The Glenwood post., 1904-06-18
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

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looking AFTER the states horticultural
exhibit, returned to Denver on the
10th inst.
Whitney Newton. state treasurer,
has gone East to attend the commence
ment exercises of Cornell college at
Ithaca, New York, his alma mater. Mr..
Newton is accompanied by his family
and they will remain East for about
! six weeks On the way home a stop
will be made at St. Louis to visit the
I Worlds Fair.
| E. F. Richardson, attorney for.
! Charles H. Meyer in his habeas corpus
case, recently filed a request with the
clerk of the Supreme Court for GER
tilted copy of the record and of the
! opinion handed down by Chief Justice
Gabbert and Justice Campbell in this
case. Justice Steele's dissenting opin-
ion has not yet been given, and 1t is
understood that as soon as 1t is
handed down Mr.. Richardson will file
a petition for re-hearing. Should
this be denied, it is understood to be
Mr.. Richardson's intention to carry
the case to the United States Supreme
Court. 1t was in order to be prepared
for this appeal to the federal tribunal
certified copy of the record and
opinion.
At meeting of the State Land Board
! June 10th the matter of the school
land near City park in Denver was
taken up for consideration. The state
owns the land on which the Denver
| Athletic park and the Park Floral
Company's green houses are located.
The board is very anxious to plat this
land into city lots. or make some other
disposition of it that will be more sat
isfactory than the present plan of
| leasing it. Register Woodruff has pre-
J pared circular letter addressed to the
real estate men of Denver asking that
they submit a plan for the disposal of
the land. This letter was presented to
the board and each member took
! copy for further consideration. At the
next meeting the matter will again be
taken up, and it is hoped some definite
arrangements will be made. In
pursuance of it's plan the board
renewed the lease of the Park
| Floral Company for two years and
: eleven months. This will make all
the leases expire at the same time
and when the land is free the board
unless some better proposition is sub
mitted by the real estate men, will
probably plat the ground and lease it
for residence purposes.
Governor Peabody has received no.
tice from the War Department that
Brigadier General Charles l.. Cooper
has been ordered to report to him for
duty as adviser of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard, including a copy Of the
order. General Cooper is in California
with his family. He will proceed at
once to Denver In reference to Gen
eral Cooper's appointment Governor
Peabody said: Under the provisions
of the Dick bill all states having
National guard with membership of
1000 or over are entitled to have as
their advisor a brigadier general.
Knowing this l made a special request
to the War Department to appoint
General Cooper to this position for the
reason that he is personal friend of
mine and also because, having been
here at Fort Logan, he is thoroughly
familiar with Colorado. While the
present unsettled condition of affairs
in Colorado had some weight with me
in considering the request. this fact
did not influence me any more than
the other reasons | have named. 1t
would be impossible for General
Cooper to be made adjutant general.
as members of the regular army are
not permitted to even serve on gov
ernor's staff"
The Stratton's Independence, Linn
tied, gained a victory in the Supreme
Court last week in its controversy with
the Midland Terminal Railroad Com
pany. when an opinion was handed
down reversing the judgment secured
against it in the lower court. and re-
manding the case for further proceed
ings in harmony with the views ex-
pressed in .the opinion. The trouble
between the two companies arose over
/ track which the Midland had con-
structed to the ore bins of the mines.
| The company wished to make an
agreement with the Midland whereby
these tracks should be used by the
Short Line railroad for the same pur-
pose, but failed. The mining company
then began to take up a short portion
/ of the track and replace it with track
of its own, connecting with the Mid
! land and Short Line tracks. Suits
were brought by both companies and
/ the Midland secured judgment. Chief
! Justice Gabbert wrote the opinion in
which he took the ground that the
| Midland company had not been de-
frauded that the arrangement between
the mine and railroad companies had
been for mutual conveniences, and
that the license granted the Midland
by the mining company was revocable
at the will OF the latter.
| The commissioners of the Soldiers
and Sailors Home, at Monte Vista,
consisting of Gen. H. s. Vaughn. G. A.
R.; Gen. George West of Golden and L.
H. Cheney of Monte Vista, have been
lately much perturbed because Of no.
tices received from the officers of the
State Treasury Department and Audi
tor Holmberg. stating that unless there
were considerable retrenchment in the
matter of running expenses. the state
would be unable to meet the bills. This
alarmed the commissioners and they
visited the state house in body to
discover, if possible. some method
1 whereby the commission might come