Coal land seizures alleged by Utah miners and companies
Hearings in Salt Lake city reveal charges that Utah fuel and Pleasant Valley coal firms used threats armed men and force to drive off rivals and secure claims. Witnesses describe land jumps divestments, injunctions ignored, and violence tied to coal land acquisitions by the Denver and Rio Grande system and affiliated companies.
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Salt Lake
Denver and
Bio Grande
Interstate Commerce
F E. E. Clarke
George JD. Halliday
Salt Lake City
Whitmore Canyon
Sunnyaide
Halliday Coal Company
Robert Forester
Utah Fuel Company
J. Kipman
Robert Kirke
Halliday
Pleasant Valley Coal Company
Kirke
Pleasant Valley Company
Arthur A. Sweet
Charles Austin Owen
Sweet
F. M. Wheeling
Washington
Warren
Meyendorf
General Land Office
Senator Clark
Union Pacific Railway Company
Chig Pollock
Interior
Parley Wills
Union Pacific
Pollock
George Apartment
Union Pacific Coal Company
Williams
Clark Ated
J. T. Marchand
Interstate Commerce Commission
Utah Fuel
Pleasantville
Utah
Secrets of the Teamsters Trial Public in Chicago
In Chicago on December 1 the trial of Cornelius Shea and sixteen other Teamsters union members began amid calls for exposing internal secrets. Four defendants led by Albert Young pleaded guilty to conspiracy and will turn state evidence, triggering defense concerns and a police guard for the witnesses.
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Chicago
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
United States
Cornelius P. Shea
Teamsters
Albert Young
International Brotherhood
Organization
Soci Tine
Shea
Holt
Young
William Kelly
Coal Teamsters’ Union
Michael Murphy
Joseph Schultz
Defense Attempts to Discredit Government Witness in Land Fraud Case
In Omaha, Dec 1, defense lawyers questioned Irvine J D Hull of Mirage in the Richards Comstock land fraud trial. They alleged Hull sought immunity in exchange for testimony. Hull admitted prior arrest but said no indictment followed. He described an arrangement with Thomas M Huntington to pay soldiers $300 for land proof, with leases to Comstock and a total $600 per section, split between Huntington and James Hull after expenses.
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Omaha
Richards-Comtock
United Sates
Irvine JD. Hull
Mirage
Hull
United States
Thomas M. Huntington
Comstock
Huntington
James Hull
Roosevelt backers praise dismissal of Black infantry at Brownsville
Messages from supporters across the North applaud President Roosevelt for dismissing three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry over Brownsville troubles. A congressional resolution is expected seeking full War Department records and the president’s actions. White House says no further statement likely.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
North
Congress
War Department
White House
Rivera Released as Extradition Not For Political Offense
Librado Rivera, linked to an alleged Mexican revolutionary junta, was discharged by U S Commissioner Gray after a review of Mexican complaints found the alleged offense to be political in nature and not extraditable.
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St. Louis
Librado Rivera
United States
Gray
Myers Case Goes to Supreme Court
Justice Brewer telegraphed the attorneys for Mrs Ageic Myers in Clay county jail that the Supreme Court would grant a hearing on their appeal for a writ of error as soon as they appeared to argue the case.
Italian Murder Trial Ends in Ellsworth Verdicts
In Ellsworth Wisconsin on December 1 a jury convicted Joseph Siragusa of manslaughter in the third degree and John Denima of manslaughter in the fourth degree after forty one hours of deliberation. The remaining nineteen Italians were acquitted and freed. The trial concerned the murder of John Isaac at Prescott Wisconsin two months prior.
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Ellsworth
Wis
Joseph Siragusa
John Denima
John Isaac
Prescott
Standard Oil fines paid for Sunday work in Decatur
Decatur Ind December 1 Representives of the Standard Oil company paid the fines assessed against twenty five employees who were arrested for working on Sunday.
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Decatur, Ind
Standard Oil Company
Bright Sun Burst Cut Glass Shipped In
New stock of Beautiful Sun burst Cut Glass arrives and is offered for immediate purchase or layaway. Early buyers rushed the initial shipment, which sold out within a week.
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Secvill
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