Roosevelt First Delegate Amid Taft Losses At Convention Fight
Chicago dispatch reports Roosevelt won one delegate in the Republican National Committee hearings, with Taft claiming seventeen. Kentucky sent the lone Roosevelt delegate, while Taft placed four delegates at large. The committee plan includes Fairbanks as resolutions chair and Root as temporary chairman, with Barnes likely floor leader. The Roosevelt forces plan a mass meeting Friday in Chicago to open the convention week.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
National Committee
Taft
Kentucky
Ben Lindsey
Denver
Stubbs
Kaneas
Johnson
California
Cummins and
la Follette
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indiana
Thomas H. Devine
Colorado
United States
Newell Sanders
Tennessee
William Barnes Jr
New York
Republican State Committee
Crane
Massachusetts
Saunders
LaFayette B. Gleason
Barnes
Elihu Root
Root
Haines
National Taft
Mvernor Hadley
Missouri
Roosevelt furious as delegates desert cause at convention
Chicago June 11 Roosevelt Generals faced a shock as fourteen personal national committeemen voted with Taft to seat four Indiana delegates based on alleged crooked representations. Roosevelt condemned the action while Borah defended the Taft delegates. Gloom spread through Roosevelt ranks as contests were debated. page 6 follows.
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Taft
Indiana
Cologne
Albert J. Beveridge
Edwin M. Lee
Frederick Landis
Charles H. Campbell
Mr. Roosevelt
Dixon
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Scrces
TAPT
Borah
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Roosevelt Camp
Congress
Tll
Coliseum
Alabama
Wyoming Institution for Defectives Opens in Lander
The Wyoming Board of Charities and Reform opens the Wyoming School for Defectives in Lander on June 20. Admission is open to state residents over six. costs for under eighteen are 4.60 per week and 7.50 for those over eighteen. County commissioners or district courts may commit eligible residents at county expense, with care per school rules.
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City OF Lander
State of
Wyoming
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Wyoming School For Defectives
Lander
Toth
Legal Guardiana
Board of County Commissioners
Wyoming State Hospital
Denver Bank Held Up at Closing Hour by 85-Year-Old
In Denver Colorado on June 11 an elderly man named J Caldwell aged 85 entered the State Mercantile bank just before closing, pointed a pistol at teller Earl Funk, and forced $115 in gold from the till. Caldwell fled but was pursued by police, who fired and captured him. his wife remains in custody as a witness.
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Denver
Colo
J. Caldwell
Mercantile Bank
Earl B. Funk
Caldwell
Spokane
Wanted Toy Breaks Rules As Store Scene Moves
A young child, likely under six, attempted to steal a small toy in a department store. A policeman staged a pretend arrest to deter a repeat. The crowd reacted with morbid humor as the boy pleaded for release, highlighting poverty and desire for a cheap bauble.
Plane crash kills Lieut Hazelhurst and Welch
Lieut Leighton W Hazelhurst of Macon Georgia and A L Welch of Washington were killed at 6 PM when a Wright type army airplane at the College Park aviation school plunged to the ground and wrecked.
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College Park
Leighton W. Hazelhurst
Seventeenh Infantry
U.S. A
Macon
A. L. Welch
Washington
Army
Army Aviation School
Emerson Story of Expose of Warren Sparks Blackmail Claims
The Grand Encampment Herald notes Cheyenne and New York reports that Willis Emerson’s muckraking piece on Senator Warren vanished from a magazine editor’s office and that Warren’s secretary allegedly held a copy. Emerson replies that the blackmail tale is absurd and the manuscript disappearance caused only publication delays.
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Warren
Hearst
Grand Encampment Herald
Drury
Wyoming
Cheyenne Tribune
Willis Geo. Emerson
Tribune
Cheyenne
Mr. Emerson
Hmnernon
New York
New York City
Looting of An Empire Sparks Wyoming Recall Effort
The author denounces libel claims about offering to sell his Wyoming story and asserts it was sold and paid before writing. He recounts rewriting the piece for Hearst publications and says editors anticipate Cosmopolitan and Hearst Magazine publication. He argues Wyoming citizens will recall Senator Warren and dismantle his machine.
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Hearst's
Wyoming
William Randolph Wearst
Hearst
Sewell Haggard
Cosmopolitan
Curat
Mr. Teprat
A Publications
Warren
United States
Bo Long
300000 Transport Workers Ordered To Strike In England
London June 11 Three hundred thousand transport workers would quit work and all foreign and coastwise shipping would be tied up indefinitely if the Transport Workers Federation general council’s telegrams to every port in Great Britain are obeyed. Shipping interests rejected a government backer plan for employer organization with payment guarantees.
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London
General Council of the Transport Workers’ Federation
Great Britain
London Transport Workers’ Federation
Yeur
Transport Workers’ Federation
Sailors’ and Firemen's Union
London Tricksmen’s Union
Class of 22 to Graduate From Wyo U
The twenty-second annual commencement at the University of Wyoming will be held Thursday with twenty two graduates earning degrees and diplomas. Among them Miss Harriet Elizabeth DeForest and Miss Marie Helena Hartiman of Laramie will receive School of Music diplomas. DeForest is daughter of George and Mary DeForest and the first music graduate whose parent was also a graduate. Hartiman is a noted violinist and singer. Lulu Marquardt, daughter of Professor William Marquardt, is also a School of Music graduate.
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Laramie
Wyo
University of Wyoming
Miss DeForest
George
Mary DeForest
Behood of Music
DeForest
Mothe
Miss Hardman
James Mardman
Mike Lulu Marquardt
William Marguardt
Imuele
Mufir
Prominent Cheyenne Merchant Frank Kelley Dies Suddenly
Frank Kelley a well known Cheyenne businessman died suddenly of pneumonia after a brief trip to Douglas. He was born in Cheyenne in 1878 and worked for Kelley Mercantile Co. for many years. He leaves his wife and siblings, with funeral plans to be announced.
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Cheyeum
Dougina
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Treath
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A D. Kelley
Cheyente
All Water
Houghs
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Douglas
Kulley
Mhlverne
Ward Kelley
Douglaw
Theody
Rank Kelley
Cheyenne
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Italy
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Orace
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Mea
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Kiks
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