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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
2
France arms colonies as home troops. marine disasters fall with ships vanishing. A hotelkeeper collects 4000 match boxes to craft furniture. Census shows New England and New York population decline, Ohio and Indiana rise, western states grow in both city and rural areas.
A Harvard educated group highlighted by Min ister Komura's return from St Petersburg and his move to China, Minister Kurino from Paris, and Baron Kaneko named minister of justice gather at a Har vard club of Japan dinner.
A Washington centennial note recalls an 18th century description of the city as a metropole on the great post road evenly distant from northern and southern extremities, near the Atlantic and Fort Pitt, noting it was an ideal residence for Congress and foreshadowing western and southern expansion.
The Carlisle Indian School football team is lauded for manliness and sportsmanship. Their season featured fierce, fair games and respectful crowds, with umpire decisions never questioned and defeats accepted in good spirit, earning them broad respect beyond football.
Washington lore recounts spirits roaming marble halls from the White House to the Capitol. Ghostly anecdotes speak of Washington’s shadow, a general’s image between pillars, and the copper Freedom statue ringing like a Philadelphia bell.
Lawmakers discuss a four member state text book commission with a five year term and a price schedule for books, a measure to curb trusts, a new habitual criminal class, and hours for railroad workers. Other actions include school fund tuition relief, and decorations for the House chamber.
Cadets from all four classes at West Point voted to abolish hazing and the calling out of fourth class men. Superintendent Mills delivered a formal letter to General Dick confirming the cadets’ voluntary action and commitment to uphold the new policy nationwide.
Royal Baking Powder Co publishes an artistic almanac for 1901 with a daily weather forecast by Prof. DeVoe who correctly predicted the Galveston cyclone. A free copy is available to a woman reader upon request, mailed to 100 William St. New York.
Denver news notes two Colorado-connected figures receiving the Legion of Honor. George M. Chartier, mine operator and expert, served on the mining awards jury and is made chevalier. Frederick J. W. Skiff, formerly Denver Tribune manager, now Chicago Field Museum general manager, is made officer.
Hamilton Ohio January 21 Marcus Sauer the man with dropsy revived by injecting a salt solution into arteries on January 11 remains alive. Sauer has steadily gained vigor since his resurrection and the acute symptoms have faded. Dr Kumler the attending physician does not claim the salt treatment caused the overall recovery but notes it may have bridged a crisis. There is every prospect Sauer’s life will be prolonged for some time.
More than 80 000 pension claims in the Milo B Stevens Co office were destroyed in a Friday night blaze. The papers were to be used as evidence for favorable pension office action and cannot be replaced. Thousands of claims pending before the treasury department and patent office also burned, placing the loss on the claimants.
Union Pacific Railroad Company will cover part of accident insurance costs for its workers. It will pay one third of premiums for conductors engineers firemen brakemen baggagemen switchmen yard foremen and bridge and building carpenters. For other employees it will pay one quarter of the premiums.
London turmoil as Queen Victoria nears death triggers rapid royal movements. Emperor William and the Prince of Wales rush toward Osborne House while flags lower and newspapers report grave prognosis.
London reports Queen Victoria has reigned sixty four years and seven months, longer than any other European sovereign aside from Louis XIV’s era. She served as Empress of India for twenty five years, outlived many peers, witnessed multiple church sees, and saw numerous archbishops bishops prime ministers and speakers during her reign.
John Wiser and John Marsh from this city tried to cross the Niagara River above the falls in a Weir boat. Ice floes separated the pair. Wiser, unable to swim, was swept over the falls and drowned while Marsh was rescued after a struggle in icy water.
Gen Merriam said the West Point cadets four class presidents signed a pledge to abolish hazing and keep the agreement on honor. He expects the pledge to be kept and foresees benefits, removing objectionable hazing at the academy and protecting younger cadets from mistreatment.
Denver January 21 The legislative committee investigating the coal strike has completed hearings with miners of the Northern Coal and Coke Company and returns to Denver. It will begin a tour of southern fields at 1:30 PM starting Florence, hearing miners first then operators. The report is expected to be a detailed document covering a wide scope.
Santiago de Cuba reports the severest cold in years with 60 degree temperatures and widespread distress as natives lack proper clothing. Guayamas mine telegraph notes snow on Mt Torquin at 8000 feet and a fierce norther delays shipping along the north coast.
A committee of Afrikander delegates travels to London as loyal Cape Colony subjects to contest the annexation of Boer republics and to protest Cape Colony conditions. They claim continued denial of liberties under the British crown, press suppression, and loss of political autonomy.
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