The Dolores star., 1904-01-29
COLORADO STATE
CAPITAL AFFAIRS

the cry and CUa1ty u Denver 1oE The
Immediate payment of see. go 70 those
coGnliez a. rhslr share u TIE assets ot
Cd Arapzaoe Judge Johnson. hOE-
sFsr. s!.0ssd rie district attorney th=se
dzys % Whir1 20 NE supplemental -e-
Ply - TIE p,sllri5rs of tne tEo outside
eogntiez-
Residents Of Washington eoanfy XIII
0s pleased 70 learn thz. stsIs ~iH Be
Iaken ~ once ~ the state engineer
| tOEzTd the construction os the road n
isat cOanty for which The Legislature
/ made al appropriation several years
ago This appropriation 10. Washing
/ tOa county has never b-ea touched.
| zz1 s25ly "a available for the work
| contemplated The Legislature made
an appropriation several years ago
/ for q road running through Morgan
I WashlnEtou and Yuma counties. zluinsE
| parallel 70 the railroad Morgan and
| Yuma spent their shaTe OF the money.
7 but the residents u Washington coun-
| y we're not quite ready lOr the in
| Drovernent contemplated. hence the
money vas eft Ia the state treasury.
Supplemental piezdings we're flied in
the Worlds Fair Beard cases which
are nos lodged Ia the District Court
One case Is that OF Harry Casaty.
TREASURER of the board, against Van Z,
Rouse. former treasurer. the other il
the people against Rouse These s1Its
are to force Rouse 10 turn over &Is.-
0lV oi the money appropriated for the
board which is held by the former trea-
slrer. The supplemental p!eadingg
show that the term Of office of the old
board. Of which Rouse WAS a member,
expired on December 3lst last. and that
m he. q.
pointed new board All Of the mem
bers OF the new board are the same as
those Of the old. except that Casady is
made treasurer in place Of Rouse. who
was removed before the end Of last
year.
Some Of the assessors and treasurers
Of Colorado counties may be removed
from Office as a result Of their failure to
enforce the law requiring every male
citizen over t~enty-one years OF age
and under siIty-five year,. not exempt
by law. 10 pay poll tax Not all the
assessoTs and treasurers are charged
with negligence in this respect. Some
Of them have tried to collect the tax
but others have not made the slightest
effort in that direction and II Is the
latter that may get into trouble. Gov
crnor Peabody mas the rOwer to re-
move an assessor or treasurer who fails
10 perform his duties. as defined by the
laws Of the state General Bell SAYS
that the governor may invoke the pow
er conferred by law unless there is an
immediate Improvement In the poll tax
situation. An investigation made by
the adjutant general shows that for the
four years from January !. 1900. to
January !, 1904. there is due poll tax
10 the extent OF 100000.
Through a decision rendered by
Judge Carpenter in the District Court
at Denver in the corporation license
tax case against the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company that corpor-
alton has no standing in the courts Of
the state and can not invoke their aid
TO enforce It's contracts In announc-
ing his decision Judge Carpenter said:
50 long as II confines itself to inter
state commerce | presume 1t has
right to 20 ahead. But the state. un-
I'll It's legal demands are satisfied, is
not bound to extend any protection to
enforce its contracts in any court. AS
/ understand that is all that 10 meant
by this judgment OF custer. And it
Is open at any time TO the corporation
to restore itself to the privileges II
has lost by the payment OF the taxes.
That is the law Whenever they see
1T 10 pay this tax with certain pen
atty for the delay. the forfeiture, as it
is called in the statute-in fact a sus-
penslon-shall be removed" Notice
Of an appeal was given.
A suit affecting the organization OF
the Overland Cotton Mills Company
was filed in the District Court on the
2lst inst by the Denver National
land Company. the Denver Public
house Company and the First National
Bank. The complaint alleges that
notes amounting to nearly $4,000 have
been given by the cotton mills com
pany 10 the bank. and that most of
these are now overdue. To protect
these notes an injunction is asked for
against the mills company. prevent
ing n from diSposing of any of It's
property or of the warehouse receipts
for goods belonging to it which are
now in storage with the Denver Ware
house Company large number of
claims are said to he outstanding
against the cotton mills company, and
it is expected that many of these will
be made part of the present suit in Or
der that the affairs of the company
may be Strengthened out as quickly as
possible II Is understood that an eff
Sort will be made to reopen the mills in
the interest OF a large number of cred
itors as well as the stockholders.
w. II. Montgomery, deputy state la
Dor commissioner. mas announced a
new code of procedure In his office.
The collection agency feature. which
entails vast amount of work and
practically makes it impossible for the
commissioner to attend to other mat
tiers, will be eliminated. During the
last nine months OF 1903 claims
amounting to about $4,000 were
placed in the hands or the commits
sioner for collection. The total for the
two years preceding was about $l3,-
900. There Is nothing in the law ere
ating the Office which requires the
commissioner to do anything toward