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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
3
A sweeping digest notes San Francisco vaults intact with $17,000,000 bonds after the disaster and widespread recoveries. Russian politics, rail and oil struggles, and cases from Kansas to Indiana color a week of upheavals. It reports assassinations, new laws, battleships, strikes, and notable political shifts across nations.
Witness E M Wilhoit testifies that Standard Oil bribed railroad clerks and independent oil firm workers to obtain shipments data and suppress rivals. He claims multiple oil grades sold from same tank and 205 208 gallon stock schemes. Frisco rate favors Standard Oil. probe tied to congressional order.
The twenty seventh annual encampment of the Department of Colorado and Wyoming Grand Army of the Republic will be in Greeley from June 12 to 14. Sessions occur at the Greeley armory with related events at Ellis hall for the Woman's Relief Corps and Odd Fellows hall for the Ladies of the G A R. Meetings for other affiliated groups lack assigned venues.
An earthquake shock lasting about a minute was felt across Elkhorn valley in Cody Nebraska at 6 25 PM Wednesday with no damage reported within sixty miles. In Boston Harvard trustees voted to resume football under new rules with nine opposed and fifteen in favor, to be played after December 21 under the revised guidelines.
San Francisco officials and banks welcomed news that insurance companies will soon pay fire losses estimated at $200,000,000. The claim payouts promise to boost circulation and ease post disaster strain as salvage work resumes. The reconstruction committee also set wages at $2.50 for nine hours, urging employers to provide daily pay for workers. General Greeley echoed the call for timely meals and support for laborers.
The attorney general announces a petition in the Circuit Court of Indiana seeking an injunction against the drug trust entities including the Proprietary Association of America, National Wholesale Druggists Association and National Association of Retail Druggists. The suit accuses a conspiracy to fix and regulate prices for patent medicines and proprietary drugs and to enforce the pact by restricting purchases to compliant members. The move is part of a broader anti monopoly push with more suits planned against numerous monopolies.
Denver officials celebrate a state supreme court ruling that upholds a city ordinance closing barber shops on Sundays. Chief Justice Gabbert wrote the decision with Justices Campbell Gunter Goddard Maxwell and Bailey concurring, deeming the measure valid class legislation. The Journeymen Barbers Union and ministers thank supporters as unions nationwide send congratulations.
Secretary Shaw submitted to Congress today the proposed appropriation for repairing earthquake damaged government buildings in California. The plan includes 10,000 for the appraiser's stores building 30,000 for the sub treas ury 65,000 for the mint 500,000 for the post office court house etc and 6,000 for the revenue cutter store house totaling 611,000 for San Francisco.
In San Diego a kelp sample found by chemist David Moore Balch reveals potassium salts rather than sodium chloride. George H. Maynard of the American Institute of Mining Engineering helped identify the commercial value, and Balch and partners moved to protect and exploit the extraction process for this potential food supply substitute.
In Sioux Falls a Sioux warrior David Charging and Nellie Little Bird of Pine Ridge were married in a federal courtroom after a court session. Captain Seth Bullock served as master of ceremonies while Judge Wheelock presided, marking a historic Indian wedding in a federal venue with society women among the spectators.
Des Moines reports James G. Whitney of Atlantic completes settlement of a ten year labor to repay $700,000 to creditors after his father Franklin H. Whitney’s bankruptcy and death. The elder Whitney founded Atlantic and built a bank. The son vowed no creditor would lose, and fulfilled the pledge. Also notes records for a Lindenberg kite ascent and a Boston portrait subject receiving marriage offers.
A H Stotts of Columbus states kidney troubles and backaches plagued him for fifteen years. After doctoring with no cure he collapsed, wasted in bed ten weeks, then used Dean's Kidney Pills. within months he recovered to 188 pounds and has been well for two years. Sold 50 cents a box by Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Mr. A G Barnett of Avard Oklahoma writes that his son’s head was one solid sore with hair loss and severe eczema. After two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and daily Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the eczema disappeared, hair grew back, and no recurrence. The family endorses Cuticura for eczema. March 30 1905.
An old advertisement touts Watts Catarrh Cure as effective for catarrh and related ailments. It claims the product is taken internally with direct action through the bloodstream and mentions Garfield Tea Co of Brooklyn as the likely distributor.
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