Commission Hearing Probes Western Rail Rates Complaint
Leadville June 6 The Leadville Board of Trade protests against the Colorado Midland and other western railroads as interstate commission hears complaints repeated for four years. Merchants in Colorado and Chicago allege higher eastbound freight charges than through Pacific coastal business, a policy that favors New York traders and harms western dealers. The hearing’s outcomeSerá awaited by trans Mississippian merchants.
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Leadville
Leadville Board of Trade
Colorado Midland
Interstate Commission
Colorado
Chicago
Railronde
Pacific Coast
New York
trans-Mississippi
National Grand Patrons condemn trusts and urge action
South Bend reports the National Grand Patrons of Husbandry urge candidates for national state and federal offices to declare positions on Roosevelt and Knox. They commend action against packers and the Northern Securities merger and call for prosecutions of steel coal sugar and oil trusts. In Chicago Emma Wil Name and Kinley Williams case acquitted of murder by gas asphyxiation with Schweiger implicated.
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South Bend
Ind
National Grand Patrons of Husbandry
Jones
Srate
Sevelt
Knox
Packers
Northern Securities
Chicago
Emma Wil- Name
Kinley Williams
Charles Schweiger
Schweiger
Packers Secure Compromise
Chicago union dispute ends with an all night session settling wages and reinstatement. Strikers are restored without prejudice. Packers agree not to discriminate against union men. New wage scale ranges from 20 to 30 cents per hour, no work on Labor Day, boycotts off, and a peaceful union rally replaces violence. Minimum earnings rise to 12 dollars, maximum to 21, within seventy hours.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Packers
Driver Knocked From Wagon at Stock Yards Entrance
Chicago June 6. An Anglo-American Packing Company employee at the stock yards entrance was knocked from a wagon seat with a baseball bat. He may die. Officials and police are exhausted after a long day. The First Regiment National Guard may be called. Governor Yates is in the city.
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Chicago
Anglo-American Packing Company
National Guard
Governor Yates
Taft Meets Pope in Rome and Presents Roosevelt Books
Governor Taft, acting as American commissioner, was received by the pope in Rome. The pope greeted him in French and Taft replied in English. Taft presented the pontiff with a complete set of Roosevelt's books, which pleased the pope greatly.
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Rome
Taft
Roosevelt
Disastrous Landslide Near Mememokra Cause Floods
A colossal landslide near Mememokra Hungary filled the river bed and caused flooding that inundated ten villages. Forty people are missing. In Berlin the Kaiser visits the University with the crown prince among his suite.
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Vienna
Mememokra
Hungary
Berlin
Kaiser
University of Berlin
Pretender Duke DOrleans Promises to Restore French Throne
Paris June 5 the pretender Duke D Orlean s issued a manifesto declaring his firm resolve to resuscitate the throne of France with Gods help and co operation of all good Frenchmen James S Sherman renominated by the Republican convention in the twenty fifth district today in Herkimer New York June 5
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Paris
Duke D'Orleans
France
Herkimer, N
James S. Sherman
Twenty Fifth District
British abandon remount camp at Port Chalmette
New Orleans reports the British have abandoned the remount camp at Port Chalmette. Officers and horses remaining will be sent to Can ala.
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New Orleans
Port Chalmette
Canala
Union Labor Troubles Hit Gas City Smelter
The Cherokee Lanyon smelter at Gas City discharged its 160 employees today amid union disputes. Other smelters may follow suit as labor tensions rise across the region.
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Lola
Kans
Gas City
Field tests of artillery by sixth artillery unit
Junction City Kansas June field tests conducted by the sixth artillery under the board of ordnance with Lt General Miles presiding. Tests focus on gun carriages as cannons rolled up and down bluffs crossed water and sand. An overland run to Topeka will conclude testing. Chamberlain leads Purvis by a slim margin in corrected governor returns. Paul Kruger sustains serious shock from page decoration. condition reported serious.
