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San Francisco needs to radically rethink its transportation system to avoid gridlock
Speaking of dead ends, San Francisco seems to specialize in dead-end train projects. The Central Subway, which is experiencing cost overruns and possible mismanagement, is one of these dead ends. There is no current option to have trains exiting to Geary or onto Columbus and possibly running on Lombard into the Marina, and that is a shame. Having the subway exit to the surface is probably the only way to make this project worthwhile.
There's another dead end train project at the Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco. Yet unlike the Central Subway quagmire, I am impressed with the scale and possibilities for the Transbay Terminal project and there is opportunity to fix this dead end. Going back to the city's business-as-usual traffic forecast, in 2040 car trips into the city from the Bay Bridge would increase 18 percent, and by 21 percent from San Mateo County. Aside from scratching my head wondering where exactly all of these cars are supposed to go, we simply need to stop this onslaught before the city becomes too dumb to move.
BART cannot solve it alone, as it will probably approach half a million riders per day by 2016, placing many downtown stations at or near capacity. BART also does not run all the way down the peninsula. Sometimes there are back-of-the envelope proposals to build a second BART tunnel under the bay, but this idea should be weighed against another idea. Rather than build a second BART tunnel to Oakland, how about a joint Amtrak California/Caltrain tunnel under the bay, and creating a true Grand Central Station of the West at Transbay? Let's punch through the dead end currently planned for the east end of the Transbay Terminal "train box" and truly connect Northern California by rail.
This does not need to be high-speed rail, but rather the conventional, off-the-shelf electric rail already planned for Caltrain, of the variety that operates in the Northeastern US and much of Europe — efficient, high capacity trains that can travel 100-120 mile per hour comfortably and safely. In conjunction with a new transbay rail tunnel, the Capitol Corridor should be electrified and right of way captured from the freight railroads. One could take an electrified "baby bullet" from San Jose, through San Francisco, and continue to the East Bay and Sacramento. As Caltrain is electrified to the south, let's also electrify the Altamonte Commuter Express trains, bring them across a rebuilt Dumbarton Bridge, and run high-frequency rail service into the new Transbay Terminal.
Understanding that this will take time to build, in the short term the Bay Bridge should be reconfigured to have bus-only lanes (and a bicycle lane on the bottom deck of the west span) and a greatly expanded AC Transit service that can relieve the looming BART crowding to the East Bay.
How to pay for these transbay dreams? A transbay rail project could get funding from Amtrak and other federal sources, requiring our congressional delegation to work for it. The state gasoline tax or eventual carbon taxes, and revenue from tolling Bay Area freeways, should be in the mix. The 101 and 280 should be tolled as well as the Caldecott Tunnel and I-80 in the East Bay, with revenue directed at electric rail in the long term and regional buses short term. And while people are talking about reforming Proposition 13 to end the artificially low property taxes on commercial land, let's remember that transit — whether Muni, BART, or Caltrain — brings massive value to commercial property owners. They should be realistically expecting to pay in. In short, there are possibilities and ways to do this.
What a crock this article is. Listen, not everyone in the city is able to safely ride a bicycle, or even want to, ok?
I, myself, am handicapped to the extent that it is unsafe for me to even attempt to ride a bicycle. Add to that the elderly, and you must realize that bicycling or walking is not, repeat not, an 'alternative'.
Yes, you can opine that the city can/should 'provide' alternative means, but a solution like that is years, if not decades in the future.
And, yes, it is safe for me to drive as the physical limitiations I have do not preclude me safely operating a motor vehicle.
And, yes, I yeild the right of way to pedestrians and bicylists when it is legal for me to do so, which is more than I can say for many bicylists I encounter both on foot and behind the wheel.
Handicapped people need good ADA friendly transit and occasionally a car.
Able-bodied people can get around without cars.
You cannot expect balanced views from a self-described car hater.
You don't even need to drive, The City will pay for someone and come pick you up. Let the professionals drive, you sound too angry to be trusted on the roadways.
I think cycling is a terrific alternative, for those who are able to. However, a large percentage of cyclists believe that the laws do not apply to them, which makes drivers hate them. If cyclists can be made to obey the law, the whole mess could settle down, and more people would probably be willing to cycle.
Let's use Fastrak toll tags to issue speeding tickets -- if you travel a distance more quickly than the posted speed limit allows, BAM! you get a big fat ticket. As a cyclist, that would sure make me hate motorists less. Let's do it!
Then time the lights, then issue red light tickets to bikes.
Thanks for playing man child.
Sounds great!
Sure! Zero tolerance for all road users! Turn signals, speeding, double parking, tailgating, stopping in the middle of an intersection when traffic's backed up -- all those "little things" that everyone does all the time, let's crack down. Also more cell phone stings like Santa Rosa just did.
bags onto a bike, travel 150 mlles, and set up camp?
Didn't think so.
Because that is completely relevant to urban transportation.
The system is flawed. Anybody think that the SFMTA will be able to get it together in 2030 when they can't make it work in 2014? Time for any overhaul of the SFMTA.
Send your complaints to the city officials and demand reform:
Why is everyone involved in this effort anonymous?
If this is something "we all agree on," why are its promoters hiding?
Hey Jason
The traffic gridlock and parking scarcity that you speak of has been engineered by some of your car hating friends who have been using their tax exempt non-profit status to prevent the construction of parking garages around the city.
These [Carfreeliving] organizations use their tax exempt non-profit status for lobbying and supporting and opposing political candidates with anti-car views. These organizations have deliberately interfered with the free and fair operation of San Franciscos parking market and driven up consumer prices across the city. The obvious manipulation of San Francisco's parking market was deliberately designed to bilk taxpayers and boost revenue for both the SFMTA and the lobbying groups who are funded by them.
The vast majority of residents in the city are not buying your big bag of bullsh*t about carmageddon. It's good that the Restoring Transportation Balance initiative will be on the November ballot with the $500 million bond and the vehicle license fee, since it will mean the Fall political campaign will include for the first time a discussion of both the transportation money the city is squandering and its anti-car policies.
Hey Jason
The traffic gridlock and parking scarcity that you speak of has been engineered by some of your car hating friends who have been using their tax exempt non-profit status to prevent the construction of parking garages around the city.
These [Carfreeliving] organizations use their tax exempt non-profit status for lobbying and supporting and opposing political candidates with anti-car views. These organizations have deliberately interfered with the free and fair operation of San Franciscos parking market and driven up consumer prices across the city. The obvious manipulation of San Francisco's parking market was deliberately designed to bilk taxpayers and boost revenue for both the SFMTA and the lobbying groups who are funded by them.
The vast majority of residents in the city are not buying your big bag of bullsh*t about carmageddon. It's good that the Restoring Transportation Balance initiative will be on the November ballot with the $500 million bond and the vehicle license fee, since it will mean the Fall political campaign will include for the first time a discussion of both the transportation money the city is squandering and its anti-car policies.
Jason, Jason, Jason. Bicycle facilities out to SFSU? Maybe there should be some sort of special plan for bicycles, a Bicycle Plan, that had a list of bicycle projects to make the City more friendly to cycling? How about an advocacy group to help craft that plan and to move it forward? If we had that, then I'm sure that these policy makers at the MTA and the advocates would have long since dealt with creating safe bicycling routes from BART to SFSU in fewer than 15 years mind you!
Of course these advocacy groups would never, ever, advocate for more housing along overburdened transit lines that don't connect regionally to speak of, because that would just add more load to ovderburdened systems and that is not sustainable.
The MTA is like a junkie jonseing for a fix. They will do or say anything no matter how preposterous to get their next fix. The problem is that the MTA has a demonstrated track record of taking new revenues and shunting them as far away from transit as possible or to corrupt projects like the CS.
There is no coherent opposition to revanchist politics in San Francisco because these craven, corrupt agencies such as the MTA and Planning court the advocacy groups with access and contracts, neutralizing them politically as effective counterfources to corporate power, and once numbed, turns around and screws them royally.
The real world consequences of these policies are borne out on the ground daily. The eruption of craptacular condos in our neighborhood with the nonprofits eyeing the "community benefits" money, the remaking of Market Street and the shunting of impact fees to glisten up your now-gilded neighborhood of Hayes Valley.
All of this new development, new residents and more cars combined with this structural disinvestment in transit and no ambition on how to scale transit to population translates directly into more pedestrian and cyclist injuries and deaths.
There are no quick and easy liberal fixes for this. Forcing these moving parts into proper operating position is going to require stepping on toes, raising sharp elbows and not playing nice with power. I don't think that the livable transit advocates have it in 'em to challenge the MTA and clearly the nonprofity housing types fold like chairs on command. There are reasons why we cannot articulate a coherent political response, to structural corruption and dysfunction, which is all that should be of concern here.
are that they just are not popular enough.
