Attorney General Rules On Free Passs And County Funds
Acting Attorney General Hawkins rules that a railroad attorney holding public office cannot accept a free pass even with railroad salary. Proceeds from county school lands must stay in the county depository until invested. commissioners cannot transfer funds to other banks. The Texas quartermaster general is not exempt from anti free pass law and cannot ride. Insurance withdrawals grow to eight companies leaving Texas. Doctors must exam or verify licenses under new medical law. Domestic and foreign corporations missing franchise taxes face forfeiture. Railroad commission schedules a July 9 hearing on carload lumber rates Longview to Dallas.
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Austin
Hawkins
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Quartermaster Generational Guard
Quartermaster General
State Insurance Department
Texas
Mutual Life of
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Germania Life
Home Life of
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Blanco County
Pollard
One Board
District Board of Medical Examiners
College of Medicine
Dashiell
Shot Through Heart at Tahlequah Dance Killing Townsend
Bushyhead Wood shot and killed Tom Townsend at a dance two miles south of Tahlequah in Cherokee Nation. A companion, Frank Townsend, was struck on the head and may die. Wood's brother was seriously injured. Wood escaped after the fatal shooting amid tensions at a prominent Cherokee gathering.
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Tahlequah
J. T
Bushyhead Wood
Tom Townsend
Jim Lowry
Wood
Floods Wash Away Villages Along Rio Grande in New Mexico
Rio Grande swollen by rains washed away Guadalajara in Socorro county and damaged San Antonio, San Pedro, and San Antonito. The river changed its channel at Guadalajara, endangering residents who barely escaped.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Guadalajara
Socorro County
San Antonio
San Pedro
San Antonito
Telegraphers Strike Surprises Western Union San Francisco
New York reports the Western Union and Postal Telegraphers strike in San Francisco came as a surprise after an apparent settlement with Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill. Deputy President Konenkamp said Small had not approved the agreement and the union would consult its national board. Officials for Western Union and Postal declined comment.
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New York
Western Union and
Postal Telegraphers
San Francisco
United States Commissioner of Labor
Charles P. Neill
Clowry
Western Union
B. J. Nally
Postal Company
S. J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Cvedengly
Small
National Executive Board
Oakland
Kokenkamp
Neill
Deputy President Denies San Francisco Strike Deposition Rumor
New York June 22 Deputy President Konekamp of the Commercial Telegraphers union denied a report that President Small would be deposed after the San Francisco strike. He stated the interview was untrue and that the strike had been legally authorized by the executive board last Friday before the telegraph companies showed any disposition to concede.
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New York
Konekamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Small
San Francisco
Neill
Telegraph Operators and Pinkertons Pass Through Ogden
Two car loads of telegraph operators from Baltimore and Philadelphia led by six Pinkerton detectives traveled through Ogden en route to San Francisco. The group said the San Francisco strike was anticipated.
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Ogden
Utah
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pinkerton
San Francisco
Acid Attack Sparks Scattering At Religious Camp
In Alliance Ohio on June 22 about thirty professionals and students attacked the Gift of Tongues camp near the city, scattering more than 300 worshippers. Attackers used sulphuric acid squirt guns as Rev Levi Lupton and others prayed at the mourners bench, leaving Lupton badly burned. Arrests have been made.
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Lupton
Gigantic Sea Turtle Captured in San Diego
Fisherman Julius Sollias took a colossal sea turtle weighing 1903 pounds with a shell five feet two inches long in San Diego on June 22. The shell bears a burned inscription referencing the British ship Sea of Briene and a London contact, suggesting the creature was tagged decades earlier in the South Pacific and later released.
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San Diego
Cal
Julius Sollias
South
Thomas Fletcher
Brawley Road
Irvington
England
South Pacific Ocean
Police Hide Bodies After Lisbon Demonstration Suppression
Two protesters killed by police during a political demonstration against the French premier’s return from Oporto on June 19 were secretly buried at night. A clash left several wounded and many arrested as authorities sought to suppress unrest.
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Lisbon
Premeir
France
Oporto
Texas and Pacific sells bonds and equipment trust notes
The Texas and Pacific railroad announces the sale to Blair & Company of 3 million dollars of ten year 5 percent equipment trust notes and 450 thousand dollars of Louisiana division first mortgage bonds. The bonds fund reconstruction of the Louisiana division and the notes cover recently purchased passenger and freight cars and locomotives.
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New York
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Blair & Company
Equipment Trust
Louisiana Division
First
Texas and Pacific
Death Claims Educator in Dallas
Dallas on June 22 reports the death of Professor R. A. Baker a noted educator in science and chemistry.
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Dallas
R. A. Baker
Banker Isadore Wormser Dies in New York at 78
New York reports the death of Isadore Wormser a banker aged seventy eight at his residence on June 22. The obituary notes his long service in the banking world and his residence in New York.
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New York
Isadore Wormser
Lawton to Pave Several Business Streets
Lawton Oklahoma on June 22 reports plans to pave several business streets. The project targets main commercial corridors to improve traffic flow and curb appeal for downtown merchants. Plans include resurfacing and new curb work downtown.
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Lawton
Okla
Drunk Italians Kill Groom and Wound Bride on Train
Two Italian men drinking on a westbound Rock Island train near Goodland Kansas opened fire killing one man and wounding the bride in the face while another sister was shot in the shoulder. They were removed from the train and confined.
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Denver
Rock Island
Goodland
Kan
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