The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-07

aries of herself and deputies Tor the
past seven months. 1t was claimed
lkat she was legslated out OF office
by the Rush bill and the case is still
In court.
The New Century Light and Power
Company filed amended articles OF in
corporation in the Office OF the secre.
tary OF state July 9th, increasing its
capital from 100000 to $4,000 900
The company paid fee of $500 for the
change, the fee being 20 cents on each
$1,000. The company is the same
(which is planning to build in Grand
county an immense power plant the
power to be secured from dam across
the Grand river near Hot Springs. The
president of the company is r. G.
Mum, and its secretary is r. LParker.
The difficulties existing between Lo-
gan and Morgan counties over the
question of irrigation and the quantity
of water obtained by the various irri-
eating bitches will probably be settled
amicably within a short time. A dozen
Morgan county farmers held a confer
ence with State Engineer Carpenter
recently. The whole question was
thoroughly gone over, and an agree
ment was reached by which it is hoped
friction between the two counties will
be avoided in the future. The trouble
Is due to the lack of water in the
Platte river at this time of the year
Attorney General Miller has advised
the state auditor that in cases where
the appropriation for department is
fixed by statute and the general apprO-
priation bill both, he should pay only
the amount fixed by statute, holding
such a provision higher than the ap
preparation bill. In adhering to this
decision. some of the departments will
receive less than the appropriation and
others more. Notably is this the case
in that of Assistant Boiler Inspector
Lord, who, when the appropriation bill
was tied up. insisted that his was a
statutory office and that therefore he
should be paid. The statutes allow
him only 800 a month, while the ap-
preparation bill allowed him s. 500
year.
Under an opinion given by the attor
ney general it is claimed that the state
will be saved several thousand dollars
which have been lost during previous
administrations through the careless
ness of the commissioner of printing.
! The attorney general says that the Gus
tom heretofore III vogue Oh ordering
supplies not in the contract must be
discontinued at once and that future
acquisitions for supplies must be made
by the heads of departments and not
by clerk, as has been the custom
heretofore. The firm doing the print
ing will also be required to furnish
samples of all the articles mentioned
in its bid. No substitutes will be per-
mitted. In this way the heads of de-
partments can go to the commissioner
of printing, look over the samples and
order only those things which suit
them.
j. W. Woodward, state game and
fish commissioner. stated few days
ago that the last of the trout fry of
the Denver hatchery had been put into
the trout streams of the state. These
eggs were put into the Denver hatch
cry the Goth of May, this year, and up
to yesterday over 100000 fish had been
deposited in the streams of the state.
This" said Mr. Woodward, "is what
we consider pretty fast work. People
generally do not believe that fish can
be bred so quickly as thus shown, but
we have done it and have put over 2O0,-
900 fish in the trout streams of the
state. the last shipment going out to-
day July 2Sth), when we sent out
100000 We have just received 10000
native trout eggs for the Denver hatch
cry and they will be fish in an equally
short time, and we shall put them in
the streams of the state when the time
comes"
Thomas J. Maloney has filed a com
plant against the city and county OF
Denver in the District Court, asking
- peremptory writ of mandamus to
compel the defendant to furnish him
with certain blank books for the pur-
pose of transcrbing the records of old
Arapahoe county. 1t is alleged In the
complaint that under the law passed
by the Legislature at the last session
that bids were made for the TRANSCRIPT
ing OF the records, and that he had
been the lowest bidder and the con-
tract had been awarded to him. He
states that he went ahead with the
work and deposited his bond of $780,
900. He then demanded that these
books be provided, and this, it is al
legged, was refused. He now asks the
court to compel the city and county of
Denver to furnish these books so that
he can go on with the work of COM
pleting the records.
Judge Bailey at Canon City, July
Goth, granted the release Of Michael
Quinlan, the life-timer who applied for
release under writ of habeas corpus.
The writ was granted on the ground
that when Quinlan was sentenced from
Park county, for murder in 1888, the
statute specified that life term
should not exceed twenty-five years,
and under the prison rules, deducting
time for good behavior, Qunlan had
served his life sentence. Qunlan has
been model prisoner, never having
been reported or punished since his
entrance to the prison, period of
thirteen years and nine months. AS
soon as released he took the first
train for Trinidad, near which point
he goes to ranch with relatives.
iQuinlan says his trouble was caused
from overindulgence in strong drink
and his last word on leaving the prison