Michigan Wolf Bounty Debate Grows Across Boundaries
E H Nelson of Marinette argues Michigan must secure Wisconsin cooperation to reduce wolves in the Upper Peninsula. He notes nineteen wolf cubs were scalped in Marinette for $114 total from state and county bounties, and says Wisconsin counties offer little reward for wolves or cubs. He questions the effectiveness of low bounties and proposes higher incentives to deter wolf breeding across the line.
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Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
E. H. Nelson
Marinette
Upper
Affray May End In Murder On Vanderbilt Train
Ferris Shanks of Bay City, a road train crew member, was sleeping aboard a Vanderbilt sidetrack train when Martin Potu eny of Detroit, reportedly on a spree, disturbed the crew. A fight followed after Shanks resisted, Potu eny slashed Shanks with a knife inflicting serious wounds. Potu eny, 24, was arrested. he previously served time in the Detroit house of correction for larceny.
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Martin Poteeny
Detroit
Ferris Shanks
Bay City
Vanderbilt
Shanks
Martin Potueny
Potueny
Detroit House of Correction
Two Killed in Interurban Collision Near Muskegon
Two men died when a Grand Rapids to Muskegon interurban car collided head on with a westbound baggage car near Celery Farm east of Muskegon. The single track line used a telephone dispatch system. The regular passenger car left Muskegon at about 5 p m and the wreck occurred at Celery Farm.
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Muskegon
Grand Rapids
Grand Haven
Celery Farm
Adventists Move Conference Center to Plainwell
The Western Michigan Conference of the Adventist Church will relocate its central offices from Otsego to Plainwell as soon as arrangements are in place. A manufacturing site, church, and school may be built later with Elder A. G. Haughey, president, overseeing operations in Plainwell.
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Western Michigan
The
Adventist Church
Otsego
Plainwell
A. G. Haughey
Dying Farmer Suffers Ossification Near Carsonville
Charles McNaughton, a Michigan farmer near Carsonville, is dying from ossification. His joints are solid, jaws set, and eyelids drooping, requiring supreme effort to raise them. Stricken three years ago by rheumatism and tuberculous bone disease, he cannot move a joint and can only take liquid food.
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Charles McNaughton
Carsonville
McNaughton
Dies Near Girl's Home After Jilted Love
Alfred Sweet a 30 year old Adrian farm hand drank two ounces of carbolic acid near the Vaughn home along the D T I right of way. He was found dying and died before an ambulance arrived. His home was Green Springs Ohio and he had been working on Alfred Marsh's farm.
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Alfred Sweet
Adrian Farmer
Cora Vaughn
Adrian
Vaughn
Green Springs
Ohio
Alfred Marsh
Macon Man Dies in Trigger Accident
Arthur Armour tied a string to a shotgun trigger and placed his head against the muzzle, blowing out the top of his head. He had gone to the barn to milk cows at 5 o'clock. upon his parents' alarm, they found him dead on the floor. The Armour family resides in Macon.
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Lenawee County
Arthur Armour
Armour
Macon
Bey Meets Frightful Death at Marlboro Cement Factory
Jay Knight was instantly killed when drawn into running gear at the Marlboro cement factory. His body was crushed and the machinery had to be taken apart to recover the remains. One arm and one hand were missing.
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Bey
Jay Knight
Marlboro
Ex Senator Patton Dead in Grand Rapids Home
Former United States Senator and Republican leader John Patton died at his Grand Rapids home after a long illness following a winter pneumonia attack. Born in Curwensville, Pennsylvania on October 30, 1850 he moved to Grand Rapids in 1878 after Yale and Columbia Law School studies. Patton served as Michigan senator from 1894 to fill a vacancy.
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Patton
John Patton
United States
Grand Rapids
Mr. Patton
Curwensville
Yale University
Columbia Law School
Michigan
Stockbridge
Timber thinning shown in Kellogg figures from forestry bulletin
Inspector Kellogg presents striking rates of timber exhaustion in Michigan and nearby states from a Department of Agriculture bulletin for reforestation. Since 1880 Michigan yielded 93 billion feet or 18.2 percent of US output, Wisconsin 70 billion or 10 percent, Pennsylvania 53 billion or 7.6 percent, Minnesota 38 billion or 5.4 percent, totaling about 256 billion feet or 36 percent of national production.
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Kellogg
Department of Agriculture
R. S. Kellogg
Michigan
United States
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Strange lapse of memory in Kalamazoo girl in Chicago
Miss Bernice Gleason, twenty, daughter of Charles H Gleason of Kalamazoo, vanished from memory during a visit to Chicago. She forgot her name, home, and personal ties after arriving at a YMCA shelter. An invalid for seven years since a head injury, she had late operations and long milk-based diet, later attempting the trip to Chicago alone before memory failed.
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Kalamazoo
Chicago
Bernice Gleason
Charles H. Gleason
Chicago Y. W. C. A
Calumet and Hecla Denies Illicit Mining Acts in Suit
The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company filed an answer in the U S Circuit Court at Grand Rapids denying any unlawful acts or illegal combinations to restrain the copper trade in Michigan. The firm admits some stock purchases in nearby companies but contends the land acquisition limit of 50 000 acres does not apply to its outside holdings.
