The Lamar register., 1904-07-20
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

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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 Office has com
pleted its survey of the Chaffee and
! Eagle county highway, known as the
Leadville road, and Prof. Carpenter
says improvements will be made in
many of the worst places very soon.
An improvement appropriation OF
$4,000 was made by the last legisla-
ture for this purpose. The road,
which extends from Buena Vista to
Radcliffe, was built several years ago
and was intended to be part of the
road extending from Denver to Grand
Junction.
Attorney General Miller has recent
ly returned from st. Louis, where he
went in the Meyer habeas corpus case.
Mr.. Miller says he filed the return of
the governor in the United States
court. Il read the return before the
court till | got to the place where it
first states that Meyer was not in the
hands of the governor when the writ
was served. Here ! was interrupted
by the court. and Judge Thayer stated
that If Meyer was not in the govern
ors hands when the writ was served
he did not care to hear anything fur
ther in the case, as that was sufii-
cient." The attorneys for Meyer will
be given till August 4 to file reply
brief but 1t is not considered likely
that the case will be carried further.
1t will undoubtedly be dropped where
it is.
Gtate officials probably will take
hand in the case involving the failure
- hn
! Denver, which recently went into the
hands of Judge J. c. Helm as receiver.
The organization is strictly under the
state laws, and only the state or coun-
ty authorities have a right to act.
There is no federal statute covering
such associations. No Complaints have
been made to the auditors office or to
the attorney general, but Doth OF these
officials are watching with interest the
developments in the case. If they find
that there is sufficient grounds to be
l;eve that something was wrong, they
will act Immediately. Mr.. Helm is
much encouraged by reports ne has re-
ceived from Louisiana regarding the
land upon which the enormous loan
that swamped the company was made.
Business men in the South write that
a goodly portion of this land is COW
cred with hardwood timber, and that
this means that it will be well suited
to cotton culture when the timDer is
cut.
When questioned yesterday as to
the extent of protection the military
could guarantee deported miners re-
turning to the Cripple Creek district
Governor Peabody said it was impossi-
BILE to guarantee complete protection
in any case. He said that in one or
two instances men had been looked
after and protected by the military.
| but that this could not be carried out
| to any great extent. In the cases
where men were promised protection"
said the governor yesterday. lit was
only promised in the event that they
1 went into the district openly and made
themselves known to the militia. 1t
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, |
want to say that no requests for pro-
lection will be considered from men
I who were deported for the reason that
they were not good citizens. Denver
Republican.
| Arrangements have been made by
! the Moffat road for taking moving pic
4 lures of the progress of passenger
train from Denver to the top of the
. Continental Divide. II. II. Buckwal-
ter, a photographer. will take the pic
| lures 1t is planned to have the NOV
| ing pictures illustrate the trip from
: the Denver depot to point above the
f, line of perpetual snow. Mr.. Buckwal-
ter says the pictures will be of excep-
4 in q aside
, their use in advertising the famous
| scenic trip. The train will be taken
| leaving the depot and in various posi-
| tions passing through the tunnels of
| the route. Some OF the tunnels are
small, so the train can be seen passing
through them and coming out at the
further end. sight seldom witnessed
| in railroad photographs. The photog-
| rapher will station the moving picture
machine on the side hill near the tun-
| mel while taking this novel view.
| Scenes of the train climbing the
grades. passing over the spider-like
trestles and through deep cuts will be
taken, and the trip will finally end
with the coaches passing along the
| top of the Continental divide with
snow on either side OF the track.
At the army headquarters of the De-
partment of the Colorado preparations
! have been completed for the annual
rifle and carbine 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. G. Lincoln and
| Lieuts. C. w. Barber and William r.
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