Pecos Valley Freight Rate Win Over Santa Fe in ICc Ruling
Interstate Commerce Commission orders sweeping reductions aiding Pecos Valley shippers in Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, deeming Santa Fe as main obstacle to valley development. Commission cites excess charges on grain lumber salt and apples and directs rate reductions to boost regional growth and fuel supply.
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Santa Fe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Heowell Commercial Club
Carlsbad Commercial Club
Artesia Commercial Club
Merelwunte Association of
Havermon
Chaves County Wool Thowers
Kansas City
St. Louis
Galveston
Denver
New Mexico
Vis
Howwell
Carlebad
Hacerman
Artesia
Kansas
Okiehome
Anton Lumber
Texas
Levitianes
Cache
Hutchinson
Port Worth
Tex
Howe
Wichita
Hearnment
Rae
Valley coal rates eyed by commission and Santa Fe
The commission notes proximity to the Walsenburg district supports lower rates and warns Santa Fe may be able to confine coal movements to its lines if relief is not granted. If Santa Fe refuses, the commission may order a joint rate from Walsenburg to the questioned destinations. No new plague cases reported in San Francisco. Colonel Leslie A. Smith dies of heart failure in North Norwalk. Miner George Ball killed by a blast in Collinsville Arizona.
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Peous Valley
Canon City
Col
Route Fe
Hatchinson
Pecas
McAlester
Rock Island
Colorado
Walsenburg
Amarillo
Walsenbure
Santa Fe
Pecos Valley
Roswell
Carlsbad
Commission
EXPRECO TRAIN JUMPS TRACK AT SANTA ROSA
The Chicago Express of the Rock Island jumped the track near Condoulupe station about a few miles from Santa Rosa New Mexico on the El Paso and Southwestern line. A brake beam dropped causing the baggage car to derail pulling the train into a ditch except the rear Pullman. Passengers were badly knocked about but none seriously injured. Conductor Charles Hoy led the train. wrecking crews worked from Carrigero to clear the wreck.
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Santa Rosa
N. M
Chicago Express
Rock Island
Condoulupe
Se Paso
Southwestern
Charles Hoy
Epee
Carrigrero
New Secretary to Take Oath of Office Today
Nathan Jaffa of Roswell will take the oath as secretary of the New Mexico territory tomorrow afternoon at the capitol after business hours. The delay is due to Sunday as the first of the month and Labor Day as a local holiday.
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Nathan Jaffa
Santa Fe
N. M
Roswell
Territory of
New Mexico
Dead Man Found in Santa Fe Box Car at Starkville
Special Dispatch from Trinidad Colo Aug 30 1906 indicates Horacio Miranda aged fifty was found dead in an empty Santa Fe box car at Starkville last night. Miranda had worked on the line and was seen in Trinidad drinking heavily before appearing in Starkville with a deep head wound possibly caused by an unknown assailant.
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Trivinad
Colo
Hosario Miranda
Santa Fe
Starkville
Miramde
Trinidad
Mirandse
Government Has No Case in Land Fraud Arguments
In Santa Fe on August 30 Attorney General A J Fall argued before Judge Abbott that the territory has no case in the land fraud suits. He contended the government lacks jurisdiction and that the territory and defendants including American Lumber and others face no fraud linkage. The hearing extended through the forenoon and most of the afternoon with Prichard following in support of the same position.
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Morning Journal
Santa Fe
N. M
A. J. Fall
Abbott
Second District Court
Pall
Prichard
Ormsby McHarg
United States
Albuquerque
KE. W. Dobson
Fall
Ile
Coronel Prichard
Supreme Court Grants Short Recess Before January Term
The supreme court announced a recess until January 7 with the regular term starting that day. It will convene one day before the term to hear the usual motions from attorneys.
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Supreme Court
Ministers' union expelled from Labor Day parade
In La Crosse Wisconsin the Ministers' union, formed two weeks earlier and aligned with the trades and labor assembly, was cast out by the body and barred from marching in the Labor Day parade. The Brewery Workers' union had complained that anti saloon agitation by the preachers' union harmed their members.
