The Springfield herald., 1903-04-10

from Representative Aitken's House
bill No. l56, to abolish the State Board
of Pardons. by a vote Of IL to 10, after
a long debate in the Senate.
Governor Peabody has appointed Ja-
cob Fillius, Robert ]. Pitkin and ]. c.
Starkweather. all of Denver, as Colo
RADIO commissioners for the promotion
OF uniformity of legislation in all the
states.
The Worlds Fair bill. appropriating
$4,000 for an exhibit at st. Louis
next year, was first killed in the House
and then reconsidered and passed by a
vote of "a to 27. There was long de-
bate before its passage.
Governor Peabody has appointed
Rev. j. P. Lucas of Ell Paso county to
be chaplain of the state penitentiary,
vice Rev. T. A. Wheeler. term of Office
expired. Rev. Mr.. Lucas is member
of the Christian denomination and has
been a resident of Colorado Springs for
many years.
Governor Peabody has appointed
William y. Pierce and DR.. William M.
Nickerson to be members of the State
Board of Pardons the latter being a
reappointment and the former succeed
ing Willis Reid. The other two mem
bers are William l.. Dayton and James
Doyle. The governor is ex-oficio CHAIR
man and the fifth member.
The board of control OF the State In
dustrial School for Boys at Golden.
having been reorganiZed by the addi-
tion of new appointees since Governor
Peabody assumed the executive chair.
has decided that visits of members of
to the school are to be made only when
absolutely necessary. This reform or
der came. it is said. as result of the
disclosures recently made Of excess
visits by members of the board during
the last two years. seemingly for the
express purpose of charging mileage
to the state and thereby making of
purely honorary appointments Jobs of
considerable profit to the holders.
Attorney General Miller has decided,
in an opinion given at the request of
Governor Peabody. that the secretary
of the board of control of the State In
dustrial School for Girls is entitled to
no salary. The Supreme Court has held
in two cases. according to the attorney
general, that members of boards of
control having no fixed financial emol-
uments cannot attach salaries to the
performance of secretarys duties. John
H. Gabriel has been drawing $40 a
month as secretary of the industrial
school board, but the present state au-
diting board will not allow this or any
other amount to him in the future.
Steps to recover the amount collected
by him are said to be under consid-
GRAFTON.
The State Land Board has ordered
investigations by its agents into the
conditions of deficit concerning leases
and sales of many thousand acres of
school land, and issued an ultimatum
that these delinquent holders must pay
up or surrender tine land. The total
deficiency to the state from these
sources was reported as being $97 900.
The Twin Lakes Land Company of
Otero county among others.'is charged
with owing S3.0O0.' and the Colorado
Farm and Live Stock Company. also of
Otero county, S2,500; while the states
claim for cash against the Colorado
Land and Water Company. doing busi-
ness in Pueblo and Otero counties, ag-
gregates s23,260. Altogether 100000
acres are said to be thus tied up.
Attorney General Miller has handed
to Governor Peabody an adverse opin-
ion in the case of the claim of F. II.
Hegwer, boiler inspector under Gov
ernor Waite. The claim was for
$6O4.74. for which he had received
certificate, afterwards lost. from At
torney General Carr and Auditor Low
ell. Mr.. Miller says: Il believe it is
proper at this time to say that this
account is more than eight years old,
and that with the ever-shifting incum-
bents in Office and the continual intro
duction of new officials who are not
conversant with the facts of former ad-
ministrations, that it is entirely just
and necessary that the state should in
woke the statute of limitations against
state claims. Especially should this
be done when former administrations
have refused to pay an account"
The state land board is preparing to
dispose of the North and Middle parks
grazing problem, which has been
avoided by successive land boards for
several years. The state owns i'm
mense tracts of land in both parks
which are valuable for grazing pur-
poses. Before the state acquired the
tracts, certain small areas were taken
up by settlers. and these holdings are
entirely surrounded, in half a dozen
instances, by the state lands. The
state has had propositions from large
cattle interests to lease these tracts
at rates which would return consider
able sums of money, but no leases
have ever been given, because it was
feared that the settlers would be en-
tirely cut off from range privileges If
all the land was leased Two years
ago Register Joyce, of the land office.
appointed Mrs. Lucille Jermy plat
clerk. She took the confused records
of the board, and marked down. town
ship by township. in regular plats, all
land owned by the state. From these
plat books Mrs Jenny has been able
to make map of North and Middle
parks. showing all the land in ques-
ton. Another plat will be made show
ing all the sections upon which two or