The Elbert County tribune., 1919-02-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| ernment and to report at the next
meeting to be held March 4. There
are q number who are in favor of n
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
a charter to embrace the needs Of II
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, 1t
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 its passage. The bill is
believed TO be broad enough to In
clude certain county appointiye 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 $250,000
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 claterite deposits Of Indian can
on. The snake fish fossil was found
completely embedded between two lay
ers of eIaterite, and had shiny, jet
black scales of II diamond shape
The Colorado Public Utilities Com
mission denied the application of ship
pers of Park county for rehearing
in the case involving the dismantling
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. J. 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
| vived by his father and mother, and a
brother and sister.
| At n countrywide meeting of the
| farmers and stockmen of Larimer
| county, the Larimer county farm bu-
reau was organized with more than n
| hundred members. Farmers and their
| wives from all sections of the county
| are joining this bureau daily, and 1t
| promises to reach n membership OF
several hundred before summer.
The formal resignation of President
Livingston Farrand of the University
| of Colorado was received by Acting
| President DIR. George Norlin, who will
present it to the board of regents. The
regents are expected to accept the res
ienation and will probably name DR..
| Norln to succeed DIR. Farrand.
Colorado's S1e,0O0,0o0 investment in
War Savings Stamps last year was a
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 tour to study organiza-
ton 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 n secret night session of District
Court was sentenced to the reforma-
tory at 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
ment as the nucleus for the largest
army and navy officers recuperation
camp in the world.
Government reports show that there
| ...... 90 900 ,,,iIot, ,o,vc In CnIoru do