The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-04
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

civil Wac The reproductions, known
as FRA war scenes. will be framed
and adc"l ~ the collection in the cap!-
toll
Denye & Rio Grande trainmen and
employ the motive department of
the roa. have made an arrangement
for minEztug the troubles occasioned
by the coal strike There was a posi-
bility tAar 800 men would be laid off
in Colo.llu because of the coal strike,
which au down the extra freight runs.
The Ken have planned to overcome
this am us the matter now stands no
men vii Dee laid off, but all of the EN-
ployes in the train service will work
fewer Ga. . dming the month than for
merly.
Huh'tfeI5 of Mormons are moving to
Conejt7 county. They propose to re-
deem the arid lands of that section and
TO create Il prosperous and populous
eommunity At the State Land Board
meeting yesterday afternoon, Rachel
McGinnis, who is at the head of the
movelnent was soldl forty acres OF land
which it is understood she will use as
site Tor a reservoir Mormons are
experts at irrigation and representa-
tives ol he new colony declare that all
he Immigrants are men who know how
to irrigtte Denver News.
Oleonargarine has been sold in Den
YER recenIly without the plain label
which the law requires. 1t has been
sold as butter, and samples which were
purchaSed By Mrs. Mary Wright, state
dairy commissioner, have been tested
and found to be oleomargarine. In sew
eral samples the percentage OF cotton
seed oi was large When the tests
were Completed Mrs. Wright went to
the dealers from whom the samples
were procured and secured their prom
Use to label their oleomargarine under
threat Cl prosecution if they failed to
do so.
Three infants. all OF whom are in
the shallow of the bar sinister. were
commiJed to the State Home for De
pendent Children November 23rd by
Judge Lindsey in the county court
One. known as the 'nameless child,
is two weeks old. Baby Madison was
born at the county hospital Septem-
Der 2Sth, its mother dying at the same
moment which gave breath TO the
child. Baby Dillon is the little found
ling abandoned at 25OS Stout street on
October 5th. The known history of
the clildren. which was made mat
ter of record and which appears on the
papers is sogrowful one.
Il ..gx'the last thre. days, says the
ipeuyer News of November 10Th. 100
volunteers have been added to the state
militia Applications from many more
yoIug men anxious to join have been
filed Nearly all the recruits were sent
, to CAMP Goldheld. None OF them was
examined here because the examining
, surgeons are on active duty. so many
, of The new men have seen service re-
Gently. however, that few were REJECT
ed The prospect of 81 day ana eV-
erylb.ng found seems to have ap-
. peaIgd strongly to many men out OF
wort for no effort has been made, ac-
corIurs to Colonel Bloom, to get re-
cI.urs but he has been forced to give
nearF all his time to conterrins with
applicants.
Judge Palmer dismissed the suit OF
W BRYANT. chairman OF the League
for Iiunest Elections. to have the court
9DDu.Dt a receiver for the Office OF Clerk
Airha.e of the city and county OF Den
yer and a referee TO take charge OIL the
repfs.r alton books. His grounds were
that tichele had been charging Tor put
ting N and striking off fictitious names
on tie registration books. and that ul-
,ess the court interfered it would be I'M
noselrle to secure the purginS OF the
hooI. Of the 1000 to lJ.OOO illegal
names they contained The judge held
that the complainants had other rene
dies aud could sue on the bond OF the
RESPONDENT. but that it is not the duty
of ,Jurt to interfere with constitu-
uoual officer.
DE- c. +. Cooper. secretary of the
STATE Board of Health. has caused the
sale .- milk shipped into Pueblo from
Tort lupton bv O. L. Frink to be
STONED. because, according to tests
whfr. have been made, formaldchyde
has Uaen used in the milk as pre-
sary.y.ye. The Municipal Board Of
HoarI has taken similar action with
regar TO Denver. stopping the sale or
thai r Tx in the city Several days ago
severn samples of the milk that frink
has IN shipping TO Denver and Pu-
chin ere sent to local chemists for an
aIyg.- 1t is said that every test re-
yeafn the presence Of furmaldehyde
An rn astigation is in progress now to
detrrr ne wheth her the milk is being
SHIN. to other towns in the state.
Col ado is in dire need of pure
food lw, according to Mrs. Mary
WrigI state dairy commissioner.
Mrs Wrgiht says that there is much
adulr,ration of food products in this
state more than there would be were
it no. for the fact that other states
have such laws and Colorado gets
more han it's share OF adulterated
foods for that reason. Mrs. Wright
has tust completed tests on several
samples of butter and honey. 1000
produces that often are adulterated'
OF e-lt samples OF honey. seven were
found be impure. Very little oleo-
marga inc is sold as butter in Colo
RADIO pr there is a federal statute re-
ouiriug that oleomargarine be labeled
as su0H. However, much of the but
ter sold in Colorado is the "renova-
ted" md In other words. It is but
| tor .l4f becaua strong or was SDOiled