Show GAMBLING IN DENVER Republican City Ofliclals Refusing to Close the Dens the Democratic Sheriff Does DEXVER Colo May SSpecial telegram to THE HERALD Denver sport are in the dumps Late last night Sheriff Barton sent his menials to the various gambling houses and notified the proprietors to shut down and appear ap-pear before Justice Morris this morning t answer for violating the law All the prominent promi-nent houses thirteen i number cashed their checks and relapsed into darkness Today they waived examination and were bailed to reappear next Saturday morning In addition ad-dition to this all the lottery ticket venders have been shadowed and stopped The old Colorado lottery has been choked off the policy shops closed and virtue has a boom Sheriff Barton did it He says ho considered I tho duty of the city officials to close these concerns con-cerns under neglected laws but as they failed he took the bull by the horns and downed him He declares that their close is permanent that i need be they may test i in the courts as the liquor dealers did the Sunday law and he will abide the results Outsiders insist that virtue has only had a spasm and the whole affair has politics in it The sheriff is a Democrat clean cut and copp M bottomed the city officials Republican Re-publican and alleged bomBers I is rumored that they had a partial agreement to let some games run but a split occurred and the sheriff is now showing his power The district attorney attor-ney appears to be badiy rattled over the condition condi-tion of things The movement towards paving the streets inaugurated by the board of public works calls for estimates to pave Fifteenth street with asphalt from Larimer street to Colfax avenue and the samo material or sandstone for Sixteenth Six-teenth street from Wazeo to Broadway In this connection It may be noted that a bill was passed by the United States Congress removing the eastern boundary of the Ute easter boundar reservation i Utah far enough from the Colorado state line to permit the asphalt beds there to be utilized by Denver men who have claims there |