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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1899
Page
5
A miscellany column from The Register features witticisms on laziness politics and human folly, plus brief items: Dewey passing Spain on the way home, a Rhode Island woman’s spite fence, an Indiana woman paying 75 for a husband, fish dying in Paw Paw Michigan and Chicago forming a women’s athletic club with prize fighting concerns.
Delegates at the Cincinnati charity conference assert that smoking cigarettes causes crime and view cigarette use by good people as criminal. Meanwhile the aging Prince of Wales showed limited participation in birthday celebrations, suggesting reduced activity due to age.
Governor Roosevelt spearheaded a special session that secured passage of an amended franchise taxation act as real property. Despite initial opposition from the state party machine, amendments to the Ford bill were adopted, with the senate approving 26 to 20 and the house 87 to 62.
Labour readers note 1,822 societies in existence at end of 1897 with 1,512,128 members and 59,881,000 pounds income. Membership up 111,000 and sales up 5,220,000 pounds from 1896. It contrasts Britain with absent co operatives in the United States.
President McKinley accepts Milwaukee invitation for October while War Department plans to loan cannons from Spaniards to states with transport paid. Utah wool growers’ grazing ban unchanged after interior consult. Volunteers may buy arms from Spanish war period, at $10 each. Peace Conference at The Hague draws hopeful arbitration talk. Congressional health concerns rise. Debates on Alaska boundary and Porto Rico governance continue. Vice President Hobart ill at Long Branch. McKinley plans summer visit.
Nineteen Mines graduates. Cripple Creek Fourth celebration planned. Pecos reserve sheep grazing debated. Lightning kills nearby farmer B A Jerome near Penfield. New Mexico figures: Rough Riders holiday, cattle rustlers arrested, wool prices rise. Santa Fe works for range privileges. engineers survey for reservoirs. Coal prospects near Rawlins. Wyoming wool trade and shipments. Cattle losses threaten NM ranges. prices rise. Bear hunted near Glenwood. Pomeroy party sightseeing. Irrigation and water transfers spark legal cases. state irrigation debates continue.
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