Hundreds Left Waiting as Kansas City Excursion Ends
Reports detail large crowds registering for land and mail in Oklahoma and surrounding areas. Gov. Richards orders rapid regulation as thousands linger for mail and train departures.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1901
Page
1
Reports detail large crowds registering for land and mail in Oklahoma and surrounding areas. Gov. Richards orders rapid regulation as thousands linger for mail and train departures.
The Transmississippi Commercial congress completed its work in Cripple Creek with adoption of broad resolutions and selection of St Paul as next meeting site. FE B Moses of Great Bend Kansas was re elected chairman. Arthur F French of Cripple Creek named secretary and George H Harrison Jr of Glasgow Missouri re elected treasurer.
A census bulletin reports a 17 675 decrease in the Chinese population since 1890, now totaling 9 800. It notes the Japanese population rose from 2 089 to 24 300 over the last decade.
A large oil find near Merwin Missouri yields streams of crude from the third well. Boiled oil and flowing oil indicate a potential output of about 15 barrels daily from a depth of roughly 290 feet.
Three months of provincial rule in Cebu and Bohol and part of Batanes changed to military control due to incomplete pacification. General Chaffee, with power to remove officials and suspend laws, oversees civil affairs. Insurgency continues in Cebu and Bohol while Mindoro occupation is ordered with Thirtieth Infantry.
On Thursday the Lucee building in Grand Rapids, a four story structure housing Friedman Bros. and O. F. Blickey stores, collapsed and sparked a fire. The total damage is estimated at 250000 dollars. only Lt. John Connor was injured after falling from a ladder, with injuries potentially fatal.
In Nashville on Thursday a triple execution occurred as Babe Battice Duser Thompson and Abe Petway were hanged side by side in the jail yard witnessed by about 200 people. Petway had killed an elderly man named Wrenne and Battice and Thompson had slain Cain Miller a police spotter.
Crescens the chestnut stallion owned and driven by Geo H. Ketchum of Toledo won the free for all trot at the Detroit Driving Club track in Grosse Point. He covered the second heat in 2 05 flat, the fastest time yet recorded in a trotting race. The first heat went to Charley Herr in 2 063, but he was distanced badly.
The supreme tent of Knights of the Maccabees ruled that all members, old and new, be rated on the same plan and pay the premium at the age they joined. The move ensures old members bear a fair share of the order’s costs.
The Indiana Prohibition convention met in Richmond on July 19 and nominated O. O. Rucker of Bedford for governor. The platform denounced the liquor traffic and called for honest elections and opposition to the division of the public school fund.
William Farrell known as the Lumber King of Arkansas died Thursday in Little Rock. He was president of the William Farrell Lumber Company, whose holdings were valued at 500000 dollars.
Benjamin Carter and Phil Bennett, two white men, were shot to death by Henry Alexander, a Black man, in Dingess on Thursday. A search party is in pursuit of the suspect.
The will of the late Pierre Lorillard was admitted to probate in Trenton New Jersey by Chancellor Magie without opposition. The estate is valued at more than 44.9 million dollars.
In Mazatlan there is a shortage of maize causing hospital kitchens to substitute bread for patients. Wheat bread is being served due to the maize shortage, affecting torillas and meals for the ill.
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