Pueblo County, Colorado
Pueblo News 1910's

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1910

Albuquerque Morning Journal July 5 1910 White Men Stabbed By Jubilating Negroes - Pueblo, Max Irwin and J H Moore, two white men were stabbed in the back tonight in a riot between whites and negroes in the Bessemer city park here which is thought to have resulted from the outcome of the Jeffries Johnson fight. Neither of the wounded men is in a serious condition. The negroes who used the knives have not been arrested.

Yampa Leader, September 23, 1910 - Are Now Pharmacists - Denver. - As a result of the state board of pharmacy's examinations at the Denver-Gross Medical college the following were passed as registered pharmacists: I.E. Arentz, Denver; Albert J. Bacon, Pueblo; George W. Bean, Pueblo; R.R. Bell Denver; Earl D. Bradley, Denver; B. Carpenter, Grand Junction; George H. Chittick, Colorado Springs; Grover Coder, Denver; T.L. Edgar, Ordway; H.D. Peltz, Denver; F.F. Frye, Colorado Springs; Chester E. Harding, Denver; Chester E. Haskins, Salida; Fred E. Holland, Las Animas; Fred E. Judy, Denver; Herbert Luria, Denver; LeRoy Newbern, Pueblo; J. Albert [ stops here]

1911



Yampa Leader, April 21, 1911 - Forest Rutherford, a former Pueblo man, was wounded at Douglas, Ariz., by a stray bullet fired during a battle across the line in Mexico, recently.

Yampa Leader, December 8, 1911 The red light district in Pueblo is to be abolished.

1912



Yampa Leader, March 15, 1912 Mrs. Marian C. Gilbert, who was accused of killing her husband in Pueblo was acquitted.

Yampa Leader, March 29, 1912 Swink. -Swink is the only oasis between Kansas City and Pueblo and the coming election will hinge on the question of whether the town shall be wet or dry.

Carbonate Chronicle 6-3-1912 - She Stopped Freight Train - The crew of a Denver and Rio Grande freight train were surprised when they ran ahead early yesterday morning to remove an obstacle to find that the obstacle was Mrs. Josephine Syren, of East Seventh street, formerly Mrs. Maimi, who was sitting in her buggy across the track chanting a Finnish love song to her horse.  The springs of the buggy were pressed fast together, and the side on which the serenader was sitting was sagging under the generous bulk of Mrs. Syren's one-eighth of a ton.  The train crew opened their eyes in amazement at seeing this strange obstruction across the tracks.  But the train had to pass and the crew began to argue with the woman to induce her to move on.  But the mountain proved a volcano, and Mrs. Syren, who has a large vocabulary of profanity began to spout fire and sulphur from her crater.  The eruption was still in progress when Sheriff Schraeder and Deputy Harlan appeared on the scene and began the work of moving the mountain to the other side of the railroad track.  She was moved but continued to erupt pet names in the direction of the officers.  With the obstacle out of the way the train passed on and the volcano from Finland was passed up the Malta road and into a cell.  The latter passing, however, was far from a peaceful one, and the prisoners in the jail say they spent a restless night of it, with the woman upstairs trying to kick holes in the floor.  When she is sober Mrs. Syren can make five quarrelsome people look sick in the field of raising Cain.  But when she is not sober, she can raise Cain's brother Abel to boot.  The officers say that they followed the tracks of the buggy for hours as it went winding in a labyrinthian course over hill and dale in the neighborhood of Malta until they found her tying up traffic on the Rio Grande.  Mrs. Syren's husband was found later.  He had been taking the same medicine as had his wife.

