Mexican Rebels Clash With U S Troops Near Border
Mexican rebels crossed the boundary and engaged U S troops at Lang ranch east of Douglas. Thirteen American troopers reportedly killed five rebels and wounded one. In New Mexico, fifteen troopers and many rebels clashed near Hachita with no American injuries. Salazar, rebel chief, is said to seek international complications. Senator Smith arrives to lead a foreign relations inquiry with Senator Fall. they will tour border cities in Arizona and New Mexico.
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Lang Ranch
Py Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
United States
Hachita
N. M
Steever
Third Cavalry
Salazar
New Mexico
Smith
Michigan
Mexico
Fall
Los Angeles
Arizona
Additional Troops Sent To Hachita New Mexico
In response to a critical situation at Hachita General Steever dispatched extra Third Cavalry troops for duty at the point. A signal corps unit from Fort Russell Wyoming will arrive tomorrow. About two hundred rebels are encamped within a half mile of the international line aiming to raid U S territory.
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Tex
Hachita
Steever
Third Cavalry
Signal Corps
Fort Russell
Wyoming
International Line
United States
Sanchez joins rebel forces with arms and volunteers
It is reported that Gen Jose de la Cruz Sanchez, long a Maderista recruiter for the federal cause, has switched to Orozco at Ojinaga Chihuahua with 3000 rifles 500000 rounds and 200 men. The move is said to be prearranged as part of Gen Orozco's mysterious march.
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Py Associated Press
Mexico
Jose de la Cruz Sanchez
Maderista
Orozco
Ojinaga
Chihuahua
Des Moines Sails to Patrol Mexican Coast
The cruiser Des Moines under Commander Charles B. Hughes departed Charlestown Navy Yard for a east coast Mexico coast patrol mission. It will call at Vera Cruz Tampico Progreso and other ports to protect American interests if required.
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Boston
Mass
Des Moines
Charles B. Hughes
Charlestown Navy Yard
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Progresso
Dr William H Maxwell Celebrates 25 years as NY superintendent
In New York on September 6 friends gathered to honor Dr William H Maxwell marking his twenty five years as superintendent of schools. Maxwell born in Ireland sixty years ago came to the United States in 1874 and later led Brooklyn schools before overseeing all public schools of Greater New York since 1898.
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New York
William H. Maxwell
Maxwell
Ireland
United States
Brooklyn
Greater
Strauss Nominated Governor of New York
Oscar S. Strauss a former secretary of commerce and labor in Roosevelt's cabinet and former minister to Turkey was unanimously nominated governor by the Progressive convention in Syracuse New York today.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Oscar S. Strauss
Commerce and Labor
Roosevelt
Turkey
New York
Tragedy in Marble quarry trolley crash kills four
Glenwood Springs Colorado reports a trolley car derailed at Marble quarry. Three men and a girl were killed and one man and a girl injured as the car plunged down a steep incline and struck the Crystal River retaining wall.
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Glenwood Springs
Colo
Marble
Crystal River
Auto Crash Kills Booth Hazelton Near Salt Lake City
R L Booth and Simeon Hazelton were killed and William McGinnis seriously injured when the car they rode in collided head on with an interurban street car two miles south of Salt Lake City.
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Associate! Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
R. L. Booth
Simeon Hazelton
William McGinnis
Here
Howard County Fair Plans Three Day Event in Big Spring
Big Spring Texas Sept 6 Howard County officials announce the Howard County Fair will run for three days starting Thursday Sept 26. Organizers report extensive preparations and a large anticipated attendance.
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Big Spring
Texas
Howard County
Judge Steadman Returns to Discuss Rate Adjustments
Judge N A Steadman of Austin has returned from Amarillo after talks with Chamber of Commerce freight bureau officials on adjusting rates. The matter will be heard by the Interstate Commerce Commission in this Texas region in the latter half of the month. Steadman, former Texas Railroad Commissioner, is noted as highly informed on the rate issue in the state.
