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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1903
Page
3
A collage of quips and brief items reflecting social quirks and world events. Mentions Colombia and Marroquin, Russia in the Far East, Franco nickel coins, Turkish Macedonia, and Panama hats, with satirical notes on poverty, gossip, and technology. Local color pieces touch on manners, crime, and public amusements.
Attorney General Miller notes Denver alone has a Saturday half holiday for merchants. The 1893 law applied only to cities over 100,000. Gov Peabody appoints Joseph Dennis to the State Industrial School board after Kimball’s death. Senate Bill 149 broadens water-right filings to all ditch types and enables water distribution by water commissioners. Plans for Pueblo State Insane Asylum improvements totaling 152000 are favorably reviewed, and a new Fremont county home at Canon City costs 15000. Weather and water updates show widespread rainfall relief and ongoing water rights investigations for the Arkansas River.
Charles A Johnson appointed to re survey the Colorado New Mexico boundary from monument 6 to 8 finds several hundred feet discrepancy with 1868 Darling line. A government survey shows similar differences likely shifting Edith town and many Colorado lands into New Mexico. Johnson notes missing mile posts and restores them.
Attorney Thomas H Hood for Overland Cotton Mills John L Jerome and Dean Sutcliffe appeals to the Supreme Court to set aside $50 fines for employing a child under fourteen. State Humane Society agent O L Taft swore the complaint. The brief questions Taft oath, notes corporations not named in statutes, and cites potential rights of others in pursuit of child labor enforcement. Judge Lindsey has report from juvenile court showing 472 cases, 24 youths tried, three committed, eleven placed in city jobs. War Department received gym bids for Fort Logan. lowest bid exceeds allowance by 366, but trimming plans could keep project under 40000. otherwise delay possible.
Colorado items note organized schooling for beet-field workers in Pueblo, appointments of postmasters in Alamosa and Amethyst, a Denver building collapse probe arrestees, Hotel de Paris sale to a Denver firm, and a Boulder county rail assessment rise. Also covered are Las Animas county school census, Fourth of July plans in Grand Junction with Western Slope Veterans, Minnequa payroll, Pueblo monument for Upton Post, a Denver rail bond signing task, elocutionists convention, a stage accident near Ouray, Estes Park wildlife traps, Monument cemetery plan, Fort Collins Hospital group, Woodmen flood aid, Midland band baseball tour, state dental officers, Denver tramway pension, Golden Industrial School, Glenwood Springs jail death, Overland Park Denver Derby, railway capital increase, Denver population estimate, and Strawberry Day at Glenwood Springs with 5000 visitors.
Washington reports Cabinet discussion over the decision to disregard a Virginia court injunction and seize the gunboat Galveston at Trigg shipyards in Richmond. Attorney General Knox analyzed federal authority, urging government action while noting potential use of military force remains unlikely.
London reports in the Lords that Foreign Secretary Lans downe said Britain will withdraw its minister from Belgrade and refrain from recognizing the new regime in Serbia. He noted Massacres in Belgrade provoke strong abhorrence, while France Germany and Italy mirror Britain’s stance and Austria and Germany lean toward recognizing the new authorities. Russia calls for punishment, but Britain will avoid proposing punitive joint action.
The general land office at Washington has allowed filings for New Century Power and Light in Gore canyon Grand County. A tunnel would carry canyon water after a large dam is built. The Moffat road may also secure a right of way for a railroad. Legal injunctions are pending in Grand County to halt dam or railroad construction.
June 20 dispatch reports the Russian government acknowledging protests over the Kishineff massacre. A Odessa Jewish committee met in St Petersburg to urge clemency, seeking village status for Jewish residents, revocation of the fifty mile frontier ban, and permission to live anywhere in the country.
Vienna June 20 The Weiner Tageblatt reports Pope Leo XIII refuses to receive President Loubet in official capacity and private compromise fails, making a visit to Rome likely postponed until 1904.
Secretary Root issues an order naming Major S. B. M. Young as chief of staff with Major General Corbin and Brig. Gen. W. H. Carter as the other general staff officers. Brig. Gen. Tasker M. Bliss will head the war college. The changes take effect August 15 and upon General Young’s retirement next January Major Gen. Adna R. Chaffee becomes chief of staff. Both Young and Chaffee will be promoted to lieutenant general.
Denver announces a new summer timetable with twenty six passenger trains per day in and out of Union Depot. A new Denver to Trinidad through train and return service with dining car starts this season, plus buffet sleeper cars to Glenwood Springs and parlor observation cars on daylight runs. Tourist cars from Denver to Los Angeles operate on select days.
June 20 reports from Heppner Oregon record a rising death toll from recent floods. Dozens of corpses are found daily, many miles from the town, with as many as 200 believed buried or identified. Bodies retrieved in harsh, hail heaped conditions show extreme damage and widespread casualties.
Washington report states Assistant Secretary Armstrong of the Treasury issued a circular letter implementing the Pure Food Act approved March 3, 1903, with July 1 start date for its provisions.
George Crocker has been re elected director and vice president of the Kansas City and Orient railroad company. The line aims to stretch 1600 miles from Kansas City to Topolobampo on the gulf of California and is backed by the Stilwell syndicate. The project is listed at 24000000 dollars with funds reportedly secured.
An old farmer from near Trenton Missouri recounts kidney pills easing his back pain after a cold settled in his kidneys. The ad promises a free trial by mail and lists Foster Milburn Co as the sender with 50 cent boxes sold by druggists. The piece also includes scattered humor and other product pitches from the period.
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