White to be Chief Justice as Taft nominates new court slate
President Taft nominates Edward Douglass White to be chief justice and names Willis Van Devanter Joseph Rucker Lamar as associates. The slate includes A Knapp chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission and several district and circuit judges for a new court of commerce and interstate bodies. Confirmation follows with swift senate action.
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Washington
Edward Douglass White
United States Supreme Court
Fuller
Justice White
Supreme Court
New Court of Ecommerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
T Taft
Immely
Ite
Justice
Court of Customs Appeals
United States
District of Montana
John Emmet Carland
South Dakota
Court of Commerce
Arthur C. Denison
Ruise
Michigan
Julian W. Mack
Opellate
Inois
H. MH. Meyer
Wisconsin
C. C. McChord
Kentucky
Knapp
Higher Wages or Strike Engineers Threaten Rail Lines
Chicago December 12 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers delivered to the Railroad Association a demand for higher wages or a strike. President Warren B Stone announced the vote was 97.5 percent in favor of striking if needs are not met. Employers offered 10 percent raise, engineers moved to 17 percent.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Railroad Association
Warren 8. Stone
Brotherhood
Stone
Reward to informer in Pole Mountain theft case
Washington war department orders distribution of a $500 reward for the stakeout of the gang who stole the army paymaster’s case containing $6,600 at Pole Mountain last August. BE. M. Sandy gets $400 while two policemen share $100 for aiding recovery of over $4,000 in this city.
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Fort Russell
War Department
Washington
Army
Pole Mountain
Department
BE. M. Sandy
Dale Creek
Potiee Force
Subcommittee Cleared Lorimer Bribery Charges
Washington report notes the senate subcommittee found no proof of bribery charges over Senator Lorimer’s election. The panel will draft a report for the full committee.
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Washington
Senate Committee
Lorimer of
Tuinels
Postal deficit 18 reduced eleven millions
Washington reports a twelve month drop in the post office department deficit by 11.5 million dollars. The annual tally shows the previous year’s deficit at 17.6 million, with the year ended June 30 producing an excess of expenditures over receipts of 5.843 million.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Frank Hi. Hitchens
Postal Service
Governor Stubbs Attacks Rail Conspiracy and Trusts
Governor W R Stubbs of Kansas denounces railroad price hikes and trusts as violations of antitrust laws. He condemns corporate fines and praises plain business discourse while criticizing masters of finance for undermining supply and demand. The address stresses federal commerce, Sherman Act, and transportation as a key national issue.
Mlaghlan on Murder Trial After Wife’s Death
Janes Mclachlan a bartender is tried for first degree murder in district court for the September shooting that killed his wife and left him wounded. Jury panels have been exhausted with 160 names called and four venues used. Mrs Margaret Newman is named as prosecuting witness.
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Janes McLachlan
John Charles Thompson
Sou
Hughes
Margaret Newman
MacLachlan
Bellevue disaster victims and hero rescuer identified
Fernie British Columbia bodies recovered from the Friday Bellevue explosion. Most victims are workers of West Canadian Collieries. Fred Auldeerson, a mine foreman at the Hoaman mine, saved a companion by giving his helmet before succumbing to after-damp.
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Fernie
B. C
Bellevue
Weat Canadian Collieries Company
Fred Auldeorson
Mre Boas
Hoaman
Orphanage Fire in Springfield Claims Child Victim
A Springfield orphanage fire in the evening killed seven year old Ralph Barnes as forty three children prayed before bed. The building burned completely with a loss of 15,000 dollars. fourteen babies were rescued from the flames.
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Springfield
Ralph Barnes
Barnes
Clairvoyant helps city recover stolen chickens
In Middletown a local clairvoyant provided information that aided police in catching thieves who had stolen chickens from residents including Jeese Hogendamp of Philipburg. The suspect list was cleared as the birds were recovered.
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Middletown
Jeese
Llogendamp
Gt Philiipevurg
Atoleo
State Leader Wyoming’s Best Read Local Paper
Wyoming readers favor the State Leader for tailored coverage of local news and the coming legislature. It claims to publish more Wyoming news than any rival and delivers reliable reports to Cheyenne residents seeking a home state paper.
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Wyoming
Chéyenne
State Leader
Woman leader rises in Mexican freedom movement
In Mexico, Senora Dolores Medrano and her rebel junta, arrested in Torreon, direct communications from Madero to insurrecto chiefs in Chihuahua and Coahuila. Reports place Madero moving between San Diego and Colima en route to Guadalajara and Zacatecas.
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Douglas
Aris
Mexico
Senora Dolores Medrano
Torreon
Madero
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Kilpatrick Bros Win Cheyenne Wellington Rail Contract
Reports say Kilpatrick Bros of Beatrice Nebraska secured the Cheyenne to Wellington link contract on the Puget Sound to Q uit railroad, with forces to start at both ends toward each other. The price is reported to be well over 1 million dollars.
