Beware of Arizona mining stock warns Wellman lobby ironies
Chicago dispatch reports Walter Wellman warns that Arizona mine owners back a statehood lobby to gain control of new states. He cites the Arizona mining stock ring offering profits to insiders and urges senators Burton Mitchell and others to beware similar pressure as they deal with Oklahoma Indian Arizona and New Mexico.
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Wellman
House
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
New Mexico
Mies
Senate
Burton
Mitchell
Oregon
Aiige
Murder Guilty In Free Degree For Austin Francis
Kansas City reports Austin Francis found guilty of the murder of Winona Newton 15 in a brutal crime. He choked and fed her a drug then weighted her body with a stone in a creek after luring her to a bridge. The swift trial within a month marks one of the city’s fastest criminal prosecutions.
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Kansas City, Mo
Austin Francis
Winona Newton
Newton
Francis
Banditt's Bullet Ends Scotty of Death Valley Career
Walter Scott the cowboy miner known for lavish spending is believed murdered in Death Valley. He left his mine December 1 with $1800 and two rifles, rode a mule to camp December 7 with bloodied saddle and blanket. A search across Death Valley and Funeral Mountains follows, as his brother and desert scout pursue leads despite a sand storm.
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Cal
Dee
Walter Scott
Death Valley
Rol King
Scotts
Willik
Bennetts Wells
King
Peath Valley
Funeral Mountains
Shand Merricks
Parker Charged with Bribery Links in Indian Territory
Special to the Morning Journal reports L F Parker Jr formerly assistant attorney for the court of private land claims in Santa Fe now appointed judge of the northern district of the Indian territory faces pending ugly charges under investigation by the justice department. The senate withholds confirmation until the department reports. The accusation alleges Parker as assistant attorney received 2200 to press liquor-sale charges and the bribe was later divided with Pliny Soper national Republican committeeman for the Indian territory. Nomination of New Mexico governor and secretary blocked awaiting Beveridge’s return.
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Washington
L. F. Parker, Jr
Court of Private Land Claims
Santa Fe
Indian Territory
Department of Justice
Senate
Parker
Department
Sistant
Pliny Soper
National Republican
Daring Automobilists Reach Plagstaper in Safety
Special to the Morning Journal Flagstaff Arizona December 20 The Reo Mountaineer automobile party is safe. Reports they were snowed in and rescued near death are erroneous Megarile stayed at a hotel since last Saturday while two other members arrived today with the car after two days of travel from Williams delayed by fuel and repairs A body found this week was a man named Smith who wandered from a logging camp on Sitgreaves mountain and froze The motorists were never lost or rescued.
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Morning Journal
Flagstaff
Ariz
Reo Mountaineer
Williams
Santa Fe
Smith
Sitgreaves Mountain
Geles
Rutherford
James G. London
Abilene
Mexico
Diaz
Frank Bell
Rudolph Glucker
Old Man of Australia Key Figure in Canal Nominations
Washington action centers on Senate reconsideration of Isthmian canal commission nominations. Debate centers on Theodore P. Shonts dual roles with the commission and Clover Leaf railroad. Also reports on House open session, Panama canal appropriation, and Mexican murder case details from Diaz.
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Senate
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Interoceanic Canal Committee
Canal Commission
Theodore P. Shonts
Commission
Clover Leaf Railroad
J. B. Bishop
Shents
Mesers
Foraker
Culberson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio
Hurricane in Florida records and deaths in 1900s
Reports from Jacksonville Florida indicate a tropical storm with heavy rain and winds up to fifty miles per hour, causing telegraph outages. Savannah also experienced strong winds and thunderstorms. In Topeka Edward Wilder, longtime treasurer of the Atchison Topeka & Latta Fe railroad, died of tuberculosis after attending the directors meeting. Christie's to auction Nelson Cenotaph containing Nelson’s hair and a purse of 84 guineas with small figures.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Atlanta
Augusta
Savannah
Observer
Topeks
Kas Tae
Ridward Wilder
Atchison, Topeka & Latta Fe Railroad
London
Nelson
Christie's
Terminals Go Up in Omoke
New York, Dec 26 The Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad saw its new ferry terminals burn to the ground after a fire began while workers were finishing the steel framed structures at West Twenty third Street Manhattan Fire spread to the Central railroad of New Jersey and Lackawanna terminals but nearby ferries were saved Fire losses are estimated at about half a million dollars no lives are reported lost at the scene.
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New York
Washington Life Insurance Company
Germania Life Insurance Company
The
Germania Life
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
John Tatlock
Washington Life
Tatloeck
Thomas F. Ryan
Nancal Board
Tatlock
Wall Street
Cornelius Doremus
Europe
Germany
America
Albany
EK. L. Baylies
Bankers’ Life
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hoboken
West Twenty-third Treet
Manhattan
Thames
Central Mailro
New Jersey
Tackawanna
Penseylvania
Erie
Gallup Electric Plant Wall Collapses After Water Leak
The rear end of the Gallup Electric Light plant building collapsed this afternoon due to water undermining the wall from the city well. The damage halted operations temporarily but no workers were injured and repairs should take a few days.
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Morning Journal
Gallup
NX. M
Gallup Electric Light
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