Supreme Court Asks Show Cause On Cherokee Land Partition
On the request of Cherokee attorneys the District of Columbia Supreme Court orders cause show by Jan 18 why injunction should not bar Secretary Hitchcock and Indian Affairs Leupp from partitioning all lands allotted to Cherokees among tribe members born after 1902. The filing alleges misallocation of 61 children’s shares from a 6 land 220000 acres and seeks a new distribution.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Ainst
Hitchcock
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Leupp
United States Treasury
Interior de Nt
Ship Lindholmen Fire Tragedy Off Far Sand
The mail steamer Lindholmen sailing between Christiana and Bergen caught fire in a gale near Far Sand. Four passengers suffocated, one drowned, another went mad, and a lifeboat burned. Most were saved after the captain drove the vessel ashore amid snow and chaos.
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Christiana
Lindholmen
Bergen
Small Majority Against Bailey in July Primaries
The July primaries in Travis County saw limited voter interest with a tally of 4800 votes cast, indicating a quiet election and a small margin against Bailey. The figures cited are 100 and 125 in the context of the results.
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The
Eagle
Austin Statesman
Travis County
Hanged and Ridled Quick Vengeance Meted Out to a Self Confessed Wretch
A self confessed wretch faced swift justice as authorities carried out a hanging. Witnesses reported a grim scene as the condemned met a violent end, reflecting the era's harsh response to crime.
Lynching of Will Scott at Midway shocks Alabama town
In Eufaula Alabama on January 5 a posse hanged Will Scott a recently released convict to a tree at Midway after he tried to enter Miss Morrell King room. He confessed before death and a similar earlier attempt to assault other young women at Midway was reported. Separately in Philadelphia R C Flower alias C G Dalney, a fugitive from New York since 1903 for grand larceny and swindling investors, was arrested.
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Eufaula
Ala
Will Scott
Midway
Miss King
Lem King
Philadelphia
R. C. Flower
C. G. Dalney
New York
Kuropatkin War History to Be Published in Leipzig
The Neue Hamburger Zeitung reports that General Kuropatkin's history of the Russo Japanese war, confiscated in Russia last December, will be issued in Leipzig in April.
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Hamburg
Neue Hamburger Zeitung
Kuropatkin
Russia
Leipzig
War and Other Claims Debated in House Committee
Washington hearing in committee of the whole on war measures and other claims as part of the day’s agenda. Lawmakers debated scope and provisions affecting veterans, contractors, and allied issues in the stalled session.
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Washington
Gould Plans Florida Family Meet And Cruise
St Louis January 5 George J Gould president of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain systems and his brother Howard Gould arrived from New York on a special train for a tour of the Gould lines in the south. In Tampa Florida George Gould will meet his wife and younger children who will soon depart on a yachting cruise.
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George J. Gould
Tampa
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain Systems
Howard Gould
New York
Gould
Soth
Fla
George Gould
Saloon shooting in Selma ends in fatal duel between linemen
Marion Phil lips was shot and killed by L Burch in a Selma Alabama saloon after a quarrel. Both were linemen. Burch came from Jackson Mississippi and Phillips left a wife in Savannah with relatives in Augusta Georgia.
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Selma
Ala
Marion Phillips
Burch
Phillips
Jackson
Miss
Savannah
Augusta
Eleven New Typhoid Cases Reported in Scranton
Scranton on January 5 reports eleven new typhoid cases in the twenty four hour period ending at noon Friday. The total cases reach 981 with six deaths since Thursday night, raising the epidemic toll to seventy nine.
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Scranton
Taber Held for Grand Jury in Red Water Express Robbery
Texarkana January 5 P F Taber charged with complicity in the Red water express robbery was held to the grand jury.
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Texarkana
P. F. Taber
Foster's Weather Bulletin Foresees Great January Disturbances
Washington D C January 5 forecast of three great disturbances across the continent. Warm waves cross the west of the Rockies and central valleys while cool waves reach eastern states by January 21. A springlike high temperature wave opens a period of radical weather before a severe cold blizzard ends the month.
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Pacific Coast
Rockies
Great Central Valleys
Eastern States
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