The Lamar register., 1905-02-08

Ray b. Leese was unanimously re-
appointed secretary OF the State Board
of equalization and clerk of the Board
OF Auditors at recent meeting of the
board.
Auditor Bent has issued an order
that hereafter printing for his Office
shall go through the hands OF the state
commissioner of printing. Heretofore
the ordering OF these supplies, which
amount to $4,000 a year, has been done
by the auditor himself.
During the past fiscal year Frank S.
Tesch, commissioner of insurance, re-
ceived in fees from insurance compa-
MIS- the sum of $1G3, 1884. Since the
close of the year he has received
s5SG.55. His expenditures in the fiscal
year were slG.527.01, leaving balance
of $146,57G.93 turned over to the treas
urer.
The largest single fee ever paid to
the state of Colorado by an insurance
company was paid to Deputy Commits
sioner Frank S. Tesch January Goth,
In the shape of a check for $13 ,G71.99
by the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. The amount was due the state
as three per cent. tax on aggregate
premiums for 1904, together with S55,
the regulation fee.
Representative Keezer has intro
duced n bill to prevent the larceny of
the domestic fowl" and to provide that
the stealing of such fowls after the
hour of the setting of the sun shall be
grand larceny. The bill is aimed at an
industry that thrived nightly in Den
yer year or two ago and which has
been a lively one in Larimer county
during the present winter.
A beautiful vase of flowers was
placed on the desk of Mr.. White yes
terday. Mr.. White was elected to the
assembly, but never took his seat, as
his last illness overlook him the day
before the opening of the assembly.
Mr.. Gordon noticed that no flowers
had yet been on the desk set apart for
Mr.. White. though it had been properly
draped in black. and he raised a fund
to correct the omission.-Denver Re
publican.
In the senate Mr.. Anfenger's bill
to repeal the act of 1897, creating a
board of arbitration. was taken up.
and the favorable report of the com
mittee to which 1t had been referred
was adopted. Senator De La Vergne.
who is chairman of the board, and
other senators declared the work of
the board n failure and that 1t is a
useless expense to the state. There
was no opposition to repeating the act
and the bill was adopted on second
reading and sent on to the committee
on revision.
The town of Edith in Archuleta
county will be divorced from Colorado
and become portion of New Mexico.
and Colorado will lose eight square
miles off its southern boundary If n
bill presented by Representative Nc
Even in the House is passed. The bill
calls for tn adoption of the recent
United States geographical survey.
which nullifies the survey of 1866 to
the disadvantage of the state of Colo
rado Action by the State Legislature.
adopting the survey of the government
is necessary before the survey is rec
ognized as official.
The House committee on temper
ance, medical affairs and public health
has been giving hearings on local op-
ton bills. Speaking before the com
mittee Bishop Lawrence said: Thirty
nine states have some kind of prohib-
itory legislation. In Tennessee pro
hibitory legislation prevails in all
parts of the state, except eleven cities.
The bill presented to the Colorado
Legislature contains the result of 100
years vi Sluuy OIL tAt lutSliJi NlTS.
Wilkinson, president of the Florence
Crittenton home, urged the passage of
the bill or of any measure that would
restrict the sale OF liquor. In the Crit.
tenton home 1t was found almost i'm
possible to save those girls who had
| acquired the drink habit.
| A labor bill introduced by Senator
De La Vergne and said to have been
| drafted by President ]. C. Craig OF
| the citizens alliance contains some
very stringent features. The empow-
ering of Incorporated unions to make
| binding wage contracts with
employers, with penalty for
violation OF contract. and the
| compelling of Incorporated unions
| to disclose proceedings at secret meet
| ings, when called upon to do SO by EN-.
ployers, are some of the features of the
| bill. Certified copies of the true min
utes of meeting must be furnished
corporations employing any number OF
men belonging to the union when such
/ demand is made. If an incorporated
| union violates a wage contract a FIR
feture Of 500 or any larger sum
agreed upon must be made. Agents
/ for incorporated unions who attempt to
act for the Incorporated union may be
! punished by fine of from $25 to $500
and imprisonment from ten days to
six months.
! MIR. Alexander has introduced a bill
providing that counties of the state
may establish fish hatcheries and that
the state may furnish spawn to them