Colored regiments sail to Philippines in order to maintain foreign service
The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and Twenty-fifth Infantry, including the Black regiments, are ordered to prepare for service in the Philippines and will sail between March and June 1908. Other colored units follow to replace regiments leaving for home or reassignment, while officials defend the move as fair distribution of foreign service and not retaliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Earl
War Department
Genere Ood
Visayas
Mindanao
Fort Crook
Forts Mead and Robinson
Sixth Cavalry
Fort Mead
Eighteenth Infantry
Fort Leavenworth
Douglas
Fort San Houston
Tex
Will wed Corey Mabelle Gilman and Pittsburg Millionaire
Char H. Gilman father of actress Mabelle Gilman heads east to attend her wedding to William E. Corey. He travels with Eunice and Carl Gilman as they await a Paris telegram confirming plans at the Pittsburg millionaire’s New York mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabelle Gilman
Pittsburg
Milllionaire
San Francisco
Char H. Gilman
Sheas
William E. Corey
Carnegie
Littl
Eunice Gilman
Carl Gilman
Paris
Corey
New York
Electric Line To Denver Chartered By Chicago Southwestern
The Chicago and Southwestern Electric Railway received a charter for a 250 million dollar electric line project. The route will run from Chicago to Denver passing Joliet Mendota Rock Island Moline Galesburg Pekin Streator Bloomington East St Louis in Illinois St Louis Jefferson City Sedalia Independence Kansas City St Joseph in Missouri Davenport Muscatine Des Moines Council Bluffs Omaha Lincoln Topeka Junction City Minneapolis Osborne Stockton and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie, Okl
Jan
Chcago
Southwestern Electric
Raiway
Chicago
Denver
Joliet
Mendota
Rock Island
Moline
Galesburg
Pearly Pekin
Streator
Bloomington
Towa
Omaha, Lincoln
Tobia
Superior
Nebraska
Kansas City
Lawrence
Topeka
Junction City
Minneapolis
Osborne
Stockton
Incomplete OCR Fragment on Interstate Corridor Planning
Fragmentary text cites cities Kansas Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and mentions a 2400 mile length with a 100 million dollar cost. Names P M Daniel and Louis Fk Rabe Chicago appear as principal incorporators with centers in Chicago and Guihrie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colorado
P. M. Danvnd Louis Fk. Rabe
Chicago
Centra Shees
Guihrie
Macklin's Assassin Believed Found at Fort Reno
A khaki jacket found at Fort Reno linked Corporal Knowles of the Twenty-fifth Infantry to the December 2 assault on Captain Edgar B. Macklin. The suspect, a colored soldier, was arrested after a bullet wound on his wrist and a severed flesh wound on his fist. Authorities claim the jacket points to Knowles as the masked shooter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Reno
Guthrie
Okl
Allet
Knowles
Fort
el Reno
Macklin
Dixon Likely Montana Senator Succeeds Clark
Congress hopeful Joseph M. Dixon of Missoula is slated to replace W Clark as U S senator on March 4 with 45 GOP pledges, giving him the nomination and near certainty. Former Senator Lee Mantle stands as active rival though Dixon appears favored while others like F Augustus Heinze and T A Maree are mentioned as dark horses. The call for the January 13 session sets the stage for the January 15 final ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ahn M. Dixon
Senate
Montana
Helena
Mont
Joseph M. Dixon
Missoula
W Clark
United States
Olarch
Ixon
Setor Lee Mantle
Butte
Lantle
Cae
Seral
F. Augustus Heinze
Tutte Copper King
T. A. Marewe
Suits Ask Rest of Mrs Lillie’s Insurance Money
In David City Nebraska on January 9 the bulk of eight thousand dollars due on the life insurance of Mrs Lillie Lillie’s husband is tied up in court actions. Only a portion of the fraternal policy has been paid to the family while other insurers contest the balance. The Ben Hur fraternal society paid 750 dollars for the daughter Edn ut. Modern Woodmen claims 3001 dollars and A O U W paid 2000 dollars for the girl with waivers of further claims. Mrs Lillie is seeking release from a life sentence previously granted by Governor Micke.
