World News Briefs From The Nation And Abroad
A digest of notable 19th and early 20th century events includes deaths of veterans Thomas Sauls and Col. Thomas Snell, diplomatic reshuffles in Honduras and Japan, Taft tours, and scientific obituaries. Other items cover Kansas City conventions, rail and shipping bids, and industry mergers amid political shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas EF. Sauls
Joplin
Senor
Don Angel Agrate
Washington
Honduras
Baron Kaneko
Harvard
Major Schmitz
San Francisco
Taft
Fort Leavenworth
Marcelin Albert
France
Montpellier
Kamae Christian Endeavor Society
Kansas City
Kaw
Joseph Ripley
Panama Canal Commission
A. S. Herschel
London
John Pierson Titcomb
Texas Navy
Denver
Grover Cleveland
Ottawa
Kan
Chautauqua
Fairbanks
Northwestern University
Chicago
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Lucien Baker
Kansas
Leavenworth
Ohio
Public Lands Fight Set to Test Forest Rules in Supreme Court
Western land meeting ends after three day session as Chief Forester Pinchot agrees to sue Fred Light of Aspen and take the case to the Supreme Court to test whether forest reserve regulations can compel non users to pay grazing taxes. The suit aims to challenge state sovereignty and test federal authority over grazing on public lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colorado
Forester
Pinchot
Supreme Court
Department
Fred Light
Aspen
United States District Court
Forestry Bureau
Light
Colorado Cattle and Horse Groves’ Association
State Stock Inspection Board
Supreme Court of the United States
Forest Service
State Association
Andrew Norrell
Northpark
Stock Inspection Board
Cranston
The
Albany
Roaring Fork
Eagle River
A. M. Ammons
T.S. Harper
Fred P. Johnson
A.F. Potter
Wells and
Knox
Department of Justice
Light, Johnson
Thomas Ward & Bro
Colorado Association
Snowmass Creek
Pitkin County
Holy Cross
Potter
L. Bradford Prince
Land Convention
New Mexico
Wyoming
C. D. Clark
Mondell
Denver Millionaires Indicted In Timber Coal Fraud Schemes
A federal grand jury indicted four Denver millionaires and twenty total indictments involving seventy three people over timber coal homestead and mining filing violations and conspiracy. Several St Louis corporations also faced false bidding charges as prosecutors pursue land and resource fraud linked to promoters and entrymen across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Federal
Grand Jury
Mth
Colorado
St. Louis
A.I. Sullenberger
Washington Street
Whitney Newton
Pagosa Bprings Lumber Company
Edgar M. Biggs
Race Street
New Mexico Lumber Company
John Porter
Durango
Porter Fuel Company
Robert Forrester
Denver & Rio Grande
Utah Fuel Company
Otis HB. Spencer
Lafayette Street
John J. McGinnity
York Street
Charles Freeman
Washington
D. E
Milwaukee
New Mexico
Wyoming
Nebraska
Missouri
Wisconsin
Utah
Cheyenne Council Hears Sweeney On Franchises
Eugene Sweeney, granted a conditional street railway franchise, told the Cheyenne council at a special meeting he did not know what he would do with the franchises. Loy refused to deposit the $5,000 forfeit for the street railway before a final electric lighting vote on July 2. The council reportedly dislikes Sweeney's methods and the electric franchise may be killed then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wye
Eugene Sweeney
Loy
Sweeney
George Thomas Sentenced for Bank Fraud in Wyoming
George Thomas, convicted of defrauding the Guernsey Bank of 460 dollars, received a four year sentence. He was noted for his striking beard and hair and once disrupted a trial by insisting on arguing. At his Pueblo arrest Denver lawyers allegedly tried to blackmail Wyoming officials to secure his release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
George Thomas
Guernsey
Thomas
Pueblo
Colorado
Denver
Wyoming
Meeker Aims to Build Continental Road from Missouri to Puget Sound
Ezra Meeker traversed the Oregon Trail in a prairie schooner drawn by oxen and plans to present President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay with a plan to overthrow railroad monopoly. He proposes a great continental roadway from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, possibly extending to the Atlantic via the Cumberland Pike. He has twice crossed the trail by ox wagon, first in 1851 and again starting January 1906 to enlist towns along the route in commemorating historic sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ezra Meeker
