The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-12
ITEMS FROM DENVER.

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position with the Denver x Rio
Grande, with headquarters at Denver.
Because of the increase in its prop
erty holdings and business, the North
ern Coal Company has reorganized
under the name of the Northern Coal
and Coke Company. The new COM
pany is incorporated with S2,000,0oO
capital stock. The capitalization of
the old company was 100000
Within the limits of its jurisdiction
judgments of the Court of Appeals are
final and conclusive. and writs of re-
( view are powerless TO confer upon the
Supreme Court the right to supervise
, the action of the Court of Appeals.
This question was decided on the 4th
by the Supreme Court in a per curiam
decision in the case of Frederick Green
VS.. The Court of Appeals.
] The Supreme court has given notice
that it will protect the reputation of
/ those citizens of the state who are re-
quired to serve on juries and will do
what 1t can to put an end to the
charges of jury-fXing which are al
b most always made the principal eX-
cuse for asking for new trials. Sharp
words are used by Justice Gabbert in
an opinion, in which he urges that
too often are the regulations of jurors
called in question without any appar-
ent justification except that someone
desired n new trial for n case which
he had lost. And this custom, he
strongly intimated, would no longer
/ be tolerated by the Supreme court In
! the future, he said, more serious
! grounds than the mere accusation of
jury fixing without proof of II must be
brought forward to secure new trial.
! The state treasury has been enriched
by the addition of S11, ,531, with inter
est since 1898. paid by the lsondsmen of
George w. Kephart. former state treas
urer, As result the states suit
! against the bondsmen will be with
] drawn by the attorney general and the
| incident of the treasurer's shortage will
/ be closed, so far as the state is con-
| cerned. The shortage was caused by
I the failure of the First National Bank
! of Montrose, in which Mr.. Kephart had
| deposited S11 .99J. OF this sum S463
was afterwards paid by the bank. Mr..
| Kephart was unable to collect from the
| bondsmen of the bank. and when his
term of office expired, the state brought
suit to recover from his bondsmen.
! They are David II. Moffat. James A.
| McClurg, Henry Wolcott, Bennett &
| Meyers, l.. Il. Campbell. $. T. Smith,
I l.. II. Eicholtz. c. j. Hughes, George
! Kephart's bondsmen will begin action
! against the bondsmen of the bank for
{ relief
The perils of the Grand Canon of the
! Colorado are to be braved by n party
of scientists from eastern colleges.
| Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cam
bridge. England, will be represented
among the explorers, who will travel
! in the treachcrous canon. Yesterday
u II
rived in Denver. He went to Colorado
Springs after a few hours stay in the
city. At Colorado Springs he will join
the others of his party. Professor w.
| NJ. Davis of Harvard head of the geo.
| logical department; Professor X. Il.
Dodge of the physiographical depart
/ ment at Columbia, and DIR. Anderson
of Cambridge, England. Saturday the
party will start from Flagstaff. Arizo-
ma. DR.. Gregory is professor of physi-
| ography at Yale: I'VE have secured
the American museum outfit" said DR.
Gregory. I'VE will have with us Mr.
Wetherill, the expert ON Moqui Indians.
He is an excellent guide and knows
the country. From Flagstaff we shall
go to Yuba City, and across to Lees
ferry, where we reach the Grand can
on proper. We will take the north side
and will keep on that bank until we are
nearly to the mouth of the canon. We
have studies the weaknesses of other
exploring parties, and know about what
we can do. Our outfit is elaborate and
we have prepared ourselves for every
emergency. There is no doubt there
is much of interest in fossil and min
eral kingdom TO be discovered, and
with n careful and scientific study
ought to add many pages to the earth's
history"
The Carter collection is now the prop
erty of the Colorado Museum and Nat
ural History Society, and if the advice
of Secretary Il. w. Merritt is acted up
on will be brought to Denver as soon
as possible. Rudolph Borcherdt. the So
ciety's taxidermist is now at Brecken-
ridge, working among the pelts and
mounted specimens. While all skins
mounted were found to be in very ex-
! cellent condition, very many duplicate
pelts, which had not been properly
cared for, were found alive with white
moths. Secretary Merritt Rudolph
1 Borcherdt and two assistants worked
for hours in spreading out and exam
ining these pelts and threw out about
| fifty which We're considered too badly
damaged to be preserved. Under the
agreement the society has the use of
| the Carter building in Breckenridge
rent free, until October LIST, but as the
building is full of moths, Secretary
Merritt will recommend the removal of
the collection to Denver at once AS 1t
will be probably year before the col
lection is completed and ready for ex-
hibition. n storage room in Denver is
wanted. One of the conditions of the
transfer is that the collection shall be
known as the Carter collection, and
that the collection, when transferred to
Denver. shall be open TO the public free
of cost for a reasonable number of
hours at least one day in each week
The board of directors of the society is
composed of Joseph A. Thatcher. Da-