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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1906
Page
6
San Francisco reports the Southern Pacific seeks 5,000 laborers as orders from Harriman accelerate Pacific slope line development within two years. Over 25 million dollars will fund coast construction under the Harriman system.
Cheridan Wyoming November 1 A skirmish occurred Wednesday between about four bands of renegade Utes and a troop of the Tenth Cavalry on Bitter Creek. Ute ponies were stampeded, several Indians killed, and the soldiers withdrew as they outnumbered. A separate encounter drove back a band of Crow under Chief Sweet Mouth, while a third group of Cheyenne was allowed to depart after claiming they hunted. Settlers accuse Indian guides of treachery, naming Woman's Dress American Horse and White Cow Bull.
Washington reports Lancashire capitalists plan to buy and run a large cotton plantation in the south, likely Texas, to ship directly to Lancashire mills. The move follows a Washington conference with Lancashire manufacturers and aims to adopt improved cultivation and shipping methods. Separately, Army orders assign Captain B J Pagar Jr to Texas and move Lt Colonel Frank Baker to San Antonio as chief ordnance officer, relieving Col John Pittman upon his retirement November 12.
Acting Attorney General Davidson reports reaching Galveston to continue investigations of the Waters-Pierce and Standard Oil companies and other alleged Texas trusts. The governor names Horace Vaughan district attorney of the Fifth district after H F Gneal resigns. State Health Officer Tabor travels to New Orleans to coordinate a Gulf ports quarantine with Dr Irion.
More than 150 steamers are scheduled to sail from Galveston this month with full cargoes. Forty ships head to Liverpool and shipments reach ports worldwide. One steamer sails directly to Japan carrying cotton. Galveston port activity rises to unprecedented levels.
Local Southern Pacific strikers in Houston have enlisted the Houston Business League to help secure a settlement with the company. Picket duty is allowed around the yards and some newly hired clerks have joined the strikers.
The Missouri Kansas Texas Railway plans a Dallas to Egan line if it secures right of way and essentials in Dallas. The new route would give Dallas two direct lines to Cleburne and connect Johnson County with the city.
Waco reports Charles Schraeder a farmer living below Mart killed by a passenger train. His team was also struck and killed. Schraeder received a single blow to the head.
Austin reports Governor Lanham has returned from San Antonio and is pleased with the International fair. The notice also notes the death of Julius Dana near Newark Ohio, described as a pioneer school teacher and brother of the late New York editor Dana.
Harriman warns a great fight looms as rail competition heats up with Hill to the north and the Gould line expanding across the continent. He says life of a big system hinges on complete feeder networks as the Southern Pacific pushes to ready its territory for what he calls the age of railroad competition.
A letter from Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall urges members of the general and auxiliary committees to back the Democratic ticket in the upcoming election. He predicting a decisive victory and a handsome Democratic majority on November 6.
H L Mills an Oregon pioneer of 1876 and nephew of General Robert E Lee died after a violent coughing spell in a Portland hospital. He claimed to have coughed up a puckshot carried since the Civil War from his time as a member of the Fifteenth New York engineer corps.
United States commissioner B A Nickels at Hot Springs has resigned after a recent indictment charging malfeasance in office. The move ends his tenure amid formal accusations and official proceedings.
La Crosse Wis Nov 1 Judge Fruit in the circuit court appointed Co S Van Auken as receiver of the Mexican Plantation company. The firm is capitalized at 600000 dollars.
A fragmentary item discusses a proposed battleship of about 20 000 tons and heavy armor. The plans indicate displacement costs and armament details with estimates near twenty thousand million dollars.
Washington November 1 The department of agriculture through Dr H W Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry has undertaken to educate farmers regarding the manufacture of dentured alcohol Two bulletins were issued on the subject.
Vice President Fairbanks delivered speeches at multiple stops in northern Indiana on Thursday. An explosion at a Webster mill killed one worker and injured several others, with reports unclear on the total affected.
A Seattle movement plans a monument to William H. Seward inventoried as secretary of state who brokered the Alaska Russia purchase. The project aims for unveiling when the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition opens in 1909, funded by popular subscription. It notes Alaska gold wealth since purchase totaling over 105 million dollars.
Officials from the state crop pest commission are hunting for signs that the boll weevil has crossed the Mississippi into Mississippi. Authorities had expected a fall eastward advance, but recent cold weather slowed migration. The Natchez area is a focal point in the probe to determine if the pest remains west of the river.
New Haven Nov 1 announces a full professorship of lumbering at Yale funded by a 150000 endowment from the National Lumber Manufacturers association. The chair will support practical lumbering at the Forest school, with N W McLeod C I Millard and F E Weyerbhauser directing initial plans.
Destructive prairie fires rage in the western portion of the Big Pasture soon to be opened for settlement on December 8. The Indian agent fears vegetation removal may affect land bidding as bidders judge land by cover. It is claimed the fire was set to influence sale prices. Guthrie.
William Reynolds a noted composer and musical director died at Lane Hospital after a brief illness in San Francisco. His successes include The Sweetest Story Ever Told and Nancy Brown which were among his best known songs.
News from Zunugra Nigeria reports a French camel patrol of one officer and sixty men was surprised and annihilated by Zenoussi forces at the end of August 200 miles northeast of Lake Chad. Arrests followed in St. Louis. In St. Louis E Houston Fitch a self described Methodist minister was arrested for forging checks in Chelsea Illinois weeks earlier.
The Chinese warship Chu Wa is ashore at the river entrance near Shanghai. Assistance was dispatched to the vessel.
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