Debate on Control of Insurance Firms Dominates Capitol
Washington debates turn to canal politics and a broad push to regulate insurance firms. Tillman dominates Panama talk while congress weighs federal versus state control methods. Bardshar confirms as New Mexico revenue collector. Castro eases tensions with France. Mexican banker Felix Frank attempts suicide in a New York restaurant.
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Senate
Bardshar
Washington
Henry P. Bardshar
Internal Revenue
District of New Mexico
Russian budget cuts and Manchurian mutiny threaten stability
Reports from St. Petersburg outline a tightened 1906 budget cutting military and naval programs while mutinous mood grows among Manchurian troops. Authorities forward 12 million to Manchuria amid fears of broader unrest as Caucasus tensions rise and Russia faces internal political pressure.
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Rusia
Siberia
Manchuria
Caucasus
Elizabethpol
Kharkoff
New York Life Insurance Company
Moscow
Associated Press
Arivate
Moscw
Japan
Russia
Tokio
St. Petersburg
M. Bakmetieff
M. Makino Nobouki
Vienna
Tiflis
Constantinople
Caucasia
Hoch case affirmed. Hoch to hang February 23
A Springfield message reports the supreme court affirmed the lower court verdict in Johann Hoch’s murder case. Hoch is sentenced to death for poisoning his wife Marie Walcker Hoch and will be executed February 23.
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Chicago
Springfield
Supreme Court
Johann Hoch
Marie Walcker-Hoch
Hoch
Dam on Pecos to irrigation twenty thousand acres
The Interior Department approves $600000 for Pecos valley reclamation at Carlsbad New Mexico on the Santa Fe line. The plan dam s the Pecos river to irrigate 20000 acres in 1906 and government will buy Pecos Irrigation company ditches with about $450000 to reconstruct the dam. Santa Fe announces home seekers rates for January and February trips and low fare colonist tickets.
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Pecos
Chicago
Santa Fe Railroad
Secretary of the Interior
Pecos Valley
Carlsbad
N. M
Pecos Irrigation Company
Santa FE
Southwest
Kansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Santa Fe President predicts federal rate control action
In a Boston interview President E P Ripley of the Santa Fe system says popular clamor will force Congress to act on rate regulation. He believes public sentiment is nearly unanimous for at least federal supervision of rate making.
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Santa Fe
Morning Journal
Boston
Mass
E. P. Ripley
Congress
Ripley
Harmony over new central post office planned for Las Vegas
Residents of Las Vegas New Mexico expect a district court of appeals ruling to re establish a west side post office. City and town leaders favor a central site and joint petition to Congress, opposing Old Las Vegas naming. Also notes a new mill in Ribera, street railway extension, a new power house, and local deaths.
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Morning Journal
Las Vegas
N. M
District Court of Appeals
Old Las Vegas
Washington Dispatches
Congress
Gove
William Standish
Ribera
San Miguel
Justice Wooster
Wooster
Antigoon Steamer Grounded Near Little Island After Prolonged Struggle
Norfolk reports the Belgain steamer Antigoon went ashore at Little Island about twelve miles south of town after a 45 hour fight with wind and seas. The crew were rescued by breeches buoy, the last man brought ashore late this afternoon. Antigoon had cleared Mobile on December 1.
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Norfolk
Little Island
Mobile
Two Die In Nevada Pistol Duel Over Short Change
In Rhyo lite near Bullfrog Nevada, J C. Clayton 38 and J J. Sullivan 25 were killed in a saloon duel following a dispute over short change. Cook Max Rosenberg was grazed by a 45 caliber bullet but is expected to recover. Sullivan left a young wife. Clayton also left a wife.
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Bullfrog
Nev
Clayton
J. J. Sullivan
Rhyolite
Bevis
Turpin
Sullivan
Max Rosenberg
Butte
Montana
Creede
Colorado Springs
Colo
Cockran Attacks Insurance Giants and Trust Funds
Washington reports Democratic congressman Bourke Cockran of New York condemns life insurance companies as trust funds misused by executives. He calls for state confinement of firms, criticizes guardians of policyholders, and urges broader reform to curb stock gambling and elite corruption in the industry. The debate in the House ends with adjournment.