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Calumet-Hecla Company
Albert S. Bigelow
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
United States Circuit Court
Grand Rapids
Calumet and Hecla
Michigan
Bigelow
Muskegon man dies by gas asphyxiation
Charles Morpeth of Muskegon aged 37 took gas after 4 PM in his room above McCullum's saloon. He fashioned a paper cone to draw gas from the jet and blocked openings with paper and rags. A friend found him the next morning after nearly suffocating from the fumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Morpeth
Muskegon
McCullum
Morpeth
Miscreants Hold Up Boy in Barn Harness Depravation
Two men forced a boy at J. D. Pence’s farm to watch as they cut harnesses into pieces in the Pence barn. The assailants, armed with revolvers, slashed two sets of double harness and a single harness before fleeing across the fields. The incident, reported to neighbors north of Wampler's lake, alarms the community as Pence has no known enemies.
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J. D. Pence
Pence
Wampler's Lake
Larson Joins Cole Legal Staff in Duluth Tour
Attorney Oscar J. Larson of Larson and Galbraith confirms he has tendered and accepted a position on the legal staff of Thomas F. Cole of Duluth. Larson, a Finn and partner to a legislator, is hailed as a rising figure for the northern Michigan district.
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Oscar J. Larson
Larson & Galbraith
Calumet
Michigan
Thomas F. Cole
Duluth
Larson
Steamer Saxon Stranded in Lake Superior Fog
The steel steamer Saxon owned by Pittsburg Steamship Company ran aground in dense fog on the north side of Caribou Island in Lake Superior. Local pilots and tugs were alerted as a salvage effort began to refloat the vessel.
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Saxon
Pittsburg Steamship Company
Caribou Island
Lake Superior
Heir in Germany Estate Contention Taps Manistique Man
Within Our Borders Jacob Stellwegen a Manistique man has received word he is an heir to a 28 million dollar estate in Germany. The case highlights a likely Arctic scale inheritance dispute affecting local residents.
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Jacob Stellwegen
Germany
Joseph H. Berry
Detroit
Grosse Point
F. M. Taylor
South Haven
Marshall
Unseasonable Cold Ravages Crops Across States
A two week cold wave, the coldest since 1882, has damaged crops nationwide. Reports from Peoria to Detroit describe oats, wheat, corn, and fruit losses, with rye, barley, and berries also affected. Experts link the chill to Siberian air and high northern pressure, predicting continued hardship for farmers.
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Rocky Mountains
Washington Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Siberia
British Columbia
Middle West
Great Lakes
New York
New England
Kansas
H. O. Frankenfeld
Arctic
American
Peoria
Illinois
la Crosse
Wis
Minnesota
St. Paul
Acee
South Dakota
Minneapolis
Minn
Cincinnati
Ohio
Cleveland
Wabash
Ind
Keokuk
Iowa
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Wolverine
Maine farmer ruined by fake second sight gold fever
A Maine farmer Samuel Gordon near Macwahoe was induced by a traveling faker to seek buried Indian gold after a night of seances. Gordon mortgaged his farm, dug for treasure, and neglected duties until his health failed and he died, while his children dispersed seeking better lives.
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Maine
Samuel Gordon
Macwahoe
Gordon
Iris
Vast growth since 1800 in U.S. area economy and wealth
A new Department of Commerce and Labor statistical abstract traces U.S. growth from 1800 to the present in area, population, production, commerce and wealth. It notes population density rising from six and a half to about twenty eight per square mile, per capita wealth swelling from 307 in 1850 to much higher, savings deposits expanding from 1 million in 1820 to 2.2 billion in 1906, and U.S. imports, exports, cotton, sugar and corn production surging along with manufacturing value climbing from 1 billion in 1800 to about 15 billion in 1908.
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United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Continental
Ood
Brain Injury and Speech Challenge Localisation Theories
Pierre Marie argues that the idea of a single brain region governing speech is largely erroneous. He cites aphasia experiments showing word meaning is understood but idea connections fail, suggesting word deafness localization theories need modification. His views, while radical, pressure reconsideration of established language brain theories.
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Pierre Marie
Literary Digest
Georgia forest protection upheld in smelting case
The Supreme Court ruled Georgia can protect forests from smelting operations by Tennesse Copper and Ducktown Sulphur and Iron Companies on the Tennessee side. Georgia must submit a decree form by October term. Companies reportedly install a fumes-condenser plant to render enforcement unnecessary. The dispute involves Standard Oil interests and has lingered a year and a half. Detective Samuel A. Hamilton, shot by Annie Magness in Smithfield, Alabama, has died.
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Supreme Court
Georgia
Tennesse Copper Company
Ducktown Sulphur and Iron Company
Tennessee
Standard Oil
Federal honors awarded for Larchmont rescue at Block Island
Certificates and medals from the federal government were given at Block Island to the captain and crew of the schooner Elsie and to crews of several fishing schooners for rescuing passengers from the steamer Larchmont last February.
