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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
2
Compares coffee roasting and grinding, noting a coating of fresh eggs and pure sugar to seal in goodness and aid clarity. Claims warming enhances flavor and ease of grinding as the firm touts a vast coffee business surpassing four largest rivals combined.
Adams is kept in a county jail cell in Boise after being moved from Wallace where he faces murder charges. He is linked by Harry Orchard to numerous killings, with Adams' sworn confession showing careful handwriting edits. Witnesses include Mrs. Tony Orchard and Ida Tony Orchard, who testifying for the defense. The convention will run two weeks with delegates from Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. Eugene V. Debs will attend.
Denver hosts the Western Federation of Miners fifteenth annual convention with about 200 delegates expected. An announcement in Miners' Magazine signals a movement to consolidate all labor unions during the gathering in Denver starting June 10.
Ex Governor James H. Peabody and his daughter Miss Cora left for Denver en route to Boise Idaho to testify for the People in The People v Haywood over the Steunenberg murder. Peabody had just returned from Kansas City. A Cripple Creek excursion costs 1.50 round trip.
Cripple Creek June 8 Mrs Ida Toney the woman Harry Orchard married travels to Boise to testify for the defense She will claim she was a Pinkerton detective at the time of marriage and that Orchard's home was never searched by the militia while others near by were searched and considered him a strike leader
San Francisco June 8 Fred Bradley former manager of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines in the Coeur d Alenes said Orchard's statement fits his experience. He said the attempt to poison him with strychnine in the milk was thwarted by his habit of rising early and breakfast before anyone else in the house.
Bradley recounts a near fatal blast at his home after an explosion he links to a dynamite device and possible gas ignition. He says he spat out bitter milk minutes before and had others move items away to save innocent lives. He is badly injured but lives to tell the account.
Timeline recounts Orchard’s claims about murders and attempts to kill officials in 1904 1905 including Detective Lyte in Denver and Governor Peabody. It notes bombings and plots aimed at Judge Gabbert Goddard and Gov Steunenberg with several failed or misdirected attacks.
Washington reports civil war veterans are removed from federal pension rolls at about 200 daily, with 120 daily deaths also shrinking rolls. A March 27 ruling adds fifty removals by counting only ninety days of actual service, affecting Illinois regiments including the mechanics fusiliers.
A wartime dispute hinges on whether certain Union frontier soldiers held as prisoners and later enlisted are entitled to ninety days of service. Ohio Twenty second Regiment pension papers face delays as rulings demand full actual service and flag furlough periods as fatal defects delaying many claims under a new law.
Denver May 7. Attorney General Dickson will file collection suits against about fifteen thousand corporations that have not paid the state flat tax by next month. The law now requires two cents per thousand dollars of capital stock uniformly for foreign and domestic firms, with no exemption for capital under twenty five thousand dollars.
Mrs. Alvin Potter whose husband is jailed in Glenwood on train robbery charges had two of her children committed to the Teller institute as Indian children. Government officials investigated and ruled they are not Indian children and ordered their removal.
Washington reports important changes in the Denver mint will be announced by Mint Director Roberts early next week. Roberts, after reviewing the investigating committee’s recommendations, will disclose the extent of changes when ready but cannot provide details at present.
Representatives of American industries oppose the terms of the new reciprocal trade agreement with Germany proclaimed by President Roosevelt. Led by the American Protective Tariff League with Textile Importers' support, John B Wise will test the treaty's legality, arguing the executive and state department exceeded constitutional powers and modified the Dingley tariff, usurping Congress.
July 1 marks the date the new trade agreement takes effect allowing identification of specific damage to American interests. The clause enables showing and measuring harm once in force.
Denver June 7 The state land board opens an inquiry into three quarter sections of agricultural land bought by George M Davis two years ago and later assigned to James L Hurt in Rio Grande county The board sold the land for 3.50 an acre A later finding shows application records were altered and a lease was secured on different lands worth 20 an acre The original land description was scratched and a new one inserted The investigation may reveal more serious charges ahead.
The probate court ruled Nicholi De Raylan, long thought male and once Russian consulate attache, was a woman. The decision bars Mrs De Raylan from the estate worth about 6000 dollars. Witnesses traced the exhumed Phoenix body and the late patient’s physician noted the sex only after death.
A collection of pithy opinions and anecdotes on presidential contenders, railroad finance, sugar tariffs, and a racial preacher. Notable notes include a jab at a Democratic candidate, thoughts on Governor Hughes, and a humorous account of a preacher named Pompey Johnson known as the Lord's Warhorse.
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