22 Sep 1907
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1907
Page
1
An affidavit filed in Indiana sheds new light on a famous Kentucky political incident. The document cites revenge motives linked to a woman and notes Guebel was fatally injured in the case. Authorities detail alleged threats and connections to the high profile event.
An affidavit alleges Turner Lee of Farmers Kentucky killed Senator William Goebel in Frankfort with details tying witnesses to Mount Sterling and Covington. The Richmond Evening Item publishes the sworn statements from Mrs Lut Clark and related correspondence and investigations.
In Ciionath Ohio Rep 2b 4 Sanford linked to the Richins murder case where top attorney Ranford was killed. Goebel was acquitted. Sanford faced threats claiming revenge. The widow of the deceased, Mrs Mints, faced accusations amid mental strain. The tale spans years and distant locales as the Sanford family remains entangled in the case.
Indianapolis reports on a disputed court hearing failing to locate a key declarant and unresolved allegations around a sensational affair involving Governor Tayor and a claimed marriage, with authorities unsure about a witness linked to a two year old divorce and a three year old story.
Pearth Washington dispatch says United States Senator B Ol Piles sent a telegraph to President Roosevelt urging removal of G Peves Hite from command after the John Cartier wrecked on rocks near Bohwitgseu. All crew members aboard were reported lost.
A vessel with a large salmon cargo wrecked and all salvage efforts failed. Two survivors reached land and reported the disaster, but no further word has come from them. Authorities fear the remaining crew may face starvation or exposure awaiting relief.
In St Louis on September 21 a conservative estimate put striking shoe factory workers at 25,000 across eighteen firms. Letters to management outlined strikers demands and a bid to meet former employers to settle.
A Joplin mining plant operated by a Tennessee company was blown up at 1 am blowing out several thousand dollars in damage. Charges targeted the boiler hub fly wheel and pony machinery. A week earlier the News Herald plant and Granby Mining site in Joplin were also dynamited.
Federal Judge Whitson opened an investigation into U S Attorney Kuick amid allegations he pressured the grand jury to indict a senator and others in a timber lands conspiracy. The special grand jury will hear witnesses as the case proceeds toward a trial expected to begin Monday.
At Cajon Summit California a daylight wreck between a west bound freight and a helper engine killed five men and injured one fatally. The freight failed to hold air brakes sending the engine into a sand bank, crushing the engineer and burying two brakemen and two tramps. Thirty four car loads burned and losses are estimated at $75 000.
San Diego Sept 21 gunners of the One Hundred Fifteenth coast artillery at Fort Rosecrans made a perfect score nine shots with a ten inch gun. They hit every time at four and one half miles with three shots at stationary targets and six at moving targets. The range finders located the target and the gunner fired without seeing the target.
A cyclone hits Pottsville area during Schuylkill county fair grounds causing grandstand collapse injuring several hundred with five feared fatally. Hegins Grange annual sale canceled as other buildings are blown down.
Chicago dispatch reports six persons connected with Paraham in Zion City were brought before a coroner's jury at Waukhegan in the Letitia Green burial case. Harold Mitchell and wife faced manslaughter charges. William and Jennie Greenbauleh, son and daughter of the dead woman, plus Louie Smith as accessories. Bo J. Hopkins the undertaker is charged with guilty knowledge and withholding facts. The inquest questioned Zion City's health reporting laxity in deaths.
Washington September 21 The Archaeological Institute of America gains authority to explore the canyon of the Rio de los Frijoles in Jemez Forest Reserve New Mexico to recover antiquities and preserve artifacts for the Southwest Museum of America in Los Angeles. The program safeguards artifacts and requires public museum deposition.
Jamestown exposition features Governor Folk who argues that liberty of the individual is a right, not a privilege, linking it to universal education and equal rights. He warns that privilege corrodes democracy, calls for stronger state regulation of monopolies, and urges adherence to law while expanding popular self-government.
Helena trades and labor assembly of Helena Montana calls a general strike for Monday at noon after business leaders refuse to discontinue phone service during the strike against the Hocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co. The move aims to halt street car service and close hotels stores businesses and saloons using phones.
Chicago September 21 The jury in the Frank J. Constantine murder case found him guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The defense argued Mrs. Gentry died by self infliction while the state pressed for death. The verdict came after two and a half hours of deliberation and the prosecutor urged the death penalty. Constantine was described by the prosecutor as vain and intent on impressing women.
King Chulalongkorn of Siam presided over a multi day Hamburg celebration funded by his own purse. Free wine and beer, large banquet for six hundred, and cash gifts to the poor marked the event. Estimated cost reaches into the hundreds of thousands of dollars with daily hotel allowances around two thousand dollars. A separate report notes a tax clerk arrest over missing funds and a federal court motion on railway rate scheduling.
Judge Frank W. Parker in Silver City confirms referee Charles V. Safford’s report in the Bursum penitentiary accounts case. The territory must repay Bursum four thousand three hundred thirty three dollars and sixty six cents, with no further action from the territory. Attorneys for the territory and Bursum attended. no objections were raised and the confirmation followed a brief hearing.
Judge Parker’s ruling upholds the referee’s finding that the territory owes Bursum Four thousand three hundred thirty six dollars and sixty six cents for his superintendence of the New Mexico penitentiary after a lengthy audit and court proceedings. The case centers on misbooked payments and a contested settlement, with the attorney general objecting to portions of the report. The Silver City hearing confirmed the referee’s stance, with no further territory objections disclosed.
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