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Junction City
Kana
Board of Ordnance and Fortifcations
Miles
Topeka
Amsterdam
Paul Krouger
Engineers and Firemen Strike Expands Across Wilkesbarre Area
Union leaders say more engineers firemen and pumpmen joined the strike today in Wilkesbarre with the anthracite miners claiming victory. President Mitchell remained at headquarters all day and noted improving progress as more men exit idle. He declined comment on Scranton visit and Roosevelt mediation.
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New York Board of Trade
Roosevelt
New York Board Adopts Plea to Roosevelt on Anthracite Strike
At a New York board meeting Oscar Straus presided and passed a resolution urging President Roosevelt to appoint a commissioner to study the anthracite conflict and seek a peaceful arbitration between miners and operators under federal law governing interstate commerce.
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New York
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Oscar
Straus
Roosevelt
Roosevelt weighs appointment to mediate anthracite strike
In Washington the president considers a New York board of trade proposal to appoint a commissioner to investigate the strike in the anthracite regions and seek arbitration between miners and operators. Senator Hanna is surfaced as a potential arbiter if a commission is created and Mitchell remains reticent about the new effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Hanna
Civic Federation
New York Board
Wilkesbarre
Jones
New York Board of Trade
Mitchell
Hanna Scores Point For Panama Route
Senator Hanna rebutted Senator Morgan in Washington citing an official map showing volcanic activity along Central American routes. The Costa Rica has ten active and three dead volcanoes. Nicaragua nine active and ten dead. Honduras and Guatemala nineteen active and twenty eight dead. Along the proposed Panama route there are no active or dead volcanoes.
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Washington
Jane
Morgan
Hanna
Senate
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
Panama
Smuggling of Black Workers Sparks Tense Mine Crisis
A carload of eighty Black men was secretly brought into Victor to work at the Chandler coal mines by the Victor Fuel and Iron Company. Union leaders and mine officers fear riots and bloodshed as officials refuse concessions, leaving the imported workers unwelcome and tensions high.
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Chandler
Victor
Rio Grande Road
Victor Fuel and Iron Company
Money raised to fight Croker in Tammany Hall
New York report claims a fund exceeding 500000 dollars is being gathered by Carroll Van Wyck aligned opponents to defeat Croker Sullivan influence in Tammany Hall. Analysts say 20000 or more will be spread per district to back Carroll Sexton Moebus Eagle Foley against Croker backed rivals.
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New York
Tammany Hall
Croker- Sullivan
Carroll-Van Wyck
Croker
John F. Carroll
J. B. Sexton
August Moebus
Percival Eagle
Thomas F. Foley
Tammany
Carroll
Sexton
Nagle
Croker-Sullivan
Redmond Opposes 50 Pound Grant in Commons
In London Redmond the Irish Nationalist denounced the 50 pound grant to Kitchener accusing him of waging war on women and children and killing 15000 children and was howl ed down. In New York the American Congress of Tuberculosis adopted a resolution declaring consumption acute and infectious and urged national health education and strong legislation.
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London
Redmond
House of Commons
Kitchener
New York
American Congress of Tuberculosis
Congressional Deadlock in Missouri Third District
In Plattaburg Missouri after 260 ballots at the Democratic convention the third district deadlock continued for the congressional nomination with Dougherty facing six rivals Houlder Cole and others. Commencement exercises at the state university begin tonight with seventy six graduates the largest class in institution history. Denver reports employers refuse arbitration pending building trades council negotiations and threaten subpoenas as investigations proceed.
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Plattaburg
Dougherty Seeme
Chicago mills form American Sash and Door Company
Twenty of the largest planning mills in Chicago have created the American Sash and Door Company to achieve economy in the delivery and purchase of raw materials.
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Chicago
American Sash and Door Company
Prohibition State Convention Elects Moffett Chairman
Hutchinson Kansas reports the Prohibition state convention electing Rev. Moffett as chairman and adopting a platform demanding enforcement of the prohibitory law. Emerson of Topeka is favored for the gubernatorial nomination amid the proceedings.
