Miscellaneous Newspaper articles about Sedgwick Co.
April 5, 1892
Morning World Herald, Omaha Nebraska
IN A SNOWDRIFT
Julesburg, Colo., April 4-Charles Rosenquist, P.T. Gorhardt and John Clevet,
together with two daughters, were living in a barn which was blown away this
morning. They were soon covered in a snowdrift and managed to keep alive until
rescued. The intense cold froze their limbs, fingers and feet, but all will
recover. The loss on cattle and horses in the surrounding country is very
large. Union Pacific trains were delayed by a train wrecked in the snowdrifts.
No one was injured.
April 6, 1892
Newark Daily Advocate, Newark Ohio
STORM DAMAGES
GREAT DESTRUCTION DONE IN THE NORTHWEST
MISFORTUNES OF A FARMER
His Temporary Residence Blown Away and the Inmates Suffer in a Blinding Snow
Strom-Almost a Blizzard in Minnesota-The Storm at Other places.
Denver, April 6-A dispatch from Julesburg, Colo., says. Charles Rosenquest, P.J.
Gorhardt and Joseph Close, together with two daughters, have been temporarily
living in a barn waiting completion of their farmhouse, which is being
built twenty miles south of here. At 3 o'clock Monday morning a heavy wind blew
the barn over, carrying it clear off the ground for a distance of 200 feet, and
as the barn had no floor it left the inmates lying exposed to the storm, their
beds scattered to the winds and their clothes torn away from them until finally
the blinding snow covered them in a drift.
Mr. Rosenquest managed to tell his two daughters to lie
still, while he succeeded in keeping a hole open through the drift to keep them
from smothering to death. The other two men lay ten feet away, but did not know
what was going on, on account of the blinding snow. At 2 o'clock in the
afternoon the storm stopped just in time to save the lives of the two girls, who
were carried to a fire behind some boards, when the men finally succeeded in
alleviating their sufferings. The intense cold froze their limbs, fingers and
feet, but they will recover.
June 26, 1906
Decatur Herald, Decatur Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Wright of Julesburg, Colorado, are here visiting their daughter, Mrs. Charles Rhodes.
August 6, 1909
Suburbanite Economist, Chicago Illinois
Mr. and Mrs.. C.H. Milnor of 1747 W. 87th St., are back from a pleasant sojourn at Colorado Springs and Denver, also visited Mr. Milnor's mother at Julesburg, Colo.
May 17, 1924
The Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln Nebraska
EX-PRISONER SUES WARDEN
Jacob Messing of Edgar Asks For Heavy Damages.
Charges Colorado Authorities With Conspiracy to Put Him in Prison and Prevent
Wedding.
Denver, May 17-Jacob Messing of Edgar, Neb, has filed a $250,000 suit charging
the authorities at Julesburg, Col, and Warden Tynan of the state penitentiary
with false arrest and imprisonment. The case was filed in the United States
districa court, and is said to be one of the most unusual ever filed in
Colorado. Messing states that on October 15, 1910, he was threatened with his
life if he did not leave Julesburg and give up his intention to marry Miss Mary
Richardson of that place. He alleges the authorities falsely charged Miss
Richardson is being of unsound mind, and that a conspiracy existed whereby he
was arrested in Deuell county, Nebraska, after which he was placed in the
Sedgwick county jail. In the meantime he obtained a Nebraska license to marry
Miss Richardson but at the time of his arrest all his money $52.26 was taken
from him.
He broke jail and returned to Nebraska and, so the suit
alleges, he was followed by one H.C. Spillman and beaten "into an insane and
incompetent condition," and returned to Colorado. He was tried in the district
court, convicted and placed in the Colorado penitentiary.
Under the direction of Warden Tynan, Messing avers, he was
adjudged insane January 20, 1920, but later allowed to return to Nebraska. All
the persons named as assisting in the arrest and conviction of Messing are named
as defendants in the suit.
October 25, 1924
Iowa City Press Citizen, Iowa City Iowa
Mrs. Harvey Hoehstettler of Aurora, Ohio who has been visiting relatives here has gone to Julesburg, Colorado to visit her sister Mrs. Joe Wertz.
June 13, 1928
Iowa Recorder, Greene Iowa
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bliton, of Julesburg, Colorado, were weekend guests of her brother, Luther Rice and wife.
January 29, 1947
Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison Kansas
Charles r. Fischer of Julesburg, Colo., who submitted to a major operation at the Atchison hospital Monday, is doing nicely. Mr. Fischer is a rancher and formerly lived at Nortonville.
February 5, 1947
Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison Kansas
Carl R. Fischer of Julesburg Colo., will be discharged from the Atchison hospital in a few days. He is recovered from a major operation.
April 28, 1948
The Iowa Recorder, Green Iowa
HERE FROM COLORADO
Mr. and Mrs. Orvo Miller of Julesburg, Colorado have been
visiting the past week with Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Eikenberry, Mr. and Mrs. Miller
and Mrs. Eikenberry visited in Waterloo Saturday night and Sunday with the
latters son, Raymond Eikenberry and family and Dean Eikenberry.
September 1, 1949
Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia Missouri
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson have returned to Julesburg, Colo., where Mr. Wilson will be an instructor of science in the Julesburg high school, after spending two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Wilson, 918 South Kentucky avenue.
February 24, 1950
Bedford Gazette, Bedford Pennsylvania
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Conner, of Altoona, and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Plessinger, of Julesburg Colorado, were the guests Friday at dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Foor.
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