Electrician Killed Instantly at Pueblo Steel Plant
Fred J. Mitchell a 40 year old Minnequa steel plant electrician was fatally struck by an electric crane while on a ladder. He fell and the crane struck his head causing instant death. Coroner J J McDonnell will investigate the accident. Mitchell lived at 713 Euclid Avenue with his wife and children and belonged to the Knights of Pythias.
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Fred J. Mitchell
Minnequa
Mitchell
J. J. McDonnell
Euclid Avenue
Knights of Pythias
State highway to be completed into Trinidad
County commissioners approved transferring 2000 dollars from the good roads fund to extend the state highway from near Starkville to Trinidad. Total funding nears 4200 dollars with existing appropriations, plus over 9000 dollars raised locally. Convicts will be kept in the area to speed construction, with Warden Tynan due soon to assess needs and possibly send forty or more additional convicts.
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Trinidad
Starkville
General Assembly
New Mexico
Canon City
Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners
Tynan
State Penitentiary
Hailstorm Causes Damage Around Trinidad
A severe hailstorm hit Trinidad and surrounding areas around 2 PM causing extensive damage to trees and gardens. A telegraph operator, Robert Schaefer of the Postal Telegraph, was struck by lightning and thrown seven feet from his desk. No alfalfa crop damage was reported in Sunflower valley.
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Trinidad
Robert Schaefer
Postal Telegraph Company
Sunflower
The Street Corner Notes on Tender Hearts and Quarrels
A Canon couple report four quarrels in forty years over coffee religion and a husband’s flirtation. A playful critique of the “Lovely Lady” image who cries over animals yet orders late groceries, causing tired grocers and horses to toil into midnight.
Marshal D J Houston’s California Visit Highlights
City Marshal D J Houston returned from San Francisco after two to three weeks touring the Pacific coast with Edward Hildebrand, a deserter from the U S Navy. He traced through San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Pasadena and into Old Mexico, noting unemployment and city rebuilding after the recent disaster. In Frisco he observed the Calhoun graft case, questioned Spreckels motive, and reported police reluctance about conviction.
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D. J. Houston
San Francisco
Edward Hildebrand
United States Navy
Mare Island
Mr. Houston
Pacific Coast
San Diego
San Jose
Santa Cruz
Los Angeles
Passadena
Houston
Col. Geo. T. Crozier
Frisco
Calhoun
Spreckels
Thaw Habeas Corpus Writ May Free Him
Harry K Thaw may win liberty from Matteawan asylum after Justice William J Gaynor granted a new habeas corpus writ returnable at White Plains. Writ served on superintendent Dr Robert Lamb demanding Thaw be produced in court Thursday.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Stanford White
William J. Gaynor
Brooklyn
Appellate District Supreme Court
Mills
Supreme Court
White Plains
N. Y
Poughkeepsie
State
Thaw
Justice Mills
Tompkins
Nyack
Jerome
New York County
Gaynor
Matteawan
Wanted stock cattle for Denver real estate exchange
Advertisement seeks cattle in any amount in exchange for Teller county Denver real estate at market prices. C B Rich 610 Empire Bldg Denver Colo requests cattle delivered to Teller County and offers a city map of lots. Also includes a rapid rundown of U S wealth from 1850 to 1904.
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Denver
Teller County
C. B. Rich
Empire
Colo
Hold-Up Men Plead Guilty in Cripple Creek Robbery Case
Victor DeBoise, William Jackson, and James Doyle pleaded guilty to robbery in district court after arrest in Colorado Springs for holding up miner Henry A Wagner in a box car near Love. They confessed to tossing three men from a moving Denver Rio Grande train near the penitentiary city, with a murder charge possible in Canon City.
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Cripple Creek
Victor DeBoise
Wm. Jackson
James Doyle
Colorado Springs
Henry A. Wagner
Love
W. S. Morris
von Phul
H. Wagner
Ferguson
Canon City
Freeman Chester
Chester
Denver
Rio Grande
Penitentiary City
el Paso County
District Attorney Weds Widow in Kansas City
Fremont Park Chaffee and Custer counties district attorney James T. Locke wed Laura Virginia Girard Monday night in Kansas City at the bride’s parents home. The bride has ties to this city and Florence. her father is a retired Kansas City merchant. The couple will travel to Canon City Friday.
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James T. Locke
Fremont
Park
Chaffee
Custer
Kansas City
Laura Virginia Girard
J. H. Brown
Florence
Pleasant Hay-Rack Ride Draws City Youth
A crowd of young residents enjoyed a hay-rack ride last Monday night. They chartered a hay rack and shared a lunch, with attendees including Rose Lines, Veda Ragsdale, Lelia Armstrong, Verna Elghmey, Fern Armstrong, Helen Thompson, Elsie Armstrong, Merv McClain, Lelia Dickinson, Fanny Thompson, John Saviers, Will Sweigert, Albert Garlinghouse, Clyde Biggs, Herman Graves, Burdon Sherill, Lawrence Raynolds, Maryin Smith and Jim Biggs.
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Rose Lines
Veda Ragsdale
Lelia Armstrong
Verna Elghmey
Fern Armstrong
Helen Thompson
Elsie Armstrong
Merv McClain
Lelia Dickinson
Fanny Thompson
John Saviers
Will Sweigert
Albert Garlinghouse
Clyde Biggs
Herman Graves
Burdon Sherill
Lawrence Raynolds
Maryin Smith
Jim Biggs
Reception and Banquet by South Canon Alumni
The South Canon High School Alumni Association holds its annual reception and banquet at the Hotel Denton Friday night. The school, organized in 1891, has issued diplomas to about 150 graduates. Genevieve Tripp of Lincoln Park is the association president.
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South Canon High School Alumni Association
Denton
South Canon High School
Genevieve
Tripp
Lincoln Park
Baby Rescued From Ditch After Cradle Accident
Florence June 16 A 2 year old son of Mr and Mrs Roath of West Florence fell into an irrigation ditch while playing a nearby workman heard splashing and rescued the child saving it from drowning. Jack Hawkins is jailed here on a board bill dispute with Elite restaurant.
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Florence
Jack Hawkins
Cripple Creek
Hawkins
Opera House
B. B. Livingstone
John Chetelat
Mount 8st Scholastical Needlework Exhibit Set
The pupils will display their needlework from the past term in the afternoon and evening of June 17. Friends of the institution are invited to view the exhibition. A Daily Record wants des news. one line.
Denver Gas Plant Disaster Kills Five
Denver suffers the worst accident in years as a boiler explosion at the Denver Gas and Electric plant kills four workers and injures nine others. The outage plunges the city into darkness for weeks while rescue crews search rubble and authorities assess damage estimated near $300,000.
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Denver
Denver Gas and Electric Company
Jos. Perri
Harry Lisher
Lawence Sexton
Arthur Richardson
Miner Crushed by Fall at Canfield Mine
Thomas Hay, a Scot arriving recently at coal creek Canfield mine, was badly injured when a 500 pound lump fell from a slope entry crushing his breast pinning him against timber. He suffered a crushed head and broken ribs and was aided after several minutes by nearby workers.
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Florence
Thomas Hay
Canfield
Coal Creek
Hay
Scotland
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Marshal D. J. Houston
California
United States
Gripple Creek
Baby
Mount
Daily Record
Tramway Company
Albany
Dresden
Frey & Collins
Eureka
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