Coast defenses urged as key to national security
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress outlining a complete coast defense system. The plan, prepared by a joint army and navy board, calls for defenses at Manila Bay Pearl Harbor Guantanamo San Juan Honolulu and entrances to the Panama Canal plus other strategic points. Estimated cost 50 879 399 with revisions from the Embankment board and a need to protect growing wealth and naval power.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Army and Navy
Chesapeake Bay
United States
Elo
Manila Bay
Pearl Harbor
Guantanamo
Quam
San Juan
Honolulu
Bhe Ca
Entramcea
Panama Canal
Vladivostok
Taft
Emidicott Board
Madicott Board
Scofield Dies in St Augustine Aged General
Lt. Gen. John M Schofield a former head of the army died in St Augustine Fla after a cerebral hemorrhage. His wife and young daughter were with him. He served as secretary of war in 1898 1899 and had a long career from West Point 1849 to retirement 1899 as lieutenant general.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
John M. Scofield
Washington
John M. Schofield
Fia
West Point
Congress
Attempt on Moscow governor general foiled by bomb in hair
A woman, claiming to be a personal friend, attempted to assassinate Vice Admiral Dou basse, governor general of Moscow, by a bomb hidden in her elaborately styled hair. An aide noticed her agitation, she was detained, and a single bomb was found embedded in her coiffure.
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Mnmoscow
Doubasse
Moscow
Council of the Empire
Wontan
Birdsall moves bill for absolute free trade with Philippines
Representative Birdsall of Iowa introduces a bill proposing absolute free trade between the United States and the Philippines after July 1, 1908. The measure aims to remove all tariffs and duties on goods exchanged between the two regions.
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Washington
Birdsall
Iowa
United States
Philippines
Ex Governor Hoge Dies After Prolonged Illness
Ex governor James Stephen Hoge dies at his Houston residence after a year of declining health. He had planned a trip to Battle Creek and fell ill while returning to Houston. Funeral arrangements have not yet been determined.
US Red Cross Sends $5,000 to Japanese Relief
Washington reports the American Red Cross via the State Department sent $5,000 to the Japanese Red Cross, bringing total U S contributions to $25,000 for famine relief in Japan. Official dispatch notes thousands destitute as rice crops fail from cold and rain, with laborers away at Manchuria battles.
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Washington
American National Red Cross
State Department
Red Cross
Japan
Mancharla
Irrigation Committee Reports Favorable France Bill
Washington The house committee on irrigation of arid land favors a French bill with amendments. The bill allows the secretary of the interior to establish town sites of 160 acres near irrigation projects and provide water to those sites. It also lets the secretary supply water to towns sharing the same source and, where power plants exist, lease surplus power and rights to develop power for ten years.
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Washington
House Committee On Irrigation of Arid
Secretary of the Interiors
Secretary of the Interior
Examination of Burr Supports Panama Contract Plan
The Senate committee on inter-oceanic canals heard Prof. William H. Burr, formerly with the Isthmian Canal Commission and a member of Roosevelt’s consulting engineers board, testify a full day in favor of the contract plan for building the Panama waterway.
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Washington
Wiliam H. Burr
New York
Isthmian Canal Commission
Roosevelt
Isthmus
Panama
Senate Committee On
France urged to build a stronger navy in parliament
In Paris Lockroy former minister of marine urged a strengthened naval budget in the chamber of deputies. He warned that without expanding France's program Germany would soon surpass France and that any war would start at sea requiring a doubly powerful fleet for the North Sea and the Mediterranean.
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Paris
M. Lockroy
Chamber of Deputies
M. Lockter
France
Germany
North Sea
Mediterranean
Eastern rate war begins with lower Chicago to New York fare
The eastern passenger rate war erupts as Grand Trunkrail cuts fares to Chicago New York and Chicago Boston to 18 dollars. Rates filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission set first class Chicago to New York at 16 and second class at 15, taking effect next Saturday.
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Chicago
New York
Boston
Grand Trunk Railroad
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
President Roosevelt Directs TB Crusade for Government Workers
President Roosevelt ordered department heads to lead a government service tuberculosis prevention campaign in Washington. The directive details specific duties to curb the disease among federal employees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Prairie fires devastate Texas panhandle ranches
Austin reports prairie fires burning in the western Panhandle for three days causing about one million dollars in damage. Lamb and Hockley counties suffer most with cattle losses. ranchers drive cattle into New Mexico as spring grass is six weeks away.
