Senate Passes Administration Rail Bill Amid Insurgent Gains
The senate enacted the administration railroad bill after twelve weeks of debate with only twelve Democrat votes against it. It expands federal powers, creates a court of commerce, regulates rates, and places telegraph lines under the commerce commission while preserving a wide range of protections for shippers. La Follette pressed for amendments on passes for relatives and railroad property valuation, with mixed outcomes.
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White House
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Court of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Commerce
Circuit Court
LaFollette
Estrada Forces Win Key Victory at Bluefields
Bluefields reports say government troops under Estrada crushed the Madriz army at Pama after Madriz retreated there to shield Bluefields. Madriz suffered about 100 killed and 400 wounded as Estrada’s forces advance and seek U S recognition.
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Bluefields
Madriz
Pama
Estrada
United States
Sugar Trust Chief Gave Fraud Orders, Trial Testimony
In New York Ernest W. Gerracht testified Havemeyer head of the sugar trust ordered him to run false polariscopy tests on sugar to defraud Cuban Indian and Java growers. The scheme aimed to lower grades and rob growers when checkers were present.
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New York
Ernest W. Gerbracht
H. O. Havemeyer
The
Sugar Trust
Cuba
India
Java
Taft's Brother Linked to Friar Lands Plot
Representative Maryin of Colorado renewed his attack in Congress on the sale of Friar lands in the Philippine Islands to the sugar trust. He pledged a congressional inquiry and claimed President Taft's brother Attorney General Wickersham and Gen. Clarence C. Edwards led a plan to exploit the Philippines via railroads franchises bond issues and Friar land sales to the sugar trust.
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Colorado
Congress
Phillippine Islands
Sugar Trust
Taft
Wickersham
Clarence C. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Philippines
Alumni Initiation Marks School’s Year End Ceremony
The graduating class of twenty three was formally received into the alumni in a Friday evening ceremony at City Hall. Amusing initiations drew laughter from nonparticipants as the event concluded with humorous stunts and remarks about the school's year end.
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High Schol
J. S. Hoagland
Alice Erskine
Florence Charlesworth
Lolo Morgan
Eunice Whitman
Superintendent Hoff
Genevieve Branson
Talmage Conrad
Cecelia Coughlin
Lydia Kjelmyr
Miss Patterson
Miss Brown
Hoff
Alma Anderson
Letha Blackman
Craig Bowdish
Celestine Burns
Nooner Campbell
Luella Andrews
Wilbur Ainslie
George Carlson
Ila Nash
Nettie Palmer
Vera Ryckman
George Ruth
Lizzie Kern
James Salisbury
Lpring Slade Florence Charlesworth
Fennimore Cooper
Philip Diehl
Kenneth Foster
Grant Goheen
Ralph Grabler
Anna Kludt
Mary Small
Bernice Shaver
Alice Strong
Frank Swift
Ora Taylor
Ruth VanAlstine
Ada Warne
Bertha Woodford
Clyde Cordry
Parke Davis
Howard Morrison
Elizabeth Moses
William Smith
Elmer Gregg
Walter Hamiel
Raymond Waterman
Laura Anderson
Agnes Higgins
Pauline Miles
Minnie Reidel
Carl Boyden
Lewis Williams
Martha Martinson
Farmers propose own grain trust in Inland Northwest
Spokane wash The Farmers Warehouse Association of the Inland Empire will organize June 10 under officers of the Farmers Educational and Co operative Union of America. The group will pool about 40 percent of the region's annual 60 million bushels of wheat and sell in 100000 bushel lots or more direct to millers and exporters, charging growers one cent per bushel for handling and marketing.
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Spokane Wash
Farmers’ Warehouse Association of the
Inland Empire
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of America
Spokane
Northwest
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George Winsor
Wauneta Ferris
Burle Wallace
Louis Lovinger
Guy Cook
Congregational Church
Sugar Trust Head
Grafter
Missouri Valley Engineering Company
Western National Bank
Madison
Rapid City
Vermillion
Sioux Falls
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South Dakota
A. D. Walpole
Joseph I. Goldhagen
Ohio
Mitchell, S. D
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