The Holly chieftain., 1904-07-22
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

Try can nAFQIy De met, Uut inc Hsu
commissioner will send out a million
rainbow and native fry.
Agent H. B. Kerr of the Humane So
ciety recently returned to Denver from
q trip to Gunnison and along the West
ern slope region. He stated that there
seemed to be considerable sentiment
in Gunison toward asking for q par
don for Frank Mahaney. Mahaney 10
now serving q sentence Of from six to
eight years In the penitentiary, where
he was sent for the murder Of w. A.
Womack of Delta county. It was re-
ported to Agent Kerr that the Gunni-
son county jury which convicted Maha-
ney would almost unanimously ask for
his release, as well as the judge. sher-
IL and 8. G. McMullin. the district at
torney who prosecuted him.
Governor Peabody on the 10th inst.
appointed q commission Of three to in
Quire into the mental condition OF
Charles Peters. the youngest OF the
trio OF Youngblood mu.derers who are
waiting the death penalty at the Canon
City penitentiary. Peters has recently
shown every indication of violent in
sanity. The commission consists OF
Drs. s. d. Hopkins and Howell I.
Pershing OF Denver and f. N. Carrier
of Canon City. According to the stat
utes of Colorado a convict sentenced
to be hanged cannot be removed
from the penitentiary to an insane asy-
lum. but must be kept at the peniten-
tiary and the sentenced stayed. In the
event he recovers his reason he is
hanged.
Attorney General Miller has recent
ly returned from St. Louis, where he
went in the Meyer habeas corpus case.
MIR. Miller says he filed the return Of
the governor in the United States
court. II read the return before the
court till l got to the place where 1t
first states that Meyer was not In the
hands Of the governor when the writ
was served. Here l was interrupted
by the court, and Judge Thayer stated
that II Meyer was not in the govern
or's hands when the writ was served
he did not care4o hear anything fur
ther in the case. as that was sufh-
cient." The attorneys for Meyer will
be given till August l to file reply
brief, but 1t is not considered likely
that the case will be carried further.
1t will undoubtedly be dropped where
it is.
State officials probably will take a
hand in the case involving the failure
of the Fidelity Savings association of
Denver, which recently went into the
hands of Judge ]. C. Helm as receiver.
The organization is strictly under the
state laws, and only the state or coun-
ty authorities have a right to act.
There is no federal statute covering
such associations. No complaints have
been made to the auditors Office or to
the attorney general, but both OF these
officials are watching with interest the
developments in the case. II they find
that there is sufficient grounds to be-
lieve that something was wrong, they
will act Immediately. Mr.. Helm is
much encouraged by reports ne has re-
ceived from Louisiana regarding the
land upon which the enormous loan
that swamped the company was made.
Business men in the South write that
a goodly portion of this land is COW
cred with hardwood timber and that
this means that 1t Will be well suited
to cotton culture when the timber is
cut.
When questioned yesterday as to
the extent of protection the military
could guarantee deported miners re-
turning to the Cripple Creek district,
Governor Peabody said it was impossi-
Ulc u COLuplSte pFOltCllUu
in any case. He said that in one or
two instances men had been looked
after and protected by the military,
but that this could not be carried out
to any great extent. In the cases
where men were promised protection"
said the governor yesterday, ''it was
only promised in the event that they
went into the district openly and made
themselves known to the militia. 1t
was not anticipated that they would
sneak in and get into trouble without
knowledge on the part of the soldiers
that they had even entered the dis
trict. Any honest citizen will be given
all the protection the military can af-
ford. In this connection, however, l
want to say that no requests for pro-
lection will be considered from men
who were deported for the reason that
they were not good citizens"
Republican.
In Division B of the District Court
at Pueblo, on the 18th inst. a decision
was rendered by Judge N. Walter Dix
on which will be of considerable inter-
est throughout the state. 1t was with
reference to the salaries of county
officers, as prescribed by legislative act
and the validity of which was assailed
by District Clerk l.. B. Strait. Prior
to 1899 the salaries of all county Off
GERS were fixed by the salary act Of
1891. The act materially reducing such
salaries was passed in 1899. County
officials in many counties of the state
have maintained that the act last
passed was unconstitutional and void
and that they were entitled to their
salaries as fixed by the previous act
The case tried by Judge Dixon was for
the purpose of determining this ques-