The Keota news., 1919-03-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

po00oO On IIuol 108OluS IN INC senate
the state banking commissioner will
receive . salary Of $4,000 . year. his
deputies, other than special dspu.
ties. 5000. slsrks $500 and Ste
nograpi,er $3.50. In the House was
adopted on third reading the FurrOw
bill authorizing the purchase Of site
and establishment OF . state fish
hatchery In either Mineral or Archu.
leta counties: the I.acy.Davis bill ap-
proprIating 100000 to make up the
difference In teachers salaries pro-
vided In the bill passed several days
ago raising the general minimum for
teachers In schools below the first and
second grades throughout the en-
tire system: and the Furrow.Wilkins
bill. allowing transportation COM
panies to Issue transportation to news
papers and magazines within the state
In payment for advertising.
Following IN all.sfternoOn debate.
the Senate passed on second reading
the Fincher. O'Brien hill: increasing
workmen's compensation In Colorado
from s. TO SO week. under the state
compensation fund, and reducing from
fourteen TO ten days the so-called walt.
Ing period intervening between the.
date Of Injury and the time when com.
penxation becomes available. The bill.
a. passed. increaxcx the medical bene.
fits to 300 within 4 sixty.day period
following injury. Under tho present
law. the maximum medical benefit II
Of ~ eSs
days. The maximum death benefit.
under the new measure. II Increased
from $500 to $3.l25.. sponsors for the
measure declare that II contains an
aggregate Increase Of approximately
- per cent In the maximum benefits
available from the state compensation
fund.
Investigation Of Thomas J. Tynan's
ewardshIp Of the penitentiary whs
proposed simultaneously In both houses
of the Legislature In resolutions that
designate q committee consisting Of
the state auditor. secretary Of state
and the Attorney general. The findings
Of the committee are to he submitted
to Governor Oliver II. Shoup. Warden
Tynsn's term expires April l. The In.
vcxiigation Is the result IL deficien.
~ appropriation Of &2c,500 for the
pcnitcntiary just passed. for the years
l9l7.lDlS.
Plans for constructing n mammoth
bath house ut Manitou have been out.
lined BY the business men Of the pixies
Peak region and II il hoped to have
the structure complete by the summer
OF 1910. The bath house will be built
near the soda springs and will cost In
the ncIghborhood Of 100000. Com.
nittccs composed Of leading hotel men
and merchants now are at work on the
promotion program and the company
will be incorporated shortly.
Tho body of an italian laborer. b.
lievcd to BIZ Philip DcAiarks, employed
ut the steel works Of the Colorado
Fuel and 1ron Company Mt Pueblo. was
found BY workncn on their way to the
plant. the top Of the head nearly blown
off and no definite means of identifi.
cation on the botiy. II Is believed that
DcAIsrka, II he he the dead man. was
the victim Of black hand gang. A
shotgun was used to kill him. No 5 shot
being discharged at short range.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done ut Pagosa Springs by the fire
which destroyed the telephone office.
a millinery store. pool hall. a building
containing the New Albany hotel and
drug store owned by Frank Edmis.