The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-23
DOINGS AT DENVER.
Items of Interest From the City and the
State Capitol

suet ana Killed tEe DthtF ust4 ~ 80
named lake, while the former was ouI
duck hunting. lake Claims that II was
an accident.
A person convicted Of a crime less
than capital Ofense may nave re-
course 10 onlS one writ OF error, says
the Supreme Court. This statement Is
made in connection with the refusal by
the court 10 consider the case OF I'd
ward Cavines. The crime of Caviness
WAS murder In --ie second degree. As
his counsel applied for writ OF error
n year ago. then refused to prosecute
1t. the court denied him privilege OF
again attempting similar action
Mrs. Harvey Payne was reused from
her sleep last Saturday night 10 ind
man bending over her holding n pistol
to her head He ordered her TO get up
and give him all The money she had in
the house. Will threats he made her
go 10 her hiding place, sugar bowl
She handed him 500 which she had
saved and had hidden there. She stag
gered 10 Il nelgbbor's and fell senseless
ON the steps. Hearing her fall, the oc-
cupants Of thc house hurried out and
found her.
Lt t'iilne ffAiNuS AAA1 AhNANsA'N
colorado's Representation in Congress
by two. Governor Thomas predicts
this. "Ano,her congressman should
have been allowed in this state when
the last apporyionment was made,
says the governor. If the census had
been accurately taken. and l am con
hdent that the new census VIII add at
least one and In all probability two
congressmen 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. BarneIt. lawyer is sponsor
for this Statement. He thinks the
Ouray lawyer used the Virginian's
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 jo-
hanpesburg, where he says Powell is
protecting his South African mining
interests.
Captain Cecil A. Deane. custodian OF
the war relic room at The state capitol,
has received the first flag made in Gil.
pin county. Its dimensions are 10x1i
feet and there are thirty-four stars on
the field OF blue. The original size Of
the flag was 10x2S feet, and II was cut
in two ut some time not exactly known.
The other part has been destroyed OF
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. Q. A. Rol-
Inns, whose widow now presents the
flag to the state.
The sale Of 100000 feet of state
timber, scheduled TO take place last
Monday, WIS 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
1t should have been the north range"
Bidders appeared in plenty. The re-
advertising may cause a delay of q
month. This mistake in advertising Is
not the first Of recent date. A similar
error was made in the sale of the GOO
acres 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 rectlfied. To J. W. Vickers, 1O6,-
coo feet of Park county timber was
sold at 81 thousand feet. This tim
ber is on school land near Hartzell. L.
NJ. Harsin bought eighty acres of Otero
county land at SO an acre. This land
is where he has made his home for
several years, leasing it from the state
and improving 1t at his own conyen-
ience.
The National Rural, an agricultural
paper printed In Chicago. has under
taken to locate n colony of eastern
farmers on a tract of about 100000
acres, situated in the Bijou valley in
Arapahoe county. about thirty-six
miles east of Denver About $4,000
acres has been purchased from the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
will be sold to settlers for S1.25 an
acre, or they may purchase the alter
nate sections from the government
under the desert land act at the same
price, or locate them under the home
stead law, all getting their water from
the promoters of the settlement. The
water for irrigation it is proposed TO
get from the underfiow of the gravelly
bed OF Bijou creek. The gravel and
the whole irrigation scheme have been
examined by civil engineers, whose re-
ports to the promoters show that forty
per cent. Of the rainfall sinks into the
soil. Bi1ou creek drains 1,5OO square
miles, though little water flows in the
visible stream beds. The original
stream beds, OF impermeablc clay, are
at an average depth of seventy feet
from the surface. Tests show that
within n few feet of the surface the
sands carry thirty per cent. OF moist
ure while from five feet from the sur
face to the clay the gravel carries
forty-five per cent. of moisture. A