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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
2
Senator Lodge introduced a resolution urging international inquiry into the Congo Free State. He notes widespread inhuman treatment of natives and says the issue has drawn global attention and U.S. public concern. The measure calls for action by the senate.
The Department of Agriculture in Washington on December 11 reports total cotton production for the year at 6,001,426,000 pounds or 12,546,000 bales of 500 pounds gross. In Guthrie on the same date ten leading lumber dealers were indicted by the grand jury for alleged anti trust price fixing, with the jury also probing a coal trust in Oklahoma under U. S. Attorney Embree’s direction.
The census bureau reports 1905 cotton ginned to Dec 1 total 10,025,445 bales including half bales. Ginneries in operation numbered 28,211 across the year.
In a Paso saloon a shooting affray wounded three men: Bob Culpepper a railroad man, Tom York a horse trader, and John Nelson a switchman. Two of the wounded are expected to die. The alleged shooter has been arrested and jailed.
Ladonia Texas December 11. H L Graves left keys in a post office drawer last Tuesday night enabling entry to the store. Cash disappeared from the register. An alarm bell rang around 8 pm Sunday and two boys were captured in the shop.
Guthrie Dec. 11 Governor Frantz pardoned John Crandall who in 1900 was sentenced by Judge McAtee to eight years in the penitentiary for killing a man named McCoy whom Crandall accused of ruining his home.
At Senator Culberson's urging the Senate on Monday agreed to a resolution directing the War Secretary to inform the Senate whether the three companies of Negro troops in the Twenty fifth regiment were organized and deployed as directed.
Charles Clancy of ten miles west Shawnee was robbed of 180 dollars by two men who trailed him home after selling five bales of cotton. Darkness prevented any description of the robbers.
Washington announces a cabinet vacancy filled by John W. Riddle currently minister to Roumania and Serbia. Other changes move Coombes from Guatemala to Peru and Dudley from Peru to Brazil as ambassadors.
Mrs Bellamy Storer rejects a Chicago Record Heral d report claiming she and her husband created President Roosevelt. She says the interview was garbled and does not reflect her views or statements. She would not discuss the matter further.
Police searched the lodgings of Kargasnikoff son of a leading merchant in St Petersburg and found rifles revolvers bombs and large quantities of explosives with plans to barricade the city in case of an armed uprising.
Word from Sarnia Ontario notes the passenger steamer Monarch ran aground near Isle Royal and sank. The crew of thirty and about thirty passengers were rescued by a tug and sheltered nearby. The ship valued at $60 000 was fully insured and declared a total loss.
Fifteen citizens form the Pacific Ocean Exposition Company in San Francisco to stage a mammoth fair in 1913. The event commemorates Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the completion of the Panama Canal, linking two historic milestones after crossing the isthmus.
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