The Grit-advocate., 1903-03-13
COLORADO CENTRAL ASSEMBLY
AND DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL

| WA >S'i'S' 'Nsi6h
The State Land Board on March 4th
granted leases on the following lands:
| Seventeen hundred acres in Routt
| county; 932 acres in Saguache county;
| 1,O42 acres in Las Animas county; $40
acres in Adams county: 800 acres in
! ',OstillG county; LAO acres in Sagu-
ache county.
| The House and Senate are having
some difficulty in agreeing upon bills.
The Senate refused to agree to the
House amendments to the Clayton bill
| to exempt sixty per cent. of mans
wages from execution. and has also
refused to agree to the House amend
| ments to the Bailey juvenile delin-
| Quent bills.
Expert Lewis B. Schwanbeck has
made report to the House committee
appointed to examine into the amount
OF outstanding state warrants, and the
committee has reported the same to
the House. The report shows that
warrants have been issued to the
amount of $S25 ,O53.l6; interest $775,-
326.35; total, $1,60r.379.51.
photographer A. l.. Fellows of the
State Geological Survey, has been
| called to Washington to consult with
Professor Newell regarding the Gunni-
son tunnel. 1t is probable that ar
rangements will be made to open head
| quarters here for the western states in
| cluded in the Geological Survey. The
| state engineer is confident that work
| on the Gunnison tunnel will be taken
up by the federal government without
delay.
| Fish and Game Commissioner Wood
ward, recently appointed by Gov. Pea
| body to succeed Charles w. Harris,
has appointed Thomas J. Higgins to
| be chief game warden for the Grand
Junction district vice Roy Allison, and
w. S. Kincaid to be superintendent of
fish hatcheries vice Thomas ]. Hol-
land. The appointees will assume
their positions April l, at the expira-
tion OF the terms of the retiring Of
| ficials
Former State Auditor Charles w
Crouter has been ordered to pay into
| the registry of the District Court at
Denver the sum of $l236354. the
amount in litigation in the suit brought
against him by the United States Re-
duction and Refining Company to re-
cover money paid under the fiat tax
law, The order was made on the
motion of the attorneys of the plain
tiff. The amount represents the tax
paid by the reduction company, and
the companies which assigned their
claims to it.
The Senate passed On third reading,
S. B. No. III, by Senator Rush, to pro-
hibit the sale or lease by the State
Land Board of school land bearing
timber less than fourteen inches in
diameter. The bill carries a provision
making members of school boards
| agents of the Land Board for the pur-
pose of detecting timber stealing. The
| act includes penalty for cutting tim
| ber on school land without authority
| from the Land Board, of a fine
amounting to three times the value of
| the timber and Imprisonment in the
county Jail for from thirty days to one
year. An emergency clause is at
| tached.
When the bill came up in the House
| to add to the numbe" of judges of the
| Court OF Appeals. opposition appeared
| that seemed likely to defeat the bill
| Mr. Kelley stepped into the breach and
read a statement prepared by the
clerk of the court showing that work
was three years behind. His state
| ment showed that in four years 1857
| cases had been filed in the court and
| that it's progress was at the rate of
| 226 cases year. Just now there were
| SIS cases on the docket, which would
| take three years to clear away If no
| other cases were filed. The House at
| once passed the bill on second read
| ing.
John W. Buhrlage, serving a SEN
| tence of from sixteen to eighteen
years in the penitentiary from Ell Paso
county for incest, was recommended
| for pardon by the board of pardOns on
the 9Th instant 1t was shown that he
was convicted on the perjured testi-
mony of his daughter, whom he had
rescued from a house of ill-fame kept
| by her mother, Buhrlage's divorced
wife at Wichita, Kansas. Recently the
| Wichita Women's Christian Temper
ance Union sent a representative here
| to sue for Buhrlages pardon, on the
ground of his entire innocence. and the
| police matron of Wichita came on a
| similar mission.
The House and Senate committees on
| state institutions on Wednesday, March
| 4th. made the trip around the Horn
| for the purpose of visiting the State
University at Boulder. the Agricultural
| College at Fort Collins, and the Nor
| NAL School at Greeley. With the two
committees went other members of the
Legislature. many of whom were ac-
companied by their wives and children
| In all there were about 250 people on
| the Colorado & Southern train when it
| left the Union Depot at 8: 80 in the NOR
| ming. AT Boulder the excursionists
were given reception in the Univers-
ity chapel. where President Baker made
a statement of the needs of the insti-
| tuition. The University cadets were out
| in uniform and saluted the party in
military style. while other students
| greeted them with college yels. The
citizens of Fort Collins gave the visit
ors magnificent dinner in the Agri-
cultural College auditorium. The ca