Money Found on Wanderer Sparks tale of loss and travel
Scott Decker a Carr ranchman recounts finding an elderly wanderer with about twelve thousand dollars in cash and checks after a train stop. The man was later found dead in Denver with under six hundred dollars reported. Decker indicates the man likely carried more, while authorities and relatives search for the owner. The incident highlights confusion over stranded funds and identity amid railway travel.
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Scott Decker
Denver
Carr
Greeley Yestrday
Chicago
Harry Horne
Decker
Denver Taboration
Den
Nie
Colorado Springs
Water Color Display Tomorrow at Unity Church Parlor
Tomorrow at Unity church parlors a water color exhibition features over 200 works by Mrs. B. B. LaCount a noted artist and traveler. Her landscapes capture scenes from Maine to California and from Augustine to Seattle reflecting nature direct from observation.
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Hudson
Adirondacks
Unity Church
B. B. LaCount
Union
Maine
California
Agustine
Seattle
Commercial club plans May banquet and alcohol plant project
The Commercial club directors set May 3 as their next banquet date and formed a committee to request Colorado Agricultural College's help in moving an experimental alcohol plant from Washington. Secretary Wilson indicated state use of the plant to study potato alcohol production, with removal costs covered by a new $10,000 state appropriation for the potato industry, funds possibly covering the project.
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Commercial Club
New Greeley Enterprises
House Committee
Messrs. Kinsella, Lindner
Ernest Bliss
Colorado Agricultural College
Washington
Wilson
Colorado
New School Districts Form Across County
On Saturday a new District No. 82 was created by splitting part of the Roggen district, with another new District No. 81 formed in the Box Hider valley. Three more districts may emerge in weeks as the county shows rapid growth. Prof. E C Mauger of Denver arrived to fill the business college vacancy left by Frank Fleet.
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Big Roggen
Roggen
Box Hider
E. C. Mauger
Denver
Business College
Hiness
Frank Fieet
Daily Tribune Promises Detailed Circulation Statement
The Daily Tribune vows to publish a complete circulation statement, showing print run and post-print usage. It pledges to publish a similar report next month with a bank-backed guarantee and asserts advertisers will know what they pay for, estimating more than two thousand daily copies.
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Daily Tribune
Advertiser
Tribune
Greeley National Bank
Greeley
Sarantee
Face to Face with Death Mrs Potter Passes After Abdominal Rupture
Mrs Ellen Potter died at the city hospital at 8 p m Monday after an operation for abdominal rupture. Weighed nearly four hundred pounds she had previously asked not to grieve if death came. Born in Vincennes Ind in 1852 she married three times and left one son John Potter now King in North Dakota and two daughters Mrs Ernest Kruse and Mrs William Kruse. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
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Ellen Potter
City Hospital
Ernest Kruse
Potter
Vincennes
Ind
Wiliam Wilson
John Potter
King
North Dakota
Ernest
Alton Packard Delivers Auctionlike Vaudeville Night at M B Church
Alton Packard, noted cartoonist and vaudeville performer, headlined a Monday night event at the M B church. He mixed cartoons, storytelling, and philosophy with songs and audience feedback. Trudy Cameron prompted lecture-course interest for next year as Cameron introduced the evening speaker.
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Alton Packard
M. EB
Opie
Juliet
Packard
Romeo
Trudy Cameron
Mr. Cameron
First New Town on Laramie Road Laid Out Near Hillsboro
The Northwestern Land & Iron company plans a new town on 820 acres near Hillsboro at the Denver Laramie route. The two main streets will be 80 feet wide with 70-foot business streets and 5.5 foot parking on each side. It will serve as sugar factory line terminal and junction for Denver Laramie & Northwestern branches to Wellington and Greeley with Y grade completed.
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Denver Laramie
Hillsboro
Greeley
Laramie
Northwestern Land & Iron Company
Union Pacific
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern
Wellington
Conspiracy Trial Trails Trades For Stock In Loans and Lands
Denver and Laramie officials press charges as documents from Kansas Oklahoma Missouri and Colorado surface. A classified ad offers 10000 in stock of the Northwestern Land & Iron Co and shares of the Denver Laramie & Northwestern Railway for lands or property or autos or livestock. John Williams of Denver is scrutinized as a possible alias for Tillotson amid testimony from a National Advertising official about ad placement and post office box use.
