The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-12
COLORADO'S CAPITAL.

company WaS Wiling 10 pay the royal
ties long in dispute on coal mines and
the board appointed General Post and
Mrs. Grenfell a committee to draw up
II new lease for the company to the
land on which the mines are situated
The lease will be granted as soon as
the old royalties are paid. These
amount to about $1,000. The lease is
to cover coal lands in Huerfano
county.
The Colorado Humane Society has
filed amended articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state. The So
ciety will hereafter be known as the
Colorado Humane Society. Bureau of
Child and Animal Protection. The OBJ
ject of the society is to promote edu-
| cation along humane lines and espe-
cially to look after children and dumb
animals. The governor, the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction, and
the attorney general are eX-officio men,
bers of the board, while Walter Chees-
man is president and f. X. Whitehead
is secretary. The society is about to
inaugurate n reform in Denver, having
for its purpose the more humane treat
ment of dogs. 1t Is alleged that own
ers of dogs do not care for them as
they should.
will not pay the warrants for the liqui-
dation of the states debt to the Den
Yer clearing house banks. Mr.. Crouter
is reported to have said: Il do not
see, in the first place. that there is any
law under which they can be paid, and
If had do not know why the Denver
clearing house banks should be given
preference over other creditors of the
state who have a right to be paid just
as well as the Denver clearing house
banks. | am the man who is respon
sible for the payment of money here.
l am the man who is under bond and
l do not intend TO pay the warrants.
My vote at the meeting of the board
shows my position exactly. l have op-
posed the payment from the begin
ming"
Game Commissioner Harris received
from the attorney general an opinion
recently, in which that official sustains
the game warden on nearly every point
in the controversy with TaNidermist
Stencil of Salt Lake The opinion
holds that the warden acted legally in
seiZing all the game heads and hides
of Stencil except those of game that Is
not native to Colorado. Acting on the !
advice of the attorney general and in
order to avoid unnecessary litigation |
the game warden will return the heads |
of those animals that We're caught out |
side the state. These are two goat |
heads and two Alaska sheep heads. |
The attorney general holds that the law
means to prohibit the importation of |
game from one state to another for |
taXidermic purposes, and that by the ,
same rule it cannot be taken out He |
holds that wild goats are not game
quadrupeds and can therefore be killed |
anywhere and everywhere.
The Denver Republican of August |
9th has the following report: The
Auditing Board of the state of Colo
RADIO. composed of State Auditor Crout-
er, Attorney General c. G. Post and |
Governor James b. Orman, yesterday |
afternoon decided to pay the outstand- |
ing debt of the state incurred under |
the administration of Governor Charles !
s. Thomas, for the purpose of conduct |
ing the state penal institutions. the |
asylum and the State University mt :
Boulder. Mr.. Crouter insisted to the /
last and so voted that the state could |
not lawfully pay this money to the |
Denver clearing house banks and |
those persons of Boulder. who loaned |
money to the state. The other two
members of the board. however, could |
see no reason why this debt should
not be paid. Eighty-six thousand dol |
lars of the sum due the Denver clear
ing house banks will be paid immed-
lately, and the $4,000 due to private
parties will also be pair Immediately, |
while the other $4,000 which is still
due the Denver clearing house banks
will be paid at the discretion of the |
board. The money to be used for this
purpose will be taken from the funds
nnf int hn &c, Of l,n
state government, and it is, therefore,
passed at the session of the Thirteenth |
General Assembly. Under the terms
of the act 1t is provided that S251 800 |
was to be used as incidental and con
tingent expenses of the executive. leg I
islative and judicial departments of the
state government, and it les, therefore, |
argued that the state has the right to |
pay this amount to the Denver clear
Ing house banks out of this fund. I'm |
der the Thomas administration it be- |
came necessary through the lack of |
appropriation on the part of the Legis-
lature for the maintenance of the state |
penal institutions. and for the contin- |
uance of the State University at Bould- |
er to secure money to run these inst- |
tutions. No funds were available. so |
it was borrowed on the credit of the |
state from the Denver clearing house |
banks and citizens. There was no Sc
curity given for this money except the
credit of the state in general. Recent
ly the banks have demanded that they
be paid. The meeting of the auditing
board has been postponed from time to |
time and yesterday was the first op-
portunity the board had to act on this
demand. Auditor Crouter has insisted
that this money could not be paid un-
der the constitution, as there was no
law authorizing him to do So He main
tanned this position until the action