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Cheyenne- Wellington
Puget Sound
Kilpatrick Bros
Beatrice
Nebraska
Former King Manuel Dependent on Friends
Rome December 12 The Tribune prints an interview with a prominent royalist about Manuel II exiled king of Portugal. Lacking funds he lives with the Duke of Orleans at Wood Norton England and cannot pay his servants. He hopes to be restored to power as friends foresee a congress of powers settling Portugal’s affairs.
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Rome
the Tribune Today
Manuel II
Portugal
Manuel
Duke of Orleans
Wood Norton
Eversham
England
Woman Found Frozen to Death on Milwaukee Lake Front
Milwaukee on December 12. Mrs Ferdinand Caesar fifty seven? No, seventy age misprint. After leaving her home while sleepwalking she sat on a block of ice on the lake front and was found frozen to death. Searchers thought she gazed out over Lake Michigan as she sat motionless.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lake Front
Lake Michigan
Ferdinand Caesar
Hattie LeBlanc
Miss Walsh
Airs
Glover
Central Street
Waltham Common
International Conference Arranged After Prolonged Talks
The state department announced the successful completion of long continued negotiations for an international hospital conference. All nations addressed by the department prepared to confer on May 10 at The Hague with one exception.
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Weahifigtos
State Department
Oday
The
Hague
Monkey Grieves Death of Lexington Grocer
In Lexington Kentucky a grocer named L L Prather died last Friday. His pet monkey named Billy, imported from South Africa two years earlier, mourned the loss and later was deemed insane by the family physician after showing unmanageable behavior when the body was removed. The monkey cried pitifully and refused food following the death.
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Lexington
Ll. K. Prather
Phaician
Billy
South Africa
Mr. Prater
Death of Amelia Folaom Young in Utah at 72
Amelia Folaom Young widow of Brigham Young died at her East Leake Utah home on Sunday aged 72 after three years of paralysis. She played a key role in early Utah history and Brigham Young built what was called Amelia’s palace among show places in Galt City.
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Brigham Young
East Leake City
Utah
Amelia Folaom Young
Mra Vune
Amelia
Galt City
Bond Proposal Would Prohibit Gun Purchases in Colorado
Representative-elect A. C. Newton of Colorado proposes a bill to ban carrying weapons and require a purchaser to post a $5,000 bond. The measure licenses dealers and records all deadly weapons sales, spurred by the Grace Hurgner shooting incident. Newton plans to present it when the legislature convenes next month.
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Grand Junction
Colo
A. C. Newton
Grace Hurgener
W. 8. Marshall
Newton
Growth of Banks Shows Prosperity
Washington reports a record year of banking growth with the comptroller’s annual review. National banks reached 7,000 institutions with loans and discounts at 5.4 billion dollars and assets near one billion in resources, while overall U S banks total over 27,000 with near two billion in capital and deposits approaching sixteen billion.
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Washington
United States
Comptroller of the Currency
Congress
Currency Bureau
Ite Island
Comptroller
Olympia Wreck Survivor Log Bravery Cited
Wireless operator Valdez Alaska reports the liner Olympia wreck off Dreary Blight island in Prince William Sound. Of 126 aboard all were saved except three crew members who remained aboard until rescue efforts failed. Passengers praise Captain James Daniela and crew for bravery amid a two ship ordeal starting Seattle December 1 and including a prior Falke Bay grounding.
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Valdez
Alaska
Jce
Olympia
Cordova
Galden
Seattle
Northwestern
Falke Bay
San Juan
Olympica
James Daniela
Danish Frauds Total Five Million Dollars Case in Copenhagen
The Danish forgery case against the minister of justice official Alberti concludes after two and a half years. The indictment details charges of forgery and falsification of accounts totaling 5.4 million dollars. Final examination completed, a severe sentence expected.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Tertminister of Justice
Herr
Alberti
Wickersham Report Details Vast Fraud Against Government
Washington reports Attorney General Wickersham’s annual review as a sweeping account of frauds against the United States. It cites trusts and conspiracies to defeat laws, tax and revenue frauds, rebates, mall schemes, and anti trust violations. Convictions and fines mark the year as enforcement advances in trust cases and land prosecutions.
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Wickersham
Congress
Internal Revenue
Department of Justice
Wickereham
Tobacco Tr Standard
Suger
Rust
Harel
Pan Oe Tan Era Trust
Powder Ae Ee Railway Association
Louis
Towing
Great Lakes
James A. Patten
Cote Tan
Beef Trust
Gracera! Trust
Brick Trust
Bath Rub Trust
Paper Trust
Window Glass Trust
Department
Anldwtul Fendi Lng
Oregan California A Iroad Company
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