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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1902
Page
2
The Register column humorously catalogues fanciful schemes and celebrity gossipy tidbits. It jokes about Hobson salaries for banks paroling, a Labrador port for Jim Hill, and young Vanderbilt’s crash. It lampoons Tsar Nicholas, Balforf laziness, Greenland purchase talk, and Miss Alice Roosevelt’s six suitors.
Short telegrams report slight tremors in central Portugal on the 5th. A fire in Washington Louisiana on August 5 destroyed 35 buildings. Carnegie presented Acton library to John Morley. Marconi wireless gear ordered on all warships. Cotton condition 81.9 per cent. Paragua governor appointed. Oil-fired engines for Columbia Southern Railway. Irish leaders to visit America September 15. Victor Emmanuel aided St Mark's Campanile restoration. St Pauls risk of collapse noted. Ex senator Don Cameron injured in Scotland. Genoa Pisa quake with underground rumblings but no damage. Prussia installs ambulance cars on railways. Japan rearming and selling rifles to China. Beardshear dies in Ames. Hayti insurrection nearing end. Louisiana Exposition secures Tesson tract. Kipling buys country home near Tunbridge Wells. Frankfort crown building crumbling. California decree legalizes marriage of divorcees within a year. Westminster Abbey visit open post coronation. Windstorm damages tower cranes at fair site. Hawaii tax on Queen Liliuokalani income. Paris dirigible donor hurt in crash. Steel workers strike settled at 50 cents. Ziegler cites cryptic cable from Tromsoe. Paris court fines Echo de Paris for libel. Kansas Supreme Court mandamus next. Indiana tax roll increases for transport firms. Johannesburg protests Chinese labor import in colony.
Spokane reports Harry Tracy, the famed outlaw, ended his pursuit after a long manhunt across Oregon and Washington. Cornered near Fellows, he shot himself in a wheat field with a 45 Colt, his body found at dawn clutching his revolver. The list of his crimes spans years across multiple states, ending August 6.
South Haven, Aug 7. Mr and Mrs Join Shandrow of South Haven have adopted eleven children from an orphan asylum and keep twenty two in all. Not all are infants some are old enough for school. They have a 100 acre fruit farm and regret that they never had children of their own. Mrs Shandrow inspired by a summer outing plan chose from a small Minneapolis Smith foundling hospital. The institution sent over twenty two children over three years old. The Shandrows are devout Methodists and found it amusing to discover their faith aligns with their unusual family.
Part of the children had never been baptized. The minister was summoned and eight of the little ones were christened at once. They have decided to adopt eleven of them, whom they are excessively fond of.
The Democratic state central committee met at the St James hotel and set the state convention for September 3 in Denver. Delegates total 897 under a new apportionment expanding rain belt county representation. A rules pamphlet by Milton Smith was referred to a five member committee for report. Mrs Mary C C Bradford spoke for the Jane Jefferson Democratic Women's club and announced expansion from Arapahoe county statewide.
Rome reports the Vatican cites an Associated Press interview with Archbishop Ireland noting the Pope and Roman authorities praise Governor Taft’s negotiations. Washington confirms friars’ lands in the Philippines were largely sold to American‑backed corporations, with friars holding minority shares and no controlling interests. Secretary Root instructs Taft to list land titles merged into corporate stock after a potential settlement.
Denver magnates claim Pueblo will join the Western League next year while August sights include the first Rock Ford cantaloupe crate in Denver. A Rocky Ford couple abandons a runaway plan. Ouray doctors lose a baseball game. 27,000 tourists estimated statewide. Fire at Gilman, Crested Butte power house blaze, resignations, Watermelon Day prep, and regional deaths mark a busy Colorado slate in early August.
Governor James B. Orman issues Colorado's first Labor Day proclamation designating Monday, September 1, 1902 as a holiday. He urges statewide rest from labor and suggests fitting recreations, praising industrial progress and the dignity of labor.
The Colorado Republican state central committee set the state convention for September 4 in Denver and authorized date changes if needed. A new apportionment of 937 delegates aims to exceed the Democratic count by August. Chairman D. B. Fairley led the first convention, with many new faces and telegrams citing rail delays hindering attendance, especially from southern and western slopes.
A. F. Leach, special agent, announces that fences around government land must be removed and kept down. The government can fine up to 100 dollars for fencing on public property, and enforcement will begin. He cites thirty southern Colorado owners with about 10,000 acres fenced and notes the work will take time to complete.
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