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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
6
Brazos county farmer A B McSwain compares 24 acre tracts in peanuts with hogs, unfertilized cotton and fertilized cotton. Hogs yield modestly higher profit than unfertilized cotton, and fertilized cotton proves most profitable. overall, diversified farming pays with higher earnings and lower risk.
President Roosevelt shows interest in a legislative remedy for the Northwest car shortage that threatens freezing and hunger as railroads fail to move fuel and food. He conferred with Senator Hansbrough at the White House to assess if reports reflect real danger and asked for a timely plan to prevent a recurrence.
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened an inquiry in St Louis on December 18 to determine if freight car shortages stem from engine scarcity or railroad mismanagement. Commissioner C A Prouty leads, with F J Farrell questioning witnesses as part of the probe.
Kansas City reports severe freight congestion as shortages of cars and locomotives, plus crowded warehouses and storage tracks, jam all yards. Both loading and unloading cars wait, with railroads forced to fetch cars on demand to cope with overflow.
Natchez Miss Dec 18 Captain James W Lambert ex Confederate veteran and Natchez Democrat proprietor publisher and business manager died Monday night of Brights disease aged sixty eight He commanded Company I Sixteenth at Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Gettysburg The Wilderness Spottsylvania Petersburg captured Weldon railroad and was a prisoner to war He served Adams County sheriff for fourteen years declined a congress nomination His mother was related to Daniel O Donnell He left behind a wife and a son aged twenty five
Japanese consul in Honolulu reports the February visiting squadron will skip San Francisco to avoid renewed Maine disaster fears amid strained American sentiment.
A warehouse and barn belonging to White, Cooley & Cutts burned in Marysville California on December 18. A dynamite explosion injured a number of persons though none died. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars.
New York reports the trial of Harry K Thaw is scheduled in Justice Fitzgeralds court on January 21. Separately at Teheran the Shah of Persia was reported at death's door at noon Tuesday.
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