The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-29
COLORADO'S CAPITAL.

perjury. lie was the principal WIZ
ness in murder case there last month.
Town Marshal Marvin of La Junta
captured Berry and will get $500 re
ward.
The federal authorities at Washing
ton have given the state of Colorado
25,521 acres of land in Routt county.
Information of the grant was received
at the land office few days ago. The
land is given to the state in lieu of
that taken by the government for the
Ute reservation several years ago. 1t
is valuable for grazing purposes.
State Treasurer Chipley has received
S2o,OOO from the federal government,
the semi-annual payment ON the appro-
priatlon for scientific investigation as
to farming. This revenue is derived
from the public lands and was first
made available by the Congress of
1860. and the first payments were
made by the government in 1885. The
specified purpose of the appropriation
Is to carry on scientific investigations
for the benefit of the state at large and
the agricultural interests of the state
in particular.
Thomas ]. Holland, superintendent
of state fish hatcheries, recently re
ceived letter from j. A. Porter of Du-
range, saying the writer would be will
ling to pay the salary, amounting to
500 n month, for n deputy game war
den to watch for dynamiters of fish
in that section, particularly in the Val
lecito river. Dynamiting has been car
ried on to such an extent there that
large numbers of the fish in the rivers
have been wantonly killed Mr.. Por-
ter was formerly president of the smell
ter at Durango, and is anxious that
the state game laws be enforced.
Governor Orman has appointed Or.
c. Il. Cooper n member of the State
Board of Health to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of his partner.
tie late DIR. Tyler. DIR. Cooper was
born in Denver twenty-seven years
ago and received the degree of a b.
from Sacred Heart College and in 1900
graduated from the Gross Medical
School. For n year he was physician
and surgeon with the First Colorado
volunteers. DIR. Cooper has taken post
graduate courses at Harvard and
Johns Hopkins University. At one
time he was pathologist at the County
Hospital. The new member of the
board is the son of the late Kemp G.
Cooper, widely known as manager and
part owner of the Denver Republican.
The Colorado National Guard has
been invited to the mobilization of the
regular army of the United States, at
Fort Riley, Kansas, in September, and
Gen. John Chase is reported as having
said that at least detachment of the
troops would probably go. This is the
first complete mobilization of the fed
eral army in long time and the event
will be of extreme Importance to mill
tary men throughout the nation. Near
ly all the guard staff officers and COM
missioned men are anxious to study the
mancuvers. The entire state brigade
might have gone" said General Chase.
''if an appropriation had been made for
its transportation. The bill passed by
Congress did not cover this point. so
in that regard the states We're left out.
However. we are working on the mat
ter of transportation now, and hope to
have a detachment go.'
The Colorado state board of health
has issued its sanitary bulletin for
June. 1t is in the form of a memo
rial for the late DIR. George T.. Tyler,
secretary of the board. The first page
is surrounded by a black border and
contains a photograph and n short bio
graphical sketch of DIR. Tyler. The
bulletin speaks of the great work that
DR.. Tyler did for the state during his
short connection with the board and
concludes: His colleagues feel that
his loss is irreparable. that it is in the
nature of a public calamity They feel
that it will be a worthy aim for them
to strive to keep on in his spirit and
make the good work living monu-
ment to his memory" The total num-
ber of deaths in June for the state were
IT'S. the annual death rate per thou
sand. excluding still births, being 1917
per 1000. Deaths from scarlet fever
during June We're fourteen. from diph-
iberia eighteen, and from typhoid fever
twenty.
Suit has been filed in the Federal
Court at Denver against Larry Ma
roney of Cripple Creek for Illegal cut
ting of timber from government lands.
Maroney paid fine of S1,T0O a few
weeks ago and the new offense is snid
to have been only one of many of
fenseS of n similar nature. Maroney
is mt the head of the Maroney Lumber
Company. Cripple Creek, and govern
ment inspectors claim he is an incor-
rigible offender against the timber
laws. The last suit is brought by Dis
trict Attorney Earl NJ. Cranston and is
the result of Investigations made by
agents of the department. The agents
report that Maroney and his company
have cut timber amounting to 5S.636
feet. the value of which is placed at
the sum named above. 1t is claimed
tnat the country for many miles
around Cripple Greek has been de-
ruded by the timber cutters who pay
fines as fast as caught and continue at
the business.
Under the indeterminate sentence
law there are fully six of the prisoners
at Canon City who will have to be re
leased under the habeas corpus act.
C. L. Stonaker, secretary of the state
lnn nt.l Of nhn ritins md is