davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
The Canon City Record, Thursday, October 8, 1919

rebuilt the ST Cloud in Canon City.
All of the timbers. including the floor
ing, beams, window frames, doors, etc.
were brought here and used in the
present building The St Cloud as II
stood in Silver Cliff was of dressed
native stone and only such of 1t as
could be used for window arches, sills
and similar work were transferred TO
Canon City. Mr.. Gi lette managed
the hotel for several years after ii
was opened in Canon City and contin-
ued 1t as the st. Cloud during his CON
nection with it here. Mr.. Gillette and
Mr.. DeWoody are both dead. the lat
ter passing away at Salt Lake City a
good many years ago.
Ok teams by the hundreds used to
ply back and forth through the main
street of Canon City on their way to
or from Leadvilie. The building
where the Canon Steam Laundry is
now located used to be the stage de-
pot, and various freighting concerns
had storage warehouses spread out in
various parts of the town. The OK
teams continued to be familiar sight,
even after the railroad reached Canon
City, and went on through the gorge.
but after the terminal had reached
Leadvi lie the OK teams began to dwin-
die in numbers until finally they be-
came rare curiosity, and a, last totally
extinct
Chalmers Witherspoon Talbot used
to run drug store in the Rockafellow
building Where the postoffice was sit
uated in 1873, which building was
then and is still Is owned by Capt B.
+. Rockafellow. II holds the distinc-
ton of possessing the first plate glass
windows in the town.
The railroad reached Canon City in
1873. and in the winter of rs and 70
the population of the town grew so
fast that it was necessary for hun
dreds to live and sleep in tents. The
hills all about were literally covered
with canvas houses.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
The Family Skeleton
DID YOU KNOW THAT

Lyman Robson moved to Canon
City about 1884, having made the
foundation of his fortune in Leadville?
He, with his family, lived at the Nc
Clure house while the beautiful man
sion in South Canon on Riverside ave-
nue. at First street was building. The
land had been purchased from o. G.
Stanley David l.. Robson at that
time was chunky little boy, and he
used to delight in riding his tricycle.
about and once in awhile he would take
little Maude Dewey as his passenger
she standing on the rear bar.
Mrs. Ike Garfield was among the
first, if not really the first. to import
the dandelion to Canon City. Mrs.
Garfield came here from the East and
because of the barren appearance of
the soil and the lack of favorite flow
ers yearned for the pretty dandelions,
which at that time were a garden
beauty of the East. She sent back
home for a few plants and put them
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

cost of everything generally makes
high wages of no more effect proper
tionately than under the old condition
of things before the war, The buy
ing power is not greater but the spend
ing scope is enlarged.
A. N. ORENDORF-I have never
seen apple pickefs so scarce as they
are this season. Their wages. too.
are higher than they have ever been.
REV. GUY KONkEL-The Jewish
relief campaign is starting off very
well in Fremont county and especial
~ in Canon City. am confident that
the good people of this community will
see that the quota is easily raised.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

