Admiral Evans Calls for 32 Battleships in Two Oceans
A Rocky Ford overview surveys Admiral Bob Evans urging a paired fleet strength of 16 battleships Atlantic and 16 Pacific to project power. The piece touches on diverse topics from Sir Robert Ball visiting Carnegie Institute to humorous quips about Yale reading and Chinaman stereotypes, and notes various social and international anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bob” Evans
Pacific
Atlantic
Robert Ball
New York
Cambridge University
America
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
The True Spirit of Memorial Day Will Endure
A reflective piece on Memorial Day describing its meaning as reverence for the departed and unity across regions. It argues the holiday will endure beyond the last Civil War veteran, growing in significance as the nation stays welded and memories of the Union’s salvation remain precious to Americans.
Hature's Harriers to Woman's Suffrage
A dated opinion piece argues against extending unrestricted suffrage to women. The author asserts women lack physical strength for campaigning, fear personal attacks, and warn participation in elections would ruin women’s status and corrupt politics. He favors influence over voters rather than office.
Business Training Not Enough Business Training Not Enough
The piece argues that academic schooling now dominates leadership roles across society and industries, replacing self made practitioners. It notes lawyers chemists and businessmen shift toward academically trained professionals as railroad chiefs and justice seekers. The era of commercialism is described as discredited.
Coal storage urged as railroads brace for winter
Union Pacific official W L Park says Northwest crop conditions are normal with wheat at its best. He warns coal demand will exceed supply as population grows and fronts the need for dealers to stock Rock Springs coal to guard against a winter famine. He urges homeowners to store coal and contracts to ensure delivery.
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W. L. Park
Union Pacific Railroad
Northwest
Kansas
Colorado
Rock Springs
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Montana
Dakota
Canada
Westinghouse plan for electric rail network in Trinidad
Trinidad Colorado reports the Westinghouse backed firm wins a 25 year franchise to use county road rights of way for poles and transmission lines. C L Hendershot represents the project, with a $10 million backing. Net extends to Trinidad Electric Street Railway and National lines toward Walsenberg Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver.
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Trinidad
Colo
Westinghouse
C. L. Hendershot
Trinidad Electric Street Railway
Trinidad Electric Light and Power Company
Walsenberg
Hair turns white as Atlanta man faces new trial
Arthur Glover once chattered he was John the Baptist as fear of the noose drove his hair pale. The Atlanta prisoner now faces a second trial for the murder of Maud Williamson after a new trial was granted. His defense cites paranoia with Dr Sutliffe testifying he is paranoiac. Glover, a local political figure, was married with children and had two years of friendship with Maud Williamson before her death.
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Atlanta
Arthur Glover
Young Maud Williamson
Glover
John the Baptist
Sutliffe
Maud Williamson
Colorado News Bits From La Junta To Pueblo
Colorado items recount Santa Fe payout of 85000 at La Junta, drought and spring planting delays for dry farmers, a $100 pointer dog sale in Leadville, and a Boulder plant sale. Details cover freight-rate talks in Colorado Springs, a new $5000 Trinidad opera house leased to Nye and Fountain, injuries at Pueblo and Cripple Creek, probate and inheritance matters, a La Junta hospital project, And the Grand River bridge plan near Silt with state aid and local advances. water rights transfers and ditch-law debates spark farmer discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
la Junta
Leadville
Hygienic Ice & Cold Storage Company
Boulder
Hygienic Ice & Coal Company
Denver
A. Patek
Frank Webster
Intermountain
Merchants' Association
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Trinidad
S. N. Nye
Bobby” Fountain
Harry Roberts
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Pueblo
Rogers
Franklin W. Gaines
Grand Junction
E. F. Lowe
Crystal City
Mississippi
Gaines
The
C. F
Newt Schaeffer
Haymes & Clark
H. H. Smith
Landsdale
Victor F. Brown
Ofa Congregational Church
Wisconsin
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Brown
J. F. Bruno
Associated Charities
Garfield County
Grand River
New Castle
Rifle
Passengers Battle Mutiny Clashes On Maori King
In San Diego two Chinese officers claim the British steamship Maori King mutinied after brutal mutiny and mass deaths. They allege officers shot Chinese crewmen and bodies were thrown overboard. The British vice consul seeks an exhaustive inquiry as Washington orders troops to quell the mutineers.
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San Diego
Cal
Allen T. Hutchinson
J. W. Duncan
Duncan
Vladivostok
Lee Sun Sai
Harbin
San Francisco
Guaymas
Mexico
T. 8
Vernon
Allen Hutchinson
Washington
Fort Rose
United States
Union Pacific Cuts Freight Rates Across Western Routes
Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line announce reduced freight rates on the Denver to 22 stations route spanning Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. The new schedule, effective June 5, results from talks between President Charles D. Griffith and Thomas C. Scott of the Colorado Manufacturers' Association, averaging a 20 percent cut. Packinghouse products drop to 71 cents from $1, glass bottles to 45 cents from $1.20, with many items including agricultural implements, brick, coal, flour, mining machinery, and more affected.
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Union Pacific
Oregon
Denver
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
Montana
Charles D. Grifith
Thomas C. Scott
Colorado Manufacturers’ Association
One Hundred Are Drowned as Poitou Wrecked Near Uruguay
A Montevideo dispatch reports the French transport Poitou wrecked off Rincon de Herrera Uruguay after departing Marseilles April 6. About 200 passengers and 300 on board. around 100 perished. Panic caused many to jump overboard. fifty were saved by Rincon de Herrera customs officers.Final casualty count unknown. many feared dead or missing.
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Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Baby Rides Cowcatcher On Fast Moving Train
Engineer Slanson spotted a calico flutter by the engine pilot on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line and halted the train to find a toddler clinging to the cowcatcher bars. The girl, just learning to talk, had boarded at Calamar Town for a “buddy ride,” gripping tightly as the locomotive moved at forty miles an hour.
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Slanson
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Calamar
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Rocky Ford Enterprise
Will R. Monkman
Rocky Ford
Buckley
Christian Advocate
Spencer Eddy
Berlin
Long Island
Humane Society
Diana Belais
New York Humane Society
France
Yale
Ananias Club
Malta
Emperor William
Admiralty Office
John A. McKihenny
United States Civil Service Commission
Jacob A. Riis
Day
Ellen Terry
Belgium
Leopold
Congo
Col. J. Payson Bradley
Massachusetts
Hature’s Harriers
Woman's Suffrage
Catherine E. Conway
Union Pacific General Superintendent
Supreme Court
Selden Lakes Reservoir Company
S. C. Gilmore
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