Local Notes From Maxwell City and Beyond
Entries from Maxwell City New Mexico detail arrivals and visits by DH Arnold and brother of Colorado, Charles and Otto Mueller, Bessie Jackson’s visit to Chicointhas, Boo Tradus and Bill White’s group to Laguna Madre Sipesdas, and George Miller’s prospects near the WEL Banks place. Reports cover Miss Blanche Powell’s resignation for a principal post at Tasdor, militia greeting Judge Mills, and inauguration plans with Mayor Sena. national updates note insurgent Republicans in Washington and Taft’s pending interstate commerce and anti trust messages. Tom During, longtime circus trainer, dies in Danville under a locomotive accident.
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Mills
New Mexico
Misadventure in a Small Town Adventure and Taxes
A local man quits his paper after receiving an ad from the editor. He then sells his debt for four cents below market, his property is seized for taxes, he is arrested and fined five dollars for trespass hunting on Sunday, and pays five thousand dollars for forged notes advertised two weeks earlier. He later pays a hammer-footed man to physically escort him to the newspaper office, paying four years in advance.
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Oklahoma
Santa Fe Mayor Tags Sunday Drunkenness On Streets
Santa Fe Mayor Jose Sena plans Sunday deputies to monitor drug stores and saloons and to revoke licenses for any saloon selling liquor on Sundays. Police were called to handle multiple drunken incidents on principal streets, with accusations aimed at local drug stores as contributors.
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Jose
Sena
Fast Palace
Singer
Troy
Santa Fe New Mexican
Reception for Judge Mills in Santa Fe New Mestego
Chief Justice William J. Mills was welcomed at the Santa Fe depot by a committee and escorted to the executive mansion as guest of Governor Curry. A dinner for ten followed. A later public reception at the mansion marked the first to Governor-to-be Mills with guests including Justice Mechem and Territorial figures.
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Santa Fe
New Mestego
William J. Mills
Curry
Oelock Few
Ren 2Er Portalivy Cretacio
William J. Mls
Mills
Mechem
Territorial
Nathan Jaffa
Chas. A. Spiess
George W. Prichard
Secundino Romero
Eugenio
Busy Winter for the Fleet in New York
The Atlantic fleet, in white duck suits, prepares for a West Indies cruise as it finishes overhauling gear after the blizzard. Under Admiral Schroeder the ships will sail to Guantanamo, coal, and begin standardization trials, speed contests, and winter maneuvers before likely returning by May.
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Jan. S
West Indies
North River
Schroeder
Guananabe
Cuban
Council Rejects Liquor License Reduction Request
Albuquerque city council last night unanimously refused to cut the annual license fee from 1500 to 1000 dollars as urged by the Wholesale and Retail Liquor Dealers Association in a petition presented two weeks earlier.
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Albuquerque
Sun. O
Pheelty
Associaton
Family of Twelve Die Of Poison in Sacramento
Sacramento Jan. 5 Two more members of the Marquese family, victims of ptomaine poisoning from canned pears at New Years dinner, died today. This brings the death toll to eleven from the twelve member family, with the sole survivor not expected to live.
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Sacramento
Cal
Heney to Conduct the Prosecution in Oregon Land Fraud Trials
Portland set for start of the famed Oregon land fraud cases with Francis J. Heney as special prosecutor from the interior department leading a team of agents and secret service operatives. Dinger Hermann, former congressman and Commissioner of the General Land Office, is expected to be first on trial.
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Ore
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Francis J. Jienes
Department of the Interior
Secret Service
Dinger Hermann
Congress
General Land Office
Shippers Seek New Rules On Unclaimed Shipments
Prominent merchants and manufacturers attend hearings as the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission considers a rule requiring notification to shippers when consignee does not claim a shipment. They argue unclaimed goods are sometimes sold for freight without consignors knowing delivery failed. Weather-wide disruption follows with rail schedules derailed, telegraph lines down, and freezing rain creating hazardous conditions across Kansas City to St Louis.
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Chicago
Jap. S
Hhnois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Winter Storm Blues Freeze Midwestern Cities
Milwaukee reports a retreating blizzard and much lower temperatures as telegraph and telephone service suffer. Omaha and Lincoln see record lows around ten and fourteen below, while Topeka records three below. New York faces a heavy snow storm after a frigid night with nine above zero and severe cold. municipal lodging houses housed hundreds, with a woman found dead from exposure.
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New York
Aftey
Aviator Mead Falls From Bleriot Airplane
English aviator Mead operating a Bleriot type aircraft plunged about thirty feet today in Cannes France. He sustained serious injuries and is hospitalized for treatment and observation.
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Cannes
France
Mead
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