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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
10
Fre mont county schools start classes across many districts with minimal absences. Teachers returned from summer study and many districts report repairs, supplies, and a strong outlook for a productive year.
Cripple Creek district miners continued a strike over the card system with an estimated 500 quitting. Union initiative expanded at Victor with 53 new members and Cripple Creek saw 180 join. Owners reportedly seek replacements, with 110 quit at Portland property and 30 timbermen hired for 78, as unions reach across multiple mines and leases.
Canon City and South Canon opened for the term with higher attendance than last year, though enrollment figures were not yet released. Teachers were largely present with only two absences in the Washington school, one due to illness.
Union men report 800 workers not yet removed from the mine as orders compel every miner to carry a working card. A miner who had left with a card was refused entry to the shaft until he showed the card and went to work.
Denver reports tell of the Bostonian Opera company failing on tour through Colorado and Idaho. Miss Ellen Brooks and Miss Thes Austin abandoned the stranded troupe at Walsenburg after months of hard travel and unpaid salaries. Mrs. Harry D. Allen attempted suicide. the two singers fled with $16 remaining.
Cripple Creek Colorado September 2 sixty thousand trout fry from the native breed were released into East Beaver Creek at Clyde by officials of the Colorado and Cripple Creek railway the Short Line. The stream near its base in Pike County has tributaries and fishing here has been excellent amid Copper era debates.
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