Roosevelt on long tour from New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Theodore Roosevelt begins a cross country speaking tour leaving New York March 6 and traveling through Atlanta New Orleans the southwest and the Pacific coast with numerous engagements. The trip includes Albuquerque Los Angeles Phoenix and Santa Barbara among other stops with speeches on civic ideals public service and national state relations.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Sagamore Hill
Atlanta
New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Idaho
Montana
Chicago
Troncevelt
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Caronella Landon
Ethel
Frank Harper
Miss Roosevelt
Albuquerque
N. M
Sloan
Arizona
Grand Canyon
Edward Kent
Supreme Court of Arizona
Southern Commercial Congress
Birmingham
Alu
Corey
Houston
Texas
Earl
Berkeley
Cal
Commonwealth Club
San Francisco
Iteno
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Roosevelt Dam
Agriculture Claims Doomed to Timely Adjudication Delay
The department has received several claims but plans to set a date for filing to ensure all potential beneficiaries can present their cases. The secretary of agriculture will likely announce a deadline by which claims will be considered.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Murder Suspect Surrenders in California Legislature
Joseph W. Cooney, accused of killing his cousin over a woman, walked into the California Senate chamber and surrendered to Sheriff Senator Thomas Finn of San Francisco County. He entered during discussion on abolishing capital punishment, lingering in the assembly before presenting himself.
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Sacramento
Cal
Joseph W. Cooney
Senate
California
Thomas Finn
San Francisco
Cooney
James Faward Cooney
Finn
Joe Cooney
Tom
Assembly
Curry Whel Accompanies Roosevelt on Texas Trip
George Curry former governor of New Mexico and Rough Rider travels with Theodore Roosevelt from Texas toward Albuquerque visiting El Paso and promising to extend an invitation to the Rough Rider reunion set for March 15 Curry plans to join Roosevelt to the Philippines era stations and continues with real estate cattle business in Tularess New Mexico.
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Texan
George Curry
Goveror
New Mexico
Rough Rider
Roosevelt
Cuba
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
el Paso
Albuquerque
Hieacseevit
Curry
Philippine Islands
Tularess
Government Relief Planned for Forest Fire Victims
Washington on March 6 announces a $15,000 appropriation for dependents of those who perished in last summer's forest fires. The Agriculture Department and the Forest Service will draft relief plans after finalizing how funds will be distributed.
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Washington
Chart Congress
Department of Agriculture
The
Forest Service
Court Denies Ruef Petition in Bribery Case
The California Supreme Court denied a late petition for a rehearing and nunc pro tunc order in the Ruef bribery case. Ruef faces fourteen years in San Quentin as the stay expires tomorrow unless federal courts grant a writ of habeas corpus or a US Supreme Court appeal succeeds.
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San Francisco
Abraham Ruef
San Quentin
Supreme Court
Ruef
A. &. Webb
Henshaw
Luet
Lawlor
United States Supreme Court
Rate on cantaloupes declared excessive
Pittsburg March 6 An investigation of charges that the Southern Pacific railroad exacts excessive refrigeration fees on cantaloupes from California and New Mexico opened before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner J S Cratchfield head of a produce company testified that overcharges to date total about 4500 dollars case to continue tomorrow
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Pittsburg
Southern Pacific Railroad
California
New Mexico
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cratchfield
4 Produce Company
Two Million in Gifts to Columbia University
Morning Journal Special Leased Wire reports Columbia University received gifts totaling nearly 2.6 million dollars at a trustees meeting. Highlights include 450,000 from an anonymous donor to the School of Architecture and 750,000 and 693,000 from the estates of Joan Stewart Kennedy and George Crocker, respectively, as previously announced bequests.
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Morning Journal
New York
Marsh
Columbia University
School of Architecture
Joan Stewart Kennedys
George Crocker
Turkish lawmakers clash in stormy chamber scene
In Constantinople on March 6 a heated debate over the Hagdad railway led to an Albanian deputy Ismael Kemal insulting Hakki Key the grand vizier. Key stepped forward and struck Kemal as a committee member nearby tugged at Kemal's ears.