Jason is clueless but I do not see you as being any better
is that a quote from Pinochet?
the kettle black
Time and again I've been proven to be ahead of my time, the laggards tend to catch up to where I was eventually. Not being a single issue silo, I see the big pictures and I see them over time. The reason why I am despised is that I call them as I see them which ain't pretty when people get caught in consequential lies.
Why does the world ignore me, when I'm always right about everything?
political failures with ever more elaborate excuses about how we are all doing what he always said.
Even though the city is blatantly taking a very different direction than his anti-growth, NIMBY, anti-development non-policies ever advocated.
It's really sad. He should just go to a bath house and lick some hairy balls or something.
I'm a MFT by trade, and I can tell you that at a minimum, Marcos has Aspergers syndrome.
You're an anonymous internet troll.
And yet, the war on Google buses continues.
I biked to work today (first time ever) and I passed an elderly (likely 65-70+) man, on his bike, holding a cane in one hand. Better infrastructure makes biking accessible to a lot more people. Even though this rider was possibly slightly impaired in walking, he was able to travel on his bike, clearly, pedaling around at a speedy pace!
you need to be fit and healthy. It's an elitist activity
I bicycle every day. The vast majority of San Franciscans can bicycle. You are an elitist.
Ditto, dude. When I've just eaten, I simply hoist my ride onto the Muni and use it as a bicycle ski lift and bike down to wherever I'm headed. If it rains too hard, all I have to do is jump on the BART to be whisked back home from work.
The density of cars must be stated in regard to the number of cars per square yard of roadway.
Anti-car bias is so often misguided that I have a strong hunch that SF does not win that prize if a logical means for establishing density is used.
@lillipublicans - It's faulty reasoning to simply dismiss something as "bias" and expect to be taken seriously for a "hunch."
I remember reading in the 1990s that San Francisco had the second highest density of cars per square mile, though I don't recall the source (it was on paper, possibly a publication of the Northwest Environment Watch). This was before the big garage-building boom of the dot-com years, not to mention the illegal pavings of front yards to park even more cars. So it's not hard to see how S.F. could have taken the #1 spot.
Regardless of this particular detail, it has been well-documented for many years that S.F. has the 2nd highest population density in the nation, after New York. It makes no sense for the 2nd highest populated density to have to compete with the space taken up with the #1, or #2, or even the #10 spot for density of cars. Especially given our geographical constraints on all four sides.
San Francisco has a high population density and therefore a high density of roadways. The density of cars per square mile of city area is not a valid gauge of *traffic* density. Hello?!
The density of cars per square mile represents store of demand on the road system.
got it.
(And I rarely find that I can say that).
Vehicles per square mile is a useless measure because it makes no distinction between, say, downtown SF and a square mile of scrub in Nevada with no roads.
The significant metric, at least if you want to measure vehicular congestion, is vehicles per road-mile. or perhaps even, per lane-mile.
A major reason why people do not understand why SF has a lot of infrastructure for vehicles is because it is not just a city per se but is really part of a much larger conurbation - the Bay Area.
Many trips involve more than one county, and 50-mile commutes are not unusual. With those kinds of distances, walking, biking and even taking a bus can become inappropriate.
SF needs to be able to absorb the traffic from outside the city
of city area does not substantiate the illogical claims made in undiagrammable sentences you follow your support for the premise with.
Back to the dictionary, my friend.
Does anyone diagram sentences anymore? Could anyone ever?
He is right - San Francisco is full!
Of course we have high car density - It comes with high population density.
We are in the pockets of the developers getting rich off high density development.
We don't have decent public transit or infrastructure to support it - just bad busing
We have the developers and anti-car lobbyists and coalitions with disproportionate influence - Now this "sky is falling" nut case.
If he is a teacher - he should go teach his children (all bikers) to obey the traffic laws and learn to share. These bicycle anarchists are dangerous on the roads and to the city as a whole.
Why anyone listens to the drone of transit "experts" is a mystery.
I fully get America is full of religious idiots who are anti-intellectual and hate book learning, the problem in this case is our dreamers. On display another type of born againer trying to convince us of the genius of their true belief.
Biking is nice when the weather is nice, not as much when it rains. Still, I do agree with the idea of really improving transit. That being said, I would vote against many of the funding measures and will vote against the upcoming ballot measures. Not because I don't want to see these sorts of improvements come to pass, but because the SFMTA is the absolute worst agency to build, operate, and maintain this new expanded system. The author hit the nail on the head - the Central Subway is already a debacle, corners are being cut on the new Transbay Terminal as it's already behind schedule and over budget. Zeus knows how much the new SF General will cost us.
San Francisco doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a problem spending money wisely and managing projects well. We don't maintain anything, so we have bond measure after bond measure to replace things the city should have be doing over time and budgeting for. $400M for the new firefighting system. $500M (to start) for transportation. Not to mention the ones for new libraries, parks, and roads. We really can't budget for this or maintain anything for $8B a year?
So progressives, here is what I would say to you. Take suggestions like this, on other issues as well. Go to a bunch of constituencies (not just the ones you typically reach out to) and come up with good, solid, actionable plans. Develop realistic funding strategies. Then, most importantly, find candidates with good experience in managing and budgeting. If you can show competence as well as idealism, you might just start doing better in elections...
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"I haven't given up on this idea of a future fund," Kessler said. "Here in Marshall County, property values have doubled in the last five years, and they're probably going to double again.
"It's the investment: A lot of farmlands that used to be nothing but farms, now they've got million-dollar wells on them."
Kessler said several companies have processing and fractionation plants throughout the Northern Panhandle region.
"You're seeing a significant increase in economic activity and the doubling of property values in this county alone," Kessler said. "I expect it to continue, and if that continues to occur across the rest of the state, we're going to have a real windfall in terms of additional tax dollars in this state."
Kessler would like to see a permanent endowment future fund so in many years when the natural gas is gone, the wealth and opportunity doesn't dry up as well.
"Not many others are talking about it, but if we were able to create the fund and start putting anything in it, it would send a powerful signal to Wall Street that West Virginia, during these tough economic times, is not only balancing its budget but saving for the future," he said.
Kessler said he wants to see "meaningful action" on the long-standing problem of prison overcrowding and substance abuse initiatives. He also said education will be one of the biggest issues for the session.
"The majority leader issued a statement last week following up on my prior comments that I'd like to do something on child poverty," Kessler said. "We look at all these problems like lack of education attainment, our prisons are busting at the seams, people are at high levels of drug addiction, we have unhealthy lifestyles, high diabetes rates, obesity — unfortunately, the common denominator for many of these negative problems that we have often start with childhood with poverty."
Kessler said taking a comprehensive view of all those problems, rather than an isolated view, would lead to better solutions.
As for some of the session roadblocks to come?
Kessler said dealing with substance abuse and prison overcrowding might become contentious, since state government has historically gone by the "lock them up and throw away the key," procedure, but Kessler said that's not always productive.
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LACHLIN, Dr., witness of assignment of property, Denver Apr 5, 1859.
LACHLIN, George, notice in attachment filed in Denver '59.
LACY, Richard, witness Jan 11, 1860, probably arrived 1859.
LAJEUNESSE, Michael, of Arapahoe County, his farm claim filed Dec 27, 1859, "on bank of Clear Creek, northwest corner of Merrivall's claim, etc." He sells this to Fisher and Rogers, Feb 1860. (Lliber D, p. 308, old)
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LAMBER, John B., Dec 1, 1859 was grantee from J. H. Gerrish farm claim on Clear Creek near James Baker's claim, 160 acres.
LAMBERT, Robert L., was freighter and storehouse owner of Arkansas Valley, 1859. (Colorado)
L'AMOUREAUX, Clement, May 4, 1859, Denver, Power of Attorney granted to him by Louis Gerow, to sell, receive, etc. for him, filed '60. Later, Jun 8, Clement L'Amoureaux is joint owner of lots "on Larimer Street where the plank house has been erected." (Arapahoe County Land Records) Clement L'Amoureaux is again grantor Jun 4 to Joseph McCubbin of lot, being at corner of "what is called Pupell's lots on Blake Street, south side, and 125 ft. southwest corner Blake and E. Streets. L'Amoureaux styles himself in one of these papers as "of Denver City, Kansas Territory."
LANATTEE (Lavattee?), H., arrived spring of 1859. (RMN)
LANCASTER, Mr., of Denver, grantee, City lots Oct 12, 1859.
