North Park union., 1900-03-30
DO1Nlis AT DENVER.
Itsns sf zntsrsst From the city and the
state Capitol.

| state CApttoA.
Detective Carberry of this city was
shot and killed the other day by man
named Iakle, while the former was out
duck hunting. lake claims that 1t was
an accident.
A person convicted of crime less
than a capital offense may have re-
course to only one writ of error. says
| the Supreme Court. This statement Is
made In connection with the refusal by
| the court to consider the case OF Ed
| ward Caviness. The crime OF CavineSs
| was murder in ..ie second degree. AS
his counsel applied for writ OF error
u year ago, then refused to prosecute
1t, the court denied him privilege OF
again attempting Il similar action.
Mrs. Harvey Payne was reused from
her sleep last Saturday night to ind IL
man bending over her holding pistol
to her head. He ordered her to get up
and give him all the money she had in
the house. With threats he made her
go to her hiding place. sugar bowl.
She handed him 500 which she had
saved and had hidden there. She stag
gered to a neIghbor's and fell senseless
on the steps. Hearing her fall the oc-
cupants of the house hurried out ana
| Aouhu hSLs
The coming census may increase
| ColOrados representation In Congress
by two. Governor Thomas predicts
this. Another congressman should
have been allowed In this state when
the last apportionment was made.
| says the governor, "if the census had
been accurately taken. and l am con
fident that the new census will add at
least one and in all probability two
congressman to our representation in
the lower house,
John jacob Astor Powell, attorney.
Is alive. well and practicing law in
Virginia. However, he is not the John
Jacob Astor Powell of Ouray. who
disappeared from Denver not long ago.
John Il. Barnett, n lawyer. Is sponsor
for this statement. He thinks the
Ouray lawyer used the Virginian'>
name. Friends of the missing man
think that he is in South Africa. and
one of them says he has n letter from
Powell, under recent date, from DO
hanncsburS. where he says Powell is
protecting his South African mining
| interests.
Captain Cecil A. Deanc custodian of
the war relic room mt the state capitol,
has received the first flag made in Gil
| pin county. Its dimensions are 1ON1l
| feet and there are thirty-four stars Oh
| the field of blue. The original size of
the flag was 1ON2S feet. and 1t was cut
| in two at some time not exactly known.
| The Other; part has been destroyed or
| lost. The ladies of the Gold Dirt min
ing camp made the flag in 1861 and
when the camp went down the emblem
was taken in charge by j. .. A. Rol-
lins. whose widow now presents tho
| flag to the state.
| Advises have been received at the
general offices of the Colorado Mid
land that the New York grand jury
had Indicted William j. Blaze on the
charge of counterfeitlng the tickets of
that railroad. Since last October the
officials have been trying to run down
an issue of forged tickets, the Pinker
tons being at work upon the case.
Blaze Is now said to be under arrest
| in New Orleans. The detectives have
not yet discovered the persons who
did the actual printing. but they are
| said to have well grounded suspicious
us TO who they are.
The Army and Navy Memorial Hall
Association is now Il reality. and Il
| hall will soon be built. At II meeting
in the state capitol last evening. rep
resentatives of the G. A. Il. posts ana
auxiliary organizations in Denver
agreed upon II constitution and by
laws. Secretary Crawford said that
articles of incorporation would be
filed. Not until this is done will any
effort he made to raise the necessary
funds. but it is semi-otiicially an
nounced that the committee in charge
knows just where to raise substantial
amounts. This new organization will
erect hall for use by all the q. y. X.
posts OF the city, all the auxiliary So
| cieties and naval organizations. The
idea is to establish some central meet
ing place ns headquarters for the
rapidly diminishing q. \. Il. assoca-
| tons.
The sale of 100000 feet of state
timber, scheduled to take place last
Monday. was postponed because OF
the discovery of an error in the adver.
tisement OF the timber. which makes
readvertising necessary. The adver-
tisement read ''the south range" when
it should have been the north range"
Bidders appeared in plenty. The re-
advertising may cause delay of n
month. This mistake in advertising is
not the first of recent date. A similar
error was made In the sale Of the GOO
ncres OF Otero county land to the OK
nard Beet Sugar Company. Senator
Swink discovered this mistake and
came to Denver for the purpose of hav.
ing it rectitied. To ]. w. Vickers. 1O6.-
GOO feet of Park county timber was
sold at 81 Il thousand feet. This tim
ber is on school land near Hartzell +.
NJ. Harsin bought eighty acres Of Otero
county land ut $50 an acre. This land
| is where he has made his home for
several years. leasing 1t from the state
and improving 1t at his own conven-
ience.
The National Rural, an agriculture,
paper printed In Chicago, has under
taken to locate Il colony of eastern
farmers on n tract of about 100000
acres. situated in the Bijou valley in
Arapahoe county, about thirty-sis
miles east of Denver. About 36,O0G
acres has been purchased from the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
will be sold to settlers for $125 an
acre, or they may purchase the alter
nate sections from the government
under the desert land act at the same
price. or locnte them under the home.
stead law. all getting their water from
the promoters of the settlement The
water for irrigation 1t is proposed to
| get from the undertiow of the gravelly
bed of BiJou creek. The gravel and
| the whole irrigation scheme have been