ence with indifferent success about
1882.
Ike Garfield and Mr.. Slater did
the first active drilling in Canon City
and spudded in on location about
where the Ohio Zinc plant is now situ-
ated. They did not get oil. Ike Can
field, Des Moines Cassidy and Alexan-
der Cassidy and one or two others
did much drilling in the Florence field
in hte early Sos
The first exclusive cigar store in
Canon City was owned by Rudolph
Jeske and was located where the New
Method laundry now is. He had
big wooden Indian which stood out in
front of his store. and it was the first
brought to Fremont county. Jeske
committed suicide in March. 1885.
The county offices were located in
the Harding block during the removal
of the court house to Fourth and Ma
con avenue. Russell & Majors, big
stage and freighter company, used the
building for many years for storage
purposes.
That the Hotel Canon at the corner
of Main and Seventh streets, was con-
structed largely from materials taken
from the wreckage of a famous hos
telry in Silver Cliffe, erected in 1880?
Its progenitor, the old St Cloud hotel
in Silver Cliff. was in LIS day one of
the most popular as well as one of the
most pretentious resorts in Southern
Colorado. 1t was built by Jason Gil
lette and company of associates and
was for about 10 years the pride of the
people of Silver Cliff. Mr.. Gillette
was its manager during the boom days
of the mining industry in Custer coun-
ty, but with the decline of that bust
ness there Mr.. Gillette decided to dis
mantle the hotel and remove the sal
wage to Canon City The people of
Silver Cliff were greatly incensed on
learning of the decision of Mr.. Gil
lette and his associates to tear down
the hotel and transfer the material
to Canon City, and physical force was
threatened as a means of preventing
ii. Mr. Gillette, however was unmoved
by the hostile spirit of the community
and proceeded with the work of de-
molishing the building, and an incip-
lent riot took place in which a mum.
Der of people were hurt. but nobody
killed. Application was made to the
courts to stop the tearing down of the
building by judicial process, and for
some time afterwards the work of its
demolition was held up. II wise coun-
ellis had not prevailed IN relation TO
the building there would undoubtedly
have been serious bIoodshed and loss
of life over its removal. Much OF
the material OF the wrecked structure
was shipped here over the Grape
Creek branch OF the d. & r. G. rail-
road, and was used in what is now the
Hotel Canon The contract for its re-
construction was given to Pat De
Woody. a famous contractor in the
early days Of Custer county. and he
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
RIENzI DICKENS
ONCE CONVICTED
GETS New TRIAL
SUPREME COURT
Judge M. S. Bailey Gives
Majority Opinion = jury
Instructed Wrong.
tBy United Press.J

Denver, oct. 6.-Rienzi C. Dickens,
convicted of second degree murder for
the death of his father and given from
IS to % years in the penitentiary at
Canon City, was granted a new trial by
the state supreme court today.
Judges Garrigues, Burke and Scott
dissented from the majority opinion,
given by Judge Bailey, in which at
tackled the instructions given to the
jury by Judge Neil Graham of the dis
trict court. The supreme court held
that the issue in the case was whether
Dickens was guilty of first degree
murder, or not guilty, and set aside
the conviction in the lower court be-
cause the instructions of the judge
permitted second degree verdict.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
Blue Front Grocery
"CLEANEST STORE IN TOWN"
722 Main st. Phone Canon $50

Coffee market declining. We have marked all
our package coiTees down &c per package, and olIr
Riede Murdoch Breakfast coffee. which many say
is equal to the 60c package colrees putting
back to 45c per pound.
Cranberfes per pound Observation-Disclosures 5c
Pinto Beans three pounds. .................2 Csc
NAVY Beans two pounds. Northumberland. 25c
Lima Beans per pound Observation-Disclosures 5c
Trimore Sugar Corn per can. ............... 15c
Bee brand Sugar Corn two cans. ........... 35c
Bee brand Peas Two cans. Observation-Disclosures 5c
AlteX Pork and Beans per can ..............1 Oc
Altex Lima Beans per can .................1 Oc
Lea & PERKINS, Sauce two for. .............. Csc
Blue Label Ketchup .............. 25c and 35c
Heinz Ketchup Instantaneous. Csc and 35c
Queen Olives (ne) per pint ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30c
Pine Apple per can. zoe and up
We fixed on Pine Apple of all grades.
which is very and high. Ours contracted
early at lower prices, which shall divide with our
customers.
Salmon per pound cans. ........... zoe and up
And are hooked up on Salmon same as on
Pine Apple. Well fixed on Sockeye and all grades.
some of which owing To scarcity cannot be mad nj
any price
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

