Pershing to Head Colorado Department and Move Headquarters
Denver dispatch reports Brigadier General John J. Pershing will succeed General Earl D. Thomas as commander of the Department of Colorado. Wyoming will join the Colorado division and the HQ will move from Denver to Cheyenne. Fort Russell gains status and Fort Logan is trimmed as part of the shift.
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Denver
John J. Pershing
United States
Francis BE. Warren
Wyoming
Earl D. Thomas
Department of the Colorado
Department of the Missouri
Colorado
Cheyenne
Fort Logan
Wyoming City
General Pershing
United States Army
Philippine Islands
Promi
Bath Tub Case Makes Indictments In Detroit
A federal grand jury indicted sixteen firms and thirty-two individuals for controlling about eighty-five percent of enameled ware output in the United States. The civil and criminal actions arise from a Mount Clemens meeting funding a plan to restrain trade under the Sherman Anti Trust law. Each defendant faces ten counts for a combination to restrain trade and hold prices. They must appear in U S court and post bond.
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Detroit
United States
Bath Tub Trust
Mount Clemens
Mich
Defendents
Mexican Editor Azcona Arrest Sparks Extrication Fight
Former Mexican editor Juan Sanchez Azcona, allied with Gustavo A. Madero, was arrested on charges of fraud. He declares innocence and accuses the Diaz government of seeking his capture after Neuvo Mexico was seized. He plans to contest extradition as soldiers and insurrectos remain near San Andreas, Chihuahua, with no clash yet.
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Washington
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Azcona
Gustavo A. Madero
Diaz
Neuvo Mexico
Chihuahua
Alberto Terrazas
San Adreas
Mrs Eddy to Direct Science Church Affairs After Death
The body of Mrs. Eddy head of the Christian Science church will be buried at Mount Auburn Cambridge after a simple funeral at 11. The board of directors will continue church operations through her written commands with no personal successor planned. Relatives and church officials will attend as detectives guard the mansion.
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Boston
Mra. Eddy
Eddy
Biddy
Boy Healer Bart Baker Draws Clifton Heights Notice
A 16-year-old Clifton Heights youth, Bart Baker, claims to stop nosebleeds and heal burns by autosuggestion and mystic words learned from his grandmother. Residents cite cures and praise his absent treatment, with Baker saying he charges nothing and would lose power if paid. His father is William H. Baker.
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Philadelphia
Dec
Clifton Heights
Bart Baker
Baker
Lansdowne
William H. Baker
Lynching of two men in Alabama barn robbery case
In Munroeville Alabama Calvin Exele and Sylvester Peyton two Black men accused of barn robbery were seized by masked men from the sheriff and found hanged to a tree near the town yesterday authorities report.
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Munroeville
Ala
Calvin Exele
Sylvester Peyton
Police Shoot Holes In Proving Reptiles
In Homestead Pennsylvania detectives and residents hunted a six foot boa constrictor and a ten foot python that escaped from a theatre during the night. After a chase through snowy streets officers used force to corner the snakes, which were found frozen dead.
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Pittsburg
Dee. G
Homestead
Carnegie Gives 812000 To Uncle Remus Home Memorial
Andrew Carnegie contributes 5000 to the fund for the Uncle Remus Home memorial in Atlanta. The drive has 13000 raised toward 25000 goal after Roosevelt’s prior gift. 12000 remains to be raised. The donations come as the project gains momentum to honor Joel Chandler Harris.
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Carnegie
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 had been adopted by the constitutional convention at adjournment today and it probably will adjourn for good Friday or Saturday the article notes it remains to be finalized with a likely early conclusion.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Locked Plant Door Cited in Newark Fire Deaths Testimony
Newark N J Dee G W Irving Wolf president of Wolf Under warment Manufacturing testified before the coroner s jury that no fire drill existed and the foot of the stairs door was sometimes kept locked Twenty five employees were burned to death as Busene McQuatted recalled running to alarm others with the stairs door locked and a later remark about the door s condition.
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Newark
N. J
Dee
W. Irving Wolf
Wolf
Busene
Child Comes Back to Life Crying for Mama
In New York on December 4 a three year old girl named Lillian Viand, declared dead by an undertaker, sat up in her winding sheet crying for her mother. The child’s mother Mrs Yeck and the family doctor were summoned as excitement and hope spread that Lillian might recover.
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New York
Lillian Viand
Mary Veck
Mrs. Yoek
Lillie
Mother Finds Baby Drowned in Slop Pail
In Elk Hollow Mrs. Rd Ryan returns home to discover her 10 month old child had fallen head first into a bucket of slop and drowned. The infant’s feet protrude from the bucket as the mother entered the kitchen and found the tragedy.
