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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
6
Lawson refuses to provide names in a current matter but tells the committee he will disclose them if a formal leak inquiry is initiated. He asserts cooperation hinges on formal proceedings and cites safeguards. The exchange occurs amid ongoing scrutiny of information disclosures at the committee level.
Washington January 10. Law son refused to disclose informers names in the teakt investigation, warning disclosure could poison government. Bernard Baruch denied prior peace note leaks, while Otto TL ulin of Kuhn Loeb read a denial of ties to any leak.
Washington notes a note from King Constantine endorsing Wilson s peace effort. Entente powers issue a forty eight hour ultimatum demanding Greece honor the December 1 treaty and transfer troops from Thessaly amid broader Balkan turmoil. Meanwhile Romania invasions progress as Teutonic forces claim prisoners.
Military forces led by General Murguia pursue rebels aiming to cross into Mexico with eight cavalry units dispatched to intercept filibusters attempting incursions, signaling heightened frontier actions and border enforcement.
Western Newspaper Union reports predicted settlement of border trouble as Villa and Carranza forces may clash near Parral under Gen Francisco Murguia. Villa fled to the area after looting Torreon, while Murguia pursues. Reports also note clashes near Zapata and village seizures below the border. Maj Gen Frederick Funston arrives for border district inspection with family. Zambrano states prospects for early Carranza settlement due to embargo, Pershing recall, and Fletcher mission.
Rumors of money making in the stock market discussed at the House rules committee first hearing on Representative Wood's resolution for investigation. Wood named Secretary Tumulty and others, claiming he only prevented information, not charged anyone, with much input from a Curtis letter. Tumulty denied knowing the peace note before it became public.
President Wilson backs a railroad reform package to supplement the Adamson law. Representative Adamson, after conferring with the President, said he would soon introduce bills to curb railway worker strikes by requiring sixty days notice and to empower the President to seize tied up railroads through military authority if public necessity arises.
Annual million dollar fund allocations under the federal good roads law list amounts for Alaskan and western states. Alaska 40354, Arizona 5604, California 140988, Colorado 62575, Idaho 108730, Montana 70013, Nevada 19926, New Mexico 0, Oregon 128111, South Dakota 5092, Utah 41167, Washington 91444, Wyoming 40084. Florida Michigan Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and Oklahoma share 9995.
Karl Curzon of Kedleston married Grace Elvina Duggan in a quiet London ceremony. A small luncheon followed. In Brest, the Greek ship Sappho was torpedoed, 2087 tons, nine crew saved, rest unreported. Wheat and corn prices surged, with wheat at 2 dollars a bushel for January delivery in Chicago. Colorado mystery resurfaces as Irene Barrett linked to a death insurance case in Pagosa Springs.
The Supreme Court upholds the Webb Kenyon prohibition on liquor shipments from wet to dry states and sustains West Virginia’s interstate import ban for personal use. The ruling, 7 to 2, affirms constitutional bans with Justice White delivering the majority opinion and Holmes and Van Devanter dissenting. Eighty five Villistas killed in Chihuahua fights. government wins near Guerrero with 25 dead, 140 prisoners, plus loot.
A Havas dispatch from Corunna Spain reports the Greek steamship Siripiros torpedoed by a submarine. Twelve crew members were saved by the fishing boat San Jose. Another dispatch from El Ferrol says the captain and twelve crew of the Simpiros were landed on Cobas Beach. Fire tragedy in Quebec asylum kills forty six women. Senator Shafroth proposes a thirteenth Farm Loan Bank district to include Colorado Wyoming Utah and New Mexico with a Denver bank.
Col. W. F. Cody was brought to Denver from Glenwood Springs in critical condition and may be taken to Cody Wyoming if feasible. His wife and daughter accompany him. Harvard Man on Tariff Dominsion Prof Frank W Tausig of Harvard joins tariff commission and is expected to be named chairman. Other four members to be announced later.
The Senate passed the Jones amendment to the Hitchcock resolution by a 48 to 17 vote. The measure endorses the Wilson peace note and reflects party lines and regional support amid ongoing diplomatic efforts.
Berlin reports Braila in Rumanians’ region captured by Germans and Bulgarians with Dobrudja completely cleared. Allied moves include Mackensen advances in Moldavia and gains near Fokshant. Riga region sees trench fighting and Russian counteractions near Kalnzem and Novo Selki. Western front raids continue and Turkish and Persian actions noted.
Gloversville residents John Elkinberg and his wife were jailed in Fulton County after confessing to a shooting at the Rivers view hotel in Northville. Sheriff William J. Shepard says Elkinberg fired the fatal shot that killed Edward Ostrander during a dispute with John Bettinger, though the bullet was intended for Bettinger. The weapon was found in Elkinberg’s possession when arrested at his home later that night.
Chicago report details Herman White racing to the office of Chief Maguire over a death at John Chapin estate. Officers rush to the scene where a woman in furs and silks is found reading a magazine. She wakes, asks what is wanted, and refuses to identify herself.
Mrs. Florence Pedmore of Hartford located her fifteen year old daughter Dorothy twelve years after she was separated. The search spanned Philadelphia and Chicago, tracing the Brickley family who were caring for Dorothy in New Haven. Pedmore will take Dorothy home and provide education and support.
Out of town friends gathered for the funeral of Frank Bartek at 4156 East One Hundred Twenty-third Street Cleveland were startled to find him alive. Bartek joked he even visited the morgue to interview his corpse. In a separate report five boys died in a West Baltimore cave-in at a sandbank. Frank Davis, fourteen, died hours after rescue attempts failed.
A dense page lists cattle prices for steers and cows by feed type, graders, and stockers with figures for hay fed and grassers. It also covers buying prices for Colorado and Nebraska for upland and timothy hay, alfalfa, grain bids, straw, and assorted feed products. Additional lines note metal market quotes and dairy and poultry pricing, followed by cotton and Chicago grain and provision prices.
The Chicago market lists hogs with bulk and high prices, cattle categories including native beef cattle Western steers stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves, and sheep with wethers ewes and lambs priced across ranges. Elgin Butter receipts noted with tendered butter line.
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