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N. A. Steadman
Austin
Amarillo
Maagdvers
Freight Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas
Judge Steadman
Texas Railroad Commission
Swisher County Fair Preparations Under Way In Tulia
Final preparations are made for the annual Swisher County Fair to be held in Tulia, Texas on the 4th and 5th of November. A new exhibit feature is a pumpage irrigation well with a flow of 700 gallons per minute, highlighting agricultural innovations.
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Daily News
Tulsa
Texas
Swisher County
Torrential Rain Boosts Millet Maize And Kafir Corn Yields
Widespread heavy rains from August into September lift Milo Maize and Kafir corn prospects in plains between Canyon City and Slaton by about 30 percent. Fields once marginal now show around 20 bushels per acre, with large plantings boosting potential output in Randall Swisher Briscoe Hale Castro Floyd Crosby and Lubbock counties. Millet also benefits, promising 29 bushels per acre of seed and a ton of hay per acre amid continued rainfall.
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Canyon City
Slaton
Randall
Swisher
Briscoe
Hale
Castro
Floyd
Crosby
Lubbock
Weather Bureau
Tulsa
Mayor Gaynor Policy Deemed Unconquerable Social Evil
In New York the trial of Inspector Cornelius Hayes raised the issue of Mayor Gaynor's stance on vice and whether police actions followed his public declarations. Police Commissioner Waldo testified that Hayes faced discipline over false Rosenthal murder statements, with Hayes arguing the mayor allowed social evil to endure while maintaining outward decency.
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Associated Press
New York
Gaynor
Hayes
Waldo
Mayflower Descendants Hold Sixth Triennial Congress
Mayflower Descendants gather in Plymouth Massachusetts for the sixth triennial congress of the General Society with branches in Massachusetts New York Connecticut Pennsylvania Illinois New Jersey Ohio Wisconsin Rhode Island Colorado Michigan Minnesota and California. Delegates held two business sessions and a luncheon at First Church. The itinerary includes Clark's Island and Cape Cod canal visits.
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Plymouth
Mass
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New Jersey
Ohio
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Colorado
Michigan
Minnesota
California
Clark’s Island
Cape Cod Canal
Primaries Test Northwest Roosevelts Claim in Washington
Washington will stage statewide primaries conducted by the Progressive party to select nominees for state, congressional and county offices. Four aspirants run for governor with the top vote-getters to be chosen by the state convention meeting in Seattle next Tuesday.
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Third
Washington
Seattle
Wash
Roosevelt
Northwest
New
Progressive Party
Thirty six years in solitary confinement for Jesae Pomeroy
Boston reports Jesae Pomeroy, famed life prisoner, completes his 36th year in Charlestown prison solitary confinement. He began life behind bars at sixteen for torturing and murdering children. He may walk a small yard daily when others work and has self educated using the prison library.
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Boston
Mass
Jesae Pomeroy
Charlestown
Pomeroy
Pomery
Royal tour to the Canadian Rockies begins
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught depart Calgary for a week of travel through Gleich en Cochrane and Banff. They will inspect irrigation works and a large dam on the Don River before continuing the royal journey into the heart of the Rockies.
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Calgary
Alta
Duke and Duchess of
Banff
Progressives to put Roosevelt electors on ballot by petition
Los Angeles, Sept 6. Republican State Central Committee chair announces Progressives, who gained control at last Tuesday's primary, will waive nominating electors and place Roosevelt electors on the ballot by petition. Chairman Lissner says Taft Republicans and Progressives will be on equal footing on Sept 24.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Republican State Central Committee
Roosevelt
Lissner
Autumn Race Meeting Opens at Blue Bonnets Montreal
Montreal hosts the autumn race meeting at Blue Bonnets with the King's Plate for Quebec bred horses and the Earl Grey Cup Handicap added by the Montreal Jockey Club. Fast horses are billed for a week of top notch sport starting tomorrow.
