Rebels Defy Warning and Draw Up Cannon on Border
Rebels under Rojas camp near Agua Prieta three miles from Douglas as U S. troops guard the line. Rojas defies U S warnings about firing into American territory and orders three cannons forward. General Schuyler declines comment while U S. cavalry reinforce the border amid fears of intervention.
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U. S
CANON
Douglas
Ariz
Agua Prieta
Rojas
United States
Schuyler
Department of the Flest
War Department
Rossat
Invasion of Mexico Reported Across Border
A Douglas Arizona dispatch says 29 Americans crossed into Sonora east of Douglas and 125 into Ibarra near Hachita New Mexico while 125 moved into Baja California at Mexicali. Another 50 entered Naco and Douglas area, all with a thousand rounds each. Leader identified as E O Reilly, a border journalist and former Madero rebel fighter.
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Tex
Mexico
Arizona
The
Herald
Douglas
Ariz
Géneva
O'Reilly
Madero
Wilson ties tariff to high living cost at Syracuse fair
Governor Wilson addressed over 11 000 on the New York state fair grounds condemning the tariff as a malignant growth. He said high living costs stem from its operation and vowed to "cut" the deadly thing out. He criticized Roosevelt, joked about his looks, and was joined by Tammany figure Boss Murphy in the audience.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Wilson
Beef Trust
New York
Boss Murphy
Tammany
State Committee
City to Fine Owners of Immoral Housing District
The city council plans an ordinance to fine owners of West End properties used for immorality. A police board list shows about 30 houses in the segregated district. owners may pay 50 dollars monthly, while larger 16 room houses charge 200 dollars to tenants and 75 to 150 dollars to ordinary renters. The measure targets owners and renters alike to curb profiteering.
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City Counsell
Police Board
Grainger
Ecomel
Ttfe
Domestic beet seed may replace foreign stock
Washington September 12 Foreign grown sugar beet seed that underpins the U S beet sugar industry may be abandoned as the Department of Agriculture plans extensive experiments to see if high grade seeds can be produced domestically.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States
Wyoming Governor urged to quarantine amid horse disease spread
Letter to Governor Carey from A S Mercer warns of a contagious equine disease racing through Kansas and near Wyoming’s northern border. Mercer urges immediate state quarantine and mobilization of guards at lines to prevent horse movement and protect beef and mutton shipments.
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Carey
Mercer
Biainess
Kansas
Chicago
Joseph M. Carey
Cheyenne
Wyo
Kanagas
Nebraska
Ferst
Pig Horn
Johnson and
Sheridan
Wyoming Geologist Praises Casper Oil Fields Prospects
State geologist Jamison and assistant Trask concluded two months of Caspar and Salt Creek field work in Cheyenne. They report Casper oil is superior to California's and Salt Creek yields 720 barrels daily from 50 wells while Shannon adds 300 barrels from 34 wells. They warn Salt Creek lacks refining capacity.
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L. M. Trask
Cheyenne
Casper
Shannon
Salt Creek
Jamison
Wyoming
California
State Capitol
Lieut Chant to Face Court Martial on Forgery and Desertion
Second Lieutenant Earle M. Chant, of the Eleventh United States Infantry, arrested in New York for forging the paymaster’s signature on a $110 voucher, is turned over to military authorities at Fort Jay and will be tried by general court martial on charges including forgery, obtaining money under false pretenses, and desertion. Evidence from Fort Russell will be sent to Governors Island for the trial. Chant was held in $2,000 bail by a magistrate, with the case connected to events near Broadway and Nassau Street.
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Polo Mountain
New York
Fort Jay
Fort
D. A. Russell
Chant
Fort Russell
Governors Island
New York World
Harlington
West Twenty-seventh Street
Kitts
Dougherty
W. P. Kitts
Fort PD
A. Russell
Broadway
Criterion Exchange Company
No. 140
Nassau Street
National Nassau Bank
Governor's
Jeland
Tomba Court
Murphy
Want Ad Answers From Leader Classifieds
Uncalled for responses listed including names M N BK M G Wi Box K L B B M M A B Little Widow B42 G H BB with quantities. Items appear as a follow up to classified ads.
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M. G
Box K
L. B
B. M
M. B
A. B
Little Widow
H. BB
Johnsons White Wife Ends Life After Caring For Champion
Chicago dispatch reports Etta Duyea Johnson, white wife of boxer Jack Johnson, died by suicide after years of caring for him during his nervous prostration following injuries in the Jeffries fight. The inquest found death by self act while temporarily insane. Johnson testified she had saved him from choking himself twice and that their personal crisis remained secret.
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Chicago
Etta Duyea Johnson
Jack Johnson
Jeffries
Johnson
Champion's Saloon
Etta Duryea
Clarence Duryea
New York
Percy Hoyt Due From Calgary
Cheyenne horseman Percy Hoyt hosted a group of Calgary business men with a Wild West show trip. Advices say Hoyt, who traveled with a special Pullman, is expected to return today. He reportedly covered all expenses for the party, and traveled with horses and two outlaws in a special car.
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Terey Hoyt
Calgary
Alberta
Canada
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Hoyt
Frisco Quake Causes Light Shocks No Damage
A slight earthquake shock was felt in Frisco at about 28 o clock this morning. The tremor was perceptible but caused no damage or alarm. Reports of minor shocks extended as far south as San Jose, about fifty miles away.
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San Francis"o
San Jose
How the High Tariff Helps The Laborers
An analysis debunks calls that high tariffs aid workers. Data from the Interstate Commerce Commission shows average wages in 1910 across engineers telegraphers and station men and track workers, with wages lagging behind price inflation. The Senate wages and hours committee notes prices rose faster than money wages, while a 1910 building trades wage table shows wide hourly gaps from bricklayers to painters. The piece cites a Republican tariff platform praising tariff benefits to resources industries and workers against foreign competition.
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Senate Committee On
United States
Byron W. Holt
Friday the 13th Office Cat Entangled in Press
The Leader's pressman Charley Steise reports the office cat became entangled in two press cogs shortly after midnight on Friday the 13th. The cat was seriously mangled but expected to survive. The incident followed the superstition that Friday the 13th brings misfortune.
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Charles Steise
Charley
Charles
Chas
Doomed in Cheyenne rain as 24 drown in flood
A Cheyenne incident reports twenty four deaths from a heavy afternoon rain flood at Fifteenth and Snyder streets. Citizens failed to rescue others amid deep water and dangerous currents, leaving authorities unable to save those trapped on the street.
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Fifteenth
Snyder Streets
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