The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-06
COLORADO'S CAPITAL.

| The spawn of rainbow trout in the
Gunnison river is being collected by
men employed by the game commits
sioner. The spawn will be put in the
hatcheries and eventually distributed
in other streams.
| The Board of Capitol Managers
| has let contract for building an
iron stairway from the rooms of the
State Horticultural Society in the base
ment to the sub basement, where the
society has a library and other cellec-
| tions.
| The game commissioner recently de-
creased the great collection of confis-
Gated heads and hides that has accum-
u1ated at his office by selling TO John
| @. Osgood the heads of four Rocky
mountain sheep for 500. The com
missioner hopes eventually to sell all
the trophies that he has gathered.
| The Supreme Court Will decide
whether n child born after its father
| dies and left without a legacy can af-
| forwards receive share in the prop
erty. The question is raised in the
/ suit filed in the State Supreme Court
F., in a contest over the will of the late
| George ii. Hobson, banker of Pu-
| eblo. The suit is brought by his broth
ers and sisters against Mrs. Sella j.
| Hobson, on an appeal from the County
Court of Pueblo county, where the
widow won.
a small roasting plant has been erect
ed in the yard in the rear of the Den
| yer branch mint, and 1t is doing good
work in the tIea atment of sweeps"
These are gathered from the floor of
! the assay and refinery rooms. then sub
| jected to a light roast for disintegra-
ton, after which it is ground to about
thirty mesh and then washed. The
sweeps" are regularly accounted for
in all mint reports. Formerly they
were sold in this city to the highest
and best bidder.
COMMISSIONER Chief George w.
Thatcher of the Colorado St Louis
Fair Commission has appointed the
following advisory board: Agriculture,
Mayor George w. Swink, Rocky Ford;
NJ. V. b. Page, Fruita: Jesse Harris
Fort Collins; Senator +. NJ. Ammons
Littleton; Senator w. II. Adams. Ala
mosa. Horticulture: w. $. Coburn,
Hotchkiss; b. +. Rockafellow, Canon
City: Charles Evans, Fort Collins.
Live Stock: f. II. Grubb. Carbondale;
George Ballantyne, Denver; Mors
Wyatt, Greeley.
The State Historical Society, through
Curator VIII c. Ferril, has been pre-
scented with thirty-fve bound volumes
Of the Congressional Record for the
fifth-four1h and succeeding Cong
resses. The records We're given by Con
gresham John +. Shafroth. The socie-
ty was also presented recently with n
curious potato scraper" which was
used in Ireland over n century ago. IL.
II. Denroche, an old man, presented it,
d nj lfat
! used it, The society received from the
same source, supposed fac-simile of
the characters that We're inscribed ON
the tower of Babel.
The warrant that was sworn out by
Deputy Game Warden Bush against
William C. Ferril, curator of the State
| Historical Society at the state house,
was served April 29th. Deputy Sheriff
| Brown read to the curator the warrant
/ charging him with wantonly killing
song birds without first securing per-
nit from the state game and fish
commissioner. Curator Ferril went
with the deputy sheriff to the court
house and was released upon his own
personal recognizance. His hearing
will be held May ST.. His defense will
be that there is no law now In force in
the state forbidding the killing of song
birds. that the law of 1897, which did
so protect these birds, was repealed by
the law of 1899. He will also argue
that the birds he killed We're intended
for scientific purposes. that they are
the property of the state and that the
game commissioner had no right to
seize them. The birds in question are
still held by the game commissioner.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany and, the State Land Board have
closed their controversy over ,the S6,
1925 due for rentals ON the Berwind
mine. The Berwind mine is located
upon state land, and the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company has been paying the
state n royalty on each ton of coal
mined there. Several years ago the
company petitioned the State Land
Board to make "A reduction in the roy
atty for that year because of the large
amount of unavailable slack in the
coal The board threw off twenty-five
per cent. subsequently when every
pound of coal including the slack, was
being mined and shipped, the company
continued to allow itself discount of
twenty-five per cent. The land board
demanded the back royalties on this
twenty-five per cent. be paid. The
board has received the following noti-
fication from Cass Il. Harrington, at
torney for the company: Il am in
structed by the company to say that
the proposition of your board, of the
date of April II, 1902. in relation to the
question of slack at the Berwind mine.
will be accepted and our company will
pay the sum of S6,1992S within TWEEN
ty days"
Thousands of unbranded and runty
Mexican horses have been roaming the
San Luis valley wild and ms far south
as the New Mexican border for thirty
years, says the Denver Post. Hun