The Lamar register., 1906-03-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ptol &c "A. Hall, tihi Sou wan >oN
spiracy in the McEachern insurance
fraud case at Victor. has been acquit'
ted in the District Court at Cripple
Creek.
The $1,000 monument to the late w.
S. 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 Go,Nly & 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-
ton of license were cent out TO liquor
dealers from the Office of the state
treasurer March 2lst. About 200 IL
censes are in force and a license fee
of $25 is required from each. About
half of them expire on the list day OF
April.
The county commissioners of Ere
mont have decided to use the convicts
from the State Penitentiary in build
ink wagon road. In a short time a
large force will be employed between
Florence, Coal Creek and Rockville.
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-
tiers, whose average age is over sixty
years.
Nine pharmacists passed the exam
ination given by the State Board of
Pharmacists recently and are entitled
to certificates. The successful candi,
dates were Irving l.. Emerson, Grand
Junction: +. l. Engle, Leadville; Lewis
NJ. Hires, Colorado Springs; Adolph
Hauff, Harry +. Huffman, Henry A.
Koch, Henry Langanhan, Denver;
Lewis T. 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 a three-story
brick and stone structure, to contain
| 200 rooms.
Superintendent Frank Putney of the
railway mail service at Denver is be
| ing OVERLOADED 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. VINO twenty-five
years ago came to Colorado College as
professor of history, and is now treas
urer of the institution, was presented
few days ago with a 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 reel
piont. and the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his arrival at Colorado College.
]. ]. McEachern and John Marley
who attempted to defraud the North
western Life Insurance Company out
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.
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
block. entailinp a loss of nearly 5000.
900 10 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.
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 pr resent administration and per
haps both political parties. as it will be
non-partisan measure. Deputy Su
perintendent of Insurance Rittenhouse
has investigated the operation of this
law in Ohio and strongly urges its
adoption in Colorado as a preventative
of tangled accounts and wrongdoing in
public Office.
At Beulah, thirty miles west of Pu
eblo, at the foot of the Greenhorr
range, the store buildings belonging
to DIR. Summers. George Sutton anc
Reynolds & Donnelly, beside a resi-
dence, were destroyed by fire. The
| postoffice was about to be moved into
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