Lowen Seeks Senate Run Attacks Indian Land Rules
Cherokee attorney Colonel Robert Lowen defends his status amid Indian land sale restrictions. He declares himself a free citizen on the Senate committee hearing and criticizes Interior Department governance. Senator Teller supports reform, calling the system wrong and bogged by clerks and red tape.
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Muskogee
Indian Affairs Committee
Robert Lowen
United States Senate
Senate
Interior Department
Teller
Colorado
Secretary of the Interior
Five Civilized Tribes
Daughters of the Confederacy Back Sponsors-Free Reunions
Gulfport Mississippi reports United Daughters of the Confederacy adopt resolutions to dispense with sponsors and maids of honor at reunions. Speaker Mrs. Carrington Mason argues veterans deserve more consideration as sponsors and hosts spend large sums on hotels while veterans stay in vacant lodgings. Georgia division notes ongoing subscriptions for a monument to Keeper Wirz of Andersonville prison.
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Gulfport
Miss
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Carrington Mason
Sarah Law Chapter
Memphis
Georgia
Wirz
Andersonville
Explosion at Buck C mine kills two shot firers
In South McAlester on November 17, a blast at the McAlester Coal Mining Company mine at Buck killed shot firers C A Withers and Sam McKinney. The mine was wrecked, the shaft 650 feet deep, and the cage and ventilating gear blown out as rock coal and debris were hurled upward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South McAlester
McAlester Coal Mining Company
Buck C
Bomb explosion rattles New York tenement at 33 Stanton Street
Hundreds of panes shattered and doors knocked from hinges when a bomb exploded in a hallway at a Stanton Street tenement. Police theorize the Black Hand society was involved as residents fled in nightclothes.
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New York
Stanton Street
Black Hand Society
Police
Gulf Rail Extensions Expand Toward New Orleans Ports
Baltimore reports urgent push for Gulf coast extensions. Rock Island lines improve Denver to western hubs and Texas access. Colorado Southern and New Orleans Pacific railway rapid buildout links Trinity and Brazos Valley to New Orleans. Santa Fe advances cross Texas route toward Gulf, eyeing New Orleans with Jasper and Eastern lumber road as possible connectors. Missouri Kansas Texas nears Crescent City, with Kansas City Southern weighing New Orleans entry via Edenborn route.
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Baltimore
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Rock Island
Denver
Texas
Great Tidewater
Colorado Southern
New Orleans
Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway
Alexandria
Eunice
Kla
Louisiana
Santa Fe
Galveston
New Mexico
Colorado
Jasper and Eastern Railway
Missouri
Kansas
Crescent City
Kansas City Southern
William Edenborn
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Shreveport and
Red River Valley Railway
Coast Artillery Emphasis in General Hall Report
General Hall in his annual department of the gulf report stresses coast artillery reform. He argues for redistribution to cut costs, improve discipline, and boost efficiency by concentrating troops at main posts. He urges sending coast artillery units to camps of instruction with other arms to gain field exercises and self-sufficiency.
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Hall
Washington
Department of the Gulf
Atlanta
Coast Artillery
Woman Dies Suddenl y in King County Jail Bed
Seattle reports Maud Creffield held in King county jail for murder of George Mitchell at Union Station on July 12 died in bed. Esther Mitchell who shot her brother was in the same bed and experienced heart failure per Deputy Coroner Wiltsie. Esther and Maud confessing to avenge Joshua Mitchell’s death. Ardent prairie fire near Tulsa causes four miles by one mile of crop damage with no fatalities.
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Esther Mitchell
Creffield
Seattle
Maud Creffield
King County
George Mitchell
Union Station
Tulsa
I. T
Mrs. W. H. Clayton Dies in McAlester
Mrs. W H Clayton wife of United States Judge Clayton died at Mercy hospital here of paralysis. The remains were sent to Fort Smith for interment.
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W. H. Clayton
South McAlester
United States
Clayton
Mercy
Fort Smith
Roosevelt Inspects Culebra Cut in Panama
President Roosevelt toured the Culebra cut near Panama on November 17 and spent time in the deeper sections observing the work.
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Panama
Roosevelt
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Bryan
Cedent Insurance
GEO. A. Adams
Parker Building
Oliver Typewriter
Richelieu Brand
Richelieu
Main Street
E. J. Fountain
Telfer
Lowen
The
Amy Man
Henry M. Teller
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Bank of
Bryan, Texas
U. S
I. H.O. Boatwright
H. O. Boatwright
Vic-Pres
J. W. Howell
L. L. McInnis
Guy M. Bryan, JR
W. C. Davis
Brazos County
Tex
Columbia Opera Co
Grand Opera House
Pasha Olivette
Erminie
Smith Building
City National Bank
J.B. Hines
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