out in her garden here, where they
thrived and grew to what an extent we
of today all realize. Mrs. Garfield
of course did not realize that she had
started something. For years and
years there were no dandelions in this
city. The early inhabitants knew
nothing of them.
The Russian thistle was an unknown
weed here until the railroad came.
One day the sweepings of a Santa Fe
railroad car were deposited by the
right-of-way, and from them the seed
of the Russian thistle got its start in
these parts. From this small begin
ming like the dandelion they spread
all over this section.
The Anderson * Taggart store is
the lineal descendant of McGee &
derson G. Company. About year
or so ago it became Anderson & Tag
CART.
About 1878 when the railroad only
went this far, and it was necessary to
stage and truck to Leadyiile and other
points west, Canon City was the
toughest town in the West. This was
generally conceded, despite the bad
reputation of ,Leadville. Ii must be
said in all fairness that the band of
crooks anG desperadoes We're not ma
tives, and that but few natives were
molested by them. They preyed on
the innocent from the East who
stopped off here on their way to the
rich fields at Leadville- The lower
floor of the Wilson block, which is
Mack, the largest groce-y store of the
early days in Canon City. William
b. MCGEE and John w. Mack were
the partners. Later it became MCGEE
Brothers & Mack, and the store was
located in what has been for years
the Rocky Mountain livery barn on
North Third street. The firm name
was again changed to MCGEE, Mack &
Smith, and then to Handy G. MCGEE.
Under this management the store was
moved to the present site, the store
having been built by one of the part
ners. G. r. Tanner & Company took
over the Handy & MCGEE interests.
and later the store became ]. NJ. An
now the Higgins garage, was a great
gaming establishment. and many. a
poor sucker went in there rich and
came out poor.
The first oil procured in this coun-
try was pumped out from seepage by
James Murphy on Upper Four Mile
creek Murphy refined it himeslf and
every little while would bring bar
rel full of the kerosene down to DR.
Prentiss' drug store, and the people
of Canon City used it in their lamps
for lighting purposes
About the first organized company
to drill for oil in the Florence and
canon City field was the Land Invest
ment Coal Oil and Mining Company,
or which d. G. Peabody was the lead
ing figure. They drilled around Flor
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
Instant Interviews


JAY SIDEBOTToM-No, am not
on a strike. | do not make money
enough to do that. Steel workers
and coal miners seem to be about the
only ones making money enough to
strike.
ALT MITCIELL-Cincin won
the first game. That was a surprise
to me because had my money up on
the Reds and | generally lose.
PROF. o. b. DRAKE-The boys are
making splendid showing in practice
in football, and those who have
watched them feel they will beat
Cripple Creek on Saturday. Those
boys are going in for gentlemanly but
enthusiastic and vigorous athletics.
and | hope they will keep up that
spirit throughout the season. I am
sure that they will.
RAY BOTTENFIELD-T fact
that Jackson made the first score for
Chicago today lost me nice pot OF
SIS. | held Felsch, who made the
second score.
ART LIVINGS-I have not as yeC
given up nope that Chicago will win
the series. In fact, | still say they
will.
CLYDE NEESON-Coai Cie fans
have been hollering a little because
we would not give up half OF the
money taken in at the Coal Creek
Canon City bal game. which II was
impossible to play because of rain.
We can nc: give ;;p money because we
believe It is only fair to the fans that
We hold the money which is really
theirs until next year. when we can
pay a game with Coal Creek and
give admittance free. II Coal Crees
wins then, we will give them SO per
cent. the same conditions under which
the game which the rain spoiled WAS
10 have been played. We paid them
their expenses over here which we
think Is fair enough for this time.
r. S. BEALI.--I am not limiting o.
anything. but | notice by The Record
that several whom consider nv
friends have shot deer. | went hunt
ing but all I got was back.
EDMUND TYO-The knights OF Co
iumbus are going TO have a big inltia-
ton In Salida on Sunday. Several
Knights from Canon City and Flor
ence are going up. In fact. there
will be big delegation present IRON
Fremont county.
FLOYD CAMPBELG.-The Empire
Zinc Company IL well represented In
tn emembership of the University
Club. If things came to pinch We
probably could get q quorum from the
Il. T. to carry on the affairs OF the
club. BY the way. f. u. does not
mean that we have easy work. neither
does it Indicate that we are easy
marks.
DOC TWILIGHT am feeling bet
ter thank YOU. ! am e ad to get my
name in the paper again. and am
thankful It isn't in tie. obituary col
umn.
PETE WESTwATER- Canon City
is one of the finest residential towns
1t has been my experience to be in,
am glad | own property here because
can look forward to pleasant place
TO live when ! get through with my
mine work in the barren New Mexico
country.
J. w. wHiTMAN-The weather this
fall has been all right except for the
bilious Spots which have been coming
along about once week
GEORGE r. ROCKAFELLOw-The
handling of more money than has
heretofore been the custom, which Is
the experience of people al over the
nation today, give us tendency to
spend more than we did in normal
times, and tho result is that there Il
far more money in active circulation
today than ever before In history per.
haps. Az matter of fact the high
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

