Will Test New Freight Rate Law
Jefferson City Missouri June A suit will be filed in the Federal Court to test the maximum freight rate bill passed by the last General Assembly. L F Parker of the St Louis and San Francisco railroad seeks an injunction to block the Speers bill rates as confiscatory. Governor Folk says federal courts may review constitutionality, with Attorney General Hadley backing the state. The bill, long debated, introduces a new schedule of freight rates.
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Jefferson City
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners of
Missouri
General Assembly
Auit
L. F Parker
St. Louis
Folk
Hadley
Expensive Practical Jokes From an Exchange
Automobileist Barney Oldfield recalls a costly prank from last season. A friend sent a telegram to him from Italy collect for seven dollars reading only Tam well. Oldfield replied with a boxed cobblestone wrapped in pink paper and Excelator, sent collect at eight dollars, with a note about good health easing his heart.
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Barney Oldfield
Italy
Express
New Frisco Hospital Planned in Saint Louis
A St Louis & San Francisco railway company has acquired land on Laclede avenue near Forest Park, Saint Louis, for a premier railway hospital to be built, aiming for completion by January 1. The project positions the hospital as a leading medical facility in the United States.
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Springfield
St. Louie & San Francisco Railway Company
Laclede Avenue
Forest Park
Louis
United States
General Medical
Wild Show Accident Injures Seven At Band Reunion
A June 12 outdoor Wild West show in Iloman featured cowboys and Indians and a broncho busting display. A loaded shotgun discharged into the crowd, wounding seven people including Mrs Z R Carter Lulu Carter James Stanger and Miss Ware whose injuries are described as dangerous.
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McPherson
Kan
Iloman
Mra Z R. Carter
Lulu Carter
James Stanger
Misa Ware
Mrs Bryan Starts For Europe on world trip
Mrs Wm J Bryan and daughter Grace begin a voyage from Lincoln for a world tour. Due to Grace’s frail health she will stay in Europe first, likely in German mountains, awaiting Bryan’s September New York departure. He plans extensive sightseeing in Europe to study municipal ownership and later will visit Australia New Zealand and the Philippines on the return voyage.
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Lincoln, Neb
Wm. J. Bryan
Grace
Lincoln
America
Bryan
Orient
Australia
New Zealand
Philippines
A Boy Confessed Murder in Platteburg
Hugh Jones 17 pleaded guilty in Platteburg Missouri to second degree murder for fatally shooting his father Laffay ette Jones near Gower on August 14, 1904. He will receive a fifteen year sentence after admitting the crime, which occurred as they prepared to go to church near Hemple. Jones fled to a neighbor and was jailed since, the plea surprising as the trial was set for Monday.
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Platteburg
Hugh Jones
Laffayette Jones
Gower
Hugh
Hemple
Jones
Grim deaths from consumption filled homes daily
Fragmentary reading notes a tragedy of consumption and pneumonia claiming many lives. Mentions coughing and colds as factors, with references to doctors and treatments. The text names Lou Diesarey and references medical care and prevention efforts.
Largest buffalo preserve planned in Ponca Indian lands
Bliss Okla June 10 Plane for a major buffalo preserve in the Ponca Reservation is backed by ranch 101 and Chicago financier Dr Harold Thoman. The plan seeks 12000 acres at Horseshoe bend on the Arkansas river for grazing full blood buffaloes with mares and herd males sold commercially from the range in Oklahoma. The Horseshoe bend is a river peninsula with rich pasture timber and water resources.
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Bliss
Oklo
Ponca Indian Reservation
United States
Interior Department
Horseshoe Bend
Arkansas River
Harold Thoman
Chicago
Joseph Miller
Ranch “101
Oklahoma
Muskogee Thirty Years Ago Revealed by Chicago Correspondent
Chicago correspondent William E. Curtis recalls Muskogee in the 30s as a railroad camp and a rough frontier town. He recalls a faro gambler in a tent who restarted play after a cowpuncher shot the air, and a Tahlequah trip with a missionary whose frock coat and shirt outside trousers drew laughs.
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Muskogee
I.T
William E. Curtis
Chicago
Indian Territory
Mr. Curtis
Bla
Tahlequah
Shooting Affray in Territory Ends in Death
June 10 in a Territory street fight between merchant Y Griffin and Dr. J N Norris left Griffin dead and his brother Fred Griffin wounded after Norris fired a revolver as Fred approached with a knife. Z Y Griffin attempted to aid his brother and was killed yesterday. Prominent parties involved.