Carbonate Chronicle 6-24-1912 - Around the City As Seen By Our Reporters on Their Daily Rounds – From the Herald Democrat and the Evening Chronicle – From Sunday's Daily – Locking the door of her "crib," on State street, and leaving the sordid life of the tenderloin behind her, a woman of the redlight, calling herself "Sadie Brooks," last night boarded a train for Pueblo, where a home has been provided for her through the kindness of Mrs. Hayes, in charge of the rescue work of the Women's Christian union, and of a number of local women who contributed to funds raised to rent a cottage for her to live in.  The woman came here from Salt Lake some time ago and said that she was unable to find work.  In order to earn a livelihood she was forced to rent a "crib" and to live the life of the underworld although her condition was that of a woman about to become a mother.  Her case soon attracted the attention of some Leadville women and for several weeks not a stone was left unturned to find a home for the woman during her approaching illness.  The officials of the Crittenton home of Denver were applied to, but they replied that the woman was too old and that they confine their efforts to helping younger girls to reform.  A number of other institutions were tried with as little success.  The women who had interested themselves in stretching out a helping hand looked up the law on the subject and were told that there is no provision on the statutes for the assurance of a decent birth for unborn infants where motherhood is under a cloud.  Finally, the woman was granted admission to a cottage home in Pueblo.  Chairman Sullivan, of the board of county commissioners, was asked to assist in the work of obtaining funds to pay her fare to that city and the rent of the cottage.  But he declined and the funds were raised by private subscription.  A number of tenderloin women, who are acquainted with Sadie Brooks, showed much sympathy for her in her plight and stood willing to contribute to the fund in case their assistance was needed.  The woman has told her acquaintances of State street that she desires to turn over a new leaf and again lead a wholesome, decent life.  An effort will be made by Mrs. Hayes, of the W. C. T. U., to give her an opportunity to reform after her illness.  If possible work will be provided and she will be given a chance to earn her bread and butter in some place besides a "crib."  The woman who left the tenderloin last night is a widow, whose husband died some time ago.  She was thrown on her own resources and claims that she was forced into the life she led here involuntarily.  One of those who was interested in the case of Sadie Brooks says: "It was a case which has shocked the decent people of Leadville.  It is a pity that there is no law to protect unborn infants.  It is a pity, too, that there is nothing that can be done in Leadville to handle such a case through official sources.  There seems to be no place in the county hospital for women who are unfortunate."

Carbonate Chronicle 6-24-1912 - Around the City As Seen By Our Reporters on Their Daily Rounds – From the Herald Democrat and the Evening Chronicle – From Sunday's Daily – Unfortunate Women - Referring to the case of Sadie Brooks, a State street woman, who left Leadville Sunday night for Pueblo where she is to be given a home in which to bear her child, A. M. Holbrook, of the local People's Mission, states that the woman will stay at Hope cottage.  This home has been provided for her by some of the good women of Leadville through the kindness of William H. Lee, superintendent of the Rocky Mountain Rescue and Protection league, an organization which is connected with the People's Mission.  The work of the league is to stretch forth a helping hand to unfortunate women.  Any woman in embarrassing circumstances will be admitted to the cottages in Pueblo and no questions will (be asked.)

Yampa Leader, July 12, 1912 Denver. The following accidents have been reported as a result of Fourth of July celebration: Ruth Abbott, Brighton, eyes burned; Carroll Rawls, Brighton, finger shot off; Joe Miller, Superior, shot in the back, may die; Tad Everett, Salida, finger and thumb shot off; Frank Hennes, Pueblo, eyes put out.

Yampa Leader, July 12, 1912 - Cherokee Bill of Grand Junction, aged 115, who, according to the United States census, is the oldest man in the country, has discarded the set of false teeth which has done duty for fifty years, for six pearly white teeth which are appearing in his gums.

Yampa Leader, August 9, 1912 Falling from the roof of a three-story building upon which he was working in Pueblo, John Abrams had the good fortune to alight upon a clothes line and then upon a dog, thereby saving his life.

Yampa Leader, August 23, 1912 Johnnie Carver, nine, fell under a heavy ore car at Pueblo and had both legs cut off at the knees.

Yampa Leader, September 20, 1912 - Pueblo - James Thomas of Lincoln, Neb., fell from a Rio Grande passenger train about eight miles north of Pueblo, while it was going at a rate of forty miles an hour, and received injuries which may prove fatal.

Bayfield Blade – September 20, 1912 – Hale and hearty, and still able to do a day's work that would fatigue the average young man, Marvin Mead, 82, inventor of a hay press, has just celebrated his anniversary surrounded by many of his descendants at Pueblo.

Yampa Leader, October 4, 1912 Saddler Heir to Immense Fortune Pueblo. - Returning from Los Angeles, where he attended the meeting of eight heirs to an estate worth about $30,000,000, Alfred Burrows, a saddle-maker here, has resumed his duties in the factory, just as if he were not a millionaire.

