The Lamar register., 1904-08-03
STATE CAPITAL 81 NOTES

Society says additional room has been
secured for the Colorado display OF
small fruit at the Worlds Fair. AT
present 163 plates of cherries are being
exhibited, and in order to make
proper showing of all fruits it was nee
essary to have more room.
| improvements that will cost $4,000
will be made at the county hospital in
Denver. stone fence ten feet high
to cost $1,000, and steam laundr:'
plant that will call for an expenditure
of $1,000. will be established. In ad-
dition the grounds will be filed in and
| surfaced and the interior of the build
ings repainted and altered.
Heavy rains in the southern part OF
the state have broken the prolonged
drought in that section, according to
the weekly crop bulletin for the week
ending July 25th. Heavy showers have
occurred along the eastern slope. in the
lower Arkansas valley and the south
| ern part of San Luis park; elsewhere
the rainfall has been light. and more
is needed. especially in the extreme
southern counties. where severe drought
prevails.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
building is being repaired, renovated
and altered. 1t is going. to be mod
ernized. The reclamation service Of
the United States government is large
ly responsible for the changes. The
institution has engaged the two floors
of the building This is rendered
necessary by, reason of the work un-
dertaken in the West for which Den
yer is the headquarters. A large force
of draughtsmen. clerks and engineers
are required and double the floor
space has been engaged. In the other
part of the building Secretary Will
liams is preparing space for the agri-
cultural exhibit OF Colorado now at
the Worlds Fair. He would like to
show this one exhibit to those who
cannot go to St. Louis.
Attorney General Miller is in re-
ceipt of request from Attorney Ash
baugh of Wichita, Kansas. asking
that the taking of testimony in the
Kansas Colorado water rights case be
postponed from August 1st till the
latter part of the month. The reason
assigned for this request is the singu-
lar one that the streams of Kansas
are now too high for taking evidence.
The Kansas attorneys have now
brought up the novel proposition that
the use of water by Colorado farmers
for irrigation purposes drys up the
streams in the summer months and
grow. Then when high water comes
1t is alleged that the water soon
reaches the banks and overfiows the
country. In this way Colorado is be-
ing held responsible for the Kansas
floods.
Frank S. Tesch. deputy superintend-
ent of insurance. is carefully watching
the operation of numerous wildcat in
surance companies thought to be doing
business in Colorado recently. One OF
these concerns wrote a policy for
George Richardson of Sugar City on
some property he owned in New Mexi-
co. The buildings insured were burned
and Richardson has been unable to col
lect the money due him. Owing to the
fact that the property was located in
New Mexico Mr.. Tesch has been unable
to do anything in the matter. An agent
of the company formerly made his
headquarters in Trinidad. S. w. Jacobs
and Z. A. Shanklin. two managers OF
insurance companies which are sup
posed to have done considerable busi-
ness in this state, were recently ar
rested in Chicago. and are being held
on SO 900 bonds to the federal grand
jury, which will meet in October.
An opinion that will have a great ef-
feet on foreign corporations doing
business in Colorado was handed down
by Attorney General Miller July 27th.
In the matter of the Oakland Gold
Mining Company OF Wyoming. The
opinion means that any mining com
pany or other corporation that fails to
nile articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state as demanded by the
law governing such companies cannot
hold any mining property in the state
and lays itself liable to having the
property confiscated The Oakland
Gold Mining Company has several
mines in the Ward district. Some
time ago the report was made to the
secretary of states office that the com
pany was selling its stock and con-
Quoting business without having filed
its articles of Incorporation. Neither
had the company been paying any
fiat tax Secretary of State Cowie at
once brought the matter to the notice
of Attorney General Miller and re-
quested his opinion regarding the
question.
Colorado has opened the eyes OF
the eastern world by her unique meth
cd of advertising at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis said l. W. Wakeley. gen.
eral passenger agent Of the Burlington
system at Omaha. He had just re-
turned from an extended visit to st.
Louis, whittier he went to make a sci
entific study of the various advertis
ing methods to be seen there. with
out doubt the methods of Mr.. Thomas
%. Parker, secretary of the Colorado
Promotion and Publicity Committee,
are attractive, telling and compelling.
OF course, there are other efforts,