LANCE, Alfred, of Ohio, arrived May 16, 1859 in company or party of Capt. Sylvanus Doll. (RMN)
LANCE, J., arrived May 24, 1859 with the Leo Express Company of Leo, Indiana by Smoky Hill Route. 43 days enroute (out of Leavenworth).
LANGLEY, B. F., miner, four years in California, was one of the discoverers in 1858 of Deadwood Diggings. Was a settler in 1859 at Jefferson Diggings. Also lived and mined in Boulder. Lived at Jefferson Trading Post which was near Long's Peak. Also had land claim on South Fork of St. Vrain Creek. (See RMN, Apr 23, 1859.)
LAPORTE, a trading post, existing since 1847, and in 1859 was visited by Jackson while prospecting on the Cache la Poudre. French Canadian trappers are said to have established it, in a part of the country now included in Larimer County.
LARIMER PARTY, this celebrated company arrived mouth of Cherry Creek Nov 16, 1858 by Santa Fe Trail, having left Leavenworth Oct 1. Member of the party were: Gen. William Larimer, Jr. and William H. H. Larimer (youngest of the party), R. E. Whitsitt (said to have been born in Ireland), M. M. Jewett of Massachusetts, Folsom Dorsett, a Kansas pioneer born in Indiana (and nephew of C. A. Lawrence), and C. A. Lawrence. (Another authority says that E. W. Wynkoop was of this company ?) They immediately began organizing Town Company called Denver City.
LARIMER, General William, one of the founders of Denver, was a native of Pennsylvania, at one time having been a candidate for Governor of that State. Was banker and railroad builder. He came to Colorado in 1858, and was a rival of Gilpin in having the Governor's office in Colorado when it was established as a Territory in 1861. His residence in Pennsylvania was in Pittsburg, but he was known as well throughout Pennsylvania. Frank Hall gives a very fine notice of him in his Colorado History, Vol. II, p. 241. His portrait is on p. 1 (with wife) of Reminiscences of General William Larimer edited by William Larimer Mellon of Philadelphia 1918. (Also on p. 85 of same book is a portrait taken in 1852.) Another portrait is on p. 139 of this book, one taken several years after the others. He died at his residence in Deleware Township, Kansas May 16, 1875, aged about 68 years. While in Denver he is said to have lived at corner of 15th and Larimer Streets. In the war of the Rebellion he was Colonel of the Third Colorado Regiment. In 1864 he left Colorado and raised a Regiment of Kansas volunteers, and commanded this regiment. It is said that General Larimer's claim was next to that of his son, and is the present site of the State Capitol. This claim was 'Jumped' during the General's absence. He had two lots in Denver (place not specified), which were held by the family until 1906 when they were sold for benefit of his daughter, Annie, by his son-in-law Mr. Mellon for $100,000.
LARIMER, William Jr., was treasurer of the Denver City Town Company Nov 22, 1858 (Smiley) and lived in Auraria in Jun 1859 when he was a delegate from that city to the first Constitutional Convention. (Another authority says he was a delegate from City of Denver ?) He is said to have had a claim near Denver with mound, call "Pilot Knob," now known as "Grasshopper Hill." It was jumped while he was in Leavenworth in 1859 or 1860. His portrait is in Smiley's History of Denver, p. 213, and in Larimer Reminscences, p. 221.
LARIMER, William H. H., (William Henry Harrison ?), arrived with Larimer party 1858, and was a stockholder of Denver. In 1890 is resident of Kansas City, Missouri also in 1918. His notes of their trip make the book of reminiscences of General William Larimer. His portrait is published in Smiley's History of Denver, p. 221, and in Larimer Reminscences, p. 184.
LA RIVIERE, Philip, early settler Cache La Poudre Valley, arrived Dec 1859 from Fort Laramie, freighter, born 1840 Canada, came to goldfields 1858. Married Mary Harris, and died 1886. (Watrous' History Larimer County, p. 492)
LA ROQUE, Alphonse, a French trader who was in 1858 at mouth of Cherry Creek and later married the widow of William McGaa (she was an Indian).
LASES (?), A., witness in Denver City Jun 1859 land deed from Alfred Jones to Martin C. Fisher. (Arapahoe County Land Records,'59)
LATTA, J. C., certifies that he is entitled to two Draw Lots on southwest corner of D. and McGaa Streets, Denver dated Jul 30, 1859. Later Sep 23, James C. Latta is grantor of lots to B. D. Williams of Kentucky. In Nov, same year, he is witness in Auraria and Dec 3 had three or four lots donated by Denver Town Company. This may, or may not be same man as James Latta, who was one of the witnesses in murder of the German, John Gantz. He is heavily ironed and guarded and is on way to Leavenworth to appear at the trial of Gordon, carefully watched by U. S. Marshall W. H. Middaugh. (RMN, Sep 12) Later on Dec 8, 1862, James Latta married Miss Sarah Gordon, at residence of Thomas McGavran, Justice of the Peace. (RMN, Dec 11, 1862)
LAUGHTON, ---, firm of Lehmer, Laughton & Company, mining, North Park & Clear Creek, 1859.
LAVEATTEE, H., (see also above, H. Lanattee), arrived with E. Doty's Lightning Express May 22, 1859, in Wagon 1. (10 wagons in train.)
LAW, Jacob, arrived in D. D. Taylor's Company, 30 days from St. Joseph, Missouri May 17, 1859. (RMN)
LAW & ORDER LEAGUE, a vigilance league, which preceded the Provisional Government in early part of 1859. It held a Court, and tried offenders by a jury. Its decisions were obeyed and were considered just and equitable. Offenders were not often hanged but were taken to the edge of town and told to disappear, which they invariably tried to do in a rapid manner.
LA WATTS, (Left Hand), a celebrated War Chief called upon the RMN, May 14, 1859, accompanied by "Little Raven," another very well known Indian.
LAWIN, W. H., witness of signature of last will of Hickory Rogers, Denver, Nov 3, 1859.
LAWRENCE, Charles A., (after whom the street in Denver is named) came with the Larimer Party in 1858. He became a stockholder and director of the Denver City Town Company and in 1859 owned a number of buildings where the Pioneer Block now stands, 15th and Larimer.
He was a candidate for City Recorder in this year, and on Feb 19, 1860 was engaged with a few others in founding the Protestant Episcopal Church in Denver.
LAWRENCE, D. T., grantor, mining claims, in Gregory District. (Description, Gregory Record, p. 42)
LAWRENCE PARTY, the first expedition of this was composed of 44 persons, and 11 wagons rolled out of Lawrence, Kansas May 22, 1858 over the Santa Fe Trail with provisions for six months. Their Fourth of July celebration was at Pike's Peak, and Sep 4 arrived Cherry Creek. (The Trail, May, 1922) They were 10 days behind the Russell Party.
LAWRENCE, William Jr., name in Directory Denver 1859 in list of real estate dealers, and one of name is witness Oct 1 in Gregory Diggings to papers in sale of claims. (Gregory Record, 1859)
LAYCOCK, ROBINSON & COMPANY, mining, in Illinois Gulch and Missouri Flats, 1859. (in list published in RMN, summer)
LAYTON, Thomas, one of the first arrivals in Boulder Valley 1858. Arrived there Oct 17.
LEADBEATER (LEDBEATER), Elizabeth, grantee, lot 12, block 38, Auraria, Dec 22, 1859, from E. N. Tuttle. (Arapahoe County Land Records)
LEADBEATER, Violet, from Auraria Town Company, Dec 22, 1859, lot 5, block 240, consideration $1. (Arapahoe County Land Records)
LEAKE, John, Aug 23, 1859 has lots assigned to him. Later, Jan 6, 1860, he grants Denver lots to David Connolly. (Nos. 19-20, block 75)
LEARNED, John, mortgages or trades land for flour "to be delivered every month, up to Oct 1860," the land being a farm claim. (Arapahoe County Land Records, Liber C, p. 170, old) He was "of Auraria" and in December is grantee of farm claim "near Allen's claim and Bernard's." Again he seems to be grantee, from A. O. Holcomb, Dec 12 in same year, farm claim of 160 acres, situated on Clear Creek.
LEAVENWORTH PARTY, or COMPANY, with Gen. William Larimer and others, left city of that name in Kansas, Oct 3, 1858, by the Arkansas Route. They arrived mouth of Cherry Creek Nov 16, stopping at Montana and built in that town the row of houses called the "Kansas Row" or "Leavenworth Row" of cabins. They united with the Lecompton men in establishing a rival to Auraria, later called Denver. They included with others E. P. Stout, P. T. Bassett, William Clancy, the two traders Smith and McGaa, met in the latter pioneer's cabin in Auraria, and agreed to "jump" the townsite of St. Charles City, which Nichols, later agreed to let them have for some stock in the new town.
