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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1906
Page
4
Monroe Edge advertises cottages for rent and sale bargains including an eight room house on Main Street for 450 dollars, 35 acres in city limits, two four room houses, a nine room house with barns and improvements, and railroad notes maps showing county tracts. It invites buyers and sellers to contact and access official plats, with farm land listings via Bryan newspapers.
United States Senator Clark of Montana prevailed in the U S Supreme Court where the government sought cancellation of patents to 11 400 acres of public land claimed fraudulently obtained in Montana The opinion by Justice Holmes upheld the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Justices Harlan and Brown dissented.
Report from Meridian Mississippi cites continued cleanup by convicts from Rankin farm and city prisons along with volunteers. Focus remains on Meyer Neville Hardware, Elmire restaurant, Thornton stables, and Twenty second avenue stalls where multiple fatalities are feared or confirmed. Relief funds are not requested. relief committee reorganizes into tighter sub committees to speed aid.
Senator Culberson wins Senate passage of Garner’s bill creating a Federal court at Del Rio and sends it to President Roosevelt for signature. Also, a Mineral Wells water delegation advances the case for a government hospital case in Tex.
Port Huron Michigan report states Miss Elvira Jackson died from tosolitis caused by a kiss from her fiancé J Arthur Frazier who had the disease.
Sweetwater plans a compressor plant while Tyler streets to be paved. McNair found dead on a Garrison road. Lockhart oil bore to four miles from there. Hugo license for pool tables up to 100 dollars a year. Prairie fire damages southeast of Glencoe. Terry Ranger monument to be Texas granite in Austin. Nacogdoches prisoners set fire to bedding. jail near fire. Terrell boy scalded by bore water, serious injuries. Hamp Tiffany’s house fire leads to cremation. Paris farmer wife revived from apparent death during burial prep. Texarkana Ladies United Charities to establish infirmary in memory of Sophie Carmichael.
King Edward was greeted by vast crowds in Paris on March 5 as he met Madame Fallieres and Premier Rouvier at the Elysee palace. He dined at the British embassy and planned to meet King Alfonso in Biarritz to give official consent for the Spanish ruler to marry Princess Ena. The king will be away about two months.
Delegates from participating powers partially agree on a Moroccan bank project to be the State bank of Morocco. It will be chartered for forty years with a capital of 3 million dollars in gold, divided according to each power’s stake. The United States gains the right to participate in organizing the bank.
A group of expelled tramps booby trapped the four story Salvation Army Hotel with nitroglycerin in the stove and escaped as the blast wrecked the top two floors. No one was hurt. occupants had left minutes earlier. Charles Kinney was arrested for placing the explosive.
The funeral of James Stephen Hoge in Austin on March 6 drew thousands. In state, the ceremony in the senate chamber was simple and dignified, with floral tributes from many cities and departments. High officials served as pallbearers while pastors delivered tributes to the Lone Star statesman.
Aust n March 5 railroads filed exceptions to answer a bill of complaint in dry goods emergency injunctions. Hearing set for first Monday in April as railroads contest the commission authority and seek to test its power.
Waco March 5 Judge Scott of the Fifty fourth district court attacked reports alleging pervasive graft in Texas. He urged the grand jury to expose cases and criticized papers for libel worries that shield wrongdoing while insisting libel laws are misused to silence disclosure.
Caney Kansas March 5 the great gas well five miles from here in Indian Territory burned since Feb 23 after a lightning strike. Flames shot 150 feet high and could be seen forty miles away. Firefighters tried to cap the well with a 3000 pound iron cap but it turned white hot within twenty feet.
The Clyde Line steamer Navahoe with Captain Haile, on Wilmington to New York run, ran aground on Middle Ground Shoals off Cape Fear, in ten feet of water. It was driven ashore while attempting to return to the harbor after a southwest storm. Revenue cutter Seminole and tugs tried to assist but could not reach her at high water. The vessel is badly listed and in dangerous position.
Paris reports confirm a cyclone and tidal wave struck the Oceania French colony February 7 and 8. In Papeete 327 houses were destroyed and Tahiti was hardest hit. Two relief ships from the Taumotu Islands have not returned and the colonial governor seeks aid.
Waco mourns the death of Jesse H. Cargill a former prominent Texas newspaper man and proprietor of the Waco Day and the Evening Telegraph He was about fifty years old and died after receiving a telegram from M J Joseph O on a Monday morning in March.
Brackett Texas March 5 goats and sheep are being shorn with patent machines. Several men with large flocks use gasoline engines to power the shearing.
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