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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1908
Page
25
Governor C N Haskell in Kansas City defends Oklahoma dispensary against South Carolina failures. He notes eighty dispensaries with bottles sold only by prescription and under strict penalties for doctors issuing unnecessary prescriptions. He predicts Bryan will be president amid calls for political reform.
In the governor's party are M L Turner president of Western National Bank Oklahoma L G Niblack Guthrie Leader editor Tate Day of Tulsa J W Brooks Royal Hotel Guthrie and two signatories Jim Menefee Guthrie and Bill Cross Oklahoma City treasurer and secretary of state. The party goes to St Joseph tonight as guests of the Democratic club and thence to Des Moines where Mr Bryan will speak Thursday night.
About 40,000 miners in the Pittsburg district are idle due to unresolved wage scale terms. An amicable meeting is planned for Thursday between miners and operators. In Prorta Its 8,000 workers found mines closed as the Coal Operators' Association locks down for a few weeks, while local manufacturers and distillers stockpile coal.
The National Bank of Commerce directors met and confirmed Paul Covington as assistant cashier. W H Glaskin Wallace D Speelman and J F Meade were elected as additional assistant cashiers. Glaskin has eleven years at the bank three as assistant cashier Speelman six years and was chief clerk when the bank suspended. Meade comes from Gallatin Missouri and has worked for four years with the National Bank of Commerce of St Louis.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, aboard the Connecticut, was taken to San Diego on the Yankton and will travel to Paso Robles springs for rheumatic relief per his doctors orders. He hopes to rejoin the fleet if the inland air and mineral waters prove beneficial and obeys medical guidance.
Seven Southeast Missouri men convicted of keeping enslaved people pleaded guilty in federal court and were escorted by a brass band to the Leavenworth penitentiary in Kansas. Marshal Mersey led Charles M. Smith, Jr., William Wood, Floyd Wood, W. Lee Rodgers, Ben Field, and Ben Stone to serve fines and prison terms ranging from one and a half to eight and a half years.
The defendants contend that 200 supporters and the Sikeston brass band accompanied them to the train en route to St. Louis after their homes near Sikeston were left. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment.
Martin Kelly, a 36 year old coal miner, identified himself at the emergency hospital after recovery of memory. He is of Irish parentage but born in America and was found unconscious in a box car in the Chicago and Alton yards with Harry Ryan, who is being held by police.
Statistics published here today show fifty men killed by dynamite explosions on the Grand Trunk Pacific work in a 100 mile section east of Winnipeg Manitoba last year. In some sections men were killed at the rate of one per mile and were buried where they died.
Officers claimed they could identify prisoners from Cnecota Ohio, April 1. A. Lee and Lee Elrick faced a trial before Judge T. last night and paid $5 bail each, charged with robbing the First State bank at Hoffman two weeks ago. W. H. and C. E. Davis, bank vice president and cashier, identified the men as the robbers.
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