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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1907
Page
3
Representatives from all state street car unions meet in Springfield to back a reform bill. The measure requires air brakes on electric cars, winter heating, center aisles, glass fronts, and heavy fines for violations. They also seek repeal of the fellow servant clause and a strict employers' liability act.
Lake Charles Louisiana January 15 Passenger officials from all midwest and southwest railroads gather to plan excursion traffic through Texas and between Chicago and Denver. The meetings driven by S G Warner Kansas City Southern railway general passenger agent aim to coordinate routes and schedules through tomorrow.
Chicago January fifteenth Attorney John B Miller for Standard Oil pleads not guilty to eight indictments sustained by Judge Landis Federal court officials push for speedy trial while oil trust lawyers file objections President Roosevelt supports swift action through James H Wilkerson Special Counsel The indictments allege railroad rebates with potential maximum penalties totaling 120000000 The case promises a landmark legal battle in U S history
Frank Thompson, described as one of the most desperate inmates at Leavenworth, finishes a seven year burglary term and will start a life sentence for the murder of guard J B Waldrupe during the 1901 prison riot. He had previously escaped and was wounded in the ensuing capture.
Chicago Ill Jan 15 The seventh annual Three I base ball league meeting is held at the Sherman house to set the season plan elect officers and rule the Davenport vacancy. Clinton Ia or Danville Ill are candidates for the vacant franchise with Clinton favored by a majority of magnates.
Kansas City hosts the annual session of the Western Retail Implement and Vehicle Dealers Association with hundreds of dealers attending. The three day convention will tackle mail order competition and other trade issues while highlighting its nearly 2,000 members across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Indian Territory Colorado and Texas. The group runs a members insurance company that reportedly saved over 120000 in premiums in eight years.
The third annual Wyoming Wool Growers convention in Rock Springs opens with talks on proposed sheep industry legislation tariff revision the twenty eight hour law and range forest rules. Delegates head to Salt Lake for the national wool growers meeting. Utah hosts its annual convention with a large turnout and the upcoming National Wool Growers session. Idaho covers business matters and reports on the thirty six hour law and livestock sanitary work.
Cedar Brook formerly W H Mc Brayer Oriental offers high prices for second hand goods. Makin's Second Hand Store advertises at 109 Main St with phone 227 for inquiries and pickup.
Columbus reports the American Breeders' Association opens its annual convention with a six member science committee led by Dr. W. M. Hays. The discussion covers improving humans animals and plants and may include practical tests. Notable members include Luther Burbank and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who warns intermarriage of deaf mutes risks heredity.
Major Charles E. Woodruff reports that blonde races cannot exist in the United States and will die out. He cites nervous diseases, consumption and cancer as causes, and claims Europeans exposed to primitive surroundings degenerate here. He favors select groups like Greeks, Slavs, Armenians, Huns, Servians and Bulgarians as better suited to thrive.
The Southern Cotton Association executive committee met in Birmingham, Alabama, planning a two day session before the general convention opens on Thursday. They will review President Harvie Jordan action urging a fraud order against the New York Cotton Exchange and discuss his bid for re election amid competing candidates from several state branches.
Delegates from coal districts across the country attend the eighteenth annual United Mine Workers of America convention in Indianapolis. The meeting is smaller without a wage scale to decide, and likely will reelect Joan Mitchell as president, T. L. Lewis as vice president, and W. B. Wilson as secretary and treasurer. A key issue is proposed legislation to protect miners against injury and death.
Nashville reporters note General Malcolm R. Patterson was sworn in as governor of Tennessee in a ceremony that drew hundreds of Democrats from across the state. Patterson resigned his seat as representative of the Tenth Tennessee district to assume the governorship. His predecessor John I. Cox has been elected to the state senate and will take his seat promptly.
A Missouri Immigration association committee will ask the legislature to appropriate 50 000 dollars to maintain a state board of immigration and an immigration bureau at St Louis. The proposal also calls for the appointment of an immigration commissioner.
The annual New England Collie Club beach show opened in Berkley hall with scores of top collies on display. Noted exhibitors include dogs from the kennels of Princess de Montglyon. Judge James Mortimer will award prizes to the winners.
The Tennessee Public School Officers Association asks the legislature for 50 000 for the University of Tennessee 75 000 for three normal schools 25 000 for public high schools and 50 000 to establish schools in sparsely populated districts. The three day meeting at Carnegie Library opens with educators from across the state and a surplus in the treasury expected to fund education. An alumni gathering and Maxwell House banquet are on today’s agenda as the university marks its centennial since 1807.
New York reports a proposed 4000 mile endurance race through France, England, Germany, Italy, Austria and Belgium open to American cars only with a 50 car entry cap. A 3000 trophy awaits the winner and organizers expect to raise 300000 to fund the project backed by Vanderbilt Rothschild Thomas and other car enthusiasts. The race would start near early June.
Denver dispatch notes Simon Guggenheim a 39 year old multi millionaire and head of the smelter trust sought to be Colorado’s United States senator. It details his wealth of 100 to 200 million, long western ties, 1889 Pueblo then Denver moves, and bipartisan opposition including Roosevelt’s lack of endorsement.
Austin Texas January 15 The new Texas governor Colonel Tom Campbell aims for radical actions against trusts, pledging to convert people’s demands into law even if legislature stays in session. His commitment to aggressive anti trust policy shocks critics and signals a fierce uncompromising campaign under his administration.
At Coffeyville Kansas on January 15 a Kansas State League meeting will decide on a circuit set up a schedule committee and set salary limits and other important matters President Fred McDaniels of Bartlettsville I T will preside at the meeting.
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