Fifty Dollar Reward For Fire Evidence
An offer posts a fifty dollar reward to the first person providing evidence that leads to conviction and penitentiary for any recent or future fires in Canon. The reward remains valid until April 1 1906.
28 Dec 1905
Page 1
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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
1
An offer posts a fifty dollar reward to the first person providing evidence that leads to conviction and penitentiary for any recent or future fires in Canon. The reward remains valid until April 1 1906.
Report debunks death rumors of Rev. William A. Sunday. He finished a Burlington Iowa meeting where 2500 converts were won, $3500 raised for expenses, and $4000 offerings. He travels to Rochester Minnesota for a big upcoming gathering as crowds cheer during a train sendoff.
Seventeen Beaver Creek ranchers receive deeds and checks totaling $85,000 for water rights and ranch lands sold through James Locke of Canon City. Deedholder T. H. Devine of Pueblo buys about twenty cubic feet of water at roughly $4,000 per foot amid a long-standing Beaver Creek rights history.
The Colorado law defines arson as willfully burning any dwelling or public building or vessel across state waters with value of fifty dollars or more. Convicted offenders face 1 to 10 years in prison. if death results, murder charges apply with corresponding punishment.
Early Saturday fires destroyed Wright barn and Woods feed shed amid suspicions of arson aided by coal oil. Neighbors aided firefighting as police tracked a masked skulkers. authorities linked wildfires to a covert incendiary plot and recalled an 11 year old Canon fear.
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