
ntinck upon Miss Lcdn Frye. pretty
coed ut the university, WAS taken To
| Boulder from Denver after dark and
Mt n sccre, night session Of District
| Court WINS sentenced to the ref0rInA.
tory nt Burnn Vista.
The magnificent Hotel Colorado. NJ |
Glcnwood Springs. together with its
ample and beautiful grounds and hot
and cold mineral springs, may b. pur.
clnscd by the United States govern.
mcnt MS the nucleus for the largest
army and navy officers recuperntlOn
camp IN the world.
Government reports show that there
We're 26i.OOO miicii COWS IN Colorado
Jan. !. 1919. worth S23. o.2 900. against |
iGt 600 In 1911. worth 1.2JS.UO. The