Burkett lease bill dominates American National meeting
The American National Live Stock Association meeting at Denver ended with resolutions in favor of the Burkett leasing bill. Delegates spoke for and against, with many members withdrawing prior to voting. The Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers' Association plans to send committees to Washington to lobby for and against the bill.
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Denver
H. A. Jastro
California
Sam Gowhan
Texas
T. W. Tomlinson
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers’ Asociation
American National
Texas Cattlemen
Burkett
Colorado Cattle and Horse Grow
Ers’ Association
Washington
National Wool Growers’ Association
J. M. Carey
Wyoming
J. ©. Underwood
A. J. Bothwell
Mackenzie
United States
Culberson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ways and Means Committee
House
Finance Committee
Senate
Europe
Beveridge
End near for Harry Thaw trial as alienist testifies
New York Jan 22 The second Thaw trial moves toward closure with Dr Charles G Wagner the first defense alienist on the stand Anthony Comstock testified earlier and Mrs Thaw completed her testimony The kindergarten teacher who guided Thaw as a boy testified and Mrs Thaw spoke of Harrys early life Comstock described letters about Stanford White houses and mistreatment of young girls but said complaints lacked legal evidence
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New York
Charles G. Wagner
Anthony Comstock
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Wm. Thaw
Thaw
Roosevelt the Autocrat
President Roosevelt sent to Congress copies of tariff regulations with a proposed amendment to the customs act to enforce them as law. Senators debated the move, criticizing the reach of executive action and noting that tariff legislation must originate in the House. The German Kaiser is cited as having referred the agreement to the Reichstag and consulted trade boards.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
United States
Germany
House of Representatives
Reichstag
Boards of Trade
Governor commutes death sentence of 19 year old
Nashville January 22 Governor Patterson commuted the death sentence of Lee Holder aged 19 to life imprisonment for the murder of his father B G Holder a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher. The commutation spares the youth from hanging after a year since the crime occurred.
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Nashville
Tenn
Patterson
Lee Holder
Lfe
Holder
B. G. Holder
Cumberland Presbyterian Obureh
Banks Return $20 Million to U S Treasury in Early 1930s Call
Washington January 23 The secretary of the treasury announced a gradual withdrawal of public monies from national banks beginning with New York where about ten million dollars was called back. This adds to the ten million already returned since December 26 and signals a general call for moderate deposits in other cities soon.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Harvesters Trust Under Fire in Senate Debate
The senate spent over an hour debating Hansbrough of North Dakota's resolution to suspend its probe into International Harvester. He charged the Harvest er Trust aims to control delegates to the next Republican national convention and to defeat him in the next election. The measure was referred to the committee. The criminal code bill was discussed for two hours.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Hansbrough
North Dakota
Department of Commerce and Labor
International Harvester Company
Harvester Trust
Committee
Fleet Leaves Rio Janeiro for Punta Arenas
The American battleship fleet departed Rio de Janeiro at 3 PM bound for Punta Arenas in the Straits of Magellan.
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Rio Janeiro
Punta Arenas
Straits of Magallan
Waits for Assassin with Gun in Hand in Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts Henry T Harrington a wealthy Shrewsbury farmer and his family barricade their home armed after a series of attacks. A drunken man stabbed Harrington in July and was fined. George Harrington was shot in the back early this month, and Harry Stanton was choked and left for dead two days ago, possibly mistaken for Harrington's son William.
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Worcester
Mass
Henry T. Harrington
Shrewsbury
George Harrington
Harry Stanton
Harrington
William
House Debates Law On Crop Statistics
Washington January 22 rapid progress in the house on a bill to codify and revise federal penal laws. An important amendment makes falsifying government crop statistics a criminal offense with heavy penalties to protect cotton and tobacco growers from speculators. Only Kimball of Kentucky spoke politically. most sessions were quiet with few members present.
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Washington, D. C
House
United States
Kimball
Kentucky
Cheyenne Youth Named Southern Pacific Foreman
John Cole son of Cheyenne council president William Cole and a local youth is named general foreman of the Southern Pacific shop in Boarko Ney. He has not yet decided whether to accept the post.