Horrible Train Accident Kills Car Repairer at Pass City
A car repairer for El Paso and Southwestern, Gore, was killed instantly when three runaway box cars struck the stationary vehicle he was servicing. The man, about 38, from Newark Ohio, had worked a week for the company and belonged to the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen. He had been in Douglas for three months, with no nearby relatives known.
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el Paso
Pass City
Morning Journal
Aux
Harles
Tenday
Twaim
Fl Pass
Gore
Gare
Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen of America
Douglas Lodge
Southwestern Car Repairing Department
Missouri Stree
Newark
Ohio
Magistrate Lured to Death by Woman
R F Fingleton former Covington magistrate was beaten and robbed in a Richmond Street house in Cincinnati. He was lured there by a woman known to police as Mrs Walter Weat and died at the city hospital after the assault. Police have no trace of the two assailants or the woman.
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Cincinnati
R. F. Bingleton
Covington
Richmond Street
City
Fingleton
Walter Weat
Quebec bridge crash trapping victims in wreckage
Searchers in Quebec race to reach car and bridge debris after a deadly bridge collapse. Rescue teams work through twisted steel as two victims are recovered and hope fades for others still trapped in the wreckage.
Quebec Bridge Disaster Claims Seventy Nine Dead Or Missing
Engineers at the scene blame a material weak spot for the collapse of the Quebec Bridge into the St Lawrence River. A noon roll call confirmed seventy nine dead or missing, with sixteen American mechanics among the dead. Indians and White Canadians are among the missing, while five Canadians four Indians and three Americans are injured at Point Levis hospital.
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Quebec
St. Lawrence
Point Levis
Dominion
Butler
Collingwood Schrieber
Holgate
Montreal
Phoenix Kridee Company
Point Levis Hospital
Quebec Bridge Company
Quebec Bridge Disaster Toll Rises Over 75
At dawn a joint search by half dozen agencies scoured the St. Lawrence for victims of the Quebec Bridge collapse. The death toll stood at least seventy five, possibly eighty five, with twenty bodies recovered. Among the identified dead are Ahlet Engineer Birks and General Foreman B A Clhaneul. Robberies were reported at dawn.
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Quebec
Quebec Bridge Company
St. Lawrence
Tixville Bridge
Comutny
Ahlet
Birks
B. A. Clhaneul
Collapse of World’s Longest Cantilever Bridge Near Quebec
The Phoenix Bridge company’s massive St. Lawrence span at Quebec collapsed killing or injuring workers. Four men aboard a locomotive were caught as the bridge gave way while steel girders and carriages fell into the river. Officials in Philadelphia and Quebec dispatch inspectors as investigations begin into cause and responsibility. The bridge, begun in 1900, was to be the longest cantilever span with an 1800 foot center span, built in Phoenixville and shipped to Quebec. The government guaranteed bonds up to seven million dollars as the project faced financial difficulties.
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W.F. Davis
Jess
Glenmont
Philadelphia
Phoenix Bridge Company
St. Lawrence
Quesbec
Phoenixville
Quebec
M. P. Davis & Co
President Abandons Joint Statehood Plan
President Roosevelt through James R Garfield announces no further moves to push joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. The administration will accept the territories’ recent verdict as final. The report comes from Oyster Bay and Boston where Archbishop Williams has died.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt James R. Garfield
Secretary of the Interior
Artgona
New Mexico
Garfield
Creamery Men Win in Nebraska Rates Case
The Nebraska state railway commission sustains the State Creameries association, denying railways and express firms permission to raise cream shipment rates. The ruling protects dairy producers in the August decision from rate increases.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
State Railway Commission
State Creameries Association
Railways and Express Companies
Rockefeller witness fees paid in federal case
Chicago August 30 The witness fees due from John D Rockefeller for his appearance before Judge Landis in the federal court were paid today A check for 72 95 was mailed to Rockefeller at his Cleveland home confirming the payment of the fees arising from the related case weeks earlier
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Chicago
John D Rockefeller
Landis
Rockefetler
Hig
Cleveland
Mexicans Held in Los Angeles on Revolt Charge
Three Mexican rebels Antonio Villareal Nicarda Mason and Libea de Rivera remain jailed in Los Angeles after a habeas corpus ruling. Their preliminary hearing is set for September 4. Governor Falk sought extradition from Missouri authorities for Villareal and Magente, with no clear progress to Mexico.