LEAVENWORTH & PIKE'S PEAK EXPRESS, the first two coaches of this company arrived Denver May 7, 1859, 19 days on way from Missouri River. Beverly D. Williams was Superintendent, stations were each 25 miles after passing Junction City, Kansas, the road was 687 miles long, ran for 150 miles along the Republican River (where wood was scarce), and the company had at first 52 coaches, one leaving each end daily except Sunday. The trip was expected to consume 10 or 12 days.
LEAVITT, George, of Arapahoe County, Nov 1, 1859, grantor, lot in Auraria to Lachlan. (Arapahoe County Land Records)
LECHNER, George W., born Pennsylvania Aug 28, 1832, arrived Denver Jul 15, 1859, is member Colorado Pioneers' Society, living Denver 1890.
LECOMPTON PARTY, another Kansas company, consisting in part of W. Brindell, H. S. Walsh, George Baker, John Shannon, Eli Moore, Jr., etc. arrived 1858.
LEE, --- brothers, arrived Denver 1859 from Rock Island, Illinois. (RMN_
LEE, A., arrived Mar 3, 1859, member Colorado Pioneers' Society, lived Central City. Born England Apr 15, 1835.
LEE, Dr., mining in mountains, visits Jackson Diggings during '59. (Visitor to RMN from Jackson Diggings.)
LEE, Dr. J. W., of Auraria, his office in that city being in 1859 at store of A. P. Vasquez & Company. Is mentioned in RMN as returning to Denver with train carrying freight for Vasquez & Boon, in November, same year, and in Jan 1860 the Western Mountaineer acknowledges a present from him of a fine turkey, given about Christmas before this date.
LEE, James, original stockholder of City of Auraria, 1858.
LEE, James E., first foreman, Job Office, RMN, 1859. (His portrait published in issue of Dec 5, 1899, p. 9.)
LEE, Jeremiah, member Gilpin County Pioneers' Society (marked "died"), from list in their Record Book of members. Arrived Jun 20, 1859. Was associated with P. Lewis as grantee of Denver lots, or lot 3, block 47, dated Aug 9, 1859. Consideration $300. (Arapahoe County Land Records, old)
LEE, Orville A., "of Denver City, Kansas Territory," grantor, Morton C. Fisher grantee, ground with building thereon, east side Larimer, middle of block between B. and C. Streets, dated May 17, 1859. He has a suit or is plaintiff in one, Auraria being the place, in same year, and it is stated in one place that he kept a bakery in this year in Denver City. (RMN) He seems to have owned lot 1, block 40 in Auraria also, according to record and Sep 10, same year, files farm or ranche claim on Platte River three and a half miles west of Auraria. In October he is grantor of City of Denver lots.
LEE, William, arrived Sep 9, 1859. Born England Jan 30, 1837. Member Colorado Pioneers' Society. Was a grower of apples since 1870, and is living in Edgewater 1899. Hon. William E. Lee, member Constitutional Convention of 1876 may be same pioneer, as his birth is given as of date 1837 in England (?). He is delegate from 8th District, stone cutter and farmer in this year of 1876, said to have emigrated from London in 1845, lived and been educated in Iowa City, Iowa, and arrived Colorado 1859. His parents were Scotch, though his birth was in London.
LEEPER, J. W., "one of our successful miners of 1859, who operated last year at Empire, has arrived from the States." (Tri-Weekly Mining Register, May 2, 1863, Central)
LEFAIRE, Frederic, is subject of a conveyance by Woodward and Waggoner, Oct 20, 1859. (Is associated with Daniel Rose.) He is "of Denver."
LE FEVRE, Belfried, "son of George E. Lefevre, for a consideration of love, and affection, (also $1 paid by him)," the following property, Denver, lot 26, block 39, dated Jan 5, 1860. Grantor, Samuel W. Beall. (Note: is this young child of LeFevre named for Beall?) On same date or day previous to this, George E. Lefevre is grantee from Samuel W. Beall of Arapahoe County, of all the Denver and Auraria property of Beall. Both are "of Arapahoe County" in transaction. (See below.)
LE FEVRE, George, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, mentioned in RMN as having arrived Denver, in advance of his large quartz mill. Later the firm of Coleman & LeFevre is spoken of as situated at Eureka District with quartz mill in operation. (Note: Gov. Beal was from Wisconsin.)
LEFT HAND DIGGINGS, on Left Hand Creek, a tributary of Boulder Creek as in 1859 not only a good gold camp, placers being here, but was in June a political precinct with one delegate to first Constitutional Convention.
LEHMER, LAUGHTON & PECK, mining, in north fork Clear Creek near Mountain City, summer of '59. In 1863 there is a Charles Lehman who died Jan 30, and whose administrative papers are advertized in Tri-Weekly Mountain Register, Feb 2, of same year by John W. Ratliff, his administrator. He died in Nevada City, aged 30 years. Was not rich, the assets being shoemakers' tools, etc., to be sold to defray expenses. As names are so often misspelled in records when copying (and many of our records have been copied several times), these two similar names are placed in one notice for attention. (?)
LEHOW, Oscar E., (misspelled sometimes Leighow?), was an arrival of '58 said to be a native of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and became an original stockholder of City of Auraria. In his cabin, a double one, shared in 1859 with A. Sagendorf, one of the first, some say the very first meeting of Masons were held. He was a prominent mining and cattleman of the State during his lifetime. Even as early as '58 he discovered bar placer claims which he sold for $4,000, receiving pay in lots, cattle ranche houses, etc. He is said to have also a cleverness at the carpenters' trade, which in those days was valuable. In 1859 Lehow's Ranche in the Platte Canon was well and favorably esteemed. He had a brother, C. L. Lehow, who arrived the following year (1859) and they started their large San Luis Valley cattle ranche where one thousand head of cattle were always kept. He did some mining in Silver Cliff, and lived in Denver at times, and married Miss Eloise Sargent, who had been a teacher in Wolfe Hall during the lifetime of Bishop Randall. He died 1894, but she is still living in California. His portrait is published in RMN, p. 9, Dec 5, 1899.
LEMEN (Lemon), B. F., first appears in papers when an express package is advertized for him, spring of '59. Later he appears as a miner erecting a large stone house in Russell's Gulch. Another appearance occurs when he is named as Councilman elect from the 4th District.
LEO EXPRESS TRAIN of wagons, from Leo, Indiana, arrived mouth of Cherry Creek May 24, 1859, by Smoky Hill Route, 43 days out of Leavenworth, with seven men.
LEONARD (see also Learned), Henry, mining in Russell's Gulch, in 1859, works five men. (RMN)
LEONARD, ---, of firm of Monreo & Leonard, mining in Pleasant Valley district 1859.
LEONARD, Samuel, had share in Shiann Pass Town Company Nov 1859. He is mentioned also in paper as mining in Denver District, same year.
LEPER (see also Leeper), Mr. J. E., on May 12, 1859 brought in to office of RMN a skin of a veritable California lion, killed by himself and a friend on Table Mountain, near Arapahoe City on Clear Creek. In records of land transfers of Jul 13, 1859, is a grant of Denver lots from Mary Jane McLauthlin to John E. Leeper of Mountain City, recorded in Arapahoe County Land Records. Later, Mr. Leper of Leper and Henderson (called also Henderson & Company), leaves for Lewis, Cass County, Iowa. This firm bought claim of Gregory in June of that year for $7,500, and "They are going to work six sluices."
LERCHEN, Charles, (one pioneer of name is styled Jr.), the first was a cattle dealer, living in recent years at 214 South Lincoln Avenue, Denver, arrived from Davenport, Iowa 1859, and mined on the Blue River in early days, three years.
LERCHEN, Charles Jr., probably same as above, is member Colorado Pioneers' Society, living in 1920, arrived Jun 22, 1859 and stated to be born Germany Sep 11, 1839,
LESLIE, Mrs. Frank, of New York, a daughter of George F. Packard is said to be a Fiftyniner to Colorado. (Clipping concerning matters relating to a banquet of pioneers in 1899)
LESLIE, R. H., is witness to deed between J. A. Shaffer and H. P. A. Smith (Judge Smith), Denver, Sep 6, 1859. (Arapahoe County Land Records)
L'ESPERANCE, Michael, arrived Nov 1858 and was one of the original stockholders of Auraria City in same month. In following year he is grantor of lot 10, block 10 in this City, Oct 8, and in December, same year, grants to T. M. Moraud (Morand?) out-lot No. 178 in same City. Another land transaction appears in record of Mar 1, 1860.
