Tank gang dinner fascinates New Yorker in oil fields
A New Yorker visiting Tulsa remarks on a long camp dinner with twenty five tank crewmen in the oil fields. He notes a unique menu of rivets and top plates as dishes and observes the heat, sweat, and hard work of men building steel tanks for oil and mines. He praises their tough life and the frontier existence surrounding their labor.
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Tulsa
I. T
Europe
New Yorker
Kipling
New York
Greeley Editor Killed by Ranchman After Paper Incident
Chas. Simonson of Kersey shot and killed C. R. Lewis editor of the Kersey Enterprise. The killing followed a controversial article linking Mrs. Simonson to J. L. Ewing. The sheriff jailed Simonson after clashes in the crowd.
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Greeley
Chas
Simonson
Here
Lewis
The
Mar
Sailor Straw Styles Spur Next Year Fashion
Hat salesmen swarm hotels showing next year sailor straw varieties. Observers report many finely dressed men likely to wear them. Exhibits include numerous styles and colors reflecting evolving menswear trends.
Major 8 K Hooper III Stricken By Ptomaine Poisoning
Denver telegram reports Major 8 K Hooper III general passenger agent of the Denver and Rio Grande fell ill Sunday night in Salt Lake City with ptomaine poisoning. He has been in serious condition at his hotel since.
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Denver
Salt Lake City
8. K. Hooper
Denver & Rio Grande
Sharp Rise in Coal Prices Predicted by Dealers
Local coal dealers forecast a sharp rise in fuel prices in the coming weeks due to miner shortages and delays from a switchmen's strike. Eastern firms have already contracted local output for some time, and many dealers say they cannot meet contracts on time.
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Big Eastern
Friendly suit may determine act's constitutionality
Cripple Creek, Aug 24 Sheriff Henry Von Phul was invited by Teller county commissioners to file a friendly suit challenging a legislative act on paying undersheriff and judge salaries by the county. The sheriff declined action, salaries may be held up. Board majority is Republican while the sheriff and deputies are Democrats.
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Cripple Creek
Henry von Phul
Teller County
Board of County Commissioners
Suicide of Pueblo man James T. Black at home
James T. Black, 51, of 315 West Eighth Street Pueblo, committed suicide in his kitchen yesterday afternoon due to ill health. He bade his wife farewell at noon with a hopeful line. After she left for work, he used an old rifle to shoot himself in the head, killing himself. He is survived by his wife, three grown daughters, and a grown son.
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Pueblo
Colo
James T. Black
No. 315
West Eighth Street
Goodby
Black
Heart Examined Before Visit to Pike's Peak
Colorado Springs August 24 A reunion for the Fighting Fifteenth features sun tea and moving pictures at Glen Eyrie with extended hospitality through Tuesday. Veterans who do not hike Pike's Peak will have heart examinations and trains will carry many up the Cog road. General Palmer removes Lincoln proclamation from Antlers hotel amid protests.
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Colorado Springs
Bookhall
Palmer
Glen Eyrie
Pike’s Peak
General Palmer
Antlers
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Margaret Davis-Hayes
Hayes
Smith
Conen
John Conaway
Charles Kirk
Johnson defies clemency in Lamar murder case at Colorado
In Canon City a condemned man named Andrey Johnson refuses to aid his defense, insisting his partner is innocent or under arrest. Governor Harper debates commutation as officials warn of the danger of executing a possible innocent man. The piece also notes mining profits from several Colorado operations, including Raven Hill and Jennie Sample holdings, with ore values ranging from two to fifty dollars per ton.
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Denver
Canon City
Andrey Johnson
Laman
Heaven and Earth
Johnson
Lamar
Colorado
Phil
Harper
Samar
State House
Lamar Court
Dahl
Jennie Sample
Ophir
Raven Hill Mining & Leasing Company
Colorado Springs
Doctor Jack Pot
Sidewalk Mutterings on Money and Morality
A column questions the fairness of large speaking fees for figures like W. J. Bryan and criticizes public attitudes toward wealth and reform. It recounts Henry W. Walton’s exile after a wife mocked his clothes and notes newspapers attacking telegraph operators while they accept changes in labor.
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Bryan
Henry W. Walton
Sheridan County
Neb
Widow’s plea spares Johnson in Lamar murder case
Andrew Johnson the man condemned for the murder of Night Marshal Frisbie at Lamar last December had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Acting Governor Harper after the victim’s widow urged clemency. Johnson now faces life behind bars.
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Denver
Andrew Johnson
Frisbie
Lamar
State Penitentiary
Canon City
Harper
Ore shipments from Raven Hill Ophir yield silver ounces
Cripple Creek August 21 Henry Cahil, superintendent of the Raven Hill Ophir owned by Mrs Annie Cone of Canon City, ships eighteen to twenty cars of ore each month and earns from three to eleven ounces per ton in silver.
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Cripple Creek
Henry Cahil
Raven Hill
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Belgium
Japan
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Otyles
K. Hooper III
Jack Black
Pike's Peak
Smith and Altman
Elizabeth Cooper
W. J. Bryan
Fremont Building and Loan Association
Chas. E. Waldo
Guy A. Hardy
Fremont Commercial
Harding
First National Bank
R. W. Whalen
Commercial Dept
F. M. McKinstry
Stenographic Dept
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