Pershing Named Colorado Department Commander and Cheyenne Move Planned
Denver dispatch reports Brigadier General John J. Pershing as the new commander of the Department of the Colorado. Wyoming will join the Colorado division and its headquarters move from Denver to Cheyenne. 600 or more staffers and Fort Logan personnel will relocate, with Denver merchants expecting business losses. The piece notes Pershing’s rapid rise, his marriage to Frances Warren, and Warren’s political influence over military matters and Fort Russell expansions.
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United States
Francis BE. Warren
Wyoming
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Department of the Colorado
Department of the Missouri
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Fort Logan
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United States Army
Philippine Islands
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Washington
Frances Warren
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Senate Committee On
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Fort Russell
Missouri
West Point
Bath Tub Case Indicts 16 Firms and 32 Individuals
A federal grand jury indicted sixteen firms and thirty-two individuals over alleged control of eighty five percent of American enamel ware output. The case, linked to a civil suit to dissolve the Bath Tub Trust, cites a Mount Clemens Michigan meeting that funded a plan uniting sixteen manufacturers and over four hundred jobbers in a ten million dollar annual output. Actions proceed under Sherman Antitrust law with ten counts per defendant. Defendants must appear in U S court and post bonds.
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Detroit
United States
Bath Tub Trust
Mount Clemens
Mich
Defendents
Mexican editor Azcona arrested over alleged fraud
Juan Sanchez Azcona, ex member of the Mexican press, was arrested on suspicion of obtaining funds under false pretenses. The journalist says he is innocent and that Diaz administration aims to seize him amid anti-Diaz attacks that led to Neuvo Mexico’s seizure. He plans to fight extradition. Governor Alberto Terrazas was inaugurated in Chihuahua as government troops and insurrectos remain apart near San Andreas.
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Washington
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Azcona
Gustavo A. Madero
Diaz
Neuvo Mexico
Chihuahua
Alberto Terrazas
San Adreas
Mrs Eddy Heads Christian Science Church After Death
The body of Mrs. Eddy will be buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge after a funeral Thursday at 11. The board of directors will continue church leadership through her written directives and there will be no personal successor. Crowds gathered near the Eddy residence as detectives kept onlookers away.
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Boston
Mra. Eddy
Eddy
Biddy
Clifton Heights's teen healer claims cure power
A 16 year old, Bart Baker of Clifton Heights, says autosuggestion can stop nosebleeds and cure burns without touch or sight. He charges nothing for cures, saying money would strip his power learned from his grandmother. Residents back his claims in Lansdowne and nearby areas.
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Philadelphia
Dec
Clifton Heights
Bart Baker
Baker
Lansdowne
William H. Baker
Lynching of Two Men Reported in Alabama Robbery Case
Calvin Exele and Sylvester Peyton, both African American, were accused of barn robbery and found hanged from a tree near Munroeville Alabama after being taken from the sheriff by masked men. The incident occurred yesterday.
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Munroeville
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Calvin Exele
Sylvester Peyton
Police Shoot Holes In Prolific Reptile Escape
In Homestead Pennsylvania police and residents chased a six foot boa constrictor and a ten foot python that escaped from a theatre midnight. After a snowbound pursuit two boys spotted the snakes and ran to a station. The reptiles were found frozen to death after officers opened fire.
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Dee. G
Homestead
Carnegie Gives 812000 To Uncle Remus Home Memorial
Andrew Carnegie donated 5000 to the fund for the Uncle Remus Home memorial in Atlanta. Theodore Roosevelt had spoken for the cause, bringing in receipts near 5000, leaving about 12000 still to be raised to complete the goal.
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Uncle Remus
Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Andrew Carnegie
Theodore Roosevelt
Carpexio
Arizona Constitution Nearing Final Adoption
Phoenix December 6 Over half of Arizona’s constitution has been adopted as the constitutional convention adjourned today. Officials expect a final adjournment by Friday or Saturday.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Plant door lock blamed for Newark fire deaths
Newark New Jersey testimony to the coroner's jury cites the Wolf Under wartment Manufacturing plant door at the foot of the stairs as being kept locked, and no fire drill ever conducted. Employee accounts say the alarm could not be reached as the stair door was locked, contributing to the fatal blaze that killed twenty five workers.
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Newark
N. J
Dee
W. Irving Wolf
Wolf
Busene
Child Revived at Funeral Awakens to Mammas Call
In New York on December 4 a three year old girl named Lillian Viand, presumed dead, sat up in her winding sheet and called for her mother Mamma I want my mamma The mother Mrs Mary Veck an embalmer screamed and cried out with relief and the family summoned the doctor There is strong hope that Lillies life has been restored permanently
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New York
Lillian Viand
Mary Veck
Mrs. Yeck
Ian
Lillie
Mother Finds Baby Drowned in Slop Pail at Home
Encampment December 6. Mrs Roan of Elk Hollow returned home to find her 10 month old child head first in a bucket of slop, the body immersed and feet protruding. The tragedy occurred within minutes of the mother’s brief absence as the infant crawled to the rim and toppled in.