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Reater
David City
Neb
Lillie’usband
Ben Hur
Edn
Lilie
Gov. Micke
Nebraska
Destitution in Washington Distracts Aid Efforts
Cable from J. T. M. McRea reports 100000 destitute in China relief area, confirmed by missionaries. Viceroy Tuan Fong estimates the number as winter crisis worsens, with five month harvests noted and suffering intensifying, affecting an area nearly the size of New York state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
R. Lewis Kloptsch
Ch Hristian Herald
New York
J. T. M. McRea
Chinese Relief Committee
Chinang
Tuan Fong
New York State
Smelter Workers Vote 60 Cent Day Raise at Montana Plant
In Great Falls Montana a three to one vote by the local Mill and Smelter Workers Union endorses shifting management of the Boston and Montana Smelter to provide a 60 cent daily raise for all employees on change shifts. About three thousand workers would be affected after years of earning $3 a day.
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Great Falls
Mont
E ‘En
Thoston
Montana
Mont, Mill
Union vote seeks 80 cent daily raise for Boston and Montana staff
By a 9 to 1 vote the Great Falls Montana Mill and Smelter Men's Union demands from management an 80 cent daily raise for 3000 workers on changing shifts across departments at the Boston and Montana smelter.
Lottery Law Excerpt Warns Against Gift Lotteries
Lead Daily Call reprints Sec. 3894 banning any lottery or gift enterprise ads by mail or publication. It prohibits advertisements, tickets, prizes lists, or related items in mail service and criticizes penalties. Violators face misdemeanor charges, fines up to 500 dollars, or imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Call
United
Devery
Cat Tries to Catch Artificial Mice Sets Tree on Fire
Charles Rogers of Elizabeth New Jersey set up a Christmas tree in his dining room with candles sardines and artificial mice to entertain his cat Maria The cat leaped into the branches knocking the candles causing a fire that damaged the dining room Neighbors helped extinguish the flames Rogers vowed to wait before another attempt
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Charles Rogers
Elizabeth
N. J
Dama
Maria
Rogers
Rogers Beore
Too Pretty to Hold Job in San Francisco Stenography
Miss B McKeen deputy clerk and stenographer for the appellate court will be removed by judges J A Cooper Frank H Kerman and Samuel P Hall because she is deemed too pretty for a race involving contact with men. gossip claims jealous wives oppose exposing husbands to her radiant influence and prefer a man as stenographer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Jan. C
B. McKeen
Appellate Court
Frost beats back saloon men in Evanston police post
Colonel A S Frost, famed for the Philippines service and now Evanston Illinois chief of police, faces opposition from saloon keepers and blind pig operators as tensions rise in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Frost
Philippines
Evanston, Il
Assassination Attempt Threatens Chicago Suburb Chief
The Chicago Chronicle reports a plotted attack on police Chief Frost. While in the Black Hills for the 1000 campaign he urged liquor law enforcement. Locals angered by his stance have sent threats and a rock shattered the Frost home window injuring his daughter.
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Cago
Chicago Chronicle
Frost
Black Hills
Terry
Republican Party
Money and Manners in a Busy Modern Age
An exchange laments the erosion of courtesy amid rising wealth. It argues that increased money brings less refined behavior, with manners shrinking to weddings and official events while everyday civility fades. The piece warns the old school of courtesy is vanishing without a new standard.
Empire Builder Parkman dies who introduced alfalfa to the West
Harrison Parkman, hailed as the man who brought alfalfa from South America to the United States, died in Topeka Kansas. The plant transformed farming across the arid and semiarid west making alfalfa the dependable fodder crop and backbone of ranching in New Mexico Arizona southern California western Kansas Colorado and western Nebraska.
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Topeka
Kan
West
Southwest
Harrison Parkman
South America
Parkman
New Mexico
Arizona
Californa
Kanasas
Colorado
Nebraska
Imperial Valley
Califoria
Salto Sea
Harriman Says Illness Not Serious Despite Reports
E. H. Harriman released a personal statement from New York on January 10 denying serious illness after an unromantic operation. He asserted he is not in danger and expects to go out at once, countering widespread speculation about his health.
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New York
E. H. Harriman
Dual Lives Behind Philadelphia Bank Bomb Murder
Steele, who exploded a bomb in a Philadelphia bank killing himself and the cashier and injuring several, led a double life with a Chicago wife and children and another wife and son in a Virgin town. His income failed Mormon obligations and, after a bank refused 65 000, he hurled the deadly missile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele
Philadelphia
Chicago
Senators Rule Out Chinese Labor For Canal Build
The Congressional committee aboard the Panama declares Chinese workers unnecessary for completing the Isthmian Canal. Senator Flint and Congressman McKinley oppose Chinese labor, praising current workers as adequate and content, while Rep. FF. Os. Dickson of Illinois voices strong opposition to adding Chinese labor.
