Pinchot to Continue Fight for Conservation and People
Gifford Pinchot declares the conservation struggle ongoing after leaving the Forest Service. He positions the issue as a battle between governance by the people versus profits for moneyed interests, citing the National Conservation Commission and President Roosevelt while urging Congress to act to protect forests, water powers, and phosphate lands from private control.
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Gifford Pinchot
Forest Service
Pinchot
White House
National Conservation Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
Alaska
Great Lakes
Train Schedule Notice For St Louis Southwest Route
Continued on fourth page. The 24 Hour St Louis train leaves at 9 25 p m today and arrives 23 p m tomorrow. Through service to Cincinnati and Cleveland on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Phone 1022 Madison Square.
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ST. Louis
Esvives St. Hott
Shepes
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Pennaan Railroad
Alien Held A Year Boy Kept At Ellis Island
Abraham Rotman a six year old Russian boy arrived with his family in November 1908 but did not land in the United States until yesterday. He spent one year one month and eighteen days at Ellis Island Hospital due to a contagious scalp disease. His father paid 75 cents daily for care while he remained behind in the port city. The child was discharged as cured two days ago.
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Abraham Rotman
Ellis Island
Russia
Marine Hospital
St. Louis
Philip Rotman
Ellis Island Hospital
Nassib A. Shibley
Robbie
Johnnie Seidel
West 164Th Street
Johnnie
Edgecombe Avenue
Bobbie
Arthur
Rector Street
Michael Jabale
Soldiers Freed After Fort Wright Court Martial
The Fort Wright garrison court on Fisher's Island discharged 61 members of the 131st Company Coast Artillery who had been under arrest since New Year’s Day, granting them liberty for the first time in two weeks. Sergeants Foley and Hart face separate trials, with possible general court martial for higher officers at Governor’s Island.
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Tribune
New London
Conn
Fort Wright
Fisher’s Island
W. F. Ellis
131St Company, Coast Artillery
Foley
Hart
Governor's Island
Aged man arrested on alleged stock larceny scheme
Detectives McConville and Nelson arrested 70 year old Charles Richards of 333 West 23d street at Police Headquarters on a charge of attempted grand larceny after he offered stocks to a woman detective in a hotel sting. Police say the stocks were of no value and Richards has a history of prior grand larceny convictions under multiple aliases.
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McConville
Nelson
Central Office
Charles F. Richards
West 23d Street
Richards
Lulu Estell
George M. Seville
San Francisco
Charles Francs
Lord Ashburton
London
England
Charles Bertram
Death on Sicilian From Sea Sickness During Long Voyage
A steerage passenger died from extreme sea sickness after fourteen days at sea aboard the Allan Line steamer Sicilian. The ship endured multiple gales on its Liverpool to St. John’s passage and arrived today with the body given sea burial.
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St. John’s, N. F
Allan Line
Liverpool
Snowstorm Sets In Across Cities Amid Holiday Snow
The city wakes to fresh snow five inches in Chicago and a developing East Coast storm. Weather signals warned of the system moving from Ohio toward the northeast with disruption to telegraph lines and dispatch routes. The storm was expected to clear by tomorrow morning and follow a typical winter pattern.
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Knickerbocker
Bill” Edwards
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Portland
Delaware
Mississippi
Ohio River
Chicago
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Call Wilson Old War Horse
Norfolk Va Jan 13 The National League of Commission Merchants in its thirteenth annual session endorses the Lateau Bill pending in Congress for standard apple packages. J Crutchfield urged the convention to go slow to avoid provoking Secretary Wilson whom he called an old war horse.
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Norfolk
National League of Commission Merchants
Congress
Crutchfield
Legislative Committee
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Man Hunt Continues for Park Murderer in New York
Police and detectives from Headquaters West 152d Street station and the Harlem bureau sweep New York City seeking a 40 year old man described as five six, 150 pounds with a black beard. The wounded boy Arthur Shibley and friend Robert Lomas are tied to the Highbridge Park attack. Coroner Feinberg interviews the boy and details of the attack, while Syrian community figures pledge aid.
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New York
Arthur Shiblevy
Robert Lomas
Highbridge Park
West 152d Street
Harlem
Inspector McCafferty
New York City
Ameen Shibley
Washington Heights
Agree on Manchuria Russia and Japan to aDeal
Tokyo reports indicate Japan and Russia may have reached a complete agreement on neutralizing Manchuria railways proposed by the United States. Peking says a Shanghai-originated China stance against Knox plan has no factual basis as yet.
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Tokio
Japan
Russia
United States
Peking
Shanghai
China
Knox
Manchuria
Mistaken Identity Attack at Meadow Brook Club
Highwaymen assaulted Herbert Rennerson a Meadow Brook Club chauffeur mistaking him for a wealthy member. He collapsed with brain concussion after being struck with an iron bar near the club under a railroad bridge. They looted $55 and fled. James Cosgrove found him unconscious and transported him to the club for medical care.
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Hempstead
Long Island
Meadow Brook
Herbert Rennerson
Rennerson
Westbury
H. L. Laneheart
O'Connor Attacks Wealthy Lords Over American Tariffs
London reports T P O Connor at Blackburn denounces Rockefeller and other rich Americans as lords of the people. He says American wheat tax would provoke U S action on cotton exports and questions Lancashire if a cotton lord seeks a raw cotton export duty. He warns against England tariffs on American corn.
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London
T.’ P. O’connor
Blackburn
America
P Protection
Rockefeller
England
China
Swope Murder Plot Claimed Ties To Family Typhoid Plot
Relatives of Thomas H. Swope and nephew Christman Swope hand the murder inquiry to a local law firm. They allege poisoning and typhoid inoculation of eight Swope family members. Swope body moved from Forest Hill Cemetery vault for medical examination. Estate attorneys say a deep plot aimed to kill Colonel Swope and others to gain the millions.
