Gilpin observer., 1902-04-24
'cOEORADO'S CAPITAL.

amount represents the money taken in
during the months of December, jan
uary, February and March. OF these
the banner month was January, when
the receipts amounted to $30J. 1t is
expected that the figures for April will
exceed $4OO.
Governor Orman is said to have de-
MED that there was any truth In the
latest report that he had removed or
intended to remove Adjutant General
Gardner from Office. The governor, as
reported, stated that the reports were
circulated at intervals, and that he did
not know who was responsible for
them, but he would state, once and for
all, that he had no intention of remov-
ing the adjutant general.
After a wait of more than three
years the officers of the Dependent
Children's Home will receive from the
state $4,000. The society is undecided
what it will do with the money. The
probabilities are that it will be used
either to erect home for the children
or to purchase some structure suitable
for that purpose. The quarters now
occupied are rented. This $4,000 ap-
preparation is one of five made by the
Twelfth assembly, and never paid. 1t
Is also the first of the second class ap-
preparations remaining unsettled when
the Orman administration went in to
be paid by Auditor Crouter The other
four appropriations unpaid are: State
insane asylum. $4,000; Girls Indus
trial school, $4,000; state reformatory,
$500; state penitentiary, $4,000.
The State Board of Examiners met
April 18th in the office of Mrs. Helen
l.. Grenfell, state superintendent Of
public instruction, and issued conduc-
tor and instructor certificates to
number of teachers all over the United
States making them eligible for ap-
pointments in those two positions at
the summer schools to be held in this
state this summer. The board is COM
posed of DR.. Y. X. Snyder, president
Of the State Normal School; DR.. James
Baker, president State University; Dr.
b. 0. Aylesworth, president State Agri-
cultural College; Professor Regis Chau-
venet, president State School of Mines,
and Mrs. Grenfell. There are three
grades of certificates issued by the
board inspector, conductor and in
structor and conductor. So many ap-
plications for certificates had been re-
ceived by Mrs. Grenfell that it required
whole afternoon for the board to
pass upon them.
The Rev. ]. E. Ford, pastor of Zion
Baptist Church of Denver, and c. w.
Buford had a conference with Govern
or Orman recently in regard to matters
concerning the negro population Of the
state. One subject they brought up
was as to the means that should be
adopted to bring to justice the men,
bers of the mob that lynched Washing
ton Wallace. They thought the govern
or should do something but his excel
lency said the matter was in the prov
ince of the grand jury of Huerfano
county. Another matter that was
brought up was the enactment of an
anti-lynching law in the state. Mr..
Buford and the Rev. Mr.. Ford told the
governor that such a law was neces-
sary in the state as lynching was be-
coming SO prevalent that the negroes,
they said, would support any party
that declared against lynching Gov
ernor Orman did not express himself
definitely, but he said he would do
what he could to further anti-lyncning
legislation.
The Denver News gives the following
account of suit between Mineral and
Hinsdale counties in the District Court
at Denver: after lapse of three
years, and Notwithstanding that the
Supreme Court had passed on almost
the identical issues, the old dispute be-
tween the counties of Hinsdale and
Mineral over the possession of the rich
Creede mines is reopened. The point
on which the litigation is renewed is
an interesting one, the attorneys for
Hinsdale county, which was defeated
m the former suit, alleging that the
a. - No. do
on n false premise concerning the loca-
ton of what is known as the Mexican
meridian. They have now appeared
with what they claim to be the correct
location of the line which, IL allowed
by the court, and with the conclusions
drawn from the existence of that line,
will throw the rich mines into Hins-
dale county. At the time of the crea-
ton of the county Of Mineral the rich
Creede mines were not discovered. But
after that boom the county of Hins.
dale, which is heavily bonded. set up
that strip of land twelve miles east
of its eastern boundary and west of
Creede had been illegally accorded to
Mineral county. In this land were the
Amicus, Last Chance and Commodore
mines, and the matter of taxation Of
these properties was the moving cause
of the litigation. The suit was heard
by Judge Mortimer Bailey of Canon
City, and he eliminated from the ques-
ton the matter. of taxation. holding
that the establishment of the boundary
lines should first be fixed After long
suit, in which the expense amounted
to more than $4,000, as old pioneers
from all over the West We're subpoen-
aed. Judge Bailey held that Mineral
county was entitled to the disputed
| territory. He based his decision on
the premise that the northeastern line
| of Hlnsdale started at what Is known
as the Mexican meridian. Thirty miles
| south the line turns west for fourteen
miles and tlnn directly to tho south to