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Chamber of Deputies
Hagdad
Ismael Kemal
Hakki Key
Kemal
Rules Committee Chosen As Democratic House Faces Tariff Debate
The rules committee of the sixty second congress was formally selected with Robert L. Henry of Waco Texas named to head. Seven Democrats were announced as members including Edward W Poll Thomas W W Hardwick Augustus Stanley Finis J Garrett Martin D Foster and Matthew R Denver. The Ways and Means Committee will likewise form policy on tariff revision, with debates on wholesale versus schedule approaches and possible Canada reciprocity. The group aims to report its program to Congress soon after April 4.
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Rules Committee
Robert L. Henry
Waco
Texas
New House
Ways and Means Committee
Robert Lee Henry
Edward W. Poll
Smithfield
N. C
Thomas W.W. Hardwick
Sandersville
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Hardwick
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Georgia
Hichardeon
Finley
Lever
Beall
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Burnett
Flesiin
Ansberry
Ohio
Lindsay
New York
Smith
Kerbly
Indians
Carter
Oklahoma
Denver
Collier
Mississippi
Pacific Railroads
Stayden
Sixteen Men to Be Arraigned in Border Crossing Case
Sixteen Mexicans and sixteen Americans arrested by U S troops while attempting to cross near the El Paso smelter Friday were transported to Las Cruces to appear before U S Commissioner Chaffee. They faced federal charges for violating the neutrality law with bond set at two hundred dollars each.
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Mexico
United States
Las Cruces
Chaffee
K. E. Ginderfelt
Lee Smith
A. E. Anderson
John Haley
J. Morgan
Dayton Tailey
Chris Kennedy
Harry Clark
Harry Gordon
Rob Brewer
D. E. Lawson
H. E. Shower
Harry Taylor
Frank Peas
James Robinson
Lou Dillon
Jesus Mendoza
Cruz Perez
Lorenzo Justa
Juan Salas
Frederico Mendoza
Manuel Rubio
Pedro Nasuna
Savaras Hernandez
Jesus Ortiz
Leonardo Modena
Antonio Lara
El Paso Smelter to Close Over Ore Shortage
General Manager Farle of the El Paso smelter says the plant will shut down within five days due to inability to obtain ore from Mexico. The Guesenheim owned facility is the second largest in the world and will idle eighteen hundred workers as eighty percent of its ore supply would come from Mexico. no ore has been received in five weeks.
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Paso
Texas
Farle
el Paso
Mexico
Guesenheim
Railroads Denied Voluntary Tariff Suspension Move
The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected Eastern rail lines request to voluntarily suspend proposed rate advances from March 15 to November 1. Officials from New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western attended, seeking time to study fiscal results before potential future increases.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York City
Eastern Railroad
Commission
W. G. Brown
Clyde Brown
New York Central
James McCrea
F. J. Jowen
The
Pennsylvania
Daniel Willard
Hugh G. Bond
Baltimore & Ohio
Frederick Underwood
George Brownell
Erie
Walker D. Hines
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Brown
Prouty
Eastern Railway
Partiele
Reward Offered for Missing Marine Officer Matthews
Vallejo Cal March efforts to locate Captain Wilbur J Matthews of the United States Marine Corps who disappeared February 6 from Mare Island navy yards where he led the prison have proved unavailing and his description was mailed to police nationwide for apprehension A shortage of about 33400 in his accounts is claimed part of the sum said to have been taken from the government and part entrusted to him by prisoners
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Vallejo
Cal
Wilbur J. Matthews
United States Marine Corps
Mare Island Navy Yards
United States
Many Appointments Fail of Confirmation in Congress
Washington reports that seventy-one officer nominations failed, including sixty-one post office positions, in the last session of Congress. Leading the list are two named appointees, William H. Lewis of Boston as assistant attorney general and James Napier of Tennessee as register of the treasury.
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Washington
Congress
William H. Lewis
Boston
James ©. Napier
Tennessee
The
Treasury
New President Beltran Takes Office in Honduras
Francisco Beltran provisional president arrived at Puerto Cortes from Ceiba and said he does not know when he will go to Tegucigalpa to arrange disarmament details or reveal cabinet names.
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Puerto Cortez
Honduras
New Orleans
Francisco Beltran
Jury View on Death Penalty for Woman in Murder Trial
Several jurors at the Edith Melcher murder trial in Albany voiced that a woman accused of a capital crime deserves more mercy than a man and should not be put to death, indicating sympathy toward the defendant from the pool of talesmen.
