Insurgent Leader Billy Morgan Takes Charge in Topeka
News from Topeka reports Brigand W. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson rising as insurgent leader after the house killed the public utilities measure. The drainage bill faced heavy committee work, with judiciary efforts to pass it failing and prompting new tensions. The senate and house clash over the administration good roads bill and an automobile tax measure looms, shaping a dynamic session with Morgan’s leadership setting the tone.
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Hutchinson
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General Morgan
Judiciary Committee
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Auf
University
Mitchell
Newland
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Secretary of State
Sea the Journal
Public utilities bill poised to energize forthcoming legislature
The text suggests that failure to enact the public utilities bill would become a prime issue for two years, prompting the election of a legislature capable of passing a law with teeth. It frames the bill as essential for public satisfaction and effective governance.
Holmes Sets Ottawa HQ for Interurban Railroad Project
Ottawa hosts the Hugh A. Holmes interurban project after Chief Engineer Wells rented four rooms on the Zelmes Building second floor. The move relocates headquarters from Ola while the final survey between Ottawa and Kansas City progresses.
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Ottawa
Hugh A. Holmes
Wells
Zelmes
Young & Young Embroidery Co
Holmes
Here
Kansas City
Dayton Street Railway Deal Signals City Franchising
A Dayton led agreement seeks to create a local street railway and power and light franchise in Lawrence. Cyrus Meade W R Sullivan and Albert Emanuel of Dayton Ohio and the Lawrence Eleo the Light plant owners will transfer control if city council grants the franchise. Dayton men must post 5000 and can begin within five days. full line within a year. Interurban talks with Laming progress, with Dayton to handle local system and Laming interurban. Sullivan says they will pursue both tracks and meet Laming’s reps in Kansas City. A special meeting likely after Dayton party returns. Separately Masons plan a new brick temple in Wellington with a separate outer wall and shale brick, contracted to Kansas Buff Brick.
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W. R. Sullivan
Albert Emmanuel
Dayton
Ohio
Lawrence Eleo
Light
Sullivan
Emmanuel
Lawrence
Laming
George Davia
Kansas
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Journal
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Masons
Wellington
Masonic Temple Committee
Washington and
Lincoln Avenue
Bohanna
Jacob Engle
Hr. L. Buttrey
Kansas Buff Brick and Manufacturing Company
Neadesha
Flood Rivals Across States Reach Danger Levels
Reports from Loulaville Kentucky and Cincinnati Ohio describe the Ohio and Mississippi rivers rising toward danger marks. In Louisville water nears the danger line as a stage of thirty feet looms, flooding western and eastern neighborhoods. Memphis anticipates a thirty three foot flood that could inundate lowlands by Sunday. Frankfort endures four feet of water with widespread city flooding and hundreds homeless.
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Loulaville
Ohio
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Frankfort
Kentucky
Conference in New York on interurban plans with Belgians
Tuesday conference in New York involved W Laming of Lawrence Leslie Shaw and A Beeker with A Weil the Belgians regarding the Kansas City and Kansas Southwestern Railway interurban project. The Belgians plan to leave Saturday for Europe likely by March 2. Laming will return to Lawrence after finalizing business matters. Work on the interurban design is about to begin as details become settled.
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W. Laming
Leslie Shaw
New York City
Lawrence
A. Beeker
A. Weil
Kansas City & Kansas Southwestern Railway Company
Europe
Laming
Lyceum Course Numbers Announced for Next Year
The Ministerial Alliance reveals six performances for the Lawrence Lyceum next year with unchanged one dollar admission. Frederick Warde headlines Fra ternal Aid ball this evening as part of the season's offerings. Notable acts include Whitney Brothers, Lincoln McConnell, Central Lyceum Company, Bishop E H Hughes, Edmund Vance Cooke, and Honolulu students closing the year.
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Lawrence Lyceum
Frederick Warde
Honolulu
Whitney Brothers
Margaret Smith Co
Lincoln’ McConnell
Central Lyceum Company
Bishop E. H. Hughes
Edmund Vance Conke
Edmund Vance Cooke
Taft An Author Planning Quiet Magazine Work
Taft spent the day at his brother Henry W. Taft’s home in New York to finish several magazine articles. Audiences were refused to focus on writing, yet many visitors including leading New York financiers came to discuss the secretary of the treasury appointment, with Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago favored for the post.
