Kansas-Colorado Company to shift from electric to steam franchise
Promoters of the Kansas-Colorado redo plan to change the line from electric street railway to steam railroad. A meeting at the Business Men's association rooms in Pueblo will seek stockholder and citizen approval to eliminate street car features and pursue a steam operation with a city council petition next Monday for the franchise changes. If approved a new company will settle debts and begin graded work while selling the railroad as a steam line. The Pueblo Star-Journal notes entertainment and local firms like Colorado Realty Dealers association in a light editorial.
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Kansas-Coloredo Railroad Company
Enterprise
Business Men's Association
Business Men of
Pueblo
Switzerland Trail
Boulder
Colorado Realty Dealers Association
Realty Dealers Association Meets in Boulder With Noted Speakers
The Colorado Realty Dealers' association plans a July meeting in Boulder with speakers including Senator Horace T. DeLong and J. D. Fleming. A banquet at the Boulderado Hotel will feature L. C. Paddock as toastmaster. Topics cover good roads, assessed valuations, and state board of valuations amid tours around Boulder.
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Colorado Realty Dealers’ Association
Boulder
Goyal
Horace T. DeLong
Grand Junction
F. R. Berkower
Eckert family thrills inmates with chapel concert at penitentiary
The Eckert family George Leo and Hazel gave a memorable Sunday morning concert for convicts at the penitentiary chapel. Over a hundred visitors attended the performance, praising the trio as they tour with an engagement at the opera house this week. Mrs Lafe Combs and children plan a Seattle trip to visit the exposition and Puget Sound summer climate through September.
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Eckert
George B. Eckert
Leo
Miss Hazel
The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths
A paragraph warns of a nationwide disease described as deadly and widespread. It links sudden deaths to heart disease pneumonia and kidney trouble, noting symptoms like headaches back pain and urinary changes as the kidneys deteriorate.
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Ny Tive
Remains of Lt Fellow Taken for Burial
Isaac Newton Fellows, longtime Wet Mountain Valley resident and veteran, died at his home 234 New York Avenue South Canon at 11 Saturday. He leaves a wife two daughters and a son. Funeral held at 1 pm at the family home then remains were transported by rail to Hillside for interment.
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LN. Fellows
Hillside
Isaac Newton Fellows
New York Avenue
South Canon
Mountain
Billy Sunday Arrives in Boulder for Five Week Revival
Rev Billy Sunday of Chicago ex baseball star and evangelist reached Boulder Saturday. A 100 member church committee greeted him at the station led by local clergymen and Ira M De Long of the State University. He will lecture at the Chautauqua and lead five weeks of revival beginning the last week in August. A 4000 seat tabernacle will be erected in the city center with ten singers and personal workers assisting.
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Billy” Sunday
Chicago
Boulder
Chautauqua
Ira M. DeLong
The
State University
Siberian Convicts Seek Refuge in Alaska
A hundred Russians arrived at Cordova Alaska aboard the St Croix from Nome. They include several men suspected of being political convicts who escaped a Siberian penal colony five to six months ago. The men wear worn cossack uniforms believed taken from guards killed near the Arctic circle in March during a clash with pursuing cossacks.
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Cordova
Alaska
St. Cross
Nome
Siberia
Con Victa
Chukotosh
Arctic Circle
Colorado Canneries Highlight State’s Growing Food Power
Colorado markets praise the canning industry as a major wealth source with 1,000 direct employees and $3 daily wages. It details products like beans, peaches, pickles, and condensed milk, cites a 1908 shipment of 50,000 cases worth $175,000, and urges buying Colorado made goods to expand local factories and employment.
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Colorado
Arkansas Valley
Western Slope
Joss
United States
Colorado Manufacturers’ Association
Convict Escape Attempt Ends With Surrender
Harry Brophy, an inmate outside the prison walls, made a bid to escape between 10 and 11 this morning. He fled toward Main Street and the river, was fired upon twice by guards, and, after plunging into the water near Colorado Light and Power, surrendered when armed guards appeared on the riverbank.
