The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-16

Their are fifty or sixty insane patients
at the 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.
Mark Woodruff. state register of the
Land Board, on the Sth inst. sent no.
lice to A. r. Gumaer of Fremont coun-
that he was delinquent in rentals on
leases due the state $500. 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 or
the stockholders of the Boston Land
and Cattle Company, one of the largest
cattle concerns in the state.
In the case of the board of county
commissioners of the county of Gun
nison against Joseph Sims, the judg-
ment of the lower court was reversed
by the Supreme Court on the 5th in
stant, and the board of county COM
nlSSlOUeIS Will HOt ndNt " pay liz
coupons of the bonds issued under the
refunding act of 1881. In the lower
court Judgment was given Sims in the
sum of $1,000 for the coupons whicn
he alleged he had exchanged foT pre-
existing valid warrants. purchased by
him in good faith. The court suggests
that the proper way for Sims to OBJ
tain Judgment is to mandamus the
county officers to pay the semi-annual
interest until enough money is in the
county funds to pay the whole debt.
The case in which Mrs. Elizabeth
Roberts got verdict for $4,000 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 c. J.
Hughes, Jr., has filed a motion for a
new trial on the ground that the court
erred in refusing to make the plaintln
undergo a physical examination by
some physician appointed by the court
Mrs. Roberts was injured in an acct
dent. Whether or not the court has
~ right to compel woman to under
gTan examination by strange doctor
is 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
A campaign through influential
sources is about to be made in behalf
of new government building for Den
YER And because the present building
is SO lamentably inadequate 1t is ex-
pected that the campaign Will be en-
tirely successful. Some two weeks ago
| r. E. Armstrong. first assistant secre-
| tary of the Treasury. was in the city.
| and made thorough inspection OF the
| building. 1t was not an official 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
of the opportunity to give the depart
lment some occult proof of the truth or
his representations. He took Mr. Arm
Istrong through the building and showed
him the congested state of affairs. The
First Assistant Secretary of the Treas
Jury was much impressed by what he
lsaw, and in conversation with Mayor
Wright and others. expressed himself
lquite freely. He said that he had not
Erealized the corgested condition OF the
federal building. or the great expense
ito the government and inconvenience
Ito the departments arising from the
necessity Of locating offices outside of
the buildings. Denver seems to need
b new building badly" he said. There
Is no city of its size and business in the
country so poorly equipped to take care
Pf the governments. business