Governor urges bill to raise ad valorem tax rate
Governor Lanham sent a message urging the Texas House to pass a bill increasing the ad valorem tax. A motion to take up the bill failed 9 to 38, needing two thirds to suspend the regular order, as lawmakers adjourn toward the 15th. The message warns revenue needs before adjournment and calls for immediate action.
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House
Austin
Lanham
House of Representatives
Tex
Senate
President Roosevelt hunts wolves near Frederick Oklahoma
President Theodore Roosevelt and hunters add eight wolf pelts to their tally after a dramatic chase. He recounts capturing a wounded wolf with bare hands and notes the courage of his pack as dogs pursue in a rugged rural hunt. He promises more pursuit as Oklahoma statehood looms.
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Frederick
Okla
Roosevelt
John Abernathy
United States
Oklahoma
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt to start first Colorado camp near Huntsman hills
President Roosevelt will open his first Colorado camp in the Huntsman hills, twenty three miles south of Newcastle and about fifteen miles from Redstone. Guides Goff and Borah altered plans to begin with a bear hunt, moving from the White River plateau where mountain lions were to be pursued.
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Glenwood Springs
Roosevelt
Colorado
Huntsman Hills
Newcastle
Redstone
John Goff
Loeb
Bear
Goff
Borah
White River
Meeting Executive Texas Cotton Manufacturers Assn Holds Secret Session
Dallas April 12 The Texas Cotton Manufacturers Association met behind closed doors except for the call to order presidents address and officers election President Saunders of Bonham led the meeting The industry outlook in the southwest was described as encouraging Officers elected were J C Saunders Bonham president W H Webb Itasca vice president H W Fairbanks Dallas secretary E A Dubois Waxahachie Frank H Woods Brenham governors The next meeting place to be decided by the board of governors
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Texas Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Dallas
Saunders of
Bonham
Southwest
J. c. Saunders
W. H. Webb
Itasca
H. W. Fairbanks
E. A. DuBois
Waxahachie
Frank H. Woods
Brenham
Board of Governors
Southern Newspaper Circulators Pick Birmingham for Next Meet
The Southern Newspaper Circulators association chose Birmingham Alabama as next year’s meeting site. Elected officers include B S Ryall Age Herald Birmingham president and A Jenkins Ledger Birmingham first vice president. During travel back from luncheon, he overturned a vehicle with about thirty delegates. no serious injuries though many were bruised. Earthquake shocks in Simla India revived alarm as government offices sustained cracks.
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Southern Newspaper
Shreveport
Southern Newspaper Circulators’ Association
Birmingham
Ala
B.S. Ryall
Age-Herald
A. ©. Jenkins
Ledger
Saloon Fire Claims Child and Injures Several in Grand Rapids
A early Wednesday blaze at Broadway and Elizabeth streets kills eight year old May Herrick and injures seven others including Mrs. Charles Herrick, Charles Herrick, Ada Norris, Thomas Norris, Jack Ward, Charles Anderson, and a two year old. Firefighter Norris breaks an arm after leaping from a second story window but then aids rescue. He and others escape as the fire spreads rapidly.
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Crand Rapids
Broadway
Elizabeth Streets
May Herrick
Charles N. Herrick
Norris
Little May
Sheriff Shot by Masked Mob at Tate County Jail
A Mississippi mob of six to eight men entered Tate county jail at 3 AM to free white prisoner James Whit awaiting murder trial. Sheriff J M Poag was shot in the lungs and died by 6 AM after wounding one attacker. mob members unnamed and Whit remains jailed amid high excitement.
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Memphis
Senatobie
Miss
J. M. Poag
Tate County
James Whit
Whit
Chamberlain backs Anglo Japanese alliance as key to peace
London April 12 Joseph Chamberlain presiding at the Liberal Unionist club meeting strongly supported the Anglo Japanese alliance as a major diplomatic achievement. He said the treaty justifies itself by limiting the ongoing conflict and that Liberal Unionists would back Foreign Secretary Lansdowne in pursuing the policy beyond its initial scope.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Liberal Unionist Club
Lansdowne
Lord Lansdowne
French Move to Preserve Neutrality Near Saigon
French cruiser Descartes and five torpedo boats patrol off Cape St James as gun boats Achere and Styx prepare to depart Saigon to uphold French neutrality. Japanese ships also patrol the area and a Chinese junk reports Japanese purchases at Pullo Obi.
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Saigon
Descartes
Cape St. James
Cochin-China
Achere
Styx
Pullo Obi
Smith and wife abandon extradition fight to New York
J Morgan Smith and his wife, indicted with Nan Patterson for conspiring to obtain money from Caesar Young the bookmaker, arrived in New York with officers after abandoning their extradition fight following their Cincinnati arraignment. The Patterson case for the death related to Young proceeds to a third trial.
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J. Morgan Smith
New York
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
Patterson
Smith
Cincinnati
Prominent Odd Fellow General J F Grant dies in Baltimore
Baltimore April 12 General J F Grant grand secretary of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows in the United States died at the Union Protestant Infirmary where he had undergone four weeks earlier an operation for a serious internal affection.
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Baltimore
J. F. Grant
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
United States
Union Protestant
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