The state herald., 1920-07-20
Pithy News Notes
From an Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service

High waters In the .plntte rive
Plum and Cherry creeks, caused h
severe cloudbursts, are said to he ,,
ceding very rapidly.
Census figures announced give Trlr
1dad, Colo, 1896; increase, TOo q
69 per cent. Gienwood Springs. colo
2,O73; Increase, 81, or 81 per cent
Henry Berry and Joseph Lee Armit
age, both cattlemcn of Cimarron. wer,
crowned In the Fitzpatrick irrigation
reservoir, few miles from Cimarron
-Four persons from Colorado have
oeen made ;sedtenants of the Saliva.
uoh Army at Chicago, according ia
word received in this city Thursday
IRON the Chicago training college
where they were graduated. There
was class of thlrty-six.
A conference of governors and state
engineers of western states will be
neid In Denver, August % under
auspices of the Southwest league. ac-
Srding to telegram of acceptance
received by acting Governor George
Stephan this morning.
One hour parking In the congested
uistrlct OF Denver provided In amend
ments recently passed by the city
council, Is proving highly successful.
ana has drawn favorable comment IN
the safety and excise, department. ac.
cording to officials
Employees at the state capitol living
IN nearby towns and committing to
ana from their work will not have |
tne expense OF their travel defrayed
oy the state, according to ruling
made yesterday by State Auditor
Arthur NJ. Stong.
Gano f. Senter, 1547 Cbamp, s,ree,
salesman for the Industrial Sugar
company. flew to the company's big
ranch, sixty-five miles east of Dem
yer, before breakfast In Curtlss- ,
humphreys aeroplane and closed two
Dig sugar deals for the company. The !
trip Is said TO have set a precedent i
for Colorado statesmen.
Leo Williams, alias Jack Smith, f
wanted In connection with a murder b
In Cripple Creek, Colo, has been ar n
rested here. He was traced here I.
through his signature on the recordsf !,
OF an employment office i'm Sac.S. ~
mento. Ralph Guffney, charged .,,th II
completely in the same Grind wos 81
taken into custody in MoJest5 Cal Il
Protest against the <sfImissior -, "
'eltlons Tor the cr,3ar,on OF two new
ounues tlagler anu Limon, in east til
"a colorado r filed with Secretary II
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.onici Mons the most Important Is thht de
hey are unconstitutional. II being the III
Junction OF the General Assembly to III
create new counties. It
Two young men. canght following
the robbery Of Sl.550 from the Bank ~,
of Waterloo, at Waterloo, Noh., plead n.
cd ruIlty In the County Court at oma-
I'm and were held under $4,000 bond ~
for action in District Court. After s.
their arrest thcy gave the names of
Oscar Yoos Of Granada, Colo. and j. o
w. Gmu q Council Bluffs Iowa t
A number OF new professors and In v
structors have Just been appointed to \
posltions In the Colorado Agricultural .
College nt Fort collins. Among the de-
partmcnis which hi ye found 1t neces-
snry To Increase the size of their
teaching stuffs are the farm manage
mcnt, mathematics, horticulture. libra
ry, animal husbandry. ugronony ANA
chemistry.
Grand Junciions three banks. In
,hcir statements jus issued, show to-
tal resources of more thnn S3GoOWh
This is the largest total ever known ut
this time Of the yea In that valley.
Several thousand Jewish peoplc and /
their friends attended mass. meet |
ing Mt the Denver Auditorium and
pledged more than $4,000 for the
Palestine restoration fund. The gath
erlng officially op, ied the drive TO
raise $4,000 In III Denver district.
Because Of the omission OF six pres
Idential electors from the list OF can
dldn,es to be chosen by the Demo
cra,ic state convention. the call for
the assembly recently issued has been
declared invalid, according 10 infor'
nation received nt the state capitol
this morning. A new call for an as
sembly will be issued In the near fn'
turc.
Ward Paddock. ls-year-old stcpson
OF l.. Il. Humphrey OF the Denver
Times editorial staff, was killed In
stantly Wednesday NJ Nniurltn, Colo
when runaway team threw him from
the wagon ON sharp turn In the
road and broke his neck. according to
word received here. Paddock wn'
employed In the eommissnry depart
men, Of the standard Chemical Com
pnny nj Nnturitn and was transporting
supplies from the warehouse TO IN
polnt when his death occurred.
The Colorado Springs city councl
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