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Ryan
Elk Hollow
T Hethe
Roan
Thornton Wins United States Position in Louisiana Race
In Baton Rouge Louisiana Thornton was elected to a United States position with Vice McAery noted. The event and names indicate a political outcome in the region.
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Louimana
Baton Rouse
Dee
Judge J
Thornton Waa
United States
Evon
Vice McEaery
Famous Fred Light Forest Case Heads to Supreme Court
Washington notes the Fred Light case challenges federal and state grazing rules for the Holy Cross forest reserve in Colorado. Fred Light, a Colorado stockman, seeks reversal of a D C circuit court injunction barring cattle from grazing on un-fenced reserve lands. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled fence laws do not apply there and damages for trespass depend on fenced lands.
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Washington
Fred Light
Colorado
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
District of Columbia
Holy Cross
Supreme Court of Colorado
Children Testify for State Against Father in Murder Case
An 11 year old boy and 9 year old girl testified for the prosecution against Abraham Roth accused of murdering their mother. The boy said the couple quarreled the night of the killing and the father threatened to kill, and the girl described seeing her mother’s bleeding body fall from a window.
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New York
Abraham Roth
First Blizzard Strikes New York Traffic Hard
The season’s first blizzard hits New York with heavy snow and cutting winds injuring over sixty people. Ambulances run constantly as streetcars stall on bridges and crowds clash to board. Reports say similar storms blanket Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
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Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Pittsburg
Wilkesbarre
Keystone Estate
Kentucky
Maryland
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Wife's Punching Kept Him Awake Divorced
Fred H. Pratt former manager of the American Paint Co obtained a divorce from Mrs. Margaret Pratt now in New York City. He charged cruelty saying she pinched him to stay awake to hear her at night and rolled him from bed and beat him. He testified their summer resort courtship and religious quarrels led to conflict and that she even shot at him in the street and used a revolver butt to smash his picture.
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Cleveland
Fred H. Pratt
American Paint Company
Margaret Pratt
New York City
Pratt
Woa
Pratts
Kentucky Middies Stricken by Typhoid Fever
Two more midshipmen at Annapolis are stricken with typhoid fever, increasing total cases to twenty seven. Urey W. Conway of Kentucky and Alan W. Ashbrook, also of Kentucky, were taken to the hospital today from the first and third classes.
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Urey W. Conway
Kentucky
Alan W Ashbrook
Mexican rebels seize horses at American ranch in Madera
A band of Mexican rebels reportedly visited an American ranch near Madera and took about a hundred horses two days ago. The owner was given a facelt payable to "Madera's war chest" and several Americans were stopped and had horses taken, while other possessions remained untouched.
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Arla
Madera
Taft Urges Conservative Policy In 65th Congress Message
President Taft outlines a conservative program in his third session message to Congress. Highlights include opposing new antitrust legislation, seeking permanent tariff board, proposing a ship subsidy, funding Panama canal fortifications, and reforms in banking, immigration, rail valuation, and federal health bureau. Also calls for two new battleships and improved post delivery routes.
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Taft
House
Senate
Wante Tarif Board
Panama Canal
Meritt's Body Taken to Grave by Lamplight
Major General Wesley Merritt retired was buried at West Point with military honors. The ceremony was brief, lamplight lit, and the cadet corps escorted the coffin as 11 minute guns sounded. Merritt, a 1860 West Point graduate, fought in the Civil War and later served in Wyoming, South Dakota, the Philippines, and as superintendent of the Military Academy.
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West Point
Wesley Merritt
Merritt
Wyoming
South Dakota
Philippines
Military Academy
Durango Herald Sold by Local Editor to Kansas Publisher
Durango Colorado December 6 The Durango Evening Herald changes hands as William A Bartlett sells to George B Munson of Kansas who will edit and publish. Bartlett had bought the paper two months ago from the Raymond brothers who ran it for twenty five years.
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Durango
Colo
Evening Herald
William A. Bartlett
Georke B. Munaon
Kansas
Bartlett
Herald
Raymond Brothers
Woman Relates Queer Tale in Murder Trial
Denver says defense rested Genkyo Mitsunaga case with trial to continue. Neighbor Mrs. Alice Farish testified about two white men entering the Wilson home the day of the murder and later exiting the house while she heard threats. She described a man pushing the Japanese boy from the dwelling.
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Denver
Genkyo Mitsunaga
Alice Farish
Wilson
Woman's & Fs
Wilson House
Mime singer HIGHr TO SING IN SAN FRANCISCO
New York Dec 6 mime Tetras ain the great singer on her way to San Francisco to fulfill concert engagements under manager W H Leahy Judge Lacombe ruled she could sing for Leahy under certain conditions and she was extremely happy
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New York
San Francisco
W. H. Leahy
Lacombe
Leahy
Wyoming Central Not Superseded by Fremont Irrigation
New York capitalists linked to the Fremont Irrigation concern seek involvement in a disputed Wyoming Central project to reclaim ceded Wind River lands. State officials and the engineering department face fallout as details of the Wyoming Central deal emerge, with ongoing controversy and questions of accountability continuing.
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Fremont Irrigation Concern
New York
Fremont Irrigation Company
Auovessar
Wyoming Centra Irrigation Company
Wind River Reservation
Wyomi
Jonamton Deshans
Johnston
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