LESTER, J. W., an early settler of 1859 in Arkansas River Valley mentioned as having been born in Pennsylvania. He was originally a miner.
LEVITT (see Leavitt above), E. D., was in 1859 representative elect from 4th District.
LEVITT, J. W., is sick in Mountain City 1859, and spoken of as having relative J. C. Levitt of Island, Illinois.
LEVOURLEY, John F., grantee Aug 1, 1859 with Jonathan & Leavitt Lincoln, lot in McGaa Street, Denver City, from the Reithmans.
LEWIS, Catherine, has grant of lot 1, block 1, for consideration of $1 from Auraria Town Company, Dec 3, 1859. (Arapahoe County Land Records, Liber D, p. 197, old paging only for this.)
LEWIS, Henry, locates claim, autumn of '59 and in Mar '60 files record of same and states he has completed house and plowing. It is on west bank of Platte River, 160 acres and is his residence at this time. (Jefferson County Land Records, Liber D, p. 32)
LEWIS, J. S., of Mountain City, in 1859, Oct 3, is witness in sale of mining claims, Gregory Diggings. (Gregory Record, p. 43)
LEWIS, Jerry, (also one called Jeremiah, must be same) is a resident of Arapahoe village 1858. He is mentioned by Jackson in his diary of this year. Is a prospector. Jeremiah Lewis is grantee of lot 7, block 7, Auraria, from Martin Keplinger, Aug 7, 1859, and later, Nov 1 is granted lot 2, block 66 in same place from Auraria Town Company. (Liber D, p. 314, old) He is candidate for City Assessor on People's ticket Dec 14, and in Jun 1860 he and Katie C. Lewis are grantors of lot 1, block 1, Auraria (see first land transaction, above) and this time he is "of West Denver, late Auraria."
LEWIS, Perry, (this may be Jerry Lewis?) grantee, Denver lot 3, block 47 on McGaa Street, Aug 9, 1859. Is associated with Jeremiah Lee, consideration $300 which indicates a house also.
LEWIS, William, located claim for ranching purposes Jul 20, 1859 "where I now reside" in Jefferson County on Bever Creek (or Bear Creek?) west of Emory's claim, 160 acres. (Jefferson County Land Records, Liber A, p. 13)
LIBBY, ---, arrived Apr 14, 1859 with Capt. William Valentine's party of six wagons from La Salle, Illinois, 23 days from St. Joseph. (Cherry Creek Pioneer, Vol. 1, No. 1, Apr 23)
LIBRARY OF AURARIA, the first in Rocky Mountain Region, was in 1859 started and kept for circulation by A. E. Pierce, at post office in Auraria. It had fifty volumes. In other words, he kept a bookstore in which the books were rented instead of being sold.
LICHNER (Lechner?), George W., of Como, Colorado 1881, arrived Denver Jun 17, 1859. Also with him his sister Miss Margaret A. Lichner. (or Miss Myra A. Lichner?) (Clipping)
LIGHTNER, ---, arrived in 1858 and had band of men in Colorado at Deer Creek.
LINCOLN, Elijah, witness in transfer of Auraria lots, Oct 1859.
LINCOLN, Jonathan, of Denver, grantee Sep 1, 1859, lot 5, block ? on northwest corner McGaa and E. Streets. He is again grantee lots in Denver City, Nov 12, and on same date Jonathan and Leavitt Lincoln sell lot on McGaa Street to E. K. Bickford.
LINCOLN, Leavitt, of Denver, Sep 21, 1859 grantee of lot 5, northwest corner of McGaa & E. Streets. On Nov 12 he is again grantee of lots.
LINCOLN, S. W., was a resident of Golden Gate City 1859, for was a delegate from that place to the first Constitutional Convention in June. This City or District had 8 delegates, so must have been almost as large as Golden, which had 12. In RMN of Jul 25, 1860, Samuel W. Lincoln is advertized for as missing, and it states that he had been in Denver some months ago, and was originally from Gansvoort, Saratoga County, New York.
LINDSLEY, David, of Arapahoe County, is grantor in land sale ranche on Platte River, dated Nov 1859.
LINERT (?), A. C., witness to deed Araphoe County Jan 6, 1859.
LINK, Mr., was a member first Constitutional Convention Jun 1859, and was appointed on committee to prepare a memorial relating to Territorial affairs. There was also mention of a Mr. Link who was mill superintendent of the Colorado Gold Mining Company (of New York) working in the Burroughs Lode Dec 22, 1863. (Tri-Weekly Mining Register, Central City)
LINK, L. W., and S. M., of Gregory District Oct 3, 1859 had claims recorded Mountain City. (Gregory Record, p. 49) They are both living and mining in Nevadaville also same year, and L. W. Link is mentioned as from Nevada Gulch, and as being member of convention to form the Provisional Government in October of that year. They are both prominent in miners' association of Nevada District in 1860, and were on important committees to draw up rules and regulations for the government of the miners. In April of this year S. M. Link was recorder of the miners' association of the district. In Hall's Colorado History, Vol. 1, p. 202, it states that Sam Link was the companion of A. D. Gambell on his second prospecting trip to Gregory and vicinity, and they together organized the New Nevada Mining District in same year of 1859. Gambell claiming to have recorded the first town lot in the District. (See Gambell.)
LISTON, William, arrived Denver Oct 24, 1858, with Plattsmouth Nebraska Company.
LITTES, Benjamin, was witness to deed between Golden Gate Town Company and William G. Preston, Jan 16, 1860, so is probably an arrival of 1859, or at all events was coming in before the new year.
LITTLE, ---, brought the 3rd sawmill to Denver across the plains 1859.
LITTLE RAVEN, Chief of the Arapahoe Indians, a conference is held with him, which is reported in RMN, May 14, 1859. Provisions and other supplies are being given to his tribe (to promote a friendly situation), from the cities of Auraria and Denver.
LIVERMORE, W., arrived in D. D. Taylor's company of wagons. He is of Iowa. They came in 30 days from St. Joseph, Missouri, May 17, 1859. (RMN)
LIVINGSTON & COMPANY, with three men, mining, Nevada Gulch, summer 1859.
LOBACH, Edwin, born Pennsylvania, of Arkansas Valley 1859, was farmer there. (Clipping)
LOCKLAND, Alexander George, of Denver City, grantor of lots Oct 26, 1859. He probably owned lots before (Arapahoe County Land Records, p. 29, old) this date, as he is grantor to J. C. Fuller & Company, lot 10, block 65, City of Auraria, on Oct 6, same year.
LOCKWOOD, Hiram, the RMN states that Mrs. Hiram Lockwood sends letter to him in care of the paper (1859 files) advertising she evidently thinks that he is in the goldfields.
LOEB, David, was a witness in Auraria Nov 1859, in sale of lots. Later in December is grantee of Denver City lots.
LOGAN, S. M., an arrival of May 30, 1859, born Ohio Nov 17, 1822. Member first Colorado Pioneers' Association in 1866, and later in 1890 when he lived in Denver. He is mentioned in file of RMN of '59 as a member of first Constitutional Convention in that year, a delegate from Deadwood District. These diggings having six delegates. (Major S. M. Logan)
LONDONER, Wolfe, according to Vickers, arrived 1860, but other authorities state '59 as his entrance. Grocer, born 1840 in Germany, son of Herman and Rachel Londoner. (Vickers' History of Denver)
LONE STAR COMPANY, wagon train, bringing 26 men, arrived by Smoky Hill Route May 22, 1859, 39 days from Fort Riley.
LONG, Daniel, arrived 1858 and had four Donation Lots in Denver City Town Company, late in this year and must have remained until 1859, for in that year, Mar 23, he is a witness to a deed from John Forbes to a lot on McGaa Street, next to Platte River, and on May 24 he is grantee of P. Way, of some more Denver lots. His name is spelled David in a later record. (Probably copied wrong.)
LONG, James & Company, his wagon train arrives from Adams County, Illinois with four men, by Arkansas Route, May 27, 1859. (RMN)
LONG, William C., was in Nov 1859 an incorporator of the Minnehaha Town and Marble Company. (Jefferson County Land Records, '59)
LONG & BUTTERS, (of Linn County, Missouri), their wagon train arrives at mouth of Cherry Creek May 27, 1859, by Arkansas Route. (RMN)
LONG & COMPANY, mining in Illinois Gulch and Missouri Flats '59.
LONGSDORF, W. H., original stockholder of City of Auraria, 1858.
LOOMIS, C. A., arrived Aug 1859. Was born Massachusetts Apr 18, 1840, and in 1890 resided in Denver, also later in 1920. The following marriage is in RMN issue of Oct 30, 1862: "Calvin A. Loomis and Elizabeth M. Cawker, married up Cherry Creek, four miles from Denver at home of the bride's Mother."
