Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-11-09
DENVER GOSSIP.

city says That stock owners Ia Wyom-
Ing. where lie has sheep. are uniting To
rid III" country OF the pests, which. un'
less drastic methods are employed. will
soon cause thousands OF dollars
dnmag. To their herds "Stockmcn are
doing all the can says Mr.. BFucllcn-
bury. ito prevent the slaughter OF
young catii. by wolves. Rewards OF
SO 10 $50 nr" paid for th. scnlps. The
siockm"n, by uniting. ARE paying so
for cacli gray wolf. beside the bounty
offered from III" county treasures.
This season wolves are killing stock
where they hnd never before been
known to exist. One pair OF them.
with their young. would In one season
slaughter twenty-five good-slz.d young
steers. which. valued u, So per head.
would L. II loss III S's25. \ few OF
thcia would In II short time destroy an
entire herd hut for the vigilance OF
stockmcn and hunters. The sheep do
not suffer 80 much from wolves ns they
do from coyotes. which are bOldcr.
They take the sheep from The sheep
hcr,icr's door" The bounty offered for
both coyotes and wolves. Mr.. Brackcn-
bury thinks. il tho most effective meth
oil OF keeping them down.
Banks In Denver are experiencing
quantity OF small silver coin. The de-
mnnd for small currency Is far beyond
the ability of the banks to supply. and
great Inconvenience Is resulting. A.
tcmpts n-r bcin: made To obtain coin
from Washington. but the treasury II
exceedingly chary OF letting go any OF
Its silver reserve. and II Is consistently
refusing ail such demands upon IL.
Even New York banks can furnish no
silver To their western correspondents.
The shortage OF fractional currency
has been felt for Ion: time. Half
dollars. quarters. tcn-ccnt pieces AMI
nickcls have been hard TO get FOR more
than year. but the scarcity OF til. sil-
yer dollar N u new development. "Ac-
cording TO my conception Of the sItu-
alton" says u local banker. "thc scare
ity OF silver Is TO bc attributed to III.
unwIiilngncss OK the government 10
coin silver. The scniornrc Is no long
cr being coined. yet the government IL
floating au enormous number OF silver
certificates. OF the higher .icnomina-
iions-down TO live dollars. To guar
nntcc these II must hold the silver II
has In the vaults OF the treasury. l,
Is those silver dollars we want. and not
the bills, FOR they nrc too large for us.
All through the United States business
| Is enormous. and scarcely ever Ia the
history OF the nation has the demand
upon the currency been 50 greai-nor
the supply to satisfy II with 50 small.
comparatively speaking"
The plan adopted In the test cases on
the cight.hour law Will br followed by
the authorities In u test case on the
nsscssors' fight against the State
Board or Equalization. This announce
incnt was made after Attorney General
Campbell had appeared before the Su-
prcmc Court Judges In chambers nnl
asked that they decide In favor OF TAX
ing original Jurisdiction In the matter.
a friendly test will be made and in-
stead OF allowing the case TO rest on
all the general technical dcfcnscs and
other farorltc and unsatisfactory
modes OF lawyers 10 win Il victory any
way they can. Il case VIII be com
meEccd with II friendly assessor, with
n stipulated agreement. as In the smell
ter ease. Both sides VIII agree Oh Ger
tain specified differences and the case
will be submitted on these and no
other grounds. Th" smcltcr ease and
the assessors case will have another
point OF similarity. Ms 1t is very proba'
BILE that practically no other question
that that Of coustitutionality will be
considered. The ease will come 10 the
Supreme Court in n Few days, rs the
judges gave the attorney general To
understand that 1t could be arranged
to decide the case in Il very short time.
No definite statement as to time was
made. but in the long conference be-
tween the attorney general and the
judges Il plan was roughly outlined to
carry on II test case on the lines spcci-
fled above. and Governor Thomas was
so notified. That test case will be
commenced before election time is said
TO be certain.
The state board of equalization will
try other means TO compel Assessor
Willard l.. Ames to make his ASSESS
mcnt roll conform with the schedule
adopted by the board before advising
property owners to refuse to pay taxes
until the instructions of the board Of
asSeSsors have been complied with. \
petition for Il writ of mandnnus was
presented to tie SuprCm" Court ycStrr-
day and an alternative writ issued. or
lcring Mr. Aincs Immediately upon re-
ccipt of service of ;hc writ to make
such corrections in his assessment roll
for the year 1SoD rs may be necessary
to carry out the direction of the state
board of cqualizati ton or 70 show cause
for not doing so before the Supreme
Court on November 18th. Mt 10 II. III.
The writ was asked for in the name
of the people OF the state Of Colorado
by u. NJ. Campbell. attorney general
and G. W. Temple. Auditor. The petit
tion rcciteS the action of the state
board of equalization in making the
increase IN assessments and quotes
voluminOusly from the law in support
of the boards position. \ statement
compiled and signed by William III.
Griffith. secretary Of the board. de-
tlDrpS thnf thn total 1inpIint pf in
crease in the state does not exceed the
: per cent. increasc allowed by act Of
the Twelfth General Assembly. The
items of increase and decrease follow:
Sheep. increase. ! per cent: swine,
"a: clocks. etc. 12la; carriages. etc.
.: diamonds -; agricultural lands.
Di2: town and city lots. >: improve