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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1901
Page
2
The Register notes a volley of quips on politics theater law and society. It quips about Congress ending football season, King Edward coronation scenes by an American artist, Vanderbilt heirs, whisky from watermelons, and uplift of the colored race. It cites a Paris Vienna auto race danger, Aguinaldo Funston Philippines, and a New Jersey Sunday theater ban. It ends with lines on education social development and a pork price omen.
St Johns N F December 15 William Marconi announced a wondrous discovery as he said he had received signals across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall England He arranged signals with Poldhu station and used a kite aerial to send and receive material signals showing a genuine transmission from England The experiment confirms transatlantic wireless potential though the system remains embryonic and requires powerful equipment for return signals from Newfoundland to Cornwall.
Philadelphia reports a severe December storm unmatched in twenty-five years, causing four deaths and immense damage across eastern and central Pennsylvania. Rivers rose fifteen feet, rail lines were washed out, bridges swept away, and coal regions suffered heavy losses. labor convention delegates were stranded in Scranton.
Washington report notes a Western-backed irrigation bill completed by a congressional committee. The measure creates a land reclamation fund, sets reservoir sites and water rights, limits costs to ten dollars per acre, and assigns management to landowners who pay. Interior action, condemnation power, and state law compatibility are outlined, with note of possible conflicts with existing state laws.
Isador Rayner expressed keen disappointment at the court of inquiry findings in Baltimore. He plans to travel to Washington when possible and will counsel Admiral Schley to pursue every appeal to overturn the judgment. Rayner said the country will likely accept Admiral Dewey’s judgment and believes the majority view mistrusts the court’s conclusions. He intends to urge appeals through Congress and other channels.
Stockholm December 15. Professor Dehring a recent Nobel medical prize recipient announced that his experiments show cattle can be made immune to tuberculosis through inoculation. He said he would use the prize money of 150,000 kroner to aid in fighting cattle tuberculosis.
A Nkandhla dispatch dated December 5 reports General Louis Botha was shot through the left leg below the knee near Luneburg in Transvaal and escaped by crawling into the brush. His followers say they do not know his current whereabouts. The British reportedly took eighty prisoners.
The Independence Belge reports Dr Sylvestre, once an American, now a naturalized French physician, has invented a spectrograph enabling telephone users to see each other.
Colorado notes report telephone line progress linking Holyoke to long distance stations and new postmasters in Aspen, Leadville, and Sterling. Denver Daily News moves to Welton Street. Florence mayor John Jacobs resigns. Fort Morgan beet sugar factory drive gains traction. gov Prince opens Cripple Creek hearings. local court case over loco weed damages seeks $15,000.
Washington reports the Schley court of inquiry findings with two reports, majority condemning Schley on eleven points while Admiral Dewey supports most facts and asserts praise for the victory. Dewey and Schley react. Dewey declines further comment, remaining bound by secrecy.
In Scranton on December 14 the Federation of Labor convention debated the Negro question in the South and the rift between socialists and trade unionists. Debates covered national union organizing and excluding non affiliate groups. Gompers condemned attempts to paint trade unionism as a failure while leaders pressed for stronger child labor laws and a centralized fund. A resolution mandating local unions join central bodies was defeated after debate led by Charles Eckard, who warned it would push Southern white unions to secede.
Boston hosts the twenty first annual National Civil Service Reform League session with remarks from Harvard President Eliot Carl Schurz Dr Daniel C Gilman and William Dudley Foulke. They praise reforms and argue civil service reduces spoils and aids meritorious candidates, noting potential use by schools and churches and highlighting Roosevelt as a leading reformer.
The American Federation of Catholic Societies finished a three day session in Cincinnati and adjourned to meet in Chicago on July 15, 1902. Officers elected include President T B Minehan of Columbus, vice presidents T J Kaufmann and T H Cannon, secretary Anthony Matre, and treasurer H J Fries. The federation may exceed a million members across affiliated bodies by next July. The annual conventions will be held on the third Tuesday in July under the new constitution. Minehan previously led the Ohio federation with over 40,000 members.
A Denver Republican dispatch reports oil found within twenty two miles of Grand Junction. The Chicago Development Company drilled Salt Wash well eleven miles northwest of Fruita near the Utah line at sixty feet. Backed by Chicago capitalists, three carloads of apparatus arrived at Fruita weeks ago and drilling has begun. Depths remain shallow but a stronger strike is hoped deeper. The firm plans to sink until a steady flow is secured.
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