Taft Approves Allocation for Western Reclamation Projects
President Taft approves a 20 million dollar loan allotment among western reclamation projects including Salt River Arizona and California projects plus Yuma and Fremont counties. The board notes some projects nearing completion require only maintenance funds and urges early water-right adjudication while warning cost overruns have raised settler discontent.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Special Board of Army Engineers
Congress
Salt River
Ariz
Yuma
California
Rand Valley
Colo
Payette
Boise
Idaho
Milk River
Mont
North Platte
Wyo
Nebraska
Truckee-Carson
Nev
Rio Grande
N. Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Umatilla
Ore
Klamath
Cal
Carlsbad
N. M
Hondo
In. M
Garden City
Kansas
Kittitas
Wapata
Benton
Yakima, Wash
Board of Engineers
General Reclamation Fund
Missouri Pumping N
Secretary of the Treasury
Engineers Board
Pathfinder
Shoshone Dam
Roosevelt Dam
Gunnison Tunnel
Reclamation Service
United States
Drought Ends as General Rain Breaks Historic Southwest Plight
Drought across Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma is broken by a widespread rain last night. More rain than in the prior three months falls, ending the longest local weather bureau drought in twenty two years. Snow reported in the South. In the North Central states a heavy wet snow turns to rain with damaged wires and near stoppage of telegraph service. Milwaukee and Lansing report seven to ten inches of snow. Kentucky sees heavy rain while Tennessee experiences dense fog.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Milwaukee
Lansing
Michigan
Kentucky
Tennessee
Explosion at El Paso Smelter Buries Twenty-Eight Workmen Alive
An explosion of dynamite during slag blasting at the El Paso smelter pit buried twenty eight railroad workers. Four men are accounted for. many others are feared dead or injured. Nearby houses and an Embay smelter store were destroyed and the hospital damaged while the plant remained intact. Children in the area were among the injured. Excavation to reach the miners continues vigorously.
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el Paso
Texas
Embray
American Smelting & Refiining Company
Uneasy for the Rail Road Strike in Italy
Rome reports growing public unease over a rail strike by ninety thousand railway workers. The government acts to suppress the agitation while most railway mileage is state owned, risking direct conflict between workers and the state.
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Italy
Rome
Charity rummage sale aids the needy this Christmas
The P. E. O. Sisterhood of Roswell contributed to holiday relief by distributing baskets and clothing from their charity rummage sale run by Mrs. A. A. Mason and Mrs. John T. MecChure. Anyone knowing worthy recipients may request assistance by contacting the organizers.
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P. E. O. Sisterhood
Roswell
A. A. Mason
John T. MecChure
Harcrow Family Expected From Rotan to Enter Roswell Sheep Trade
Mrs. Hattie Harcrow and her children are en route from Rotan Texas to Roswell where they will settle and join husband and father who brings wagon and team to start a sheep business. Mrs. Harcrow is sister of local sheep man H L Davis.
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Hattie Harcrow
Rotan
Texas
Adams county votes scandal indicts 145 more sellers
West Union Ohio December 28 An Adams county grand jury reports 145 additional true indictments for selling votes in the November election bringing total indictments to 959. Many voters confess in court as Judge Blair handles pleas informally and fines them with workhouse terms.
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West Union
Ohio
Adams County Grand Jury
Blair
John
Adams County
Adams’ County
Taft
Turkish Troops Win Battle With Bedouins in Syria
Constantinople reports Turkish forces crushed Bedouin rebels in Elkerak district Syria near the Dead Sea after a bloody engagement. Bedouins suffer 450 killed 600 prisoners while Turkish losses include 7 officers and 77 men.
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Syria
Constantinople
Elkerak
Vilayet
Dead Sea
Gotch Challenge for $20,000 World Match
Omaha December 28 Farmer Burns via the Omaha Bee issues a challenge for Frank Gotch to wrestle any man, preferably George Hackenschmidt, for a side bet of $20,000 with the winner taking all gate money.
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Omaha
Web
Farmer” Burns
The
Omaha Bee
Frank Gotch
George Hackenschmidt
Fake missionaries swindled churches across nations
Documents found on two Armenian men under arrest in Atlanta indicate they swindled churchgoers nationwide. They used names Deacon Mychael Joseph and Archbishop Jean Be Jan claiming funds were for missions. Papers show activity in England France Germany Bulgaria and the United States.
