The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


shack in 'Peppersauce" bottoms and
that he maintained a 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 Vaidivia.
When brought to the police station the
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
form and the commission form of gov
ernmenf and to report at the next
meeting to be held March 4. There
are number who are in favor of
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
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, 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.
Further assurance that the Rocky
Mountain National park In Colorado
at last is to be developed in man
ner worthy of its unsurpassed scenic
8ttractions was given in Washington
when Senator John F. ShafrOth OBJ
tained a unanimous agreement from
the public lands committee of the Sen
ate to support the removal of the limit
OF $4,000 upon annual appropriations
for the upkeep Of the great federal
playground.
La Sale, Mead, Fort Lupton and
Milliken are prospective locations for
the sugar factory which it 10 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 S4.OOO,OOO 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 T. ]. Ehrhart, state high
way commissioner, and j. f. Maloney,
| engineer for the commission. Federal
and state aid will be combined with
county funds and work is to start as
| soon ms 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 a high explosive
| shell, which tore away section of his
left shin bone.
One out of every ten persons in the
| United States is an unnaturalized
alien, Raymond 8. Crist. deputy COM
| missioner OF naturalization, stated in
| warning that American institutions
are endangered by their presence. He
estimated their total at 1O,5OO.OO0.
In preparat ton 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
Because his bride had left him
and refused his efforts at a reconcil
| iation, Jacob Weinmaster drew a re-
volver and fired three shots at her,
none of which took effect. The shoot
ing took place at the home of Mrs.
Weinmaster's father at Eaton.
Declaring that Senate Bill No. 1914,
now before the Legislature, il an At.
tempt to place the public schools un
der an educational bureaucracy, the
Colorad do EQUAL SUFFRAGE Association