The Dolores star., 1903-10-16
cOI ORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND
DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY

instant, in the case OF the Platte val
ley Irrigation Company against the
Central Trust Company. handed down
an opinion to the effect that not 10
use water granted ditch does not
necessarily show abandonment. There
must be the expressed intent OF abon-
donment before the water rights can
be said to have been forfeited. The
opinion was written by Justice Cab
bert.
Mark Woodruff. state register Of the
Land Board. on the Sth inst. sent no.
tice to A. r. Gumaer of Fremont coun-
ty 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 OF
the stockholders of the Boston Land
and Cattle Company, one of the largest
cattle concerns in the state.
Nominations by petition were filed
October Bird with the secretary of state
for Claiming Sweet for judge OF the
Supreme Court for the Socialists. Frank
W. Overs for the Peoples party.
Charles a. Chapman for judge OF the
| Fourth judicial district by the Peoples
party. and Charles l.. Mckesson for
judge of the Fourth judicial district
by the Peoples party. The lists
| showed all the way from 100 to 500
names. Judge Overs having the great
er number of names on his petition.
The case In which Mrs. Elizabeth
| Roberts got verdict for $1,000 against
the Denver City Tramway Company In
Judge Palmer's division of the District
| Court, will be taken to the Supreme
Court as a test case, Attorney &. j.
| Hughes, Jr., has filed a motion for
new trial on the ground that the court
| erred in refusing to make the plaintlf
| undergo a physical examination by
some physician appointed by the court.
| Mrs. Roberts was injured in an acci-
dent. Whether or not the court has
| the right to compel woman to under
| 20 an 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.
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 9th in
| stant, and the board of county COM
missioners will not have to pay the
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 which
| he alleged he had exchanged for 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 United States Land Office at
Denver has finished its official report
for the quarter ending September Goth.
| The receipts of the office fall below
those for last quarter. but the volume of
| business done Is greater. Following
is the report Cash Receipts-Seven-
| teen commuted homestead entries. q
440 acres, $3.50; fourteen excess cash
entries, 4S540 acres. $92.25; sixteen
public sales, 1.051.13 acres. $l.564.24; |;
seventy-five mineral entries. embrac-
ing 930.75 acres. $4,000: thirty-three
timber and stone entries. 1922 SO
acres. $10.9S3.61; twenty-siX original
desert land entries, 5,2S3.63 acres, ST.
320.91; eleven final desert land entries,
2,l20.92 acres. $2,12O.90: total cash
sales, II ,646.94 acres, 23,299.91.
The annual report OF Theodore G.
Lennon. superintendent of the Grand
! Junction Indian School. says that since
the last report there has been de-
cided improvement in the general ap-
pearance of the plant, due largely to
| the growth of trees and shrubbery and
the application Of paint. There has.
however, been no Improvement in
| nf pa
systems. except that plans for the sys-
TENS have been decided on. There is
great room for Improvement in this
direction. Superintendent Lennon
urges an appropriation for new mess
hall and employees quarters. suggests
a dining hall capable of seating $50
persons and employees quarters of ten
rooms, and also recommends that $3,-
500 should be appropriated for con-
struction of a superintendent's cottage
The State Board of Pardons met Oc-
tober I'd, in the office of the Governor
No one was pardoned. One sentence
that of John Buzanes. sentenced from
Teller county, August IL, 1902, was
commuted. The original sentence was
from five to seven years for attempted
murder. The sentence was commuted
to from eighteen months to seven
years. This will give him the right
to ask for parole about next Christ
mas. John Buzanes was sentenced tC
tie penitentiary for attempting to
kill Nicholas Rayedy, In 1902. Pardons
were refused in the following cases:
John p Black, Ventura Lopez, Vol
Anderson, e. Santistivan, l.. c. Thomp.
son, Eugene Clark. Jose Medina. Chas
Seastone, Isaac Franco. Santiago Ar.
gullo. John Williams c. S. Duncan and
Michael Brienza.
The State Supreme Court, on the 5tf
instant, reversed the decision of the
District Court of Telluride county in
the case of James w. Vickers agains,
the people. The case has been in the
courts for some time, and the GROUND
on which the decision was based was