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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
5
Chicago February 26. Railway workers from major lines prepare to oppose proposed wage reductions. Leaders warn a strike could halt most roads while executives push for cuts due to reduced earnings. Over 300000 employees affected with conferences planned across the country.
A segmented listing names railroads and cities including Erie Ohio Central Toronto Hamilton Buffalo Vandalia Susquehanna Delaware Lackawanna Western Chicago Great Western Milwaukee St Paul Rock Island Union Pacific Wisconsin Central and related lines.
The census department reports 4120 deaths and 11007 births for 1907 with a net gain of 6968. Pneumonia and old age top the causes, while tuberculosis and heart disease are also listed with the numbers. Highest death rate is Stanley county at 20.3 per thousand. Sully county is lowest at 6 per thousand.
Intercollegiate Debating League contests bring Columbia Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania together in New York Ithaca and Philadelphia tonight. Miss Elizabeth E Cook of Cornell Law ads notable first for a woman participant. Columbia includes W K Koo a full blooded Chinese junior whose Shanghai upbringing and education preceded Columbia enrollment in 1906. The motion asks whether interstate corporations should be licensed by the federal government with constitutional rights debated by the three teams.
Oregon pleads that the state’s initiative and referendum law violates the U S Constitution in a case brought by the state against the Pacific States Telephone Telegraph and Sunset Telephone companies. The suit seeks 9500 dollars in taxes claimed under the franchise tax law in Multnomah County. Judge Cleland heard arguments from eminent counsel amid anticipation of a ruling.
Pete T. Baird died after drinking whiskey and water at J W Vickers saloon. A coroner’s jury ruled death from cyanide in water but could not determine if it was intentional or accidental. District Attorney Hugo Selig and doctors examined viscera in Denver. Police ordered saloons closed at midnight and on Sundays.
Boston Feb 24 Chief Brockbank reports Wakefield anarchists meeting in woods near town listening to stirring speeches by Patterson N J and local leaders. Giuseppe Ahio once lived in Wakefield and is linked to the Denver murder, with factory foreman recalling him. Police prepare for a grand coup as they watch for further plots amid circulating anti government circulars.
W Z Kinney of Denver manager of the Gold King mine and H M Soule of the owning company received skull and crossbones letters threatening death if arrests of thieves ceased. Kinney ordered 65 Austrian Montenegrin and Italian miners discharged after 34 Gold King miners were recently arrested on ore theft charges.
A letter signed Black Hand threatens to blow up three million pounds of smokeless powder stored at the U S naval magazine on Iona Island if married men discharged on January 1 1908 are not reinstated. Secret service investigates the writer. Marines guard approaches and employers are under surveillance. Iona Island lies seven miles south of West Point.
In Congress on February 27 Dalzell of Pennsylvania defended protectionism and Republican tariff policy while Houston of Tennessee urged tariff revision. Sherman of Ohio spoke for Civil War veterans’ pensions, and Rountell of Wisconsin noted gold exceeding one thousand million dollars as the measure moved to amendments before adjournment.
A Sisseton Sioux delegation from Roberts County seeks tribal input on land leases in South Dakota. They contest agent control over to whom leases are made, though not the rental prices, and press for prorated tribal funds for minor children amid a large total involved.
The fragment notes representation of interest on the principal of the tribe's credit with the government. It mentions ongoing discussion of financial handling and fiduciary duties without detailing figures or dates.
In Topeka Kansas 486 Santa Fe operators will be required to work nine hours under federal law starting March 4. About sixty openings exist in the eastern division and 200 employees are affected by a postponement of reporting for March 2. Rework on the Mulvane to Texas Panhandle line is suspended amid costly reconstruction for a lower grade freight route to the Pacific coast.
Mexican officials push creation of a harbor city at Magdalena Bay to welcome about 16 000 sailors and officers on St Patrick s Eve March 16. The project envisions mushroom saloons dance halls dairy lunches and amusements as local celebrations accompany the American naval visit. The name of the new town remains undecided with Evansville among possible ideas.
Advices from Honolulu state preparations are under way to entertain Rear Admiral Evans and his fleet should it reach Hawaii. The report notes a looming strain on fresh vegetables and island fruit as 20 000 mouths are anticipated to be fed, while 40 000 tons of coal already await transport for navy needs.
Abe Hummel, imprisoned for nearly a year over the Dodge-Morse divorce saga, is nearing release after exemplary conduct shorting his sentence from a year to ten months. He plans for a postprison career as a real estate broker or orator, despite disbarment ending his legal practice.
In Rome the senate judges a case involving Muncio Nasi once minister of public instruction. About one hundred senators have been locked up since this morning in the palace acting as the meeting place of the senate. They will remain as the court agrees upon a four sentence outcome.
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