Cattle and Sheep Rivalry Reshapes Western Livestock
A Western cattle boom driven by pure bred beef animals ends the long horn era. feeders replace range cattle on the way to prime beef as owners shift to sheep, ranch homesteads shrink herds, and cattlemen clash with sheep men in bitter, sometimes violent, turf wars across the western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
National Live Stock Association
Far West
Great West
Texas
Colorado
Nicaragua Route Favored For Canal Over Panama
Isthmian canal commission synopsis favors Nicaragua route citing quicker completion four to six years with concurrent work, smaller hygiene concerns, and broader regional benefits. Panama would be sea level only, slower due to Culebra excavation, with higher total cost once rights are included, delivering longer passage times for deep draft vessels. Nicaragua presents lower overall cost by about 63.5 million despite higher operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal Commission
Nicaragua
Panama
Nicaragua Canal
Culebra
Costa Rica
Central American
United States
Europe
Canal
P’anama Canal
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Company
Commission
Panama Company
Klondike Plot is Balked by Yukon Conspiracy
A historic exposure reveals the Order of the Midnight Sun formed in December 1900 at Dawson with 1500 members in Skaguay planning to create a Yukon Northwest Territory republic. Canadian and American officials moved quickly to thwart the scheme, but the leaders lacked nerve and the plot failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Niel
Yukon
Upper Lakes
Circle City
Skaguay
Northwest Territory
Dawson
Order of the Midnight Sun
Riel
Northwest
Iowa's First Lady Mrs A B Cummins and Social Duties
Des Moines reports Mrs Albert B Cummins becomes the executive mansion mistress and national social leader in Iowa. She once Miss Ida Gallery of Michigan, married in 1874 to the governor elect. A leading society figure, she presides over the Home for Friendless Children and heads Des Moines Woman's Club efforts while shaping entertaining and philanthropic circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert B. Cummins
Leslie M. Shaw
Iowa
Des Moines
Cummins
Ida L. Gallery
Michigan
Plans Army Reform Reform Likely in National Guard and Cuba
Secretary of War Root outlines major reforms. Recommends forming well drilled reserves, reciprocity with Cuba, rebuilding West Point, and lieutenant-generalships for Merritt Brooke and Otis at retirement. Details totals for regulars, hospital corps, scouts in the Philippines, and Porto Rico units. Notes on militia, coast defense, and a Cuba policy stressing reciprocal tariffs and generous treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
National Guard
Cuba
West Point
Merritt
Brooke
Otis
Regular Army
Philippines
Porto Rico
United States
Porto
Hawaiian Islands
China
Alaska
Pacific
San Juan
Congress
McKinley
Buffalo
McKinley Estate Appraised at About $200000
Appraisers under Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou filed the probate report in Canton. Personal property and chattels valued at 153,105.15. moneys 129.15. total personal estate 1335,500.18. Real estate left to Mrs. McKinley valued between 60,000 and 75,000, making total estate near 200,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Day
Cortelyou
Canton
GSO
Short News Snark from a Bygone Era
A digest of quirky items from 19th-century press cites a corn shortage feared in Kentucky, belief that life insurance is a pay-to-win game, a three week armistice in Colombia tied to rain, Belgium crisis risks, Carnegie’s $2 million Pittsburgh contribution, Findlay Ohio offering rewards for burglars, Chicago bookkeeping driving a man insane yet fostering independence, Boers near Pretoria threatening Cape Town, Bulgarian brigands growing impatient over ransom funds, and a missionary stone ransom committee’s missteps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Rathbun
Louisville
Colombia
Belgium
Carnegie
Pittsburg
Findlay
Ohio
Chicago
Pretoria
Gid
Cape Town
Missionary Stone Ransom Committee
Michigan War Claims and Local News Roundup
Maj Ralph W. Stone travels to Washington to pursue about 88000 in Michigan war claims including clothing subsistence and hospital costs. Other items note fires, railroad ties, fish die-off, weather lore muskrat signs, divorces, beet sugar factory efforts, electric rail tests, and local business openings across the Upper Peninsula and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph W. Stone
Detroit
Michigan
Gov. Pingree
Washington
War Department
United States Service
Thirty Fourth
Island Lake
Stone
Bay City
Battle Creek
Odd Fellows
Peninsular
Britton
Bank of
Saranac County
Sarah J. May
Star City
Leon R. May
Mason
Lake Linden
Berrien
Women's League
University of Michigan
U. of M
Sebewaing
Port Huron
Thumb Medical Society
Huron
Tuscola
Sanilae
St. Johns
Upper Peninsula
Negaunee
Five Years for Embezzlement by Bank Clerk
Charles Alfred Scharsch, former book keeper for Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids, pleaded guilty in U S Court to embezzling about $2,500. Judge Severens sentenced him to five years in the Detroit house of correction, the minimum for banking-law violations, in view of his plea. Scharsch, a young single society man, was popular before the crime became known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Alfred Scharsch
Fourth National Bank of
Grand Rapids
United States Court
Severens
Detroit House of Correction
United States
Scharsch
Mrs Whiteside Guilty in Muskegon Larceny Trial
Mrs Whiteside found guilty of larceny from the person in Muskegon Circuit Court after a one hour jury deliberation. The Duluth wife of a railroad man was alleged to have abstracted a pocketbook with two women and a young man’s connivance from Isaac F. Huntoon of Cedar Creek township during a Nov. 2 gathering at Petrie’s saloon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiteside
Mattie Whiteside
Muskegon
Duluth
Minn
Isaac F. Huntoon
Cedar Creek Township
Petrie
Stricken Professor Kedzie at Michigan Agricultural College
Professor Robert C Kedzie of the Michigan Agricultural College was stricken with paralysis during a lecture. His entire right side is involved and he is speechless. Kedzie, aged TS, formerly president of the American Health Association, is improving and doctors believe he may rally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert C. Kedzie
Michigan Agricultural College
ING
American Health Association
Nedzie
Tragic Fetal Accident Kills 12 Year Old Hunter
J Morris, 12, son of Dwight Morris of Fredonia, died instantly while hunting with two companions. His shotgun fell into a creek and discharged as he retrieved it, tearing his breast. The incident occurred during a hunting trip and the weapon's discharge caused fatal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Morris
Dwight Morris
Fredonia
Deputy Seizes Nets in Great Lakes Hunt
Deputy Game Warden Brewster returns from a lake hunt off St. Joseph with the largest nets and fish seizure on the Great Lakes. He inventories eighteen miles of new trout nets belonging to A Booth Company of Chicago valued at about ten thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. FE
Sanilac County
Helen
Michipicoten
James Ryan
Oceana County
Brewster
St. Joseph
Great Lakes
A. Booth Company of
Chicago
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Light ON Canal Report
Smuggler-Union
Telluride
Colo
Klondike
Republic
A. B. Cummins
Plans Army Reform
M'Kinley
Michigan Matters
Will
Hunter
Seizs Neta
State News
Hariet
Charles Gadvham
Baltimore
Romeo
Mary O'Brien
Escaraba
Copper Range Railroad
C. J. Johnson
Calumet
Houghton
Mass City
Watersmeet
Watervliet
Paw Paw River
Paw Paw Lake
Grant
H. Caplin
Arthur Sanders
American Express
Linden Masons
New Holland
Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis
St. Johane
Litchfield
Alpena
Onaway
Presque
Isie
Cleveland Cedar Co
Arthur Tyle
Kalamazoo
Michigan City
Dormas
Milwaukee
Aragon Mining Company
Norway
Fremont Township
Morrice
Shaftsby
Pere Marquette Railroad Company
Allegan
Water Street
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