Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-07-22
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

lTy tHul Will pt tHt lull-bTOWh uoh
| soon, are being shipped to streams in
| all parts of the state. Demands for
fry can hardly be met, but the fish
commissioner will send out a million
| rainbow and. native fry.
II. p. Teele of Washington. d. c.. Is
in Denver in the interests OF the irri-
| CATION Investigations being carried on
by the federal government. Mr.. Telle
has been stationed in Colorado for the
summer and Will collect data concern
| ing the Platte river irrigation system
from an Interstate standpoint.
The state engineers once has com
pleted Its survey OF the Chafiee and
Eagle county highway, known as tho
Leadyille road, and Prof. Carpenter
says improvements will be made in
many of the worst places very soon.
An Improvement appropriation or
$4,000 was made by the last legisla-
ture for this purpose. The road.
which extends from Buena Vista to
Redclifie. was built several years ago
and was intended to be Il part OF tho
road extending from Denver to Grand
Junction.
Governor Peabody on the 10th inst.
| appointed a commission OF three to In
| quire into the mental condition OF
! Charles Peters. the youngest OF the
| trio OF Younsblood muTderers who are
waiting the death penalty ut the Canon
City benitentiary. Peters has recently
| shown Ssery indication OF violent In
sanity. The commission consists OF
Drs. S. ID. Hopkins and Howell i.
Pershing OF Denver and +. n. Carrier
| Of Canon City. According to the stat
utes Of Colorado n convict sentenced
to be hanged cannot be removed
from the pcnitcntiary TO nm insane nsy-
! ium. but must be kept Mt the pcnlten-
| tiary and the sentenced stayed. In tho
event he recoyers his reason he Is
hanged.
Attorney General Miller has recent
ly returned from 81. Louis. where he
went In the Meyer habcas corpus case.
Mr.. Miller says he filed the return OF
the governor In the United States
court. Il read the return before the
court TIL ! got to the place where II
arst states that Meyer was not In the
hands of the governor when the writ
was served. Here I was interrupted
F., by the court. and Judge Thayer stated
that II Meyer was not In the govern
or'H hands when the writ WAS served
he did not care to hear anything fur.
thor In the case. ms that waH sum
Client" The attorneys for Meyer will
/ be given Till August 1 to iiic reply
brief. but IL In not considered likely
that the case will he carried further.
| IL will undoubtedly be dropped where
IL iE.
When questioned yesterday as TO
| the extent OF protection the military
could guarantee dcportcd miners re.
turnin. to the Cripple Creek dis;rict.
| Governor Peabody Hald II was impoasi.
+, bic to guarantee complete protection
| In nny case. He said that In on. or
two instances mon had been looked
. after and protected by the military.
but that this could no; be carried out
to any great extent. In tho cases
, where men were promised protection
said the governor yesterday. II, was
only promised In the event that they
I went into the district openly and made
q themselves known to the militia. II
( 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. I
want TO say that no requests for pro.
lection will be considered from men
who were dcportcd for the reason that
they w.r- not good ci,ixcna.
Republican.
In Division II OF tho District cour;
at Pueblo. on the 10th .nAt. a decision
was rendered by Judge y. Walter Dix
on which will be of considerable inter
est Throughout; the state. II was with
reference to the salaries uf county
officers. rs prescribed by Legislative act
/ and the validity cf which was assaulted
by District Clerk l.. II. Strait. Prior
TO 1899 the salaries Of all county OIL
GERS were fixed by the salary act OF
1891. The act materially rcdrcin. 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 aucs-
ton. Mr.. STRAITS salary as clerk Of the
District Court. under the act OF 1891.
was s2.5o1. Under the latter act IL was
reduced to 81. c.o0o. lie sued to recover
the difference. and the defendants. be-
ing tho Board of County Commission
erE. dcmurred to the complaint. Tho
demurrer was ovcrr,iicd in the decision
by Judge Dixon. lie holds that the act
of 1899 Ia unconstitutional and tina, MIR.
Strait Ia entitled to salary at the old
rate.
At the army headquarters of the De-
partment OF the Colorado. preparations
have been completed for the annual
rife and carblnc competition between
the departments OF Colorado and Tex.
as. which will take place at Fort Reno
during the last week OF July and the
first week OF August The officers
chosen TO represent the department are
as follows: From the Second infantry
at For. Logan. Capt. s. @. Lincoln and