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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
2
A brisk collage of oddities and serious events from around the globe. Quips on wealth, suffrage, age marriages, and a 1902 derby hat sit alongside reports of strikes, naval shooting, volcano unrest, and a Long Island wedding at 104. The piece mixes humor with current affairs and cultural curiosities.
A Denver gathering organized labor to back the eight hour law Bucklin tax amendment and Bush home rule bill by creating the Colorado Industrial League. More than 100 unions joined as a state committee of one member per county ... The address urges ratification and denounces opponents as enemies of labor. County lists show active squads in Arapahoe Clear Creek Boulder El Paso Las Animas and others.
A Leadville jail break freed five prisoners including Lewis J. Scott alias Pug Ryan and B H Gray. They escaped between 3 and 3 30 pm by sawing the padlock and using a sewer hole to reach the foundation wall. Deputies and police scattered but had not recaptured them by night. Ryan led a prior robbing gang from Breckenridge and was captured on the Pacific coast before being sent to Summit and Lake counties for safekeeping.
Chicago reports the Harriman lines have formed a colonization bureau led by G. M. McKinney to recruit 100000 settlers to Oregon and Washington within two years. A $100000 appropriation funds the effort with agents planned across Indianapolis Des Moines Saginaw Kansas City Louisville Nashville Pittsburgh Albany Portsmouth and Mobile. The Southern Pacific Union Pacific and Oregon lines back the bureau.
Washington June 2 The President directs a general order by Rotar y Root reducing the permanent establishment of the army and altering its makeup under the army reorganization law. The May order fixed total strength at 28 512 men and the new order lowers this to 66 497.
The President signed the Indian appropriation bill and the omnibus claims bill. Senate and House panels report on Navy retirements and promotions, transit of merchandise in bond to Tacoma and Seattle, and Indian Territory allotments. Campaign debates on silver coinage, immigration, and the Philippines fill session coverage.
Agrarian crimes fall in Ireland. Yukon navigation begins. a Queen Victoria statue planned in Kimberly South Africa. Nicaragua to exhibit at St Louis exposition. Notable items include Hanna leading Ohio Republicans, Martinique link restoration, Kitchener praised for peace credit, Weed suspended, Lewiston Montana to Harlowtown line, and a 18000 dollar car purchase in New York.
London reports King Edward announces cessation of hostilities after two years and eight months. Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner sign surrender terms with Boer delegates. Kruger learns of peace and hopes to return to the Transvaal as British crowds celebrate in streets and hotels.
Paris readers wake to peace news from South Africa as London dispatches reach papers. Figaro marks Boer resistance as worthy of consideration despite surrender, Gaulois cheers end of war while questioning the term capitulation in Lord Kitchener’s message.
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