Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Prowers County Colorado
Read about a 1928 robbery in the Events page
March 29, 1893
The New Era, Humeston Iowa
Samuel Falkner, of Lamar, Colorado, after the burial of his wife at Cambria last week, visited several days with his many friends at this place. (Submitted by S. Williams)
July 19, 1893
The New Era, Humeston Iowa
S.B. Falkner, of Lamar, Colorado, has our thanks for a bunch of papers from that region. (Submitted by S. Williams)
September 13, 1893
The New Era, Humeston Iowa
Sam. Falkner, of Lamar, Colorado, is visiting his many friends here. (Submitted by S. Williams)
January 3, 1894
The New Era, Humeston Iowa
We received this week a copy of the Sparks, published at Lamar, Colorado, which told of an immense rabbit hunt that occurred in that vicinity just before Christmas, in which 1799 rabbits were captured in one day. Our old friend S.B. Falkner, was one of the hunters and made the best individual records, killing 189. The game was dressed and sent to different points in the state, as a Christmas gift to the needy. (Submitted by S. Williams)
May 13, 1896
The New Era, Humeston Iowa
Our old friend, Sam Faulkner, now of Lamar, Colorado, has our thanks for a paper containing an illustrated write-up of that town and county. (Submitted by S. Williams)
September 29, 1905
Oxnard Courier, Oxnard California
Frank Johnson and wife departed yesterday for Lamar, Colorado, where Mr. Johnson goes to take the position of head sugar boiler in the new factory at that place. (Submitted by S. Williams)
April 17, 1907
The Chillicothe Constitution, Chillicothe Missouri
John Mace of Lamar, Colorado, arrived last Wednesday on a visit to relatives. (Submitted by S. Williams)
April 19, 1907
The Chillicothe Constitution, Chillicothe Missouri
Mrs. Charles Hargrave, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. J.B. Smith, for the past two weeks returned to her home in Lamar, Colorado, Thursday. (Submitted by S. Williams)
August 25, 1925
The Chillicothe Constitution, Chillicothe Missouri
DOING NICELY IN LAMAR
Sidney McCloughan returned to his home in Lamar, Colorado,
Wednesday after attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Nels McCloughan.
Sidney is manager of the Lamar Western Union office and his wife is an operator
in the office. They are enthusiastic about their location and often see
Chillicothe friends driving through en route to Colorado Springs and Denver.
Lamar is located on the Santa Fe Trail, a popular tourists route through
Colorado. (Submitted by S. Williams)
August 12, 1929
Jefferson City Post-Tribune,
Jefferson City, Missouri
That Colorado Sheriff
We're ready to lead the cheering for
Sheriff L.E. Alderman of Prowers county, Colorado.
Sheriff Alderman, as you
probably have read is that six foot, rough hewed, two gun guardian of the law in
that remote Colorado county whose keenness in tracking down a gang of bank
robbers puts fiction story detectives to shame. A rural Colorado farmer until
his election by his neighbors two years ago, he stepped into the case with all
the sagacity and acumen of a trained sleuth, solved the baffling mystery,
rounded up seven alleged members of the gang in various parts of the United
States and has furnished police departments everywhere with photos and
fingerprints of the alleged ringleader, who escaped him by only 10 minutes in
Peoria, Ill. Which, we think, was a darn good job. The most amazing part about
the whole case is how this ex-farmer, untrained in the ways of the big cities
and in the ways of criminals, succeeded where other officers, with more
opportunity to know the devious ways of the underworld, had failed. It looks
like a man who probably would be referred to in criminal parlance as a "hick
cop" and sneered at by professional detectives has out-smarted one of the most
daring gangs of desperadoes the southwest has known since the days of Jesse
James and brought them to bay. Well, maybe Sheriff Alderman was a "hick cop,"
maybe he didn't know any more about criminology, or clues, or Bertillen photos,
or blood tests and things like that until he undertook to solve the case. But
the fact remains, he did it. It would be a good thing if we had more of these
"hick cops" in some of our big cities. they may be inexperienced and perhaps a
little unsophisticated, but they are intelligent, upright, diligent and
persistent. No thought of graft from bootleggers, no fear of political pressure
sways them, and they don't play politics for a current city administration.
(Submitted by S. Williams)
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