The Lamar register., 1904-02-24
NOT kLAR N ED
State Engineer cieins There Will
Be tho usua 8 ,ow Supply

State Engineer CIpins There viii
Be tho Usua 8 low supply
Admitting the pecuitrity of the
present winter season, State Engi
nee Carpenter says that worry re
garding the scarcity of snow is pre-
mature This conclusion he bases
to some extent on the recent reports
Of Snow Inspector Z. A. Ellis. He
says:
There is no need to worry about
the shortage Of water in the state at
the present tune than there is to
worry about next summers probable
heat. The supply at this time is
nearly up to what it always is at this
time of the year.
"The storms which usually come
in November and December came
this year in September and October,
and while the last three months have
not been quite what they should be
as storm months, there is no occa
sion for anxiety yet. OF course if
the snow WAS already on the ground
We could all rest comparatively easy,
but March and April are still to be
heard from.
The SHOWS of the last five years
have never entirely melted off tfe
hills, and there has been an over
supply at the beginning OF every
winter during that period. This is
one cause for complaceucy, as is also
the fact that the springs in the noun
taius have never dried up at any
time during the last four years"
Henry N. TelIer's Stolen Honors
1t has been the habit of Senator
Teller's old friends in this state to
condone his erratic course of recent
wears with the remark that he is at
least sincere. His intentions were
good. 1t mas been their boast that
he has such sensitive conscience
that it would not permit him to do
anything in public life that would
be regarded as dishonorable in pri
vate life.
Because of this belief his action in
leaving the republican convention
and doing his utmost to defeat the
party and the men who honored him,
earned for him, among his new po
litical associates, the title OF the
"Grand Old Man of Colorado" His
tears, his trembling voice, his con
stant reference to his honorable ca
reer in the republican party all ap
pealed to his hearers and encourag
ed the delusion that he would rather
cut off his right hand than do dis
honorable thing, even as he cut
loose from the political associations
OF life time in obedience to the die
tates of his over wrought conscience.
Many things have occurred in re-
cent years to cause change in pub
lie sentiment upon that point. 1t
has gradually developed that Mr..
Teller's ostentatious display Of sin
cerity, conscience and tears was very
largely prompted by burning de.
sire to remain in office the rest of his
natural life, and this belief now finds
full confirmation in his determine
ton to remain IN the senate as a
representative of this state after the
exposure of the frauds by which he
and John F. Shafroth we're elected
has shamed the latter gentleman into
leaving Congress and returning to
private life.
But Mr.. Teller, with his much
praised conscience dead, his keenly
developed moral sense dulled by the
lust for Office, clings desperately tc
the honors which the whole country
now knows were stolen for him by
the same rascals and at the same
time that John Shafroth's were
filched for him
A pitiful sight surely, but Colora
do is big and strong, and, above all