Canon City prepares for Royal Gorge Chautauqua event
Preparations for the Royal Gorge Chautauqua in Canon City July 19 to 28 proceed. An executive committee meets to organize grounds concessions and program details with Alderman C A Linkins named for grounds work and M J Evans A R Mitchell for concessions. The Business Men's Association aims to sell 500 season tickets, with distribution planned by June 15 to June 30.
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Canon City
C. A. Linkins
Messrs
M. J. Evans
A. R. Mitchell
Business Men’s Association
Iowa Day at the Royal Gorge Chautauqua program announced
A preliminary folder distributed in the city outlines the Royal Gorge Chautauqua assembly to be held from July 19 to 25. It promises an extensive Iowa Day program and provides details intended to clarify the event’s scope and offerings.
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Iowa Day
Royal Gorge
Chautauqua Schedule for Saturday July 27
Saturday July 27 offers a busy chautauqua program. Domestic Science demo Frozen Desserts with Miss Rena Vawter at 9 30. 10 30 Lecture by Mrs Elizabeth Roudabush. 11 30 Old-fashioned basket inner on the grounds. 2 00 Band concert. 3 00 Oration by Governor Albert B Cummins. 4 30 Informal reception and Gorge trip. 8 00 Farewell concert by the Minneapolis Quartet. 8 30 Entertainment scene from Black Rock with E J Sias.
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Chautauqua
Rena Vawter
Elizabeth Roudebush
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Wreck Derailed Freight Car Near Texas Creek
A freight car derailed about a mile and a half west of Texas Creek due to a broken axle. Traffic halted for five or six hours with a wrecking train from Salida freeing the line by daylight Friday. No injuries were reported and the loss to the company was mainly from delays to trains.
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Texas Creek
Salida
Electric Bitters Proclaimed Best for Stomach and Liver
A Cedar Grove Maine letter lauds Electric Bitters as a cure for liver and kidney troubles. The writer credits relief after one bottle and full cure with three, praising the tonic as the best on earth and noting Hunter Palmer Drug Gist sells it for 50 cents.
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Geo. H. Parris
Cedar Grove
Hunter Palmer
Concerts at the Chautauqua Shift Toward Varied Music
The chautauqua committee plans ultra classical morning programs with popular and humorous concerts in the afternoon and evening. Hungarian Orchestra will perform William Tell overture and other pieces. Euphonium Glee Club to sing sacred music. Tent camping encouraged with cost tents to be rented to attract attendees. Lincoln Nebages hosts 4000 campers during its tenth annual session.
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Euphonium Glee Club
Lincoln
Neb
Beaver Land and Irrigation plans large scale Colorado irrigation
Colorado Springs financiers form Beaver Land and Irrigation company to develop arid Fremont and El Paso counties. A one million dollar capitalization is set with participants including Charles M. MacNeill Spencer Penrose Clarence C. Hamlin J Q MacDonald J H Waters H M Blackmer and K C Schuyler.
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Fremont
Fe] Paso
Colorado Springs
Beaver Land and Irrigation Company
Charles M. MacNeill
Spencer Penrose
Clarence C. Hamlin
J. Q. MacDonald
J. H. Waters
H. M. Blackmer
K. C. Schuyler
Company Incorporation and Irrigation Project Details
The water center of operations will be Colorado Springs for an irrigation project. Water to be taken from Four-Mile Six-Mile Eight-Mile Twelve-Mile Brush Hollow and Beaver creeks. Reservoir sites set at Eight Mile and Elgin in Fremont County per Rocky Mountain News.
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Company
Secretary of State
Colorado Springs
Brush Hollow
Beaver
Elgin
Fremont County
Rocky Mountain News
Cattle Do Well in Routt County
J. C. Hussong and Lou Hemmerle report from Yampa Routt county with about 350 head of cattle on the range. Grazing is fine the stock interest is flourishing. Cold weather slowed vegetation but past month brought more rain and prospects for good grass this summer.
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J. C. Hussong
Lou Hemmerle
Yampa
Routt
Big irrigation enterprise assured will reclaim Fremont lands
The Daily Record reports a major irrigation project for Jesse Waters Co. C Hamlin and associates to irrigate fifteen to twenty thousand acres northeast of the city. A chief engineer has arrived from California and will establish a home as work begins. The project is expected to cost 1.5 to 2 million dollars with full financing in place. It aims to double Fremont county farm land and raise assessed values by about 100 percent.
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Daily Record
Jesse Waters, Co. C. Hamlin
Spencer Penrose
California
Fremont County
Mining group keeps faith in Custer county camp
Pete Tonso, formerly of Florence and now with C. W. Talbot and Jack Springer, reports good conditions in the Silver Park area. He brings gold bearing ore specimens and says new arrivals increase activity, with a shaft sunk sixty feet and a hardware stock recently added for local needs.
