The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-24

The governor has signed the bill
providing for the cutting off OF the
eastern end of Adams county and add
ing this territory to Yuma and Wash
ington counties. By the results thus
obtained the people of large section
will escape journey of nearly 200
miles in going to their county seats.
H. B. 80, providing funds for the
maintenance of State Normal
School at Gunnison, was vetoed be-
cause the governor thought the ben
efits to be derived therefrom were not
commensurate-the amount of money
required S,000-considering the
state treasury.
The governor signed the measure
providing for the codification of the
probate laws. These have been badly
mixed ever since the organization of
the state. Lawy ers say that the laws
were so confusing that even they were
sometimes at a loss to determine the
proper method of proceeding This
will now be remedied
The total tax of the Denver Tramway
Company has been computed by the
clerks in the Office of the treasurer of
the city and county of Denver. These
personally tax of the Tramway com
pany proper, amounting to SILT .007 sc
and the realty amounting to $12,72937;
the property of the Denver Realty
Company. amounting to $4.677. IT. and
the Tramway Power Company, ST.
439 "a The total tax of the whole
company amounts to $141 S53 81 This
tax represents a valuation of $3,253. .310
in personal property and about 100000
in realty. The Tramway company is by
far the heaviest taxpayer in the city.
Senate bill 27s, appropriating $780,
900 towards the construction of the
West Fourteenth Or West Colfax ave
nue. viaduct, was vetoed because the
entire expense of examination and
surveying might fall upon the state.
and because the provisions of the bill
would take the handling of the money
out of the hands Of the state.
William w. Cowdery of Louisville,
Colorado, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the mineral department of
the state land board-the new office
created under the Davis House bill
No All. There is a tax on mines on
state lands and the creation of the Of
flee, it is expected, will net the state
an additional revenue of $4,000 an
nually.
The governor signed a number of
road and bridge bills April 18th. Each
of these carries an appropriation from
the internal improvement fund. The
bills are s. b. No. 30. $1,000 for road
in Summit county; S. B. No. 321, 50, 500
for bridge over Clear creek connecting
Jefferson and Adams counties; S. b.
No BAT, $4,000 for road fran Buena
Vista to Red Cliff; S. B. No. 10, $4,000
for the Ouray and San Juan wagon
road; S. B. No. CT, $4,50O for wagon
road in Logan county; S. B. No. 21S,
bridge over the Arkansas in Otero
county, $4,000; S. b. No 291, $500 for
bridge over the Arkansas in Pueblo
county.
House bill No. 20G. by Representa-
tive Garman, has now become a law
1t Is designed to regulate the sale of
convict-made goods and provides that
any person wishing to act as an agent
for convict made goods shall give
bond of $4,000; that he shall keep con-
spicuOusly posted notice setting forth
the fact that he is licensed to sell con-
vict made goods: that he shall report
to the secretary of state "all kinds
of shoe laces' he has purchased from
prisons. and to whom he has sold them,
annual license fee to be $500; the IL
cense to be revoked at the will of the
secretary of state. All convict made
goods are to be labeled as such, in good
sized letters on the outside. Violations
of the act are to be punished by fine
of not less than $40 nor more than ST.
600, and Imprisonment of not more
than one year or less than ten days,
or both. Anybody can testify. and one
half the fines received are to be turned
over to the deputy labor commissioner
"to be used by him in investigating
and securing conviction for violation
thereof"