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Mutual
New York Life
Rvewal
Hemrts Rockefeller
Cochran
Perkins
McCurdy
Rockefellers
Cockran
Congress
Adams
Pennsylvania
Williams
Missiesippi
Burke
House
London Cancer Cure Claim Stirs Imperial Inquiry
An Aceragean doctor James Fenwick reports a simple cancer remedy after nine years of study and nine cured cases. The King’s Imperial Cancer Research committee has sent him medical details for review. An elderly Acerineton woman claims recovery in under three months using a dark liquid brush application.
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James Fenwick
King
Imperial Cancer Research Committee
Fenwick
Grant Beats Choynski In Ten Round West Bout
Stockton reports one of the fastest western fights as Kid Grant of Seattle KOs Young Choynski of San Francisco in the tenth round with a right hook. Kid Bell of Denver also scores a first round knockout over Hock Morallis.
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Stockton
Cal
Kid Grant
Seattle
Young Choynski
San Francisco
Kid Bell
Denver
Hock Morallis
Mad Arag May Be Murderer Blotches New Mexico News
Socorro New Mexico December 15 F H Mudge yardmaster at San Marcial for the Santa Fe and a relative of former General Manager Mudge is near death from a wanton assault by a hobo named Godi who attacked him with rocks fracturing his skull in two places. The assailant was arrested in Socorro and jailed. The case against Fred Graham for killing his father W J Graham in 1897 went to the jury in district court with strong prosecution. Three men Bruton and Cornett face a brutal murder case next on the docket. Jose Hamies was acquitted after testifying. The Bridgeport steamer City of Lawrence collided with and sank the three masted schooner Bashutoland off South Norwalk. five sailors were saved.
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Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
Thomas F. Ryan
KE. H. Harriman
Ryan
Harriman
James H. Hyde
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Committee
Odell
New York State Republican Committee
Equitable Society
Francis W. Higgins
Fred Nixon
New York State Assembly
Hyde
Mr. Harriman
Mr Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Hughes
Charles BE. Hughes
BB B Odell
Associated Press
J. W. Alexander
Alexander
Armstrong
Higgins
Nixon
Morning Journal
Socorro
N. M
F. H Mudge
San Marcial
The
Santa Fe
Mudge
Godi
Fred Graham
W. J. Graham
Frisco
Socorro County
Elfego Baca
Griffith
Winter
el Paso
Graham
B. Bruton
Jack Bruton
Lock Cornett
Dougherty
Jose Hamies
San Antonio
Bridgeport
Conn
Dee
Bridgeport Line
City of Lawrence
Bashutoland
Hoper
Chatham
N B
Norwalk
Pfister Cleared of Larceny as Bailee in Milwaukee
Judge Brazee ruled Charles F. Pfister not guilty of larceny as bailee in a case involving $14,000 of Wisconsin Rendering Company funds. Pfister, a leading Milwaukee businessman connected to a tannery bank and hotel, and proprietor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, acted as stakeholder in a bid for a city garbage contract.
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Brazee
Charles FP. Pfister
Pfister
Wisconsin Rendering Company
Milwaukee Sentinel
Treasury chief proposes diplomatic salary revisions
Secretary Root reports to Congress on foreign intercourse budgets for the 1907 fiscal year. He critiques the current diplomatic salary list as flawed and outlines new items including an ambassador to Japan at 17500 dollars and ministers to Guatemala and Norway with salaries of 10000 dollars annually among others.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Secretary of State
Root
Foot
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Guatemala
Honduras
Norway
Sweden
Roumania
Servia
Morocco
Dominician Republic
Salvador
Nicaragua and Cometscha
Brazil
Apache County convenes for immediate statehood move
In Pucsen Aria on December 15 delegates from all Apache county election precincts formed a county statehood association. They adopted a resolution urging Congress to grant Arizona statehood at once whether joint or single. About ninety percent of Apache county citizens signed a petition supporting statehood. The county lies on the western border of New Mexico, is farmed by residents with no railroads or corporations.
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Pucsen
Aria
St. Johns
Arwena
Apache County
Congress
Arizona
New Mexico
Businesss
Roosevelt County citizens press for New Mexico and joint statehood
A dispatch from Portales New Mexico reports vigorous resolutions calling on Congress to grant New Mexico joint statehood with Arizona. The Roosevelt county meeting endorsed a statehood league push and forwarded a copy to the statehood committee as part of the drive toward statehood.
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Porte Lee N. M
Roosevelt County
Anki Congress
New Mexico
Arigona
Noedaumnsem
Cron Tor Beveridge
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