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The
Tribune
Kansas City
Thomas H. Swope
Christman Swope
Thomas Swope
Swope
Christian Swope
Forest Hill Cemetery
Colonel Swope
Ido Language Gains Ground in Opinion of Jesperson
Professor Otto Jesperson of Copenhagen, visiting at Columbia, touts Ido as the coming world language. He contends Ido outstrips French English and German in certain comparisons and attracts many linguists and trend followers at his Columbia lecture.
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Otto Jesperson
University of Copenhagen
Columbia University
Jesperson
Columbia
Mary Garden Wins $2000 Refund Over Duty Protest
By a decision of the Board of United States Appraisers rendered yesterday opera singer Mary Garden is declared a non resident of the United States and $2000 paid as duty on costumes jewelry and other personal property will be refunded.
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Board of
United States
Mary Garden
Vardaman Fails to Win Votes in Mississippi Caucus
Jackson Miss Jan 13 no progress in choosing a successor to late Senator McLaurin as caucus adjourned after two ballots Ex Governor Vardaman received 69 votes on each ballot after 72 at adjournment yesterday
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Jackson, Miss
Senator McLaurin
Vardaman
Indictments Possible in Havemeyer Sugar Case Says Official
Rumor says January grand jury may issue indictments today targeting a high level American Sugar Refining Company official. The action was postponed to complete evidence with two new names expected. James M. Beck denies knowledge of new proceedings as grand jury sessions focus on the sugar case.
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Havemeyer & Elder
American Sugar Refining Company
the Tribune
James M. Beck
Everett S. Fink
No. 25
Broad Street
Richard Parr
Treasury Department
Parr
Beggar J C Lounsberry Found Dead in St Paul
In a poverty marked room on Summit Avenue the body of J C Lounsberry was found with deeds and securities worth about 25000 in his trunk. Notes from major firms reveal attempted bail and security requests from a Mrs Louisa C Beeck and others. Boeck, jailed in Sing Sing, had been connected to an earlier jewelry theft.
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the Tribune
St. Paul
Summit Avenue
J. C. Lounsberry
Minneapolis
Lounsberry
Carme
Oswego
N. Y
Horace Lounsberry
Binghamton
Freddy
New York City
Marsh, Wever & Wemple
Boeck
Germantown
Penn
Eddie
Louisa C. Beeck
Widow Mary Plant Burned In Virginia House Fire
Mrs. Mary Co. Plant widow of Robert Plant of New York died in Spotsylvania County Virginia when her home burned today. A companion escaped as the house was destroyed. The fire cause is not yet known.
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Fredericksburg
Mary Co. Plant
Robert Plant
New York
Spotsylvania County
Great Bear Spring Water Ad Promotes Purity
Great Bear Spring Water declares its purity as the reason for its fame in an advertisement.
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Great Bear
Federal Charter Bill Tentative and Modifiable
Washington says a draft bill to grant federal charters for interstate commerce firms remains tentative and open to changes. A second revision is with the public printer and further edits may follow. Attorney General Wickersham expects no introduction in Congress before late next week.
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Washington
Wickersham
Congress
Army officers punished after Madrid protest
Madrid officials report government action after army officers protested in front of a military newspaper. Count de Villar is removed as Captain General of Madrid and corps heads are relieved. Participants face fortress confinement. arrests expected amid fears of a ministerial crisis.
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Madrid
Melilla
Count de Villar
Weyler
Edge cousins charged with arson attempt on Benscot Lithia Hotel
In Austell near Atlanta, P W Edge and Joseph Edge both nineteen and twenty one are jailed in Marietta after an arson attempt at the Benscot Lithia Hotel. Guests fled in night clothes as oil saturated the building in spots. townspersons saved the structure.
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Atlanta
Austell
P. W
Joseph Edge
Marietta
Heroft
Destitute Poles Seek Taft Over Peonage Claim
A group of six Polish migrants, lured by a New York employment bureau to Jackson Georgia for railroad work at 150 dollars a day, reached Washington to complain to President Taft but discovered they were in the wrong Washington. They had only been in the U S six months and say contracts were misrepresented.
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Tribune
Washington
National Capital
Taft
New York
United States
Jackson
Unrest Flare at Reelfoot Lake Night Riders
Unrest grows in Union City as the Reel foot Lake Night Riders threaten action after a jury failure to convict alleged leaders. Notices posted on fish docks demand six days to vacate and teamsters must leave within fifteen days, stirring unease around the lake country.
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Union City
Tenn
Reelfoot Lake
Civil War heroine dies in Deadwood at 78
Mrs. Henrico Livingstone, 78, a Civil War veteran and recluse in Deadwood, died today. She moved to Deadwood in 1876 and served as a Union private in male attire. her husband became a captain. She is believed linked to the Colgate family of New York.
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Deadwood
S. D
Henrico Livingstone
Livingstone
Colgate
New York
Yale chair to honor Laffan at Yale University
Yale University accepted a $100000 gift from J Pierpont Morgan to establish the William M Laffan professorship of Assyriology and Babylonian literature. The fund, in 7 percent securities, will cover professorship charges and purchase archaeological and illustrative material. The memorial honors The New York Sun editor who died recently.
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New Haven
Conn
J. Pierpont Morgan
William M. Laffan
Yale University
Yale Corporation
Laffan
New York Sun
Taft seeks party unity over his progressive agenda
The Taft administration pushes a caucus to unify Republicans behind his legislative program. Leaders weigh ship subsidies federal incorporation and interstate commerce reform while factional conflict with Speaker Cannon lingers. Taft aims quick start to the Ballinger Pinchot inquiry and broader push for promised laws.
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Taft
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