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Block Is
R. L
Elsie
Government plans immigrant settlement and information division
The U S government will open July 1 a division of information to guide immigrants to areas where they are needed, publishing resources in multiple languages and directing newcomers to local inducements. Most arrivals go to crowded northern cities, while the South offers vast undeveloped lands and jobs in cotton, sugar, and other crops. Italian immigration is rising, with many Italians settling in the South and proving reliable, though some tension remains with their reception.
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Congress
Frank P. Sargent
Ellis Island
Skee
New York State
Jektee
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Tam
Massachusetts
New Jersey
South
Louisiana
Maryland
Corte
Mississippi Valley
Italy
America
International and European Political Shifts Reported
The Hague conference date set for June 1 as Russia notes. Germany approves a year long German American treaty starting July 1 with six months notice. Austria sees Socialist gains in elections and Reichsrath split Clericals vs Socialists. Spain crowns parliament with Alfonso and Queen Mother Christine. Conservatives 2 of 44 seats, Liberals 3, others minor. Spain and England navy reconstruction proposed. Clemenceau defends labor policy in chamber urging openness. Finland grants suffrage. about twenty women elected. first session grants equal standing with men in parliament.
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Alfonso
Spain
Christine
England
Clemenceau
France
Grand Duchy of Finland
Cen
Primary Michigan bill dead in present Legislature
Michigan lawmakers indicate the primary bill is dead for now with sixteen votes against it in its current form. Opponents oppose removing the 40 percent provision and insist the amendment barring state employees from being used to circulate petitions remain intact. No compromise appears likely.
Governor Signs Broad Set of Local and Education Bills
Gov. Warner signed measures across counties and cities including election provisions for a brain commissioner and school trustees, updates to drain and jury commission laws, salaries for wardens in Saginaw, teacher certification rules, abolition of the board of public works, and Iron County highway assessment changes plus easement provisions at Soldiers' Home.
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Warner
Cass County
Board of Health
Red Jacket
Saginaw County
Board of Education
Board of Public Works
Crystal Falls
Iron County
Soldiers’ Home
Liquor Bill Limits New Saloons in Niles and Marquette
A House vote approved a liquor measure affecting Niles population under 5,000 with fifteen saloons. Existing premises may stay, but new licenses require one per 148 population, shrinking as outlets close. Representative Gorden backed a Marquette bill setting 25 licenses and a growth rule of one per 1 population.
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Niles
Gorden
Marquette
Inheritance Tax Bill Advances Through Senate
Senator Cropsey advances a bill amending inheritance taxation outlining new provisions. It requires parties to inheritance proceedings and specifies property location descriptions and court procedures. It states the transfer value of monetary legacies is the face value at the decedent's death.
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Cropsey
Deer Protection Bill Defeated in Committee
The House defeated Representative Airbanks bill proposing a deer closed season for lower peninsula counties. Representative Galbraith argued it unfairly shifts hunting to the upper peninsula, prompting Benton to push an amendment that closed upper peninsula counties and later led to the enacting clause being stricken.
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House
Representat
Lower Peninsula
Galbraith
Upper Peninsula
Benton
Representative Morrice Bill Seeks Post Fund Accounting
Representative Morrice introduced a bill to force the Soldiers home board of control to provide an annual accounting of the post fund. Inmates may keep only 12 a month of their pension. the rest is retained by the board. It is alleged that 314,000 was used to build a new building and that no accounting is ever rendered.
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Morrice
Board of Control of
Soldiers Home
Legislature adjournment likely June 12 and 2
June 12 and 2 are the probable adjournment dates fixed by the Senate and agreed to by House leaders. They expect a rush in the House to finish by then as several appropriation bills remain to be passed, while only a few general bills of real importance are unfinished.
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Senate
House
Demand for Roosevelt Reelection Passes State Senate
The State Senate approved a resolution urged by Senator James Kinnane of Kalamazoo calling for Roosevelt to be reelected for a second term. The measure passed with no opposition apart from a suggestion by Senator Fuller that such a resolution belongs at a national convention.
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Roosevelt
State Senate
James Kinnane
Kalamazoo
Fuller
Geod Roads Bill Passes to Form Local Road Districts
Senator Linsley frames a measure allowing townships and villages to organize road districts as the House finally passes the bill. The law enables local authorities to establish and maintain improved roads within their jurisdictions.
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Linsley
House
Columbus Day Becomes Legal Holiday Oct 12
The Senate approved Senator Kinnane's measure establishing Columbus Day on October 12 as a legal holiday, marking the date with official recognition. The bill names the occasion and sets it as a paid or observed holiday pending further details.
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Senate
Kinnane
Refuse to Lower Limit on Trust Company Incorporation
In the Senate Representative Tiffany's bill to allow trust companies in cities under 10000 with capitalization of 100000 was defeated 19 to 11. The minimum capitalization is now 300000 and the majority warned lowering it would invite speculators and reduce stability of such institutions.
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Senate
Tiffany
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Smithfield
W. R. White
Mra Magness
Vtacle Sam
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Austria
Socialist Party
Reichsrath
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