Leavenworth Attorney Wins Near 6 Million Suit
Leavenworth, Kansas attorney W. Hausermap, once with the Twentieth Kansas, now a leading Philippine lawyer, gains after a Supreme Court decision. Coudert Brothers of New York secured nearly 6 million in duties collected from Manila merchants by the United States and Spain during the war. The court ruled the import duties to the United States after December 10, leaving the law firm with one third of Hauserman's share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenwart
Kans
Marti
W. Hausermap
Leavenworth
Kansas
Philippines
Wauserman
Coudert Brothers
New York
Manila
United States
Spain
Supreme Court
Concordia Enforces Dry Ordinance Amid Stock Removals
Concordia Kansas May 17 Acting under instructions 77em Mayor Bloom the marshal has ordered all joints closed and gave until Saturday to remove all stock and fixtures. The move aims to enforce a local dry ordinance and curb illicit sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concordia
Kans
Bloom
May Keep the Ring. Bartland engagement ring case ends unsatisfied
In Bartland Wisconsin on May 17 Peter Masden sued Miss Mtonie Koehn for the return of a diamond engagement ring, but a gallant jury refused the claim. The report notes a May Music Festival by the Obl Orchestra and Quartet set for Friday and Saturday the 26th and 27th at Fraternigi Aid hall. The Arkansas City schools held their nineteenth survival commence well exercises last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartland
Wis
Peter Masden
Mtonie Koehn
Obl
Fraternigi Aid Hall
Arkansas City
Janaas
Labor leader Gaompeer mediates Chicago coal strike
Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL, arrived in Chicago to urge peace in the coal strike while denying authority over the action. He warned school children will halt deliveries of nonunion coal unless necessary. Two Black strike breakers were detained after a fatal shooting among protesting students, as Chicago socialists back garment workers and call a sympathetic teamsters strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ills
Samuel Gaompers
American Federation of Labor
Paing
Oron
Fred
Socialist Party of Chicago
New York Judge Comments on Nan Patterson Case
Justice Vernon M Davis of the New York Supreme Court spoke at the Phi Tvitalhi club dinner. He defended Assistant District Attorney Rand who prosecuted Nan Patterson for the Caesar Young murder, saying Patterson lied from start to finish and that most of the community now believes she held the pistol used in the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
We Phi Tvitahi Club
Vernon M.davis
Supreme Court of the State of New York
Nan Patterson
Rand
Caesar Young
Davis
Miss Patterson
J. Morgan Smith
Young
Attorneys Flee Supplemental Return In Refined Band Suit
Topeka May 17 Attorneys David Overmyer and Murvane and Galt representing Wardet dewelt have fled a supplemental return to the old refinery band suit pending in the supreme court. The attorney general on behalf of the state accepted the return as if part of the original answer. In the supplemental, the warden through his attorneys adds reasons why the bands should not be issued. Still on a sand bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
T David Overmyer
Murvane & Galt
Wardet Dewelt
Caronia Held Prisoner As New York Bay Tide Issue
The Cunard liner Caronia remained held in the bay by the tide despite attempts to break free. On board are Mr and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Lady Brassey wife of Supbeam’s owner and Ethel Barrymore. Heavy Iowa rains noted in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Cunard
Caronia
Redfarts
Marsing
Bip
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Brassey
Ethel Barry
Des Moines Residents Face Rising River Threat
Heavy rains near Boone push Des Moines river toward danger line as Des Moines faces a sixtieth rise from last night. City crews shore levees and patrol banks to test weak spots while others monitor the flood’s advance downstream to protect the capital. Local clerks and workers from several states are listed, with reports of a coal miner’s suicide and a police shooting in Indianapolis amid a mixed regional emergency narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Boone
Here
Des Maineg
Armour Car Line Admits Monopoly Ties to Railroads
Before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee on rail rate probes, Armour Car Line President Robbins acknowledged twenty to thirty exclusive contracts with railroads for fruit shipments, admitting a de facto monopoly in parts of the west and south. He claimed the company was private and not subject to interstate laws, while defense of such contracts drew questions about bearing responsibilities of common carriers. Robbins noted Armour products, listed as 200 items, moved in Armour cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Robbina
