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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
2
A collage of satirical briefs from The Register lampoons figures from Cuba to Spain, William II to Morgan and Hetty Green. It mocks inventors, monarchs, and moguls, noting social quirks and modern obsessions with wealth, politics, and fashion. The piece riffs on recent events and eccentricities with pointed humor and sharp turns of phrase.
A hay rack carrying eleven West Denver High School graduates driven by Frank French plunged down a Tur key Creek road precipice near Morrison, killing Edith Withers and Mazie Pumphrey and injuring eighteen others. A special Denver train delivered doctors and supplies, and the injured were moved to a makeshift hospital as survivors received care. Fred Lawrence aided victims and helped organize the response.
Capt. Charles Ft Miller reports a letter from Speaker Henderson stating the House committee and leaders deem the Denver soldiers' home unwise. He notes capacity for five thousand more soldiers and cites the Hot Springs sanitarium as reducing need. He concludes the Shafroth bill cannot be considered.
Chicago June 18 The threatened strike of all allied unions at meat packing plants was averted tonight as the stock yards company agreed to every union demand. Cattle drivers who had been discharged after organizing will return to work tomorrow. Michael Donnelly, president of the union, led conferences with company officers and warned that a general walkout would occur if reinstatement was not granted.
The piece surveys Senate and House actions including a $50,000 appropriation for a Baron Steuben statue, transfer of forest reserves to agriculture, and President McKinley’s Cuba policy. It covers opposition to the Panama route, the Isthmian canal, and celebrity figures in diplomacy while noting New Mexico and Arizona statehood talks and insular affairs.
May saw fifty deaths by self destruction in Chicago records. Other items report President Barrows of Oberlin College dying at Oberlin on June 3 and plans for a world class New York hotel costing ten million dollars. Also noted are ocean liner vaudeville ambitions, anger at peace terms, Oregon governor Pennoyer’s Memorial Day death, Northern Steamship expansion, Botha’s peace note, church temperance stand, Queen Wilhelmina convalescence, borax health concerns, Moslem conversion of Rev James Rodgers, Boer roundup efforts, Little Rock church split from Gov Davis, Cummings’ will details, transit mishaps, mule camp moves to Toronto, Molineaux murder trial date, Transvaal camp peace joy, NYU honoraries, John Goodnow Shanghai decoration, Deming case bankruptcy ruling, Widow Craven payout, early wheat cutting, Hawaii delegate prospects, Andrews cremation, Ford dispute and Memphis rate case.
George Kennan and companions Jaccaci and Varian recount their perilous ascent of Mont Pelee in late May and early June. They reached the crater edge, observed fumaroles and a vast steam-covered crater, and faced ash, sulfur clouds, and volcanic blasts while retreating from Vive plantation to Aciro amid mounting eruptions. Professor Heilprin and Ledbetter later joined the party, with others falling ill or unable to reach the crater.
In Chicago thirty six meat wagons returned to the Union Stock Yards after a brutal day of packinghouse strikes. Police guarded the wagons as crowds hurled stones and bottles. Mayor Harrison questioned reports of innocent people being clubbed but warned of dangerous times ahead.
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