The Springfield herald., 1906-03-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

fraud case at Victor, has been acquit-
ted in the District Court at Cripple
Creek.
The $4,000 monument to the late w.
8. Stratton, designed by Miss Nellie
Walker Of Chicago, Is completed and
will probably be placed at the grave In
Evergreen cemetery, Colorado Springs,
on Memorial Day.
Prof. Albert c. Knudson, Ph.D.. for
mer professor Of church history at
Denver University. from 1898 to 1900.
has been elected to the chair OF He
brew and the Old Testament by the
trustees Of Boston University.
Assignee A. II. Brickenstein OF the
Bank OF Alamosa was removed by Or
der of Judge Moses Hallett OF the
United States Circuit Court at Denver
upon the petition of GoUly & Twitch-
ell, representing creditors of the de-
funct bank.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
electric trolley line from Canon City
to the top Of the Royal Gorge. over
one mile OF the grade has been COM
pleted. Ties are being delivered and
upon the arrival of the rails. April 18TH,
the track will be laid.
Fourteen hundred notices of expira-
tion of license were cent out to liquor
dealers from the Office OF the state
treasurer March 21st. About 2.7OO IL
censes are In force and license fee
of $25 is required from each. About
half Of them expire on the list day OF
April.
The county commissioners Of Fre-
mont have decided to use the convicts
from the State Penitentiary in build
ink wagon road. In short time
large force will be employed between
Florence, Coal Creek and Rockyale.
The great amount of heavy coal haul
ing keeps these roads in bad shape and
an excellent macadamiZed thorough
fare will be constructed.
Lyman Munger, father OF Mrs. John
R. Hanna of Denver, died at Denver,
March 22d, at the age Of ninety-four
years and six months. In the stirring
days before the Civil War Mr.. Munger
was an active abolitionist and through
out his entire life he was strong be-
lever In prohibition. He leaves seven
children, three sons and four daugh-
ters, whose average age Is over sixty
years.
Nine pharmacists passed the exam.
ination given by the State Board OF
to certificates. The successful candi'
dates were Irving l.. Emerson. Grand
Junction; F. l. Engle. Leadville; Lewis
NJ. Hires, Colorado Springs; Adolph
Hauff, Harry E. Huffman. Henry A.
Koch, Henry Langanhan, Denver;
Lewis Z. Ressler, Greeley; Henry v.
Williamson, Cannon City.
F. S. Granger. general manager OF
the Interurban electric railway system
being built In Fremont county. prom
ises Canon City one of the finest resort
hotels in the state. Granger and his
associates will purchase the Hot
Springs hotel and erect on its site one
of the most attractive hosteries in the
West. The plans call for three-story
brick and stone structure, to contain
200 rooms.
Superintendent Frank Putney of the
railway mail service at Denver is be
ing overlooked with inquiries in re-
gard to the mail carried on the trains
wrecked near Adobe March 10th. All
tie mail on train No. 16 was destroyed.
AS most of it included business letters,
many containing drafts and checks
from Leadville. Salida, Gunnison and
other surrounding towns, much trouble
will likely result from the loss.
George n. Marden. who twenty-five
years ago came to Colorado College as
professor of history, and is now treas
urer of the institution, was presented
n few days ago with handsome silver
loving cup and luxurious chair by the
trustees, faculty and many of the older
pupils of the college. The occasion was
the SEVENTEEN birthday of the reci-
pient, and the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his arrival at Colorado College.
]. j. McEachern and John Varley,
who attempted to defraud the North
western Life Insurance Company out
of $4,000, We're sentenced in the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek to from
nine and one-half to ten years in the
penitertiary. Judge Seeds also pro-
nounced sentence upon George Lewis.
grand larceny, three to five years,
Sam Haas. Clayte Watt and Jack
Frame, charged with assault with in
tent to kill P. l.. Dattelbaum, nine to
ten years.
Spontaneous combustion of 10000
pounds of corn starch is believed to
have caused fire in the plant OF the
Western candy factory In Denvef on
the night of March 22d. which almost
totally wrecked the three-story brick
structure and thTeateaed the entire
block, entailine loss Of nearly $780,
600 to the building and perishable
stocks of the Hewitt Candy Company,
the Colorado Saddlery Company the
Western laundry, the Western paper
box factory and the Western Candy
Company.
A bill to provide state examiner.
whose duty it will be TO check up
county. city and state books. will be
introduced in the next Assembly, and
will undoubtedly have the endorsement
of the present administration and per-
haps both political parties. as 1t will be
a non-partisan measure. Deputy SUI
perintendent of Insurance Rittenhouse
has Investigated the operation OF this
law in Ohio and strongly urges its
adoption in Colorado as preventative
of tangled accounts and wrongdoing in
public office.
At Beulah, thirty miles west OF Pu-
eblo, at the foot of the Greenhorn
range, the store buildings belonging
to Dir. Summers, George Sutton and
Reynolds & Donnelly, beside resi-
dence, were destroyed by fire. The
noStOffice was about to he moved into