The Holly chieftain., 1903-03-13

missioner Archibald Mcintyre of Lin
coin county. resigned.
The State Land Board on March 4th
granted leases on the following lands:
Seventeen hundred acres in Rontt
county; s32 acres in Saguache county;
o+2 acres in Las Animas county; $40
acres in Adams county: $50 acres in
.'ostiliL county; LILO acres in Sagu-
ache county.
The House and Senate are having
some difficulty in agreeing upon bills.
The Senate refused to agree to the
House amendments to the Clayton bill
to exempt sixty per cent OF mans
wages from execution, and has also
refused to agree to the House amend
ments to the Bailey juvenile delin-
quent bills.
Expert Lewis B. Schwanbeck has
made a report to the House committee
appointed to examine into the amount
OF outstanding state warrants, and the
committee has reported the same to
the House. The report shows that
warrants have been issued to the
amount OF ss25, ,053.16; interest, $T75,-
326,35: total. 1901, ,3795l.
photographer A l.. Fellows of the
State Geological Survey, has been
called to Washington to consult with
Professor Newell regarding the Gunni-
son tunnel. 1t is probable that ar
rangements will be made to open head
quarters here for the western states in
cluded in the Geological Survey The
state engineer is confident that work
on the Gunnison tunnel will be taken
up by the federal government without
delay.
Fish and Game Commissioner Wood
ward. recently appointed by Gov. Pea
body to succeed Charles w. Harris,
has appointed Thomas j. Higgins to
be chief game warden for the Grand
junction district vice Roy Allison, and
w. S. Kincaid to be superintendent Of
fish hatcheries vice Thomas j. Hol-
land. The appointees will assume
their positions April /. at the expira-
ton of the terms of the retiring Of
ficials.
Former State Auditor Charles W.
Crouter has been ordered to pay into
the registry of the District Court at
Denver the sum of sl2 2,36354, the
amount in litigation in the suit brought
against him by the United States Re-
duction and Refining Company to re-
cover money paid under the fiat tax
law. The order was made on the
motion of the attorneys of the plain
tiff. The amount represents the tax
paid by the reduction company. and
the companies which assigned their
claims to it,
The Senate passed on third reading,
S. B. No. III, by Senator Rush to pro-
hibt the sale or lease by the State
Land Board of school land bearing
timber less than fourteen inches in
diameter The bill carries provision
making members of school boards
agents of the Land Board for the pur-
pose of detecting timber stealing. The
act includes a penalty for cutting tim
Der on school land without authority
from the Land Board. of fine
TO three times the value of
the timber and Imprisonment in the
county Jail for from thirty days to one
year. An emergency clause is at
tached.
When the bill came up in the House
to add, to the number of judges of the
Court of Appeals. opposition appeared
that seemed likely to defeat the bill.
Mr.. Kelley stepped into the breach and
read a statement prepared by the
clerk of tho court showing that work
was three years behind His state
ment showed that in four years 1857
cases had been filed in the court, and
that its progress was at the rate of
226 cases year. Just now there were
SIS cases on the docket. which would
take three years to clear away IL no
other cases were filed. The House at
once passed the bill on second read
Ing.
John w Buhrlage. serving SEN
tence of from sixteen to eighteen
years in the penitentiary from Ell Paso
county for incest, was recommended
for pardon by the board Of pardons on
the 9Th instant. 1t was shown that he
was convicted on the perjured testi-
mony of his daughter. whom he had
rescued from house of ill-fame kept
by her mother, Buhrlage's divorced
wife at Wichita. Kansas Recently the
Wichita Women's Christian Temper
ance Union sent representative here
to sue for Buhrlage's pardon, on the
ground of his entire innocence, and the
police matron Of Wichita came on
similar mission.
The House and Senate committees on
state institutions on Wednesday. March
4th, made the trip around the Horn"
for the purpose Of visiting the State
University at Boulder, the Agricultural
College at Fort Collins. and the Nor
NAL School at Greeley. With the two
committees went other members of the
Legislature. many of whom were ac-
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In all there were about $50 people on
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