The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

| The erection OF a new pOstof1ice build
ing. The supervising architect, 1t is
believed. will approve the proposition.
| providing sufficient earnest WORK is
| Gone In Denver to convince the au-
! thorities that the city has greatly out
| grown the present structure.
Considerable interest is being mani
| Tested by poultry and pet stock fanciers
| throughout the state in the coming an
,, nual exhibition of the Colorado Poul-
| try Fanciers Association, to be held in
| Coliseum hall, Denver, January 1928.
| The recent exhibitions. at the State
Fair in Pueblo and at the Colorado
springs show OF week ago, have
stirred up the fanciers to an even great
er degree of enthusiasm than usual.
Colonel Jessie A. Peabody, daughter
of Governor Peabody and member OF
| the staff, will be one of the principal
factors in the governors reception.
which will be held in the rooms of the
Executive Department at the state
house on New Years morning. Colonel
/ Peabody. who enjoys the distinction of
| being the only woman colonel in the
world. will assist her father in receiv-
| ing the guests. Others receiving will in
clude Adjutant General Bell and
SSoiC VI Sidll SoloitlS. hC 'AV'hAi't
| rooms will be deliberately decorated for
the occasion, and music and a punch
| bowl will be among the features of the
occasion. Brigadier General Frank d.
Baldwin will be the especial guest OF
| honor.
The statement is made that Governor
Peabody. with the advice and assist
ance of several other state officials, will
| m En n, apnlph
next year to avoid deficit. Within
the next few weeks every assessor in
| Colorado will be asked to call on the
governor in Denver. When they do
call. the plan will be presented for their
consideration. If it is carried out. the
| taxable valuation of The state will be
raised next year fully $90000,0 ,000
which will give the state additional
| revenue to the extent of 100000 and
prevent deficit. Each assessor will
be asked to raise the valuation in his
county certain amount The total
valuation this year was 1882 100000. 1t
may be raised to $425000,000.
Louis Schwanbeck, the expert ac-
countant who has been checking the
| books in the license tax department of
the state auditors office, made formal
report to Auditor Holmberg. The re-
port shows that the only error in the
books of the, department is one OF $a.So
| in favor of the state. The amount
which has been paid to the state un-
der protest by various corporations Is
$6,5oo.94 This sum is involved in
suits now pending in the courts. Mr..
Schwanbeck suggests the use OF record
ledger books in the department. and
praises Michael Waldron, chief clerk in
the fiat tax department. for the man
ner in which the department has been
conducted. The report covers the peri
cd from January 18th to November
30th
Three ministers and the president of
a law and order league, all of Cripple
Creek, signed the petition received by
Governor Peabody for the pardon Of
a man convicted of gambling. The
governor granted the pardon and the
alleged gambler, G. l.. Hutchins was
set free. He recently was convicted
of conducting a gambling institution
and was committed to jail for a period
Of thirty days and ordered to pay a
| fine of $500 The ministers whose
names appear upon the petition are
Rev. c. c. Coulter of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Rev. C. S. Davidson
of the Baptist church and Rev. J. II.
| Franklin of the Baptist church; Will
liam Harris, president Of the Law and
Order League. also put his name upon
the paper, asking for the pardon of
the convicted man.
Typhoid fever is on the decrease in
this state, according to the monthly
report of the State Board of Health,
just issued. The cases reported from
| the fifty-nine counties of the state for
/ the month of November were: Dipbr
iberia, 109, scarlet fever. ISL, small
pox. 60; typhoid fever 321. Compared
| with October there was a decrease of
| five cases of diphtheria, 121 cases of
| typhoid and an increase Of fifty-siX
cases Of scarlet fever and twenty-one
of smallpox. The total number of
! deaths and most important causes for
November were as follows: Deaths.
7l9, still births, 20; estimated popu-
lation, SCI ,13G; annual death rate per
1000, including still births. 1915: from
diphtheria, Is; scarlet fever, &c; ty-
phoid fever, a. Senility as cause of
death will not be accepted by the
board unless the deceased is over six
ty-fve years of age.
The Court of Appeals has affirmed
the judgment of the lower court against
the suit of the heirs of Elias H. Webb,
former sheriff of Arapahoe county, for
the amount of an insurance policy in
! the Bankers Life Insurance company.
/ Webb applied for a policy in the com
pany April 16. 1897, representing to the
company's medical examiner that he
had never been declined by another
company. After death the Bankers
company refused to pay the insurance
contending that Webb applied to the
Mutual Life Insurance Company the
year before and that his insurance was
held up pending second examination,
which he refused to take. In the Opin-
ion, Judge Thomson holds that while
the deceased probably made the state
ment to the Bankers company in good
! faith under the i'm nressinn that hic do