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Austin
Tex
Carver Prairie Fres
Panhandle
Lamb
Hockley
New Mexico
Tragedy in Fuerechio Fire Kills Sixteen at Dance
In Fuerechio, twenty three miles west of Florence, a house hosting a dance caught fire. Panic caused a collapse injuring many and killing sixteen people.
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Florence
Italy
Fuerechio
Justice Brown Says He Will Retire From Bench
Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown announces retirement from the United States Supreme Court, informing President Keosayr of his decision to resign after decades on the bench.
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Washington
Henry Billings Brown
United States Systeme Court
Keosayr
Mine Disaster Devastates Northern France Coal Fields
A devastating mine explosion at Courrieres near Lens in Pas de Calais kills and entombs thousands of miners and families. Officials and crowds rally as 1900s tolls rise, with soldiers deployed to control access and rescue efforts ongoing in the gas-filled tunnels.
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Paris
France
Courrieres
Lens
Pas de Calais
Verdum
Cecorte
Graumatix Onstrage
Sylvester
Not Brigadier General At The Present Time
The army has decided not to promote Captain John J. Pershine of the Fifteenth Cavalry to brigadier general at this time. Pershine is popular with peers but still very young, and promotion would have outranked hundreds of his senior officers, causing widespread unpopularity in military circles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John J. Persaing
Fifteenth Cavalry
Pershine
Senators Direct Vote Move Gains Steam in Columbus
The senate adopted a joint resolution urging Congress to convene a convention of the states to propose a constitutional amendment for direct election of U.S. senators by the people. The measure signals growing momentum for reform and asks states to push the federal constitutional change.
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Columbus
Senate
Con Sevss
United States
Rich Man Joins the Army
Gavin Harris, actor at the Empire theater and son of the late Congressman Harris, worth $50,000, joined the Third Company of the Coast Artillery at the Bar Racks in Columbus Ohio to escape temptation and seek a quieter life.
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Columbus
Gavin Harris
Empire Theater
Harris
Coast Artillery
Citizenship to Be Prized
The House on Friday passed 408 private pension bills and spent three hours on a bill to create a uniform naturalization system. It would require aliens to write and speak English, read the language, and declare intent to reside permanently in the United States before becoming a citizen.
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Washington
United States
House Appropriations Panel Reports $29 Million Budget
Washington reports the House Appropriations Committee approves a legislative executive and judicial bill totaling 29,154,181 dollars, cutting 1,185,573 from 1905 estimates. Salaries drop for 65 positions, with 236 fewer salaries than planned, and strict limits cap clerks by age and pay. After June 13, 1913, workers over seventy may not be retained.
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Washington
House Committee On Appropriations
Classified Service
Lumber Dealers Face Prosperous Era At National Meet
Washington fourteenth annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers association opened with reports from officers and committees. President Lewis Dill urged fixing the status of the poacher who sells freely and to resolve carstake equipment friction with railroads. He claimed dealer prosperity has been startling and world alarming.
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Washington
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association
Lewis Dill
Chicago council raises saloon license fees
Chicago city council passes an ordinance increasing saloon licenses from 500 to 2908 dollars to curb crime. If Mayor Dunne signs it, the increase takes effect March 11. 1908 wording notes the city has many saloons and references enforcement needs.
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Chicago
Dunne
Ardizence
Land Reservation for Agricultural Experiment Stations
Mondell introduced a bill on request of the secretary of agriculture to reserve public lands for agricultural experiment stations. The proposal allows reserved unentered and unappropriated lands not exceeding two sections per body and not more than three bodies per state or territory to carry out congress authorized agricultural work.
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Washington
Mondell
Secrecity
Interior
Secretary of Agriculturs
Secretarie of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Mangum Land Office Shakeup Amid Temporary Reassignment
President removes John D. Oliphant as register and J A Trotter and L J Chapman as clerk and receiver for irregularities in Mangum Oklahoma. George B Robert named temporary register to succeed Oliphant as Mangum land office to be discontinued in April.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Frormr
John D. Oliphant
J. A. Trotter
L J. Chapman
Clerix
Mangum
Okl
George B. Robert
Manugum Land Office
Quphant
Peace Endeavor Prolonged Amid Arrests in Uruguay
In Montevideo Uruguay peace endures as authorities report further arrests while the revolutionary movement has collapsed, signaling a quieting political scene and heightened security in the republic.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
Republic
Better Feeling Between Americans and Chinese in Hong Kong
Friction between the viceroy of Clinton and American representatives yields improved relations. The viceroy hosted a banquet in honor of Rear Admiral Vrain March 1 and attended a reception at the American consulate March 1 with high officials.