LOONEY & COMPANY, mining, 1859, summer, in Illinois Gulch and Missouri Flats with four men.
LORTON, Thomas, was an arrival with Capt. Yount and others at old Fort St. Vrain in 1858, and later the party visited site of the City of Boulder, then called "Red Rock."
LOVELAND, W. A. H., long time resident of Golden City, arrived Jun 22, 1859. Born Barnstable (another writer says Chatham) Massachusetts May 31, 1826. Was member of the first of Colorado Pioneers' Society, which assembled Jun 22, 1866 in Denver. He was a delegate from Golden to the Constitutional Convention of Jun 1859, and was a shareholder in Golden City Association in same year. He owned lot 11, block 1, in Auraria City Jun 7 of this year, granted by Ransford and Piper, who had purchased them of Thomas Golden. On Dec 28 the Western Mountaineer announces the erection of his fine two story brick building, the pride of Golden, with story above for public meetings, and place for his store below. The building still stands, its very quaint appearance adding beauty to the pretty modern architecture around it. In his childhood Loveland's parents removed to Illinois, and when a young man he served in the Mexican War. He later took trip to California, then came to goldfields of Pike's Peak and located in Golden. Became wealthy with mining, and other things and in a short time built wagon road up Clear Creek Canon, later being President of the Colorado Central Railroad, and being prominent in politics, as well as a "Bonanza King." He owned the RMN in 1897 (or 1878) and was once (1878) a Democratic candidate for Governor. Loveland and Davis were partners in Golden in 1859. He owned the Fanny Barrett mine. His portrait is in Daily RMN, p. 6, Dec 5, 1899. His son Frank W. lived 1899 at 1252 Corona Street, Denver.
LOVELAND'S HALL, Golden City, was scene of the Christmas Ball on Christmas Eve, 1859. A very large company assembled from Auraria, Denver, Golden Gate City, Arapahoe City, and many other gold camps. The Hall was elaborately trimmed with evergreens, festooned most beautifully. Very fine music was furnished by McDuffee & Ackley, and William J. McKay provided the bountiful supper. Fifty couples danced and it was a grand affair, the opening of this new Hall with so elegant an entertainment. In 1860 the first Masonic meetings were held in this building on Washington's Birthday. (It has since been called "Eldridge's Hall.")
LOVELL, C. P., member of firm of Tetlow & Company, Golden Gate City, Jul 1859.
LOWE, Joseph, arrived spring of 1859 from Iowa. (RMN)
LOWE, P. G., of firm of Clayton, Lowe & Company, place of business corner Larimer and F. Streets, Denver. Lowe was appointed by Gov. Steele an Inspector General.
LOWRIE (LOWRY), J. S., was an arrival of 1858 for he had four Donation Lots from Denver Town Company Dec 4 this year.
LOWRY, James, was an original stockholder of City of Auraria 1858. James S. Lowry of 1859, Reg. of Deeds, and member Shiann Pass Town Company (living in Auraria) may be same person. He witnesses deed May 2 and July 30, is entitled to two "select lots" on southwest corner C. and Arapahoe Streets, Denver City.
LOWRY & LATTA, in Apr 1859 are grantors to J. A. Gordon, of lot 8, block 1, Auraria.
LUCE, George L., witness to deed between J. H. St. Mathew, grantor, and D. McIlvoy, grantee with Thomas Sours, of property in Golden City Nov 12, 1859. The parties are all of Golden City. (Jefferson County Land Records)
LUCKY, Samuel E., arrived Jul 10, 1859 and was a member of Gilpin County Association of Pioneers. (Name from their list.)
LUDLOW, Henry, lived Boulder, 1920, and is member Colorado Pioneers' Society. He arrived mouth Cherry Creek Jul 9, 1859. Born New York. He came in party with S., L.C., and H. L. Wellman, all very prominent men. Later in Boulder County. They came to that point in August. Another account gives him the name of Henry B. Ludlow. This account gives Huron County, Ohio as his birthplace, Jun 8, 1834. Lived in Michigan, and after arriving Colorado went to Breckenridge following his coming to Boulder. He had ranche on White Rock Creek, Boulder County, and married 1867 Miss Mary Gage from his hometown or county (Cass County) in Michigan. He is also a pioneer of Arkansas Valley in 1859.
LUGENERIS, (?) Neal, Oct 24, 1859 was a grantor of farm claim to Edw. Cobb and George M. Rand, for $500. 160 acres on Clear Creek near William Kinslers and Charles Carbana's claims. (Arapahoe County or Jefferson County Land Records, Liber F, p. 376)
LUIS, (?), J. W., was a witness to land deed Sep 26, 1859, Mountain City. (Gregory Record)
FORT LUPTON, was a political precinct in 1859, and was represented in the Constitutional Convention by A. J. Williams. It was called "Lupton's Fort." Lieut. Lupton was a very early pioneer and soldier. Lupton's Fork was in 1858 the name given to that stream now called "Bear Creek." (Jefferson County Land Records)
LUSBY (LUISBY), R. H., in spring 1859 had Donation Lots, City of Auraria, from the Town Company. Was a witness to deed in September of same year, and again in October, and again in November.
LUSE, J., mining, member of firm of Washburn Miller & Company in Mountain City, 1859.
LUSHER, Frank, of Russell's Gulch, mentioned in papers of 1859.
LUTTRELL, arrived Denver Oct 1858. Was member Colorado Pioneers' Society. Born District of Columbia Sep 27, 1828. Was living Denver 1920. Name appears in land records of '59, and he was a pioneer carpenter and builder of reputation, associated in firm with Kasserman & Hemphill on south corner Lawrence and 10th Streets. (Then called 6th and Ferry Streets.) His advertizements appear in RMN this year.
LUTTS, Milton, arrived Jun 6, 1859. Born Ohio Dec 27, 1837. (Hall's Colorado History, p. 559)
LYCEUM AND DEBATING SOCIETY, N. B. Bowers, President, Tarryall Diggings 1859.
LYNCH, William, of Gregory Diggings, grantor of claim 1859. (Gregory Record, p. 43)
LYON, J. C. M., was member of first Constitutional Convention, a delegate from Illinois Central Diggings. (This camp had four delegates.) He probably arrived some little time before Jun 1859, date of convention.
LYONS, George B., "Gentleman, of Arapahoe County" for a consideration of $75 releases to Benjamin Hieatt of same county, lot 3, block 36, Auraria Dec 14, 1859.
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Native Voices at the Autry Announces 2013-14 Season: Themes of Law, Lawmakers, Lawyers & Activists.
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Native Voices at the Autry, America's leading Native American theatre company with a mission to develop new plays by emerging and established Native playwrights, announces its 2013-14 season, which spotlights themes of law, lawmakers, lawyers and activists. The season's world premiere of Vickie Ramirez' (Tuscarora*) dramatic STAND-OFF AT HWY #37 illustrates Native Voices' deep commitment to nurturing new works and seeing them fully realized. The production, presented during the fall as a reading (Thursday, September 26, 2013, 7:30 pm, Free Admission) and then fully staged in a spring Equity production (Friday, February 28 – Sunday, March 16, 2014), culminates a pivotal, multi-year development process that has included staged readings at Ohio Northern University and The Public Theatre in New York and workshops at the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Montana Rep's Missoula Colony and Native Voices at the Autry.


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Hagar live,released about 3 years after it was recorded.At the time of its release he was a big star on Geffen records.This album is rather skimpy,most songs are fairly weak,but ok.
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Released after Sammy signed with Geffen records and exploded with the great "Standing Hampton", this album features poor sound quality but great songs from "Street Machine", "Danger Zone" and also his days with Ronnie Montrose.You will appreciate this piece of work if you are a true Hagar fan, though if you are you probably already have it. If you have only jumped on Sammy's bandwagon after a recent trip to the Cabo Wabo,then start with his other live release, "All Night Long "
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Game 1 between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers is in the books, but big man Roy Hibbert took to his Twitter account on Thursday to call out Heat forward Shane Battier for a play he considered dirty.
U can knee or kick me every time u drive 2the rim. Ill be there 2protect the rim. That wasn't inadvertent. Battier knew what he was doing— Roy Hibbert (@Hoya2aPacer) May 23, 2013
What specifically is Hibbert talking about? In the first quarter, Battier was called for an offensive foul while driving to the rim. He also drove his knee straight into Hibbert's groin, as you can see here:
Battier was called for the offensive foul, but a whistle doesn't take back a hit below the belt. The Pacers' defensive identity is built around Hibbert patrolling the paint and protecting the rim, so he'll need to get physical with the Heat as they penetrate from the perimeter.
