News of the Week Condensed From Multiple Reports
A roundup of varied notes. Illinois Central plans a 2 million dollar track upgrade in Chicago. New York sees 4 650 steerage passengers arrive from Europe. San Francisco faces a coal shortage with price hikes. Congress may fund entertainments for former ambassadors. Alleged poisoning plot targets a witness in Salt Lake land fraud trials. Tenement residents in New York City protest meat price hikes. Victoria shows a 26 percent value rise after Canadian Pacific improvements. A new all Canadian mail service from London to Vancouver, B C, delivers in two days. Funds for famine relief reportedly embezzled. British Columbian Indians reportedly sell daughters. efforts to curb this. Payette Indiana sees notable citizens interrupting a tramcar system. Helens votes to own its war plant. Tobacco use rising in Lincoln University. Canadian government to install life-boat beacon on Vancouver Island coast. Alabama Great Southern wages up five percent to over $200 monthly. Interstate Commerce hearing includes testimony on coal lands. Barrows notes condition of Philippines education. Sugar and tobacco markets show no strong demand. San Francisco school situation draws Japanese government attention. May City remains under scrutiny amid punitive talk. An international China relief committee forms. Ten thousand people near starvation in some reports. Hooker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie referenced in labor discussions. U S protection requested for streetcar strike leaders in Salt Lake. Mutual Reserve Life official linked to grand larceny trial. A Kansas City railroad robbery led to a conductor capture. Tidal wave warnings follow German New Guinea quake. substantial drownings and losses. Salvation Army leader Stilwell supports photographing vice districts for public awareness. American Insurance faces barrier in Massachusetts courts.
Evidence of Coal Land Fraud Hearings in Washington
The Interstate Commerce Commission resumes hearings in Washington with J T Marchand and E E Thomas expected to prove Utah Fuel Company received rebates from the Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western systems. The rebates allegedly aided a coal industry monopoly in Utah, with a blanket four cent per mile rate on all commodities transported by the railroads for Utah Fuel and Pleasant Valley Coal companies.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
J. T Marchand
E. E. Thomas
Utah Fuel Company
Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western Systema
William Williams
Pleasant Valley Coal Company
Famine Relief Contract Scandal Brightens Inquiries
Premier Stolypin moves to resolve the famine relief contract scandal involving Lidval and M Gurko assistant minister of the interior. Gurko resigns but is urged to face court. an inter ministerial commission is planned to probe the causes. General Fredericks summoned. Sotekich, Lidval aide, elusive.
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St Petersburg
Stolypin
Lidval
M Gurko
Council of Ministers
McGurky
Fle
Firal Department
Senate
Greneral
Fredericks
Nizhni Novgorod
Sotekich
Alge
Remarkable papyri find illuminates early gospel fragment
A London dispatch reports Drs. Grenfell and Huot of the Egypt Exploration Fund have unearthed about 120 papyrus fragments at Oxyrhynchus dating from the second century BC to the sixth century AD. The collection includes classical and Christian texts, with a velim leaf containing 45 lines of a gospel entry detailing Jesus and the Pharisees at the Jerusalem temple.
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Chicago
the Tribune
London
Jesus
Temple of
Jerusalem
Jems
Land Colony to Africa Plan Reported with Huge Grant
A South Africa company offered the Salvation Army 1,000,000 acres of land in Rhodesia for colonization to Africa with a reversion clause to the company if the project failed General Booth said the plan was prematurely disclosed and declined to detail it awaiting developments.
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Tandon
Southfeica Company
Salvation Army
Rhodesia
Booth
Indictments Expected in Railroad Land Grabs
Federal grand jury mulls charges against Union Pacific Hart road company Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific Coal company over alleged fraud in securing government coal and timber lands by suborned perjury. Officials reportedly to be named. testimony from a senator’s brother aided immunity.
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C Ity
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Federal Grand Jury
Union Pacific Hart Road Company
Oregon Short Line
Union Pacific Coal Company
Itas
Pueblo
Denver
Impetuots
United States
Iseddo
Oklahoma constitutional convention opens with rail regulation plan
Guthrie Okla delegates consider a railway regulation bill declaring certain lines common carriers and restricting oil pipe lines and sleeping cars. A Jim Crow resolution by Ladbetter is also proposed, both sent to the railroad committee. Ladbetter argues against redeeming state sovereignty over federal reforms.
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Okb
Oklahoma
Peleate Clint Gemuchaim
Jundse Ladbetter
Rd. More. T
Committee On
Milroads
Ladbetter
Mer Lasbetter
Bonds by the ton unloaded for Paris bond shipment
Fifty million dollars in bonds were unloaded at the French Line pier for shipment to Paris. The haul included 400 000 bonds of 5 000 francs and 230 000 bonds of 2 400 francs, with heavy signatures and security staff, weighing 144 tons.
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Yestering
Pnto
la Provence
Paris
Diemney
Msne
Crusoe's Island Lives
Mexico City reports that Chilean Consul Eugene Metz received word that August rumors of Juan Fernandes Islami sinking are false. Warships search confirmed the island and inhabitants are unharmed.
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Mexico City
Eugene Metz
Juan Fernandes
American minister leaves Fes amid Tangier dispute
Tangier December 1. The American minister Mr Gammere is said to have departed from Fes, the capital, without observing a formal obligation, amid ongoing tensions over claims and duties.
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Tangier
Mr. Gammere
Fes
Train hold-up halts freight through Ontario Oregon
A through freight train on the Short Line carrying Beck Sprigs coal was halted at Ontario Oregon as bandits demanded four cars be sidetracked to a local dealer J H Farley. Four cars were redirected to Furtye's bunkers and the train resumed to Payette Idaho. A similar incident reportedly occurred at Nyssa Oregon with two cars taken earlier. No coal was in town at the latter stop. Mules at towns en route were described as orderly but determined.
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Ontario
Beck
Sprigs
Bizé& N
Séatiés
J. H Farley
Sugar Trust Fined for Rebates to New York Central
The American Sugar Refining Company was fined 18000 for accepting rebates from the New York Central. Receipts for a 5 cent per hundred pounds rebate on Detroit shipments were prepared by Lowell M. Palmer traffic manager and sent to the Buffalo Fast Freight lines offices. Cash drafts were mailed from Buffalo to Muliner and deposited to sugar trust accounts.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
New York Central
Detroit
Lowell M. Palmer
Buffalo
Vanderbilt Roads
Bank of Buffalo
Chemical National Bank of New York
Railway Corporation
Muliner
President Roosevelt Reads Panama Canal Message Plan
Washington November 28 President Roosevelt energetic after sea voyage to Panama and Puerto Rico. Secretary Loeb brings large correspondence to the president and cabinet meeting follows. A special Panama canal message to Congress is expected about a week after the session begins and will detail conditions and suggest improvements.
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Roosevelt
Hearithrom
Panama
Porto Rico
Loeb
Panama Canal
Congress
Brooklyn Bridge to Add Double Decks for Relief
New York officials led by Mayor McClellan discussed temporary and permanent relief for the Brooklyn bridge. Proposals include longer trains, higher headway, and near total rebuilding with double decking to add railroad lines, supported by engineers who say anchor bar stress is within capacity.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
McClellan
Oater
Irrigate Their Stock: Railroads and Capital Criteria
Indianapolis reports on the state railroad commission's initial findings. The document, filed after two years since creation, notes waters ing of stock and capital, with 43 roads measured for per mile costs and equipment. The governor will receive the next summary in days.
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Rail Road Commission
Tts
Indiana
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Instraeral
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