The Holly chieftain., 1899-11-10


ing, where he has sheep, are uniting Ia
rid the country of the pests, which, un-
less drastic methods are employed. win
soon cause thousands of dollars,
damage to their herds. "Stockmep ara
doing all the can," says Mr.. Bracken-
bury, ITO prevent the slaughter Of
young cattle by wolves. Rewards Of
$40 to $50 are paid for the scalps. The
stockmen, by uniting. are paying $40.
for each gray wolf, beside the bounty
offered from the county treasures.
This season wolves are killing stock
where they had never before been
known to exist. One pair of them.
with their young, would in one season
slaughter twenty-five goOd-sized young
steers, which, valued Mt $2j per head.
would be loss of $625. A few of
them would in short time destroy an
entire herd but for the vigilance Of
stockmen and hunters. gSe sheep do
not suffer SO much from wolves as they
do from coyotes, which are bolder.
They take the sheep from the sheep
herders door" The bounty offered for
both coyotes and wolves, Mr.. Bracken-
bury thinks. is the most effective meth
cd of keeping them down.
Banks in Denver are experiencing
great II SuIQClelC
quantity of small silver coin. The de-
mand for small currency is far beyond
the ability of the banks to supply, and
great Inconvenience is resulting. At
tempts are being made to obtain coin
from Washington, but the treasury Is
exceedingly chary of letting go any Of
its silver reserve, and it is consistently
refusing all 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 n long time. Half
dollars, quarters, ten-cent pieces and
nickels have been hard to get for more
than year, but the scarcity of the sill
yer dollar is n new development. "Ac-
cording TO my conception of the situ-
ation,' says local banker "the scare
ity of silver is to be attributed to the
unwillingness OF the government to
coin silver. The seniorage is no long
er being coined. yet the government is
floating an enormous number of silver
certificates, of the higher denomina-
tions-down to five dollars. To guar
antee these 1t must hold the silver 1t
has in the vaults of the treasury. 1t
is those silver dollars we want, and not
the bills, for they are too large for us.
All through the United States business
Is enormous, and scarcely ever in the
history of the nation has the demand
upon the currency been SO great-nor
the supply to satisfy it with so small,
comparatively speaking"
The plan adopted in the test cases on
the eight-hour law will be followed by
the authorities in test case on the
assessors fight against the State
Board of Equalization. This announce
ment was made after Attorney General
Campbell had appeared before the Su-
preme Court judges in chambers and
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 defenses and
other favorite and unsatisfactory
modes of lawyers to win victory any
way they can. case will be COM
merced with Il friendly assessor, with
a stipulated agreement. as in the smell
ter case. Both sides Will agree on GER
tain specified differences and the case
will be submitted on these and no
other grounds. The smelter case and
the assessors case will have another
point of similarity, as it is very proba.
BILE that practically no other question
that that Of constitutionality will be
considered. The case will come to the
Supreme Court in n few days, as the
judges gave the attorney general to
understand that it could be arranged
to decide the case in very short time.
NO definite statement rs to time was
made, but In the long conference be-
tween the attorney general and the
judges plan was roughly outlined to
carry on a test case on the lines speci-
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
ment 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 compiled with. A
petition for a writ of mandamus was
presented to the Supreme Court yester-
day and an alternative writ issued, or
dertng Mr.. Ames Immediately upon re-
ceipt of service of the writ to make
such corrections in his assessment roll
FOR the year 1899, as may be necessary
to carry out the direction of the state
board OF equalization, or to show cause
for not doing SO before the Supreme
Court on November 18th, at 10 a. IN.
The writ was asked for In the name
OF the people of the state of Colorado
by ID. NJ. Campbell, attorney general,
and G. w. Temple, Auditor. The petit
tion recites the action of the state
board of equalization in making the
increase In assessments and quotes
voluminously from the law in support