The Springfield herald., 1899-05-12

I shall be shut up for thirty days.
! The teachers of Arapahoe are op- 1
| posed to teachers agencies. 1t is
claimed that the agencies bring in out
side schoolma ans, thus shutting out
/ the home product
F.. The Northern Coal Company. which
1 has heretofore had but one competitor
| in the coal fields of northern Colorado,
has now bought up its rival and VIII
have things its own way.
The consumption of live stock in this |
city for last April was 1854 cattle, /
1922 hogs and 1906 sheep. Since the {
first of last January the local con
sumption has been 1o.464 cattle, 81 ,33I2
hogs and 14.1Is sheep.
Representatives of nearly all the
state institutions met at the Albany I
Monday to discuss the deficit in their
appropriations. They adopted resoiu-
tions asking Governor Thomas 10 call
a special session OF the Legislature.
The new mayor. Mr. Johnson. waats
a municipal light plant. In a messare
sent to the city council he says that
plant could be built for S16S.J1o The
cost of lights now furnished the city
by private corporation is about S1cO,-
coo per annum.
During April Secretary of State
Reckwith turned s14.652 into the state
treasury. The usual monthly pay
ments from the office aggregate about
$1,000. Last Months aggregate was
made SO much larger than usual by the
$1,000 check from the smelter combi-
nation.
Governor Thomas has signed Sena-
! tor Tayior's road bill. 1t provides for
I nd
/ pair of state wagon road from Buena
/ Vista TO Grand Junction. Several
| other bills appropriating money for
roads and artesian wells Were vetoed.
! All bills have now been disposed of.
The hump-backed devotee of the
wheel has received a setback from the
/ District Court. Some farmers near
| Littleton over who-e land the cycle
path runs have obtained injunctions
| forbidding wheelmen to cross their
| property hereafter. The land owners
/ complaint is that bicyclists trespassed
on their land and stole fruit.
Denver city bonds are held in high
| esteem by local brokers. This was
demonstrated by the eagerness dis
| played by those who attended the
opening of bids for city bonds by the
/ Board of Public Works Monday morn
ing. More bidders were present than
| at any time since the panic Of 1893,
and premiums We're offered averaging
from two to five per cent.
Denver's proposed auditorium is sure
to be ready for use in 1902. as the
tenth session of the International Sun
day School convention will be held
here, as the result of the earnest and
eloquent speech before the convention
f,fA l. In
paymaster in the Department of the
Gulf. who extended to the convention
a cordial invitation from Denver.
The presidency of the State Agricul-
tural College was formally offered
Chancellor Mcdowell of the Denver
University Saturday. The chancellor
and board met the governor in his pri-
yate office and every argument was of
fered to induce the chancellor to ac-
cept the place. He would not now
| cver consent 10 take thc presluency,
but agreed to consider the matter. He
was told to take his own time in de-
Gliding.
J Chief of Police Farley has instructed
! his officers to enforce the ordinance
against the high checking of horses.
Members of the department are
! ordered to arrest owners of horses that
are refined too high. The enforcement
. of this order, together with the recent
enactment of the law prohibiting the
docking of horses tails. will prove n
boon TO the horses and n disagreeable
shock TO those wealthy citizens who
are more stylish than humane.
The serious and probably fatal In
jury of DR.. Eleanor Lawney by a run
away horse Sunday, calls attention
anew to the danger of horses on the
city streets. Many serious or fatal ac-
cidents of this kind have happened of
late, due to the driving of high-spirited
or unframed horses by careless or ig-
norant drivers. When anyone is run
over by bicyclist n great cry is
raised about it. but as matter of fact
the serious accidents caused by horses
are the more numerous.
The resources of the state are likely
10 be substantially increased by the
payments of fees of insurance com
panies. The insurance commissioner
estimates an increase in the receipts
Of his department of 100000 a year
because additional companies are tax
| ing out Colorado licenses under the
new law. Many applications are on
hand. The law requires all companies
to have n local license. With the in
| crease in the number of licenses comes
the Increase in the aggregate of the 2
per cent. of the gross receipts.
The indeterminate sentence bill be
comes a law without the governors
approval. 1t provides for the parole
of convicts in the states prison. Ac-
cording to this law, sentences shall be
passed for an indefinite term. the court
fixing n maximum and minimum term
OF Imprisonment. Another bill which
hnannnas, !u ,I,
| approval is Senator Taylor's bill to en-
| ahln seNnral cnuntins in 4hn cta4a Il.