Great Western Sets Date for Trains to Council Bluffs
The Chicago Great Western expects trains to arrive in Council Bluffs by September 1, per an official statement by General Traffic Manager P. Stohr to Commissioner Loomis. Little grading remains, track laying to start soon, with two miles laid daily by the machine. Contractor Wickham advances the roundhouse, other buildings, and the freight depot.
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Council Bluffs
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Trafic
P. ©. Stohr
Loomis
The
Commercial Club
Wickham
Iowa Park and Forestry association faces printing shortfall
The Iowa Park and Forestry association formed a year ago lacks funds to print its annual proceedings. Secretary Pammel of Iowa State College consults with peers to find a solution, possibly via state officials. Other notes include a smallpox case discharge, a Des Moines convention set for June 1, and local incidents from Cresco to Onawa.
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Des Moines
Iowa Park and Forestry Association
Pammel
Iowa State College
Greene
State Horticutural Society
State Executive Council
Hunter gets twenty five years for murder of Homer Holland
Hunter Matt Hunter was sentenced to twenty five years imprisonment by Judge Parish in Osceola for the murder of Homer Holland a college athlete of national reputation. The crime occurred at Mount Agra a year ago during a poker game amid a love triangle. Hunter procured a weapon and shot Holland in the street after Holland allegedly defrauded him. convicted of second degree murder, original life sentence followed by a new trial and second conviction.
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Hunter
Homer Holland
Matt Hunter
Parish
Osceola
Mount Agra
Ex-Convict Kills Himself in Knoxville Barn Tragedy
Ex-convict Clayton Benbow aged 21 died by self-inflicted gunshot in P. M. Lentz barn Knoxville where he worked. He fixed a gun to a string trigger and stood before it. He had recently returned from the penitentiary and was believed despondent over detention. A wandering doctor in Waterloo reports Daniel A Callahan, Farley physician, found three miles south of Washburn wandering and suffering mild insanity after coming to Waterloo.
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Council Bluffe
Des Moines
Corfdon
Gustave Kruger
Cresco
Wapsipinicon
Kruger
Onawa
Hahne Brothers
Wakefield
Iowa Falls
Illinois Central
Wapsipinicon River
Krugers
Florenceville
Las
Major Cram
United States
District of
Iowa
Swords
McMillin
Cram
State Capitol
John W. Saunders
Cass County
Supreme Court
Saunders
G. A. Byrne
T. B. Richards
Atlantic
Burns
Richards
Clayton Benbow
P. M. Spence
Knoxville
Benbow
Fort Madison
Council Bluffs
J. P. Hess
Amos Smith
Tillwagon
Glenwood
P. M. Lentz
Watherloo
Daniel A. Callahan
Farley
Waterloo
Washburn
Fund For Methodist Ministers Progress In Des Moines Conference
The movement to establish a permanent fund to provide for superannuated Methodist ministers is advancing well in the Des Moines conference. About $96,000 has been raised, with strong support cited from southwestern towns and church leaders.
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Des Moines
Washington Hints Russia Abandons Coup in Manchuria
Washington reports improved situation as Russian plans for a coup appear abandoned or postponed. China and Japan press for wording that limits Russian conquests in Manchuria and Mongolia while maintaining Russian influence in North China. Diplomatic talks with Hay and Ching continue, with details on concessions and port access under scrutiny.
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Prking
Conger
Townley
M. Uchida
Ching
Prince Ching
Russia
Lord Lansdown
Manchuria
Mongolia
China
Sanitary Commission
New Chang
Washington
Hay
M. Palson
Peking
Manchkuria
Financial doctors to meet at Hot Springs
Senator Aldrich chairman of the Senate finance committee invites Senators Allison Platt and Spooner to Hot Springs Virginia for a informal ten day to two week conference on the financial bill to be introduced early in the next session. The discussion aims to follow general lines of last session's deposit bill and the gathering will be unofficial.
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Washington, D.C
Aldrich
Senate Committee On Finance
Hot Springs
Allison
Iowa
Platt
Connecticut
Spooner
Finance Committee
Live Stock Market Report Reflects Cattle Hog and Sheep Prices
The live stock market showed a fair cattle run with buyers active and numbers meeting local packers’ needs. Cattle were ready to strong on good weight stock, with cows steady and canners slow. stockers and feeders declined 15 to 25 cents. Hogs opened steady then weakened with most hogs 6.80 to 6.85 and primes to 6.90. overall average slipped. Sheep quotes listed for clipped and woolled stock, with ranges across lambs, yearlings, and wethers reaching highs around 6.50 to 6.75 for select lambs and 4.25 to 4.65 for wethers and ewes.
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Huish
Kansas City Livestock Market Summary Report
Kansas City livestock markets show steady trends across cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle prices range for native and Texas cattle, cows and heifers, stockers, feeders, bulls and calves with varying regional values. Hog prices span packers and various weight categories with steady demand. Sheep trade lists muttons and lambs with range for wethers and owes noting market activity.
Grain Rates Reduced By Two Cents On Rail Freight
In Chicago a joint session of eastern and western railroads and lake line cut grain carrying charges to two cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to the seaboard for export and domestic traffic effective May 11. Traficmen protested a commission threat, but commercial conditions drove the change. Twin Cities mills are expected to resume full production.
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Chicago
Eastern and Western
Lake Line
Seaboard
Traficmen
American Consul Sentenced in German Court
SOLNGEN Rhenish Prussia United States Consul Landger was fined 30 marks by a local court for disorderly conduct as a courtroom witness. He protested his status as a U S official, and the judge ordered three days imprisonment for continued disorderly behavior.
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Solngen
Rhenish
Prussia
United State
Landger
United States
Breakfast With Cowboys At Hugo Station
President Roosevelt was treated to a cowman breakfast as his train halted beside a trackside mess tent in Hugo Colorado. Guests ate standing then Roosevelt shook hands with attendees before the train pulled away amid cow boy yells.
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Hugo
Colo
Roosevelt
Massacre Fears Prompt Salonica Siege And Precautions
A state of siege is proclaimed at Salonica and widespread military precautions are ordered across the empire. Authorities warn that attacks on foreign property by the Macedonian committee aim to provoke foreign intervention and fear potential massacres of Macedonians and Bulgarians by Mussulmans in a state of dangerous excitement.
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Constantinople
Salonica
Empire
Montreal City Council Rejects Carnegie Library Offer
The Montreal city council rescinded a resolution from April 1902 that accepted Andrew Carnegie's offer of 150000 dollars for a library building.
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Carnegie
Montreal
Andrew Carnegie
To Sail for Salonica
Naples reports an Italian naval division has been ordered to sail immediately for Salonica. The move signals Allied frontline reaction and adds to the tension in the Mediterranean theater.
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Salonica
Naples
Treasury buys silver for Philippine coinage effort
Washington treasury department purchased 65,000 ounces of silver at 54.14 cents per ounce to support Philippine coinage. The offer total reached 41,500 ounces, with 15,000 ounces positioned as the offered quantity.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Damage by Frost Hits Crops Across Chickasaw Nation
Frost badly damaged growing cotton and corn in the Chickasaw nation with replanting required. Cotton was well up and corn a foot high. Farmers buy seed and will replant immediately. Similar conditions reported in Oklahoma with widespread crop loss and suffering young live stock.
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Tishomingo
I. T
Chickasaw Nation
Oklahoma
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