The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-28
CAPITAL


Zttorney General Gardner has Is
III a general order permitting any
Ops who desire to visit the Pan
merican exposition to pass through
e state armed.
Sllrgeon General w. w. Grant, Ma
4 M. r. Root and Lieutenant r. h.
utchings have been appointed as
sRgates to the annual convention of
stional mIntary surgeons to be held
HSt. Paul May 30th, 31st and June
4
Brigadier General John Chase of the
ational guard will conduct an exam
lation for captains, first and second
eptenants in the Twenty-sixth street
nhory, June 18th. All members of
ID guard desiring to take the examin-
:bn may secure forms at the adju-
pt generals office.
Ben Mitchell, sentenced from Pu-
10 county December IS, 1899. to from
" to eight years for manslaughter,
ppeals to the board for a commuta-
On of sentence. He says that his
7me was committed while in the
eat of passion and excitement.
George Bond. who was sentenced
ON Arapahoe county November 2.
S99> for the murder of Maud McCon-
cyl las made application to the board
charities and corrections for par
on. he pleads drunkenness at the
me of the commission of the crime.
ond is serving n sentence of twenty
We years.
State Dairy Commissioner T. L.
Ionson has asked the auditing board
z the state for new testing ma
hine. said to be able to distinguish
utter from oleomargarine without
hemical analysis. In The work of the
airy commissioner the cost of such
nalyses is one of the principal ex-
enses of the office.
Philip Schuch, Jr.. of Cripple Creek
as sent to the state historical collec-
ion a copper kettle hammered from
alive copper. which he found in Feb
uary, 1s91, in the ruins of an Aztec
emple in the northeastern part of
'uma county, Arizona. discovered
Ehile he was tracing the course of a
rehistoric canal, evidently fed at one
iine by the Colorado river.
Governor Orman recently received
in express package from the Canon
city penitentiary. 1t contained a hand
ONE walking cane. The stick was
ent to the governor by r. G. Scott,
onvict No. i.65u. who made it. 1t is
+. fine and finished piece of workman
hip. Probably Scott hopes that the
,overnor will appreciate the gift when
le walks out and permit the donor to
10 the same.
THAT the Kansas Colorado water
uit is attracting national attention is
Sidenced by letter received at the
ttorney generals Office from Corpora
ION Counsel G. l.. Sterling of New
GDrk city. He speaks of having seen
10 account of the suit and says that
he city of New York is defendant in a
A2Alar suit. He sends his brief in the
NeN York case and asks for Attorney
feneral Posts brief in the water case.
Embodied in a petition for pardon
ar George Fisher, who was sentenced
o the penitentiary from Pueblo coun-
" March II, 1900, for a term OF from
Ihree to five years for grand larceny,
strong plea for clemency. While
Usher admits his guilt. he says he
WIS Vi al llNlHS iol
HIMSELF and mother, and that it was
sxtenuating because he appropriated
lis ill-gotten gains to living expenses
OR his mother and himself.
C. NJ. Hammond, who introduced
md assisted materially in securing
he passage of the bill appropriating
Y 900 of the proposed Gunnison ca
1al has been appointed by Governor
orman as chairman of the board OF
control of the canal, which is more
definitely specified as state canal No
J. In addition to Mr.. hammond, who
Is a member of the Legislature and re
sides at Paonia. Delta county. John ]
Tobin of Montrose and Frank E
Dodge of Delta were appointed. All
are prominent business men.
Professor C. z. Gillette, state ento
mologist. and Mrs. Martha A. Shute
Secretary OF the state horticultural
board. drove about Denver a few days
ago and found that the insect known
as the leaf roller was doing deadly
work on trees and vines a. over the
city. Evidences of the ravages of the
insect were most noticeable at Elitch's
Gardens and City park. Mrs. Shute
thinks that the law requiring owners
of orchards to spray trees as pre-
e cDtion against the increase of pests
APPLIES equally to the owners of shade
treO.
The exodus from the state house OF
the Gagged animals of the Carter collec
tion to the Gustafson building, on Lo
gan avenue, where the bear, buffalo
elk and other beasts are to be re
mounted by Rudolph Borcherdt before
being taken to City park, was com
nenced yesterday, says the Denver
News. The bear are being taken out
first and several of them have already
had their fine hair combed and beer
placed on new pedestals. The mon
ster elk with it's graceful but cumber
some horns gave Mr.. Borcherdt and
his assistants a great deal of trouble
The great doors OF the basement were
not sufficiently large to allow the ami
h, Ia TOT In nd