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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1902
Page
2
The Register mocks Uncle Sam with Bradstreet’s review and Root’s gun report, notes Wyoming ice, Marconi’s bets, and a judge’s $25 marriage threshold. It quips about a New York dog’s dental work, a button collector’s death notice, and Stanton’s aging recipe. It also comments on paper costs, seat shortages at the White House, and a congressman’s job inquiries abroad.
Victories and defeats alternate for both sides in the South African war. The British public questions how Boers gain victories amid calls that peace stories were premature. With the war now in its third year, hostilities may endure longer before any end arrives.
The speaker mocks pessimistic prophecies that coal and forests will vanish, noting Cassandra died long ago. They ask if crude oil could replace dwindling coal and wood, then power furnaces and dynamos, and question fuel supply for gas electricity and motive power.
The Louisville editor argues for targeted laws against anarchists regardless of origin, likening open advocates to pirates. It cites a St Louis inquiry claiming a bacteriologist faced murder charges after a tetanus outbreak linked to tainted serum, with evidence of germ presence and infection source disclosed.
Albuquerque gains a new fire engine while Good & Co. employs over 2,000 workers to rush a project from Elso to Santa Rosa. Taos Pueblo begins sending girls to Santa Fe Indian School. Albuquerque seeks $30,000 for more schools as housing runs tight in Alamogordo. Cotton industry eyes Carlsbad and Eddy County. A giant skeleton find near Las Vegas raises curiosity. Federal rulings on Padilla and Barerras end, while a post office theft is reported in New Mexico. County assessors convene in Santa Fe as rail and mining prospects attract investors. The Santa Fe railroad unveils a massive locomotive, and plans for a broad gauge line to Taos spark speculation. A patent sheep theft case and Lincoln County gold finds headline a busy frontier. Irrigation schemes near Blanco and San Juan river attract investment, with large ditch projects planned to serve hundreds of families. Livestock remains strong as pasture conditions stay favorable across the territory.
At a special House territorial committee hearing, prominent nonpartisan New Mexico citizens urged statehood. B S Rodney stated New Mexico’s population around 300,000 and 60,000 registered voters, with Roosevelt supporting admission. Others spoke on legal, mining, irrigation, rail, and capital concerns. railroad work to open Elizabethtown and Taos Valley. Denver mine developments. and the Harwood Girls' Home in Albuquerque.
Pueblo real estate men organize an exchange and a new wagon road will link Monument and Palmer Lake. Cripple Creek mine casualties rise with May Be mine deaths. Grand Junction nears a $50,000 hotel and $100,000 bank plus a Walter Stockman case. Rocky Ford beet crop yields strong. sugar production near 24 million pounds. land values rise amid expansion plans.
A Cripple Creek report details a dark level gunbattle at Stratton’s Independence mine at 4 am. Four mine officials confronted ore thieves looting a rich seam, candles snuffed, a fusillade followed. Lee Glockner was wounded. thieves escaped toward shaft No. 2. Suspects Hartley Lake Kerch Kuykendall and John B Fredenstein were later arrested at nearby addresses with revolvers found.
In Mexico City on January 17 the Pan American Conference paused as a premonitory earthquake rocked the chamber. Delegates, led by Senor Alzamora and Blestanga of Chile, debated The Hague convention amidst tensions over discussion, with the session ending at 6:30 without a vote.
The United Brotherhood of Railway Employes meets in San Francisco to approve amendments to its constitution. It calls for all railway workers temporarily out of work to be eligible for membership and elects the president by popular vote with nominations from local lodges. Directors hold appellate power except for initiation or officer investigations. A fifth division opens in Chicago.
King Edward opened Parliament with traditional pageantry, mirroring prior ceremonies. Queen Alexandra and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended as the royal family took their seats, while the king read the speech from the throne. the address was not an important utterance.
Gen Matos, revolutionary leader, remains dominant at sea while Castro’s regime blocks arms landings. Only notable success was a January 5 near Tucpan with arms and general herras debarked. The Libertador reportedly near Aruba and La Guayara on January 9, with a damaged mast from a captured schooner. Matos paid the captain to tow the vessel. Insurgents Mendoza and Fernandez lack resources but are not crushed. Reports of uprisings in Guayana and elsewhere are unconfirmed.
Fort Smith Arkansas January 16. A south bound Missouri Pacific? Kan Cities Southern train was held up near Spiro Indian Territory by seven mounted robbers. They opened the express safe, rifled the mail car and secured a quantity of registered mail. Authorities say the robbers escaped with about two thousand dollars. Three miners were arrested and taken to poteau. United States marshals scour the area. The through safe was not opened and the local express safe yielded no booty. The train was No 1, leaving Kansas City at 11 am yesterday.
News from Nelson reports three miners surviving days of extreme cold while J. P. Stevens W. G. Thomas and M. Walls reach a camp then return for S. Rockaway who is found dead. one man dies in the blizzard that enveloped the Slocan mountains on January 4 near Slocan City.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad plans an electric signal system to prevent accidents. A signal in the locomotive cab shows white when a single train occupies a block and red if a second train enters, functioning in all weather across switches and crossings.
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