Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-01-17

may be taxed at such additional rate
as shall be provided by law, after ex'
empting all personal property and
improvements thereon from such ad-
ditional rate of taxation.
The bill introduced Saturday by
Senator Ammons will also attract con-
siderable attention 1t is a bill to
Law the foundation without extra ex-
pense for system of good roads i'll
the state. 1t was recommended by
the roads convention recently held in
| Denver. 1t provides that 25 per cent
| of the road fund at the disposal of the
county commissioners in each of the
| 81 counties of the state be used for
| the construction of permanent roads.
| The idea is thus to build up gradually
solid road beds with stone culverts
and permanent improvements in all
| lines OF road construction and bridge
| work Senator Ammons in explain
ing the measure says that most OF the
false economy in road building-con-
structing perishable timber culverts.
and merely grading dirt roads, which
are washed to pieces by the first rain,
compelling the construction of another
road with more expense and with
| lust as little permanency. He figures
| out that by setting apart quarter OF
the road fund every year for Few
| years the county commissioners in
| each of the 81 counties of the state
| will without burden to the taxpayers
build up roads without state aid and
| thus minimize for future years the
cost of keeping poor roads in repair
or building new ones.
| Section | of Senator Stewards bill
| for the punishment of habitual Grim
| inals. provides that whoever has been
| twice convicted of crime. sentenced
and committed to prison. in this or in
any other state. or once in this and
once at least in any other state, for
terms of not less than three years
each, shall, upon conviction OF Il fell
ony committed in this state after the
| passage of this act. be deemed to be
an habitual criminal, and shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment in the state
| penitentiary for twenty-five years;
| provided. however, that if the person
| so convicted shall show to the salts
| faction of the court before which such
conviction was had that he was re-
| leased from Imprisonment upon either
of said sentences upon pardon grant
ed upon the ground that he was inno-
cent, such conviction and sentence to
the state penitentiary as an habitual
| criminal has reformed. he may is
| sue to him Il permit to be at liberty
| curing the remainder of his term of
| sentence, upon such conditions as he
deems best; and he may revoke said
permit at any time previous to its
| expiration. The violation by the
holder of permit, granted as afofre-
said, OF any of the terms or conditions
of such permit, or the violation OF
| any of the laws of this commonwealth
shall of itself make void said permit
Sec. 3. When any permit granted
under the provision OF the preceding
section has been revoked, or has be-
come void as aforesaid, the governor
shall issue his warrant authorizing the
| arrest of the holder of said permit
and his return to said state periten-
tiary. Said warrant may be served
by an officer authorized to serve Grim
| inal process in any county of the
state. The holder of said permit
wnen returned to said state pen.-
tentiary as aforesaid, shall be detain-
cd therein according to the terms of
his original sentence; and in COM
putting the period of his confiner,cn-
| the time between his release upon
said permit and his return to the statG
| penitentiary shall not be taken to be
any part of the term off the SEN
| tence.
See. 4. This act shall not pc con.
strued in any sense to operate as a
discharge of any convict paroled under
its provisions, but simply permit to
to such convict to go without the en-
closure of the penitentiary. and if,
while so at large, he shall so behave
and conduct himself as not to incur
his reincarceration. then he shall be
deemed to be still serving out the
sentence imposed upon him by the
court and shall be entitled to good
time the same as if he had not been
paroled. But if the said paroled oris-
| oner shall be returned to the said
| penitentiary, as herenbefore pro-
| vided, then he shall serve out his orig
| inal sentence as provided in section l
| of this act
There will be quite an effort on the
| part of the Arapahoe county delega-
| tion to effect a consolidation of city
ana county aifarrs which would effect
| Dig saving in the administration and
serve the purpose just as well.
The proposition to establish state
normal school at Montrose has some
| following but not sufficient to war
rant prediction that it will carry.
There is not sufficient money to pro-
| vide for the educational institutions
| OF the state already established.
THE ROUNDER.