It's unlikely that taking flying knees down low was part of his job description when he re-signed with the Pacers, but it's good to know that Hibbert has publicly declared his readiness for the "dirty" play of Battier.
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Baseball game vs. FIU cancelled due to rain
Everything seemed to moving along in the Dolphins' first game in 13 days but a quick moving thunderstorm ended things quickly as the JU baseball team had its contest against FIU cancelled due to rain, Tuesday evening at John Sessions Stadium.
With the score tied, 3-3, with no outs and two runners on for JU in the bottom of the fifth, a lightning strike forced everyone off of the field. Before anyone could make a move for the tarp, the skies opened up and the subsequent rain caused the field to be unplayable after the near one hour delay.
Due to the contest not being official through five innings, all stats were vacated and the contest was officially cancelled when the umpires and coaches met on the field.
Lost in the action was a two-run homer by freshman designated hitter Adam Brett Walker, a solo homer by junior right fielder Esterlin Perozo, a 2-for-2 effort by senior first baseman Alex Martinez and three shutout innings by junior Matt Tomshaw.
"It's a shame that our guys have to lose their stats for the game but there was no way to get it in," said JU head coach Terry Alexander. "We just have to take this as a friendly scrimmage and be ready to do the real thing tomorrow."
For FIU, Tim Jobe had gone 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Garrett Wittles, who entered the game with the nation's longest hitting streak (34 games), was 0-for-3 in the game before the contest was called.
The Dolphins and Golden Panthers will play the final game of the series on Wednesday at 3 p.m. as originally scheduled. The contest can be followed on ASun.tv or live stats by logging onto JUDolphins.com.
Along with your chance to see the Dolphins, you can get an opportunity to win Tim McGraw tickets and a prize pack to The Players Championship by attending the JU baseball game against FIU at John Sessions Stadium on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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PLATTSBURGH — Mr. Nicholas "Nick" Buckley Furnia, 24, of Steltzer Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., passed away unexpectedly on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, at the CVPH Medical Center. He was born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Dec. 12, 1988, the son of Randy and Susan (Buckley) Furnia.
Nick was a graduate of Beekmantown Central School where he was a standout athlete. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Nick graduated from Clinton Community College and was currently a student at Plattsburgh State. He enjoyed fishing, golfing and playing disc golf.
He was predeceased by his maternal grandfather, Clifton Buckley and his paternal grandfather, Norman Furnia.
Nick is survived by his mother, Susan Buckley of Beekmantown; his father, Randy Furnia and his wife Kari of Peru; his maternal grandmother, Geraldine "Geri" Buckley of Beekmantown; his paternal grandmother, Harriett Furnia of Peaseleeville; two brothers, Jonathan Buckley of Plattsburgh, and Benjamin Furnia of Rochester; a nephew, Jacob Furnia of Peru; two stepbrothers, Bret and Chase Boyer of Peru; several aunts, uncles and cousins also survive him.
Calling hours will be from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the Brown Funeral Home, 29 Broad St., Plattsburgh, N.Y. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at St. Joseph's Church, West Chazy. Interment will be at St. Peter's Cemetery, Plattsburgh.
Friends wishing may make donations to the Wounded Warriors in care of Brown Funeral Home, 29 Broad St., Plattsburgh, NY, 12901.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Wild defenseman Keith Ballard will return to the lineup Tuesday in Game 6 of their Western Conference Second Round series against the Chicago Blackhawks at Xcel Energy Center (9 p.m. ET; CNBC, TSN, RDS2).
Chicago leads the best-of-7 series 3-2.
Ballard was injured late in the second period of Game 4 when he was hit from behind by Blackhawks forward Brandon Bollig. Ballard left the game with an upper-body injury and did not return. Bollig was assessed a two-minute minor for boarding, and was later suspended for two games by the NHL Department of Player Safety. Bollig will serve the second game of that suspension Tuesday.
Ballard has a history of concussions, including one that cost him seven games in October of this season, but did not say whether he sustained one this time around.
"I feel fine, I've felt fine for a couple of days," Ballard said. "We were trying to be pretty smart about it. There's no chance that I'd play if I had symptoms. I've been through that before and been down that road a couple times.
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Sickle cell FAQs
Sickle cell disease is the name for an inherited group of blood disorders, characterized primarily by chronic anemia and periodic episodes of pain. The underlying problem involves hemoglobin, a component of red blood cells. The hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the body organs and tissues. Unlike normal red blood cells, which last about 120 days in the bloodstream, sickled red cells die after only 10 to 20 days. Because they cannot be replaced fast enough, the blood is chronically short of red blood cells, a condition called anemia. The sickled red cells also can block the blood flow to parts of the body ("vaso-occlusion"), and this causes pain and damage to organs.
What causes sickle cell anemia?
In sickle cell anemia, the most common form of sickle cell disease, both hemoglobin genes are defective. The defective genes tell the body to make the abnormal hemoglobin, called sickle hemoglobin (or hemoglobin S). After the hemoglobin molecules give up their oxygen in the tissues and organs of the body, some of them may cluster together and form long, rod-like structures. These structures cause the red blood cells to become stiff and to assume a sickled shape. Unlike normal red cells, which are usually smooth and donut-shaped, the sickled red cells cannot squeeze through small blood vessels. Instead, they stack up and cause blockages that deprive the organs and tissue of oxygen-carrying blood. This process produces the periodic episodes of pain and ultimately can damage the tissues and vital organs and lead to other serious medical problems.
Children who inherit copies of the defective sickle hemoglobin gene from both parents will have sickle cell anemia. Children who inherit the defective sickle hemoglobin gene from only one parent will not have the disease, but will carry the sickle cell trait. Individuals with sickle cell trait generally have no symptoms, but they can pass the sickle hemoglobin gene on to their children.
What is the origin of sickle cell disease?
The error in the hemoglobin gene results from a genetic mutation that occurred many thousands of years ago in people in parts of Africa, the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East and India. Malaria was very common at that time and the epidemic caused the death of great numbers of people. Studies show that in areas where malaria was a problem, children who inherited one sickle hemoglobin gene and carried the sickle cell trait (but not sickle cell disease) were more likely to survive infection with malaria. So, unlike the children who had normal hemoglobin genes, children with the trait better survived the malaria epidemics, grew up, had their own children, and passed on the gene for sickle hemoglobin. As a result of migration, the slave trade and new mutations, the sickle cell mutation spread to other Mediterranean areas, the Middle East and the Western Hemisphere. In the United States and other countries where malaria is not a problem, the sickle hemoglobin gene no longer provides a survival advantage. Instead, it is a threat to the children of people who carry the trait. Children who inherit two abnormal sickle hemoglobin genes (one from the mother and one from the father) have sickle cell anemia.
When was sickle cell disease discovered?
Sickle cell disease has probably been recognized for centuries in African tribal medicine. However, sickle cell disease was first recognized in Western medicine in 1910 by Dr. B. Herrick when he wrote a report about a patient who suffered from a "strange disease" that included such symptoms as pain, asthmatic conditions, and blood flow problems including body ulcers. This observation eventually led to the identification of the sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) in the 1940s by Linus Pauling. In 1952, Pauling hypothesized on the nature of HbS and its role in sickle cell anemia by saying that the HbS proteins may act differently from regular hemoglobin (HbA) and stack together. Pauling also stated that sickling of the cells in sickle cell anemia might be due to the formation of "rods" by the hemoglobin and thus "sickle" the cell. From these hypotheses and experiments a physical understanding of sickle cell disease was formed. The physical mapping of the hemoglobin gene and protein allowed it to be one of the first human diseases to be characterized genetically. Even with these physical and genetic clues that have been known for decades, treatments (and cures) for sickle cell anemia have advanced slowly.
How common is sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell disease affects millions of people throughout the world. It is particularly common among people whose ancestors come from sub-Saharan Africa, Spanish-speaking regions (South America, Cuba, Central America), Saudi Arabia, India and Mediterranean countries, such as Turkey, Greece and Italy. In this country, it affects approximately 70,000 to 100,000 people, most with ancestors from Africa. The disease occurs in 1 in every 500 African-American births and 1 in every 1,000 to 1,400 Hispanic-American births. Approximately 2 million Americans carry the sickle cell trait.
What are the signs and symptoms of sickle cell disease?
The clinical course of sickle cell disease does not follow a single pattern. Some patients have mild symptoms, and some have very severe problems. However the basic problem is the same: the sickle-shaped red blood cells don't live very long, causing anemia, and they tend to get stuck in narrow blood vessels, blocking the flow of blood and causing pain.