Dillon Blue Valley Times 10-25-1912 - Heir to $25,000,000 at Work - Colorado Man Continues Leather Carving Despite Big Share in California Estate - Pueblo, Colo. - Although he has inherited one-eighth of an estate estimated at between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, Alfred Burrows, thirty-five years old, a leather carver, is at work on his bench in a local saddlery shop as usual, and he intends to stay at his employment until he learns more definite news of the legacy.  Burrows has just returned from Los Angeles, where he attended a meeting of the heirs of the large estate of Mrs. Arcadia B. de Baker, who died in Santa Monica, Cal., September 15.  Burrows expects to make his home in California when the affairs of the estate are finally settled.  At present Burrows resides with his wife at 918 South Union avenue.  The estate consists principally of valuable ranches near Los Angeles.  Don Juan, the great-grandfather of Burrows, was the friend of a Spanish admiral and inherited the enormous estate by virtue of a grant from the king of Spain.

1913



Bayfield Blade 1-24-1913 – Thomas K. Prout, for two years sought by the police of Billings, Mont., for embezzlement, has been arrested in Pueblo, where he has been living with his wife and two children as R. E. Chapman.

Bayfield Blade 8-8-1913 - By the killing of A. L. Larson by J. E. Bastable, both employes of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad, at Corona, government weather reports from the highest regular station in the United States have been cut off.

Akron Weekly 11-14-1913 Heir to Million Dollar Estate - Pueblo - Mrs. Hannah Richey, mother of Miss Bessie C. Richey, principal of the Central grade schools, and Miss Alice Richey of the Minnequa school, received word from Los Angeles, Cal., that through the death of her brother she was heir to about $1,500,000.

Yampa Leader, December 26, 1913 For the first time in the history of Pueblo county a woman has been summoned to serve as juryman in a murder trial. Mrs. L.A. England escaped service, however, when it was discovered that she is the wife of a ranchman and is not a man as was supposed.

1914



Yampa Leader, January 16, 1914 Twists Nose of Trooper; Fined $50 Pueblo. - George Geiser, proprietor of a plumbing establishment here and candidate for water commissioner at the last election, and a union man, twisted the nose of Orville Rogers, a militiaman here on recruiting duty, when he met him on the street. Then he whipped out a pair of scissors and cut all the buttons off Rogers' uniform while he held the soldier. Wednesday he was fined $50 and costs in police court and ordered held in jail until he paid it.

Yampa Leader, February 27, 1914 Mrs. Ella Mathews Peery is made a co-respondent in a divorce action brought against ;her husband, John D. Peery, by Mrs. Nora Peery of Denver. Mrs. Nora Peery asserts that she is the common-law wife of Peery and demands that the marriage to Mrs. Ella Mathews Peery be declared illegal. She asserts that her husband has been guilty of infidelity by reason of his relations with his legal wife, Mrs. Ella Mathews Peery.

Yampa Leader, April 3, 1914 Guy H. White, a Grand Junction traveling man, was arrested at Telluride on a lunacy charge, because he wore a straw hat, the first day of spring, when the thermometer registered below zero. Judge Brown dismissed the case because lack of jurisdiction.

Bayfield Blade 4-17-1914 - The honor of being in charge of the elaborate arrangements for the 1914 May festival at the University of Colorado has been given to a Pueblo young woman.  She is Miss Dorothy Burton, a senior.  

Yampa Leader, May 22, 1914 Solution of Lonely Lives Among Women - By Mrs. Phoebe Swartz, Chicago - The "woman above fifty" with no home center, or man, either, for that matter, has missed the point of life. Make a home for some one else. Work, absorbing work, for others less fortunate, is the only solution. Such work carries with it more individual pleasure and more social possibilities if transferred to a town of moderate size, there the individual is not lost sight if in the day's pre-occupation. The lonely woman of fifty has a tremendous advantage over the lonely woman of twenty. The lonely woman of fifty ought to assume the responsibility of making the lonely woman of twenty more happy and more safe. Or, go loaf around any of the public playgrounds and make the acquaintance of two or three of the most forlorn children; follow them up to their homes; make friends with the mothers; be their friendly visitor. Find two or three old women stranded in the homes for old people. They are the women with some right to call themselves lonely. Two women from Chicago have solved the problem by buying a place in Michigan, on the lake. They live there quietly in the winter, an integral part of the community. In the summer they fill their house with city folks at $7 a week and children half price. That is the clean cut philanthropy: Feeding and housing healthy children from three to fifteen at $3.50 a week.

Yampa Leader, May 29, 1914 The museum at the University of Colorado at Boulder is the recipient of the skins of forty species of birds from Guatemala collected by Earl H. Morris of Pueblo, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts at that institution.