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Denver and
Laramie
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Colorado
Greeley Tribune
Northwestern Land & Iron Company
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railway Company
Old Mexico
John Williams
P. O
Denver
Colo
Paul Ek. Richter
National Advertising Agency
Iams
Williams
Richter
Mr. Richter
Horace Phelps
Tillotson
Harvey Riddell
Phelps
Paul Sours
Mr. Tillotson
George S. Hawkins
A. M. Stevenson
Alexander Malmrose
Malmrose
April blizzard claims Mexican sheepman near Trinidad
Jose Manzanarius, a Mexican shepherd living north of Trinchera, died after an April blizzard. He traveled from Trinidad on Saturday to meet his family, but they missed him at Trinchera station. Weak and burdened, he walked home twelve miles, dying from freezing with supplies scattered along the trail. This may be the first recorded April death from freezing on Colorado prairie.
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Datty Tribune
Trinidad
Colo
Jose Manzanarius
Trinchera
Colorado
Remains Arrive in Greeley for Grace Gale-Clark Funeral
Fred Gale formerly of Greeley now in Los Angeles arrived in Greeley to arrange the funeral of his sister Grace Gale-Clark who died in Bombay. The remains were cremated and shipped to Greeley with a funeral planned upon arrival in the next few days. Gale will stay in Greeley weeks to attend to several local interests.
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Greeley
Fred Gale
Los Angeles
Grace Gale-Clark
Bombay
Gale
White Lateral ditch company reelects officers
The White Lateral ditch company held its annual meeting at the LaGrange school house Monday night. Officers were reelected with Warren Morse as president and Mrs. C. H. Mulford as secretary. T. H. Robinson will again oversee ditch operations this summer.
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LaGrange
White Lateral Ditch Company
LaGrange School House
Warren Morse
C. H. Mulford
T. H. Robinson
Three Boys Fined For Being Drunk In City
Four youths arrested for drunkenness Sunday night faced the police magistrate. One with a prior offense paid $1 plus costs for drunk and $5 for disturbing the peace. two others were fined $5 each. the fourth was discharged for not meeting the legal drunkenness threshold. They claimed cider use while a Jamaica ginger bottle was found with one. Officials plan a test case against the druggist selling it. rumors say cider joints handle the drug. The magistrate warned others after officers reported youths seeking cider joints and faking intoxication to disgrace the city.
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Jamaica
Condon Thompson Supply Company Incorporation Formed
Articles filed for Condon Thompson Supply with capital stock of 50000. Founders A J Condon Albert W Thompson and Alice W Thompson plan to run machinery and commissary for the irrigation project near Sterling and the Greeley Poudre enterprise set to start within thirty days. District board to meet at Attorney Te w s office to perfect organization and set bond election date. Articles also filed for The New Boyd Lateral company.
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Condon-Thompson Supply Company
A. J. Condon
Albert W. Thompson
Alice W. Thompson
Sterling
Greeley- Poudre
Attorney Tew
Bucking Uncle Sam: Pass Theft and Interstate Crime
United States Marshal Thomas Clark moved Fred Case from Colorado to Denver on charges of violating the interstate commerce law by using a stolen railroad pass. Two Grand Junction men faced similar charges a day earlier. Case, a former Union Pacific fireman, allegedly stole a pass from a companion and rode to Denver, with fraud discovered in Greeley. The Grand Junction arrests involved a clerk who exploited surplus passes and a local ticket scalper, each liable for interstate commerce violations.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Thomas Clark
Fred Case
Denver
Grand Junction
Colorado
Union Pacific
Laramie
Case
Greeley
Slaughter House Under Construction Near LaSalle
David Stewart begins a slaughter house about three quarters of a mile from LaSalle. It is the first such facility in the area. Sand from the well he is drilling is used to grade the low area in front of the shop.
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LaSalle
David Stewart
Sheep Car Exports Move From Greeley to Eastern Markets
Seventy five cars of sheep left Greeley for the eastern market yesterday, chiefly bound for Chicago. Colorado & Southern sent fifty two cars, with the remainder from Union Pacific lines. The district retains remaining stock scheduled for shipment within ten days, with twelve cars on Union Pacific and the rest on the Southern line toward Collins.
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Greeley
Chicago
Colorado & Southern
Union Pacific
Ault
Collins
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LaCount
Ion
Box Rider Valley
Krogwen
Braves
Hope
Alton Packard, Cartoonist
Laramie Road
Laramie’s
Hunting the Advertiser
Commissary Corporation
Fred
Grealey
Majoriy
Mary F. Rausch
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