The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-12-05
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

The State Land Board has Cancelled
q lease on $500 acres OF grazing land.
hela by John c. Teller In Pueblo coun-
~. The cancellation OF the lease was
ordered because Teller owes the state
81. 300 in rentals. He IS said 10 have
also failed 10 comply Win the terms OF
the lease in other respects.
The War Department ha- honored
the requisition Of the governor OF Colo
RADIO for 1000 Krag-Jo.geason rifles
and clothing. supplies. and other equip
ment for 1860 men. The supplies will
be regularly Issued under the provis-
ions of the Dick bill for the arming
and equipment of the organized militia
Of the states and territories.
John T. Bottom. former county at
torney for the county of Arapahoe. has
filed suit In the District Court at Den
yer for S4.4ss.s0 against the city and
county Of Denver. which he says is due
him for salary and fees up to and in
GLIDING January IL. 1904. the end Of
his term of ONCE. He claims that the
twentieth amendment to the constitu-
ton would not operate to lessen his
term.
Violations of the land and forest
laws are being risidly prosecuted by
the officers of the local land once.
Spesial inspectors In the employ Of
the government have been looking
into a number of cases during the
week. and proceedings will be insti-
tuted against the offenders without de-
lay. For trial at the November SEES
sion Of the federal court, United
States District Attorney Earl Grams
ton, among other cases has had four
land and forest indictments placed on
the calendar.
Hundreds Of Mormons are moving to
Conejos county. They propose to re-
deem the arid lands of that section and
to create a prosperous and populous
community. At the State Land Board
meeting yesterday afternoon. Rachel
McGinnis. who is at the head OF the
movement was soldl forty acres Of land
which It Is understood she will use as
q site for reservoir. Mormons are
experts at irrigation and representa-
lives Of the new colony declare that all
the immigrants are men who know how
to irrigate.-Denver News.
During the last three days. says the
Denver News Of November Goth. 100
volunteers have been added to the state
militia. Applications from many more
young men anxious to join have been
filed. Nearly all the recruits were sent
to Camp Goldfeld. None Of them was
examined here. because the examining
surgeons are on active duty. So many
of the new men have seen service re-
Gently, however. that few were reject
ed. The prospect Of 81 day and ev-
erything found" seems to have ap-
pealed strongly to many men out Of
work, for no effort has been made, ac-
cording to Colonel Bloom. to get re-
cruits, but he has been forced to give
nearly all his time to comforting with
applicants.
There Is plenty OF labor to be per-
formed In Colorado" says Governor
Peabody, land the men who want to
work will be protected. Interference
with them from any source will not
be tolerated. nor will unwarranted
methods of preventing the opening up
of mines which have been closed be
allowed in Colorado This does not
mean that there Is to be an onslaught
on unionism. Men may have their
unions, II they wish, but interference
with men who are willing to take
Jobs which union men desert will not
be allowed. This applies to the West
ern Federation Of Miners, the coal
miners union. or any organization that
attempts to interfere with any mans
right to work"
DIR. C. E. Cooper. secretary of the
State Board of Health, has caused the
sale Of milk shipped into Pueblo from
Fort Lupton by o. E. Frink to be
stopped, because, according to tests
which have been made. formaldehyde
has been used in the milk as a pre-
sentative The Municipal Board OF
Health has taken similar action with
regard to Denver, stopping the sale OF
that milk In the city. Several days ago
several samples of the milk that Frink
has been shipping to Denver and Pu-
eblo we're sent to local chemists for an
alysis. 1t is said that every test re-
vealed the presence Of formaldehyde.
An investigation Is In progress now to
determine whether the milk is being
shipped to other towns In the state.
At a meeting of the State Land
Board held November 25th, Edward
Heating made application to lease 2,714
acres Of agricultural land In the Mon
tezuma valley. The land has not been
approved, and the applicant offers to
build canal fifteen miles long and to
place all the land under cultivation
within reasonable time. The appli-
cation was taken under advisement,
pending meeting of the trustees of the
Agricultural College. Forty acres OF
land in Pueblo county were sold to
Garrett Sanford for reservoir pur-
poses. The price was $40 an acre. The
same lumber of acres In Conejos coun-
ty were sold to Rachel McGinnis for
81 an acre. The county commission
ers of Jefferson county were given land
for a road sixty feet wide from the
Aladdin mine to the Moffat road
County Judge Ben B. Lindsey re-
turned to Denver a few days since from
a three weeks trip through the East.