The Lamar register., 1902-01-01
COLORADO'S CAPITAL

LIT. w. w. 1TaHt, surgeon Seueral
of the Colorado National Guard, has
Western Surgical and genealogical
Association. He has recently returned
from a meeting of the association,
which was held In Chicago and before
which he read n paper.
Eight new agents of the State HUI
name Society have been appointed for
Colorado. They are: III. a. Byerrum,
Rico; Charles G. Winship, Mancos; g..
w. Arnold. Pngosa Springs; William
Ross, Evergreen: s. p. Thomas and a.
l.. Thompson. Cortez; John NJ. Perkins
and Milo Munson, Denver.
Governor Orman has received the
annual report of Commandant ii. V.
Smith of the Soldiers Home at Monte
Vista. Commandant Smiths popula-
tion summary follows: Number of in
mates, 172; members admitted, 33;
died during the year, o; discharged, "a.
The expenditures amounted to $32,-
SS4.32.
In compliance with the proclamation
of Governor Orman, the state house
on December goth was decorated with
flags. 116 being placed in windows,
and five large ones floating from Stairs.
The occasion was the anniversary of
the signing of the treaty in New Or
leans, December 20. 1903. whereby the
United States acquired the Louisiana
purchase.
On December 18th the employees of
the state auditors office and the state
insurance departments gave State Aud
itor G. w. Crouter Christmas pres
ent of n chest of solid silver, consist
ing of seventy-six pieces. The employ
es of the secretary of states office
presented Secretary of State David A.
Mills with n leather dress suit case,
containing n complete set of gentle
tary Mills gave each of his clerks a
So bill for Christmas present
The report of the commissioners of
the Colorado Insane Asylum ut Pueblo
sets forth the overcrowded conultion
of the institution and declares that
there are $50 insane persons in the
state that are not in the asylum. i .ie
number in the institution December
1st of this year was 5O2, and the daily
average population for the year was
SOB. Three of the inmates died during
the year and twenty-three were dis
charged as cured. Seventy-seven new
patients were admitted during that
time; fifty of them men, twenty-seven
women.
Shortly after the first of the year,
Timber Appraiser II. A. Wells, work
ing under the direction of Treasurer
Redman of the state land office, will
begin the work of checking up the
books of the coal companies of the state
working state leased lands to as
certain whether the returns made to
the land department of the tonnage on
which n royalty is paid are correct.
Mr.. Wells Is now engaged in tabulat-
ing the reports made by the different
companies. They are being SO arrang
ed that he can tell Mt u glance the ton
mage. AS there are about $50 coal
companies working state lands and
some of the leases extend back to
1857, the work will be somewhat ex-
tended.
The report of the Denver Park Com
mission for the year 1901 shows that
$71,2lS was spent on maintenance of
the park system and $23,170 on i'm
provements. The principal item of i'm
provement and the most costly was the
pumping plant and irrigation pipe sys-
TEN, which cost S11 ,3T4. supplying City
park with water from the lakes and
doing away with the Denver Union
Water Company's service. The new
plant, the report explains, was put Into
commission June 10th last, and served
the purpose for which it was intended
during the rest of the season, saving
$500 in irrigation bills alone COM
pared with the corresponding months
Of the previous year ''rhe plant saved
the lawns" says the report, during
the dry, heated terms of the late sum-
mer, because there was no rainfall and
severely taxed" A new tool house,
costing S2,6SO. was constructed in City
park, many animals were added to the
geological exhibition. and 175,0OO
plants were propagated there.
State Auditor Charles w. Crouter,
who is also the state insurance COM
missioner, and Deputy Insurance Com
missioner David How, says the Denver
News, have every reason to believe
that the promoters of the Farmers
Mutual Hail Insurance Company of
Kansas City did not incorporate for
the purpose of carrying on n legitimate.
business, but to collect on the notes
given them by farmers for insurance,
default in the payment of losses and
quit the business when the expose
came. The company has just gone
into the hands of a receiver, with lia-
bilities far in excess of assets. I'm
precedented hailstorms in four counties
of Colorado and the drowning of crops
in five counties of South Dakota By
rain are the reasons given by the off,
cials of the company for so suddenly
going out of business. The real rea-
son is that Commissioner How. after
an investigation. satisfied himself that
the company was n fraudulent one,
and forced them out of business to pro-
tect the citizens of the state from fur
ther imposition at thir hands.