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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1903
Page
2
A collage of satirical items and brief notices from The Register noting Kipling, Marconi, Tolstoi, and Morgan. It mentions Venezuela, Kentucky water woes, tombstone portraits, Barnum’s midget Gen Peanuts, and a mix of international intrigue, science, and society gossip with light commentary on war cables and naval recruitment.
A summary of bills introduced in the Colorado House on January 29 and 30 includes measures to regulate osteopathy, fund bridges and roads, regulate labor for wells, improve public roads, appoint bailiffs, maintain the State School for Neglected Children, protect irrigation streams, register voters in large cities, defend the Colorado Kansas water suit, regulate parole laws, repeal the State Board of Pardons, grant temporary water rights jurisdiction, tighten pure food laws, prevent water rights transfers, fund Colorado University, fix university salaries, add a tax or levy for the state university, and set salaries and residency rules for corporation boards. A notable proposal seeks to raise the personal property exemption for poor taxpayers from $200 to $200 with broader protections.
A list of Senate bills introduced on January 29th includes S. B. 115 Buckley establishing a state board of commissioners, S. B. 116 Copp clarifying city liability for injuries, S. B. 18 Drake allocating 75000 for a building at State Agricultural College, S. B. 119 Graves creating a civil service commission, Ss. B. 121 Kennedy proposing an elective mines commissioner, S. B. 122 Lewis appropriating 355500 for the insane asylum, S. B. 128 and 129 Rush on the State Industrial School for Girls, Ss. B. 1280 Rush merging corporations, S. B. 188 Seldomridge creating a state auditing board, S. B. 135 Taylor on ditches and water rights, S. B. 136 Taylor establishing water division No 7, and S. B. 140 West repealing the State Board of Arbitration.
A long list of House bills introduced on January 28 featuring members Tompkins Fleming Breckenridge Church Belford Dinkel Haskins White Pace Kelley Ryan and others. Bills cover meat inspection bridge and road work water claims branding of livestock licensing and state veterinary funding among topics. Several measures propose constitutional amendments and new offices or regulatory authority.
A list of House Bills introduced on January 27 includes H B No 95 to 112 with topics ranging from game laws and fish hatcheries to wagon roads irrigation divisions and a state college building. Notable items include direct legislation amendment constitutional changes and funding for education and infrastructure.
E L Meyers of Antonito plans a 40000 dollar Denver building. Brown Palace to adopt European plan. Grand hotel Pueblo to be improved with bath house. Lee Fairbanks reappointed to Del Norte land office. Ban croft will leaves 1200 to Denver Old Ladies Home. Colorado College and University of Nebraska to debate next spring. Colorado Springs Chamber directors re-elected. Denver reports wholesale dog poisoning. Colorado football team plans ten day trip through Kansas and Nebraska. January building permits total 379635, up 94080 from 1902. Denver Box plant burned, 15000 dollar loss. Miss Cora Fay in the Philippines granted three months vacation. Montrose to get rural free delivery routes. Mrs Anna Brandt withdraws bid for superintendent. Colorado Telephone to extend line to Hardscrabble and Wetmore. Knights of Pythias set grand February 19 celebration. Colorado Condensed Milk bought by Mohawk Condensed Milk. American Bonding pays Hambaugh shortage. Austrians to work on Moffat railroad. more carloads expected. Poisoned coyotes kill six and a wolf carcass found. State Board of Medical Examiners named. January land office volume 11182. Land timber lands 4200, coal lands 1600. Twelfth annual State Equal Suffrage Assoc met. Emmons re-elected president. Bricklayers wage dispute persists. contractors resist union demands. Denver February average 32 degrees. highest 71 in 1890. Colorado Springs game protection advocate Wallihan urges action to save wildlife.
Waterbury February 1 six companies of the Connecticut National Guard and two Gatling guns were called to Waterbury by Governor Chamberlain due to a trolley strike and threats of violence. Crowds disrupted streets but no cars were run after dusk as non union motormen were housed at the barns amid police dispersal.
Washington report says Britain Germany and Italy proposed a temporary concession in Venezuela indemnity talks. The plan would give allied powers 30 percent of Porto Cabello and La Guayra customs for six months to a year, then share further according to claims. France could block or extend the deadlock.
Washington reports Col J H Bingham assistant secretary of agriculture argues high beef prices are artificial. He says cattle prices should drop 25 to 40 percent and that increasing herd sizes and redirecting grain to livestock could raise meat supply, boosting farmer income and consumer access. He notes Chicago steer prices in December 1901 and the prior December show only modest changes.
Deadwood South Dakota February 2 The Golden Reward smelter once among the largest in the nation is idle as workers strike over the layoff of a helper on the feed floor. About 1000 workers are affected with further layoffs possible as the mines may close. Eight discharged men seek reinstatement and the helper's return. Wages are not cited as cause. workers claim extra toil amid high pay for this work.
The Ohio state commission, appointed by the governor to study state care for tuberculosis patients, has unanimously recommended the establishment of tuberculosis sanatoria by the state. The commission will send its report to the next General Assembly.
Denver February reports a movement by Colorado groups and G A R members to build cottages for families of Civil War veterans at the Monte Vista Sailors and Soldiers Home. Funds may come from legislative appropriation or private donations. the plan mirrors Kansas Annex cottages near Fort Dodge Ellsworth. Rations would continue under same rules. site location yet undecided with strong favor for the Cherry Creek land between Denver and Colorado Springs in Douglas County.
A Republican special from Greeley reports three hundred horsemen joined a coyote hunt near Evans and Kersey. Hunters from Eaton Troutville Roggen Big Bend Greeley and Evans rode out at 7 AM forming a circle until noon nine miles south of Kersey. High winds hindered success with only six coyotes counted. Supervisors were Jesse Doney and Charles Hussmith of Evans. Two weeks earlier a similar drive killed twenty six coyotes.
General Miles was hosted by King Edward and Queen at Windsor Castle last night. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended along with other guests. The king is reported in good health.
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