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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1911
Page
1
Interview with Taft-backed Commercial Club leader notes confidence that statehood will pass. President signals no veto, strengthening momentum for the reform.
Local observer Senator Simon Stern reports that President Taft may sign the Flood statehood bill with protest or allow it to become law by inaction. He says Democrats would amend the recall to avoid losing Arizona, noting large Senate support for state rights and predicting statehood this session.
Special Dispatch reports the finishing act on the statehood resolution occurred Friday at 12 30 PM with the vice president signing. The bill then went to the White House and if not vetoed the House action could expire in ten days. Observers expect difficulty in passage if vetoed and New Mexicans may push for a rushed resolution next week. Intensely hot weather and adjournment chatter frame the day.
In Farmerville Texas a mob hanged Commodore Jones after arrest and access to his cell. They forced him to climb a pole and jump with a rope about his neck, then shot the body, leaving it hanging.
Reports from the Pacific coast say unions of railroad shop employees threaten to cancel all agreements in thirty days. Railroad officials here say the unions seek a conference within that period, and a general strike may result after the limit.
Mrs. A M Billings of Chicago 89 years old exposed a blackmail attempt after receiving a letter demanding $500 in old clothes. John Mills a Black man and John Hendricks a white man were arrested following Mills’s visit to the Billings home on West Lake Street where detectives intervened. Mills led officers to a West Side saloon identifying Hendricks as the mastermind and claimed he was merely a tool.
Miss Inex Long of Independence Missouri lost part of her tongue in an automobile crash near Gallatin. She was taken to Kansas City where doctors hope for a graft to save the tongue. Her case prompts a curious barter offer to obtain a tongue fragment.
A hundred man posse hunts Charles Smith, a penitentiary convict, and his brother after they shot prison guard William Humaker and fled near Marion Iowa. Humaker, shot in the stomach, is not yet out of danger as physicians fear he may die. The brothers, recently discharged convicts, were alleged to be well armed and escaped in a buggy after the assault.
Cedar Rapids Iowa August 11 a guard Humaker testified before surgery that one accomplice waited behind a boulder to aid an escape. The Smith brothers reportedly shot at him as Humaker fired, then dragged him into the woods and gagged him. He was found by two boys and aided to a farmhouse. The pair fled on foot after abandoning the buggy in a lime kiln.
Morning Journal reports a strong quake hit San Bernardino at 3 40 pm causing residents to flee buildings though damage was minimal. A prior tremor occurred at 10 20 am. A separate slight quake was logged in Los Angeles at 8 40 pm with minor seismograph readings later noted by Lick Observatory.
Rome August 12 Pope Pius X had a restless night yet showed improvement as physicians noted relief from knee burning and fever. Restlessness blamed on heat and overexertion. by afternoon his condition improved and doctors forecast recovery within ten days. Cardinal Merry del Val planned a villa retreat for the summer. The pope sat up and joked with relatives and officials during the day.
The Pett case centers on Private George Pett of the 135th Coast Artillery at Fort Totten and an alleged Austrian spy scandal involving Miss Clara Antts Dyer of Kentucky. Major General Frederick Grant will review the papers sent by General Leonard Wood, with letters and an affidavit in question. Officials doubt a real Austrian spy link.
Washington Aug 11 conferees from both houses reached a complete agreement on wool duties and the free list bill after a morning of talks. The measure moves to the Senate and House with a veto anticipated by the President and changes set to take effect October 1.
Admiral Count Togo arrives in New York after a tour of Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia. He is hosted by Consul General Midzuno with a small Japanese party and Dr Ishamine, observing traditional customs including a hot bath and silk kimonos before dinner.
The National Catholic Total Abstinence union convention in Scranton elected President Very Rev. P. B. J. O’Gallaghan of Chicago and Secretary John Shaughnessey of Scranton. The next convention site was referred to the executive council.
Dr Francisco Vasquez Gomez says he would accept a nomination if anti re electionists name him president prospect while remaining Madero vice presidential candidate. Catholic party plans convention to nominate a president as tensions rise between church and state and multiple candidates emerge in Mexico.
Alaskan Delegate James Wickersham, en route to Fairbanks, denies reports he will not seek re election. He condemns the Robinson Works coal land leasing bill, arguing it favors private interests and crushes Alaska. He supports a bill giving the government power to set coal prices in Alaska.
Clarence Cunningham, famed locator of Alaska coal claims, suffered another loss as the Washington supreme court ruled against him in a dispute over mining properties in Kerns holdings in Shoshone County Idaho. The case follows two prior Idaho supreme court defeats.
The campaign publicity bill will be reported to both houses with a conference committee recommendation that it pass as amended by the senate. Conference members offered no objection to principal features of the senate amendments. Mexican soldiers seized sixty rifles and four cases of ammunition in Tecolote district south of the boundary line.
Newport RI August 11 John Edward Paul Geraghty and Julia French eloped Wednesday, after Geraghty reported plans for a honeymoon trip to Nova Scotia. Geraghty spoke with his father by long distance while the couple stayed with a cousin in Springfield MA. The bride is 18, legally able to marry without parental consent, and the French family will not interfere.
Leaders of Liverpool shipowners announce a possible citywide lockout if no settlement by Monday. Despite a recent agreement unions enforce not to return to work. Meat stock and coal shortages intensify factory closures and unemployment. Militants reinforced by cavalry and infantry, but strike committee urges restraint.
George Clements editor of the Daily Globe was held to answer to the grand jury on a charge of crime mal libel after arrest on a warrant sworn by City Abbey Neil M. Alfred. Clements was released on his own recognizance.
Lola Kansas August court action ends with Ella Reese freed by Mayor Allinger after municipal judge Emeltzer sentenced her to jail. Reese left city custody with husband Garfield Heese who from Fort Scott reclaimed their three year old son. The pair plan to return to Fort Scott with the child.
Masked bandits robbed the Chino Copper payroll party in Whitewater Canyon. They took $80 and three watches from Manager John M. Sully and sped toward the Santa Rita mountains on armed horses, eluding pursuing officers who faced a long chase along the Old Mexico line.
Colorado Springs authorities remove Chief of Police Stephen Armstrong after he accepted a valuable diamond ring from a prisoner. Armstrong admits the gift but resists resignation, arguing it does not indicate wrongdoing as mayor calls for his removal effective August 15.
Washington Aug 11 Postoffice Inspector J L Stice testified to the expenditures committee that BE G Lewis Bt Louis publisher offered to back him for postmaster at St Louis if he joined their side. Stice denied any far in the proceedings against Lewis in the controversy with the post office department.
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