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Montreal
Montreal Jockey Club
Blue Bonnets Track
Province of
Quebec
Jockey Club
Colonel A Snowden Dies in Bryn Mawr Home
Philadelphia report states Col. A Snowden former minister plenipotentiary to Greece and the Balkan States died at his Bryn Mawr home early this morning after a long illness. The Octogenarian diplomat served in diplomacy postings and was a noted figure in interwar circles. He leaves a widow and several relatives.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Greece
Balkan States
Bryn Mawr
AL and P rail line to be built to Roaring Springs
Quanah Texas Sept 6 The Quanah Acme and Pacific Railway Company awarded a forty mile expansion contract to the Texas Construction Company of Fort Worth. The line extends from Paducah to Roaring Springs in Motley County and must be finished to Stations by May 15. Material is en route and work will proceed. L B Walker of the Quanah Seymour Dublin and Rockport Railroad will visit to discuss starting this line now renamed Central of Texas under Cowperthwaite syndicate financing.
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Quanah
Texas
L. BE. Walker
Gino Given Ovation at Montana Progressive Convention
Helena Montana September 6 The temporary Montana State Progressive Convention was organized with Hendre Pixon as temporary chairman who delivered the keynote and received an ovation seen as a sign of his nomination as Roosevelt's campaign manager by the Progressives to succeed himself. Cincinnati Ohio September 6 Melville E K Ingalls former president of the Big Four system marked his seventieth birthday today. He rose from a New England farm to law and rail leadership shaping the Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette line and later the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Hendre
Pixon
Roosevelt
Cincinnati
Ohio
Melville EK. Ingalls
Ingalls
America
New England
Maine
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Lafayette Road
St. L and C
Big Four
Associated Press
Jamestown
N. C
Col
Progressive Party
Wall Street
North Dakota
Taft Delivers Address at Atlantic Deeper Waterways Meet
President Taft visited New London Connecticut and spoke before the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association. He delivered the address at Fort Griswold on Groton Heights after arriving aboard the yacht Mayflower, greeted by a 21 gun salute from the battleship Illinois, with militia escort to Hotel Griswold for lunch.
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Taft
New London
Conn
Atlantic Deeper WaterWays Association
Old Fort Griswold
Groton Heights
Mayflower
Illinois
Connecticut
Hotel Griswold
Methodist clergyman to tour Panhandle region
Dr Hi A Boaz vice president of Southern Methodist University will tour the Panhandle to campaign for the institution. He will partner with Rev O P Riker visiting Ochiltree Paradise Plainview Blackwell Blodgett Hansford Lubbock Dumas Channing and Texino with a return southern run possibly joined by President R S Hyer.
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Dallas
Texas
Hi A Boaz
Southern Methodist University
Panhandle
O. P. Riker
Amarillo
Ochiltree
Paradise
Plainview
Black and Blodgett
Hansford
Lubbock
Dumas
Channing
Roosevelt Electors Win Round In Ballot Suit In Kansas
Judge Sanborn denied the injunction by Taft supporters to block eight Roosevelt electors from appearing on the November ballot under the Republican emblem in Kansas. The ruling said no rights exist that a court could adjudicate and that relief lay only in a court of law.
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Topeka
Kan
Roosevelt
Kansas
Sanborn
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Taft
Denver
Steam roller incident leaves Arkansas man unhurt
J. Pope, a 30 year old laborer and Republican from Fort Smith, recounts a steam roller accident in which the enormous machine rolled him, pushed him over, and ran over him without serious injury. He was shoveling sand with a paving crew when struck and buried briefly before rescuers freed him.
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Associated Press
Fort Smith
Ark
J. Pope
Morever
Pope
Progressives Nominate Full Ticket on Colorado Ballot
Petitions filed with the secretary of state place a full Progressive ticket on the November ballot under the name Roosevelt. The entry was submitted in Denver Colorado Springs region, with petitions backing the slate for the election.
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Denver
Calc
Secretary of State Today
St Metena Cal Four Day Vintage Festival Opens
The town of Hetena hosts a four day vintage festival to showcase local citrus and horticultural resources. Highlights include exhibits of grapes wine grape growing wine making equipment and vineyard themed decor.
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St. Metena
Cal
California
Texas Weather Snapshot Abrupt and Clear
Yesterday in North Texas skies were clear with no rain and mild conditions while South Texas stayed hot and dry with high temperatures. No significant weather events reported.
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Texas
South
Plainview
Nacogtoches
Oklahoma
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