The silver lance., 1899-05-26

A mad dog scare in this city has
brought forth an order that all dogs
shall be shut up for thirty days.
The teachers of Arapahoe are op-
posed to teachers agencies. 1t is
claimed that the agencies bring in out.
side schoolma ans, thus shutting out
the home product.
The Northern Coal Company, which
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 4.066 sheep. Since the
first of last January the local con-
sumption has been 10.464 cattle, 7.342
hogs and 14,17S sheep.
Representatives of nearly all the
state institutions met at the Albany
Monday to discuss the deficit in their
appropriations. They adopted resoiu-
tions asking Governor Thomas to call
a special session of the Legislature.
The new mayor Mr. Johnson, wants
a municipal light plant. In q message
sent TO the city council he says that a
plant could be built for S16S.910. The
cost of lights now furnished the city
by private corporation is about $780,
600 per annum.
During April Secretary of State
Beckwith turned $14,652 into the state
treasury. The usual monthly pay
ments from the office aggregate about
$4,000. Last Months aggregate was
made so much larger than usual by the
$4,000 check from the smelter comb1-
nation.
Governor Thomas has signed Sena-
tor Tayior's road bill. 1t provides for
the construction. improvement and re-
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 whose land the cycle
path runs have obtained injunctions
forbidding wheeImen 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 were offered averaging
from two to five per cent.
Denver's proposed auditorium is sure
L. H. H., fn.. in ~ hn
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
at Atlanta by Major f. J. Halford,
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, how
ever, consent to take the presidency,
but agreed to consider the matter. He
was told to take his own time in de-
Gliding.
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 reined too high. The enforcement
of this order. together with the recent
enactment of the law prohibiting the
docking of horses tails. will prove a
boon to the horses and a 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
to 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 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 a 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 law without the governors
approval. It 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 a maximum and minimum term
of imprisonment. Another bill which
becomes law without the governors
approval is Senator Taylor's bill to en-