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Show WILL SWEAR IN ADAMS. Democratic Candidate Will Take Oath of Office, as If Elected. DENVER. Jan. 4 The Democrat? have decided that on January 10, the date prescribed by the statutes, they will have Alva Adams sworn in as Governor Gov-ernor of the State The oath will be administered ad-ministered by Justice Steele of the Supreme Su-preme court The hour and place , t the ceremony have no been definitely settled. The Supreme court this morning directed direct-ed that an Inquiry be made into die ,"ii-dUCt ,"ii-dUCt of the last election In this lt and oidered that It :L3sumc the scope linked ,v the Republicans TMh means that the Investigation In-vestigation shall not only take in the bal lot boxes, but the poll books, registration registra-tion slips and all other matters pertaining pertain-ing to the election. The application of Alva Adams for a modification of the order, limiting it to the ballot boxes only, was denied The order was modified in the matter of expense. ex-pense. It was directed that Mr. Adams paj one-half of the expense attendant upon up-on the examination of the l"x. iucl one-half one-half the salary of the referee to be appointed ap-pointed by the Supreme court In 1 his connection. con-nection. The Republicans were directed to pay one-half the expenses incident to the examination ex-amination of the boxes, and all th. . ,, t of the Investigation of all other mattSra pertaining to the election. This puts Upon Mr Adams no greater financial burden than that which his attorneys yesterday announced he would be willing to assume and hIIowh the Republicans to pay for the greater part of the Investigation which Attorney J. H Hersoj yesterday announced they were willing to do. During the latter part of the morning and throughout lis afternoon session, the Supreme court listened to evidence against four election officers of Precinct 7 Ward '.. who were chargi.1 with cti-temot cti-temot In that they allowed repeating to K0 011 In thli precinct On election day. |