The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11
GOSSIP FROM DENVER
AND THE STATE CAPITOL.

wire.
Twenty-four recruits from Cleve-
land. Ohio, and adjoining cities. bound
for the Philippines. started small
riot in the Union depot Friday after
noon. They had been drinking.
With the acquisition of six new
l'postal clerks the Denver postoffice will
commence to operate now ON the basis
of an eight-and- Lone e-half-ho'r schedule,
a reduction of two and one-half hours
in the working time of each clerk, an
eleven-hour schedule having been in
effect previously.
Clerks handling the re-record;pg OF
stock brands in the office of the secre-
tary of state are swamped with thouS-
ands of letters from brand owners
who want to comply with the new law.
The Office is sixteen days behind in
brand work and If the heavy mail
continues, the end will be many days
| ahead.
Denver seems to stand in need of
Lexow investigation. Thomas w.
Baird, an eX-policeman and gambler,
who is charged with shaking the plum
tree and securing S110 from Clingman
and Moore, the colored gamblers who
wanted protection from the district
attorneys office, has been arrested on
the charge of obtaining money under
| false pretenses.
The closing of the arguments upon
the constitutionality of the eight-hour
law in the Supreme Court Friday was
| marked by addresses by Attorneys j.
| NJ. Waldron in opposition to its consu-
tutionality and II. NJ. Patterson in IA
vor of the law. The Supreme Court ad-
journed until the 3rd. at which time
n decision is hoped for, but scarcely
| expected.
The city fathers both of Denver and
of Globeville believe that prize lights
should be n source of revenue to the
| town. The Denver board of aldermen
and the Globeville town council have
passed ordinances providing for an an
nual license for all athletic clubs un-
der whose auspices glove contests for
| prizes are held In Denver the
amount of license is fixed at $500 a
year; in Globeville at $1,000.
Governor Thomas will give out for
| publication in day or two the deter
limitations of the State Board of Equal
izatlon which have been finally agreed
upon. Some weeks ago it was stated
| that the board would succeed in raising
| railroad valuations about S1O,OOO,OOO.
| A graduated increase has been made,
but the total has not been by any
means sufficiently increased, one of the
members said yesterday, to provide
anything like the amount of revenue
needed to meet appropriations.
An idea of how hard the force of
men in the baggage rooms at the Union
depot have had to work is gathered
from the monthly statement of pieces
handled in the rooms during June. The
/ CT connInd with thp
increased summer business. has kept
| the force of men on the hustle. During
June 27.212 pieces of baggage We're re-
ceived and 2S,716 pieces forwarded.
| This makes n total of 55,9SS pieces han
died during the month, or nearly 1000
| pieces each day. July promises even
much heavier travel, the number of
| pieces of baggage handled during the
| first four days exceeding that of the
corresponding days In June.
The District Court, in an opinion
handed down by Judge Rucker, sus-
tained George w. Temple, the state SUI
perintendent of insurance, in his action
revolling the charter of the National
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
| Denver. Mr.. Temple made application
| to the court some time ago for writ
| of certiorari to compel the insurance
| company to certify to the court n trans
criDt of all business transacted by the
company. The writ was issued and
hearing had Judge Rucker taking the
matter under advisement. In the opin-
ion of the court the state superintend-
ent of insurance did not abuse his dis
cretion in revoking the charter of the
company. He pursued the course re-
| quired by law in the matter, it is stated.
An increase of S4.123.S6 has been
] do h,-t hn Stota ri of
tion in the valuation of railroads.
street railways, sleeping car compa-
nies. telephone and telegraph compa-
nies. foreign and Independent cars. In
| all these lines only two decreases
were made. The largest increase was
over 81 1,25Oono on the Union Pacific
property. The one big decrease, that
of the Colorado & Southern valuation
and the increase in the Union Pa
cific's valuation is explained in part
| by the fact that the Julesburg road,
151 miles long, which was last year
included in the Colorado & Southern's
| assessable property, has been trans
| ferred to the Union Pacific road. The
| increase is intended to be 16 per
cent. raise, which is 6 per cent higher
| than the valuation of 1897. Governor
| Thomas will issue a statement show
| ing comparisons between the railroads
and property valuations in Arapahoe,
| FL Paso and other counties. On street
| railways, the valuations of the Denver
| companies We're raised S16O,569, the
| Denver Consolidated Tramway alone
| being raised S114,361, and valued at
| an even $650,0OO The 4-mill tax on
| S4,OO0,00O will be only small
drop in the empty treasury buck
ct. so that this action of the board
will not serve to prevent an extra ses-
sion. The increase is from S30, 900, 900
to $34, 100000.
There will be no decision in the eight