The Grit-advocate., 1903-07-24
COL ORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND
DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY

On the 18th inst. Governor Peabody
granted pardon to Fred Shockley,
sentenced to one year from Fremont
county for involuntary manslaughter.
Shockiey is colOred man The par
don was issued on petition signed by
the trial judge and many prominent
people of the county
The coming of the Fifth cavalry to
Fort Logan has peculiar interest to
the residents there from the fact that
Tor the first time in long while there
will be regimental band at the fort.
Hereafter dress parade and guard
mount will be rendered vastly more
attractive by music, and the fort is
also anticipating the evening concerts,
which will be given.
Owing to the absence of Mrs. Gren-
fell from the city. the State Land
Board has postponed the hearing in the
Montezuma county reservoir case until
July 18th Some months ago the
board granted to the Mcntezuma lrrl-
CATION District a tract of land to be
used as reservoir site. The Monte
yuma Ditch Company contests the
right of the district to the site and
claims that it is entitled to the site.
Ihe case was appealed to the State
Land Board for a hearing.
Special Agent Harry B. Kerr. of the
Humane Society, returned recently
from Longmont. where he went to in
vestgate a complaint to the effect that
the J. J. Empson Packing Company
was employing children under the age
fourteen in the factory in violation
of law passed at the last session OF
the Legislature. He found that four
boys under age were employed there in
doing light work and called the atten-
tion of J. J. Empson to the matter. The
latter said he had no intention OF
breaking the law, and discharged the
boys, promising that he would engage
no more under the prescribed age.
Agent Kerr saw a number of the boys
belonging to the juvenile court and
says they seemed to consider the work
In the beet fields more of pleasure
than hardship.
1t was stated yesterday, says the
Denver News of July 18th, that the
railroads would not be as free with
passes during the extra session of the
Legislature as they were at the regu-
lar session last winter. The refusal OF
one of the railroad companies to honor
request of a state official for trans
pOrtation is said to have been due to
desire to shut off on all passes during
the time when the Legislators are in
the city. After they depart it has been
quietly given out that the requests OF
the state officials for transportation
will be honored as usual. During the
last regular session. it is said, between
forty and fifty passes were given out
daily by the roads. Some of these were
sold to ticket scalpers. and the graft
ers'' worked SO lively that the roads
have decided to issue no transportation
whatever this time.
The Colorado State Board of Veter-
mary Surgeons met at the capitol July
18th for the purpose of examining the
applicants for certificates to practice in
the state. Licenses were granted to
the following M. J. Dunleavy, M. J.
Woodlffe, Charles G. Lamb Solomon
Book, Sidney E. Book of Denver, DR..
Fenton Of Colorado Springs, Dr.. Saw
age and DR.. Dickey of Greeley, DR..
Thompson of Pueblo, DR.. r. N McCar-
roll of Fort Collins, DR.. A. B. McCapes
of Longmont. DR.. Fred Hoskins of
Boulder DR.. Bird of Fort Collins. DR..
Harry Bowles and DR.. Fred Culver of
Longmont. After the licenses were
granted the veterinary surgeons of Col
orado organized as the Colorado Vet
erinary Medical Association They will
at once take steps toward the enforce
ment of the law governing the manner
of practice, enacted at the last session
of the Legislature. There are fifty
practitioners in Colorado who are
eligible for licenses under the new law,
and nearly twenty of these We're pres
ent and became charter members of the
new association. DR.. Dunleavy, presi-
lent of the organization. said that the
first move would be to bring test case
of the new law