Most individuals with sickle cell disease are generally well from day-to-day. But complications of the disease can develop, often unpredictable. Some of the problems and conditions caused by sickle cell anemia include:
- Fatigue, pallor ("paleness"), and decreased endurance, which are symptoms of anemia or a shortage of red blood cells.
- Pain that occurs unpredictably in any body organ or joint wherever the sickled blood cells block oxygen flow to the tissues; the frequency and amount of pain varies.
- Yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice), which results from the rapid breakdown of red blood cells.
- Bacterial infections ---- in general, both children and adults with sickle cell anemia are more vulnerable to infections and have a harder time fighting off infection once it starts. This is a result of damage to the spleen from the sickled red cells. The spleen which normally filters the blood, when clogged with sickled cells, is prevented from destroying bacteria in the blood. Infants and young children especially are susceptible to bacterial infections that can be fatal.
- The spleen can enlarge suddenly due to the entrapment of blood. This is called acute splenic sequestration, and it can cause severe and sometimes life-threatening anemia.
- Acute chest syndrome is a life-threatening complication of sickle cell anemia, similar to pneumonia that is caused by infection or trapped sickled cells in the lung. This is characterized by chest pain, fever, and an abnormal chest x-ray.
- Delayed growth and puberty in children and often a slight build in adults.
- A stroke may occur when sickled red blood cells get trapped in the blood vessels of the brain. This causes a part of the brain to die (a stroke). This type of stroke occurs primarily in children.
- Sickle cell can damage to the retina (a part of the eye), especially in older children and adult, that can be serious enough to cause blindness.
How is sickle cell disease diagnosed?
A simple blood test can determine if an individual carries at least one defective hemoglobin (S) gene. Early diagnosis of sickle cell anemia is critical so children who have the disease can receive proper treatment. Currently all 50 states have newborn screening programs. Texas initiated newborn screening in 1983, and sickle cell disease is one of the diseases that infants are screened for prior to leaving the hospital. However, most newborn screening programs are not funded to notify individuals who have sickle cell trait. If you were born in Texas prior to 1983, you should be tested for sickle cell trait. If both parents know they are carriers, they can seek genetic counseling to help them better understand sickle cell disease and how it may impact children they conceive.
How is sickle cell disease inherited?
If both parents have sickle cell trait (AS), then each of their children has a 25% chance of having normal hemoglobin (AA), a 50% chance of having trait (AS), and a 25% chance of having have sickle cell anemia (SS). Other forms of sickle cell disease can occur in children if only one of their parents has sickle trait and the other has thalassemia trait of hemoglobin C trait.
How is sickle cell disease treated?
Most individuals with sickle cell disease are generally well from day-to-day. However, babies and young children with sickle cell disease should take oral penicillin twice a day, beginning as soon as sickle cell anemia is diagnosed and continuing until at least 5 years of age. This penicillin can prevent fatal pneumococcal infection. If complications of the sickle cell disease occur, patients are treated and supported until they get better. For example, painful episodes are treated with pain medications and fluids. Blood transfusions are used to treat some of the complications of sickle cell disease. Transfusions correct anemia by increasing the number of normal red blood cells in circulation.
Problems from sickle cell disease can also be prevented. For example, regular (monthly) blood transfusions can prevent strokes in children as well as prevent pain and other complications of the disease.. The medicine hydroxyurea can also lower the frequency of painful episodes and of acute chest syndrome. Patients taking this drug also needed fewer blood transfusions.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplantation can cure children with sickle cell disease. However, this procedure is not without risk, and the transplant is safest when, the bone marrow comes from a healthy sibling donor (a brother or sister with the same mother and father) with the same tissue or bone marrow type. Only about 18 percent of children with sickle cell anemia are likely to have a matched sibling donor.
Need more information?
For more information, contact the Southwestern Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at 214-456-5878 or email us at email@example.com.


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A northwest suburban woman plotted to get custody of her kids by hiring undercover federal agents to severely injure her ex-husband and his new wife — an elementary school teacher in Chicago, officials say.
Instead, Michelle L. Bertoncini, 39, of South Elgin, is being held in the Kane County Jail on a $350,000 bond.
Bertoncini was introduced to two agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Jan. 31 in Chicago, according to Tom Ahern, agency spokesman. They met on several occasions in Chicago and South Elgin.
Bertoncini, who thought the agents were gang members, gave them diagrams of the Lincoln Park home where her former husband lives with his new wife and the two children Bertoncini had with him, Ahern said. Bertoncini also provided the agents with photos of the couple, the Sun-Times is reporting.
She originally considered killing the couple, but later changed her mind and said she wanted to put them in the hospital for a lengthy period to allow her to gain custody of her children, Ahern said.
The options she discussed with the agents included having them bomb the couple's car or stage a carjacking in which they would beat the couple to the point they were disabled and permanently disfigured, Ahern said.
Bertoncini agreed to pay the agents $1,200 and gave them a $350 down payment on Feb. 13, Ahern said. On Sunday, she gave the go-ahead for the agents to carjack and beat the couple, he said.
Bertoncini was arrested Monday at her South Elgin home and charged Tuesday with solicitation of aggravated vehicular hijacking and solicitation of unlawful vehicular invasion.
She was ordered held in the Kane County Jail on a $350,000 bond and will next appear in court March 7 in St. Charles, according to ATF. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison.
Bertoncini and her 44-year-old former husband were married in 2001 and divorced in 2008. He married his current wife, who is 38, in March 2013, Cook County records show.
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Dr. Jian Shen Receives Award from Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
With funds from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Dr. Jian Shen, Associate Professor of Mathematics, will continue his research which focuses on graph theory and algorithm. He will study the case of the Caccetta-Haggkvist conjecture—a case which has baffled graph theorists for three decades. The research promises to lead to a better understanding of the relationship among various basic parameters of digraphs.
During the course of this project, Dr. Shen will also train graduate and undergraduate students in Discrete Mathematics, as well as work with high school students on research projects for the annual Siemens-Westinghouse Competition. Since 2003, Dr. Shen has worked with students in the Texas State Honors Summer Math Camp, and has supervised 6 teams (18 students) on research for that competition.


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On this day in 1991 the Brewers made a great scrapheap pickup, signing veteran second baseman Willie Randolph. Randolph was 36 and a veteran of 16 major league seasons, but still had something left...
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This Week in Baseball '77 continues with a special look at Canada, an All Star Game preview, and some terrible, terrible fielding!
In episode 5 of This Week in Baseball '77, Rod Carew chases .400, the Yankees exact revenge, and nobody wants to manage the Rangers.
Robinson Cano has already earned a place among best second basemen in Yankee history. (AP) With Roberto Alomar being inducted into the...
Graig Nettles' acrobatic play in the 1978 World Series, particularly in Game Three, helped the Yankees surmount a 2-0 deficit against the Dodgers (AP). ...
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ST. PAUL, Minn -- The eight day, eight state race challenged students to design, build, and race solar cars across the country.
On Wednesday, team Mercury ran into problems when one of their nickel metal hydride batteries overheated during an overnight stop in Normal.
Team President Jeff Deters said the group was able to finish the race by relying on the sun and stopping more often to charge their remaining battery.
So, the team pushed on and Saturday, they arrived in Saint Paul, Minnesota finishing the race in 7th place with a total time of 102:26:59.
The team hopes to build a new battery pack and make wiring adjustments to compete in the race again in 2014.


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SULLIVAN CITY - Esmeralda Islas, 48, passed away Monday, Jan 22, 2013, at her residence in Sullivan City. She was born to Juan Perez and Alberta Perez on Aug. 11, 1964 in El Azucar, Tamps., Mexico.
Survivors include her husband, Hector Islas Jr.; daughters, Vannessa Mata and Selina Islas; sons, Hector Islas III and Freddie Islas; father, Juan Perez; sisters, Elma Perez, Elvia Perez, Ernestina Perez, Griselda Perez, and Elida Perez; and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Alberta Perez, and brother, Faustino Perez.
The viewing will be held Thursday, Jan. 24, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a rosary to be held at 7 p.m. at Lord and I Memorial Chapel in Sullivan City. The funeral mass will be held Friday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Sullivan City. Interment follows at Sullivan City Cemetery.
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A Vermont teacher has been disciplined for allowing a student to shoot a deer during school hours.
Steven Wunsch is a building trades instructor at Northwest Technical Center in St. Albans. The Vermont Education Agency sanctioned him with an 11-day licensing suspension that coincided with the school's winter break in February.
He also served a six-week unpaid suspension from the school for the incident in 2011, when he allowed a 17-year-old student to go home, get his gun, and shoot a deer white visiting a job site.
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