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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
6
Fatal blast at Tulsa Indian Territory claims Lucy Hardin a young girl. Reports note extenuating damage as a vehicle incident elsewhere in Francisco Indian Territory ends with a boy dead after being struck by a locomotive. Complaints rise over heavy game slaughter in the Choctaw nation.
Real estate dealer advertises willingness to list and sell land for clients. Claims to have buyers for tracts from 100 to 200 acres and offers reasonable charges. Encourages property owners to meet at the office to arrange sales.
Eighteen hundred bids arrived by Thursday noon for Indian Pass lands as 4 000 bids total by noon. Judge Witten keeps troops at Fort Sill, urging bidders to apply for time extensions due to rain and poor roads. About 1 000 visitors came from St. Louis and Kansas City. rail travel surges as mud hampers access.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock postponed the opening of sealed bids for pasture and wood reserve lands in Kiowa Comanche and Apache Indian reservation in Oklahoma from December 10 to December 18 due to heavy rains and high waters delaying mails and preventing bidders from examining lands.
Nearly 1 000 delegates gather in Washington for the National Rivers and Harbors congress the opening session led by Harvey D Goulder. Speakers include Speaker Cannon and Rep Burton as they push for an annual 50 million dollar federal appropriation to fund nationwide waterway improvements. Rep Ransdell travels 20 900 miles touring the country finding strong backing for boosted waterways programs.
Chester E. Gillette, convicted of Grace Brown's murder at Big Moose Lake, received a telegram from his Denver mother Mrs. F. B. Gillette urging an appeal and urging him to trust in God. She said she and his grandfather would attend the next trial alongside his attorneys.
A Texas fever and cattle tick eradication convention convened in Nashville with about fifty attendees including officials from the bureau of animal industry and representatives from Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky Tennessee Georgia Alabama Florida Mississippi Arkansas Oklahoma Louisiana Texas and California Colonel R F Wright was elected chairman and Dr W P Ellenberg served as secretary Addresses were given by Dr A D Melvin Dr R D Steddom Professor H A Morgan and P McCabe among others.
The secretary of the treasury asks all banks to search vaults for $10 silver certificates and send them to the treasury. He notes a marked scarcity of small bills and says converting the $10 notes to $1 and $2 will relieve strain, urging no bank complain until it has exhausted its own resources.
New York reports the Memphis gold cup dispute was officially ended on Wednesday when the board of review resolved the matter after a lengthy dispute. Details remain scarce as the ruling is announced.
The House, awaiting appropriation bill reports, passed three measures. One incorporates the National German Alliance. Another authorizes duplicating lost gold certificates. A banking bill allows national banks to loan on real estate with a cap, supported by Western leaders but opposed by some Democrats and Republicans. The measure passed two to one.
Prominent newspaper man Harry St John aged 35 died of apoplexy in the public library of Oklahoma City. He came from Chicago weeks ago and was editor of the Vicsburg American at its founding, later working on papers in Jackson, Mississippi. He served with the second Mississippi volunteers in the Spanish American War.
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Locomotive Firemen and the Order of Railway Conductors meet in New Orleans for executive talks amid the Southern Pacific Clerks strike. Frank C. Yates, a brakeman, was killed by a train in Sapulpa. A Missouri Kansas and Texas freight wreck near Rockwall injured E. V. Franks with a broken flange blamed.
Felix Powell and Monk Gibson faced trial in Victoria county on a murder charge connected to Mildred Lee Conditt near Edna on September 28, 1905. A severance was granted, Powell went on trial, and the jury was secured with adjournment set for Thursday.
Captain Larsen of the steamship Florida reports abandoning the barge Providence in tow for Clayton, Delaware. The crew were taken aboard the Florida and the barge was sinking at the time of abandonment after passing Delaware Breakwater from Sabine Pass Texas.
The House ratified the Democratic caucus action and placed Paul D. Porter of Mississippi on the rolls to succeed the late Colonel Isaac R. Hill as a special officer of the House in Washington on December 6.
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