Taxation debate marks DC District and tax escape issues
Washington dispatch reports House debate on sundry civil appropriation bill and District of Columbia taxation. Speakers critique tax losses, a planned park project funded by DC, and alleged tax escapes. Discussion covers disfranchisement of black voters in the South, and calls out influence of the Senate on reform.
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Washington
Messrs. Williams
Mississippi
Poll
North Carolina
Spight
Bell
Colorado
House
Payne
Ways and Means Committee
Henderson
Amos W. Brandt
Des Moines
Cannon
District of Columbia
Benton
Missouri
Klutz
Senate
House of Representatives
Mckin Jey
Eleven Churches Suffer From Severe Storm Damage
April 1 Pyesburg reports a damaging Sunday storm causing hundreds of thousands in losses. Wind wrecked houses, churches, and plants, with bridges, wires, and trees down. In Knoxville Presbyterian church a chimney collapsed causing injuries to about 35 people, four may die.
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Pyevsburg
Pittsburg
Allegheney
Destruction on Wyoming Range in Sheep Cattle Fight
A courier from the scene east of Big Piney reports 12,000 sheep killed or scattered after a clash between sheepmen and cattlemen near Mast Boulder creek. Sheep wagons burned. camp outfits destroyed. both sides fired as cattlemen, armed and outnumbering the sheepmen five to one, disarmed and drove away the herders.
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Wyoming
Rock Springs
Wyo
Big Piney
Sand Springs
Mast Boulder Creek
Deadjine
Ten Thousand Choctaw Destitute Seek Aid in Indian Territory
Governor Dukes urges Interior Secretary Ryan to aid about 10 000 Choctaw destitute citizens amid unexpected distress. He warns many poverty stricken and in actual starvation, with calls for sustenance and breadstuffs. The secretary plans to distribute town site money held in trust to each Indian.
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South M'Alester
I. T
G. W. Dukes
Thomas Ryan
Interior
Washington
Interio
Indian Territory
Savage Dog Mangles a Boy Near Madison Mill
Albert Herbison, ten, was bitten by a dog near his father's mill while riding a bicycle. The animal, owned by Farmer Unter Wood, grabbed his leg and detached a chunk of flesh the size of a hen's egg before the dog was killed with a shotgun.
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Madison
Noeb
Albert
Hugh Herbison
Unter Wood
Postmaster Kills Customer in Texas Office
Postmaster General Payne received a telegram from John R. Guyer of Slayton Texas saying he was attacked in the post office and shot and killed a man in defense of himself and his office. Details to follow by mail.
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Washington, D.C
Payne
John R. Guyer
Slayton
Tex
Mall
Shaw Appoints Robert Armstrong as Private Secretary
Washington April 1 Secretary Shaw selects Robert D. B. Armstrong of Chicago as private secretary replacing G. W. Rich who resigns to take a leading post in New York. Armstrong previously worked for a Chicago newspaper.
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Washington
Shaw
Robert DB. Armstrong
Chicago
G. W. Rich
New York
Mr. Armstrong
Root to visit Havana with family this April
Secretary Root and his wife, joined by his family, plan a trip to Havana to stay a week or ten days with Governor General and Mrs. Wood. The journey is scheduled from Washington to the Cuban capital in early April.
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Washington
Rebellious Filipino Surrenders with Rifles in Misamis
Manila April 1 Rutano who spent thirty thousand dollars to stir rebellion in Misamis province Mindanao now offers to surrender to the city constabulary with seven rifles.
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Manila
Rutano
Misamis
Mindane
A Tiyy
Vote Expected On Chinese Exclusion and Oleo Bill
Washington March 31 Friends of the oleomargarine measure aim for a Tuesday vote as the Chinese exclusion bill is called up. Senator Mitchell leads opening remarks with supporters ready to push, while Senator Penrose manages the measure. Committees plan to report Indian appropriation and river and harbor bills this week, with Philippine government bill to be reported but not acted on soon.
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Washington, D. C
Friends of the Odeomargarine
Hoje
Mitchell
Senate
Penrose
Ten Thousand Homesteads Planned on Uintah Opening
The Utah Uintah reservation will open on October 1, 1908, under an Indian appropriation bill amendment agreed by Senate Indian affairs committees with the president and interior department. About 2,000,000 acres will be available, with roughly 10,000 homesteads, excluding timber and mineral entries. The drawing method, used for Kiowa and Comanche openings in Oklahoma, is expected to allocate lands to settlers.
