Gilpin observer., 1903-10-15

Their are fifty or sixty insane patients
at tue county hospital at Denver await
ing admittance to the Pueblo asylum,
to which they have been committed by
the County Court. Unless provision is
made for their reception within the
next few days the county charity COM
mittee, consisting of "Parson" Uzzell,
A. N. Patton and Alex Nisbet will bring
court proceedings against the state for
the recovery OF damages.
The State Supreme Court, on the 9Th
instant, in the case of the Platte VAL
ley Irrigation Company against the
Central Trust Company, handed down
an opinion to the effect that not to
use water granted a ditch does not
necessarily show abandonment There
must be the expressed intent Of abon-
dOnment before the water rights can
be said to have been forfeited. The
opinion was written by Justice Cab
bert.
Mark Woodruff. state register OF the
Land Board, on the Sth inst. sent no
tice to A. r. Gumaer of Fremont coun-
ty that he was delinquent In rentals on
leases due the state S2,S00. He has
about 10000 acres under lease from the
state in Fremont county. He was Civ
en- thirty days in which to make the
payments to the state. He Is one OF
the stockholders of the Boston Land
and Cattle Company, one Of the largest
cattle concerns in the state.
The case in which Mrs. Elizabeth
Roberts got a verdict for $1,000 against
the Denver City Tramway Company In
Judge Palmer's division of the District
Court, will be taken to the Supreme
Court as test case. Attorney G. j.
Hughes, Jr., has filed a motion for
new trial on the ground that the court
erred in refusing to make the plaintin
undergo a physical examination by
some physician appointed by the court.
Mrs. Roberts was injured in an acci-
dent. Whether or not the court has
the right to compel woman to under
go an examination by a strange doctor
is q point upon which the laws Of the
various states differ. Judge Carpenter
and Judge Palmer have both refused
to compel women In personal injury
suits to undergo the ordeal.
State Engineer Carpenter on the 10th.
inst. examined the bids submitted for
the bridge to be built across the Ar
kansas river nine miles from Pueblo
at the mouth of the st. Charles river.
All of the bids were too high, the low
est being $4,000 In excess OF the amount
the state has to spend. The lowest bid
ders were NJ. J. Patterson & Co. Of
Denver, and the Pueblo Bridge Com
pany. The first was $12. 1850 and the
second $12 300. For a combination wood
and steel bridge the Patterson company
bid $l0,690 and the Pueblo company
$3.50. It was decided to take the two
wi nj
fer with the county commissioners of
Pueblo county and see II they are will
Ing to pay the difference.
Health Commissioner Clough OF Dem
yer has taken issue with several OF the
statements made by the State Board OF
Health In the set OF regulations for the
prevention of tuberculosis announced
by that dody. He says that the statis-
tics kept by his ONCE do not show that
so large a percentage OF tuberculosis
cases are contracted here as Is claimed
by the State Board. Twenty per cent.
the proportion named. Is entirely too
large an estimate for native cases.
the disease Is spreading now more than
ever is also question by the City Health
Department One OF the ofiicials said:
III our records prove anything in this
connection II Is that there has been
little increase during the last ten years
in the number OF cases contracted in
Colorado"
A campaign through influential
sources II about to be made In behalf
of Q new government building for Den
yer. And because the present building
is so lamentably inadequate II is ex-
pected that the campaign will be en-
tirely successful. Some two weeks ago
r. q. Armstrong. first assistant secre-
tary Of the Treasury, was in the city,
and made thorough inspection Of the
building. It was not an onlcial In
spection. as Mr.. Armstrong was In the
city only incidently. But as he was
next to head Of the department to
which public buildings belong. the Gus
todian Of the building took advantage