Western notes recounts and incidents in Colorado and West
A collage of notes covers a range of 19th century Western events. It mentions Pete Aguilar’s endurance climb aided by crutches, a Colorado jurist and ex convicts, mining and irrigation efforts, court actions on land grants, fires in pine forests near Cheyenne, a fatal canyon accident, a riot escape at Wardner, Wyoming coal production and labor, a Jordan Valley shooting, and a violent hold up at Watrous New Mexico with bandits fleeing after looting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan Valley
Idaho
Joe Lawson
Jenson
Miackabe & Parks
Lawson
Pertmer
Nick Maher
Jordan Valley Hotel
Nick
Watrous
New Mexico
Andrew Warren
St. Louis
J. M. Small
Ex Judge Hilton Dead and Global Financial Flares
Telegraph items report ex judge Henry Hilton of New York is dead and note failures of Russian financiers with wide effects. Japan and China allegedly form a defensive alliance while French authorities vow prosecutions of papers inciting rioting. Gorman named general freight agent for Atchison Topeka Santa Fe succeeding Gay. Porto Rico needs a thousand tons weekly to feed destitute hurricane victims. Vanderbilt scholar Charles Southard wins law school award at Columbia University. Otis halts a Filipino junta in Manila. Durand leads Peru’s Huanuco revolt amid Iquitos unrest. Constantino pleads looming crisis as Ottoman treasury empties and Quay dominates Pennsylvania convention. American butter gains in German market. Milner demands met but with suzerainty dispute. Military moves set for Fort Sheridan and Fort Leavenworth to San Francisco in September. Manila health: Major Smith to relieve Brainard. Kansas corn seen at 360 million bushels. railroads foresee moving most. Facneco’s forces clash in San Domingo. Calderon and many rebels die or wounded. Russian panic over apocalyptic prophecies prompts worker emigration. Eclair prosecution hints at Dreyfus affair matter. trace likely to Du Paty de Clam or Gonse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Gorman
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
F.C. Gay
General Davis
Porto Rico
Charles Southard
Samuel Southard
Vanderbilt
Law Department
Columbia University
Southard
Greeley
Transvaal
Alfred Milner
Lord Salisbury
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Granville
Thirtieth Volunteers
Gardiner
Fort Sheridan
San Francisco
Thirty-second Infantry
Craig
Fort Leavenworth
David L. Brainard
Manila
Otis
O. M. Smith
Smith
Major Cox Visits Denver And Local News From The Front
Major Blanche Cox of the Army visits Denver, praised for leadership in the Booth organization. Farmers clash with cattle rustlers near the Kansas Pacific line. injuries reported. Festival of Mountain and Miami ticket sales surge with 200 of 300 boxes sold. Colorado troops honor Dr. Rose Kidd Beere at Manila hospital. General Irving Hale returns home after Luzon service. Revenue measures and trade mark fee restoration loom. August receipts show a jump. Free train fund drive gains momentum with state leaders pledging support. Maids of honor for the festival elected in several counties. photos requested for souvenir program. Building permits total August 89 with substantial value. Denver population growth forecast for 1899. Western Negro Press Association meets, elects officers, and plans future venue. Paris Exposition: Ferdinand W. Peck seeks a $1.4 million gold pyramid to symbolize Colorado exhibit, asserting national rather than state control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Cox
Denver
Booth
Kansas Pacific Railway
Mountain
Miami
San Francisco
Colorado
Rose Kidd Beere
Manila
Beere
Ingersoll
Volunteers’ Relatives’ Union
Union
Water Company
Shackelford
Board of Public Works
Luzon
Irving Hale
Hale
Union Pacific
Firsh Committee
First National Bank
BE. O. Wolcott
David H. Mofffat
Thomas
Cornell
Ouray County
Rosa Burns
Ouray
San Miguel
Belle F. Watson
Telluride
Chaffee
Clara L. Abbe
Buena Vista
Delta County
Susie Winton
Delta
Boulder County
Kate Dickey
Baul Costilla
Frieda Meyer
San Luis
Conejos County
Sophia Chacon
Conejos Park
Henrietta Sumner
Fairplay
Montezuma
BR. Wilson
Cortez
Lincoln
Muriel Dickenson
Hugo
Western Negro Press Association
Salt Lake City
Zion Baptist Church
Committee On the
United States
Geor McCormick
Colorado Springs
Clemmons
F. L. Barnett
Omaha Progress
McKinley
Philippines
State Priest
H. O. Wagner
Jniper
W. E. DeClaybrook
J.D. D. Rivers
The
Colorado Statesman
S. W. Jones
W. W.paylor
W. W. Taylor
Firs
J. D. D. Rivers
Neval Ferdinand W. Peck
United States Paris Commission
Mining Exchange
Colorado Paris
Chamber of Commerce
Cripple Creek
Peck
Paris
France
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peteagel
Pike's Peak
Utah
Logan Ewanty
FE Vabor
Denver Samay Post
Blake
George Curry
Oterocom New Mexhcow
Reeetelt
Rough Rilers
Philip
Otero
Roose
Prof
Klwom] Mead
Aree
Iis Investigations
Department of Altere
Charles D. Shepani
Mead
Vorge
Craddock
Joseph Inman
Cronin
Alexander Wilix
Trek Addudel
Sithicheyo
Stockade
Tys
Mountain and Plain
Sekt
Ers
Cheyenne
A. Martin
Vanards
Wyoming
Signa
Marketl Ess
Martin
Hichards
Rolfers
Bozman
Miear
Borman
Sus
Gunnison
Jeine
Srainie Peak
Old Fort Laramiel Reservation
Fles
Ab- Will
Court of Private Land Claims
Santa Fe
de Vargas
Louis J. Purdy
Emimio Montoya
Socorro
Socorra
Wallace Barnes
Fort Morgan
Harnes
Peek
Barnes
Nol
Rock Springs
Union Pacific Kansas
Henry Hilton
New York
Japan
China
General Otis
Senor Lichauco
Hong Kong
Huanuco
Senor Durand
Iquitos
Constantinople
Matthew Stanley Quay
Pennsylvania
Quay
Bremen
Kansas
Facneco
San Domingo
Calderon
Russia
Kharkov
Dreyfus
Belair
du Paty de Clam
Gonse
Derver
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