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Harry Brophy
Brophy
Colorado Light & Power Company
Hoboes Sentenced to Fourteen Years in the Penitentiary
Three hoboes Victor DeBloise William Jackson and James Doyle were found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in Cripple Creek district court and sentenced to 3 to 14 years in the state penitentiary for throwing Ches ter Freeland from a Denver and Rio Grande freight train near Canon City leading to his death. The men confessed to the crime after capture by a posse and police. another victim was severely injured.
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Chester Freeland
McKeesport
Denver and Rio Grande
el Paso
Colorado Springs
Victor DeBloise
William Jackson
James Doyle
William Sims
Cripple Creek
Ghester Freeland
W. S. Morris
Colorado City
Lit
Freeland
Rio Grande
Canon City
DeBloise
Enforcement of sidewalk riding ban in Canon City urged
Canon City police will strictly enforce the sidewalk riding ordinance. Offenders face court as a dozen arrests in ten days show fines imposed. Small wagons carts Irish mails and similar vehicles on Main Street are to be kept off sidewalks to prevent danger to pedestrians.
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Canon City Police Department
Stolen Bicycles Recovered By Marshal Houston
Two bicycles were stolen in Salida yesterday and recovered by Marshal Houston this morning. The bikes were shipped here by Ed Logan and Frank Cole, the alleged thieves, who have not yet been arrested. The owners will receive the bicycles this afternoon. The youths are seventeen and eighteen years old and believed to be hiding in town.
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Salida
Marshal Houston
Ed. Logan
Frank Cole
Bound Over for Trial in Prospect Heights Saloons
A warrant issued by Justice Kennedy for Thomas Albine a Prospect Heights barkeeper was served and he was held for trial next Monday at 10 o clock in the sum of three hundred dollars. He is accused of striking William Doyle on the head with a beer bottle causing a wound.
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Preston Asher
Taft Expected to Sign Tariff Bill After Conference
Washington reports say the Republican conference committee nears completion of the tariff bill with a likely adoption by Congress and presidential signature next week. President Taft has repeated support for a true downward tariff revision, and talks focus on ore coal oil hides lumber with iron ore and oil expected free. Wood pulp and print paper schedules pose the main difficulty amid committee disagreement over reduced rates.
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Washington
Republican Conference Committee
Senate
House
Conference Committee
Congress
Taft
Representative Mann
Patient improves after threats to victim reported
Breckenridge reports Doyle, seriously threatened earlier, is considerably better today and indications are favorable to his recovery. The incident prompted police to investigate the threat and ensure victim safety.
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Eral
Doyle
Winning success in her profes
Canon City based Miss Mae Rittenhouse of 823 Main street, a piano and mandolin teacher, has gained acclaim as a composer. Her piece El Deteora Walls, dedicated to Grace Dale Sabbam school, was accepted by a Philadelphia music publisher and is expected to be a seasonal hit. other ragtime works are with publishers. El Deteora is on sale at Hext Music Co., 407 Main street.
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Canon City
Mae Rittenhouse
Main Street
Freinds
Miss Rittenhouse
Grace Dale Sabbam
Philadelphia
Gale
el Deteora
Hext Music Co
Compromise Sought On Glove Duty Rates In House Senate Talks
House proposes accepting a rate of 3 dollars while delaying action on women gloves. senate conferees push for Dingley rates. A suggested compromise would place Schmaschen gloves on the free list, reducing the price from about 7.5 cents to 50 cents per pair, while higher grade rates remain as the house fixed.
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House
Senate
Government land drawing in Spokane to open three reservations
Frank Miller of South Canon will travel to Spokane at week end to register for the government land drawing on August fifth. Three Indian reservations the Couer d Alene Flathead and Spokane total over 150000 acres will be opened. Drawings will be held simultaneously in Cocuer d Alene Missoula and Spokane attracting settlers nationwide. Registration required in person except veterans may register by proxy.
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Frank Miller
South Canon
Spokane
Couer d’ Alene
Flathead
Cocuer d'Alene
Missoula
United States
Naval Service
Flynn Aims for Ketchel After Papke Victory in Pueblo
Jim Flynn the Pueblo fireman, visiting relatives after beating Billy Papke, seeks a Ketchel bout and plans training for a six round clash with Jack O'Brien on July 30 in Denver.
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Pueblo
Jim Flynn
California
Flynn
Billy Papke
Stanley Ketchel
Ketchel
Papke
Jack O'Brien
Jale
Denver
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