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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
4
A Colorado Agricultural College report details warm well vented poultry houses facing south with double walls and burlap vents, nests under dropping boards and scratching sheds. It notes breeding efficiency around 55 percent hatch and 60 percent egg yield, plus feed regimens and space guidelines.
In district court this morning, Mr N E Barnes of Barnes City sues New York City dentist G Lennox Curtis. Dawson Stump defend for Barnes. Jeffrey Stinemeyer for complainant. Curtis offered ozone electric baths from December 1903. Mrs Barnes and her daughters sometimes accompanied in the cabinet. The dentist also pitched a patent to Barnes.
A Florence area report describes small animals resembling kangaroos found on Boggs' flat near Florence. Four inches long with six and a half inch tails hop on hind legs, feed on Australian corn, one killed and mounted in Pueblo. Farmers show interest while corn crops suffer.
Mrs. E. H. Williams state vice-president of Rebecca’s attended an official visit with Mrs. Ackerman state president and Mrs. Beggs state secretary to the Cripple Creek district. Norval Regison returns home from U M C Kansas City. Roy Bernhart visits from St. Louis. Mr Cater homeschools a measles case. Mr McNary moves to a new house at Highland and Florence. W C Smith builds a cement cistern. visitor notes include Denver stop at Hotel Alamo corner Seventeenth and Annie Lane.
South Canon High School won 93 to 41 over Pueblo at the Centennial track meet. Standout scorer Stanley Watt led with 25 points, followed by Roscoe West with 21 and John Sullivan with 15. Events featured include 100 yard dash, pole vault, discus, hammer, relay, and high jump with multiple Pueblo and South Canon athletes placing.
Coroner and district attorney lean toward an accidental death after two revolvers were found, one loaded, one empty, with Mrs Bowen suspected of a careless act to scare her husband. She planned to move to Butte, Montana, after a promotion for her husband.
Antone Bavari, the noted multi murderer, was taken to prison Saturday afternoon after Judge M. Bailey sentenced him to life imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary under its regulations. The court room held about twenty spectators including Bavari's attorney G. W. Wilkes.
A 1908 humorous forecast details May with playful prophecies about Taft Roosevelt Cannon Rockefeller and others. It spins playful lines about weather, fertility, and political hints, ending with John D. Rockefeller paying a large installment.
A public appeal urges all to curb spitting by sending a two cent stamp for a unique hanger card from Comicoards Co. in St. Louis. The card warns against spitting nuisances and aims to be memorable.
A federal circular from Fred Dennett, commissioner of the general land office, outlines that desert land entries made before March 26, 1900 may be reentered if they were lost, forfeited, abandoned, or not canceled for fraud. It restricts assignments to individuals qualified to enter and bars corporate or association transfers. If an entry is delayed by irrigation work, proof of compliance without fault may be accepted with a supporting affidavit.
The land office offers locators more time, up to three years, to complete entries. The March 26 1908 act governs desert land entries and homesteads, adding barriers to corporate absorption but aiding bona fide settlers to finish filings and secure a home.
The T. B. Outing club held its first picnic of the season last Sunday at a cabin among pinons on an old mining claim near Twin Mountains. Attendees included the Aldersons Allisons Carvers Proctors and several gentlemen named Alderson Boyer Dawson Ellwood Hempill Stewart Webb and Scott.
Colorado has shifted from seeking eastern funding to relying on home capital for large projects. Daily announcements reveal new schemes backed by Colorado money, including a massive plan for developing the Arkansas Valley with irrigation, electric power, and an interurban electric railway at an outlay of 16.2 million dollars.
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