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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
1
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio is being transformed from a regimental post to a brigade post and will be the largest army post in the United States. The expansion, begun in 1899, grows from 100 buildings at $546,722.33 to 271 buildings totaling $3,279,393.31 across 585.5 acres.
Metropolitan Life Insurance files a mandamus suit in the Texas Supreme Court, via Locke & Locke, seeking to force Insurance Commissioner Love to issue a license to transact business. The suit challenges Robertson insurance law as unconstitutional, retroactive, and an unlawful delegation of legislative power. The company paid 1907 occupation taxes, but the treasurer’s receipt does not guarantee a license.
An injunction suit by railroads against the railroad commission to challenge the commissions bookkeeping order is set for trial on March 2 in Austin. Attorneys sought postponement. consent depended on a written postponement request from the commissioners, which had not been filed. The commissioners will be called as witnesses for the state.
Bertie White, a switchman for the International and Great Northern Railway, was badly hurt when a freight car jumped the track in the yards. His arm was torn from the socket, with internal injuries, and he was run over by the engine and tender. recovery is not expected.
New York February 19 George J Gould president of Missouri Pacific rails denies circulating reports from the west that the railroad would seek receivership. He says there is absolutely not a word of truth in these reports and no possibility of such action.
F Hill of Beardsley near Phoenix set a nine hour record by shearing 825 sheep. The same plant total reached 6 572 sheep in nine hours, an average of 220 per man, with thirty shearers at the operation in Beardsley Arizona.
A several hundred women delegation led by Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blaich urged Governor Hughes and the New York Legislature to approve four constitutional amendments granting women's suffrage. The group represented the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women.
San Antonio becomes the first Southwest city to require telegraph and telephone lines be buried. The mandate, costing companies at least 200000 dollars, gives until early next year to complete the project, with locals praising the move to preserve the city’s Latin atmosphere.
The Chicago blizzard of Feb 19 paralyzed transportation as surface and elevated lines slowed or halted. Trains from the west were hours late due to deep snow drifts. Pedestrian accidents occurred and an unidentified man was killed by a freight train on the Chicago and Western system. Two men were found nearly buried in the snow as service on the Elgin to Chicago electric line stalled.
Washington February 19 The Department of Justice prepared to start a suit to enforce Oregon land grants. Senator Fulton reported a resolution authorizing the department to sue. The Senate debated the measure noting the attorney general is empowered by law to act, while Fulton said the department was ready and sought congressional authorization to address any legal questions.
New York report states John McD. Hopkirk, hotel Mills manager and cashier, died after handling money exposure. He contracted malignant scarlatina from dirty germ laden bills used in cheap lodgings for the poor. Physicians link the illness to contaminated currency. Hopkirk was noted for charitable work in the city.
The battleship Nebraska under Captain Nicholson has reached San Francisco from Magdalena Bay as the fleet's advance guard. By Friday Colorado and Pennsylvania and Admiral Sebree's cruisers Tennessee and Washington arrive, with South Dakota and California joining Saturday. Nine first class warships total, each with about 800 officers and men.
St Louis records a sharp cold snap with the temperature at 22 degrees above zero and a stinging snowstorm driven by a strong southwest wind on Wednesday.
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