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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
2
At Atlantic City the eleventh national prohibition convention met in session with little on the preliminaries. Observers note an insurgent mood and a push for a more progressive campaign. Delegates may challenge the election of a national chairman and seek changes in committee personnel. A new party name is hinted.
The national municipal league held its annual session in Los Angeles focusing on municipal finances and taxation. Speakers included A. C. Pleydell, William R. Hadley, Dr. Jesse R. Burke and others. Robert S. Binkard spoke on excess condemnation, with Dr. Ernest E. Bradford addressing commission government and city planning.
Salt Lake City imports the twenty third session of the trans Mississippi congress to be held August 27 to 30. Secretary Becker issues the call noting governors may appoint twenty delegates and mayors two per 5 000 population up to ten, with commercial groups one per fifty members up to ten.
A disastrous fire swept Thousand Island Park in Watertown New York destroying most of the business district the Columbian hotel and the New York State Educational Building along with eighty seven cottages. The estimated loss runs around 500000 with no deaths and no serious injuries reported.
The body of George Reid a wealthy Iowa farmer who had disappeared from Union Station yesterday was found on a sandbar in the Platte River. Reid aged 78 had suffered softening of the brain and is believed to have died by his own hand while temporarily insane.
Candidates in Nebraska anxiously await Iowa state convention results on the Taft Roosevelt compromise. A similar effort is expected at the Nebraska state convention to apply the same agreement.
Government circles say General Huerta will immediately issue a proclamation granting unconditional amnesty to rank and file rebels who surrender within three weeks. The amnesty excludes Francisco Madero ally Orozco and his officers.
In Kansas City Missouri Volney W. King, cashier for a local traction company, fired four shots in the prosecuting attorney’s office while seeking a warrant for J. W. Beck. Two bullets struck Beck and two deputy prosecutors were wounded. Judge Ralph Latshaw escaped injury.
The National Education Association opened its fifth annual convention in Chicago amid calls for Congress to fund relief for rural schools. Reports stated 12 million of 20 million public school pupils were in rural schools and only about a third of rural students were making satisfactory progress.
Dispatches report the insurrection in Oriente crushed by troops. Pursuit continues against small bands of starving negroes, with ongoing military action and cautious advances reported from Havana observers.
Spanish War Veterans from Michigan gather for the annual encampment in Sault Ste. Marie with many visitors arriving. The city hosts the event as patriotic colors are displayed and community members extend a hearty welcome.
Gov Aldrich spoke at Curtis on the Fourth. Lincoln welcomed Bryan on his Baltimore return. Fremont’s carriage factory will be rebuilt after a major fire. Multiple burglaries hit Kearney businesses. West Point farmer Carl Johnson’s house burned from a defective flue. Insanity cases consign Lincoln residents to state hospital and the asylum. An Indian woman Nancy Wells is jailed for slaughter in the penitentiary. Wymore locals push for a new independent telephone plant. Tecumseh bank stake sale and new residence change hands. Elk Creek accident injures a family. Jobes loses finger in a fence crash. Lancaster County suit over $2000 against Burlington. Fremont children suffer injuries in a runaway wagon incident. Elks gift 100 rabbit feet to Portland-bound excursionists. York County assessed value rises sharply. rail construction near stagnant. Burlington valuation hearings progress after figures dispute. Mason City child dies after auto strike. Attorney General limits Callaway Milling bond authority. Sidney reports heavy Cheyenne county rainfall with excellent grain prospects. Fremont Carriage plant fire loss $60,000 insured. Nebraska Democratic delegates meet July 30 at Grand Island. Kearney torpedo accident injures two-year-old. Cedar Creek fight leaves Neil Mallon wounded. hospitalized in Omaha.
News from Washington reports preparations for Taft re election in New York and a national drive to rally GOP support. The piece notes Roosevelt's likely attendance at a Chicago convention, Senate approval of two battleships, and Wickersham extending the eight hour law to federal workers.
Renewed reports from Madrid indicate a planned restoration of the Portuguese monarchy. Five killed and seventeen injured when an interurban car hit a dead gasoline car near Tulsa Oklahoma Thursday night.
The estate of the late Richard T. Crane, ironmaster, of Chicago, is assessed for the largest inheritance tax in Illinois at 329131 dollars. The report also notes deaths, floods, and various incidents across the nation and international events touching politics, crime, and disasters.