Yampa Leader, August 21, 1914 The story of a thrilling flight from Germany to the United States, with the momentary expectation of capture by French or English man-of-war was told by Ottomar O'Donnell, son of T. J. O'Donnell, of Denver, who was in Berlin the night war was declared against Servia by Austria. O'Donnell was the first Denver refugee abroad to arrive home.

Bayfield Blade 9-4-1914 - At Pueblo, Colo., Miss Lucy Jay swam across Lake Minnequa and back without pausing for a rest.  It is the first time the feat has been accomplished by a woman.  The distance was 2 1/2 miles.

Yampa Leader, September 4, 1914 Drastic orders were issued to the Denver police departments to enforce the police regulations concerning women in cafes and licensed restaurants.

Yampa Leader, September 25, 1914 Thirty-three pearls in a single oyster, said by jewelers to be a record breaking number, were reported found recently by A.L.. Digby of Pueblo.

Akron Weekly 11-27-1914 Mrs. Seitz Assailant Gets Five Years - Pueblo - Andrew Hogg, who twice shot and wounded Mrs. Augusta Seitz, with whom he was infatuated, was sentenced to serve from three to five years in prison.

Bayfield Blade 12-4-1914 - One of the rare instances of a mother deserting her baby came to the attention of Judge Mirick of the County Court of Pueblo, when Mrs. Sarah Boyd asked to have a 22 months' old girl declared a dependent and placed in a state institution.

1915



Weekly Ignacio Chieftain 12-10-1915 - Rye Flame-Swept; Loss $200,000 - Pueblo - Two hundred thousand dollars damage was done when fire destroyed the town of Rye in the Greenhorn mountains, thirty miles west of Pueblo.  Breckenridge Summit County Journal 12-11-1915 - Half-Clad Men Fight Fire in Blizzard - Pueblo - Half dressed citizens, many of them barefooted, fought flames in a raging blizzard during the night and until dawn, while the fire gutted the business district of the town of Rye, situated thirty miles southwest of Pueblo in the Greenhorn mountains.  The loss is estimated at $200,000.

Bayfield Blade 12-17-1915 - Mrs. W. J. Cunningham of Pueblo was cornered by a bobcat while alone in her home, but secured a gun and killed it.

1916



Bayfield Blade 9-15-1916 - Many member of the Pueblo Greek colony are preparing to return to Greece, as they expect to be called for service in the army.

1917



Bayfield Blade 2-2-1917 - Pueblo Woman Given Place - Mrs. Mary Wuksinoch of Pueblo was named by Secretary James R. Noland as assistant superintendent of the state free employment bureau in that city.

Akron Weekly 2-9-1917 Statehood News - Parents whose children are committed to the State Home through poverty will not be refused the right to redeem them and take them again into their own homes, if a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Hetherington becomes a law. At present, when the gates of the State Home close upon a child it is lost to its parents. The senator also introduced a bill whereby an adopted child automatically becomes an heir of those who adopted it.

Bayfield Blade 3-16-1917 - Four times around the world and half way around on the fifth trip is the achievement of Bernard Swackenberg, the oldest mail carrier of the Pueblo force, who celebrated his seventy-second birthday anniversary.

Mancos Times-Tribune 4-27-1917 - Ranchers Will Get Free Seeds - Pueblo. - The Commerce Club is arranging to furnish garden seeds free of charge to ranchers in the section south of Pueblo.  The South Side water board has announced that free water will be supplied the same district for a period of one month from planting time.  Pueblo merchants have signified their intention of contributing to a fund for supplying the seeds.

Bayfield Blade 6-8-1917 - Wilfred J. Loeffler and Carl Wierum of Pueblo, and Walter G. Peak of Colorado Springs have been named as alternates to the Annapolis Naval Academy.

Bayfield Blade 7-20-1917 - Thomas Johnson, one of the first Pueblo boys to answer the call for recruits at the beginning of the hostilities with Germany, is seriously ill with pneumonia at Pensacola, Fla.

Bayfield Blade 9-28-1917 - Centennial high school students will do their bit and do it actively, when they aid Pueblo county farmers in the harvesting of this year's bean crop, which is one of the largest crops grown in that section for some time.

Bayfield Blade 10-19-1917 - The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah D. Lago was celebrated in Pueblo.

1918



Record Journal of Douglas County 3-1-1918 - More than 750 Pueblo skilled mechanics have applied for civil service jobs in the shipbuilding yards of the United States and several hundred of those applying have already been accepted and sent to the various ship yards where the government is building ships to carry supplies to the armies of the allies.



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