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The La Jara Chronicle

Location

La Jara, Colorado, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1904

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Who Is Elected Governor In Colorado Fraud Alert

Denver reports reveal extensive election fraud across multiple counties including Denver as the question of who won Colorado’s governorship remains unsettled. Legal and legislative steps loom with talks of opening ballot boxes, court actions, and possible temporary governorship by Lieutenant Governor McDonald while investigations proceed.

Denver Colorado Peabody Adams Supreme Court

Unseating Dick and McDonald in the Senate

Republicans statewide back the question of restoring the stolen seats of Dick and McDonald in the Senate. The piece recalls a past Republican action where four Denver representatives were unseated for fraud after winning the smallest pluralities.

McDonald Senate House Denver

Denver frauds stir talk on Teller Patterson election

A Denver circulation of political bulletins accuses Senators Teller and Patterson of election frauds. Patterson defends his election as honest while Teller’s honesty is disputed. The handbill prompted arrests by Frank Adams' police to suppress the circular amid investigations into impersonated votes in respectable city precincts. The era of wholesale election fraud being rebuked is noted as some suspects face jail.

Supreme Court Patterson Denver Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain F. C. Chamberlain North Cheyenne Canon Cutler Mountain Cheyenne Burton John Quick Lena Weber Kansas City Salida Dill Bonynge Congress Boulder Washington Callld Leadville International Epworth League William J. Palmer John Cleghorn State Penitentiary W. E. Hood Colorado & Southern Loveland Colorado Dolores George S. Gardner Nannie Gardner Montclair Felix Z. Jones James A. Jones S. G. Hurst J.C. Twombly B. F. Twombly D. W. Strong G. B. Kinsey Brighton Moffat Colora Midland Mammoth Arrowhead Temple Theater J. Wilbur Chapman Colorado State Grange Britannia Hall State Agricultural College Young Men's Christian Association of Arapahoe County Orman Golden de France Montrose W. A. Laughlin Alex Moore Paul Gregerson Wiliam Cooke Daniels Daniels & Fisher Stores Company Singapore British East Indies Papua New Guinea Parlin Wilson Moore Gunnison County Moore International Typographical Union A. J. Cummings Union Printers Franklin Spencer Spalding St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Erie Cerro Summit Pueblo County Mustang Land and Cattle Company Rocky Ford Otero and Teller United States Senate John Frank Adams

Atlantic Coast Storm Hits New York as Snow Falls

The dec 18 snowstorm and gale reached the coast yesterday and lingered into the morning, described as the most violent in years. New Jersey and New England coasts report furious gales and several disasters. In New York the snowfall totaled eight inches with little traffic disruption. 13,000 snow shovelers and 4,000 teams worked to clear main thoroughfares after the storm ended.

New York New Jersey New England

Fort Captured at East Keekwan Mountain

Tokio reports the north fort of East Keekwan mountain fell after a Japanese mine blast at 2:15 pm on December 18. General Semeamima led a final night charge to occupy the fort by 11:50 pm, with heavy fighting noted. Five 9 cm guns and two machine guns were seized, along with ammunition. enemy casualties estimated at forty to fifty dead, Japanese casualties not heavy.

Tokio East Keekwan Mountain Nogi Ast Keekwan Mountain

Must Have Safety Couplers

Washington December 20 Chief Justice Fuller delivers the Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v Southern Pacific holding all railroad cars and locomotives must have uniform automatic couplers. Dining cars cannot be exempt from safety appliance law while in use even when empty. The decision is praised as advancing railroading safety by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Department of Justice for railroad employees.

Washington Fuller Johnson Southern Pacific Railway Company Supreme Court of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission Department of Justice

Mrs. Cody seeks to define Colonel Cody petition in Wyoming case

In Sheridan County District Court, Mrs. W F Cody moves to amend Colonel Cody's petition. She requests details on alleged indignities to guests at the North Platte ranch, occasions of denying his visitors, identities of guests, other insults driving him from the Cody home, and causes she faulted him for. She also asks to strike conduct around their daughter Arta's death from the petition.

Sheridan,Wyo Sheridan County W. F. Cody Colonel Cody Ufe Cody Cody Arta

Port Arthur Holding Out Amid Silent Forts and Rations

Commander Mitzenhoff, former executive officer of the Poltava, reports from Port Arthur that the fortress is desolate and silent aside from gunfire. He says 16,000 men guard the forts, most generals reside there, civilians are on three months of rations, and ammunition remains ample. He doubts a Japanese assault will succeed under current conditions.

Che Foo Mitzenehoff Poltava Port Arthur General Stoessel

Judge Swayne Impeached by House for High Crimes

The House, with near full membership, impeached Judge Swayne of the Northern District of Florida on the 13th for high crimes and misdemeanors. A seven member committee will present the case to the Senate, and five members will notify the Senate. Palmer charged Swayne spent 212 days yearly elsewhere, never voting or living in Florida in any proper sense.

Senate Robert N. Dunn Register of the Land Office Couer d’ Alene Idaho George H. Moulton Colorado Georgetown Demerara Guiana House United States Russia Hay Italy State Department Baron Mayor Des Planches District of Columbia Court of Appeals Criminal Court August W. Machen George F. Lorenz Samuel A. Groff Diller B. Groff West Virginia Spooner Philippine Commission Newlands Congress House Committee On Public Lands Lacey Needham California Miller Kansas Volstead Minnesota George H. Maxwell Land la Tumber Rural Carriers’ Association Post Office Tumbler Lockport New York Roosevelt Post Office Department Keller Letter Carriers’ Association Cunningham Ao Organization Legislaon Territories House of Representatives Swayne Florida W. W. Belknap Grant Judge Swayne Palmer

Mormon Stand Pat Defies Senate Over Mormon Marriage Books

Recorder Nicholson testifies before a Senate committee that he would obey church higher law over national law. When asked about refusing to bring books on Mormon marriage, he says he would show any order to President Smith and disobey it if instructed. He adds he would go to prison rather than reveal the books.

Utah Taylor Nicholson Smith Senate

Travelers' Protective Association Backed Rail Rate Plan

By invitation of the President a special committee of the Commercial Travelers' Protective Association met to discuss recommendations to extend Interstate Commerce Commission powers to review railroad freight rates, with court review as the only appeal. The group affirmed broad support from its 25,000 members.

Commercial Travelers’ Protective Association Interstate Commerce Commission

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