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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1907
Page
6
A Minnesota legal move targets the Manitoba charter as a merger is challenged anew. Great Northern is named as a joint defendant, accused of owning stock and related writ actions. The case returns with anticipated actions set for April 2.
St. Paul, Tan reports Judge Lochren granted a temporary injunction halting the state railroad and warehouse commission from enforcing the December 1 freight rate reduction order. The restraining action preserves existing rates as the court considers the commission's action in Minnesota.
In St Paul on January 28 Attorney General Young began mandamus proceedings in the Minnesota Supreme Court to compel the St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba to show cause why its charter should not be forfeited. The Great Northern Railway is named a joint defendant for owning the Manitoba stock, and the case traces the merger and transfer of the Manitoba railroad to the Great Northern in 1890. Chief Justice Start ordered the writ issued with return set for April 3. The action targets the Manitoba company’s failure to perform its duties since the transfer.
Northwestern railroad company plans 8000 new freight cars over the next fourteen months to boost on line capacity and ease next year’s Dakotas crop movement. VP W L Gardner states car numbers will rise 40 to 60 percent with equipment capacity up about 75 percent. In ten years the company added hundreds of locomotives annually to its motive power.
The Interstate Commerce Commission sent Congress a first report on discrimination and monopolies under the Ilmah-Gillespie resolution. It covers bituminous coal moved east of the Ohio River within the Atlantic seaboard area and north to Canada, citing railroad involvement and stock ownership in coal properties. The report is partial, with a second to follow, and recommends that common carriers be forbidden from owning coal lands except those for their own fuel supply.
Berl Jan 28 The government secured a sweeping victory in the general election for a new reichstag. Liberals radicals and conservatives won at least twenty seats, while the socialists suffered a heavy loss of seventeen or eighteen seats. They failed to gain since 1887, losing in cities like Breslau Halle Magdeburg Leipzig and Koenigsberg.
In St routs Jan 28 Frank McGinnis McCready ten months old caused a divorce case to pause with his bright smile and crowing. His appearance in court led to reconciliation of his parents, who returned home with the baby, the dispute halted by his charm.
Mrs Maude Estella Boemler testified she supported both spouses during her husband Edward H Boemler law studies after their 1903 Kansas City marriage. He quit school in March 1905 while she continued earning as a shoe factory worker, amid twelve default divorces in Clayton circuit court.
At Neaver Colorado Tan 38 the American Live Stock association adopted all resolutions endorsing federal administration policy on public lands and Secretary Wilson’s work for the industry. They backed the cooperative stock commission, meat inspection costs on packers, and census of livestock, while pledging patronage. Murdo Mackenzie of Trinidad California reelected president with Denver’s T W Pombasan as secretary. Los Angeles chosen as next meeting site. Other officers named and new executive members elected.
Fragmentary text references a January 28 report identifying Horace George Raynes as the murderer of William Whitely. The piece appears to discuss a suspect described as a schoolmaster and notes unemployment and unclear local details from a Bloomsbury area diary entry.
Washington debates a Brant-Jey bill to class intoxicating liquors as a special interstate item and forbid collection of purchase money in states where liquor sales are illegal. The plan, narrower than Littlefield, targets only payment collection, not transport or sale. Hull loses patronage from pension agency cuts. extension granted for homestead settlers in several western states until May 16 1907.
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon have agreed on a tariff program to be revised by the Sixty-first Congress. The plan follows a long dispute over tariffs and trusts, with the president tying tariff action to railroad reform to curb rebates and monopolies.
Washington January 28 the senate passed the urgency deficiency appropriation bill authorizing a government loan of 1 000 000 to the Jamestown Exposition company. The house quickly passed a pension bill in about an hour and fifteen minutes and then began debate on the agricultural appropriation bill.