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Pete Tonso
Florence
C. W. Talbot
Jack Springer
Custer County
Spaulding
Mr. Tonso
T Ramets
City Park Transformation Draws Civic Pride in Canon City
Canon City residents see the new City Park revived by the Civic Improvement League and local groups. A former rail-side dump site now features a lawn, walks, flower beds, shrubbery, and shade trees with plans for a stone bridge over Mill ditch. Generous gifts from East ern Star and Gen. Palmer boost shrubbery and landscaping.
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Civic Improvement League
Cleghorn
Penitentiary
First
Third Streets
Canon City
Order of the Eastern Star
Friends In Council
Gen. Palmer
Colorado Springs
City Park inspection invitation and viewing point
The public is invited to inspect recent City Park work completed over the last months. Access is via Second street past Canon City Milling, with the embankment at the water works pumping plant east of First street chosen as the best viewing point.
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City Park
Second Street
Canon City Milling Company
Water Works
First Street
Big irrigation proposition advances in Colorado
Co. C Hamlin of Colorado Springs and Jesse H Waters of the Florence and Cripple Creek Rail road company visited on business connected with a reclamation project to bring 20 000 acres of semi arid land northeast of the city under cultivation. The venture aims to double the tillable area in Fremont county and spur agriculture with surveys in progress and construction planned. Financing ranges from 1 500 000 to 2 000 000 dollars and marks one of Colorado’s larger private reclamation efforts.
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Colorado
Long Gulch Bear Kill by City Attorney in Sangre de Christos
City Attorney A L Taylor and W H Pigg hunted in the Sangre de Christo foothills last week. Taylor shot a fine 2 year old black bear in Long Gulch about 11 am Thursday, near Cotopaxi. The skin was sent to Gus Staisky for mounting. a furious snowstorm raged as the shot was made.
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A. L. Taylor
W. H. Pigg
Sangre de Christo Range
Long Gulch
Cotopaxi
Devils Hole
Waugh Mountain
Mose
Mr. Taylor
Forty-Four Cent Bet Buys Fortune for White
The Record reports Abraham White rose from Texas to New York with a $100,000 profit from a 44 cent investment in 1896. He bid for Cleveland bonds with no money down, securing $1.25 million in bonds and winning a large premium in the open market with Russell Sage financing the purchase. White then reaped profits as the bonds were sold.
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Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Firth
Abraham White
New York
Texas
White
Cleveland
Treasury
Washington
Russell Sage
Sage
Walter S Cheesman Dies in Denver at 3:36 Friday
Denver report says Walter S Cheesman, prominent Colorado financier and pioneer settler, died at his home from complications of grip last December. He was president of the Denver Union Water Co, vice president of the First National Bank, and director at International Trust, Denver Northwestern and Pacific Railroad.
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Denver
Walter S. Cheesman
Colorado
Cheesman
Denver Union Water Company
First National Bank
The
International Trust Company
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad
Business leader and humane society figure dies at Aspen
The article recalls the life of Mr. Cheesman a Colorado banker and state builder who led the State bank at Aspen and chaired the Colorado Humane Society. He championed protection for children and animals influencing many battles in defense of the society. His fortune ranges from four to ten million dollars with an estimated seven million. He leaves a wife a daughter a sister and a nephew. The will timing and heirs may shape the inheritance tax impact to the state. If his wife and children inherit the state tax is about 140000. otherwise the state tax could be higher.
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State Bank
Aspen
Cheesman
Colorado Humane Society
Society For the Protection of Children and Animals
Bureau
Eight railroad stockholders sue to block new rates
In St Paul eight so called friendly suits were filed in the United States district court against major railways including Great Northern Northern Pacific and Chicago Great Western. They seek an injunction to prevent the 2 cent passenger rate and the reduced freight rate set by Minnesota from taking effect arguing the changes violate the U S constitution. The state of Minnesota is a party to the suits and the complainants demand restoration of the old rates.
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St. Paul
United States District Court
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Northwestern
Chicago
Minneapolis
Omaha
St. Louis
Soo
Chicago Great Western Railways
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Minnesota
United States
Judge grants temporary injunction against rate changes
Judge Lochrin issues a temporary restraining order to block new rates. The complaint against the Northern Pacific mirrors the suit against other lines and was signed by Charles Fins and David C. Shepart of Iowa, to stockholders.
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Lochrin
Northern Pacific
Charles Fins
David C. Shepart
Iowa
Life-Timers Population Grows in Colorado Penitentiary
The Colorado state penitentiary houses about 65 to 75 life-timers, roughly ten percent of inmates. All life sentence prisoners were convicted of murder, indicating a high proportion of murder cases among the felons. The newest lifer is 17 year old John Mendiccelli of Pueblo, convicted Thursday for the murder of Antone Cafone.
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Colorado State Penitentiary
John Mendiccelli
Pueblo
Antone Cafone
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