The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-01
coLoRADo's CAPITAL.

ty, water commissioner for district No.
"a. vice Michael White. resigned. and
Meloney @. Soniat OF New Orleans to
be commissioner Of deeds for the state
OF Colorado In the Louisiana city.
The Denver land office has received
a letter from Washington directing at
tentlon to the new law concerning the
making of final proof in taking up gov
ernment land. The law previously was
that IN proving up on stone and tim
Der lands the afiidavlts and proofs had
to be sworn to before the officers OF
the land office The new law allows
the making OF proofs before any prop
erly accredited Judge or clerk OF n court
of record.
Admiral Sehley has written to ID. A.
Mills. secretary OF state. thanking the
Legislature for the resolution adopted
by the extra session aand forwarded
through Senator Teller. The admiral
writes: II shall always keep those res
olutions amongst the most priced and
valued treasures which have come to
me from my people. and shall always
have pleasure when can exhibit thcm
as coming from the people of state
where l have many friends and
amongst whom enjoyed my visit
some two and half years ago most
delightfully."- and of whose hospitahle
reception | shall entertain unfading
memories of pleasure"
Notaries public were recently np-
pointed as follows: Walter S. Bah
cock. Minnie c. McClary. Geoge r,
ANrkey. William Il. Shattuc, Walter
n Snellgrove, Smien NJ. Vessel, Den
yer; Allen 4. Briggs. Gulnare +. o.;
Colin $. Campbell. Fountain; George
=. Davenport, Greeley; Charles G. Gra-
ham. Colorado Springs; Wade ii.
Haley, Rifle; Marion NJ. Meredith, Rye;
William j. Miller. Mancos; Domenico
ozzelo. StarkvllIe; George ii. Patter-
son. Loveland; Jacob n. Pettingell,
sulphur Springs; Luther w. Rood,
Hotchkiss; Vidal Shoblo Trinidad; El-
len Ray Sullivan. Cripple Creek: Daniel
w. Thomas, Victor; Thomas " VII
son, Boulder; Sut. ii. Wood, White
/ Cross.
According to the sanitary bulletins
of the State Board of Health the num-
ber of deaths in the state during the
month of March was 1s3, and the rate
of mortality TO the entire population
was lbs per 1000. The deaths from
dlphtheria during the month numbered
30, from smallpox /. from scarlet fever
% and from typhoid fever Z. In the
county of Afapahoe the total of deaths
was 2J1, and In the city OF Denver 224.
The report says: Compared with Feb
ruary the month OF March shows an In
crease of five cases OF diphtheria, three
eases of scarlet fever and sixty-three
cases of smallpox, and decrease OF
nine cases of typhoid fever" Boulder
had 10 deaths during the month. Colo
RADIO Springs ~. Leadville IL, Pueblo
G2 and Cripple Creek II.
I A temporary injunction was issued
by Judge Carpenter In the District
Court on the 2lst of April restraining
Coy. James Il. Ormnn, Secretary of
State David A. Mills and Attorney
General Charles c. Post. who consti-
tute commission appointed for the
purpose of letting the contract for pub
fishing the reports and opinions of the
4 Court of Appeals for the next ten
| years, from awarding this contract to
J the Mills Publishing Company. and
compelling them to award 1t to the
Banks Law Publishing Company of
New York City, represented In Denver
, by their attorney. Andrew w. Gillette.
| In March bids were advertised to be
opened April 10th. II is set forth In
MT. iillctte 5 conpiiilut tildt on Airii
7th the Mills people submitted bid of
S1.S9 volume. On April 10th Henry
Bray, Denver attorney, submitted
+. bid of $1.35. and at the same time Mr..
| Gillette, acting for the Banks Publish
| ing Company, submitted bid of S1.24.
1t Is averred that the Mills people.
having learned that two other bids
were to be submitted, ON the same day
and only fifteen minutes after the
, aforesaid bids We're submitted pre-
sented two more bids, one of S1.61 and
the other of $1.39. Accompanying all
three of the Mills bids was state
ment that II the contract was awarded
to the Mills Publishing Company all of
the work would be done in Colorado by
, union labor. Mr.. Gillette takes excep-
tions to the consideration of this state
! ment. declaring that no such provision
was included in the advertisement for
bids and also is not embodied in the
statutes. As the statutes do provide
that the state shall purchase 800 copies
| of the books at the contract price. Mr.
| Gillette alleges that the state is being
forced to pay more for the books than
is absolutely necessary, and therefore
the best interests of the state are not
being subserved by awarding the con-
tract to the Mills company. In support
of his contention that the contract Will
not operate for the best interest OF the
public, he calls attention to the fact
that the 5000 attorneys of the state
will be forced to pay II cents a volume
more for the reports than they would
IL the Banks company received the con-