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Show IB SCANDAL IN COLORADO. Graft on a Wholesale Scale Is Charged Against Prison Officials. Denver. Misappropriation of funds, jBj graft in construction of buildings, in tho purchaso of supplies nnd In the ualo of products fnm the labor of con- Dk vlcts, aro the general charges result- Pff. Ing from an uncompleted investigation H of tho administration of penitentiary fiHr affairs for tho last half dozen years. ffljfni Not only have evidences of alleged Wrk S I graft on a wholesalo scale running up rr"f Into tho hundreds of thousands been raStt uncovered, but tho convicts have also uhk been shamelessly vinctlmlzcd, it Is M charged, though n, long scrlesof bluclc- K mall where hopo of freedom was tho Hp bait hold out for their few dollars. In Wtifi l'10 c180 of convicts, It is charged, B tjielr money was solicited by former KK officials of tho penitentiary on prom- UK Ise of favorable action by the board of |