Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-05-09
cOLORADO'S CAPITAL.

The spawn of rainbow trout In the
Gunnison river il being collected by
men employed by Ill. game commits
sioner. The spawn viii be put In the
hatcii.rics nnd eventually distributed
In other sirams.
The Board of Capitol Managers
has let u contract for building an
iron stairway from Ill. rooms of tse
Stat. Horticultural Society In the base
ment To the sub basement, where III"
society has library and other coil.c'
lions.
Til. game commissioner recently de
creased the great collection of combs
cat.-i heads and hides that has accun'
ulnt.i nj his Office 10y selling 10 John
q. OSsood the heads of four Rocky
mountain sheep for <..sb. The coni-
missioner hopes eventually Z" sell all
the trophies that h. iins gathered.
Til. Supreme Court Will decid.
whether u child born after Its father
dies and left without n legacy can af-
t.rwar,.s rcc.ly. u share In the prop
.rty. The question IL raised In the
suit filed Ia the Stat. supreme Court
IN u contest over the viii Of the late
Gsors. II. UIobson, u banker of l'u-
cbio. The suit is brought by his broth.
.rs and sisters against Mrs. sciia j.
liob-on. on mn appeal from the County
Court OF Pueblo county. where the
widow won.
\ small roasting plant has been erect
.,i In the yard In the rear OF the Den
YER branch mint. nnd Il IL doing good
work In the treatment OF sweeps
Thcs. are gathered from the foor OF
the assay and refinery rooms. then sub
J.rt.,i to u light roast FOR dlsintcgrIi-
iIon. after which II l. ground Ia about
thirty mesh AMI then washed. The
sweeps arr regularly accounted Tor
In nll mint reports. Formerly thcy
were sold In this city to the highest
and best bidder.
CommIs.ioncrIn.Chi George w.
Thatcher OF the Colorado 81. Louis
Fair Commission has appointed the
following advisory board: Agriculture.
Mayor George W. Swink. Rocky Ford:
NJ. v. II. Page. Fruita: Jesse Harris.
Fort Collins: Senator T.. N. Ammons.
Litticion: Senator W. IL. Adams, Ala.
mosa. Horticulture: W. $. Coburn.
uotchkiss; Is. i. Iockafcllow. Canon
city: Charles Evans. Fort Collins.
Live Stock: u. II. Grubb. Carbondalc:
George Ballaniync. Denver; M"rs
Wyatt. Greeley.
The State Historical Society. through
Curator VIII e. Fcrrii. has been pre-
scented with thiriy.hvc bound volumes
OF the Congressional Record for the
nfth.fourth and succeeding Cong.
rcs~.s. The records were given by Con.
gresham John +. Shafroth. The socic-
iy was also presented recently with n
curious potato scrnpcr." which was
used In Ireland over u century ago. ii.
Il. Dcnrochc. nm old man. presented II.
| saying that his grcnt.srnndfnthcr had
| used II. The society received from the
same source. u supposed fac-simile Of
| the characters that were inscribed on
| the tower Of Babel.
The warrant that was sworn out by
Deputy Game Warden Bush against
william &. Ferril. curitor Of the State
Historical Society ut the state house.
was served April 18th. Deputy Sheriff
Brown read to the curator the warrant
| charging him with wnntonly killing
song birds without first securing II per.
init 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 rccognizancc. His hearing
| will he held May Stli. His defense will
he 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 1880. He will also argue
that the birds he killed were intended
| for scientific purposes. that they are
the property of the state and that the
game commissioner had no right ia
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 SG.-
1g9.2S due for rentals OH the Berwind
mine. The Berwind mine IL 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 pctitioncd the State Land
Board to make II 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 Il discount of
| twenty-five per cent. The land board
demanded the hack 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: 81 am In
structed by the company to say that
| the proposition of your boar'h 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 $G109.2S within twen-
ty days"
Thousands of unbranded and runty
Mexican horses have been roaming the
San Luis valley wild and rs far south
as the New Mexican border for thirty
years. says the Denver Post. Hun
drcds of them die every winter from
cold and lack of food. They belong to
no one especially and run at random
over the ranges without let, or hind
rance 1t is n problem with the State
Humane Society ns to whnt "nn be
done with these unserviccable animals
of the wilderness to protect them
against the winters. Complaints are
continually coming in to Secretary
Whitehead from the southern country
about them and he has taken the mat
ter up with II view to doing some hu-
name work in their behalf Humane