The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-05
3OLORADO'S CAPITAL.

Another oil painting of one of Colo
radios early governors now adorns the
room of the governors private cham
ber. The picture of Edwin NJ. Nc
Cook has been added, largely through
the efforts of Major j. NJ. Thompson,
who was his private secretary. Nc
Cook was territorial governor fron
1874 to 1876. Those executives whose
pictures have not yet been placed in
the governors room are S. ii. Elbert,
John l.. Routt. A. w. McIntire, j. b.
Grant and C. S. Thomas.
State Dairy Commissioner Monson
does not agree with the courts as to
the construction of the new oleo law.
The new law taxes all buffers, artifi-
cially colored. 10 cents a pound, but
nothing is said about ''oleO" that has
been colored yellow by the use of
natural yellow butter. The makers of
oleo have discovered this and are using
yellow butter to color their product.
The question has been raised by fed
eral authorities and will be argued in
the United States Supreme Court with
in n short time. The dairy commits
sioner will next week begin a tour of
the state to examine colored buffers
and detect, if possible, any infringe
ments of the law. He Will, however,
be guided largely by his Interpretation
of the statutes, and probably Will not
object to ''oleo" that has been coloreG
the use of natural butter.-Denyer
News.
More buffaloes are roaming wild in
the mountains of Colorado than in any
other state. So says pioneer David n.
Baker of Park county. MIR. Baker
gave this information to Game Warden
Harris yesterday, says the Denver
there are twenty-five wild buffalo up
in Lost and Middle parks. Game War
den Harris heard the news with inter
est, but did not appear at all surprised,
for he is himself cognizant of certain
small herds of wild game of which
the sportsmen know nothing. MI.
Baker called to see the game warden
and tell of the buffaloes because he
was incensed at reports that Colorado
had no buffaloes left. These buffalo
are in Lost park, he said Last faii
herd of more than twenty-five were
seen over there. The people in that
community are very proud of this
herd. proud to have the buffalo still
running wild there. and if any one
We're to kill one of these few remaining
specimens of II noble race he would De
lynched." The game warden and MIR.
Baker discussed the care of bison III
Yellowstone park. agreeing that the
winters We're too cold for the proper
development of the young.
Register c. u. Ford of the United
States land office has issued official
notice of the withdrawal from public
entry of land in Larimer and Morgan
counties, upon direction of Binger
Hermann, commissioner of the generai
land office. The withdrawal of 432
IH..Ia 10. I..ta
prises the territory reserved by the
government in the land to be incor-
porated in the Medicine Bow forest
reserve. If the irrigation projects along
skhe Platte are determined upon, 3SS
0liiles of land are involved. No bona
fde settlement or claim Will be affected
by the withdrawal. In Morgan county
forty-four miles are withdrawn while
n decision is reached in regard to es-
tablishing Il reservoir there. This
temporary withdrawal or any perma-
nent reservation which may follow
will not affect any bona fide settle
ment or claim ON the lands which is
properly Initiated prior to the date
hereof and duly of record within the
statutory period" concludes the direc-
tions from Commissioner Hermann.
The government has also ordered with
drawal from public entry large tract
of land ON the Western slope. The reg
lister and receiver of the land office ut
Montrose have been ordered by COM
missioner Hermann to withdraw 5J,-
900 acres of land situated in Montrose
and Delta counties. The directions
from Washington are taken to Indicate
that the government has decided to
officially investigate the Gunnison tun-
mel project.
SNf a I.prn Ila INN nt-t-
ance to the state is discussed as fol
lows by the Denver News of July 31st:
"One Vaughn was found guilty. on his
own confession. of murder in the sec
Ond degree, and was sentenced by
Judge Stevens to a term of fourteen to
twenty years in the state penitentiary,
the sentence being given under the in
determnate sentence law. On the
ground that the crime was committed
before the law went into effect. and
that the sentence should have been
imposed under the old law and for "A
fixed term. Judge Mullins granted an
1application for writ of habeas
corpus, and Vaughn was released from
Lstody. He has left Denver and Of
tcers are now following him in order
10 rearrest him. On this same ground
five other prisoners have been re-
leased on writs of habeas corpus
three by Judge Palmer and two by
Judge Mullins. Other distric, judges
have refused to release prisoners on
the grounds which Judges Palmer and
Mullins found sufficient in the six
cases referred to. The other judges
have held that the prisoners should
serve at least the minimum term fixed
IN the iudeterrinate sentence. which in
the case of Vaughn would be fourteen
years. All six of the eases were
brought to the two Arapahoe county
iulnrs Mn helieYe. from districts out