Colorado Notes on Industry and Curiosities
Colorado notes report Lyons Odd Fellows plan a large hall and Boulder brick production booming. Roosevelt mountain lion tale follows Meeker. Denver YMCA finances show 15020.49 income with 7.27 idle. Chautauqua at Boulder opens July 4 to Aug 9 for five weeks. Loveland Electric plant planned. city bids for park refreshments. Southern Colorado Poultry show at Pueblo draws 1000 exhibits. Curtice dies in Denver aged 75. Telluride gold samples and rail shipping noted. Beet sugar plant Loveland contracts 7000 acres. new Sugar City factory may double capacity.
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Odd Fellows
Lyons
Roosevelt
Meeker
Denver Y. M. C. A
Chautauqua Assembly
Boulder
Denver
Loveland Electric Light and Power Company
Loveland
Denver Park
William J. Curtice
Colorado
Denver Cremation Society
Fairmount Ceme
Orman
Fred Sandbern
R Sterling
Omaha
Meech
St. Louis Fair
John Campbell
Rabbi Friedman
State University At
Guy E. Stockton
Erie
Greeley High School
A. B. Coox
Sedalia
Colorado State Grange of the ‘Patrons of Husbandry
Idahoprings
Reappointment of Denver land office receiver noted
Washington dispatches report Benjamin Kimberly named for reappointment as receiver of the land office at Denver. Also in Congress the Senate discussed irrigation and river projects while addressing mining and land bills and military reforms amid ongoing health and secretary of the interior testimony.
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Benjamin Kimberly
Denver
Congress
House Committee On Public Lands
Neville
Nebraska
Senate
Philippines
Gage
House
Shafroth
A. C. Cass
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Treasury Department
England
Dowie
Portland
Maine
Agricultural Committees
United States
Stewart
Nevada
Dixey
Mondell
Wyoming
Missouri
Department of Agriculture
Barbour Lathrop
Chicago
David G. Fairchild
Lathrop
Court of Claims
William Cramp & Sons’ Ship Building Company
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Indiana
New York
Columbia
Interior
Hitchcock
The
Nile
Egypt
Newell
Geological Survey
Winchott
Agricultural Department
Newlands
Humboldt River
War Department
Manila
Associated Press
Denver Markets Cattle Hogs Sheep and Grain Report
Cattle receipts January 1 to 16 total 8 002 head up 751 from last year. Hogs 7 524 head, down 504. Sheep 4 head, up 3 057 from last year. Grain and hay prices listed for Colorado and Nebraska, with oats, corn, bran and alfalfa prices. Poultry demand mainly for chickens, turkeys weak, geese and ducks steadier. Butter and eggs: creamery steady, country butter in excess supply.
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Light Pac Hi
Wethersra
Colorado
Timothy
Clever
South Park
Elgin
Colo
Eastern
From Star to Nebula
Photographs at Harvard Observatory show a new star appearing in Aquila in April 1899. By October its light spectrum changed to that of a gaseous nebula, confirmed by Professor Wendell's Cambridge telescope observation last summer. Such events may result from space collisions turning solid matter into gas.
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Harvard Observatory
Wendell
Cambridge
Birth of the Yellowstone River
Studies of Yellowstone Park geology suggest Yellowstone Lake once drained south into the Snake River. A small stream carved the Yellowstone Canyon before its depth increased, gradually cutting the divide and diverting lake waters to form the Yellowstone River.
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Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone River
Snake River
Yellowstone Canyon
Governor’s Appointments Loom Over State Offices
The Denver press lists dozens of governor appointed posts from judge to warden with salaries ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 dollars yearly. Officials prepare to distribute jobs across public boards including the Fire and Police Board and State Land Board, amid a push to consolidate offices and modify salaries.
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Denver
Colo
Orman
Court of Appeals
Iusion
Board of Public Works
Fire and Police Board
Ska
State Land Board
Agriculture Board
Arbitration Board
State Board of Health
Insane Asylum Board
State Board of Pharmacy
Adjutant General
State Board of Charities and Correction
Horticultural Board
Boys’ Industrial School Board
Board of Cattle Inspection
Board of Pardons
Sail Nome
West Point investigation nears end as cadet defends fighting code
At West Point on January 19 the congressional committee pressed cadet A J Lynch on fighting at the academy. Lynch defended the code and challenged rivals to fights. For the first time first class cadets testified against hazing and fighting, with Cadet Francis W Clarke of Illinois urging abolition and earning praise from Mr Driggs.
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West Point
N. Y
Congressional Committee
Military Academy
A. J. Lynch
New York
Francis W. Clarke
Illinois
Driggs
Clarke
Academy
Fad of stage supers spreads from London to Harvard crowds
In London and New York the craze of hiring stage supers grows with society interest. Harvard students join the trend paying for backstage access, while a wealthy Gotham family scion jokes about earning four dollars a week as a supers to prove his father wrong about his earning ability.
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Drury Lane Theater
London
Garden Theater
New York
Harvard
Andrew Mack
Music Hall
Gotham
Bagatelle
Perdition
Catch Trains on Fly Stops Expenses Proposal by Frank Koster
Berlin inventor Frank Koster proposes a system to board moving trains using an auxiliary track motorized ramp. The design uses three inclined and horizontal track sections to accelerate a motor car and bridge from a carriage to allow passengers to disembark with luggage while the train rolls by. The scheme requires a half mile long setup and favorable alignment of tracks to reduce train speed.
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Frank Koster
Berlin
Bricks From Glass Waste Near Market Return
Pilkington Brothers in Lancashire face a massive waste pile of 1,500,000 tons of spent glass and sand. Dr Ormandy developed a method to convert the refuse into bricks. Tests show the bricks are economical, high quality, and suitable for specialist operations and ordinary building needs.
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Messrs. Pilkington Brothers
Great Britain
St. Helen
Lancashire
Ormandy
Gavels From Constitutional Elm To Senate And House
S D McReynolds presented Governor Mount two gavels carved from a tree used by Indiana's 1846 constitutional convention in Corydon. Each gavel bears a silver plate and inscription. The gavels will be presented to the two Houses with remarks at the upcoming session.
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S. D. McReynolds
Fire Insurance in Colorado Governor Claims Vast Company Profits
Governor Thomas criticizes Colorado fire insurance taxes, arguing carriers collect over five million dollars annually beyond losses and expenses. He cites a 2 percent gross premium tax, disputes figures for Denver premiums, and says real profits are minimal after costs.
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Thomas
Colorado
Denver
Cripple Creek
Victor
United States
Apple Waste Versus Palatable Uses Mentioned In Port Note
Liners sailing from Philadelphia to Germany and Great Britain carry apple waste in their holds. The refuse from apple butter makers can be transformed into marmalade, wine, and other products abroad, with marmalade being expensive and well labeled. A reflective line about a brave girl who continues hair curling after heartbreak closes the piece.
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Philadelph
Germany
Great Britain
England
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Colorado Notes
W.S. Hansen
Collinston
Utah
G. Massey
Fort Logan
Mr. Massey
F. H. Harding
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Camp Bird
H. O. Dodge
National Council of Administration of the
Grand Army of the Republic
George W. Cook
Southern Colorado Poultry Association
Pueblo
Loveland Fruit Growers’ Association
National Beet Sugar Company
Sugar City
Suger
Kirby Manufacturing Company
Cleveland
Charles Boettcher
Beet Sugar Company
A. V
Washington News
Board of Health
State Board of Capitol Managers
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