The Colorado statesman., 1909-08-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS

1t is a beautiful structure of sawed
stone, and was erected at cost of
SS5, 900.
Charging her husband, Cassius NJ.
Eby, prominent local attorney and
chairman of the Republican central
committee at Boulder, with having for
years inflicted the greatest cruelty
upon her, and accusing him of infidel-
ity. Mrs. Eva l.. Eby has brought suit
in the District Court asking for $40 900
permanent alimony and the custody OF
minor child.
Announcement has been made that
DR.. J. G. Shedd. formerly head of the
physics department at Colorado Col
lege and later dean of Westminster
College near Denver, will not go to the
University of Pittsburg, as intended,
but will accept the chair of physics
at Olivet College, Michigan. Dr. E. G.
Lancaster, also formerly of Colorado
College. is president of Olivet College.
Mrs. Rose d. Rittman, Head Chief
Ranger of the Womens Catholic Or
der of Foresters. an insurance organ
ization for women and conducted en-
tirely by women, is in Denver to or
ganize the Italian women of the city
into courts. The order has 81 900
members. Mrs. Rittman has been at
the head of it for twelve years. Its
membership is limited to women of
the Catholic faith.
At cost of $2.0OO,OOO, Denver and
Eastern men will construct an i'm
mense reservoir along Bear creek
above Morrison, to develop electric
power and irrigate dry lands. They
are planning to organize company
to be called the Home Power and lrri-
cation Company, which will take over
the plants of the Mount Evans com
pany and all other water rights on the
creek and consolidate them.
State Brand Inspector Bierman
went to Manitou recently from Den
yer to examine the brand of horse
which ]. Schueler, proprietor of the
Ute Springs, recently bought from
stranger, and the official will try to
locate the seller The animal, which
was guaranteed to be gentle, kicked
viciously, breaking Schuelers ankle
and also fracturing the leg of Art
James of Manitou. The horse will be
killed.
James Kelley of Telluride is wand
ering demented in the hills south of
Ridway, il he is not dead of expo
sure. Kelley left for Denver Saturday,
but left the train at Placerville. Sun
day night he went to the ranch OF
Charles Gallagher on the Pallas di-
vide. He appeared insane. Gallagher
\ tAI 90 t1fr1 ~ l,.N Ill l.
away and disappeared in the dark.
Since then no trace has been found OF
him.
For four blocks the unseen hand OF
Death piloted Denver tramway car
on the Ninteenth avenue line, carry
in forty passengers, at 1920 o'clock
Sunday night, when John A. Benson,
the motorman of the car died of a
hemorrhage with his hand on the con-
troller. 1t was not until the conduct
or suspected that all was not well in
the forward end of the car after two
signals for stops at crossings had
| been passed by unheeded, that he
went to the vestibuled front section
and there found Benson dead.
With the completion of the plans
made by the City Council of Denver
for the taking over of the immense
George w. Clayton estate, amounting
to S1,500,000, the question of the ap.
pointment of All administrator to
look after the property lately ac-
Quired by the city is the topic for
much discussion in legal and realty
circles in the city. Mayor Speer, as
chairman of the commission of three,
which will formally administer the Of
o. 70 hoc ha
of appointing the trustee. With the
title goes an annual salary of $4,000.
Greeley. C. McCreery will have a
unique agricultural display at the
Weld county fair. which is to be held
here September /, 2, 8 and 4. In the
lot will be specimens of the vegetable
lemon, South American product
These are the first plants of the kind
ever grown in Colorado. They are
cross between the lemon and a squash,
and are used for making pies. Another
remarkable specimen will be the won
derberry, which grows on a bush and
resembles a blackberry. The fruit is
the size and color of a small black
marble and grows in clusters. An un-
named grain, which is a sort of beard
less barley, is also in his exhibit.
Mrs. George NJ. Wilson of 2204
West Twenty-eighth avenue, wife of
| the manager of the Western Cement
and Lumber Company, Denver, will
receive nearly a million dollars as her
share of the estate of General Sewer,
a Revolutionary War hero, which is
expected to be closed by the United
States government this fall Mrs. Will
| SON is the pranddauphtar of SamuaI
Sewer of Guymon, Okla. one of the
original eighty heirs of the old sol
dier. The estate grew out of the deed
ing to General Sewer, by the govern
ment, of 177,000 acres of land in Ten
| nessee North Carolina and Alabama