0 tESOE T.
An electric railroad between Rome
and Naples is proposed, the line being
133 miles long. The idea is to furnish
~t trains, with frequent service.
The late Prof. Marsh of Yale be.
queathed his house and grounds for a
botanical garden. They are to be mads
the home of the newly created school
~f forestry.
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Berlin now contains 1,000 donkeys.
which have been imported in the lasl
eighteen months to take the place oi
dogs as beasts of draught. The change
• Is due tO the agitation of the S. P:
DENVER LETTER.
Patterson as Absolute Dictator of the Al-
lied ]Forces Opposing RepublicanS--The
New Revenue Bill.
Denver, Feb. 23.--The determination
of Senator-elect Patterson to be the ab-
solute dictator of his party--or rather
of all his parties--has been asserted
in the most definite and spectacular
manner in the matter of the Rush bill
for the consolidation of a part of Arap-
ahoe county with the city of Denve~r.
After a long speech by Senator Clay
Whitford, in which he declared that
the bill proposed no less than eleven
amendments to the constitution of the
state, and was clearly unconstitution-
al in many respects, the Senate agreed,
by a unanimous vote, to submit the
measure to the Supreme Court of the
state ior an opinion upon its constitu-
tionality. Mr. Rush himself, the os-
tensible author of the
party that the News and Post will not
support him if he is nominated. It is
natural that there should be these
symptoms of Unrest, especially among
Democrats who have been Democrats
right along, while Patterson was ca-
vorting with Waits and the Populists;
but the senator will probably be able
to whip them all into line as soon as
he is fairly seated in Washington.
A more important measure even than
the Rush bill is the revenue bill which
is now pending in the House. More
than 200 amendments to it have al-
ready been proposed; but even yet the
effect of its passage may be estimated
from the following interview with
President Frank Trumbull of the Colo-
rado & Southern railroad, wko was
asked, what the prospects are for an
extension of his road up the Platte
canon to Cripple Creek, spas to give:
made the a short line to Denver:
COLORADO NOTES.
Pueblo proposes to have a state fair
next fall.
Governor Roosevelt enjoyed a coyote
hunt at Colorado Springs before leav-
Ing for the East.
i great quantity of rock from the ba-
salt cliffs at Golden will be used in the
streets of Denver.
Recruits are being received in Denver
for the Thirtieth infantry, which Is to
rendezvous at Fort Logan.
The Santa Fe railroad has complet-
ed its two large ice houses at La 3unta
and has them about filled with ice.
The Pay roll of~the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company at the Bessemer
steel works for the month of January
was $157,241,34.
James Gill was fined $10 and costs,
amounting to $35, for the unlawful
killing of game in the cedars some for-
ty miles south of La 5unta~
The Fire and Police Board of Den-
ver have offered $500 reward for the
SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF
THE COLORADO LE(ilSLATUR
The Senate adjourned over for one
day on account of the death of Sena-
tor Evans of Fort Collins.
In the House Messrs. Weldon, Mere-
dith and Bell were appointed a commit-
tee to draft suitable resolutions on the
death of Senator J. C. Evans.
The Bucklin 1,~"nd tax amendment bill
as amended and passed by the Senate
was referred to the constitutional
amendments committee in the House.
On Saturday, February 23rd, Major
General ~itzhugh l_~e was the guest of
honor at a reception by the members
of the Thirteenth General Assembly
and and the state officers in the hall
of the House of Represefftatives. The
i general was introduced by Lieutenant-
Governor COates and spoke for more
~han an hour
ganic law, and he now insists that
ting a new coat would be much
able to patching the old one." He
clares further that a
vention will he a great saving to
state over the continued submission
amendments. Senator Barela has
ures showing that to submit a
constitutional amendment to the
costs more than $100,0oo. He
that a constitutional convention
Cost less than that amount. S.B.
was advanced on the calendar,
ered and passed on second reading.
An immense mass meeting was
in Trinity M. E. church at
Sunday night, February 24th, to
dorse the precinct option bill
duced by Senator Philp. Every
with the exception of those
