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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1902
Page
2
A collage of global and domestic musings on navy standards, earthquakes, political jests, and social satire. Notes mention Admiral Yeh, Miss Roosevelt, Prince Henry, the Kaiser, and Charles M Schwab with playful asides on current events and public figures.
A twenty mile west of Tuttle Oklahoma work train collision killed seven crew members and injured at least fourteen when a fifteen ton rock crushed the caboose. Conductor J R Gamble Engineer Nazor and Fireman W H Evans led the relief effort as injured workers were taken to Little Rock and St Vincent's infirmary.
Chicago reports that John W. Gates John J. Mitchell and Isaac Ellwood have acquired a controlling interest in the Colorado & Southern Railway. The line runs from Denver to Texline with 356 miles and 785 miles of branches, totaling 1,142 miles. The Gates group also controls Denver & Fort Worth and half of Colorado Midland, with Rio Grande Western owning the other half of Midland. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mines and plants lie on the Colorado & Southern and Denver & Rio Grande routes.
New York reports the Liberty torch at Bedloe Island in upper New York Bay will be permanently extinguished around March 1, 1902. The beacon has dimmed since Bartholdi gifted the statue to the United States. A treasury lighthouse board notice cites lack of congressional funds as the reason for discontinuation.
Pumping resumed at the McKenzie well in Bouler Colorado with a steady four barrels per hour. Oil will be pumped into a tank car for shipment to the Florence refinery on Monday. Elkton directors join Columbia Crude Oil Company to drill in Florence district for mine fuel. First well sinking contracted. Light flow found at 75 feet in a Meeteetse water well. Oil bubbles observed on the Gunnison river near Delta.
In Trieste on February 15 a Piazza Grande meeting of 4000 strikers ended in street clashes. Rioters attacked troops with stones as a lieutenant was wounded. the soldiers fired, killing six. Police dispersed the mob with swords as additional injuries were reported.
The legislature’s extra session debates a wide set of issues including independence for the Philippines, a Burke-House effort to retain sugar duties, Asiatic labor exclusions, and tax reforms. A Buckley Gunnison tunnel bond measure advances with amended provisions on signatures and bond amounts for officials, while bills on appellate courts and supreme judges face renewed scrutiny.
The House continued the revenue bill debate and aimed to assess real estate and mortgages as a unit. Accession struck onerous court fees, lowering state revenue by 28000 while ending courthouse inequities. The Bucklin amendment repeal debate revived with Adams credited for locating a missing roll call.
The attorney general advised the Legislature that it cannot recall amend or repeal the six constitutional amendments from the prior session. He said the people hold a vested right to act on the proposal and the legislature may propose at this special session but cannot alter after submission. The piece notes ongoing debate on revenue measures and board of equalization with judges Dixon and Riner cited, and discussions of assessors corporate versus private property valuation.
M Rouyer survives a massacre of a French scientific expedition off Sileraka New Guinea on January 11. The cannibals killed 32 and mutilated corpses including Baron Villars Count de Saint Remey and M Hagenbeck Vries while Rouyer and Dr Forster were wounded and rescued at dawn.
The British bark Savernake with captain Frederick J. Toole and eighteen crew members wrecked November near the Isle of Clement Homere in the Society Islands. After months afloat and a failed land trek for help, they were rescued and brought to Papeete and finally San Francisco via Manga Reva and the gunboat Zelee arriving January 21.
In Litchfield Illinois on February 17 the Diamond Special of the Illinois Central and a freight train collided rear end at about twelve miles per hour. Two people died and five were injured though no passengers were hurt. The freight engine and two Pullman coaches wrecked with heavy damage. Fog reduced visibility to under 100 feet according to the freight engineer.
In Washington on February 17 the Woman's Suffrage Association hosted daytime services at the First Presbyterian Church with Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer of Providence preaching. A subsequent Riggs House conference discussed reaching conservative church women with Laura De Merrite of Maine leading a panel including Mrs. Perkins of Ohio and Miss Clay of Kentucky among others.
Edward Irving, who escaped in 1900 from Canon City penitentiary, has been recaptured in Salt Lake City. Four hundred Colorado Republicans banqueted in Denver to honor Lincoln, while a Denver day nursery serves working mothers at 5 cents daily. Great Britain presses damages claim of 55,000 from Grand Mesa Lakes fire.
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