The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-22
CENTENNIAL STAGE ITEMS.

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trict viii be begun in COLORADO
Springs for the first time on com
merclal basis about May !, at the new
100000 plant of the international
Potash Company. This company IL
composed of Omaha capitalists anu
is just completing Its plant. at which
sixty men will be employed. 1t has
under lease the old Standard mill
dump, formerly the property OF the
United States Reduction and Reflnlns
| Company. The new company owns II
process worked out after long expert
ments, by which potash may be OBJ
tanned at commercial profit from the
old gold tailings.
Asserting that Mexican forced her
to live with him in Il little one-room
shack in "Peppersauce" bottoms ana
that he maintained strict guard over
her all the time and failed to provide
food, Mrs. Leila Trodsham appealed to
! the police department at Pueblo in
letter and urged the police to rescue
| her. Detectives assigned TO the case
went to the place and arrested her, as
well as her captor, KiatanO Naldivia.
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woman was almost famished from lack
of food. She says her captor refused
to work or allow her to get employ
ment and that he sold everything in
the house to obtain money.
A committee was recently appointed
by the Industrial Association of Rocky
| Ford TO investigate the city manager
! nj ha communication farm pf
ernment and to report at the next
meeting to be held March i. There
are Il number who are in favor of
decided change in the city manage
ment who believe that action should
he 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.
La Sale, Mead, Fort Lupton and
Milliken are prospective locations for
the sugar factory which it is said the
Industrial Sugar Company will locate
some place in Weld county. The In
| dustrial company was recently organ
ized at Fort Morgan and has filed ar
ticles of Incorporation with capital
stock of $4,0OO,000 for the purpose of
building and operating factories in
Morgan, Logan, Weld and Larimer
counties.
Another immense body of ore of re-
ported fabulous worth, probably equal
TO the famous vug which was discov-
cred several years ago, has been un-
covered in the tenth level of the Cres-
son mine, ColoradOs premier gold pro-
ducer While the extent of the find
has not been definitely ascertained 1t
is known to be very large while grab
samples taken across the face of the
vain indicate values of 5000 a ton.
John Capra, Italian, who quit the
business of tilling a truck garden on
the outskirts of Denver last April to
go ."0ver There" as a member of I'm
Gle Sam's expedtionary forces, is
coming back hero. At present he is
in Jebarkation hospital, New York
City. recuperating from wounds in
flicted by particles of high explosive
shell, which tore away section of his
left shin bone.
The greatest event of the year In
school circles, the meeting of the
Western Slope Athletic and Rhetori-
cal Association, will be held in Mont
rose Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
May %, "a and %, this year, with
eleven schools taking part, as follows:
Grand Junction, Montrose, Delta,
Ouray, Gunnison, Olathe, Hotchkiss,
Nucla, Paonia, Ridgway and Telluride.
In preparation for what is believed
will be one of the best tourist seasons
| in years in Colorado Springs, hotel
| and amusement owners have arranged
| to keep publicity representative of the
Pixies Peak region in Salt Lake City
and Los Angeles during the tourist
season there in an effort to bring tour
lists there on their return trip to the
East.
Plans for paving the Denver road
north from Colorado Springs through
| Palmer Lake were outlined in Colorado
Springs by 7. J. Ehrhart, state high
way commissioner, and ]. e. Maloney,
engineer for the commission. Federal
and state aid will be 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.
A house fell on George Hubbard at
Montrose and so severely crushed his
left leg that amputation was neces-
sary. Hubbard was engaged in NOV
ing the structure when his team
lurched and the house slid from its
trucks and pinned him beneath.
Declaring that Senate Bill No. 194,
now before the Legislature, is an at