The Springfield herald., 1904-05-27

| our country's God
| On the city and county election day
| in Denver just before the polls closed
General Sherman Bell. Major Tom Nc
Clelland, Captain Greer of the Meeker
troop and Colonel Bloom, made gen
eral tour of the lower wards in a fast
auto. General Bell said that his only
interest was to protect the government
and state property in his care worth
$4,000 For that reason he had small
squads of men on duty at the Logan
avenue Curtis street and Berkeley ar
mories to prevent any possible at
tempt to blow up those places.
Gov. James H. Peabody has tele-
eraphed United States Minister Powell
Clayton. who is stationed in the City
of Mexico, to investigate the case OF
the incarceration of Timothy j. Lee,
brother of Police Captain Frank Lee.
Timothy Lee. a Denver man who was
employed as an engineer on the Mexi-
can Central railway is in custody at
Zacatecas, Mexico. He is sick and he
fears his prospects of getting out alive
are very slender and so seeks the aid
of his government. Lee was engineer
upon a train that was wrecked April
30th near Zacatecas. The fireman and
fifteen passengers came to their death
in the accident Lee will not remain
lcng in custody if his relatives in this
city are able to help him. {
'If any merit lies in punctuality,
completeness and tasteful installation.
then the citizens of Colorado may rest
well satisfied with their exhibition at
the Worlds Fair said Thomas j.
ODonnell of the Worlds Fair beard
on his return home to Denver from
St Louis. in point of effect and at,
tractiveness ColoraGo's educational,
agricultural, game, mining and horti-
cultural exhibits will scarcely be sur
passed by those of any other state in
the Union. The agricultural and edu-
cational exhibits are both very nearly
complete, and are excellent in every
respect The mining exhibit promises
exceedingly well, but it is not as lar
advanced as the others. Much may be
expected of the horticultural display,
especially when the season of the ber-
ries, peaches. melons and similar
products approaches. All our exhibits
have been awarded splendid locations.
A letter has been received by ]. M.
Woodard fish and game commission
er, from F. E. Sheridan, a stock grow
err of Meeker. Mr.. Sheridan writes that
there are now more deer in Rio Blan-
co county ludH he lids tNtl SSSii 'hciN
during the past ten years, in which
he has been entirely familiar with the
game situation. This he attributes to
the efficacy of the game laws and their
rigid enforcement He states that the
deer are becoming so plentiful in that
treighborhood that he believes the de-
partment should take special measures
for their protection. Commissioner
Woodard stated that he will see that
the district is kept under close obser-
,vation, by game wardens. He further
said that deer are also increasing rap
idly in many other parts of the state
and that the people as whole seem
much pleased over the fact. There
have been no serious violations of the
laws of late.
Questions of water rights similar
to those which have been brought to
the attention of the Federal Supreme
| court in the Coorado-KanSas water
| suits are apt to arise between the Unit
| ed States and Canada, according to
a letter received by Assistant Attorney
| General H. j. Hersey from Attorney
| General N. C. Miller. The attorney gen
eral is now in Washington. District
| of Columbia, representing this state
| in the legal controversy. The separate
| ditch companies that take water from
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| filed motions to dismiss. The Supreme
| Court announced that decision would
| be reserved as to these motions until
| the case was decided upon its merits.
| This would indicate according to Attor-
| rev General Miller that the court Will
not decide upon any feature of the case
| until all the facts and the law have
been presented The rulings of the
| court and its final opinion will make
Eew law relative to the arid states
upon the subject of irrigation. Every
member of the Supreme Court has
! shown great interest in the case,
states the attorney general in the let
ter They have asked numrous ques-
| tions about the conditions in the arid
| lands Incidentally, the attorney gen.
| eral learned that the question of water.
rights between the United States and
| Canada would eventually arise on ac-
count of the water taken from the
II eat rivers on the boundary lines. 1t
is presumed that the St Lawrence, the
Red river and the Columbia ae the
| rivers referred to.
The new crematory at Riverside
cemetery in Denver, which has been in
process of erection since last October.
q is now completed. 1t cost s17,5OO.
/ Frank B. Gibson. the architect has
built nearly all of the crematories in
| the West.
John NJ Waldron. special counsel
for Governor Peabody in the Charles
| H. Meyer habeas corpus case, filed
/ supplemental brief in the Supreme
| Court on the 10th inst. in which he
contends that the aveyments of the
| petition for the writ ought not to be
taken as true for the reason that they
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