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New York
Taft
Henry W. Taft
Hunter for Wellington's Mayor
Wellington February 25 Friends of State Senator George Slunter now in Topeka for the legislature demand Hunter run for mayor on an independent ticket. A meeting sent a telegram asking him to accept the responsibility while noting his prior term as mayor and multiple council terms.
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Wellington
Friends
George 44. Slunter
Topeka
Hunter
Wets and Drys Clash as Drys Win Preliminary Roll Call
In Jefferson City a morning clash between liquor and prohibition interests saw the Dry side win a preliminary roll call on the county unit local option bill. The committee had recommended against it, but Pemberton of Boone pressed for a full record. The roll call ended 1 to 36, sending the bill to a full house vote.
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Pemberton
Boone
Physician to Prison Sentences Osceola Doctor
Dr. F. W. Seils of Osceola, a noted physician and hospital president, was sentenced in Des Moines to twenty five years in the penitentiary for assaulting a hospital patient.
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Des Moines
F. W. Seils
Osceola
Osceola Hospital
Salina Will Host AOUW Meeting In 1911
John Hi Crider of Fort Scott was re elected grand master at the session in Salina Kansas inde pence was chosen as next meeting site. The grand master salary dropped from 3600 to 3000 while the grand recorder rose from 2500 to 3000. Dr J W Craybill of Newton was reelected medical examiner. Trustees named were H J Harbaugh Wellington J T Hill Logan and J E Henderson Iola.
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Kan
John Hi. Crider
Fort Scott
Independence
Kansas City
Kansas
Pillsburg
Wichita
Grand Recorder
H. J. Harbaugh
Wellington
J.T. Hill
Logan
J. E. Henderson
Iola
Adams cites Bryen buying 160 acre Texas fruit ranch
Former Governor Alva Adams of Pueblo says William J Bryen told him in Denver that he bought a 160 acre fruit ranch near Brownsville Texas. He plans to plant it now and have it bearing by age 60 to generate revenue and spend winters there. The ranch is in one of the finest fruit belts in the country.
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Pueblo
Col
Alva Adams
William J. Bryen
Denver
Texas
Brownsville
Editorial Excluded in Cooper Trial Sparks Conspiracy Debate
Nashville February 25 Judge Hart barred the Lancet editorial offered by the state to link Colonel Cooper to printed charges against Governor Cox. The defense pressed questions about a prepared press statement read in third person, arguing outsiders drafted it to imply a conspiracy, while Cooper denied involvement.
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Lancet
Cooper
Cox
Carmack
Tennesseean
Bradford
Ewings
McCumice
Colonel Cooper
America
Associated Press
Mr. Ewing
Headford
McConnico
Ewing
Sensational arguments in Oklahoma gas case
In Muskogee Oklahoma closing arguments in the federal court case of Kansas Natural Gas Company versus Ohio and Delaware firms seeking to bar state interdiction of gas exports. Judge Hateh denounced the legislature’s prohibitory law comparing it to secession and urging unity’s gas profits. West for the estate claimed Standard Oil has $7,000,000 in claims backing the suit. Judge Campbell set thirty days for briefs by the state and fifteen for gas company replies.
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Muskogee
Okla
Heb
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Ohio
Delaware
Edward W. Hateh
Hateh
Herselt
Union
West
Standard Oil Company
Campbell
Denounce Secret Service Denounces McKinley Guard Detail
Washington February 25 A virulent denunciation of the secret service of the treasury department was uttered in the house today by Smith Republican of Iowa During the sundry civil bill debate he charged that secret service men could not uncover gigantic land frauds recently exposed by the secretary of the interior and asserted that McKinley was the only president assassinated since secret service guards were assigned to his protection with a member of the service at his side
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Guarda Washington
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Smith
Iowa
Secretary of the Interior
Seven Games for Big Eight Schedule Approved
Chicago February 25 The Big Eight colleges voted to adopt a seven game football schedule for next fall. Professor Moran of Purdue informed Amos Alonzo Stagg that the conference favored the longer slate, with Wisconsin seen as the sole obstacle. Stagg will set fixtures for Northwestern Indiana and Purdue, with Northwestern Purdue and Indiana likely on the schedule after faculty approval.
