The Elbert County tribune., 1903-07-16
Framing the Denver Charter.

At an important melting of the Den
yer charter convention on the night of
the 7th instant the executive commit
tee presented Its report. which con
tained proposed articles for the new
charter on all the executive depart
ments.
The report gives the mayor compre-
hensive authority and no restrictions
are placed in his way. He is to be
elected for four years and have the
appointment OF the following heads of
departments. which means the control
of them:
Department OF police.
Department OF fire.
Department of excise.
Department of public works and util-
tiles.
Department OF inspection and cleo
tricity.
Department OF health.
Department OF supplies.
Department OF engineering.
Department of law.
The heads of these shall be his cab
met.
In addition he appoints the follow
ing commissions: Parks. civil service,
libraries, charities and corrections.
hremen are recommended.
The legislative committee reported
a plan for the initiative and referen-
dunn and the recall. Regarding the
last named the committee recommends
that 1t be not included in the charter
but submitted separately.
NJ. o. Hollenbeck was released from
fr.. q ri.
July Sth on full and unconditional
pardon. Hollenbcck was a partner of
James Brannon. who was released from
the prison last fall. Both men were
convicted In Chaffee county for mur-
der and sentenced TO the penitentiary
for life. Evidence against them was
purely circumstantial. the facts in the
csSe being that Hollenbeck. Brannon
and third man were in company one
day in 1886 in Buena Vista. Shortly
afterward the remains of the third par
ty were found beside the railway
track. circumstances pointing strongly
to foul play, and HollenbeclI and Bran
non were arrested, convicted by a jury
and sentenced TO the penitentiary.
They were incarcerated on October /,
1886. Brannon was pardoned last fall
and went south. Hollenbeck always
claimed he was innocent of any COM
plicity in the crime and brooded over
his enforced confinement until his rea-
son became unbalanced. He started at
once for Des Moines, Iowa, where he
will be cared for by relatives.
Manager Thomas d. Parker of the
Colorado Press Bureau of Information,
as secretary of the Colorado State
Realty Association, is in recent of a
letter from II. c., Rizer, acting direc-
tor of the United States geological sur
vey. acknowledging the receipt OF the
COPY of resolution adopted by the
State Realty Association at its second
annual convention. held in Pueblo last
month, congratulating the secretary of
] the interior and the officers of the geo
| logical survey upon the work OF in
vestigation and surveys conducted un-
| der the provisions of the national irri-
CATION act, and requesting that prompt
action be taken tn test the possibiii-
| ties of developing artesian water
throughout the state. The matter was
referred TO Mr.. Rizer by the secre-
tary OF the interior. to whom the COPY
| OF the resolution was addressed by
secretary Parker. In reply, MIR. Ri
ger, on behalf of the department Of
the interior and OF the geological sur
vey, thanks the realty association for
the expression OF its appreciation of
the work of the reclamation service
conveyed in the resolution to which
reference has been made He saws
further: "A special study OF the ar
tesian waters of the state of Colorado
has been begun. and is being very dil.
igentiy pushed at the present time. /
trust that II will be possible, at an
early date, to give to the public the