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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1902
Page
2
The Register parodies politics and society with quips on John L. Sullivan, the Kaiser sons, Castro, the Philippines, marriages, divorces, and social trends. It mocks public figures and events from Philadelphia to Washington, reporting snippets on theater, sports, etiquette, and new feats in a brisk, satirical tone.
The Roosevelts hosted a Christmas dinner in the state dining room with figures including Senator Lodge and family. The president decided not to send the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the House, instead leaving consideration to Senate ratification and enabling legislation.
In Denver, Dec 28, the Secretary of State received wholesale election contest filings aimed at shifting control of the next House to Republicans. Contests target eleven Arapahoe representatives and related officials, plus two Las Animas contests and a Senate contest, with more cases expected. Names, charges of fraud in registration, intimidation, and ballot manipulation populate the filings.
Denver dispatch reports Smuggler Union has resumed operations at Pandora with eighty stamps running since Saturday morning. About 140 miners work Bullion tunnel level and thirty at Contention mine Bear Creek while contract system ends and day labor begins. Mill employs twenty. combined ore output targets 300 tons daily, with Con tention supplying about 100 and Bullion 200 to 225 tons. Community optimism rises as new management gains support. O B Kemp is general superintendent, C I Carruthers becomes chief clerk, Owen Johnson steps in, Mel Robbins is mine foreman, and W R McKenzie night foreman.
The Soldiers and Sailors' Home Commission urged the governor to increase appropriations. They seek permission for destitute wives and families to live at the home, with plans for cottages, an electric light plant, and other improvements. The annual report shows 170 inmates, with careful budgeting to cover expenses. Permanent gains include hospital addition, assembly building, barns, a 200 tree orchard, and ground improvements. Gardening supplied most vegetables and fodder. administration praised for frugal management.
A Telluride special says the Barney seen in Denver is not W. J. Barney who vanished from Telluride. The man in Denver is N. B. Barney a Telluride hotel clerk visiting East and has no relation to the murdered W. J. Barney.
The will of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant is filed and the estate divided into four equal shares. A thousand year old Empress of Japan memento goes to the Museum of Arts, New York. Gen. Fred D. Grant is executor chosen by the three sons. Ellen Sartoris receives a life interest with her children to share thereafter.
A wreck on the Grand Trunk railway near Wanstead in Ontario stranded two trains the Pacific express and a freight. Two locomotives toppled, the baggage car telescoped the smoker, and twenty eight people were killed with many more injured. Officials cite a probable telegraph operator error as the deadly cause.
W. J. Bryan in Mexico City on December 29 engaged in sightseeing and official calls. He met President Diaz and Finance Minister Limantour. Mrs. Bryan and children visited the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The party traveled by train to Cordova and will proceed to Alfred Bishop Mason's hacienda in Yale via the Vera Cruz and Pacific road, returning Tuesday. The Mexican government has not sought his views on silver, as they are well known.
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