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Cheyenne
Southern Pacific
John Cole
William Cole
Cheyenne City
Southern Pacific Ehopa
Boarko, Ney
Cole
Poalton
Murder and suicide in New York store restaurant
In a New York department store restaurant Brady, a newspaper solicitor, was shot five times and killed by a woman who then shot herself with a second revolver. The woman, Mary Roberts Clark, died later from her wounds. The event followed violent quarrels and a threat to kill Brady publicly.
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New York
Pers
Brady
Mary Roberts Clark
Raymond
Factory Attack In Clarksville Ends With Guard Shootout
An abortive dynamite and arson attempt at the Hayes-Sory Rugis tobacco factory in Clarksville Tennessee led to a confrontation with guards. TwoBlack suspects were killed and another wounded in the exchange.
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Nashville, Tenn
Hayes-Sory Rugis
Clarksville
Tenn
Joint Installation Tonight for Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen
The Royal Neighbors of America and the Modern Woodmen of America hold a joint officer installation at the A O U W hall tonight with a supper to follow. Both lodges, active in Cheyenne, anticipate a year of greater usefulness socially and otherwise, noting Modern Woodmen Cheyenne has over ten years of membership with no deaths recorded.
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Royal Neighbors of America
Woodmen of America
U. W. Hall
Royal Neighbors
Woodmen
Woodmen Lodge
Cheyenne
Deed Transfers McDougall Ranch to Swan Land & Cattle
A deed filed for record transfers from Colin McDougall and wife to Swan Land & Cattle Co for 760 acres at Diamond. The $28,000 transaction covers the ranch with improvements cattle horses and ranch equipment.
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Colin McDougall
Swan Land & Cattle Company
McDougall
Diamond
Weather Forecast for Wyoming Report 1908
Forecast for Wyoming calls for cloudy Thursday and Friday fair and warmer with possible rain or snow in the extreme northwest. Local data show maximum 34 degrees minimum 20 degrees and trace precipitation. Weather notes by W. S. Palmer, Department Director.
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Washington
Wyoming
Trace
Palmer
Beotion
Denver editor flips on land leasing policy
The Denver Republic a leading West editor flips stance on public domain grazing leases. It argues forests should stay reserved while untimbered plains should be opened to homesteaders, warning against private stock interests dominating lands and blocking home building and citizenship.
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Denver
Colo
Denver Republican
Weat
Roosevelt
Colorado
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Dry Farming Congress Begins Its Sessions
Salt Lake City hosts the Trans-Missouri Dry Farming congress with scores of delegates and visitors for its second annual meeting. Absence of First Vice-President Donohue sparks rumors of Colorado dissent. Governor Chamberlain of Oregon is named as a possible president. Reports from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Utah show rapid arid land cultivation and rising profits.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress
J. L. Donohue
Denver
Colorado
Donohue
Fisher Hardy
George B., Chamberlain
Oregon
Cheyenne
Wyo
Arizona
Toscon
Wyoming
Montana
Uwh
Cheyenne Delegation Attends Salt Lake Dry Farming Congress
Representing Cheyenne among dry farmers Lon M. H. Hartung Mayor P. Cook State Examiner H. B. Henderson and Governor B. B. Brooks attend the Dry Farming congress in Salt Lake City. Hartung went earlier. Cook and Henderson left Cheyenne for Salt Lake City last night.
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Lon. M
North Dakota Rep Convention Sets Time and Place
The Republican state committee fixed Minot on May 14 1909 as the site and date to elect delegates to the national convention. The committee expressed support for Secretary Taft.
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Fargo, SN. D
Republican State Committee
Minot
Taft
Had Man Care Is Captured In Texas
Pueblo Colo Jan 22 Tom Carr an ex convict who escaped from Deputy Sheriff Tt J Burrows after running up tight several weeks ago has been arrested at El Paso Tex.
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Pueblo
Colo
Tom Carr
Deuty
Tt. J. Burrows
el Paso
Tex
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Colorado Association
Harry Thaw
Autocrat
the Treasy
U. S. Treasury
Weather Report
Had Man Care
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