History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . me to Golden City. Says Stone, Thesouthern men were opposed to adjourning to Denver, and they went awayand hid in the woods, and the sergeant-at-arms couldnt find them. Finally•we sent men out -with flags of truce to bring them in, and getting themtogether in Mother Maggarts hotel, under pretense of compromising thematter, locked the doors on them, finished the vote, and got the adjourn-ment to Denver. Land Grants hi Coh, MS., ILHist. Net. 27 418 or(;anizatiox of government. until 1868, when it was taken back to Denver; butthe feehng in the
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . me to Golden City. Says Stone, Thesouthern men were opposed to adjourning to Denver, and they went awayand hid in the woods, and the sergeant-at-arms couldnt find them. Finally•we sent men out -with flags of truce to bring them in, and getting themtogether in Mother Maggarts hotel, under pretense of compromising thematter, locked the doors on them, finished the vote, and got the adjourn-ment to Denver. Land Grants hi Coh, MS., ILHist. Net. 27 418 or(;anizatiox of government. until 1868, when it was taken back to Denver; butthe feehng in the soutliern counties being stronga^i^ainst tliis point, and Pueblo being prevented fromgetting it in 1872 only by bribery, the constitutionalconvention provided that the vote of the whole peopleshould be taken five years after the adoption of tlieconstitution, the place receiving the greater numberof votes to be declared the permanent capital. Thevote was taken in 1881, and Denver, which had beengrowing in influence, received the majority of votes,. Seal. thus ending, to the chagrin of the southern counties,the long struggle for that division of power which willonly come with the development of the resources ofthe south. Tlie seal adopted for the territory was an heraldicshield, bearing in chief, or on the upper portion of thesame, upon a red ground, three snow capped moun-tains, above surrounding clouds ; upon the lower partof the shield, upon a golden ground, a miners badge,being the same badge prescribed by the regular her- LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. 419 aldic rules ; as a crest above the shield the eye of God,being golden rays proceeding from the lines of a tri-angle; below the crest, and above the shield, as ascroll, the Roman fasces, bearing on a band of red,white, and blue, the words Union and Constitution ;below the whole, the motto Nil Sine Numine; thewhole to be surrounded by the words Sigillum Terri-torii Coloradensis, and the figures 1861. This designwas adopted by t
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