The silver lance., 1899-08-18


lation in Denver and through the state
ON some of which the signatures are
lacking, while ON others the signatures
are forged. The notes were put in cir
culation by the gang of train robbers
who held up the Union Pacific train
near Rock Springs, Wyoming, several
weeks ago. The notes We're discovered
by the robbers in the express car. They
had been shipped from the United
States Treasury Department to the
First National Bank of Portland, Ore
gon. and required only the signatures
of the president and cashier of that
bank to be put legally into circulation.
The notes never reached their destina-
tion, however, for the robbers signed
them and put them into circulation.
There are about SO, 500 of 500 and $50
notes, most of which are still in Wyo-
ming. A large number of both signed
and unsigned bills of these denomina-
tions have been discovered in Colorado
and even in Denver. The strangest
thing about these bills Is that they are
good money. The bank to which they
were directed. the First National Bank
of Portland. Oregon, is required by law
to redeem them, according to statute
passed by the last congress. The law
rules that when national bank notes
are placed In charge of the express COM
panies addressed to certain banks, that
the responsibility of redeeming the
notes at their face value passes to the
banks to which they are directed. If
the notes are intercepted on their way,
signed with forged signatures and put
into circulation, the notes must never
theless be redeemed by the bank to
which they are directed.
The rains of Thursday and Friday
were the heaviest which Colorado has
seen since September, 1894. The total
rainfall of Thursday in this city was
1.23 inches or 141 avoirdupois tons to
the acre. In the ten minutes from 4:47
to 4:57 p. m. on Thursday, Is inch
fell, and .53 fell in the fifteen rRiH4tes
from 5:37 until 5 - u m. on that Gay.
The eotaI fall from the time the rain
began on Thursday at 2:24 p. m. until
it stopped at 1920 p. m., was nearly
IA Inches. Nhe rain was harder here
than at aqY other point in the state.
Grand Junction had the next heaviest
fall. The rainfall was lighter in tdle
southern and northern parts of the
state, but heavy in the middle. eastern
and western sections. The rain fell
heavily in Clear Creek, Platte canon
and on Bear creek. No great damage
was done. Forecaster Brandenburg
says that the rain will have beneficial
results, especially on the cattle ranges.
He says that the rain extended over
areas in Colorado, Arizona, New Mex
leo, Utah, Nebraska and Iowa. Nearly
all the streams in Colorado are swollen
by the rain. Yesterday the Platte was
carrying 1,492 cubic feet of water per
second against 456 feet before the rain
began. The rain is the heaviest days
rain Colorado has ever had in August
except August 23 and "a, 1887, when
the fall amounted to 1.3S inches and
August, 1884, when 1.24 inches fell.
Matt Adams and Michael Ryan are
the first inmates of the penitentiary to
profit by the indeterminate sentence
law passed last winter at the instance
of the State Board of Charities and
Correction. Governor Thomas has
signed their paroles on recommenda-
tion of Warden C. p. Hoyt Both pris-
oners have served the minimum term
which is called for by the offenses
for which they were incarcerated. They
can now travel over the state at will
and can leave the state by giving sat
isfactory bonds to insure their return
when desired. Matt Adams, former
clerk of the District Court was sent
enced on June 81. 1897, to five years
in the penitentiary for embezzlement.
His term would have expired early in
March 1901.
The Post says: The chances are that
the Colorado Soldiers Home at Monte
Vista will close within two weeks.
The funds for maintaining the insti-
tuition are about exhausted. and the
scheme of having the counties pay so
much per capita for the support of the
inmates is acknowledged to be fail
ure. With a realization of the fact that
unless something is done quickly to
combat the calamity the 130 old veter-
ans in the home will soon be thrown
upon the world to starve, the Grand
Army men of Denver have originated
another proposition for averting the
suspension of the home, which they ex-
pect to carry to n successful conclus-
ion. President Baker and Secretary
Crawford of the G.. A. II. Memorial
and Benevolent Association favor the
project, and will within the next few
days bring it to the attention of the
governor and state authorities to see if
they concur in it. The Grand Army
plan is to allow the home at Monte
Vista to be closed as soon as the funds
run out. 1t will be necessary then un-
der the existing financial conditions
for about eighty of the inmates to be
turned out to starve or their friends
depended upon to give them support
until the home is placed on a sound
financial basis. The other fifty inmates
are friendless and penniless. They are
too aged and too sick to work. AMI
will simply have to be supported as
state wards The Grand Army people
declare they shall not go to the poor
house under any circumstances. The
plan is then to bring them to Denver.
and open soldiers home at the Union
Pacific hospital or in one of the other
unoccupied buildings on the outskirts
of the city. The government will con-
tinue to pay SS.33 per month for the
support OF each inmate under these
conditions. though if the home at
Monte Vista is closed and all the