The Holly chieftain., 1904-03-04
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

brilding.
The annual report of the Colorado
Telephone Company, filed with Secre-
tary of State James A. Cowie, shows
that the total holdings of the company
are valued at $3.50, ,426.30. The in
debtedness of the concern is placed at
$292, ,474.07. In Colorado the company
has 103 exchanges and S96 toll stations
and the value of the equipment is
placed at $s45,019.42. The underground
conduits are valued at slS4.s93.69,
and the cables u Underground at $226.
s93S4.
A class of seventeen members was
graduated by the Colorado Training
School OF Nurses at Denver February
25th as follows: Estella Martin, Ella
Groom, Mary E. Campbell, Frances
l.. Dewey. Margaret V. Blackburn,
Clara ]. Edgar, Allie Orton Cooper.
Florence Dillingham;, Myrtle S. keiser,
Ida b. Clark, Nellie Rose Seavey.
Katherine f. McKinnon. Mildred A.
Lodge. Amanda Curtis Raidin, Lena
Brosius Cady and Christine Narath. In
the past sixteen years the school has
graduated IA nurses.
Attorney General Miller has been
instructed the War Department that
the accounts of Colorado for expenses
incurred in equipping and uniforming
the militia for duty in the Spanish
American war are now ready for the
court of private claims and that he
should begin the prosecution of them
at once. Mr.. Miller will recommend
to the governor the appointment of
special counsel to go to Washington
and look after the matter in person
until the bills are allowed by the
court. The amount which the state
will receive is estimated at from $780,
000 to $150,00o.
The distribution of Colorado liter
ature at the ST Louis Worlds Fair
will be greatly aided by an arrange
ment recently made by means of
which the Colorado Promotion and
Publicity Committee will supply
the Colorado Fair commission with
all the Colorado literature it needs,
for distribution at the Colorado head
quarters at the fair. The committee
will begin shipping large part of its
literature to St Louis as soon as the
books are prepared. The promotion
committee is also to establish branch
bureau for literature and information.
on the fair grounds, and the two will
work in harmony and to the same end
for advancing Colorado. ut is just
what we want said Commissioner
Paul Wilson of the fair board. I'VE
| were hoping, at least, to get some spe-
! cial literature on agriculture and horti-
culture for that is subject about
which more should be said to eastern
,, ers. but these additional supplies in
all subjects will be very valuable. We
can give the literature out directly
from the state building.
Attorney Plat Rogers representing
the Great Plains Water and Storage
| Company. appeared before the State
Land Board February 25th and stated
that the company desires to make set
J tIement for the land it has been occu-
pying for several years as a reservoir
site. In August 1899, the company
made application for a reservoir site.
| agreeing to pay tie price asked by the
state. Recently Register Woodruff
, discovered that the application had
never been allowed and the deal con-
summated, although the company had
| gone ahead and occupied the 6.149
! acres of land desired. 1t was immedi-
ately notified that a purchase price of
not less than $40 per acre must be
{, paid and also the back rental covering
| the time the land had been pre-empted
or tho state would Immediately bring
suit to recover. The board informed
| Attorney Rogers that there was no
disposition on the part of the
state to embarrass the opera
tions of the company, and he was
| asked to prepare map and field notes
| to be submitted to the board. The
rental to be charged was fixed at 80
| cents an acre year for the time the
| land has been used.
Adjutant General Bell thinks the
state should obtain the full benefit of
the laws relating to the military poll
| tax, which he says had not been col
lected in recent years. Accordingly
! he has issued orders detailing Col.
| William H. Sweeney, Jr., retired, to
| make a thorough examination of the
assessment rolls of Pueblo and Ell Paso
counties for the. years 1902-O3 to de-
| termine the number of persons sub
| jcct to the tax. Colonel Sweeney also
| will examine the treasurers' books to
see how many persons have not paid
their military obligations to the state
| for those years and report the names
| of all such to the adjutant general.
This report is to be completed not
! later than March 18th. An examina-
ton of the situation in the city and
county of Denver will be personally
attended to by General Bell. Pueblo
and El Paso counties were selected as
field of operations for Colonel Swee-