The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

will take advantage OF the offer re-
Gently made to the State University by
the Rockefeller Foundation. This Of
fer is 100000, and is the only one ever
made by Rockefeller trustees to a state
school, but is contingent upon the state
of Colorado providing SSOO,0OO to go
with it. 1t is understood that the re-
gents of the State University will ask
the next State Assembly for 5000 600,
| and then go before the public for the
remaining 100000 on popular sub
scription. Thus $1,5OO,OOO can be
raised, and it is planned to construct
a state hospital of at least 15O-bed ca
pacity for INDECENT sick, nurses
| home, medical laboratory, a central
heating plant, ETC., equipped with the
most up-to-date appliances known to
medical science. This would be 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
it 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 a
position to know something about the
matter feel quite sure that the Rookie
feller offer will be accepted
Charged with picking up his two
year-old daughter and throwing her
across the floor at his wife after the
couple had quarreled over his alleged
! previous inhumane treatment of the
child, Arthur Christensen, formerly a
Denver photographer, was taken into
custody by Undersheriff Robert Nc
Namara of Littleton. 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 IL
flicted upon his daughter.
Nearly score of deputy sheriffs,
heavily armed with machine guns,
have been placed on the Colorado Utah
line to be in readiness for an emer
gency that may arise in the sheep war
that is menacing the western slope.
Cattlemen all over the White river
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 a concrete products
| factory, being combination of the
Uncompahgre Valley Cement State
I Silo Company and other interests. The
company expects to spend 100000 in
: the erection of a suitable plant in
Z Delta similar to the one they recently
! erected at Rocky Ford.
With evidence said to. have been OBJ
tanned through the sensitive transmit
Ter of Il 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-
7 est prisoners who has ever been con-
4 fined in the Denver jail
Z IttttNtu . ny .IHt 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, as compared with the
preceding two years, though the inter
/ est is still considerable and indications
point to a reasonably good movement
\ to the state in 1921
While guards from the state hospi-
tai for the insane were searching the
countryside for her, Mrs. Andria Da-
wick, Al years old died of exposure in
a vacant shack on the BeuIah road,
seven miles west of Pueblo.
| The Fort Collins fire department
will begin the double platoon system
next month.
Adoption by unanimous vote of
resolution favoring the protection of
farmers and stockmen from competi-
1 tion with imported hides, pelts and
frozen meats, by suitable protective
tariff" was taken in the first days
session in Denver of the annual con.
vention of the Colorado Stock Grow
ers' Association, composed of more
than 100 delegates from Colorado, Wy
oming and New Mexico.
The demoralzed condition of the SUI
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 plants
Mt 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 II. j. Ehrhart. state
highway commissioner, provides for
the use of $720,OOO, which will not be
available until 1922, for federal aid
proiacts This STon 0oo 10 ,,,..4 e =,