Austin Special Session Acts on Kennedy Tax Bill
In Austin on April 9 the legislature set a special session after the house voted 67 to 40 to table the Kennedy gross receipts tax bill. Governor's measures faced debate as Alderdice urged delaying further. Kennedy pressed for over into the extra session. The house also concurred with senate amendments to the Baskin McGregor liquor bill and passed the charter fee bill doubling foreign corporate fees.
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Austin
House
Alderdice
Kennedy
Senate
Dobbs
James
Murray
Railroad Commission
Warren and
Corsicana Pacific Railway
Santa Fe
State Tax Board
Negro Willis McLean Captured After Camden Slayings
reports from Livingston Texas say Willis McLean, charged with killing three negroes and wounding three near Camden, has been captured. he shot at Sheriff Spradley and was wounded slightly. a Winchester and shotgun were found with him. excitement runs high as locals fear possible lynching.
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Livingston, Tex
Willis McLean
Camden
J. F. Spurlock
Moscow
Spurlock
McLean
Leach
Willis McLain
Sheriff Spradley
Brakeman George Richardson Dies After Car Yard Accident
Greenville Tex April 9 George Richardson a brakeman fell between cars near Brashear and was dragged over a mile. He was mangled and killed just before his planned marriage on the 21st.
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Greenville
Tex
George Richardson
Brashear
Fire destroys Cunningham's farm at Petty in Texas
Paris Texas April 9 Cunningham's barn at Petty burned with three houses ten tons of hay and 400 bushels of corn lost. Nothing was saved.
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Paris
Tex
Petty
Opening of American Base ball league season Thursday
St Louis reports the American Base ball league season opens on Thursday with teams ready to begin play. Fans expect lively action across the circuit as clubs start their schedules in the new campaign.
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St. Louis
Five Japanese Arrested in Fort Worth With Passports
Fort Worth on April 9 reported five Japanese nationals arrested who possessed passports.
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Fort Worth
Parole Probable in Noted Kansas Murder Case
Governor Hoch reportedly plans to parole Willie Sells who spent nearly twenty years in the Kansas penitentiary for killing his father mother sister and brother on March 7 1886. The murders shocked the state and Sells claimed he was a frail boy of thirteen at the time, with his lawyers arguing physical impossibility of the crime.
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Topeka
Kan
Hoch
Willie” Sel's
Kansas Penitentiary
Willie
Sells
Hondurean Troops Declare War Over At Puerto Cortez
Steamer Anselm reports Puerto Cortez surrendered without combat and about 1500 Hondurean soldiers abandoned the port two days before Nicaraguan troops arrived. Soldiers returned to banana plantations where they had worked as laborers, beginning April 4 as trains ferried workers inland. Women and children had shouldered much of the harvest.
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New Orleans
Puerto Cortez
Anselm
Fire destroys Dell Mithoff building in Columbus
A six story brick Dell-Mithoff building on High street next to the state house in Columbus housing the Evening Dispatch plant and the Poster building was nearly wiped out by a fire. Losses exceed 300000 with the Dispatch plant claiming 150000. Upper floors including the engraving room burned. presses and machines may be repairable. Fire Chief Liaurer ordered crowds away as walls risk collapse.
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Columbus, O
Dell-Mithoff
High Street
State House
Evening Dispatch
Poster
Dispatch
Liaurer
Lawton Judge W Anderson Dies Suddenly On Train
Hon W Anderson once served in the general land office in Washington and as a United States land office receiver in Oklahoma He died of a heart failure on a Frisco train between Lawton and Cache early Tuesday Judge Anderson had announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for judge of the Judicial district that includes Comanche County He was a Kentuckian by birth and long regarded as a top southwest lawyer.
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Lawton
Okla
W. Anderson
Clevelara
General Land Office
Washington
United States Land Office
Oklahoma
le: and
Cadhe
Anderson
Comanche County
Southwest
Smathers Retains Gold Cup Victory for Major Delmar
In New York on April 9, Elmer F E Smathers will keep the gold cup won by Major Delmar in the 1904 race with Lou Dilon after a jury verdict in the Memphis Trotting Association lawsuit.
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New York
Elmer FE Smathers
Major Delmar
Lou Dilon
Memphis Trotting Association
Fire destroys Amsterdam Broom Co. plant. firefighter killed
A blaze at the Amsterdam Broom Company plant in Amsterdam New York on Tuesday caused a 50 000 loss and killed Fire Department member William Sullivan who died instantly.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
Amsterdam Broom Company
William Sullivan
Brazil to establish a new navy and regional projects
The report lists multiple local and national items including Brazil planning a new navy, Claremore Oklahoma building a passenger station, re-elections of Houston Mayor Rice and city commissioners, Taft signaling a year in Cuba, fires in Pawhaska Oklahoma, a Davenport Oklahoma bank forming with 30000 capital stock, a shotgun incident in Muskogee, gas piping preparations in Marshall Texas, a New York States Zeitung banquet in Berlin, a tariff treaty signing with Germany, a fatal shooting near Meeker Oklahoma, a large machinists strike in New Orleans, the death of Sac and Fox scout Billy Doe in Lincoln County Oklahoma, and Civil War service notes.
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Claremore
S. T
Rice
Houston
Taft
Cuba
Pawhaska
Oklo
First National Bank of
Davenport Okla
Capital Stock
Muskogee
Marshall
Tex
New
New Orleans
Billy” Doe
Lincoln County
Oklahoma
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the Family Safety Oil
C. E. Bullock & Co
Will S. Higgs
Ed Hall
Howell Bros
B. Kaczer & Co
D. Mike Jr
J. H. Mawhinney
Sanders Bros
Jno
M. Sebesta
Higgs & Haygoods
D. i. Mitchell
L. E. Brockman
FOLEY
Foley & Company
Chicago
M. H. James
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
Bryan Street
Big Blaze
Ohio Capital City
W. H. Anderson
Brazil
Blondwood
Z Et
King Nut
Nutwood
Mary Glenn
Red Wilkes
George Wil Blondwood
Reagan, Tex
Henry & Brogdon Bros
Bryan, Tex
S. W. Higgs
Bryan, Texag
John Wittman
Merchant Tailo
Wilson Grain and Coat Co
S. H. Franklin
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