The Springfield herald., 1904-03-04
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS


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 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
md the individual ditch owners in the
Kansas Colorado water controversy.
1t was decided to file motion on be-
half of the individual ditch owners
asking the United States supreme
Court to determine whether or not II
was necessary to make various cit
izens of Kansas parties to the SUIT.
The motion will be filed March Z, and
argument upon it will probably come
up late in April.
Colonel Jessie Peabody. daughter OF
the governor, has been presented with
solid gold-mounted military saber,
which is said to be the finest implc-
ment Of warfare In the possession OF
any woman in the country. The saber
was presented by Colonels j. Q. Mac
Donald and D. C. lacking as gift
from General Sherman-Bell and the
members of the governors private
staff. This was done in formal man.
ner at Governor Peabody's residence.
Ihe weapon is OF n light construction
and Is highly appreciated by Miss Pea
body. who received her commission as
n colonel several months ago General
Bell has ordered for her blouse and
skirt uniform which will bear gold
braid and other insignia of her rank.
On her return to Denver from Wash
ington, where she attended the nation
al woman suffrage convention. Mrs.
Helen NJ. Grenfell, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, reiterated the
statement she made in Washington to
the effect that she would not give up
her Office because OF the 1act
that fraudulent ballots aided
in her election. She still contends that
frauds in other counties would more
than Offset the illegal ballots cast in
Denver. Regarding the position of
Senator Teller she says he is highly
respected in Washington and looked
up to as conscientious factor in ma
tional affairs. Mrs. Grenfell states
that she was prepared for contest in
the Legislature when she first took her
Office for the present term, but as the
contest failed to materialize. she has
no intention of resigning because OF
the admissions made by Congressman
Snafroth when he resigned his scat.
William j. Thomas has filed in the
Supreme Court his answer to the COM
plant recently filed by the attorney
general in the disbarment proceedings
begun by the Colorado Bar Association
against him. The charge is made by
the association that Thomas is dis
qualified for practice on account OF
Connection with the cmbracery pro-
ceedings in the trial of w. w. Ander-
son, who was charged with attemptins
to kill Harry II. Tammen. The only
question raised in the answer is that
since the defendant was acquitted OF
the charge of embracery in the lower
courts, and that since the charges
made in the complaint filed by the bar
association are the same, he should
not again be charged with the same
misdemeanor. of which he was once
acquitted in due form OF law.
Attorney Platt 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
llement for the land it has been occu-
pying for several years as a reservoir
site. In August. 1899. the company
made application for n reservoir site.
agreeing to pay the 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,l49
acres Of land desired. 1t was immedi-
ately notified that purchase price oil
not less than $40 per acre must be
paid and also the back rental covering
the time the land had been pre-empted
or the state would Immediately bring
suit to recover The board informed
Attorney Rogers that there was no
disposition on the part or the
state to embarrass the opera
tions of the company, and he was
asked to prepare n map and field notes
to be submitted to the board. The
rental to be charged was fixed at 30
cents an acre year for the time the
land has been used
DR.. James b. Sanford of Denver, the
speaker of the Fourteenth General AS
sembly of Colorado. has been elected
to membership in the Royal Geograph-
ical Society of London. His name was
proposed for membC fship by JACQUES
w. Redman, a fellow of the society,
and a mining engineer of note, who
for some time. was operating near
Canon City. The nomination was sec
ondel by DR.. ]. Scott Kettle, secretary
of the society, and friend OF both
DR.. Sanford and his father. TIE honor
of becoming n member of the Royai
Geographical Society has been well
won by DR.. Sanford. says the Denver
News. Though best known in Colo
rado as speaker of the Fourteenth
General Assembly. he has Travelled ex-
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