Polygamy Angers Senate as Smoot Seat Denied
In Washington on December 11 Senator Burrows urged removing Reed Smoot from the Utah seat, arguing polygamous ties with the church govern body and covert plural marriages show active aid to lawbreaking. The council warned the hierarchy openly defies state and national laws, disqualifying Smoot from representation.
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Senate
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Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Reed Smoot
Utah
Txsac
Smoot
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Clecrch
Smith
United States
Katy Road under C R J and P control
A New York dispatch reports control of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway by financiers linked to the Rock Island system. The buyers hold about 60,000 shares and plan to keep M K T as a separate system, likely merging with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois as the St Louis and San Francisco line is spun off.
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New York Dispatch
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
Rock Island Stttes
New York
Rock Island
Chicago & Eastern Illnois
St. Louis
San Francisco
First Woman Appointed Indiana State Statistician
Miss Mary Stubbs was commissioned as chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics, becoming the first woman ever appointed to a state office in Indiana. The historic appointment took place in Indianapolis on December 11.
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Mary Stubbs
Bureau of Statistics
Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Bureau of Statistics
Miners Entombed Four Days Alive
A Bakersfield message reports signals indicating six miners entombed last Friday are alive. Rescue efforts near the cavern have made little progress, making the survival task seem almost impossible as the date nears four days trapped underground.
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Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Ready to Be Citizens Porto Rico Citizens Rights Call
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress urging grant of full American citizenship to Porto Rico. He praised improvements in governance and exports under U S rule and argued citizenship is a matter of right and justice for loyal islanders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Porto Rico
Dorsey Patten Dies in California at 55
Former Rock Island figure and state political conspicuous figure H Dorsey Patten died of pneumonia at his Los Angeles home in Ocean Park California. Born in Rock Island he rose in Chicago politics and served as a lieutenant in the First Cavalry during the Spanish American War. He later served as land registrar at Tuscan Arizona before his death.
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Dorsey Patten
Nat Goodwin
Ocean Park
Los Angeles
Cal
Pheumonia
Patten
Chicago
Turner
Is Cavalry
Tuscan
Ariz
Breakage of dyke dooms rich Imperial Valley lands
California dispatch reports the Colorado River break through a $1,000,000 Southern Pacific dike threatens Imperial Valley farms and towns. Officials fear massive flooding if the river cannot be turned back and the Laguna dam at Yuma may be endangered. SP doubts success and may abandon the fight, risking a vast inland sea and loss of irrigation.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Colorado
Southern Pacific
Imperial Valley
Imperial
Deep Canon
Laguna
Yuma
GO TO COAL VALLEY Rock Island Lodge to Confer Degrees
Rock Island lodge No 658 A F and A M accepts invitation from Coal Valley lodge No 547 to confer the sublime degree on one candidate Friday evening at Coal Valley. A special train will depart Moline depot at 7 10 pm Thirty first street depot at 7 20 pm and Twentieth street depot at 7 30 pm. The Valley lodge plans entertainment after the degree with a vaudeville show and a large local Mason turnout is expected.
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A. F
A. M
Coal Valley Lodge
Coal Valley
Moline
Thirty-first Street
Twentieth Street
Valley Lodge
Thompson and Root V Hemenway Ejectment Suit Hears Evidence
Judge Gest in Moline circuit court hears the ejectment case Thompson and Root versus C F Hemenway after jury discharge. The suit, remanded by the supreme court for a new trial, proceeds on evidence before the court. Newark, vec 11 the Atchison stockholders face a Jan 30 meeting in Topeka to authorize stock increase and $98 million convertible bonds. Directors plan about $25 million of new stock or bonds upon ratification.
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Moline
Gest
Thompson
Root
C. F. Hemenway
Supreme Court
Newark
Vec
Atchison
Topeka
Senate to press on Nominations and retirement timing
Washington date line reports the Senate Finance Committee will demand from the President a clear plan on when the current secretaries will retire before confirming Cortelyou for treasury and Garfield for interior. The panel declined a favorable report without such understanding and noted no political motive, framing it as a dangerous precedent.