Helena Montana January 28 The Hauser Lake dam gates closed power to be off for three weeks water backs up eighteen miles up the river through Prickly Pear canyon six miles below Helena dam is 640 feet long by 70 and steel built largest of its kind in the world Fifteen thousand horsepower will be generated powering the Wesches Reduction works Anaconda railway city lighting and mine operations, making Helena a major electricity producer behind Niagara.
Port Huron Michigan January 28 a large rabbit's foot with pearls was found in the pocket of Walter Hatzenbuhler of Marine City. He was arrested for robbing a confectionery store there. The oddly decorated talisman linked the suspect to the crime.
Washington reports judiciary committee favors Brantley bill to restrict intoxicating liquor and dogood ships in states where liquor sales are banned though not as broad as Littlefield. Senate action uncertain as talks continue on appropriation cuts and posturing by representatives on delegation.
Washington reports on a heated tariff debate as the Sixty-first Congress considers revising the tariff. Supporters urge adjustment to curb railroad rebates and favoritism, warning that the Republican Party could suffer if no revision is undertaken. The discussion reflects calls for thrift and reform amid political maneuvering in the capital.
Washington January 25 The house passed pension bills totaling 8890. The roll call showed strong support from key committees and veterans groups across the capital.
Helena Mont Jan 28 Gates closed at Haysey Lake dam. It will be three weeks before power rises eighteen miles downstream and into the valley below Helena. The dam spans 640 feet and 70 feet high, the largest of its kind in the world, and with the canyon ferry plant will make Helena nearly as powerful as Niagara. The power will operate Washoe Reduction works Anaconda railway city lighting and ore mines in Butte.
In Port Huron Michigan on January 28 Hatzenbuhler of Marine City was arrested for robbing a confectionery store. The report notes a peculiar rabbit’s foot and pearls associated with the incident as authorities describe a proverb likely tied to the event.
The Interstate Commerce Commission sent Congress its initial report on its investigation of discrimination and monopolies under the Tilman Gillespie resolution. It covers bilaterally intertwined coal indexes along the Ohio River and mentions ten involved companies, with ownership partly by stockholders and related entities. The document is partial and to be followed by further investigation, and it recommends legislative action to forbid rail carriers from owning interests in rival properties.
Berlin reports a decisive conservative triumph in the general election. The government aligns with Prince von Buetow's colonial policy, while socialists and liberals suffer losses. Conservatives gain five to twenty seats, with key wins across Halle Magdeburg Leipzig and Silesia as possible runoffs loom in numerous constituencies.
In St. Louis on January 23 Frank McGinnis navigates the divorce court with a bright smile as a minor dispute threatens to disrupt a smooth arrangement. A single court appearance and a reconciled return to their small flat restore stability between him and the mother.
In Saint Louis on January 28 Maude Estelle Boemler testified that she had agreed with her husband Edward H Boemler to study in 1905 and that he quit his position in 8¢ Louis, prompting court actions in the circuit court.
Dever Colorado January 28. At the thirteenth annual convention a resolution endorsed Secretary Wilson for livestock support and approved forming a cooperative livestock commission. Support was given for rail car provision and a bill to furnish livestock equipment on proper notice. Murdo Mackenzie of Trinidad was re elected president T W Tomlinson of Denver secretary H A Jastro Bakersfield first VP J Lockhart second VP W S Hughes treasurer and select executive committee members P Meyer Hyannis and J T Pryor San Antonio.
London police name Horace George Rayner as the killer of William Whitely. Rayner, described as a recently unemployed schoolmaster, lived in a Bloomsbury cheap hotel. Motive remains a mystery.
Washington January 26. Geologists testify there is ample coal in public and private lands to last thousands of years. Advancing energy tech promises electricity from tides, sun, gravity, and wind, reducing reliance on coal. Utah coal land frauds cited, with private monopolies feared, as hearings examine public land withdrawals and policy impacts.
Sacramento January 26 The assembly passed a concurrent resolution to empower the attorney general to represent the state in a government lawsuit in the United States court over the Japan issue. The measure appropriated 40009 dollars for counsel. Assemblyman Grove I Johnson and other officials are involved.
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