The state herald., 1899-08-04
DENVER GOSSIP.

this point.
A returned Klondilie miner deposited
$4,000 worth of gold at the branch
mint the other day.
Colonel Robert Howe has begun
the organization of the Thlrty-fourth
infantry at Fort Logan.
Harry w. Fontaine. an embezzling
cashier, committed suicide the other
day. He had stolen $500.
Tuesday was the hottest day In the
year at Denver, the official thcrmoln-
eter registering 0G in the shade.
A transfer wagon hauling five tons
Of powder broke down on Larimer
street the other day, but fortunately
an explosion did not follow.
In trying to enforce an old ordinance
the city health officials are arrestinS
prominent citizens for not cutting the
weeds on their vacant lots.
Another Denver doctor has been ar
rested for producing an abortion upon
a 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 smelter combination
and for an eight-hOur day and full
wages. He says he is going to try to
organize another commonwcal army
to go to Washington in 1901 If Bryan
is elected President, and possibly In
the fall of this year
Major $. X. Hooper, chairman of the
Colorado Volunteers medal commit
tee, reports that the fund aggregates
81, 1O6.T5. Major Hooper has sent to
the papers of the state letter asking
that a little extra effort he made In
the direction of securing money for this
purpose. He suggests that If each pa
per would raise $50. the amount need
ed would be secured for the boys re-
turning from Manila, and that an addi-
tional SD raised by each paper would
make II possible to furnish medals TO
all Colorado soldiers who entered the
service. The letter ends by urging
celerity in the work.
To complete the State Capitol lmme-
diately ID an additional cost of $4,000
was the decision reached by the State
Board ot Capitol Managers. After
two days sessions, at which Governor
Thomas and all the members of the
board Were present contracts for SoO.-
600 worth of work have been let. Most
of the money will be handled by Den
yer contractors. The improvements TO
he made are these: Bronze work, iron
stairways and entrance. S3O,J1I: more
marble work, IS. 725; white Italian mar
ble work. S2.096: plastering. S2,lio:
tie floors. S2,6G2; dome windows, ST.
go: total. siS,0io. The sixteen dome
windows. TO be decorated with the
portraits Of Colorado pioneers. will bc
put in by the Copeland Glass Company
of Denver at 500 Il window The
sample furnished by this concern Is
an excellent likeness of Ex-Governor
j. a. Cooper. his name underneath and
wreath of columbines. the state
flower, around the portrait. The board
win soon select the sixteen persons
whose faces will decorate the windows.
All the money for these contracts ~
available.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grcnfcll. state supcrn-
tcndcnt OF public instruction. has Is
sued this list of school Institutes TO he
held:
District l. July n to August II,
Prof, Remington conductor; Akron.
District .. August TO Is. j, III.
Hayes. conductor: Fort Collins.
District .. July ~ to August II, W.
T.. Knapp. conductor: Denver.
District 4, August Z TO Is, Ira II.
Long. conductor: Golden.
District =, August Z To is. Frank ID.
Ball. conductor; Colorado Springs.
District q. August II 10 n, Tllmon
Jenkins. conductor; Cheyenne Wells.
District Z, August 10 10. !. 4. kclt-
Ing. conductor: Pueblo.
District $. July ~ 10 August II, l..
II. Jones. conductor: La Junin.
Dlstrlc, o. July ~ To August I, ]. W.
uarmer. conductor: Walsenburg.
District q. August 10 is, j. W.
unrmrr, conductor. Trinidad.
District 10. August to Is, y. +. Mill
er. conductor; Del Nortc.
District II. August II To September
ii: Durango.
District IL. July II to August II, j,
+. Keatlng. conductor: Grand June
tlon.
District II, August TO is. +, II,
Clark. conductor. Burnn Vista.
The Investigation of the records of
the police court by the Fire and Police
Board has brought TO light the fact
that since Police Magistrate Thomas
assumed office more than 800 sentences
have been suspended by him. Since
Junc 20. Of the $50 eases tried before
Thomns, about ii6 convictions Were
obtained and then the sentences sus-
pended During this period, also. all
The fines imposed upon the keepers of
I N.ttNlltaI A.
cent In the cnsos Of "Jlm" Marshall
and "liub" lIcnilcy. Their fines were
reduced. The police department II M
In arms against th, Thomas wholesale
suspensions. Chief Farley vcnturcd
10 suggest 10 the police magistrate
that the suspensions OF sentences lni'
posed for violations Of the city ordin'
nnccs was encouragement TO the law
less element To remain IN the city nni
| defy the police authority. II Il said
| that the suggestion was not kindly re-
] ccIyod aud That chief Farley did moi
proceed amy further. There II some
| doubt VI the legality OF Thomas ne
| ilon.
James Doylr's petition for writ NJ
| hnbohs corpus hnr been donlod by
/ Judge IInllcti In the United States dis
| trlct Court This does not close the nf'
| fair, however. NJ noyle's attorney,
| chnrles l.. Hughes, Ir,, announced thni
1 Tho mnitpr would he tnkcn IA ihr
| rultod sintcs Supreme Court The
/ cnsr had TO be- taken before the Dis
| trlct Court IN order 10 start matters
| but now II can go to the highest iri
hunnl In the lnnd. The rulings oi
| Judge Thorncli uf the District Court oi