The East Canon Baptist Ladies' a
ISOLATION met at the home OF Mrs
:. Cotton on Fifteenth street Thur
day afternoon with IL members pref
ent After the usual routine OF bus
ness was completed there was On
reading by Mrs. Eta Walton Tnrne
and the balance of the afternoon WI
devoted to fancy work and social vi
iting. A little later the hostess serve
light refreshments OF sandwiche
pickles. doughnuts and coffee.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
Don't you want to see the World :?

the FLOODED, Woodworking,
manipulating men of the u. S.
Navy
Pay begins the day you join.
On board ship man is always
learning. Trade schools develop
skill, industry and business ability.
Thirty days care-free Holiday each
year with full pay. The food is
good. First uniform outfit is fur
nished free. Promotion is un-
limited for men Of brains. You
can enlist for two years and come
out broader, stronger and ADLER.
Shove off-Join the u. S. Navy.
If you're between II and IS go to
the nearest recruiting station for
all the details. If you don't know
where it is ask your postmaster.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09
SOCIETY

Miss Ella Roberts entertained at
l o'clock dinner Sunday at her home.
400 Rudd avenue. IN honor OF Robert
Underwood, who just returned from
France. Those present were the
Misses Maurine Robbins, Bessie Nc
ouown. Helen Underwood. Ethel
Hughie; Messrs. Harold Brown, How
ard Burton and Tom Huehle.
Mrs. All Mitchell entertained about
Is ladies at theater party at the
Jones Tuesday night for Mrs. Charles
Calhoun of Tonopah. New, who is the
guest Of her brother and faciilv, Mr.
and MIS-. J. l.. Morgan. After the en-
tertainment the party was taken to the
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

DOMA1JCE is calling to you'll
IN Strange and smiling foreign
lands are beckoning to you. Shove
off and see the world!
Learn to "parley-voo" in gay
Paree. See the bull-ights. in
Panama. See surf-riding on the
,each of Waikiki.
Learn the lure. that comes with
the swish and swirl of the good salt
sea. Eat well-free; dress we'll
free; sleep clean-free; and look 'em
all straight in the eye-British,
French, Chinese, japanese,
Spaniards, Egyptians, Algerians
and all manner of people.
Cornell Be a rceg man OF the
world. See the world. See a9 with
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

Miss Marie Bunten OF Twelfth an
River streets, gave a party in hond
of her tenth birthday last Saturdal
Among the guests present were Louii
Hummeil. Catherine and Anna Hell
Maximina Livings. Collie III sen ar
Sylvia Kelly and Virginia Esser. n
freshments were served and CANT
participated in.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

The teachers and The board Of (
South Canon schools held picnic
the City Park on Tuesday evening.
very delicious and bountlful supp
was served at 6 O'Clock and eve
teacher was present to enjoy the oo,
sion with the exception of one, W.
was detained on account of illnei
A splendid spirit was manifest a
the entire company shared in fall
the affair a merry one with sons a
good cheer.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-10-09

home of Mrs. Mitchell on COLLEGE, Il
nue. where a regular picnic feast y,
served in picnic fashion. There "
music and readings and good soc
time enjoyed by all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09
Germans Paying
High Luxury Tax

Berlin, Sept. 13.-(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)-None of
the new German tax measures is
more stringent and all-inclusive than
the turnover tax, especially that part
Of it relating to Injuries. Virtually
every thing imaginable beyond the
veriest necessities for the household
are taxed all the way from 1 to Is
per cent at the store where they are
bought.
There are 10 categories of Injuries,
II of which come under the Is per
cent clause.
The taxes will vary in severity ac-
cording to the price of the articles
purchased. since in this way the gov
eminent hopes to put the greatest
burden on the wealthy.
The taxes will be collected in two
WAYS. Where it is possible the
seller will aid the tax to the price of
the article and turn it in to the gov
eminent. In the case of articles
manufactured in one place and sold
by retail everywhere. the retail deal
ers will collect the tax.
The government reckons that the
turnover tax will total 4,500,OOO,-
duced bv one-tenth, to four billions,
900 marks. This sum must be re-
to take account of the territories ced-
ed to the entente.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09
WOMEN, Save $40
BY DRY CLEANING

