The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-03-05
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

u tne postmaster, the marSnal s OF
flee and to several other Offices in the
building
The annual report of the Colorado
| Telephone Company, filed with Score
tary Of State James A. Cowie, shows
that the total holdings of the company
are valued at $4,s90, 426.30. The in
debtedness of the concern is placed at
1922. 474.07. In Colorado the company
mas 103 exchanges and 1896 toll stations
and the value of the equipment is
placed at $S45,O19.42. The Underground
conduits are valued at $1S4 .S93.69,
| and the cables u Underground at $685.
| S93.S4.
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 j. Edgar, Allie Orion Cooper,
Florence Dillingham;. Myrtle S. Keiser,
Ida B. Clark, Nellie Rose Seavey,
Katherine E. McKinnon, Mildred A.
Lodge, Amanda Curtis Raidin, Lena
Brosius Cady and Christine Narath. In
the past sixteen years the school has
graduated 144 nurses.
At the office of Attorney General
Miller there was held meeting of all
the attorneys representing the state
and the individual ditch owners in the
kansas-Colorado water controversy.
1t was decided to file a motion on be-
half of the individual ditch owners
asking the United States Supreme
Court to determine whether or not 1t
n Qor-tr tn, oil, rin ri
liens of Kansas parties to the suit
argument upon it will probably come
up late in April.
The distribution of Colorado liter
AZURE 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 a 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 1T 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 a 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.
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 1902-03 to de-
termine the number of persons sub
ject 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 Ell Paso counties were selected as
a field of operations for Colonel Swee-
ney at this time because they are the
two largest counties in the state out
side of Denver. Test cases will be
brought in the several counties against
men who have not paid the tax, which
is 81 per year The penalty for re-
fusing to pay is not less than $25 nor
more than $100 The penalty for
county officers not doing their duty in
regard to the enrolment and collec-
ton of the tax is fixed at not less than
800.
By means of an arrangement COM
pleted between the Colorado Worlds
Fair Board and the Colorado Promo
ton and Publicity Committee. the lat
ter will supply the board with vast
amounts of Colorado literature to be
distributed from the Colorado head
quarters at the fair. The committee
has already arranged to maintain a
branch bureau at the fair for this pur-
of helping in this work. and Secretary
Parker and Commissioner-in-Ch Chief
Paul Wilson have completed the
terms by which thousands of books
and pamphlets which the committees
special writers are now preparing will
be given to the people of the world at
the Colorado headquarters. The con-
summation of this plan insures, not
only complete cooperation of these
two organizations at the fair. but the
most thorough advertising of Colorado
that is possible at the great EXPOSE
ton. The books and pamphlets that
have been ordered to be prepared by
the committee include eight leading
books on scenery, climate, minerals.
homes. outdoor life, agriculture and
horticulture. manufactures and hotels
and resorts. Thomas e. Fisher, gener-
al passenger agent of the Colorado &
Southern railway, has general charge
of the first publication that will be
devoted to Scenic Colorado" and it
will be the handsomest book of the
kind ever published. There will be
a