The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

OF the second class.
The Denver Tramway Company IL
said 10 have decided to build an cleo
trio line to Fort Logan.
Colorado Springs expects to have a
Japanese tea house with imported
Geisha girls 10 dispense the beverage.
The widow of the late Willard Teller.
brother of Senator H. NJ. Teller, will
inherit his entire fortune, estimated at
1924, 900. there being no children.
Helen Schmidlap, in whose case the
jury disagreed. will be tried second
time the second week in November on
the charge of mhrdering her husband.
A check OF 5000 in payment for the
last Of the court house bonds, given by
the county commissioners October
2Gth, left Boulder county entirely free
from debt
Abe Williamson, aged fifty-five years,
farmer living near Housed school
house. about six miles east of Boulder
committed suicide few days since by
taking strychnine.
A civil service examination will be
held in Denver, November 22d, for
sadder in the quartermaster's depart
mem at large. The salary in the posi-
tion is $545 year.
The new home for nurses at the
OakeS sanatorium in Denver, erected
at a cost of $25,OOO, was dedicated
October 26th The money for the
home was contributed by William d.
Sloane Of New York.
The board of capitol managers has
let contract for altering the north
entrance of the state house in Denver.
putting in a wider flight of steps and
making that the principal entrance.
The work will cost $4,750
The Colorado Springs members OF
the International Typographical Union
have decided in favor of an assess
ment of SO cents per week per mem
ber 10 support the fight of the union
throughout the country for an eight
hour day.
Attorney General Mills says that he
has received calls from the assessors
of Morgan and Logan counties and
that they have agreed to levy assess
ments according to the increased valu
ations ordered by the state board OF
equalization.
The Holly Sugar Company has been
Incorporated with capital of $1,2oO,-
OOO The directors are: Platt Rogers,
w. \ Wiley, Harry c. James, Ken
meth b. Schley, Michael Gavin, Grant
B. Schley, Dennis Sullivan and vii.
liam R. Ryan.
2 G. SimmonE purchaser of the
MAJ .lou property OF the Ute Iron
! Springs, has sold to J. o. Hiestand the
Ute Iron spring, the pavilion and the
Little Chief and Ouray spring for about
$4,000. Mr.. Hiestand formerly held a
lease on the property purchased.
In the District Court at Montrose
Judge Theron Stevens sustained the
contentious of John Gray, who OBJ
tanned an injunction two months ago
restraining the commissioners of
Montrose county from making an ap-
preparation for advertising purposes.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, is noti-
fying the teachers of the state that
questions in the December eXamina-
tions will deal largely with facts per
tanning to the historical settlement of
the northwestern territory and school
sanitation and decoration.
Leonard J.. Dew got a verdict for
10000 against the Colorado Springs
and Cripple Creek District Railway
Company. Notice, however, was given
Of motion for new trial. Dew was
injured at the time that a Short Line
engine went through a trestle in Colo
RADIO Springs.
rhe proposed monument at Denver
to the pioneers OF Denver and Colo
RADIO is now practically assured, within
much shorter time than anticipated
More than $4,000 of the $4,000
needed has been secured by the COM
mittee of prominent men. headed by
John S. Flower, which is in charge or
the work of obtaining subscriptions.
Bishop Earl Cranston of the Meth
dist church, who is sixty-five years OF
age and a widower. will be married at
Cincinnati, November 18th, to Miss
Lucy Mason Parker. The bishop is "A
former COloradoan and well known in
all parts of the state. His son, Earl
NJ Cranston, is United States district
attorney at Denver.
Colorado captured twenty-nine gold,
eighteen silver and eleven bronze med
ais in the mining exhibit, and received
lo3 honorable mentions at the Lewis
and Clark Exposition at Portland. In.
Guiding it's agricultural exhibit. the
state received a total of 40 awards at
the Exposition, which seems very good
for an expenditure of $4,000.
+. E. Nichols, a pioneer resident and
former mayor of Manitou, died in
sanitarium at Colorado Springs Octo-
Der 26th. at the age of seventy years,
death following a surgical operation.
MI Nichols was widely known from
his long connection with the Cliff
House. His son, E. E. Nichols, Jr., is
the present mayor of Manitou.
The formal opening of the big sugar
factory will be the occasion of two
days harvest celebration at Sterling,
November 22nd and 23rd. A big bar
becue will be one of the attractions on ,
the second day and there will also be
a fine display of agricultural pro