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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
2
A collage of satirical notes touches on canals, wireless tech, and unions while skewering figures like Carnegie, Morgan, and Edward VII. It lampoons corporate power, politics, and social quirks with terse quips about law, travel, earthquakes, and cultural clichés.
The Colorado legislature's extra session advanced a revenue bill after Senate approval, with transmission to a conference committee and potential gubernatorial signing midweek. Amendments require assessors to list all taxed property, while other measures include Ammons stock bill, fencing rights of way, and Bucklin tax repeal efforts amid caucus debates and political maneuvering.
A Kansas City youth, billed as a sack of potatoes, arrived in Chicago after being confined in a sack for three days and a half. During the trip he rode in a freight car, the sack inside an open fruit case.
Colorado briefs report Brightside gains a post office with Ralph Field appointed post master. Florence sees a dairyman fall from a hay wagon breaking arm and ankle. Florence Oil Co employee J F Torrance injures right hand. Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs see extensive upgrades by General Palmer. Other notes include trout distributions, oil fuel plans, Alamosa growth, and local incidents in Cripple Creek Telluride and Denver areas.
A detailed bulletin explains railroad valuations under the 1901 revenue bill, comparing 1890 1901 figures with other property assessments. It surveys Fremont and Chaffee counties noting sharp railroad valuation increases, potential per person tax burdens, and the concentration of industrial facilities in Fremont county including Florence oil refineries mills and smelters.
A veteran server recalls a new waiter at a cheap Philadelphia restaurant who promised to fetch sausages but trampled a dog’s tail en route to the kitchen. The agitated customer balked at the sausage, the boss witnessed the mishap, and the waiter was dismissed that evening.
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