The Dolores star., 1920-12-31
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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the Rockefeller Foundation. This of
fer Is 100000, and is the only one ever
made by Rockefeller trustees to II state
school, but is contingent upon the state
| of Colorado providing $SOo.oOO TO go
with it. II is understood that the re
gents of the State University will ask
the next State Assembly for 100000,
and then 20 before the public for the
remaining 100000 on popular sub
scriptlon. Thus $1,5OOUo0 can he
raised, and It is planned to construct
state hospital of mt least l5O.hcd ca
pacity for INDECENT sick, nurses
home, medical laboratory, central
| heating plant, etc, equipped with the
most up-to-date appliances known TO
medical science. This would he Col
orado institution, built FOR the entire
state, and President George Norlin of
| the State University, together with va
rious medical societies, physicians and
| friends of the movement, are backing
| the plan to the utmost. The Colorado
| State Medical Society will give the
proposition its hearty support, because
| ii would mean the best medical plant
between the Missouri River and Pacific
Coast. A considerable amount of in
| terest has been raised, and those in n
position to know something about the
matter feel quite sure that the Rocke-
feller offer will be accepted.
Charged with picking up his two
year-old daughter and throwing her
ha M
couple had quarreled over his alleged
| previous inhumane treatment of the
child, Arthur Christensen, formerly Il
| Denver photographer, was taken into
| custody by Uudersherff Robert Nc
Namara of LittlctOn. He was later
transferred to the Denver city jail by
State Humane Officer Harry Richter
and is being held pending the outcome
of the injuries alleged to have been in
flicted upon his daughter.
Nearly score of deputy shcriffs,
heavily armed with machine guns,
have been placed on the Colorado-utah
| line to be in readiness for an cmer-
gency that may arise in the sheep war
that is menacing the western slope.
district are said to be up in arms be
cause of the strict quarantine that has
been placed, holding nearly 10000
head of sheep near the line pending
| Investigations by the authorities.
Another industry has been added to
the long list of new factories which
have been started in Delta during
1920. This will be concrete products
factory, being combination of the
Uncompahgre Valley Cement State
SilO Company and other interests. The
company expects to spend 100000 in
the erection of suitable plant in
Delta similar to the one they recently
erected at Rocky Ford.
With evidence said TO have been OBJ
tained through the sensitive transmit
ter of n telephone device the Denver
police declare that they have proof in
their possession which will succeed in
| exposing John Dramm, alias John
Lame, suspected train robber, as being
one of the most cunning and shrewd-
est prisoners who has ever been con
fined in the Denver Jail.
Inquiries received by the State
Board of Immigration during the past
twelve months showed some decrease
in the interest of people from other
states in Colorado lands and business
opportunities, rs compared with the
preceding two years, though the inter
est is still considerable and indications
point to reasonably good movement
to the state in 1921.
While guards from the state hospi-
tai for the insane We're searching the
countryside for her, Mrs. Andria Da-
wick, Al years old, died of exposure in
vacant shack on the Beulah road,
seven miles west of Pueblo.
The Fort Collins fire department
will begin the double platoon system
next month.
Adoption by unanimous vote of n
resolution favoring the ''protcction of
farmers and stockmen from competi-
tion with imported hides, pelts and
frozen meats, by n suitable protective
tariff was taken in the first day's
session in Denver of the annual con.
rentiOn of the Colorado Stock Grow
ers' Association, composed of more
than 100 delegates from Colorado. wv
Oming and New Mexico.
The demoralizcd condition of the su-
gar market has caused construction of
three sugar factories in the mountain
states district to be discontinued. The
Great Western Sugar Company an
nOunced that work on their new nlnntS
at Johnstown, Colo, and at Minatare.
Neb has been stopped The Industrial
Sugar Company Is holding up building
at their new factory in La Sale.
Examination OF the 1921 state high
way budget discloses that the budget
as prepared by Y. ]. Ehrhart, state
highway commissioner, provides for
the use of $720,OOO, which will not be
available until 1922, for federal aid
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