The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| George A. Hail. charged with con-
spiracy in the McEachern insurance
fraud case at Victor, has been acquit-
ted in the District Court at Cripple
| Creek.
Mayor Robert w. Speer is preparing
for the sale of 100000 worth of city OF
Denver gold coupon bonds to raise
funds for the purchase of a site and
the erection of the new auditorium.
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.
Henry Van Kleeck will represent the
| Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
Lake MOhonk conference on interna-
| tional arbitration to be held at Lake
Mohonk, New York, on May 30th, 31st
and June 1st. The conference is held
with the purpose of urging universal
recognition and adoption of arbitration
in the settlement of all international
questions.
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 a strong be-
| lever in prohibition. He leaves seven
| children, three sons and four daugh-
| ters, whose average age is over sixty
years.
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.
Representative Brooks last week
called upon the Japanese minister and
advised him that many Colorado citi-
zens desire to contribute to the relief
of the starving Japanese. Mr.. Brooks
was informed that any contributions
would be appreciated by the Japanese
government, which already has re-
ceived nearly 100000 from Americans.
| Contributions should be sent to the
Japanese minister in Washington.
]. ]. McEachern and John Varley,
who attempted to defraud the North
|
of $4,000, were sentenced in the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek to from
| nine and one-half to ten years in the
penitentiary. 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.
State Auditor Bent has sold the Bent
ranch of LOO acres in Prowers county
| to G. NJ. Smith of Kansas City and w.
| A. Smith of Greenwood, Missouri, for
$4,000. The land lies about five miles
from Lamar and about $50 acres are
under cultivation. Sugar beets, alfalfa
and other crops are raised on the
ranch. The purchasers have secured
perpetual water rights on the prop
erty About ten years ago Mr. Bent
bought the place for about half the
sum he has sold it for.
| Spontaneous combustion of 10000
| pounds of corn starch is believed to
have caused a fire in the plant of the
| Western candy factory in Denver on
| the night of March 22d, which almost
totally wrecked the three-story brick
structure and threatened the entire
| Ia, ii
900 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 n 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 it will be
| 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.
The will of the late Henry c. Brown
! of Denver divides his entire estate
equally, with the exception of $500,
given his son Benjamin, a child by his
first marriage, among his four children,
James II. Brown, Carrie NJ. Cassell,
| Sherman Il. Brown and Anna M.
| Green, wife of Hubert r. Green. The
value of the estate, which is variously
estimated from a million to a million
and a half dollars, is not mentioned
in the will, which has been filed in the
County Court. There is much valuable
| property beside a considerable equity
| in the Brown Palace Hotel.
The estate of the late General Fred
Walsen is valued at $S70,000. The
will, which has been admitted to pro-
bate, was drawn on May 18th, 1893,
and by it's terms leaves all of the prop
erty to the widow and the children.
Emma Walsen, the widow, is well pro
vided for, all the stock owned by Mr..
Walsen N the Rio Grande Southern
railway being left to her. The chill
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