The Lamar register., 1904-04-06
STATE CAPITAL NOTES


erected in Colorado Springs.
A petition for re-hearing in the suit
brought against John l.. Parsons to
test the validity of the state liquor
license has been filed in the Supreme
Court. This case is the one in which
the opinion handed down by Chief
Justice Campbell declared the liquor
license tax to be valid.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfel, state super
intendent of public instruction, has
just issued to the teachers and school
children of Colorado her annual book
let on the observance of Arbor and
Bird day, which takes place this year
April Is. The booklet includes the
Arbor day law; Governor Peabody's
proclamation setting aside the date.
and letters to the teachers and school
children of the state.
United States Commissioner Sanford
G.. Hinsdale, who has long had his
offices in the federal building, has been
forced to seek quarters elsewhere,
owing to the changes in the rearrange-
ment of the rooms and will occupy new
offices which are being made ready for
occupancy on the eighth floor of the
Continental building, at the corner of
Sixteenth and Lawrence streets, but
block away from the postofiice.
A letter has been received by John
NJ. Woodard, state game and fish com
missioner, from the East Willow Min
ing Company at Creede, stating that
that company and the Humphreys
Milling Company, both situated on the
Willow creek branch of the Rio Grande
river, are building a settling reservoir
to prevent slime from the mills run
ming out into the river. Commissioner
Woodard has been corresponding
with these companies for six weeks
or more and insisting that they should
build such reservoir, as the mud and
slime from the mills is harmful to the
fish in the stream.
II. S. Vaughn. commander of the
G. A. II. for Colorado and Wyoming,
has returned from visit to his ranch
near Rocky Ford, and brought with
him some specimens of supposed rub
Der plant, which he left at the state
horticultural department. The plant,
which he states is very abundant in
Rio Grande and Otero counties partic-
ularly, is very similar to the specimens
already on display. with the exception
of the blossom. which is of different
botanical structure The horticultural
department will investigate the mat
ter and endeavor to determine whether
there are more than one variety of
rubber plant in the state.
Notices of the following civil SER
vice examinations, for positions in the
government service, have been posted
in the federal building: Architectural
and structural draughtsman, for quar-
termaster's department; heating and
ventilating draughtsman. for supervis-
ing architects Office: meat inspector,
for bureau of animal industry of the
Department of Agriculture; manual
training teacher, for the Indian SER
vice; assistant photographer for the
Department of Agriculture; acting as
sistant surgeon for the public health
and marine hospital service; computer.
supervising architects office; matron,
Indian service; inspector of textile
fabrics, quartermaster's department at
large.
Governor Peabody will attend the
opening of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position at St Louis in an official ca
pacity and participate in the opening
exercises with other of the governors
in states formed from the purchase.
1t has been planned for the governor
and other state officials to go to st.
Louis on a special train and the intent
will be to have Colorado make as good
a showing and be as well represented
as any of the state. The official train
will be private one, privately paid
for, will comprise several cars and
carry several hundred private citizens
as well as the official party. The train
will leave Denver April 27 at p. m;
leave Colorado Springs at 1880 p. m;
leave Pueblo at / a. m. April %; ar
rive at st. Louis at 1925 a. m, Friday.
April 20.
The recent order of the State Stock
Inspection Board, resulting from its
last meeting, to the effect that all cat
tie infected with mango in the eastern
portion of the state must be dipped be-
fore August l, has aroused a great
many complaints among stockmen.
There is no disposition to evade the
wishes of the board in regard to dip
ping, but there is some objection to
the extended time in which the dip
ping may be done. At the next meet
ing of the board April 10th, the visit
ing stockmen in all probability will
ask that the order be changed so that
all cattle. whether in enclosures or on
the range, must be dipped between
May l and June l. This will make the
dipping more uniform all over the
range and will minimize the danger of
re-infection.
W. E. Collett. state superintendent
of the Colorado Society for the Friend
less, which has for its object the rend-
ering of care and assistance to persons
who have been confined in prisons and
reform institutions, recently visited
several of the state Institutions and
also spoke at different places. Mr.
Collett now gives his entire time to
the work, and has desk in the office
of the state board of charities and cor
rection. The society is raising its
money under the semi-endowment
plan. 1t is estimated that it costs $50