Local residents make travels and visits across cities
Fred LaPash returned from an eastern trip. Miss Anna and Alma Lind visit from Sidney. State Examiner Henderson attended court in Rawlins. Master Mechanic McKeen and Assistant Stewart traveled to Denver. County Commissioner J. B. Boyer returned to Wheatland on a special train. Miss Mabel Hayford left for Laramie to join her father en route to Salt Lake. Mrs. M. Hamilton went home to Idaho after visiting her daughter. T. B. Hicks and William Darber head to Thermopolis Hot Springs for about three weeks. Mrs. Jas. F. Dixon returned from Boston where Mr. Dixon seeks health help. Mr. and Mrs. L. Kabis returned from Denver where Mrs. Kabis visited her brother Philip Zehner Sr.
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Fred LaPash
Anna
Alma Lind
Sidney
Henderson
Rawlins
McKeen
Stewart
Denver
J. B. Boyer
Wheatland
Mabel Hayford
Laramie
Salt Lake
M. Hamilton
Idaho
M. Bell
T. B. Hicks
William Darber
Thermopolis
Jas. F. Dixon
Boston
Dixon
Two Days Left to Order City Directory Previews
Canvass for the new city directory ends in two days with orders and space securing. Richard Kelley arrives in Cheyenne offering free ad writing for space in the Peerless directory to be issued this year, with public release around July 16. Eleanor Merron, noted playwright and actress, gains praise for The Dairy Farm, a love story staged at the opera house on Saturday, set 1854 to 1856 in Hurley on the Hudson.
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Richard Kelley
Arived
Cheyenne
Eleanor Merron
Dairy Farm
Hurley
Hudson
Opera House
Weather forecast for Cheyenne and vicinity tense storms
Local forecast calls for probable thunderstorms tonight and Friday with cooler conditions tonight. Twenty four hour data ending 6 am shows a high of 83 and a low of 47 with 0.02 inches of precipitation.
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Cheyenne
Court House News Brightens Naturalized British Subject
John McGregor, a subject of Great Britain, was naturalized as a United States citizen today. J. E. Abbott was named administrator of the estate of Jess Loomis. The county clerk’s office recorded eighty-four land locations in the northwestern part of the county totaling 12,900 acres by R. S. Van Tussell, H. G. Hay, C. W. Sweet, L. W. Stone, F. Hofmann and others.
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John McGregor
United States
J. E. Abbott
Jess Loomis
R. S. van Tussell
H. G. Hay
C. W. Sweet
L. W. Stone
F. Hofmann
Mrs Cahill and Mrs Fitz Travel After Sister's Death
Mrs Mary C Cahill and Mrs C Fitz depart tonight for Colfax Wash prompted by the death of Mrs Cahill's sister. Patrick O'Neil, formerly of this city, is named in connection with the funeral.
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Mary C. Cahill
C. Fitz
Colfax Wash
Stanley Gill Hosts Pleasant Pebrican Street Birthday Party
Stanley Gill gave a birthday party for his eighth birthday at his Pebrican street home last night. Children played games enjoyed refreshments and had a delightful time.
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Stanley Gill
Pebrican Street
Laramie Council Praises Senators Warren Clark and Mondell
The Laramie city council drafts resolutions thanking Senators Warren and Clark and Representative Mondell for securing the new Gem City public building. A Denver bound Colorado and Southern train carried the delegation from Pueblo in two hours and thirty minutes, faster than all state routes.
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Laramie
Warren and
Clark
Mondell
Gem City
Denver
Colo
June
Colorado and Southern
Boers Yield in Large Numbers Reflect Peace Deal
London dispatches report Boers surrendering in large numbers due to the peace agreement while Kitchener stays in South Africa through July.
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London
Pretoria
Kitchener
South Africa
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