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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1908
Page
1
Officers declare the congress the most successful since the movement began and commend Albuquerque's entertainment arrangements after selecting a meeting place. A brief session followed the closing remarks.
The Sixteenth National Irrigation congress adjourned in Spokane after installing new officers and selecting Spokane as the site for the Seventeenth congress. Rep. Ransdell of Louisiana spoke on navigation related to irrigation as essential for marketing crops. Spokane pledged full entertainment, with Pueblo yielding to Spokane’s bid.
After adjournment the new executive committee held its final meeting. A California Board was elected with George H. Tarstow as president and B A Fowler as secretary. W A Beard, FP H Kiesel, W J McGee, Joseph Dixon, and one member to be named complete the board. Griswold named publicity secretary of the congress. he is a Chicago Herald newspaperman.
Officers delegates and visitors praised Albuquerque for planning and carrying out the congress. President Goudy, Secretary Fowler, and President Paratow lauded the session as highly successful, with Beard noting New Mexico’s exceptional hospitality compared with California.
Visitors can enter from 9 A M to 5 PM for grand band concerts featuring the Mexican National band the Twenty first Infantry band and other groups. At 4 40 PM Clifton meets Trinidad in baseball. A stereopticon lecture at the Convention Hall titled The Men Who Won the West offers an educational historical treat with free admission.
The Albuquerque Day holiday program at the Fair Grounds includes 9 AM opening, a New Mexico and Southwest display with an arriving Philippine exhibit from 2 PM to 5 PM, horse and Indian racing, a Trinidad vs Albuquerque baseball game at 2 PM, a 4:20 PM brigade drill led by Gen Karl D Thomas, and an 8 PM grand fireworks show with Roosevelt dam pieces and band music. The Roosevelt dam piece, postponed from Saturday due to wind, will now combine with the Monday fireworks and illumination.
Delegates began departing Albuquerque after the irrigation congress ended its history making session. Many remain to attend the exposition and tour Santa Fe lines to sites in New Mexico and Arizona as crowds keep arriving for a week or more.
President Roosevelt orders removal of the Port Huron collector and a special treasury agent after a Civil Service Commission report on political assessments. He urges wide publicity to warn all collectors and bureau heads, citing gross offense and hardship to low paid workers.
President Theodore Roosevelt announces the removal of an inspector for ignorance or willful allowance of evil practices, and also to dismiss Charles A. Bailey, the special treasury agent, citing long commission findings in the report. The decision is dated October 1, 1908.
Columbus Oct 3 A Spokane man H B Smith chair of the joint protective board of the Northern Pacific railway system announced his candidacy for grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers today.
The jury found John K. Godding guilty on four counts of accepting deposits while knowing the Rocky Ford State Bank was insolvent. Judge F B River set ten days to file a motion for a new trial and admitted the defendant to bail of 140,000. Separately Farmington residents reported two locals missing. a Navajo search party found them in the Nacimiento area after they wandered onto the Cabezon route.
Robert A Smythe, sport editor of The Call, died in San Francisco after a three month illness. He hailed from Cork Ireland and was the son of a noted Irish sportsman.
Hearst attacks Texas Senator Bailey with documents from Archbold and Pierce campaign finance records. He vows one final review of Bailey’s career and resignation to constituents beside the late Haskell, citing letters, notes, and Waters-Pierce Oil Company transactions to question Bailey’s knowledge of Standard Oil connections. The Orpheum crowd in Paso heard details from Archbold letters and Bailey notes.
Brewster Cameron a 63 year old El Paso merchant drowned when he fell from a riverbank ledge above Niagara Falls. His two eastern friends tried to rescue him but Cameron remained conscious to the end and waved to onlookers before vanishing over the falls. A separate report from Cairo notes the Emerson Fronting Palace river theater wrecked near Osceola with one drowned.
About two hundred men, mainly taxi drivers on strike, lined Broadway between 47th and 60th streets and attacked passing cabs. Police dispersed the mob and six men were arrested as injuries were reported from the clashes in New York.
Morning Journal Special Leased Wire reports Taft's Kansas trip finale with eighteen to twenty thousand crowds in cities like Emporia Newton and Dodge City. Taft extolled protectionist gains for farmers and attacked free trade as Democratic policy.
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