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Albany
Edith Melcher
Schenectady
Noted Trial Draws Crowded Audience In Albany
A solitary court case drew a packed courtroom near Albany last January when twenty four jurors were examined and only Wesley Smith was accepted. Women in the gallery used opera glasses to view the prisoner in a tense, public setting.
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George
Albany
Talesmen
Wesley Smith
West Virginia to Pay Share of Virginia Debt
The U S Supreme Court sitting as a board of auditors ruled that West Virginia must contribute over seven million dollars of Virginia’s thirty three million dollar debt incurred before West Virginia split from Virginia. The decision covered the Virginia debt case with the single announced opinion.
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Washington
Board of Auditors
Supreme Court of the United States
Virginia
Independence Party Urged At Lincoln Banquet
At a Lincoln banquet in Akron Ohio over five hundred Republicans mostly progressives urged independence from the regular GOP to escape corporate control of the nation's resources and party. Gif Ford Pinchot led the speakers joined by James R Garfield and A L Garfield with W Barber also addressing the crowd. Pinchot said the party must be fully progressive or die and that victory in 1912 requires a progressive nominee and support for popular government.
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Ohio
Gifford Pinchot
James R. Garfield
Cleveland
A. L. Garford
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W. Barber
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Republican Party
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Sheehan Retains Loyal Support Of Tammany
Governor Dix hopes for a plan this week to hold another conference on the senatorial situation as a caucus to select Sheehan’s replacement looms. Insurgents flip between conferences and caucus while Assembly Speaker Frisbie and Senator Cullen deny plans. A shuffle in support and possible desertions loom as no quorum formed in recent ballots.
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Albany
N. Y
Dix
William F. Sheehan
Cullen
Frisbie
Sheehan
John A. Mason
New York
Murphy
Mason
Anarchists in Plot to Kill Taft
Spokane police say John Ateele and Stuart Moffatt in city jail are suspected in the murder of Captain John Sullivan and linked to a plot to kill President Taft. Detectives report plans to assassinate the mayor after the city election but offer no confirmation of a Taft plot.
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Spokane
Wash
Pratt
John Ateele
Stuart Moffatt
John T. Sullivan
Taft
Martin J. Burns
Police
Coast
Captain Burns
Steele
Moffatt
Washington
Congress
Detective Burns
Sullivan
Fifty Thousand Teamsters Vote on Strike in New York
New York workers prepare for a March 6 4 vote to authorize a general strike by about 50000 teamsters in sympathy with grocery wagon drivers demanding uniform hours. Leaders warn of a citywide shutdown including longshoremen if the vote fails to yield action.
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New York
Governor Dix statement frees Sheehan ally claims shift
Elmira March 6 Dr John Seeley assemblyman from Steuben county says Governor Dix statement frees him from caucus pledge on William F Sheehan as Democratic nominee for senator He believes a secret ballot would show opposition and calls party leaders to settle the matter citing party interests sacrificed by continuing Sheehan in the race.
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Elmira
N. Y
John Zeeley
Wood Hull
Bteuben
Corning
Dix
William F. Sheehan
Seeley
Sheehan
Lap Young May Re Enter Race in Iowa
Des Moines reports that Lafayette Young, appointed by the governor to serve in the Iowa senate race, plans to re enter the bid for the U S Senate after a week long recess. He arrived from Washington and met with supporters to revive his campaign against Judee W Kenyon and H B Deemer, while incumbent lawmakers resume sessions.
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Lap Young
Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Johnathan B. Dolliver
Judee W. & Kenyon
Supreme Court
Lafayette Young
Carroll
Washington
Theontest
Demeer
Youths Electrocuted for Double Murder at Charlestown Prison
Boston reports Wassill Ilvankowskii aged 22 and Andri Ipsen aged 19 were electrocuted at Charlestown state prison after midnight for the daylight robbery and murders of Thomas A. Landregan a wealthy shoe manufacturer and Patrolman James H. Carroll of Lynn. The crime occurred when Landregan, guarding payroll of about 4500 dollars, was ambushed from behind near a Lynn bank as he returned to his factory. The assailants seized the bag and fled after shooting both victims.
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Thomas A. Landregan
James H. Carrol
Lynn
Wassilll Ilvankowskii
Andri Ipsen
Charleston
Landregan
Carroll
Ace
Bure
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