The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-09


Inheritance tax law. On Monday, the
attorney general will petition Judge
Lindsey for the appointment of an APP
praiser Of the estate. claim will then
te entered for the Inheritance tax on
,he estate, and will be combatted. thus
furnishing litigation for the test.
Nominations by petition were filed
October 3rd with the secretary Of state
Supreme Court for the Socialists. Frank
W. Overs for the Peoples party.
Charles A Chapman for judge of the
Fourth judicial district by the Peoples
party, and Charles L. McKesson for
Judge of the Fourth judicial district
by the Peoples party. The lists
showed all the way from 100 to 800
names. Judge Overs having the great
er number OF names on his petition.
Papers relative to rights of way for
the water and power system for Grand
Junction Indian school has reached the
Indian Bureau and been sent to the
secretary of the interior for transmits
sion to the Attorney general for exam
nation. Should the attorney general
pass favosabIy upon the legal questions
Involved, the Indian Bureau will at
once issue advertisement for proposals
TO carry on the work. The engineering
plans for the project are all complete,
and now only await a settlement of the
legal technicalities as to the right of
way. Congress at the last session ap-
proprlated $4,000 for this project.
State Engineer Carpenter recently
received a request from the owners OF
Fossil Creek reservoir to have that
body OF water surveyed according to
the law passed by the last. Legislature.
recurring that this be done Mr. Car
penter stated that surveyors would be
sent to take charge of the work as
soon as possible. The reservoir is in
Larimer county, short distance from
Fort Collins. Similar requests have
been made by owners OF other reser-
yoirs In the state. notably among them
being the Twin Lakes reservoir. The
work at Twin Lakes will take over
month to complete.
To enforce the payment of state
fair appropriation of $500 granted by
the Legislature. the Pueblo State Fair
Association will shortly institute man
damus proceedings against State Au-
ditor Holmberg. Secretary John X.
nshireman OF the board of directors
called upon Au0tor Holmberg for the
appropriation, and was refused. Mr..
Holmbcrg says that he will not pay
the appropriation and claims that 1t
was illegal The opinion is indorsed
by Attorney General Miller. 1t is
based upon the fact that 1t rewards
farmers for the excellency of agricul-
turai and horticultural specimens. The
case will serve as preccdent.-Den-
yer News.
State Engineer Carpenter is unable
to see how he can build the state road
between Ouray and point in the San
Juan valley, for the minimum bid is
$4,000, and the appropriation for its
construction is only 100000 Only three
miles of new road are required. the rest
of the highway being already laid out,
but the location Is such that the con-
struction is said to be decidedly cost
Iy proposition. Engineer Carpenter is
considering the question of whether
he can build the road as far as the ap-
propriation will carry it. He is also
trying TO learn If. after doing this. 1t
will be legal for the people who are to
be benefited to furnish the remaining
$4,000 necessary to complete the work.
He will ask Attorney General Miller
for an opinion upon this matter.-Den-
yer Republican.
The State Board of Pardons met Oc-
tober I'd, in the Office Of the Governor.
No one was pardoned. One sentence,
that of John Buzanes, sentenced from
Teller county August II. 1902. was
committed. The original sentence was
from five to seven years for attempted
murder. The sentence was commuted
~ from eighteen months to seven
ears. This will give him the right
to ask for parole about next Christ
mas. John Buzanes was sentenced to
the penitentiary for attempting to
kill Nicholas Ravedy. in 1902. Pardons
were refused in the following cases:
John P. Black, Ventura Lopez. Vol.
Anderson, e. Santistivan, l.. c. Thomp-
son, Eugene Clark. Jose Medina, Chas.
Seastone, Isaac Franco. Santiago Ar
gullo. John Williams, c. S. Duncan and
Michael Brienza.
Attorney General Miller has given an
opinion to State Auditor Holmberg,
to the effect that he could raise the ap-
propriation of the Soldiers and Sail
ors Home to the second class. This
will mean that the $4,000 which is due
the Institution for the biennial period
will be paid by Auditor Holmberg. In
the oDinion which Mr. Miller gave he
stated that he believed that the Legis-
lature meant that institutions of this
sort should be paid their full appropri-
alton before any of the building addi-
ton funds became available. The in
mates of this home can not, by reason
of their incapacity. leave it and 1t Is
the duty of the state to support them
and the home. In the second class
there are building and improvement
appropriations which ought not to be
put in ahead of the maintenance fund
of any institution, and 1t was on this
ground that Attorney General Miller
decided that the appropriation should
be raised in class and paid. 1t might
have been paid otherwise. but the
members of the board of control of
the Institution did not want to take