Armour Car Line Company
Armours
Robbins
Armour Interests
Elkfog
Ekins
Tin Armaura
Wekiing Feuse
Arnigur Cara
Resigned Indian Agent at Muskogee Agency
Indian Agent J Blair Sheunfelt of the Union Dudkin agency at Muskogee resigned his position. The resignation took effect after a successor is appointed to close the year and file final reports. The move follows a recent investigation of the Union agency by Inspectors Cyrug Bea der and J E Janking, creating a stir as Hana Il Kelsey was seen as Sheenfelt's successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indi Avent Sheenfele
Cyrug Beader
J. E. Janking
Hana Il Kelsey
Sheeafell
Topeka Man Rejoins Santa Fe Hospital Chief After Fortune
Frank P. Smith, chief of the Santa Fe hospital, returns to Topeka after going to New Jersey to prove his identity in a family fortune case. He remains in charge at the hospital kitchen while awaiting ten thousand dollars from San Francisco, part of the Fale fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeks
Kan
Frank P. Smith
Santa Fe Hospital
Meir
Topeka
New Jersey
Mr. Smith
la Ia
Fortuna
San Francisco
Mae Weed details alleged wooing by Senator Matt
Omaha reports Mae Weed recounts her claims of Senator Matt wooing her during her time in New York and while she worked in the post office department. She describes the supposed break after she ordered a move from her room and notes frequent visits and long talks at her office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Simmons
Willitan G. Lesh
Colorado
Mae Weed
Matt
New York
Post Ofice
Zinc Plant Damaged at Altoona In Early May Fire
A Cockrell engine plant at Altoona ten miles east of here was buried by a May fire damaging the facility. Losses total 14,000 for the company with 30,100,220,000 insured across various companies. The fire started in the engine room from escaping gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredcoia
Cockrell Gine
Altoona
Here
Pas
Kansas Lumber Man Dead in Sterling Home
Died at his Sterling residence after a two week illness. A lifelong resident and a well known lumber man in Kansas, he had lived in Sterling for thirty three years. The obituary notes he had not been able to go out during the final weeks.
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Sterling
Kans
A Fair, Sr
Kansas
Child Drowns After Falling Into Local Sewer
Sterling Kansas May 1 2 year old child of Mrs Frank Tomlin from Pine Bluff Arkansas drowned after falling into a sewer while playing near Dr P P Truehearts residence. Royal news notes King Edward names King Alfonso of Spain a British army general with appointment dated May 17.
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Edward
Alfonso of
Spain
Governor Douglass Finds No Wage Increase for Fall River Mills
Massachusetts Governor Douglass, acting as referee in the Fall River textile strike, reports that a wage rise is not warranted. He notes that the required profit margin for a five percent increase through April was not met, with the marginal profit likely under 70 cents, and offers no direct recommendation for the Fall River dispute.
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Kistan
Mass
Douglass
Fall River
Ices
Iast
Gbservor Douglass
Effe
Nir
Louglass
Vutton
Kall River
Injunction Bars AOUW Grand Lodge Quarantine Fund
The State insurance commissioner has issued an injunction at Watertown South Dakota restraining the Ancient Order of United Workmen from issuing a $41,000 quarantine fund to the supreme lodge. The injunction was carved on the grand lodge as the order met in session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
S. A
State Insurance Commissioner
Grand Lodge of
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Supreme Lodge
Territory Shooting Claims Ardmore Man’s Life
A man named Wotam Dunn, a business leader in Ardmore, was shot and died shortly after. Lao Davis, a store owner and postmaster, was detained by federal officers. The incident occurred in May and involved local faculty at Sawyer.
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Ardmore
Duculty
Sawyer
Wotam Dunn
Tive Thes
Lao Davis
Federal Oficers
Telegraphic Brevities from the Indian Territory and Beyond
A compilation notes the opening of the Indian Territory Pharmaceutical association convention in South Med Lester, an acquittal for Walter Madson in a Lugart shooting case, newspaper leases in Missouri, a death by drowning in Eminence, a Mo justice fined for wife beating, British parliamentary debate on electric and pneumatic tubes for London, Morgan backing a high capital transport project, rural free delivery expansion in Marshall county Kansas, several new and discontinued post offices, extra letter carriers for Sedalia, a new Liebig Me post office, and the First National Book of Great Bend extending its corporate life to 1906.
