La Junta tribune., 1899-05-13
GOSSIP FROM DENVER
AND THE STATE CAPITOL

appoipted. he has abandoned his scnt.
mental position and Mrs. Tabor will
not be named.
| Denver people have another opportu-
| nifty to witness those perSersiops OF
| Justice that tend to make one suspi-
cIous OF the legal machinery OF our
government. The United states eouft
OF appeals has just confirmed the SEN
| tence OF Charles J. Kunsmiller, who
was convicted Of making false reports
| to the government while he was ps-
sIstant cashier of the defunct German
| National Bank Of this city He will
! hive to serve a term OF five years in
the penitentiary, while Reithmann and
Clinton, his superior officers. escaped
punishment on n technicality. II is
understood that they admit that KuGs-
miller made the reports as be did at
| their dictation.
The anti-emblem bill has become a
law, contrary to the general expecta-
ton. 1t was introduced by Senator
Harris. 1t Is an act amending the cleo
tion laws by providing for baSot
upon which the party emblem does not
appear. Governor Thomas had de-
cided to veto this measure. but he
changed his opinion at the last min
ute. He signed the measure. although
he says that II Is Objectionable to him.
He says: II signed the bill, deferrmg
my objections to the opinions OF others,
and particularly the author OF the bill.
There Is one serious objection to the
bill as 1t is framed. Ii tends to destroy
the secrecy of the Australian ballot in
that 1t requires the voter to write the
name of his ticket Oh Its face. This is
the only serious objection out Of many
others"
As a result Of carelessness on the
part Of clerk OF the former State
Land Board the school fund may lose
10, 600 acres OF land in Routt county or
be compelled to choose in lieu thereof
an equal acreage in some undesirable
locality. Register Ford of the Unihd
States Land Office has received let
ter from Commissioner Binger Ier-
mann of the General Land Office at
Washington, which instructed the reel
pient to throw open for settlement all
of the lands on which the eye of the
state rested. He will take such action
Mt once. The communication removes
the last vestige Of hope TINT this en-
mense tract OF land will come into the
possession of the state. 1t states that
the Colorado Land Board has waived
its right to appeal from the former de-
cision OF the commissioner. by failing
to file with any United States land Of
fee within the allotted thirty days
revised list OF Indemnity lands to be
taken in exchange for the two school
section included within the boun.
daries of the old Ute reservation. The
Land Bonrd employed n clerk to Ete-
pare a revised list to take the place OF
the one disapproved. This new list
was completed more than n week ago
but not filed in the United States Land
Office. The time for appeal having
elapsed. Commissioner Herman or
iered the rights Of the state forfeited
as to the specific tracts selected. In
cant land In Isoutt county, and the set
tiers In that part Of the state objected
strenuously to the exchange.
The Broadway Temple Association,
under whose auspices the late Myrnn
Reed preached for several years, Is
now listening to the sermons of rhe
Rev. DIR. Henry c. Myers, who former
ly preached in an independent pulpit
at Chicago. 1t is expected that In.
Myers will be permanently engaged
here, unless his recent utterances about
marriage change the feeling of the
Temple AssoQiltion. In a sermon de-
livered few Sundays ago DIR. MyMs
expressed views that favored of be-
lief in free love. and in an interview
since made the following statement OIL
the subject:
''If had a daughter who wanted to
get married l would take her and her
intended husband to phrenologiSt
and II he said they were congeni1l
and compatible would say. get mar
ried,' and If they wanted to live to-
gether unmarried by human law,
would say. live together for they
Nx-n ftN6avy ri kptn
be married by law OF heaven more
binding and more powerful than II a
priest had Joined them. II could reg
ulate the laws, would do away with
all marriage and divorce laws. Here
we sit on Gods footstool and make
long lists Of laws when we ought 10
throw them away and learn the fist
sweet. noble laws Of nature. The -hu-
man race will never be happy until
nature rules the world as 1t should.
Marriage and divorce laws are suby1i-
tutes for imbecility. They are child
ish, foolish, absurd. The idea Of say
ing to nature, that man and that
woman are man and wife, when IA
ture knows that they are not. Natural
Laws are complete and perfect. No
flower that blows is without its man.
nor any bird that flies. Every man
has his affinity and every woman hers;
and II man Is married by law to IL
woman who II not his affinity 1t Is
wrong for them to live together. Thly
are not man and wife. A crystal will
unite with another crystal and the. ef-
feet Is beautiful, but crystal will not
unite with either granite or snnd-
stone. I'd take all the little laws for
divorce In all the states and put them
together into one general law, 10 that
every couple married when they ought
not to be married could be divorced
easily. Its too bad we have to have
the law at all. Shame ON Moses, wlp
originated IT.