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Show SCANDAL IN COLORADO. Graft on a Wholesale Scale is Charged Against Prison Officials. Denver. Misappropriation of fuuds, graft in construction of buildings, in the purchase of supplies and in the iale of products f r iu the labor of con.'-nets, con.'-nets, are the general charges result-ng result-ng from an uncompleted investigation f the administration of penitentiary ' iffairs for the last half dozen years. Not only have evidences of alleged p-aft on a wholesale scale running up Into the hundreds of thousands been mcovered, but the convicts have also been shamelessly vinctimized, it ia :harged, though a long seriesof blackmail black-mail w-here hope of freedom was the bait held out for their few dollars. In the case of convicts, it is charged, their money was solicited by former officials -of the penitentiary on promise prom-ise cf favorable action by the board of pardons. |