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Norris
Killed By a Runaway in Guthrie
In Guthrie Oklahoma on June 10 Mrs Emma Cupps 40 and her daughter Dovie 14 were killed or gravely injured when a frightened horse swerved in front of an electric car on Springer avenue. Both were crushed and the girl was airlifted to hospital where amputation was performed on both victims but she cannot recover.
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Guthrie
Emma Cupps
Dovie
Springer Avenue
Wisconsin Locust Swarms Reported in June
A Wisconsin dispatch notes swarms of locusts reported across sites and shops in the state during June, signaling unexpected pest activity and potential impact on local commerce and agriculture.
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Ee Wis
Kansas Harvesting to Begin in Central Kansas
Abilene Kansas reports wheat in Central Kansas ripening rapidly due to sunshine high temperatures and a south wind. If favorable weather continues cutting should start Monday with prospects among the best in years. Experienced farmers expect an average of sixteen bushels per acre or more and high quality harvest possible.
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Abilene
Kan
Central Kansas
Special R R Rates for Midweek and Convention Travel
Special round trip rates issued for travel to Kanaan City and Epworth convention with departures from Butler after noon on Saturdays and Sundays. Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo routes included with June 30 to July 4 return windows. Rates listed as 215 and 1605 with June 1 to September 30 validity and October 41 return.
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Kanaan City
Butler
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Colo
Angoat Ath
Colorado
Utah
Adrian News. Nor mal student returns home after second year
Irvin Deffenbaugh completed his second year's work in the State Normal at Warrensburg and returned home Friday for a visit with his parents. Ray Weir left Wednesday to join his mother in Oregon. Pension Agent Putnam noted that John Scheurick's pension was increased from 8 to 12 dollars per month. The North Star dive contents were sold under a chattel mortgage held by Duke and Woods. Sem Walls bought the showcases, safe, desks and droga. The wet goods had been taken by the sheriff under a writ of attachment sworn out by a wholesale liquor dealer in Kansas City.
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Irvin Deffenbaugh
State Normal
Warrensburg
Ray Weir
Rev. Weir
Oregon
Ray Fe
Putnam
John Scheurick
East Boone Township
North Star
Duke & Woods
Sem Walls
Kansas City
Public Notice of Probate Sale Bates County Missouri 1906
In Bates County Missouri Probate Court May term 1905 Wm A DeLong deceased J W Campbell administrator with the will annexed requests settlement of debts against estate and an examination. If no objections by next term to be held second Monday in April 1906 order for sale of all or part of real estate to pay debts. copy to be published four weeks prior and notices served at least ten days before next term. Witness J A Silvers Judge. Bates County May 18 1906.
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Hates
Bates
Wm. A. DeLong
J. W. Campbell
Annet
Tea
Eben Ah Daonaacd
Bates Co
Frei Dey
Tate
Missouri
J. A. Silvers
Sald County
Bates County
Train Through a Bridge Near Colfax Fatality Report
Information from Wisconsin Central offices says eastbound train No. 2 went through a bridge and into the river near Colfax Wisconsin. No deaths occurred. The wreck was caused by flood waters.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Colfax
Wis
Smithsonian official charged with embezzling forty six thousand
Washington June 12 W W Carr disbursing clerk of the Smithsonian institution was arrested charged with embezzling 46000 of the institutions funds Carr admits guilt His wife is visiting in Memphis Tenn former home of Carr
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Washington
W. W. Carr
Smithsonian Institution
Carr
Memphis
Tenn
Stone Suit Continued in Kansas City Times Investment Case
Lexington Missouri June 12. One of Senator W. J. Stone against L. Chrisman to recover funds invested in the Kansas City Times was set for trial but continued to November 1 due to the illness of a man involved.
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Lexington
W. J. Stone
L. Chrisman
Stone
Kansas City Times
Electric Bitters Promised To Cure Malaria Fever
A tonic medicine claim touts Electric Bitters as a cure for ague and malaria, asserting it drives malaria from the system and avoids bad after effects. testimonial from E. S. Munday of Henrietta, Texas, notes a brother with malarial fever saved after taking the remedy at Frank T. Clay's drug store, price 50 cents.
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Munday
Henrietta
Tex
Frank T. Clay
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