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Harriman
United States
Missouri River
Puget Sound
Mississippi
Atlantic Seaboard
Cumberland Pike
Meeker
Indianapolis
Prairie Schooner
Mad steer runs amok in Boulder streets. law grad injured
A runaway steer terrorized Boulder last week as it charged Neil B. Mackenzie a University of Colorado Law School graduate who was hurt and hospitalized. The steer also wounded a horse rider and injured others before Wallace Chambers shot and killed the animal near Pine street and Greenman’s drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder
Cole
Neil B. Mackenzie
University of Colorado Law School
W. W. Wolf
Trezise
McKenzie
Pine Street
Greenman’ Drug Store
Wallace Chambers
Arbitration progress noted at Hague peace conference
A Hague plenipotentiary praised the moving machinery toward general understanding and a nonconfrontational approach at the peace conference. He cited arbitration progress since 1899, the expanded arbitration court, and new treaties, while acknowledging U.S. and Roosevelt support. A separate Santa Fe report describes a subpoena for F M McMahon over Hagerman era finances and an accounting dispute with Bursum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
M. Bourgeois
Andrew Carnegie
Peace Palace
North Sea
Venezuela
Hague Court
United States
Roosevelt
Rates Drop to Two Cents a Mile on US Railroads
Railroad presidents from western and transcontinental lines reached a binding understanding in Chicago to cut passenger rates to 2 cents per mile starting July 1, abolishing the 3-cent scale. The agreement, though not formal, stems from ultimatums by two major transcontinental carriers and applies to all railroads nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Great Dam Near Boulder Power Race In Colorado
About 200 workers in Boulder forebay on two rival projects the Central Colorado Power Company and the Northern Colorado Power Company back by Westinghouse and General Electric race to build a vast reservoir system. Construction includes a 140 foot high 1,700 foot long dam at Nederland with a 520 million cubic foot capacity and a 60 to 44 inch pipe line delivering water to a 20,000 HP plant lower on Boulder creek. The Colorado & Northwestern railroad extends a spur to the site to speed material delivery as Boulder county anticipates new prosperity and cheaper power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder, Colo
Boulder Canon
Great Reservoir
Central Colorado Power Company
The
Electric and Hydraulic
Boulder County
General Electric Company
Eng
Northern Colorado Power Company
Westinghouse Electric ¢Pany
Fayette
Nederland
Hydraulic and Electric Company
Magnolia
Boulder Creek
Four Mile Creek
Foulder Creek
Tungetten Camp
Eldora
Canon
Machinnery
Colorado & Northwestern Rairoad
Boulder
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News OF the
Micrellaneous
Viscount Hayashi
Ambassador Aoki
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Charles McKinney
Galena
Sinnemahoming
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Pittsburg
Western Union and
Postal Companies
United American Mechanics
Tremont Temple
Boston
Denver Public Lands
John Looney
Rock Island
Til
E. V. Lanyon
Indian Territory
C. L. White
Santa Fe
Trinidad
Colo
Pollock
Hoch
State of
Philadelphia
Hadley
Canada
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mineral
Freeman
Missouri Republican Club of
Harry 8. New
National Committee
Haywood
Boise
Idaho
Harry Orchard
Goddard
Lamvenworth
Amidon
Z. T. Hazen
Uncle Sam Company
Murfin
Jackson
Hampton Roads
John W. Gates
H. Clay Pierce
Waters Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Washington University of St. Louis
Bryce
Great Britain
National Eclectic Medical Society
Los Angeles
Western Union
New York
Neill
J. M. Wilson
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
American Sheet and Tinplate’ Company
Amalgamated Association
Paola
Orchard
Forester Pinchot
Gettle
Denver Millionaires
Hagerman
N. M
F. M. McMahon
Colorado Springs
Colorado Title and Trust Company
Territorial
Charles V. Safford
Charles Closson
McMahon
Territorial Penitentiary
Bursum
Republican Central Committee
Territory
Frank W. Parker
Charles W. Safford
Safford
Great Dam
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