The Meeker herald., 1903-10-17

ley lTflk8u00 company 0k1luht tu0
Central Trust Company. handed down
an opinion to the eject that not to
use water granted q ditch does mot
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 8th 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 3rd with the secretary Of state
for ChanAing 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 ali the way from 100 to 800
names. Judge Overs having the great
er number Of names on his petition.
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 q test case. Attorney g. J.
Hughes, Jr., has filed . motion for
new trial on the ground that the court
erred in refusing to make the plaintin
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 a woman to under
go an examination by q strange doctor
is 4 point upon which the laws OF the
various states diner. 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 Gum
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
IQlSSlO0erB Will uOl nave W p1y ~
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 IL to mandamus the
county officers to pay the semi-annuai
interest until enough money is In the
county funds to pay the whole debt.
The United States Land Once at
Denver has finished Its ohhcial report
for the quarter unding September s0th.
The receipts of the ONCE fall below
those for last quarter. butthe volume OF
business done is greater. Following
Il the report. Cash Receipts-Seven-
teen committed homestead entries. D.
44O acres, $3.50; fourteen excess cash
entries. 4S,540 acres. 3s2.25; sixteen
public sales, 1.051.13 acres. $1,56424;
seyenty-iive mineral entries. embrac>
ing 93O.75 acres. $4.020: thirty-three
timber and stone entries. 4.32z63
acres, $40. O.9S3.61; twenty-six original
desert land entries. 5,283.63 acres. 81
32O. 81; eleven final desert land entries.
2,120.92 acres, S2.120.sO; total cash
sales, 11.646.94 acres, &e3.299.91.
The annual report Of Theodore G..
Lennon. superintendent Of the Grand
Junction Indian School. says that since
the last report there has been q 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
all inns nF mr. O
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 a 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 3d.
500 should be appropriated for con-
struction of q superintendent's cottage
The State Board of Pardons met Oc-
tober I'd, in the ONCE Of the Governor
No one was pardoned. One sentence,
that of John Buxanes. sentenced from
Teller county. August IL. 1902, was
commuted. The original sentence was
from i've to seven years for attempted
murder. The sentence was committed
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 to
the penitentiary for attempting to
kill Nicholas Ravedy, in 1902. Pardons
were refused in the following cases:
John p Black, Ventura Lopez, Vol.
Anderson. E. Santistivan, L. G. Thomp-
son, Eugene Clark. Jose Medina, Chas.
Seastonk. Isaac Franco. Santiago Ar
gulio. John Williams. c. S. Duncan and
Michael Brienza.
The. State Supreme Court. on the 9Th
instant. reversed the decision of the
District Court OF Telluride county In
the case of James w. vickers against
the people. The case has been In the
courts for some time. and the ground
on which the decision was based was
the fact that witness, the principal
witness for Vickers, had not been al
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