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Utah
Washington, D. C
Senate Committees On
Oklahoma
OWA Woman Kills Man In Las Vegas Hotel Room
Mrs G B Walker of Miles shot and killed J S Judd of Chicago in her rooms in Las Vegas New Mexico Judd 55 wealthy reputed to have three physician sons She admits the act but says it was justified Her Iowa farmer husband to travel here tomorrow
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Topeka
Kan
Las Vegas
Walker
Iowa
Miles
Judd
Tomoorrow
Banker Jumped Into River Intercepted By Police
Everett C. Baker of Terre Haute Indiana former bank cashier at Harrisburg Illinois tried to take his own life by leaping into the Mississippi River in St Louis but police interference prevented the act. Papers on his person and statements to police suggest prior ties to Melicen's Bank of Terre Haute. Authorities in Terre Haute are to be consulted.
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ST. Louis
Everett C. Baker
Terre Haute
Ind
Harrisburg
Melicen
Bank of
Four Boer guns hold by Delarey after Methven capture
From Pretomla on March 31 the four guns seized by the Boers during General Methven’s capture remain in General Delarey’s possession. Those recaptured by Colonel Wekewieh were the guns lost in the Vonionop convoy disaster.
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Pretomla
Methven
Delarey
Wekewieh
Vonionop
Danish West Indies sale allegations spark denials
Walter Christmas charges about a Danish West Indies sale in 1900 are denied by Carl Fischer-Hagen and Wilbur C. Brown. Fischer-Hansen says the report is defamatory and false and Brown calls the charges maliciously false. The state department will take no action to relay the accusations to Denmark.
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Marc
Carl Tischer-Hagen
Walter Christmas
Fischer-Hansen
Denmark
White
London
Copenhagen
Fisher-Hansen
Washington
Herring
Christmas
Annis
Jawret
Wilbur C. Brown
Abner McKinley
Congress
Dalzell
Danish West Indies
GC. Brown
State Department
Captain Christmas
House of Representatives
Pension Commissioner Resigns With Diplomatic Post Otherwise
Washington March 29 Commissioner Evans has handed his resignation to the president and it will take effect only after a suitable diplomatic post is secured. The pension committee’s report to the president is not yet scheduled for release. It is noted that Evans’ policy may be continued by Mascusyser.
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Washington
Pensions
Evans
Grand Army of the Republic
Pension Bureau
Imade
Tye
Ma Suecysser
Stock Company Formed to Develop Swedeburg Coal Mine
A stock company is being organized in Wahoo Nebraska to develop the Swedeburg coal mine six miles south of town. It will have 1,000,000 capital stock and begin work soon. Promoters have leased 700 acres surrounding the discovered coal land.
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Wahoo
Nebl
Maren
Swedeburg
Live Stock Market Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City
South Omaha reports a strong, active cattle market with higher prices on most classes and improved values for lightweight cattle. Hog prices opened higher with rapid turnover, and lambs and sheep remained in strong demand. Kansas City shows firm to slightly higher cattle prices, steady sheep and lamb markets, and hogs at elevated but variable levels.
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South Omaha
Kansas City
Estate Goes to Education Scheme of British Rank
The Daily Mail reports Cecil Rhodes left most of his fortune to a global education plan. The aim is intellectual betterment of the British race and fostering imperial sentiment across lands under the Union Jack. The will reveals the scheme, with details to be published soon, and mentions a bequest to Colonel Iranccis W. Rhodes.
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Cecil Rhodes
London
The
Daily Mail
Hiltaln
Cécil Rhodes
Ceeil Rhodes
Dahlman Catatan
Iranccis W. Rhodes
Plot to murder Waller at court martial trial
Native scout Smoke testified to a plot by native leaders of the Waller expedition to kill Major Waller and Lieutenant Williams during the Samar affair. He said marines shared rations with the natives and he described suffering hunger during the mission.
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Yuartial
Waller
Marine Corps
Samar Island
Smoke
Williams
Seout
Cattle Surfer in Colorado
Reports from Orchard Colorado say cattle on the plains suffer for want of water with many water holes fenced by small herd owners. Cattlemen threaten retaliation and much ill feeling grows from impounding animals in need of water as Morgan County waters are blocked.
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Denver
Orchard
Colo
Morgan County
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