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Panama
Yors
Jan
Congressional Committee of Twelve
Isthmian Canal
Jim
McKiney
Flint
McKinley
FF. OS. Dickson
Ilinois
Milwaukees Elks Ban Treating In Lodge Room Start Of Temperance Move
Milwaukee lodge No. 46 B P O E adopts a resolution forbidding members to treat or accept a drink in the lodge clubhouse from January 2 1907 onward. Visiting Elks from other lodges are exempt. A Wisconsin assemblyman plans to introduce a state anti treating bill next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Lodge
Milwakee
Wis
Temperance Workers of
Protective Order of Elks
Wisconsin
Madison New Week
Pneumonia Deaths Tied to Gas Service Famine in Los Angeles
Dr. L M H Peers of the city board of health reports thirty one pneumonia related deaths in Los Angeles over recent weeks linked to poor gas service and fuel shortages. Gas pressure disruptions caused several near fatalities for residents including Mr and Mrs Turn Marble and Perry Vickerson.
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Los Angeles
L. M. H. Peers
Board of Health
Turn Marble
West Jefferson Street
Perry Vickerson
South Main Street
Brother vs. Brother in Persian succession crisis
Reports from Luristan say the shah's third son has raised an army of 10 000 to march on Teheran and seize the throne. Mohammed Ali Mirza is due to be crowned in twenty two days despite a lunar month's unlucky forecast. The 25 year old commander is fearless and well liked by troops, a delay that may allow bloodshed before a potential royal struggle. The shah's death was announced Wednesday and his body lies in state for burial.
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Teheran
Persia
Luristan
Shah
Mohammed Ali Mirza
Dividend Declared By Cripple Creek Bank
Reports from the First National Bank of Cripple Creek show a strong institution with a quarterly dividend of 20 per share. The bank's capitalized stock, surplus, and undivided profits total 55,545.24 with deposits at 1,014,826.20.
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Cripple Creek
First National Bank of
Escaped patient tells of privation in pest house
Lincoln reports a man named W. H. Rodes escaped from Alliance pest house and drove to the governor's private office to recount a tale of hardship. He claimed his wife and children were confined without food or aid, and alleged other smallpox patients faced similar neglect. Governor Sheldon dispatched doctors Brash and Sward to investigate.
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Lincoln, Neb
Alliance
Wealthy anarchists exposed by Emma Goldman at arraignment
Emma Goldman in Essex market court described a society of anarchists including wealthy Manhattan residents. She claimed leaders in Fifth Avenue life attend meetings, fund causes, and subscribe to her magazine. She refused to name members, warning imprisonment if pressed.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Emma Goldman
Essex Market Court
Clinton Hall
Anarchist Society
Miss Goldman
Manhattan
Oklahoma moves to own coal lands through new commission
Oklahoma constitutional convention authorizes a permanent coal and asphalt commission to survey segregated coal lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and negotiate state purchase. The panel, reporting to the governor, is expected to push state ownership and operation of the lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Evangelist Warns 1907 Seen as Judgment Year
J H Gramps, a western evangelist now in Fort Plain New York, says a recent vision shows the judgment day near and 1907 as the first year. He issued a Timely Warning From God to You urging immediate salvation and plans revival meetings in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. H. Gramps
Fort Plain
N. 1
Gramps
Tenth Cavalry Prepares for Philippines Deployment
Fort Meade led by Captain Cole in Colonel Rodgers absence guides practice marches and service drills as Troop F completes an eighteen mile ride this week. The Tenth cavalry plans to sail from San Francisco to the Philippines by February 1.
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Sturgis
S. C
Cole
Fort Meade
Rodgers
Washington, D. C
Tenth Cavalry
San Franecisco
Philippines
Leonard McLashan Dies in California Hospital
Leonard McLashan a wealthy retired manufacturer and early user of Niagara Falls power for industry died of ty phoid fever in a California hospital. He founded the silver and nickel plate industry at Niagara Falls and is credited with the idea of utilizing the waterfall’s power.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Jan. A
Leonard McLashan
Niagara Falls
California
McLashan
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Smelter
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