The Monte Vista journal., 1899-08-05
DENVER GOSSIP.

Denver 10 to have q market lsouss
built ON modern plana
A number Of the smelter men have
enlisted In the United States arpy 1t
this point.
A returned Klondike miner depcsated
$1,000 worth Of gold at the tfanch
mint the other day.
Colonel Robert Howe has begun
the organization Of the Thirty-foufth
infantry At Fort Logan.
Harry W. Fontaine. an embsxsling
cashier, committed suicide the other
day. He had stolen $500.
Tuesday was the hottest day In the
year at Denver, the official thermom-
eter registering on in the shade.
A transfer wagon hauling five tons
Of powder broke down on Lartmef
street the other day, but fortunately
an explosion did not follow.
| In trying to enforce an old ordinance
the city health officials are arresting
prominent citizens for not cutting the
weeds on their vacant lots.
! Another Denver. doctor has been ar
rested for producing M abortion upon
young girl who came to the city from
Iowa. She died from the effects OF the
operation.
Carl Browne has been travelling
through the state for two weeks talk
Ing against the smeltcr combination
and for an eight-hour day and full
wages. He says he is goiny to try to
organize another commonwtal army
to go to Washington in 1901 II Bryan
IL elected President. and possibly in
the fall of this year.
Major s. X. Hooper, chairman Of the
Colorado Volunteers medal commit
tee reports that the fund aggregates
Sl.1061J. Major Hooper has sent to
the papers OF the state letter asking
that n little extra effort be made In
the direction of securing money for this
purpose. He suggests that II each pa
per would raise $40, the amount need
ed would he secured for the boys re-
turning from Manila, and that an addi-
tional SO raised by each paper would
make 1t possible to furnish medals TO
all Colorado soldiers who entered the
service. The letter ends by urging
celebrity in the work.
To complete the State Capitol imme-
diately at an additional cost of $4,000
was the decision reached by the State
Board OF Capitol Managers. After
two days sessions. ut which Governor
Thomas and all the members of the
board were present. contracts for $50
600 worth OF work have been let. Most
OF the money will he handled by Den
yer contractors. The improvements TO
bc made are these: Bronze work. iron
stnirways and entrance. S3O.j17: more
rt,I
BILE work, S2.0.Wi: plastcring, S2.4i9:
tile floors. $2.Gs,. dome windows. ST.
600: total, xiS.O49. The sixteen dome
windows. TO be decorated with the
portraits Of Colorado pioneers. will be
put in by the Copeland Glass Company
Of Denver nj 500 n window. The
sample furnished by this concern IL
an excellent likeness OF Ex-Governor
j. A. Cooper. his name underneath and
n wreath Of columblnes. the state
flower, around the portrait. The board
will soon select the sixteen persons
whose faces will decorate the windows.
All the money for these contracts u
available.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grcnfell. state xuperin.
tenient Of public instruction. has In.
sued this list Of school Institutes TO he
held:
District I. July II To August II,
Prof. Remington conductor: Akron.
District .. August Z TO Is. ]. II.
Hayes. conductor; Fort Collins.
District 3. July 81 TO August IL. W.
T.. Knapp. conductor: Denver.
District I, August TO Is. Ira d.
Long. conductor; Golden.
District 3. August Z to IS. Frank d.
Ball. conductor: Colorado Springs.
District q. August Il 10 n. Tilmon
Jenkins. conductor: Cheyenne Wells.
District Z, August to III. ]. +. kent-
Ing. conductor: Pueblo.
/ District 4. July 81 to August II, r.
| II. Jones, conductor: In Juntn.
| District n. July "a TO August 4. J. W.
Hnrmer. conductor: Wnlsenburg.
District q. August 10 IL, ]. W.
Hnrmer. conductor, Trinidad.
District 10. August Z TO Is, y. +. Mill
cr. conductor; pel Norte.
| District II. August 81 to September
81: Durango.
| District IL. July "a to August II. ].
r. kcating. conductor: Grand June
tion.
District IT. August : TO Is. +. II.
Clark. conductor. Bucnn Vista.
| The investigation OF the records Of
| the police court by the Fire and Police
Hoard has brought TO light the fact
that since Police Magistrate Thomas
assumed Office more than 800 sentences
have been suspended by him. Since
June 20, Of the 30 cases tried before
| Thomas. about 40 convictions were
| obtained and then the sentences sus-
pended. During this period. also. all
the fines Imposed upon the keepers Of
gambling houses werc remitted. cx-
cept In the cases OF "Jim" Marshall
aud "Hub" Ilcatiey. Their fines were
reduced. Tie police department In up
In arms against the Thomas Wholesale
suspensions. Chief Farley vcnturrd
to suggest 10 the police magistrate
that the suspensions Of sentences I'm.
posed for violations of the city ordin.
nnccs WINS encouragement to the law.
less element to remain In the city and
defy the police authority. II II aaid
that the suggestion wns not kindly re-
ccivcd md that Chief Farley did not
proceed nny further. There ID some
doubt Of the legality Of Thomas &C.
tion.
James Doyic's petition for writ Of
habcns corpus hn~ bsrn denied by
Judge Hnilctt In tho United States dis.
trict Court. This does not close the a..
fair. however. M Doyle'a attorney.
Charles l.. Hughes. Jr.. announced that
tho matter would In takcn to the
United States Supreme Court. The
rAsc had to bc taken before the Dis
srict Court In order 10 start matters,
but now II can 70 TO the highest tri.