Three Missouri Rail Talks Fail to Bridge Fare Gap
Jefferson City reports three meetings between 18 Missouri railroads, Gov. Hadley, and Attorney General Major failed to resolve passenger fare disputes. Proposals included two cent base rates with various milebook options and two and a half cent tickets, while the state urged maintaining the two cent rate pending appeal.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Hadley
Major
McPherson
Kansas City
Missouri Railroads
Railroad
Farmers & Stock Growers Railroad gains charters in Kansas
The Farmers & Stock Growers Railroad Company received a Kansas charter to build about 200 miles from Pratt through Edwards Kiowa Ford Gray Haskell Grant and Stanton counties with branches. Founders include G. C. Brown J. N. Brown J. H W. Collingwood J. R. Bolin and J. E. George. Capital stock is $100,000. The line targets southwestern railroadless counties to improve transportation.
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Topeka
Kansas
Farmers & Stock Growers’ Railroad Company
Railroads of Kansas
Kansas Charter Board
Pratt
Edwards
Kiowa
Ford, Gray, Haskell
Grant
Stanton
G. C. Brown
Plains
J. N. Brown
J. H W. Collingwood
J. R. Bolin
J. E. George
Tulsa Gets Another Paper in Oklahoma City Newsmerger
Tulsa, Oklahoma will gain a new independent afternoon paper edited by Mark Bassett. The venture plans a $50,000 building and plant, with a site purchased Wednesday, expanding Tulsa to two daily papers.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Mark Bassett
The
Kanahee
Republican
Publican
Insurrection Fights On in Republican House Ranks
Washington dispatch reports the insurgent faction in the Republican ranks resists suppression like a South American republic. No move to reopen the fight yet, and no rule limiting tariff amendments has been proposed due to uncertainty from Representative Murdock of Kansas and other insurgents.
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Washington, D. C
Murdock
Kansas
Arbor Day Proclaimed in Kansas by Governor Stubbs
Governor Stubbs set April 2 as Arbor Day in Kansas and issued a proclamation praising the spring tree planting custom. The proclamation notes the prairie states customs and urges universal observance of Arbor Day.
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Kansas
Topeka
Stubbs
Prairie States
Great West
Uncle Sam Oil Company Expands Stock Total
Atchison Kansas, directors of Uncle Sam Oil company announce on Tuesday a stock increase from 17 million to 61 million shares. Stockholders have already voted in favor of the increase.
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Atchison, Kansas
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Special session may be needed to save Kansas Normal School
In Topeka Kansas a special session of the legislature may be required to prevent the Kansas State Normal school and its Pittsburg and Fort Hays branches from closing. An enrollment clerks error may invalidate the entire appropriation. Conference reports and signing issues leave the fate unsettled as officials debate next steps.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas State Normal School
Senate
Normal School
Pittsburg
Fort Hays
House
Brown Tail Moth Found in Kansas Across State Nurseries
The brown tail moth, a destructive pest, has been located in Kansas. Entomology officials inspect nursery stock entering the state after Victor Chesky reported eight large nests in a Topeka shipment, with about 200 moths per nest. In total 34 nests were found in Ottawa Winfield Topeka and Lawrence and destroyed at the university.
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Kansas
University
Victor Chesky
Topeka
Hunter
Ottawa
Winfield
Lawrence
Kansas banks may join state deposit guaranty fund
In Topeka the issue of national banks participating in Kansas's guaranty fund remains unsettled. The attorney general prepares a brief, then Gov. Stubbs and Bank Commissioner Dooley will travel to Washington to present Kansas claims to the president, attorney general, and comptroller. The president ordered a full hearing before a decision.
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Topeka
Kansas
Comptroller of the Currency
Fred S. Jackson
Stubbs
J. N. Dooley
Washington
Treasury
Backache a Kidneyache Warns of Kidney Troubles
Nurse Thompson Watkins cites back pain and irregular kidney secretions as signs of kidney congestion. She endorses Dean's Kidney Pills sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. The ad notes relief after use and urges buying from dealers. A light humor item follows about a novelist hiring a typewriter.