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Los Angeles
Cot
Antonio Villareal
Nicarda Mason
Libea de Rivera
St. Louis
Falk
Gillett
Villareal
Magente &i- Louis
Honda
Mexico
iMag
Strike of operators at Pred Dorr & Co halts Santa Fe mail
Los Angeles August 20 union telegraphers of Pred Dorr & Co strike after the firm refused to sign the union wage scale. Three operators in the Los Angeles office, with two likely to quit. Leased lines extend to San Francisco Salt Lake Denver and more between the Pacific coast and Chicago. Majority of leased wire workers reportedly joined in strike in sympathy with the water. Meanwhile in St Louis about forty telegraphers returning to work after two weeks on strike under current wage terms.
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Los Angeles
Pred Dorr & Co
Sylvester J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of North America
Dorr & Co
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Denver
Putte
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Los Angels
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Wreck of Santa Fe Train No. 9 Near Las Vegas NM
Reports say Santa Fe train No. 9 derailed and wrecked in the ditch thirty five miles east of Las Vegas New Mexico. A relief train with surgeons was dispatched and some injuries are feared though no fatalities are confirmed. Train No. 10 arrived late and No. 7 waited for delayed connections due to sand and washouts from a swollen arroyo.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Santa Fe
Here
el Paso
Bernalillo
Albu- G Querque
Russian mutiny chief Matuesheke hanged in Sebastopol
Matuesheke, the Russian NCO who led the 1905 Knoaix Potempkin mutiny, was hanged in Sevastopol after a drumhead court martial. He had fled to Kuslendice, then New York, returning last July where police noted his ties to a revolutionary group led by him.
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Odleeea
Matuesheke
Knoaix Potempkin
Black Sea
Sebastopol
Kuslendice
Koumanta
Matuesheko
New York
Fides
Trolley Lab Crash Kills and Injures Dozens En Route to Fair
A head on collision on the Mattoon and Charleston electric line near Charleston damages trains and causes many fatalities and injuries. Passengers bound for the county fair were among the victims as confusion over telephone orders is blamed. Mattoon ambulances and morgues rushed the dead and injured to local facilities amid a chaotic scene.
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County Fair
Mattoon, NL
Mattoon
Charleston
Secident
Churion
Nod
Japanese Sealing Nip Released After Forfeiture Proceedings
Washington reports the Department of Justice disapproved forfeiture of the Japanese sealing ship Netty after an alleged unlawful raid on a sealing grounds in Alaskan waters. The Netty and two ships' crews were involved. two crews were convicted while the rest were acquitted. The case against the vessel was abandoned. In Oklahoma City, predictions say statehood votes for Oklahoma and Indian Territory will occur September 1 despite criticisms of the state constitution.
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Washington, B
Séealing Echogher Netto
Alaskan
United Blutes Offietadt
Ue Naiwo
Wthea
Atehomea
Okiahome City
Et Fe
Okibawa
Indian Territory
Tait
Oklahoma City
Vesuvius Signals New Eruption Threat
Reports from Naples describe rumbling from Mount Vesuvius and rising smoke, prompting residents of nearby hamlets to flee. The event fuels alarm among locals as authorities monitor signs of a possible eruption. Meanwhile in Chicago, Miss Jies Hreneh won the women's Western championship at the Windsor County club, defeating Miss He Ineley by one stroke.
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Mineus
Mount Vesuvius
Aere
Chicago
Jies Hreneh
Winiser Country Club
Tay Wee
He Ineley
Westwardelio
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Ariz
George Ball
Expreco
Ted
the Morning Journal
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Minn
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