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Senate
Cortelyou
Treasury
Garfield
Interior
Senate Committee On Finance
Shaw
Hitchcock
Secretary Shaw to Invest 10 Million in Bonds for Relief
Secretary Shaw announces a relief plan to ease the money situation by depositing 10 million dollars in existing depositories in designated cities. The funds will be secured by bonds acceptable for savings bank investments, with premiums of one and two percent on 1907 bonds.
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Washington
Shaw
Congress Daily Summary Sees Pension Bills, Labor Bill Begin
In Washington on December 11, Congress adjourned briefly after a busy day. The Senate advanced private pension bills with favorable reports and adopted a resolution for recording dismissed negro troops tied to the Brownsville affair. A child labor bill for the District of Columbia started, with several more private bills passed. The House began consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, and discussed simplified spelling, orthographic standards, and related authority. Speakers included Mr. Clark, Mr. Gillett, and Mr. Livingston. A r estrangement was taken until today.
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District of Columbia
Clark
Missouri
Gillett
Massachusetts
Livingston
Georgia
Macon
Arkansas
Mr. Sheppard
Tony
Federal lands policy challenged by powerful interests
Washington report notes ongoing prosecution of all who defraud the public lands and asserts enforcement will continue. Secretary Hitchcock laments entrenched influence and weak penalties, citing 500,000 acres improperly diverted for private use and urging stronger observance of the law. Pension figures show 985,971 pensioners with total annual roll value about 156 million dollars and slight shifts in average pension amounts across programs.
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Washington, D. C
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Historic Day in Paris as Church-State Clash Deepens
Paris reports Montagnini secretary of the papal nunciature arrested and expelled from France. The era of church-State relations ends as public worship becomes illegal except for schismatic groups and clerics prepare for private rites amid government warnings and lawsuits.
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Paris
Mgr. Montagnini
France
Montagnini
Prainee
Judge Accused Recesses Court in Shea Trial
Chicago December 11 during cross examination attorney Lebeskey accused Judge Ball of unfair treatment after an objection was sustained. The judge did not reply and ordered a recess of the court.
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Shea
Chicago
Lebeskey
Ball
Lebaskey
Frisco Plans Great Fair in 1913
San Francisco reports that fifteen civic leaders formed the Pacific Ocean Exposition company to stage a mammoth fair in 1913. The event marks the 400th anniversary of the Pacific Ocean's discovery by Balboa and the completion of the Panama Canal, with capital set at $5,000.
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San Francisco
Cid Gems
Pacific Ocean Exposition Company
Pacific Ocean
Palbou
Panama Canal
Lyons Neb Citizens Welcome Husband Beater Back
In Lyons Nebraska a man said to have beaten his wife and fled with another woman was met by a local committee on his return. He was stripped of clothing and whipped with a rope, then dragged to Logan River filled with ice to cool his back wounds before being sent away.
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Lyons
Dee
Sewell Sampson
Sampson
Logan River
Nobel prize funds to back industrial peace effort in US
President Roosevelt plans to use the Nobel prize money as the foundation of a fund. Trustees will convene labor and capital representatives in Washington to foster industrial peace. The board will include the chief justice, cabinet officials, and labor and capital representatives. Two men will be chosen to initiate arbitration and then a rotating six-member committee will govern, with terms lasting three years.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
White House
Wash Nnton
The
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Inbor
Capital
John . Mitchell
Bishop McCabe Stricken With Apoplectic Stroke in New York
Bishop McCabe of Philadelphia a Methodist Episcopal church leader was stricken with apoplexy on a New York street. He was rushed to a city hospital where doctors report his condition as serious.
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New York
McCabe
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church
New York Hospital
Sugar rebate case yields guilty pleas and fines in New York
New York December 11 C Goodloe Ed and Edwin Earl members of William F Edgars & Sons of Detroit pleaded guilty in court to acts on sugar shipments. They were fined $6 000 each and paid. They were indicted in connection with the New York Central and American Sugar Refining company.
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New York
C. Goodloe Ed
Edwin Earl
William F. Edgars & Sons
New York Central and American Sugar Refining Company
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