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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1907
Page
2
Governor Sheldon reports Nebraska received 790.37 from forest reserve income for 1906 and urges spending for county public schools and roads. A sub committee refines a railway commission bill detailing rate procedures, hearings, appeals, penalties, and funding for commissioners and staff.
The committee on a primary election law works through arguments from many party leaders. Members urge patience, stating duties require careful study before reporting bills. They aim to avoid haste or blunders and note progress beyond prior legislatures.
On the judiciary committee recommendation the second reading of S. 340 by Aldrich of Butler was indefinitely postponed. Introduced at the request of Victor Rosewater of Omaha, the bill's proposed five member constitutional revision commission was deemed unnecessary as senators and committee members can identify defects and propose amendments for popular vote.
The house committee on public lands and buildings with Architect George Burlinghof inspected the capitol east wing and basement to assess the endangering set tiing. They asked Land Commissioner Eaton for figures from an Omaha architect on repairs totaling about $20,000.
The anti-passion committee faces trouble as bills follow the national law with broad exceptions. Exemptions cover railroad workers, surgeons, road attorneys, livestock caretakers, ministers, railroad Y M C A secretaries and other philanthropic roles. Governor Sheldon may demand strict platform alignment before signing.
The McKinley Club banquet in Omaha Tuesday night was attended by 131 legislators state officers and employees. Milwaukee Mayor Sherburn Becker and Governor Sheldon spoke at the event.
The senate approved a resolution by Burns of Lancaster opposing the ship subsidy bill currently before Congress.
Senate adopts printing committee report to publish the senate journal daily at two dollars per page for a total of 1200 dollars with copies placed on desks each morning. The contractor bonds that bid will, by session end, total 3250 dollars, 590 dollars less than two years ago, not including indexing costs.
The Interstate Commerce Commission delivered a sweeping report to Congress detailing alleged monopolistic tactics by Standard Oil. The findings accuse the firm of price discrimination, bribery, press manipulation, and interference with oil inspectors, asserting methods used to crush competition and suggesting government action to regulate transportation and separation of production from transport.
Snow blockade and fuel famine grip the northwest with another 24 hours of storms. Stalled trains, deserting engines, and inactive snowplows plague rail lines from Soo, Great Northern, and Northern Pacific. Coal and grocery cars sent westward may be stuck for days or weeks.
A birthday observance for William McKinley was held Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church. Maj. McKinley worshiped there during his congress and presidency, and a large representative audience attended the event.
A fifth attempt to wreck trains on the Kansas City Clinton Springfield line occurred one mile south of Osceola on Tuesday night. A section foreman found eight railroad spikes between the rails.
A Pennsylvania railroad freight engine exploded twelve miles west of Fort Wayne on Wednesday, killing two men and severely injuring a third. The blast demolished the locomotive and the twenty empty cars were ruined, leaving debris scattered along the tracks.
Washington. Dr. Harvey W Wiley chief of the chemistry bureau and pure food expert testified before the House committee on agriculture about how milk cream eggs spoil immediately while fruit may improve for months and meat stays fresh for weeks before declining. He condemned bucket deliveries of oysters and gelatin as dirty and potentially tetanus tainted.
Bloomington Illinois Mayor A G Erickson who vanished on Saturday returned Tuesday night saying he felt an impulse to travel and went to New York. He declined further detail about the unexplained trip.
Russian governor of the Vasili Ostrov political prison was shot in the main street on Wednesday and died almost instantly. The assassin escaped.
Detroit Masons leader Charles L Stevens grand master of the Michigan grand lodge Free and Accepted Masons died of heart disease Wednesday night on High Street West while en route to his home.
Pittsburg police locked up C. A. Jackson a Black man after a crowd of several hundred men and boys on Fifth Avenue near Wood and Mary streets attempted to lynch him. The mob beat him with canes stones and fists while others protected Jackson and were roughed up. Police and firemen intervened with night sticks and a patrol wagon to disperse the crowd.
Secretary Loeb denies any conditional award to Oliver for the canal contract. He says no decision has been made and explains bids will be reexamined with Gillespie Arthur and others, with possible rejection or government direct supervision. He notes progress on the Culebra cut and aims for the best specialists.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva intends to abandon Zion City and desert its population. A new Zion is to be founded likely on the Pacific coast. Dowie and his creditors are to contest supremacy in the remaining Chicago area.
State Senator Stephen A. D. Kelster of Lander Wyoming died in Chadron Nebraska from appendicitis. He fell ill three weeks ago while en route to Cheyenne for the legislature.
Shelburne Falls Mass reporters say five Boston and Maine railroad employees died in a collision between an express train and an extra freight on the Fitchburg division at South River Monday.
In Kenosha Wisconsin a 24 year old man Jacob Gerbovitz shot his wife four times in the business section and then shot himself in the neck. Both are alive but the man is not expected to survive.
The ICC issued two tariff circulars effective March 1 outlining rules for freight and passenger tariffs and classifications. They require amendments to tariffs to be printed in supplements, forbid substitutions, and mandate carriers publish separate, clear tariffs for terminal charges and other add ons. Through rates may be used if a carrier refuses joint rates, with early hearings and decisions. Passenger rules cover stopovers baggage and local routing details.
President Roosevelt pushes for federal action to shield military uniforms from public discrimination in all places. Supported by a Plattsburg ruling upholding denial of two soldiers in uniform, the effort aims to have Congress pass a law recognizing the army and navy attire.
Washington Congressman Pollard testified before the House judiciary committee on his bill to fix when salaries for members elected to fill vacancies begin. He reviewed the salary question, payment methods by the sergeant at arms, and argued there is no reason to pay a salary not earned.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska resigned as chairman of the Indian depredations committee and was immediately named chairman of the Pacific railroads committee.
On Senator Millard’s recommendation, Sergeant-at-arms Ransdell appointed Stanton Walk of Omaha to be a United States Senate page. Stanton Walk, 12, is grandson of the late General Stanton and son of an army officer who fell in the Philippines, with his mother Flora Stanton Kalk employed in the Washington Post Office.
Commissioner Frank T. Sargent said the United States seeks an agreement with Mexico to apply the same rules to immigrants who arrive at Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports and then cross the Texas boundary to enter the United States.
The will of the late Senator R. A. Alger filed in probate court provides that all of his estate goes to his widow and five children except $20,000. His brother Charles M. Alger of Hannibal, Missouri is left $10,000.
To the Happy Hunting Ground. Sheridan Wyoming Bear Claw the Crow Indian chief died Thursday. He was generally peacefully inclined and had much influence with his tribe.
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