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Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association
Lester
Walter Madson
Matthews Strickland
Lugart
Megquitty
Rocheport
Democrat
O. HH. Turner
New
Eminence
G. A Gruebbel
Marthanvilla
Jutkia Oberheimann
House of Commons
London
America
Po Morgan
Marshall County
Kans
Flue Rapids
Frankfort
Herkimar
Irving
Marynville
Summerfield
Vermilion
Waterville
Cody
Rogersville
Cato
O. T
Hennessey
Sedalia
Isea
Liebig
Ripley County
Samuel Copeland
First National Book
Great Bendabs
Boats Got Started At Sandyoak Ocean Race Start
The imperial race began at 12 15 with boats Alita Hidegrada Atlantic Endymion Hamburg Thistle Fleur De Lis Sunbeam Alpache and two others lined up. Utowawa and Valella were recalled after crossing the windward line. Herbert Croker’s body arrived in New York after dying on a railroad train near Newton Kansas. A sale is set June 1 at 10 am in Lawrence Kansas for 602 shares of Western Steel and Wire pledged as collateral for a note to W Coskins, now owned by Lawrence National Bank.
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Sandyoak
Alita
Hidegrada
Atlantic
Endymion
Hamburg Thistle
Fleur de Lis
Sunbeam
Alpache
Utowawa
Valella
New York
N. Y
Herbert “Croker
Newton
Kansas
J. D. Bowersock
Lawrence
Western Steal and Wire Company
Arthur H. Symons
W. W. Coskins
Smallpox and Diseases Decline Across Kansas in April
Topeka reports April health data showing sharp drops in smallpox scarlet fever and typhoid cases. Diphtheria and consumption also fall, with smallpox fatalities minimal. Three spinal meningitis cases in April all occurred in Gove County with one death.
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Topexa
Gove
ony _Pathent
Boycott Talk Hits American Textile Trade With China
New York May 7 The proposed boycott of American goods in China alarms merchants involved in the China trade. James S Fearan president of International Banking Company, long active with Orton, warns that a Chinese boycott would harm American commerce, especially textiles and cotton mills in the South, which have seen growing orders from China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
China
James S. Fearan
International Hanking Company
Orton
Change in Control at Kansas City Southern Railway
New York interests gained control of the Kansas City Southern at the annual stockholders meeting in Kansas City. Of 510 000 shares, 431 666 voted. Marrimac did not vote. Thirteen new directors were elected, with no officers chosen yet and a New York meeting planned. J A Edson named a director as first step toward presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
New York
Kansas City Southern Railway
J. A. Edson
Kansas City Southern
Stuart R. Knott
Edsoo
Russian Admiral Rojestvensky Ignores Neutrality Rules
Saigon May 17 reports say Admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet disregarded neutrality talks and acted with independence aboard Russian ships. Iron discipline remained as Cronstadt announced preparations to sail for the Far East by June 1. Nearby Tokyo says Lincluden seized and a French steamer captured near the Pescadores while Formosa force portions move south. Disquieting health rumors surround Rojestvensky, with telegrams claiming he cannot proceed.
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Saigon
Cochin
China
de Jonquieres
Annam
Rojestvensky
Petersurg
Russia
Cronstadt
Ueet Hag Beer
Far East
Tokyo
Japan
Corea
Pescadore
St. Petersburg
Rugsia
University of Kansas Faculty and Events Report
The University of Kansas plans 175 faculty next year with expansions and new apparatus for labs. Ida Hyde contributes to Chautauquan on physiology. About 2,000 graduates are expected from the preparatory school this spring. Chancellor Strong has six speaking dates for upcoming commencements and local events. New Sigma Nu membership includes J. A. Shirl and others. French plays draw 400+ attendees, with notable performances by Edith Grima, Joe Kellogg, and Robertson. Louise Pound and others were visiting or judging at events in Ottawa and Lincoln.
