The Holly chieftain., 1903-10-16
COLORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND
DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY
An Agricultural Epoch.

An Agricultural Epoch.
The special meeting of the stock
holders of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad Company. to be held October
| 21st, the day after the annual meeting,
| is likely to be one of the most impor-
| tant In the history of the road. says
the Denver News. II will mark an
| epoch in which the Rio Grande is no
longer dependent upon mining inter
ests for its traffic
The knowledge that the Rio Grande
source of income from agricultural
products is almost as great as that
from mines has been slow to break
upon the stockholders. The cause OF
the growth of its income from this
source is found in the improved sys-
TENS of cultivating ''arid" lands and
in the great trek of homeseekers to
points along its line.
The San Luis valley is attracting
more homeseekers this season than
the entire state of Colorado attracted
two years ago. The trains are crowd
ed and If arrangements can be per-
fected another train is likely to be put
on.
The Rio Grande management at the
special meeting will give due consid-
GRAFTON to the big showing made by
its traffic from agricultural and kin
dred sources. 1t has been predicted
that an industrial agent would be ap-
pointed at this meeting.
The general passenger agent says
that the San Luis valley and other
portions of the state tributary to the
Rio Grande has surprised even the
most sanguine. The travel is unpre-
cedented.
At the stockholders meeting there
will be reports presented which can
not fail to convince the most skeptical
capitalist that the San Luis valley is
source of great wealth to any road
and that when its resources are de-
veloped it will surprise everyone.
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
tice to A. R. Gumaer of Fremont coun-
ty that he was delinquent in rentals on
leases due the state $2,800 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.
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 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 a test case. Attorney c. j.
Hughes. Jr., has filed motion for a
new trial on the ground that the court
erred in refusing to make the plaintiff
undergo 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
go 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.
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 it 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 a thorough Inspection of the