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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1891
Page
2
The piece critiques mandatory penalties and hereditary crime, attacks liquor trade and teetotalism as practical, and argues a measured approach to reform. It warns against usurious schemes, praises disciplined manhood, and questions broad benevolence schemes lacking accountability.
Snow blockades hit Kansas railroads while smallpox cases rise in St Louis. Union Pacific seeks a $50 million mortgage. Wyoming reports a woman who teaches and works a mine. Banks close as leaders face loans, pork trade tensions flare, and political shifts play out in Chicago and national capitals. Immigrant influx surges as 3,143 arrive on five ships. Diamond Joe Reynolds estate tops $5–10 million with a planned boys’ training school. Leprosy cases surface in Victoria China town. Chicago endures record weekly deaths from grippe pneumonia and other lung diseases.
Winnipeg dispatch recounts Washberton Pike returning from the Arctic after a June departure from Calgary. He and his party endured fourteen days of starvation while lost near the Yukon range, trudging with bare feet on ice. They found musk ox and cariboo in the barren lands and traded in skins, with Hudson Bay Company rules, no money, and dog trains for supplies.
In a Saturday convention split, 100 to 150 Harrison supporters withdrew from the Democratic city gathering and formed an independent body at Ulrich hall. Adolph Kraus chaired the Harrison faction, nominating Harrison for mayor. Cregier’s group declared him nominee and named George Weiss for city treasurer, Jacob Kern for city attorney, and James C. Strain for city clerk. The dispute centered on seating contested delegates and a protest against “gag law.” The Harrison faction planned continued action pending the Cregier wing's nominations.
Census bulletin shows western coal output in 1889 valued at 24.4 million with 36,165 workers across four new producers New Mexico North Dakota Texas and Indian Territory. It details regional tonnage and values, and notes 569 regular mining establishments west of the Mississippi. Separately two La Porte men John Wilson and Henry Matthews were assaulted, robbed, and left beside a moving cattle train near Chicago, police alerted with no arrests yet.
Dr W A Edwards of Denver recounts Chilean history and current revolt as rooted in an oligarchic system with landholding elites controlling government and military. He notes inland coast hostility, past wars against Peru and Bolivia, and how former expansion aided ruling class power before army and navy shift toward the people.
Wealthy Kentuckian Cole robbed near the Canadian river while camping with hunting companions away. Two men held him up taking 3500 dollars in cash intended for business. Robbers escaped. authorities have not captured them.
Fragments from the legislature recount bills passed and pending. Topics include bridges in De Beque and White River. state audits. railroads. juries. codes of civil procedure. salaries. and various appropriations for state institutions and infrastructure. Senators McCreery Reed Betts and others are named among the roll of bills, votes, and committee actions.
In a committee of the whole the Central bill was considered with several measures approved including appropriations for the Normal School buildings and Deaf and Blind Asylum projects. Bills reported covered roads, guardians, cruelty to children, and a court of appeals. A Betis railroad bill faced opposition, others advanced on elections, taxation, and county reforms. The session saw debates on licenses, wages, and artifices like beet sugar subsidies amid broader fiscal moves.
A jumble of Colorado items notes W H Milburn as mayor nominee by Denver Republicans. A Pueblo wagon driver’s heir inherits tone. Oro residents rewarded for alleged ballot theft, court action cited. Arbor Day and flower vote mentioned. Denver University students in an oratorical contest. state representation in Des Moines in May. Governor nominates Rev Myron Denver Rev John C Hay and others for State Board of Counties post. An insane man, John Z Jorgensen, leaps from a courthouse window, breaks leg and knee during fall. doctors amputate the knee. other leg badly shattered. prognosis uncertain.
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