STATES & CITIES: Pigeon Shoot

Colorado’s capitol building at Denver makes an ideal home for visiting pigeons. The crannies are comfortable and from time to time Colorado’s philanthropic legislators provide a penny’s worth of peanuts, prime pigeon fare. But last week the birds returned evil for good. Through a window they entered the legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators who fancied themselves as marksmen, it was decided that the electrician was the nimblest present, best suited for crawling to points of vantage from which to snipe the pigeons. Sportsman Karns provided himself with an air rifle recently taken from a small boy who had been caught hunting in the capitol grounds, shot six pigeons.