Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-10-16

lhrf NJ" utty or sixty insane pattrntl
Mt the county hospital at Denver await
Ing ahmittane- to the Pueblo asylum.
to which they have been committed by
III. County Court. Unless provision Is
made for their reception within the
next few days the county charity COM
mItt-c. consisting OF "Parfon" ufxeli.
A. y. Patton and Alex Slsb-t will bring
court proceedings against the state for
the recovery of damages.
The State Supreme Court. on the sth
Instant. In the ease of the Platte Val
ley Irrigation Company against the
Central Trust Company. handed down
an opinion to tn. effect that not to
TN. water granted n ditch does not
necessarily show abandonment. There
must be the expressed intent OF abon-
donmcnt 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 sth inst. sent no
ticc to A. Il Gumacr OF Fremont coun-
~ that he was delinquent In rentals on
leases due the state $500. He has
about 10000 acres under ease from the
state In Fremont county. He was CIV
en- thirty days In which to make the
the stockholders OF the Boston Land
and Cattle Company. one OF the largest
cattle concerns In the state.
The case In which Mrs. Elizabeth
Roberts got a verdict for 2.0oJ against
the Denver City TrnmwRy Company In
Judge Palmer's division OF the District
Court. will be taken TO the Supreme
Court as test case. Attorney G. J.
Hughes. Jr., has filed n motion for n
new trial on the ground that the court
erred In refusing to make the plaintiH
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 woman to under
go an examination by a strange doctor
is point upon which the laws of the
various states differ. Judge Carpenter
and Judge Palmer have both refused
to compel women In personal injury
suits to undergo the ordeal.
State Engineer Carpenter on the 10th.
inst. examined the bids submitted for
the bridge to be built across the Ar
kansas river nine miles from Pueblo
at the mouth OF the st. Charles river.
All OF the bids were too high. the low
est being 81, 600 in excess of the amount
the state has to spend. The lowest bid
ders were NJ. j. Patterson & Co. OF
Denver and ,the Pueblo Bridge Com
pany. The first was s129S0 and the
second s12 300. For combination wood
and steel bridge the Patterson company
bid sl0G90 ami the Pueblo company
$3.50. 1t was decided to take the two
lowest bids under advisement and con-
Ter with the county commissioners of
Pueblo county and see II they are will
ing to pay the difference.
Health Commissioner Clough of Dem
yer has taken issue with several of the
statements made by the State Board of
Health in the set of regulations for the
prevention of tuberculosis announced
by that dody. He says that the statis-
tics kept by his Office do not show that
so large percentage of tuberculosis
| cases are contracted here as is claimed
| by the State Board. Twenty per cent.
the proportion named. is entirely too
| large an estimate for native cases.
claims DR.. Clough. The statement that
| the disease is spreading now more than
| ever is also question by the City Health
| Department. One of the officials said:
IF our records prove anything in this
| connection It is that there has been
| little increase during the last ten years
| in the number of cases contracted in
| Colorado"
A campaign through influential
sources is about to be made in behalf
of new government building for Dem
yer. And because the present building
Is so lamentably inadequate 1t is ex-
pected that the campaign will be en-
.irely successful. Some two weeks ago
r, E. Armstrong. first assistant secre-
tary of the Treasury, was in the city,
and made thorough inspection of the
building II was not an official in
spection, as Mr.. Armstrong was in the
city only incidently. But as he was
next to head of the department to
which public buildings belong. the Gus
todian of the building took advantage
of the opportunity to give the depart
ment some occult proof of the truth of
his representations. He took Mr. Arm
strong through the building and showed
! him the congested state of affairs The
| First Assistant Secretary of the Treas
| ury was much impressed by what he
| saw, and in conversation with Mayor
Wright and others. expressed himself
| quite freely. He said that he had not
| realized the corgested condition of the
! federal building. or the great expense
| to the government and Inconvenience
| to the departments arising from the
necessity of locating Offices outside of
| the buildings. Denver seems to need
n new building badly" he said. There
| is no city of its size and business in the
| country SO poorly equipped to take care
of the governments bushes"