Colorado Legislature Sees House and Senate Elect Officials
A lengthy session review details House and Senate organization with elections for clerks, secretaries, and officers. It notes debates over credentials, party alignments of Republicans Democrats and Populists, and Governor Routt’s farewell message and reception by the chamber. The record covers January sessions with adjournments and the opening of the new legislative body.
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Reading
WE. Clark Gunnison
Ew Ai Smith
Telluride
M. Odenheimer
Aboe
Ed Pitkin
Oal Morse
Dean Peck
Parson Uzzell
C. B. Wilson
Chaf
C. W. Betts
Arapahoe
Hansbrough
Jones
Bonynge
Senate
House
Hartzell
John B. Cromwell
Senate House
Tnean
Hovss
Peck
Commonwealth
Congress
Routt
Lee Brewer
Barela
Thexty
Repubicans
Thomas Uzzell
W. F H. Brodhead
Kennedy
Temple
Cummings
Ellsworth
John Williams
E. Sipe
N. Chaves
Ollie Moore
Bill Clerk
Richard Southgate
Patrick Buckley
Ha Newcome
Fred. Garcia
William Pique
Albert 5
Turner
Hartze
Walters
Webber
W. C. Steele
McKinley
Israel
King
Smith
Costilla
Leddy
White
Waite outlines policy positions after Denver arrival
Governor-elect Davis H. Waite, arriving in Denver, expresses views on convict labor under prison and canal work, state school lands policy, and finishing the state building. He endorses Routt era land policy, supports continued public ownership, and plans to wait on appointments while hearing claimants.
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Davis H. Waite
Denver
St. James
Republican
State Penitentiary
Canon City
State Ditch
Mr. Waite
People’s Party
Routt
Colorado
Apage
Gift to Colorado College From Dr Pearsons of Chicago
Dr D K Pearsons of Chicago offers Colorado College fifty thousand dollars on condition that one hundred fifty thousand more be raised within two years. All money received before January 1 1895 may count toward the goal. If met, about one hundred thousand may fund a new service building with the rest added to endowment.
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Pearsons
Chicago
D. K. Pearsons
Colorado College
Pearsons Frst
Colorado Springs
Scivice
Great Rabbit Hunt Overwhelms Prowers County Volunteers
In Prowers County on the 6th a large hunt dispatched 8,000 pounds of game with 48 Lamar men driving wagon loads of jack rabbits. Captain P S Sarak led with 103 rabbits while Major James Stevenson claimed the champion jack. A heavy banquet followed at the Commercial hotel, paid by the Hoover faction. Dr Alexander Shaw, longtime horticultural official and Denver resident, died after weeks of illness at age seventy, having served as a war surgeon and leading Colorado horticulture efforts.
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Prowers
Lamar
C. D. Ford
Frem H. Hoover
Ford
Hooverites
P. S. Sarak
Charlie Maxwell
Ine
Jack
James Stevenson
Commercial Hotel
Hoover Boys
Denver
Shaw
Alexander Shaw
State Bureau of Horticulture
Horticultural Department
Colorado World’s Fair Board
Iowa
Philadelphia
Colorado
State Horticultural Society
New Orleans
Power Plant Under Construction in World’s Fair Machinery Building
Description of the vast boiler plant and engine foundations in Jackson Park. Massive Westinghouse engines of 10,000 horsepower sit atop concrete foundations, with oil tanks, steam headers, and automatic pumping from Chicago supply. A colossal traveling crane system moves along elevated cog rails, enabling 20 ton lifts at 300 feet per minute as the building nears completion.
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Jackson Park
Lesa
Westinghouse
Chicago
Elect l
Naos- Necord
Tools Used on the Pyramids Exhibit at Orientalist Congress
The Buffalo Commercial notes a London Orient list exhibition of pyramid chantier tools. Curated by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, the display includes corundum tipped drills saws and chisels said to rival modern equivalents, showing ancient workmen used advanced implements.
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London
Pyramids
Egypt
Flinders Hetrie
Buffalo
Hoarded Millions and a Savoy Eagle Feast
An 1849 to present gold tally shows about 1.9 billion produced in the United States and 470 million exported beyond imports with 659 million in sight. experts suspect 741 million lies in farmers hoards. Swiss reports tell of a sportsman’s Savoy Alps nest raid revealing a royal feast of meat and game remains including hare, pheasants, and various birds.
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United States
Fall Mall
Savoy Alps
Pittsburg Dispatch
Growth of Year In St. Louis Water Works Conduit Complete
St. Louis reports water tax receipts rising by over a quarter million in 1892, signaling population growth and more dwellings. The water conduit to the new works is finished, enabling 150 million gallons daily and easing engineer concerns. Street railways face consolidation rumors, with transfers possibly expanding travel by nickel for long rides.
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St. Louis
Holman
Broadway Boulevard
Chain of Rocks
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A.B. McKinley
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T. Willits
Wera Assembly
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Purble
Oweley
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Hobert R. Rowe
Huerfano
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Vom Iry
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Supreme Court
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Actles
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Wallingford
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