Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious. In 30 seconds he was dead. Materials for the execution had cost the State of Colorado...
Died. Charles Spalding Thomas, 84, silver money advocate, onetime (1899-1901) Governor of Colorado, onetime (1913-21) U. S. Senator; after a six-month illness; in Denver. Strongly individualistic, he opposed closed shops, payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, fought hard for the 16-to-1 silver-gold ratio. Last year he announced he was hoarding $120 in gold, tried unsuccessfully to be brought to trial...
Last week the first transcontinental trains ever to pass through Denver chufied through the Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake...
...agronomists to be worth $50,000,000 to desperate farmers. General Midwestern rains prevented utter agricultural disaster but came weeks too late to do any lasting good. On his red-splotched drought map. Relief Administrator Hopkins blocked in 46 more stricken counties in Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Texas. ''The drought area," said he, "no doubt will spread, even though there is more rain...