At a state board of irrigation meeting a general hearing on C. T. Boggs for Loup river power rights was set for the next thirty days. H. E. Babcock and A. C. Koenig will be summoned to argue their claims and the battle, pitting Babcock backed by Doherty interests and Koenig aligned with Moore interests, is expected to be keen as developers seek control of adjacent river territory.
Two district court decrees in Lincoln hold that mortgages where the owner agrees to pay the tax cannot be assessed against a bank holding the mortgage. The rulings cover First Trust Company and First Savings Bank appealing from county board of equalization.
Secretary Mellor closes a contract with airship organizers for a monoplane display at the state fair. Flyer H. Kanthier, the daring Frenchman, will perform two to three flights daily, covering at least three miles and reaching 500 feet in altitude. Spectacular stunts are anticipated with large crowds.
Dr Bostrom of the state board of veterinaries traveled to Valentine and other Northwestern rail line points to investigate rumors of glanders and other diseases. In his Omaha area tour he found several anthrax cases in cattle and sixteen cattle were killed. The department reports a fund shortage hindering thorough examinations except in extreme cases.
The Northwestern Railway company asks the railway commission for permission to guarantee 1,120,000 in refunding bonds of the St. Paul Eastern & Grand Trunk Railway and 2,500,000 in bonds for the construction of the Des Plaines Valley Railway in Illinois.
After fifteen years of discussion work begins with crews excavating and building embankments for a head gate near Genoa. The operation mobilizes a force of men and machines to push the project forward.
The Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company appeals a Douglas county district court judgment. Eli M. Lang won a $1,500 verdict for injuries from a fall while alighting a car at Twentieth and Farnam streets in Omaha.
The state board of assessment and equalization will begin its review of the annual assessment roll on July 15, the third Monday in July. Reports from 31 counties indicate total state valuation will exceed $450,000,000 this year. The four year real estate reassessment will chiefly drive the jump from 1911 figures.
A portion of the Nebraska national guard may join the Polo Mountain Wyoming army maneuvers from July 28 to August 6. The First regiment will participate if the $20,000 appropriated by the recent army bill is approved by Congress in the near future.
Labor Commissioner Gaye returned from a tour of Cherry Thomas Hooker Grant Box Butte Dawson and Sheridan counties where he investigated vacant government lands open to homestead entry. He found about half the land open at the last report has been taken up yet much good land remains and plans to issue a full statement. He notes settlers on the land enjoy water and grass and prosper despite crops failing elsewhere and urges interested people to take homestead opportunities.
The monthly report shows on hand totals of 680 007 18 with 5 981 97 cash and 674 025 21 in banks. One month prior custody stood at 740 020 13. General fund from county remittances reaches 134 688 82. Additional uninvested trust funds amount to 202 567 13 for permanent school university and endowment warrants.
The State Railway commission will hear complaints on several days this month. On July 12 they travel to Minden to listen to a Burlington passenger station appeal and hear a Newark Nebraska resident appeal. On July 23 they will consider station facilities at Gandy and Logan and a sidetrack at Gandy.
The secretary of state collected 18385.20 in fees for June including 74 from articles of incorporation 87 from motor vehicles 88 from brands 67 from certified copies of records and 13060.10 from annual corporation permits.
The board of purchase and supplies began awarding three month contracts for state institutions. Sugar prices dropped about 60 cents a hundred. The Donald company won sugar contracts for all institutions except the penitentiary. Hastings asylum will receive 1018.75 dollars worth of sugar for the next three months. Coal bids were postponed for one week.
The Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co requests the Nebraska Railway Commission approve consolidating the two Wymore concerns now under its control, naming the Nebraska Telephone Co and the New Home Co as the entities involved.
Major Penn of the Twelfth Infantry has received a seven shot Colt automatic revolver which the National Guard of Nebraska is to be supplied with next year. The weapon fires seven rounds in under four seconds.
Secretary of State Wait has produced a pamphlet printing proposed constitutional amendments. The fifteen page document bears Wait's name on the front and is being distributed with official correspondence to Nebraskans.
Harvest is at hand in Nebraska wheat regions as farmers in the southeast begin reaping this week and the effort spreads north and west. The Platter valley expects harvesting after July 4, with grain men holding to earlier crop estimates as Burlington railroad maintains 60 to 80 percent progress across four Nebraska divisions.
Mrs. Smith asks Secretary Piper of the state pardon board for a parole for her husband, jailed fifteen years after a conviction tied to Evans and Morley for robbing a drug store in Omaha. She says five children need support and the family relies on him.
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