The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
High waters In the Platte river,
Plum and Cherry creeks, caused by
severe cloudbursts, are said to be re-
ceding very rapidly.
Within the last six weeks three pairs
Of twins have been born in Craig. The
first pair were girls and the others
boy and girl each.
Since May %. sixty-three marriage
licenses have been taken out in Lari-
mer county. Fifteen suits for divorce
have been filed in the sametime.
Census figures announced give Trim
idad, Colo. 10,906; increase, 102. or
SO per cent. Glenwood Springs, Colo,
2,O73; increase, "a. or 81 per cent.
Henry Berry and Joseph Lee Armit-
age, both cattlemen of Cimarron, were
drowned in the Fitzpatrick irrigation
One hour parking in the congested
district of Denver provided in amend
ments recently passed by the city
council, is proving highly successful,
and has drawn favorable comment to
the safety and excise department, ac-
cording to officials
Employees at the state capitol living
in nearby towns and committing to
and from their work will not have
the expense of their travel betrayed
by the state, according to ruling
made yesterday by State Auditor
Arthur NJ. Stong
Four persons from Colorado have
been made lieutenants of the Saliva
ton Army at Chicago, according to
word received in this city Thursday
from the Chicago training college
where they were graduated. There
was a class Of thirty-six.
Several thousand Jewish people and
their friends attended mass meet
ing at the Denver Auditorium and
pledged more than $4,000 for the
Palestine restoration fund. The gath
ering officially opened the drive to
raise $4,000 in the Denver district.
Sixteen thousand dollars worth of
diamonds belonging to Mrs. Eugene P.
Shove of Colorado Springs, sister of
George p. Steele of Denver, were
stolen from the Denver Club, Seven
teenth street and Glenarm place. No
trace of the thieves has been found.
Three youthful bandits walked into
sDago Mike" Mongone's Pastime
Club in Denver, lined up fifteen pat
rons of the place at the point of guns,
and robbed them of between 81 500 and
$1,000. After pocketing the money
they coolly trooped down the stairs
from the place. climbed into taxicab
and rode away.
Gano E. Senter, 1547 Champa street.
salesman for the Industrial Sugar
Company, flew to the cOmpany's big
ranch, sixty-five miles east of Den
yer, before breakfast in a Curtiss-
Humphreys aeroplane and closed two
big sugar deals for the company. The
trip is said to have set a precedent
for Colorado statesmen.
Work upon the compilation of the
Colorado statutes, authorized by the
Twenty-second General Assembly in its
regular session, has progressed to n
state where the revision commission is
getting ready to commence printing
their report for consideration by the
next General Assembly. Contracts for
the printing will be let within the next
few days.
Protest against the submission of
petitions for the creation of two new
counties, Flagler and LimOn, in east
ern Colorado were filed with Secretary
the contentionshrdlu shrdlushrdlshrdl
of State James K. Noland. Among the
contentious the most important is that
| they are unconstitutional. it being the
| function of the General Assembly to
| create new counties.
Leo Williams, alias Jack Smith.
wanted in connection with murder
in Cripple Creek, Colo, has been ar
rested here He was traced here
| through his signature on the records
of an employment office in Sacra-
mento Ralph Gaffney, charged with
completely in the same crime was
taken into custody in Modesto, Cal.
Lieut.. Hugh Winslow, son of FL
nance Commissioner w. H. Winslow
and Mrs. Winslow of Fort Collins, who
was graduated from West Point this
spring and who is home visiting his
parents, has been assigned to duty at
the coast artillery school at Fortress
Monroe, Va. He will leave for that
post when his graduation furlough is
completed about September l.
The road between Denver's city
limits and Arvada will be paved with
in the next few months, if a project
submitted by the state to the federal
roads bureau is approved The pro-
ject calls for the paving, in concrete,
of one and a half miles at an esti-
mated cost of S59,900. Twenty thou
sand dollars per mile, or 100000 in all,
is asked of Uncle Sam through the
roads bureau toward defraying the ex-
pense, the state to stand the balance.
The Colorado Springs city council
has granted the Light, Heat and