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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1906
Page
7
The article notes the national government taking over homeless aid in San Francisco with U.S. Army quarters masters distributing rations across 58 stations. Citizens report improving conditions, business resumes, and strict price controls as Mayor Schmitz and police coordinate civil and military efforts amid ongoing recovery.
San Francisco officials coordinate Red Cross and city relief with auditing of funds. Vigilance committees are disarmed as terror and looting fears rise amid water restrictions. Maj Gen A W Greely named new Pacific Division commander and warns against unauthorized patrols.
In Des Moines the defense for Modern Brotherhood of America argues the riverbody found with hands tied was not George Griswold. It will claim the clothes were bought by Griswold for another purpose and the body may be someone else. The case likely won’t hear until September term.
The general hospital is full of parents but no serious sickness is found. Tonsillitis and colds prevail while medical authorities are confident that no epidemic will break out.
Old men and women without means wander city streets seeking shelter and rest under flimsy roofs as night falls, awaiting another hopeless dawn.
As a ferry rider reaches the Mission and Howard streets area in San Francisco the scene reveals widespread hardship among the poorer classes seen along these main routes.
A conference of commercial bank officials appointed a general committee to pay depositors and make all necessary arrangements for the resumption of business.
About 2,500 patients are being cared for in San Mateo as many from San Francisco are moved there. The mansion of the late Alvina Hayward has been turned into a hospital with San Mateo supplying aid to San Francisco.
At San Mateo the Southern Pacific depot was wrecked and damage was heavy as telegraph and telephone poles and wires collapsed with the structure. The incident disrupted lines and impacted nearby services in the area.
The steamer Alameda docked Wednesday bearing 10 000 sacks of refined sugar and over 62 000 sacks of raw sugar plus coffee rice and 4000 banana bunches for relief. News of the earthquake and fire reached Honolulu hours before departure and officers described delays and confusion as cable operations halted.
General Greely asks Congress for more federal troops to curb disorder in San Francisco. He cites complaints against unruly militiamen and urges withdrawal of those irresponsible elements to restore order.
Chicago insurers report from San Francisco representatives that the total loss may reach 60 percent of the city's stakes with expectations of large salvage as salvage operations proceed and Wildfire damage is assessed.
District judges Howe McHenry and Brennan met at Judge Howe’s office to renew their pledge to stop spending on reelection campaigns. They discussed others spending on campaigning and agreed to conduct campaigns without financial expenditure. They routinely reject loan and charity solicitations for campaign support. The report also notes the Iowa Anti-Saloon League pursuing 22 cases against Chickasaw County druggists and saloonkeepers, with seven New Hampton saloonkeepers included. The Fifty-first regiment plans a July August march from Red Oak to Atlantic with camp at Atlantic and a regimental review in Des Moines before return.
Iowa fire insurance companies expect no losses from Pacific coast disasters since none of the Iowa firms has operated in that region.
The Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern Electric Railway known as the Newton and Northwestern road filed eighteen deeds to right of way property along the line north from this city. Elbert, the right-of-way agent, says all of the right of way for the new Des Moines Fort Dodge segment has been purchased except one parcel in the northern county, for which condemnation proceedings will be started. This will be the sole condemnation suit the company faces in Polk county.
Mrs May Daugherty of Des Moines accuses B R B Daugherty of threats to throw their baby into a burning stove and ongoing abuse. She cites habitual drunkenness and a prior IS illegitimate child and seeks divorce and $10 weekly alimony. She married in Adel on Sept 23 1903. The article also notes a Western Millinery association convention in Des Moines May 15 and 16 and reports Fort Dodges J P Conner being renominated by the Republican district convention. Rosa H Gillispie of Des Moines sues district court for $10000 after complications from two surgeries at Methodist hospital beginning July 12 1905 and a pad wound discovery.
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