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State of Chicago
A. E. Moran
Purdue
Stagg
Northwestern
Indiana
Narthwestern
Coseh Sage
Norman Hackett to Speak at Kansas University on Shakespeare
Famous actor Norman Hackett will visit Lawrence to talk Shakespeare with Kansas University students tomorrow morning, hosted by Prof. C B Gray, a Michigan classmate. He is in Kansas City for a recent engagement in Classmates and will return there this evening after the planned talk.
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Kansas University
Hackett
Kansas City
Lawrence
Mr. Hackett
C. H. Gray
University
Prof. Gray
University of Michigan
Bis
Colleges Consolidate in Emporia Budget Merger
Henry Coe Culbertson of the College of Emporia completed merger talks with Lewis Academy in Emporia Kansas. The consolidation awaits ratification by the Empire Presbytery and Kansas Synod. A $25,000 building and a $25,000 endowment fund will join the academy with the college.
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Henry Coe Culbertson
College of Emporia
Wichita
Lewis Academy
Emperialresbytery
Kansas Synod
Acadmy
Congress
Sidation
Emporia College
Tne
Oklahoma
Changes in faith lead secretary to resign at Wichita Y M C A
Wichita February 25 E B Smith secretary of the junior department resigns to take effect March 1 or when a successor is found He accepted a pastorate at Kinley Kansas begins March 1 He had resigned a pastorate at Overbrook Kansas to join a New York church later details note Dr Peters changed faith to Presbyterian and the Oregon plan debates in Oregon senate bill passed house governor to sign.
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E. B. Smith
Alr. Smith
Congregational Church
Kinnley
Kans
Rev. Smith
Overbrook
New York
Retary
Madison
C. Peters
Oregon
Lincoln
Neb
Senate
Brooklyn Presbyterian
Dr. Peters
United States
Swimmer
R Gion
Dr. Meters
Dutch Reformed Church
Lo Bpuist
Eggs Go Up In Chicago During Lent Season
Wholesale egg dealers report retailers are charging high prices despite a 7 cent weekly decline. The Chicago Butter and Eggs board urges consumers to buy the best new laid eggs at 27 cents a dozen as supplies grow, with retailers holding large unsold stocks.
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Chicago
Ch' Cago Butter and Egg Board
Chi' ’Cago Butter and Eyg Board
Kansas Prison Reform Show Promises Gains for Inmates
A Kansas paper notes a fundraising exhibition in Oklahoma City to benefit prison reform efforts. John Thompson of Lawrence and two Kansas men seek roles in a stage show to raise money for the penitentiary and its reforms. The plan offers $100 to the winner in McAlester and aims to recruit two more actors from Kansas.
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Lawrence
McAlester
Kansas
Kate Bare
Edey
Wun
Thompson
Irdner
Lis
Oklahuaa
Ekowo
Bosra
Aheupsou
Kansas University gets near million appropriation
Topeka February 25 The house and senate budget committees agree on the Kansas University appropriation nearing a million dollars. The grant will raise salaries for professors and surpass the 40,000 line intended for chia. Drafts of a new utilities bill and a state boards consolidation report were circulated. Recommendations call for seven member educational board and abolition of five judicial districts, with bureau and guard funding adjustments.
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House
Senate
Kansas University
State University
Kanass University
Floren
Chia
Free Employment Bureau
theState Society of Labor
South Carolina Moves Toward Statewide Prohibition
Columbia, Feb 25. A compromised plan in the South Carolina legislature aims at statewide prohibition, effective July 1, lasting until August 1, then counties may hold special elections on dispensaries. The bill has passed the house and now targets statewide reform.
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S.C
Senate
South Carolina
House
Election contest appeal stalled in top court saga
A financial contest from Topeka February involving the senate refusal to hear a case against N. A. Seager arises in a suit. The thirteenth judicial district judge G. B. P. Aikman rules the challenger not rightfully elected, raising issues of eligibility and jurisdiction.
WAZ ON LOAN SHARKS Investigation in Chicago shows high profits
A three year inquiry by six Chicago concerns loaning on chattels and salaries found profits from 7 to 35 percent annually. The Legal Aid Society plans legislation to cap charges at 4 percent per month and to form a pawners style company lending on claims and salaries at not more than 1 percent monthly.
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Chicago
Iuchness
Legal Aid, Society
They want relics. Manhattan Expects to Get Old Cannon
Manhattan Kansas reads that a bill by Senator Curtis could grant the state college a saluting cannon and machine gun while the city would receive two old cannons now stored in the armory. The guns are government property, obsolete since World War I, and normally given to parks or cemeteries but may be sent to the school under new congressional action.
