The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-27
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form and the commission form of gov
ernmsnt and to report at the next
meeting to be held March 4. There
are q number who are in favor of u
decided change in the city manage
ment who believe that action SHOULD
be taken at once in season to get thu
proposition before the people at the
coming election in April, who have al
ready taken the situation in hand, ant
charter to embrace the needs Of a
city the size OF Rocky Ford is being
prepared.
La Sale. Mead. Fort Lupton and
Milliken are prospective locations for
the sugar factory which 1t is said the
Industrial Sugar Company will locate
some place in Weld county. The In
dustrial company was recently organ
lied at Fort Morgan and has filed ar
ticles of Incorporation with a capital
stock of $4,OoO.OO0 for the purpose of
building and operating factories in
Morgan, Logan, Weld and Larimer
counties.
Plans for paving the Denver road
north from Colorado Springs through
Palmer Lake were outlined in Colorado
Springs by 4. ]. Ehrhart, state high
way commissioner, and ]. E. MalOney,
engineer for the commission. Federal
and state aid will he combined with
county funds and work is to start as
soon as the weather will permit. Traf-
fic records show this road receives the
heaviest travel of any In the Pixies
Peak region.
John Capra, Italian, who quit the
business of tilling "A truck garden on
the outskirts OF Denver last April to
go "Over There" as member of I'm
Gle Sans expeditionary forces, is
coming back hero. At present he is
in debarkation hospital, New York
City, recuperating from wounds in
flicted by particles of n high explosive
shell, which tore away section of his
left shin bone
Colorado's s1G,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
tion methods and results.
The magnificent Hotel Colorado, at
Glenwood Springs, together with Its
ample and beautiful grounds and hot
and cold mineral springs, may he pur-
chased by the United States govern
ment as the nucleus for the largest
army and navy officers recuperatiOn
camp in the world.
The skeleton of n full grown man,
with large slab Of rock lying on
top of the bones was found near Nuc-
la in the Big Bucktail gulch. The
skeleton was found on the edge Of n
ledge of rock. Apparently. the man
had been crushed by u fall of rock
while asleep.
The vastness OF ColoradO's manu-
featuring interests, rs reported by Ex-
ecutive Secretary l.. X. Lewis OF the
Colorado Manufacturers Association
at national conference of manufact-
urers In st. Louis was surprise to
delegates from other parts of the
United States.
Miss jeanette Lesser of Pueblo is
probably the only woman railway mail
clerk in the United States. She re
ceived her appointment from the Post
office Department and now IL
awaiting assignment.
Three Mexicans living in the Silt
district are in jail charged with the
murder OF John Breuss, 5S. wealthy
Garfield county rancher, last Novem-
Der, following the discovery of the
body in his barnyard.
The Mesa Verde and the Rocky
Mountain National Parks OF Colorado
are among a dozen scenic wonders of
the West which the railroad admins
tration has elected to advertise in
time table folders.
Monte Vista will have big stock
show Feb. 26, 81 and %, 1919.
There still remains another bill pro
viding for the repeal of the law Great
ing the constabulary, hut this bill is in
the Senate Here, II 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.
From all sections of Colorado come
reports of new building, industrial
development, road work, home con-
struction. new factories, paving, mu-
nicipal light and water plants, park
improvements and kindred develop