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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1903
Page
7
Brig. Gen. John Chase in Colorado City says troops stay until Cripple Creek situation clears. Union leaders and officials clash over picket zones and possible martial law as Western Federation considers a strike if ore shipments resume.
Paris March 7. Professor Peter Steins claims a remarkable device can restore sight to the blind and even give sight to the sightless. Dr Case reports a test where the subject detected light, counted fingers, and identified chairs after the apparatus was fitted, then lost vision when removed. The system relies on brain perception, transmitting images via electric current, akin to a telephone.
Denver March 7 The Denver Rio Grande Colorado and Southern and Midland railroads plan expanded excursion services to handle a projected Colorado tourist influx in 1903 likely reaching 150000. Conventions home seekers’ trips and summer travel boost expected visitors from 60000 in 1901 and 100000 in 1902.
Mr Bluml of Cameron county introduced a House bill to subsidize large families and award gold medals to mothers of large families. Prizes range from 10 dollars to 50 dollars with medals, and the seventh son or daughter born in the state would receive up to 500 dollars for education. Medals designs to be furnished by the governor and divorced or separated women are ineligible.
A Chicago mass meeting of Western passenger representatives adjourned without a final plan on Elkins law reforms. A majority report favored restricting party tariffs to theatrical firms, filing excursion tariffs with the ICC, and observing full or equalized rates for regulars and militia. Labor and hotel rate rules were debated with conditions on legal noise.
New York March 7 a Lokal Anzeiger correspondent reports the czar contemplates granting a constitution to Russia. The first move would be legislative power to provincial bodies with representative houses. Universal suffrage is favored though election specifics remain unclear.
In Baltimore at Wilson sanitarium animals received the newly found cholera infantum serum and showed remarkable effectiveness. Human trials have not yet begun. The germ cause was identified by army surgeons in the Philippines during their research efforts.
A stream of telegraph notices covers Ellis Island steerage arrivals, chess match dates, Gatling gun inventor Gatling’s death, a Y M C A convention in Nebraska, a large shipyard loan, and Shanghai rifle seizures. Reports include Vienna industrial visits, Mrs Bowen’s death, record snows in March, German pig iron output, floods near Pittsburg, Yellowstone rail line plans, Italian trade totals, King Leopold’s U.S. visit rumors, U S plague study in Mazatlan, Manila prize money ruling, Irish Arran siege, Morristown diphtheria, Dewey prize money decree, Arran islands hardship, and other varied notices.
The White House auction on January 21 drew a modest crowd as second hand dealers bought discarded executive mansion items. Notable purchases included Gov Lowndes’s leather office loan for 15 dollars, a White House refrigerator for seven, Garfield’s billiard table for 105, and the blue room chandelier withdrawn for capitol use after originally costing 8,000.
In LondonAnswers a column extols fruits as cures and tonics. Apples purify blood and aid dysentery, pineapples aid throat infections, and rosehip conserve aids digestion. Grapes digest well, blackberries form cordial for colic, elderflower helps boils, walnuts ease gout and rheumatic pain.
A reprint offer highlights The Conquest of Arid America with sample chapters such as The Blessing of Aridi and The New Colorado. The pamphlet on Sunny San Luis Valley will be mailed free with four cents postage. Also notes John S. Bilby as a vast landowner and assorted brief items on cigars, animals without vocal cords, and Defiance Starch.
Colorado Springs March 9. The Colorado City Millmen Union was told by Brig. Gen. Chase that strikers may again station pickets around the three boycotted mills. The move eases forty eight hours of strain as union leaders plan legal steps to secure permission. Officers declined further discussion. Rumors of Cripple Creek ties and troop movements circulated, but no orders to remove any men were issued. About 1,000 spectators watched Camp Peabody parade.
Four members of Colorado board of control report to Governor Peabody that inmates testimony supports resigning assistant superintendent I M Irish. Secretary Gabriel did not sign and will present his own after testimony is transcribed. A judge Lindsay likely to report. board warns no whitewashing.
Denver march 9 Republican special reports mass meeting at Cripple Creek attended by about 1200 at the opera house. Meeting opened by Bruno Hobbs with W F Littell secretary. Resolutions urged parties at Colorado City and Cripple Creek to seek settlement via a governor appointed commission and to involve Gov Peabody in good offices.
March 8 Mentone report says President Kruger sinks into lethargy with clear mental decline. He has given up reading the Bible, too despondent to do anything but sit and stare as his condition worsens.
London reports from Cabul that the ameer of Afghanistan has divorced all but four wives and bans more than four wives for subjects. He decreed harsh punishments including cannon blasts for taunts on religion and public cage displays for robbers while ordering grain hoarding curtailed with forced sale and seizure.
Topeka Kansas hosts an International Railroad Y M C A conference from April 30 to May 3 with a full speaker roster including President Theodore Roosevelt Governor Bailey Joseph Ramsey Jr H A Mudge Rev Charles M Sheldon Rev P S Henderson D D Elmore Harris D D and Miss Helen Gould.
St Louis reporters say Thomas Mozier H V Mozier and W Lovelace of St Louis officers of the Kae iian Builders Co operative Home Company and S H Reynolds T F Leyden Sylvester McFarland D B E Nuckels T W Brunsen and J T Reynolds of Granite City Illinois officers of the Fidelity Home and Field Association have been indicted by the Alton City Court grand jury in the war against cooperative home building companies. The indictments charge attempted defraud and bond fixed at 500 dollars in each case.
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