Semi-weekly herald., 1913-11-13
THE MYRoN sTRATToN HOME.

Every citizen in Colorado is inter
ested in the. Stratton home and the
following Denver special to the
Pueblo Chieftain will be of interest:
DENVER.-Attorney General Fred
Farrar today sent letter to the tr,s-
tees of the Myron Stratton Home ask
ing them the condition Of the affxirs
at the home, and trying to find out
why the place is not completed as
provided in the will of Mr.. Stratton.
After several weeks of "hullabaloo'
last spring Farrar is falling into the
same lax methods pursued by all
proceeding attorney generals since
the death of Mr. Stratton. The day
after they are inaugurated into Of
flee they give out great big scare
headline interview about how they
are going to tear up the earth making
those trustees build that home. Tn.
next day the interview is little
stronger. The people of the state clap
their hands and say bully" Then
that ends it. Those trustees have a
way about them that has made every
attorney general Colorado has had
since Stratton died lay down like
sick pup at 'meat gorge"
What it is no one knows but the
effect is the same on all. Miller,
Dickson, Griffith, Barnett and now
Farrar. They handle the case like
weeping mother slapping the wrists
of sickly baby. Every one of them
would do but when it come to get
ting results, that is compelling the
completion of the home or taking the
property in the name Of the state:
Piffie, some whitening influence shut
off all attempts at such and the es-
tate is still in the hands of the trus-
tees and not a place provided for an
aged poor person to sleep.
Today's letter to the trustees iS
about as skim milky as the other at
torney generals wrote while in their
terms. Instead of saying we are 60
ing to follow the provisions of the
will and take the property in the
! name of trustees if they won't please
report to him what they are doing,
that is if they have time and the dis
position to do so.
Mr. Stratton died years ago. He
left will providing that his estate
should go for the construction of
home for the aged poor. He antici-
pated that some set of trustees might
want to live the rest of their days
off the income and that IA few law
yers might want to tie the thing up
forever and day, and he placed
provision in the will which provided,
# because of any of the above or any
other reason, the terms of the will
We're not carried out in a reasonable
time the estate should revert to the
state. Since the will was made pub
lie the thing has been tied up and
nothing to speak of done to carry
| out the provisions of the will. The
lawyers who are getting rich off the
lees say reasonable time means any
tune within certain number of
years determined on how long they
expect to live and hold their places
aH attorneys. The friends of Mr..
Stratton know that when he made the
will he had in mind certain friends of
his who had been his companions thru
all his days in Colorado. He meant
that these men should have a good
place in which to pass the few days
yet remaining to them as their por-
tion of time.
Yet the case has held on so long
that nearly every one of the men are
dead and gone. Their grandchildren
Will have roses blooming on their
graves planted by their, in turn.
grandchildren, before the home is
built unless Colorado can elect an at
torney general or some one with the
| nerve n Uo ahaod