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Atlanta
Mychael Joseph
Jean Be Jan
England
France
Germany
Bulgaria
America
Regular dinner at Grand Central Cafe and cab contact
A brief notice lists a regular home cooked dinner at the Grand Central Cafe and provides cab contact details with City Livery number 9 for booking.
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Grand Central Cafe
Nagel Seeks Immigration Reform and Bureau Changes
Secretary Nagel presents a broad, policy rich report urging tighter steamship regulation and stricter immigration controls. He proposes family integrity measures, expanded Ellis Island facilities, merit based promotions with retirement options, and a central federal corporate information agency.
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Nagel
Ellis Island
Althout
United States
Europe
Bureau of Corporations
International Harvester Company
Steel and Tobacco
Bureau of Fisheries
Aleutain Islands
Dutch Harbor
Unataska
Pribilof Islands
Bureau of the Census
Bureau of Labor
Bureau of Manufacturers
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Standards, Lighthouse Service
Coast and Geodetic Servey
Chaves County Appoints Election Judges for 1911 Contests
The Board of County Commissioners of Chaves County New Mexico met December 28 1910 to appoint judges for the January 9 1911 justice of the peace and constable election and the January 21 1911 constitutional adoption election. Judges and polling places were set for nine precincts including Roswell Dexter Hagerman Lake Arthur Plainview Cedar Canyon and Kenna with officials named for each precinct.
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Board of County Commissioners
Chaves County
New Mexico
W. M. Atkinson
North Roswell
Gen. L. Wyllys
J.A. Gilmore
C. W Johnson
South Roswell
W. W. Ogle
W. A. Phillips
R. M. Yarnell
Eagles Hall
South Spring
C. H. Culdice
J. G. Calloway
W. F. Welty
East Grand Plains School House
Dexter
F. L. Mehlhop
O. F. Calloway
J. H. Holley
Justice of the Peace
Hagerman
J. B. Bailey
B. H. Wixom
O. R. Tanner
Lake Arthur
E. C Jackson
A. J.poster
B. C. Moots
Lower Penasco
T. W. Cadenhead
O. J. Dunken
B. Cleve
Tillotson
Plains
B. M. Mathews
Charles Wiggins
B. H. Marx
Plainview
Cedar Canyon
A. Stinson
L. W. Bourne
John Ririe
Mundy
Hernandez Lake
el Yeso
F. G. Baker
G. B. Patterson
W. H. Long
Dunlap
Kenna
J. A. Kimmins
M. O. Mills
W. T. Cowgill
Elkins
H. P. Lively
J. A. Tinsley
B. N. Muncy
Justice of Peace
Two Flyers Die In French Air Collision At Issy Les Molineux
French aviator M Taffort and passenger M Pola were killed when the plane toppled fifty feet during a test run ahead of a Brussels Paris return flight. Steering gear jammed causing the crash. both men died before aid arrived.
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Issy Les Molineux
France
M. Taffort
M. Pola
Taffort
Brussels
Auto Club
Paris
Negro tied to Loomis county lynching scare ends in guard
William Furberg, a negro accused of assaulting Flora Anglin of Loomis county, narrowly escaped lynching in Clarksburg West Virginia. He was hidden in the express company vault at the railway station until militia arrived and is being sent to Moundsville penitentiary for trial under heavy guard. W M Chance visited from Artesia.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
William Furberg
Flora Anglin
Loomis County
Moundsville
Appointment of precinct election judges for 1911 ballot
The board names judges for King Ranger Lake and Richland precincts to hold elections on January 9 1911 for Justice of the Peace and Constable. Special Judges will receive ballot boxes poll books and ballots and report results to the Secretary of the Territory. Bond of Precinct 13 constable Rampy examined and approved. The board adjourned.
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A. L. Rampy
W. M. Atkinson
R. F. Ballard
Roswell Weather Report December 28
Local Roswell New Mexico report shows highest 59, lowest 30, mean 44 with 0 precipitation. Wind from the north at 4 mph, sky cloudy. Forecast calls for fair and colder tonight and Thursday.
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Roswell
N. M
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Central West
Firestone Tires
Gotch
BIG Purse
U. S. Market
Department of Commerce and Labor
Commissioners Proceedings
N. J. Fritz
Chatham
Mass
Mollie Rhodes
Vidal Haven
Maine
New York
Dobbin
San Francisco
John Keller
Knight’s Landing
Calif
W. M. Chance
Artesia
U. 8 Weather Bureau
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