The Dolores star., 1920-07-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Plum and Cherry creeks, caused by
severe cloudbnrStS. are said TO be re-
cediug very rapidly.
Within the last six weeks three pairs
of twins have been born IN Craig Ih'
first pair were girls and the others
II boy and girl each.
Since May ~. sixty-thrce marriage
licenses have been taken out in Lnri-
mer county. Fifteen suits for diNorc,
have been filed in the sametimc.
Census figures announced give Trim
idad, Colo. 1896; increase, 'o2, or
60 per cent. Glcnwood Springs, Colo,
2,013: increase, ~. or - per cent.
Henry Berry and Joseph Lee Armit-
age, both cattlcmcn Of Cimarron, were
drowned in the Fitzpatrick irrigation
reservoir. Il few miles from Cimarron.
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 10
the safety and excise department, ac-
cording TO officials.
EMPLOYEES nj 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 81. Stong.
Four persons from Colorado have
been made licu:enants of the Saliva
ton Army at Chicago, according to
word received in this city Thursday
from the Chicago training college
where they We're graduated. There
WAS a class of thirty-siX.
Several thousand Jewish people and
their friends attended a mass meet
ing ut the Denver Auditorium and
pledged more than $4,000 for the
Palestine restoration fund. The gath
cring officially opened the drive to
raise $4,000 in the Denver district.
Sixteen thousand dollars worth of
diamonds belonging to Mrs. Eugene T..
Shove of Colorado Springs, sister OF
George l.. 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
"Dago Mike" Mongones Pastime
Club in Denver, lined up fifteen pat
rons of the place at the point of guns,
and robbed them of between 81 800 and
5000. After pocketing the money
they coolly trooped down the stairs
from the place, climbed into taXicab
and rode away.
Gano L. Senter. 1911 Champa street,
n salesman for the Industrial Sugar
Company, flew to the company's big
ranch, siXtyfiye miles east of Den
Yer, before breakfast in Il CurtiSS-
Humphreys aeroplane and closed two
big sugar deals for the company. The
trip is said to have set precedent
for Colorado statesmen.
Work upon the compilation of the
Colorado statutes, authorized by the
Twenty-secon 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 he 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 shrdushrdlshrdl
of State James X. 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 Fi-
nance Commissioner w. H. WinslOw
and Mrs. Wnslow 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 half miles at an esti-
mated cost Of $59,9OO. Twenty thou
sand dollars per mile, or $4,000 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
Power Company an increase of %