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Curtis
Congress
Military Department of Kansas State Agricultural College
Divorces Granted and Society Rummage Sale Notice
Divorces were granted today to Jare Mevinnis from George McGin Mary C Pembroke from John Pembroke and Jane Parsons from William Parsons. The Ladies Aid society will hold a rummage sale at 921 Mags starting at 100% sack. Also note death of D W A Luna, Houston physician, from blood poisoning after an operation. community dance by Rowselt Council No 35, F A A, at C's Hall Friday eve Feb 26. Music by orchestra.
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Jare Mevinnis
George McGin
Mary C. Pembroke
John Pembroke
Jane Parsons
William Parsons
Houston
Texas
D. W. A. Luna
Rowselt Council
Wall Exes
C'S Hall
Es Orchestra
Death of Mrs Theodore Pryor in Pennsylvania
Word reached here today of the death in Pennsylvania of Mrs Theodore Pryor wife of Lawrence native Theodore Pryor. Mr and Mrs M OB Pryor of this city left for the East Sunday called by Mrs Pryor's illness. Mrs Pryor was the wife of a former Lawrence young man who often visited here.
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Relljing
Pennsylvania
Theodore Pryor
Judge Hints Unit of Offense in Rebating Case
Chicago February 25 Judge Anderson signaled he will rule the unit of offense in the Standard Oil rebating case is the thirty six settlements of freight charges. If upheld a maximum fine of 720000 dollars could be imposed.
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Anderson
Standard Oil
Greeks Flee to Texas From Omaha Riots Reach Fort Worth
Rail way officials report most Greeks seeking refuge in Council Bluffs have departed for Fort Worth Texas where unrest has prompted temporary relocation. The outlet notes Greek communities moving further south amid continuing turmoil caused by the South Omaha rotator affair.
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Eft Fur
Fort Worth
Texas
Lvans Plans Navy League Growth in St Louis Visit
Admiral Nebley D. Evans urged forming a Navy League to secure strong citizen backing for a capable navy, citing Germany and England as examples with large leagues. He spoke in St Louis on his fleet voyage and will lecture at Orchestra Hall, recalling Civil War era reunions and a plumber who helped him after a knee injury at Fort Fisher.
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St. Louis
Congress
Chicago
Germany
England
United States
Evan
San Francisco
Orchestra Hall
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Qse
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Admiral Evens
Fort Fisher
Suffragettes to Prison for Refusing Security
London February 23. Surrogista protesters were imprisoned for one month each after refusing to provide security for future good behavior while attempting to present a petition to Premier Asquith. About thirty women were sentenced, with Mrs Perrick Lawrence given two months due to prior convictions. Lady Constance Lytton warned protesters she would repeat the act if released without security.
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Asquith
Perrick Lawrence
Constance Lytton
Lord Lytton
India
Stratford Douglas
Mise Bolere
Cape Colony
Catherine Fivabeth Corbet
Supreme Court rules against Calhoun in railroad damages case
Washington February twenty five. The U S Supreme Court decided the case Samuel Calhoun v. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co on the issue of whether a railroad can be liable for injuries to an infant caused by the mother’s negligence. The infant, Samuel Calhoun, age 18 months, was on a platform at Edmond Oklahoma when, as the train began to move, he fell and was crushed under the passing cars, losing a foot. The mother had believed the child to be an employee of the company.
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SPS
Samuel Caihhoun
Atchison, Topeks & Sante Fe Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Anna Calhoun
Samuel
Edmond
Oklo
Confessed His Guilt In Murder Case Near Depot
Orville Foland, 19, arrested for the murder of express clerk Jesse Haymaker at the depot office, confessed to sleeping in the office with Haymaker, waking to find Haymaker dead, and claimed to have then robbed the cash drawer. He described his later actions and mentioned meeting details in a report from Uiutchinson dated February 25.
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Orville Foand
Jesse Hayoaker
Express
Feland
Haymaker
Foland
Jesse
L. W. Myers
Chetopa
Tyre
Ocean mail subsidy bill reported favorably
Washington February 25 the home committee on port offices and port funds agreed to report favorably on the senate bill for an ocean mail subsidy with support likely from the committee.
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Home Committee
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