Miscellaneous newspaper articles for Boulder County Colorado
November 16, 1894
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Heavy Loss By Fire
Boulder (Colo), Nov.
16-The forest fire west of this city was checked by a great storm last night and
this enabled the firefighters to extinguish the flames just west of Gold Hill.
No lives were lost as far as reported. The property loss was estimated at
$1,000,000.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
January 17, 1902
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Oil Well Flowing
Boulder, Colo., Jan
17-The second oil well drilled near this city began flowing today. The
excitement is very great and many parties are arranging to drill wells. Land
values are soaring.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
April 14, 1902
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Charles Snyder, a mining man of Boulder, Colo., came in from the east last evening and is taking a look at the prospects in the vicinity of Reno. [Submitted by S. Williams]
November 10, 1902
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Physician Suspected of Poisoning His Wife
Boulder, Colo., November 10-Dr. Rudolph Baird, whose wife died in October under
suspicious circumstances, was arraigned in the District Court on the charge of
murder. Bail was fixed at $10,000.
It is charged that Dr.
Baird administered poison to his wife for the purpose of securing insurance upon
her life.
There were no traces of poison found by the
physicians who made the autopsy on her her remains.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
October 26, 1903
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
J.H. Andregg of Boulder, Colo., is in town today. [Submitted by S. Williams]
November 17, 1904
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Boulder Capitalist Passes Through Reno To Goldfield
E.C. Pohle of Boulder, Colo., a prominent mining man and president of the
Progressive Concentrating and Milling Company of that place, was in Reno
yesterday on his way to Goldfield, where he expects to become interested in
mining property. He spent the day in Reno and was delighted with the advantages
and activity of the city.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
November 30, 1904
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
George W. Teal and Frank J. Safely of Boulder, Colo., are in Reno on their way to Tonopah and Goldfield. [Submitted by S. Williams]
December 8, 1906
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
C.L. George and W.J. Oliver of Boulder, Colo., are registered at
the McCormack.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
January 26, 1907
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Joe Bruner, a mining man from Boulder, Colo., is in Reno on business connected with mining interests. He is at Riverside. [Submitted by S. Williams]
May 22, 1907
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
L.C. Paddock, editor and proprietor of the Daily Camera; C.B. Culbertson of Girard, Pa., and W.H. Allison, cashier of the First National bank of Boulder, Colo., were guests of Judge Downer yesterday. [Submitted by S. Williams]
July 10, 1907
Adams County Free Press, Corning Iowa
Marshall Miller went to Boulder, Colorado, Monday, where he will spend the summer with his mother and sister. Marshall will spend the vacation with a tutor in mathematics, we understand, preparatory to entering Princeton this fall. (Submitted by S. Williams)
August 14, 1907
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada
Mob Wanted To Lynch Him But He is Spirited Away
Diabolical
Act Cost Five Lives, Injury of Half Hundred Others And Destruction of Property
Valued at Half a Million Dollars
Boulder, Colo., Aug
14-John W. Reeves, a brakeman employed on the Colorado and Northern Railroad,
who has been held as a suspect in connection with the destruction of the
Colorado and Southern station by fire and dynamite early Saturday morning, today
confessed that he was responsible for the terrible catastrophe. The result of
his diabolical act was the wiping out of five lives and the injury of half a
hundred others besides the destruction of property valued at half a million
dollars.
Reeves confessed to the district attorney, his
assist and several police officers.
He said that he had
set fire to a caboose belonging to the road he worked for because he was angered
at the company for some wrong done him. The fire spread to the C. and S. freight
house. Reeves implicates three other men on his confession but their names are
being withheld.
As soon as it became known that Reeves
had confessed a mob gathered at the county jail for the purpose of lynching him.
Reeves was spirited out of the jail by officers and taken
to Denver in a carriage.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
September 27, 1912
Lima News, Lima Ohio
Death of Mother Drives A Young Woman Insane
Father Racing to
New York To Take Charge of Her
New York, Sept. 27-Neil D.
McKenzie, a banker of Boulder, Colo., today was racing toward New York to take
care of his daughter, Miss Pauline McKenzie, a beautiful girl, who since
Tuesday, has been a patient in the phsycological(sic) ward of Bellevue hospital.
Miss McKenzie was found by the police haranging(sic) a
crowd from the entry of the Church of the Holy Name, she seemed dazed and at the
hospital it was said that Miss McKenzie's mind was effected by the death of her
mother. She came to New York two weeks ago with an ambition to go on stage. Her
father will take her back to Colorado.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
November 15, 1919
Sandusky Register, Sandusky Ohio
Willard-D.B. Lang of Boulder, Colorado, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Long. [Submitted by S. Williams]
February 15, 1930
Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville Illinois
11 Tombstones Removed
Boulder, Colo., Feb. 15-Identity of University of Colorado students who removed
11 tombstones from Columbia cemetery here and left them on the lawn of the Kappa
Kappa Gamma Sorority was sought by University and city authorities today.
[Submitted by S. Williams]
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