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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1906
Page
1
The Santa Fe Railway announces a major project to improve its network at a cost of 25 million dollars. The plan targets the line between Galveston and San Francisco aiming to create a shorter, faster service.
Chicago report notes Santa Fe road plans heavy spending in 1907 with about 26 million dollars for system improvements. Key projects include double tracking from Chicago to Kansas City and a new Texico New Mexico to Browerville Texas line connecting to shorten the San Francisco to Galveston route.
Territorial grand jury in Socorro faces discharge as teen bills in the murder trial of Carson Sais and Eliseo Valles are near completion. Richard Queen pleads guilty to assault with intent to rob after a ranch visit that led to gunfire and the wounding of Thomas Craig.
In Pittsburg the railroads and yardmen face a critical clash over a yard scale. If no settlement is reached within days a general strike across the district is feared. Talks involve the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania lines with potential across the region. Meanwhile a vote suggests the middle scale may be adopted by several roads to avert stoppage.
Chicago reports a surge in husband desertions under the 1903 law turning desertion into an indictable offence. Over 1,700 families now depend on public charges as rates and wages shift, with new cases increasing as income remains low and employment scarce.
Report describes a planned vast irrigation reservoir in Arizona destined to hold 140000 acre feet of water and cover land under a foot of water, with a great dam to stabilize supplies. Article also notes Santa Claus activities in Chicago with arrival of first Christmas trees from Lake Superior region.
From Christiania today the trade desk cites scarce log supplies as mills face strain. Commercial agent G Sontum notes high log prices and limited Norwegian forest output may cripple wood goods trade across Norway Sweden and Finland.
Texas politicians react to Bailey case disclosures and discuss reelection plans as national and local tensions rise. Chicago dispatches report Storer's ambassadorship dispute and White House silence while California debates Japan war timing. Dublin proclaims United Irish League measures amid Galway Mayo restrictions and security crackdowns.
A traction car derailed near East Liverpool plunging over a 25 foot embankment. James Vale of Wellsville died instantly. other passengers injured, some fatally. Report notes cause as earth catching on the rail and derailment at the trestle. Shah of Persia rumor unsettled. health of Shah improving slightly. Bishop Seymour of Springfield dies from pneumonia after two weeks in ill health.
A man named Charles Johnson, a Swede, was wounded on a train near Kennedy station and brought to St. Joseph's hospital in Albuquerque. Doctors say the wound is life threatening and his survival remains an open question after he shot himself with a .32 caliber revolver during a personal crisis.
Reports from New Bedford and Cincinnati describe rising labor discontent as Textile unions press for a 10 percent wage demand while manufacturers offer 7 percent. Miners threaten a strike at Homestake in South Dakota. The RhidanKirk case seeks Supreme Court review over the federal Eight Hour Law’s constitutionality with a government dam contract.
An industrial exhibition opened at the horticultural hall in Philadelphia with Judge Lindsay of Denver delivering the opening address. The event promotes child labor awareness and aims to show improvements in American industry.
In New York's Ameri can art galleries the Vitatl Bengulatt collection of rare textiles, oll laces and ecclesiastical reliques is on display. Spanning the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the exhibit includes vestments such as chasuble, stole, manphs, and burne embroidered in silver with panels of Venetian and English velvet. Also shown are two medieval relics and early Spanish tapestries.
A Royal Society meeting heard Herriett Wind describe the process for creating artificial diamonds. Wood's artificial stones have impressed experts who deem them genuine, with production costs noted as a factor in the diamond trade.
Kansas City reports that Justice Brewer denied the motion for a writ of error in the death sentence case of Mrs Agnes Myers for the murder of Clarence Myers. Governor Folk granted a respite until January 10 for Mrs Myers and co defendant Frank Hottman. Mrs Myers remains hopeful the governor will not permit her execution despite the denial.
Cherter R Gillette, condemned for Grace Brown's death, told his mother he had not confessed and sought a new trial. Meanwhile, indictments in Utah and a failed bank robbery in Great Bend, Kansas, led to multiple arrests and a fatal Wells Fargo security shooting.
London dispatch reports a Hyde Park meeting where Rev Fr Meyers warned that idle classes may vanish as society shifts. He linked the era’s upheaval to rising social unity, cooperation over competition, and a stronger sense of social service among the people. The Counsels of Warwick predicted a bright future for British laborers.
An appeal signed by Grover Cleveland Andrew Carnegie George B Cortelyou Frank Pamrosch Victor Herbert Henry K Higginson Nicholas Longworth John Pierpont Morgan and others seeks donations to establish the Edward McDowell fund. The committee plans a night meeting to set the fund to perpetuate McDowell memory and support pedagogy.
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