Save five to ten dollars quickly by
dry cleaning everything in the home.
You can dry clean, brighten and re-
new children's coats, suits, caps. wool
ems, Swiss, lawns, organdie and chif-
fon dresses. kid gloves, shoes, furs,
neckties, ribbons, satins, lack, silk
waists, draperies, rugs-everything
that would be ruined by soap and
water.
Place a gallon or more of gaso-
line in a dishpan or wash boiler, put
in the things to be cleaned. then wash
them with Solvite soap. Shortly ev-
erything comes out looking like new.
Nothing fades. shrinks or wrinkles
No pressing needed. Do not attempt
to dry clean without Solvite soap.
This gasoline soap is the secret of all
dry cleaning. A package of Solvite
soap with directions for home dry
cleaning costs but few cents at any
drug, grocery or department store.
Dry clean out Of doors or away from
flame. adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09
Government Will
Push Trust Cases
Held Up By War

Washington Oct. 8-Because of the
announced intention Of the govern
ment to push prosecution of antitrust
cases held in allowance during the
war, the session of the supreme court
is expected to prove one Of the most
imnortant in the history of the court
Cases pending include those against
the alleged anthracite coal trust, the
United States Steel corporation, the
Eastman Kodak company, the Asso-
ciated Billposters and Distributors of
the United States and Canada, the
American Can company, the Quaker
Oats company and also the, Southern
Pacific Merger case.
Following its usual custom. the
court did no business Immediately
today so that Chief Justice White and
his associates might call on Presi-
dent Wilson. Arguments in pending
cases will begin tomorrow with the
coal case the first to be heard The
steel case probably will be the second
! to be argued. Others will be argued
at intervals, but under an agreement
between the government and the
Quaker Oats company that case will
not be heard until January.
General public interest attaches to
another case before the court, that
of the right of breweries to continue
the manufacture Of beer containing
2.75 per cent of alcohol A~~nals
from lower court DEGREES at Balti-
more and New Orleans already have
been filed
A case of Importance to business
interests is the Macomber stock divi-
dend proceedings which involve the
constitutionality, the provisions of
the 1916 income tax act taxing di-
viderds as income.
Although the supreme court at it's
last term upheld the constitutionality
of the espionage act, large number
Of appeals are still pending in cases
growing out of convictions under that
law Among these is the case of
James Peterson, candidate for the
republican nomination in opposition
to Senator Nelson of Minnesota in
1918, and who was sentenced to four
years. Imprisonment because of news
paper articles he wrote. The appeal
'of Victor Berger, representative
elect from Wisconsin from conviction
under the law also is pending.
James D. Maher, clerk of the court
announces that the number of appeals
tried this term is 1875 less than dur
ing the last term. While there is no
explanation of this decrease in the
number of appeals. Mr.. Maher said he
believed it was due to the fact that
lawyers generally are becoming more
inclined not to appeal cases of only
minor Importance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09

Safes sold ana safes bought Adams
Printing company. II
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09
Local Man Seeks
Rhodes Scholarship

Among the applications made to
the Arkansas Committee for selec.
ton of Rhodes Scholars is one by
James McGaughy, son of H. C. Nc
Gaughy, 500 West Sixth. Mr.. Nc
Gaughv is graduate of the Univer-
sity of Arkansas, and is at present
Studying law at Cornell
The scholarships pay $500 a year
for three years and are open to those
who have completed their sophomore
year at college or university. The
applicant does not have to attend an
Arkansas college or university, but
must be a resident of the state. 1t
will be noticed that each candidate
is attending or has attended some
school outside the state
The scholars will. be chosen by the
committee when it meets, October 80,
at Little Rock. The members of the
committee are: Chairman. John C.
Futrall, president of the University
of Arkansas: j. L. Bond, superinten-
dent of public institutions in Arkan-
sas, and j. E. Putnam of Washing
ton University, st. Louis.
A change has been made in that
applicants do not take an examina-
ton. but are chosen with the scholar
ship while at school, the moral and
mental abilities taken into consider
alton.