Colorado briefs from the state wire service
A mixed Colorado round of news items reports free city delivery starting July 1 in Rocky Ford, Boulder liverymen forming price uniformity, and a lightning death near Berthoud. Other notes include state realty and bank news, a new Denver tour coach service, courthouse opening, and a large desertion of civic and cultural events in Denver and Colorado Springs.
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Rocky Ford
Boulder
Albert E. Fife
Berthoud
State Realty Association
Pueblo
First National Bank of
Idaho Springs
James T. Smith
Durango
Denver Blackmailer Arrested in May 23 Case
Denver detectives arrested 21 year old Boyd Irvine, son of Rocky Ford money lender W J Irvine, for attempting to blackmail Walter F Cheesman, president of the Denver Union Water Co, with a demand for 10000 dollars. Irvine confessed stating he needed the money. Cheesman had received letters threatening to blow up a new building if payment was not made.
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Denver
Walter 5. Cheesman
Denver Union Water Company
Boyd Irvine
Irvine
W. J. Irvine
Rocky Ford
Cheesman
Chees
Me Seventeenth
Glen
Bits and Bites From A Busy Era Headlines
A jumble of social notes and quips from Rocky Ford with references to Carnegie doubles, May weather in Europe, the Irish vote, and celebrity sightings. It juxtaposes anecdotes on wealth, travel, politics, and scandals, noting figures like Vanderbilt, Diaz, and Ford and hinting at ongoing public fusses.
Colorado State Affairs and Doings at the Capital City
Reports from Denver cover ore leases near Cameron in Cripple Creek district boosting school funds. Officials announce appointments, parade plans, water ditch control shift, beekeepers seek fair exhibit funds, and a long running North and Middle Parks range dispute nears settlement with small ranchers gaining leases while large companies adjust.
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Colorado
Middle Parks
Register Mark Woodruff
State Land Board
Register Woodruff
Grand
Larimer
North Park Cattle Company
Armour Packing Company
Linger Cattle Company
David How
President Jones
Jones Cate Company
W. H. Marr
Monte Blevins
Andrew Morrell
J. M. Ellis
D. F. Sudduth
Sudduth
Flag Day Proclamation by Governor Peabody
Governor Peabody proclaims Saturday June 13 1903 as Flag Day urging schools and homes to display Old Glory and observe patriotic ceremonies. The article notes the state capitol deed in Denver and calls for lessons in patriotism for tomorrow's citizens.
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Peabody
State Capitol
Denver
Colorado
A. D
James H. Peabody
Commissioner Woodard on fish culture in Colorado
Denver May 22 In an interview published in the News State Game and Fish Commissioner J M Woodard outlines the hatchery program. He details new appointments at Gunnison Denver and Durango and reports egg yields and fish weights from the Gunnison operation. The piece emphasizes the potential of state fish culture to supply public waters with rainbow trout and notes a total one month value near 6725 dollars.
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Denver
J. M. Woodard
Woodard
Kincaid
Charles Dowdell
W. E. Patrick
Durango
E. Land
Gunnison
Beaver Creek
Confederate Veterans Open Battle Abbey Session in New Orleans
General 5 D Lee presided as 1523 camps and 2423 delegates attended the Confederate Reunion opening in New Orleans. General Wheeler greeted the crowd and urged aid for needy veterans as the Abbey project neared a 2000000 milestone, while a monument fund for Jefferson Dayt was secured and war roster plans advanced. Officers were re elected and the reunion adjourned sine die.
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New Orleans
D. Lee
Battle Abbey
Evans
Joseph Wheeler
Wheeler
Southern Memorial Association
Jefferson Dayt
Committee On Resolutions
S. D. Lee
Congress
Root
Secretary of War
War Department
Large deficit in rural delivery prompts congressional action
Washington May 23 Congress will be asked at the opening of the next session to appropriate funds to cover deficiencies in both regular delivery and rural free delivery of the Post Office Department. Postmaster General Payne cited a total deficit of 227 500 dollars, with 106 200 tied to rural free delivery. He criticized A W Machen, the free delivery head, now on indefinite leave, and noted prior promises to expand routes had exhausted a 500 000 dollar appropriation. Measures have curtailed expenditures and suspended rural map work until the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Congress
Post Office Department
Payne
A. W. Machen
Mr. Payne
Machen
Free Delivery Office
County Commissioners Convicted in Denver Trial
After a 36 hour jury deliberation in Denver the panel found Fred Watts Frank Bishop and Thomas Phillips guilty on eleven of twenty one counts charging negligence in office Their defense asked ten days for a motion for a new trial Judge Voorhees granted the request The statute prescribes a 200 fine per count and removal from office The defendants are not in office though Watts is now Adams County commissioner Details on other charges and related defendants were not announced.
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Denver
Fred Watts
Frank Bishop
Thomas Phillips
Arapahoe County
Belford
Voorhees
Adams County
Smith-Brooks Company
H. Brown Cannon
Charles A. Berdel
Rural delivery HQ moved from Denver to Omaha
Postmaster General Payne informed Senator Millard of Nebraska that July 1 rural delivery headquarters will transfer from Denver to Omaha. Defects for the rural officials amount to $8,000 and have been prepared for option in the Omaha public.
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Washington
Payne
Millard
Nebraska
Denver
Omaha
Reliance Defeats Columbia in New Cup Yacht Race
May 23 report cites a combination and superb sailing as Reliance beat Columbia by four and forty three seconds off Glen Cove. The victory marks a decisive win for the new yacht, with expectations of a future challenge by Reliance against the defender. The article also notes the permanent treaty between the United States and another party incorporating Platt amendment terms.
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Reliance
Colum
Glen Cove
United States
Endorsed Kidney Pill Aids Concord Man
A local Concord resident endorses Dean's Kidney Pills as an effective remedy for backache and disordered kidneys. W J Hill reports relief after using the product from Gibson Drug Store and invites others to request a free trial by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Pills sold nationwide at 50 cents per box.
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W. J. Hill
South Union Street
Concord
N. C
Justice of the Peace
Dean
Gibson Drug Store
Hill
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Snow Plows on Canadian Railways Demand Heavy Fleet
Canadian railways require over 600 snow plows each winter to keep lines open. An assortment of commercial quips appears amid fragmented prose about Defiance Starch prices and a poetical misquote. The piece blends local ad snippets with weather and transport notes in an uneven, collage style.
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Canada
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