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Ida Hyde
Hyde
Kansan
Thao
Strong
Nostonville
Independence High
McPherson
Beluin
Varsete
Tula
Aut
Apalt
Law Departienh
Osborne
Fussur Dulinson
Carbondale
Thea Siasma Ni Society
J. A.shtrl
Key Ls Maerly
Fl. A. Allen
Wand
A. RK. Youn
Sigma Ni
Missouri
Galloo
Eduard Ac la Cousire
Stu
Edith Grima
Joe Kellogg
Robertson
Gridin
Kellogg
Lrodloger
Marjorie Marahill
Bezell
Wilhelm
Martin
Louise Pound
Mivority
Nebraska
Lynn
N. Raymond
Emerson
Ottawa
Music Festival Promises Rich Local Program
The festival's week offers a wide range of music including solos on violin cello piano and performances by four distinguished singers two orchestras and a chorus. A standout piece is Dvorak's From the New World played by the Chicago Orchestra with movements inspired by familiar American tunes.
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Pest
Dvorak
Chicago
Weld Meet Keeps Lawrence Hopeful In Close Pittsburg Meet
Lawrence High School posted strong showings at the Weld meet in Pittsburg Kansas with Babb Batbone Dahlene and Teeter among event winners. A disputed pole vault judging favored a Pittsburg entrant over Mayberry, potentially altering final scores if Lawrence is upheld.
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Pittsburg
Kansas
Lawrence
Babb
Johnson
Dahlene
Pringle
Dahlena
Connelly
Porter
Dahlene Thoird
Mile Ruo Teeter
Connslly
Johnsen
Mayberry
Lawrence High School
Acare
Prohibition Debate Shapes Interstate Contest In Wisconsin
Ottawa leads as the temperance movement hosts a heated event with candidates and critics debating state issues. Prohibition advocates and opponents clash over policy implications across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition Associabioe
Criticas
Ottawa
Wisconsin
Death Notice for Siaghath Reeves at Home
Died of old age Siaghath Reeves aged 0 at home of semua 1H Gilts, £521 Ver. ont stress. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Body taken to Allania, Illinois, for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siaghath Reeves
Semua
Tomercow
Joalrex
Allania
Permanent Organization Favored At Baptists Meeting
St Louis May 17 report to the general convention of Baptists of north and south today a committee of nine appointed at the conference in New York last January submitted a report urging a permanent organization. Chairman E M Thresher of Oblo read the document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
General Convention of Baptista of North and South
Esmitttten
New York
Coairman E. M. Thresher
Oblo
Conference adjourns in confusion at Topeka debate
The conference of the College Lieterhern adjourned in confusion at noon today by a vote of 150 to 125. The morning was consumed in a wrangle over the committee of superintendancy report on the number of new bishopry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kany
Colled- Liethern Ad- Journad
Committee of Superintendancy
Japs' Good Example At Mass Meeting In San Francisco
A mass meeting of the better class Japaneses was held at the Y M C A in San Francisco on March 13. It resolved that residents should keep quiet amid the immigration storm and conduct themselves to avoid complaints. Also mentions paint ads from Lucas and color cards from Raymond & Co.
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Japanesa
Y. M.C. Avail
San Francisco
Reaidens Japanesa
Pie
Lucas
Yaymond
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Mohse
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Bergece
Mase
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Heal
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Phillips
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Kaine
Nateeon
Paul Il
Visogel
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Naade
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Sinclair
Mortensen
Tunes
Messechusetta Street
Fracesta L
Francisco
Printboes
W. J. Francisco & Sons Snevensven
Feoff
Gulddug
Sichgen & Hand
Lawence
Alfred Whitman
Bucceasor
Gleason & Whitman, Weal Estate
J. BH. Giesham
Vermont Stern
Beisen Vercy
Winthrop
Green
American Federation
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Patterson
Ocean Liner
New York Bay
Iowa
EB. C. Brandon
B. S. Kimbel
Oregon
Fr. B. Austin
Bamsten
Hamilton
M. Flosd
Clyds
Hugh B Andrews
St. Joseph
Carl A. Wishroff
O. A. Baker
Joplin
W. B. Tadtock
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Lincoln
Short Monday
Frank Murphy
Indianapolis
Ind
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Commerce
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Old Place
Plati
Maks
Massachusetts
A. OU
Board of Health
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Amoy
Formosa
Toebax
University OF Kansas
Lawrence Ational Bank
United States Deposita
L. Moore
Watkinsational Bank
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Fiber
Tucker Agmischel
Savings Department Deposita
Wausasity
Castile
B.tio
Hays
Bull Banco
Hay
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