The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1903-03-13

Lewis H. Field of Hugo to succeed Com
missioner Archibald Mcintyre of Lin.
coin county, resigned.
The State Land Board on March 4th
granted leases on the following lands:
Seventeen hundred acres in Routt
county; 932 acres in Saguache county;
1,042 acres in Las Animas county, $40
acres in Adams county; $40 acres in
.;ostilla county; LAO acres in Sagu-
ache county.
The House and Senate are having
aome difficulty in agreeing upon bills.
The Senate refused to agree to the
House amendments to the Clayton bill
to exempt sixty per cent. of mans
wages from execution, and has also
refused to agree to the House amend
ments to the Bailey juvenile delin-
Quent bills.
Expert Lewis B. Schwanbeck has
made a report to the House committee
appointed to examine into the amount
of outstanding state warrants, and the
committee has reported the same to
the House. The report shows that
warrants have been issued to the
amount of $S25, ,053.16; interest, $775,-
326.S5; total, $1,601,379.51.
The state board of pardons at Its
meeting March 9th recommended a
Communication of sentence for Pablo
Lucero, who was sentenced for life,
March 20, 1898, for murder. The board
recommended that the sentence be
cut to 20 years. The board considered
several applications. Action on that OF
Antoine Cuaz sentenced from Pitkin
county for life for murder was post
poned.
Public trustees have been appointed
by the Supreme Court for the four lead
ing counties of the state. These posi-
tions pay fees and the sum each in
cumbent collects is equal to good sal
airy. The appointees and the estimated
incomes are as follows: Augustus II.
Martin, county of Denver, $4,000,
George w. Musser, Ell Paso county,
William H. Grifith, Teller, 1880.
photographer A. L. Fellows of the
State Geological Survey, has been
called to Washington to consult with
Professor Newell regarding the Gunni-
son tunnel. 1t is probable that ar
rangements will be made to open head
quarters here for the western states in
cluded in the Geological Survey. The
state engineer is confident that work
on the Gunnison tunnel will be taken
up by the federal government without
delay.
Fish and Game Commissioner Wood
ward, recently appointed by Gov. Pea
body to succeed Charles w. Harris.
has appointed Thomas j.. Higgins to
be chief game warden for the Grand
Junction district vice Roy Allison, and
w. s. Kincaid to be superintendent of
fish hatcheries vice Thomas j. Hol-
land. The appointees will assume
their positions April /, at the expira-
ton of the terms of the retiring Of
ficials.
Former State Auditor Charles w.
Crouter has been ordered to pay into
the registry of the District Court at
Denver the sum OF $12.363.54. the
amount in litigation in the suit brought
against him by the United States Re
duction and Refining Company to re-
cover money paid under the MAJ tax
law. The order was made on the
motion Of the attorneys Of the plain
tin. The amount represents the tax
paid by the reduction company, and
the companies which assigned their
claims to 1t.
The Senate passed on third reading.
s. B. No. 1T, by Senator Rush, to pro-
hibit the sale or lease by the State
Land Board Of school land bearing
timber less than fourteen inches in
diameter. The bill carries q provision
making members Of school boards
agents OF the Land Board for the pur-
pose Of detecting timber stealing. The
act includes penalty for cutting tim
ber on school land without authority
from the Land Board, of q fine
amounting to three times the value of
the timber and imprisonment in the
county Jail for from thirty days to one
year. An emergency clause is at
tached.
The House and Senate committees on
state institutions on Wednesday, March
4th, made the trip around the Horn"
for the purpose Of visiting the State
University at Boulder. the Agricultural
College at Fort Collins, and the Nor
NAL School at Greeley. With the two
committees went other members Of the
Legislature. many Of whom were ac-
companied by their wives and children.
In all there were about $50 people on
the Colorado & Southern train when 1t
left the Union Depot at 8: 80 in the NOR
ming. At Boulder the excursionists
were given a reception In the Univers-
ity chapel, where President Baker made
statement Of the needs OF the insti-
In uniform and saluted the party In
military style, while other students
greeted them with college yells. The
citizens of Fort Collins gave the visit
ors a magnificent dinner in the Agri-
cultural College auditorium. The ca
diets fred an artillery salute. At Gree
ley the members of the party were
taken out to the Normal School In car
riages and treated to refreshments.
Senator Rush's bill to prevent the
securing of public franchises by fraud
ulent means, is comprised In one sec
tion, as follows: Section Whenever
any persons who are residents of and
taxpayers in the county in which such
action is brought, shall file verified
complaint. setting up that any fran
chise has been, or is about to be.
granted through fraud. bribery or cor
rupt practices or that the terms of such
franchise violate the rights Of the peo-
pie, the District Court. or any Judge