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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
6
Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner Richards issue order to open and announce bids on pasture and wood reserve lands in Oklahoma each working day from 8 am to 5 pm. Bids will omit technical land descriptions to speed occupation, with expected occupancy advancing by at least two weeks.
The department of commerce and labor extended by thirty days the time for Villareal to present new evidence while detained in El Paso on a charge of unlawful presence in the United States. He is described as a Mexican political offender seeking refuge here and disputes a Mexican imprisonment for moral turpitude, claiming the act was a duel penalty. The case has dragged on for weeks and may last five or six more weeks.
Logan Coal Company files a petition in U S circuit court Philadelphia seeking a writ of alternate mandamus to require the Pennsylvania Railroad to pro rata distribute coal cars. The suit alleges an January order on car distribution subjects petitioners to unlawful discrimination in a new procedural form amid ongoing local and federal actions.
President Calvin of the Farmers' Union states no sale of 100 bales in thirty days and that the group will hold for 11 cents. He believes spot demand will justify the price and urges diversification and acreage reduction if overproduction is blamed.
Reports from Guayaquil state Loja garrison mutinied over sixty days unpaid officers were killed, troops ran through streets firing and looting. Twenty five people died as houses and stores were pillaged during the outbreak.
A Yazoo and Mississippi Valley train struck a cow near Vicksburg Mississippi. The engine turned over and the train derailed. Engineer Calvin Pierce and Fireman George Watson were killed and the express messenger seriously hurt. Dynamite explosion at Savannah fireworks factory wounds several workers. A son is born to Dr and Mrs Gerald Webb of Colorado Springs.
Representative Gregg of Texas introduced a bill to defend the gulf coast by purchasing fifteen submarine boats at a total cost of 15 million dollars. Congress adjourned until January 3.
London December 20 The House of Lords defeats the governments education bill signaling a major Liberal rebuff to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and his cabinet. The move likely fuels radical push to curb Lords veto power and strengthens nonconformist push for disestablishment. King Edward receives the premier at Buckingham Palace to be briefed on the political situation.
A Southern woolen mill merger with $1,250,000 capitalization creates the American Textile Woolen Company. Members include Park Woolen Mills Rossville Georgia Louisville Woolen Mills Louisville Kentucky Sweetwater Woolen Mills Sweetwater Tennessee Athens Woolen Mills Athens Tennessee and Atlanta Woolen Mills Atlanta Georgia with headquarters in Chattanooga.
A Vatican semi official note condemns the new French bill amending the 1905 church state separation law as worse than prior regulations. It alleges the measure uses maximum suppression with minimal public notice and deepens the church's disadvantaged position without obvious public awareness.
The Pennsylvania Railroad issued bids for 5,000 box cars with an estimated cost of $6,000,000. The contract will be awarded within days. This order adds to about 60,000 freight cars ordered by the company in the last two years.
The Interstate Commerce Commission car shortage hearing, begun in St. Louis, was taken up in Kansas City Thursday by Commissioner Prouty aided by P. F. Farrell, the commission's attorney.
Austin, Dec. 20 The Texas Supreme Court held that no limit exists on removing timber sold forever in fee simple in the Sedgwick Lumber company vs. R. W. Taylor case from Harrison county. Taylor argued a reasonable time to remove had passed. the court presented two certified questions from the Dallas appellate court. Arranging chrysanthemums The article notes Japanese precautions in chrysanthemum arrangement, including varied stem lengths and rules against certain floral placements.
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