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Thompson Watkins
Parsons, Kans
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
State Charities report shows nine institutions expending 348317
The state board of control submitted the Semi annual report to the governor detailing the nine state charitable institutions expenditures for the first half of the fiscal year totaling 348,317.97 including permanent improvements funds. Salaries and wages 125,190.78 maintenance 219,781.04 fees 346.15. Institution splits include Topeka hospital 84,120.15 Parsons hospital 40,403.76 school for feeble minded youth 82,528.24 school for the deaf 23,045.05 school for the blind 11,692.31 soldiers' orphans' home 18,471 industrial school for boys 25,502.21 industrial school for girls 19,040.92.
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State Board of Control
Topeka
Parsons Hospital
School
Wheat Mills Fear Shortage As Old Crop Shrinks
Over 60 millers from Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and Missouri meet in Wichita to warn that less than five percent of the old wheat crop remains to be marketed. They fear stocks will not cover mills until the new crop arrives, risking shut downs.
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Wichita
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Missouri
Lewis' Single Binder 5 Cent Cigar Worth a Try
Advertisement notes Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois offering Single Binder cigars at five cents. It promises value for customers and suggests a fair deal on cigars not so good.
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Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
Col Harris Declines State College Regent Post
Col. W. A. Harris of Lawrence declines the governor's appointment as regent of the state agricultural college. He cites private business preventing regular attendance at board meetings and commitment of the regent's time to the college.
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W. A. Harris
Lawrence
State Agricultural College
Stubbs
Board of Regrents
Clark Presses Payne Tariff Revision in House Debate
Missouri Republican leader Mr Clark argued in Washington that the Payne tariff bill should revise revenue on every item and raised the issue during a five hour House discussion.
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Washington
D. C
Clark
Missouri
House
Miners Vote to Stay at Work After April 1
Scranton PA reports the district executive boards in Pennsylvania's hard coal fields will continue efforts to reach an agreement with operators after miners voted to remain at work beyond April 1. The move affirms the demands already presented and keeps the mines operating while negotiations continue.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Falls
New Methodist Church Formed in Salina
A new South Salina M F E church has been organized separating from the regular church due to large attendance and membership.
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Salina
South Salina M. FE
Widow Wins $10,000 Damages in Santa Fe Death Case
In Arkansas City district court a jury awarded Mrs. Jennieell Turner ten thousand dollars against the Santa Fe railroad after her husband, a yardman, was killed when run over last summer.
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Santa Fe Railroad Company
Jennieell Turner
Arkansas City
We Must Wait Another Year for Boston Airship
Boston reports that the aerial navigation company will not deploy a dirigible between Boston and New York next summer. They will build a larger air ship, but it cannot be ready for service before 1910.
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Boston
Mass
Aerial Navigation Company
New York
Farm Land Values Rise in Dickinson County Sale
Kansas farms fetch about 100 dollars an acre this spring with a Dickinson county parcel selling at 100 dollars per acre, totaling 24000 dollars after bringing 75 dollars an acre last season.
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Kansas
Dickinson County
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Jr Dies By Self Inflicted Death
Washington society figure Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Jr aged 49 wife of tobacco magnate died by asphyxiation at her home near Dupont Circle in Washington Thursday after years of physical suffering and weariness with social life.
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Washington, D. C
Pierre Lorillard, Jr
Dupont Circle
Senate Adjourns After Brief Thursday Session
Washington D C The senate met for about one hour and 15 minutes on Thursday then adjourned until Monday Most time was spent introducing bills resolutions and memorials with only 15 minutes in executive session
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Senate
Washington, D. C
Tragic Pin Scratch Leads to Death Near Chanute
Mrs. Jones wife of farmer Charles Jones near Chanute died ten days after a pin scratch in her clothing. The left wrist wound appeared minor but swelled and caused blood poisoning that proved fatal despite initial care.
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Charles Jones
Chanute
Three Men Hurt in Premature Quarry Explosion Near El Dorado
In a premature explosion at the Frazier Rock quarry near El Dorado foreman H. Croonk and two laborers, a Negro and a Mexican, were severely injured. Croonk suffered extensive facial injuries including lost eyes. Separately, Dr. G A Biddle of Emporia, a renowned physician and Mason, died in Topeka after Bright’s disease.
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el Dorado
H. Croonk
Croonk
Kansas
G. A. Biddle
Emporia
Topeka
Bright
T. C. Biddle
Topeka State Asylum For
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