The Dolores star., 1903-11-20
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

ton.
After an investigation of complaints
that P. II. Sweetman. large sheep
owner of Las Animas county, had been
using for years 2.160 acres of land
which he had not leased from, the state.
the State Land Board informed him
that it would be necessary for him to
secure lease IL he wished to continue
the use OF it. He complied with the
request, and now the state will get
$4.l0S year from Mr.. Sweetman. He
owns 760 acres. The leased land sur
rounds this.
The October report of the State
Board of Child and Animal Protection
shows cases Investigated and dealt with
In the state, outside of Denver, by spe-
rial officer as follows; 8 agents seen;
agent secured; cases investigated;
cases warned; 3 cases prosecuted; 3
.ases pending: girls sent to State
Home; boys sent to State Home; :
gir,s sent to private homes; 2 horses
ordered out of harness: miles by wheel.
IS; by horse. 2I3; by rail, 1856: total.
k2o4. This report does not include the
Eases handled by the 500 and odd vol
snteer agents throughout the state.
While Governor William II. Hunt of
Porto Rico is not known to have yet
placed his resignation in the hands of
the President, it has been officially an
nounced without qualification from the
White House that he will retire from
his present position within the next
few months and will succeed United
States District Judge Hiram Knowles
in Montana, of which state Governor
Hunt is a resident. Judge Knowles Will
retire at the age of seventy, next jan
uary. The resignation of Governor
Hunt has led to mention of the possible
elevation of Secretary Charles HartEell
of Colorado 10 the sovernorship.
The State Board of Health is send
ing out circular letters 10 the school
boards OF the state, saying that great
care should be taken at this time in
regard 10 contagious diseases. The lat
ter states that it is the duty OF teach
ers to see that all of the children are
vaccinated; and that when any of
them have been i'll they are not TO re-
turn to school before they are wholly
well. The passage of regulations of
strict nature concerning sick pupils is
urged. The letter opens with state
ment from the state superintendent of
public instruction. Mrs. Helen Grenfell.
saying that the State Board of Health
has the right to ask that great care
be taken with contagious diseases.
Mayor Wright is making an effort to
have Denver's streets better cleaned.
and without creating SO much dust as
the sweepers. He recently sent Com
missioner of Supplies Alexander Nisbet
and Superintendent of Street Cleaning
j. X. Stuart to Omaha and St. Louis
TO inspect the devices used in those citf
les and they have returned with the
information that in st. Louis a patent
street flushing machine is utilized with
substantial success. For Belgium block
pavement it is the only device that
works satisfactorily. because water is
thrown against the surface of the thor
oughfares with such force that all the
dust and debris is washed out of the
crevices. On asphalt the washing is
just as complete The only question
now seems to be the cost of the water.
According to a report made by n.
commissioner of the term
inal railway lines of Denver, there were
l $50 tickets left in the hands of the
joint ticket agency over which he has
Jurisdiction, when the time limit of
October 31st cut off the opportunity to
have the tickets used. This is slightly
in excess of the figures of last year and
is proof that the practice of scalping
tickets is growing less every year. Any
one of the tickets left in the Office of
the agency would have been worth con-
siderable money to its owner had the
scalpers been able to secure it. The
actual cash represented by the tickets
left on hand at the close of the season
was s57, ,525, giving each ticket its value
of a one-way fare to Chicago. There
were numerous efforts made to secure
the tickets at the Office of the joint
agency, but SO vigilant were those in
charge that deception was almost i'm
possible.
Humane Society Agent Tuft has
made charge that the method of kill
ing cattle used by Wolf Heller, butch
er at the packing houses in Denver, is
cruel Heller kills cattle for the use
of members of the Jewish faith. Tuft
swore out warrant in the County
Court for the arrest of Heller on the
charge of cruelty to animals. In dis
cussing the arrest Rabbi Friedman of
Temple Emanuel said that the charges
were absurd. He went on to add: at
may be that the butchers are doing all
that he says, but II they are doing it
it is in direct violation of the Jewish
law. But l don't believe any cruelty
has been practiced. Under this law,
no manned. wounded or lacerated ami
nal is fit for food. II animals are in
jured they are unclean to an orthodox
Jew. Animals are supposed to be killed
instantly without even the slightest
suffering, and if even one organ is in
jured in the killing they are unfit for
food. l hardly think any Jew would
object to having such thing investi-