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Ryan
Elk Hollow
T Hethe
Roan
Thornton elected to United States envoy to Moliana
Baton Rouge Louisiana reports Judge Thornton wins election to an envoy post. McEary named vice, with related reveasals and duties announced by local officials.
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Thornton
Louimana
Baton Rouse
Dee
Judge J
Thornton Waa
United States
Evon
Vice McEaery
Famous Fred Light Forest Case Agains
Washington reports the Supreme Court will hear on January 24 a Colorado stockman Fred Light’s appeal challenging a circuit court ruling that bars him from allowing cattle to graze the Holy Cross forest reserve. The case centers on Colorado trespass law and whether fences are required to permit livestock grazing on unprotected lands.
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Washington
Fred Light
Colorado
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
District of Columbia
Holy Cross
Supreme Court of Colorado
Children Testify Against Father in Murder Case
An 11 year old boy and 9 year old girl testified for the state against Abraham Roth, accused of murdering their mother. The boy said the parents quarreled before sleep and the father vowed to kill the mother, and the girl recalled waking to see her mother's bleeding form fall from a window.
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New York
Abraham Roth
Blizzard disrupts New York traffic injures score people
A severe blizzard struck New York with heavy snow and cutting winds. More than sixty injuries occurred as ambulances ferried patients to hospitals and millions faced halted transit. Rioting crowds at Williams burg bridge area disrupted boarding and shelter demand surged amid widespread snowstorms across several states.
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New York
Willamsburg
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Pittsburg
Wilkesbarre
Keystone Estate
Kentucky
Maryland
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Wife's Punching Kept Him Awake Divorce
Fred H. Pratt, manager of the American Paint company, obtained a divorce from Mrs. Margaret Pratt now living in New York City. Pratt testified cruelty included pinching to keep him awake, being rolled from bed and beaten, and an incident where she shot at him in the street and used a revolver butt to smash his picture after missing.
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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
The Navy reports twenty seven midshipmen ill with typhoid as two more, Urey W. Conway and Alan W. Ashbrook, both Kentucky, were hospitalized. The outbreak includes midshipmen from the first and third classes.
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Annapolin
Urey W. Conway
Kentucky
Alan W Ashbrook
Mexican rebels seize horses at Madera ranch report
Dec 6 report says armed Mexican rebels visited an American ranch near Madera and took about 100 horses. The owner received a facelt payable on surrender to the rebel commander, with some Americans stopped while others were left unharmed.
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Douginn
Arla
Madera
Taft Urges Broad Yet Guarded Congress Agenda
Taft’s message to the 65th Congress is read in both houses. The conservative document calls for stopping new anti trust laws, supports tariffs until 1911, and seeks a permanent tariff board. It requests 19 million dollars to fortify the Panama Canal, advocates labor, banking reforms, more army officers, and federal health and immigration reforms.
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Congress
Washington
Taft
House
Senate
Wante Tarif Board
Panama Canal
Meritt's Body Buried at West Point with Military Honors
Major General Wesley Merritt, retired, was buried at West Point by lamplight with military honors. Cadet corps escorted the coffin as seventeen gun salutes marked the ceremony. A West Point graduate of 1860 Merritt served in the Civil War and later commanded the first American Army in the Philippines and served as superintendent of the academy.
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West Point
Wesley Merritt
Merritt
Wyoming
South Dakota
Philippines
Military Academy
Durango Herald Sold to Kansas Editor
Durango Colorado December 6 The Durango Evening Herald is sold by William A Bartlett to George B Munaon of Kansas who will edit and publish the paper Bartlett had bought it two months earlier 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 reports defense for Genkyo Mitsunaga rests as trial nears verdict. Neighbor Mrs. Alice Farish recalls two white men entering the Wilson home on the murder day and later fleeing. She describes a white man pushing a Japanese boy from the house before fleeing down the street.
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Denver
Genkyo Mitsunaga
Alice Farish
Wilson
Woman's & Fs
Wilson House
Mime Tetras Ain Great Singer Heads to San Francisco
Highr to sing here was noted as Mime Tetras Ain, bound for San Francisco to fulfill concert engagements under manager W. H. Leahy. Judge Lacombe ruled she could sing for Leahy under conditions, leaving her exceedingly happy.
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New York
San Francisco
W. H. Leahy
Lacombe
Leahy
Wyoming Central Not Superseded by Fremont Irrigation Concern
The New York capitalists behind the Fremont Irrigation project plan to reclaim ceded Wind River reservation lands but have become entangled in a state politics dispute. State engineers and officials face blame over mismanaging the Wyoming Central deal, as Johnston and others argue the arrangement could not proceed. The controversy extends across state departments amid the collapse of the Fremont scheme.
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New York
Fremont Irrigation Company
Auovessar
Wyoming Centra Irrigation Company
Wind River Reservation
Wyomi
Jonamton Deshans
Wyoming Central
Johnston
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