Shippers Ready to Fight Higher Railroad Rates
Washington reports heavy opposition from shipping and commercial interests to proposed railroad freight rate increases. They cite rising carrier earnings and accuse railroads of exploiting lax enforcement under the Sherman act. They warn against legalizing traffic associations and will seek DOJ action against mergers and agreements.
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White House
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Reopens Suit to Oust Oil Trust
St Paul, Minnesota state supreme court this morning revived the case of former Attorney General Young against Standard Oil to revoke its charter and drive the company from the statepolitical legal action continues with the goal of dismantling the oil trust.
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St. Paul, Minn
State Supreme Court
Young
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court Reverses Demurrer in Oil Trust Suit
The state backed company reopens its case after the Supreme Court reverses a trial ruling sustaining a demurrer by the oil trust suit. The case advances to trial on its merits.
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Oil Trust
Supreme Court
Murdo Rebuilding Fast After Destructive Fire
Murdo South Dakota May 19 The block and a half of business houses destroyed February 22 are rapidly being rebuilt. New structures are improved and by summer the business and residence districts will show marked gains. Hotels are set to rise with the Gem nearly finished and P B Flack’s large building starting.
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Murdo
S. C
Gem
Conery Sisters
P. B. Flack
Fifty Girls Ride in Coyote Drive in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri a group of fifty girls on horseback participated in a second wolf hunt drive in three weeks. About 800 men and boys gathered, two more coyotes were killed, and the hunt produced a rug trophy from the skins. Armstead Talley and Edward Johnson fired the shots. R. B. and Hary Dick acted as auctioneers, Hawvard Hagerman bought the pelts, and noon meals for the Ladies Aid Society supported Jackson county school funds.
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Washington Township
Jackson County
Armstead Talley
Hickman Mills
Edward Johnson
Grandview
R. B
Hary Dick
Hayward Hagerman
Kansas City
Hickman Hills
Ed Moore
Ladies’ Aid Society
General School Fund of
Ballinger Inquiry Costs Rise Amid Probes
Washington report shows the Ballinger inquiry cost the U S government 42000 in official expenses plus 25000 in miscellaneous costs and 1700 in printing and binding. Ballinger and Pinchot incurred their own attorney expenses. Champ Clark opened a Democratic campaign attacking Taft tariff reform as a voter hoodwink.
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Washington, D. C
Congressional Investigation
Ballinger
Interior Department
Pinchot
Taft
Champ Clark
House
Lawyers Leave to Argue at Hague
New York Senator Root and other counsel, who will argue for the United States in the Newfoundland fisheries case before the Hague tribunal, failed today. Millions are involved in this dispute between the United States and England since the 1818 treaty.
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New York
Root
United States
England
Queen Attends King's Funeral in Windsor Procession
Nine monarchs represent kingdoms at King Edward's funeral held at St George's Windsor. The procession through London drew vast crowds, with Queen Alexandra invoking grief beside the late king's charger Caesar. Roosevelt attended as special American envoy among royal and military escorts.
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Edward
George’s
Windsor
Westminster Hall
Paddington Station
Venema
Alexandra
Caeser
Earl Roberts
Lord Kitchener
England
George White
Charles Brownlow
Duke of Connaught
Col
Roosevelt
Alexander McKensie's Death Marks End of Hills Country Era
A stroke of paralysis caused the death of Alexander McKensie at his home here. He lived in Hills Country for 81 years and was aged 75. Mr McKensie came to the area in 1878 and was a well known county resident.
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George Martin
Deadwood
St. Joseph’s Hospital
That City
England
Lead
Alexander McKensie
Moikensie
Russia Forcing 40000 Jews to Flee Cities
Berlin reports the German Jews Benevolent Society states about 40,000 Jews have been driven from Kiev Moscow and other Russian cities by authorities. The German public reacts to the claim.
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Berlin
German Jews Benevolent Society
Kieff
Moscow
Prize fight moved to San Francisco on July 4
Promoter Tex Rickard announced the Jeffries Johnson world championship prize fight will be held in San Francisco after a San Francisco permit for a 45 round contest was issued. District Attorney Donahue of Alameda County faced statewide protest from 3000 voters over the location shift. The San Francisco permit was transferred from Jim Griffin to Gleason and Rickard as police oversight remained in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Calif
Tex Rickard
Rickard
Donahue
Alameda County
Emeryville
Jim Griffin
Gleason
Regulars Control On An Amendment
Washington report on a 40 to 23 senate vote amending and accepting the house railroad bill provision. The attorney general would defend suits before the Interstate Commerce Commission, with potential commission and shipper intervention. Rates suspension period extended from sixty to 120 days on Aldrich motion. Republican and Democratic turnout noted.
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Atorney
Aldrich
Fletcher
Hughes
McEnery
Beveridge
Borah
Bourney
Bristow
Burkett, Clapp
Cummins
Dixon
Dolliver and
LaFollette
Lorimer to Demand Senate Inquiry
Chicago report says Senator William Lorimer leaves for Washington and will demand a senatorial investigation into bribery charges. The grand jury and investigators will renew work Monday with more indictments expected soon.
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Chicago
William Lorimer
United States
Washington
Senate
Grand
Jerp
SpringSelé
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YZE
Sioux Falls
Bechtold & Fritz
Coyote Drive
Hague
London
Canterbury
Albert Chapel
Jenson & Bliss Hardware Company
Hearst Mercantile Company
Brownsville
Busines
Albuquerque
N. M
Hills Country
Russia
Frisco
Supervis
Lorimer
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