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Hong Krong
Clinton
Vrain
Death of John D. King in Washington
John D. King long serving official in rural carriers exams board and civil service commission and railway postal service veteran dies in Washington after forty five years of service.
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John
Washington
the Civil Service Commission
Railway Postal Service
Improvements at Army Posts Fort Niobrara Post Planned
Senator Burkett in the senate proposes an amendment to the army appropriation bill seeking $200,000 to begin building Fort Niobrara as a vast temporary post.
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Burkett
Senate
Fort Niobrara
Vastmenntal
Oklahoma Statehood Passes Senate Amid Arizona New Mexico Strikes
The Senate approved a joint statehood bill for Oklahoma to be formed from Oklahoma and Indian territories with Arizona and New Mexico removed. Guthrie named temporary capital until 1915 removal provisions were dropped. The measure includes two U S district courts and school land set asides.
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Washington
Senate
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Burrows
Foraker
House
Cullom
Indian Territories
United State
National
House of Representatives
Itr
National Treasury
United States
Guthrie
Victims of the War to Be Taken Care Of
Boris Klevanoff has arrived in New York as the American representative of the Russian Blue Cross. He will establish headquarters in the city. The organization, under Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikivna patronage, expands aid to thousands of war and riot victims in Russia.
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New York
Boris Klevanoff
America
Russian Blue Cross
Elizabeth Mavrikivna
Railroads Named Defendants In I C C Complaint
The Atetison Speka Santa Fe Missouri Pacific and other western railroads were defendants in an interstate commerce commission complaint filed by the Howard Mills Co of Wichita Kansas. The suit alleges unjust discrimination in flour transport rates favoring Pacific coast dealers and shippers.
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Washington
Atetison, To. Speka & Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Howard Mils Company
Wichita
Kas
Pacific Coast
Shents Will Not Resign From Clover Leaf Or Canal Commission
Theodore P. Shents, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission, arrived in Chicago and affirmed he will not resign as Clover Leaf president or canal commissioner. He said he will remain nominal Clover Leaf president and continue canal work, with no interference to duties.
Battle Near Jolo Details Moros Losses and Mount Dajo Assault
General Wood reports heavy action at Mount Dajo near Jolo in the Sulu archipelago. Fifteen enlisted men killed, four officers and thirty-two enlisted wounded, naval casualties thirty-two, Moros claim six hundred dead. Ensign Cook and Coxswain Gimore wounded.
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Manila
Jolo
Leonard Wood
Division of the
Philippines
Sulu Islands
Mount Dajo
Java
H. D Cook Jr
Pampanga
Gimore
Post Office Budget Approved by House Committee
Washington reports an appropriation of 191 358 848 dollars for the post service as the House committee on post offices post roads agrees to send the measure to the full House in about ten days. The bill carries two early provisions one banning government franking by departments through the mails and another prohibiting citizen associations from franking privileges. Last year’s post office appropriation stood at 181 022 000 dollars and a ten percent annual mail growth is anticipated, with the committee deeming the increase modest to meet the growth.
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Washington
House Committee On Post Offices
House
Iictiv
Post Office
Amoun
Senators By Direct Vote Favorable House Report
Washington The House of Representatives approved a favorable report on a Norris bill from Nebraska to extend the term of members of the House to four years and provide for direct elections of senators by popular vote.
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Norris
Washington
House
Initea
Ingress
Represes
Nebraska
Senate
Thompson Reaches Mexico as New Ambassador Presents Credentials
The American envoy Mr. Thompson presented credentials to President Diaz in Mexico City. A large, applauding crowd heard complimentary remarks from both ambassador and president, highlighting warm ties between the United States and Mexico.
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United
Mexico
Thompson
Diaz
Canal extension bid for Nebraska project under study
Washington reports Messrs. Robinson and Manes request a time extension for the North Platte project canal work in Nebraska. They seek more time beyond the June 12, 1905, date and December 1990 contract terms. The secretary of the interior denied earlier extensions. If staffing rises, officials believe completion by May 1 remains possible.
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Washington
Messrs. Robinson & Manes Louis
North Platters
Nebraska
Lyuu
Brown To Retire From Supreme Court Post
Associate Henry Billings Brown plans to retire from the bench after notifying the President. The President offered to submit a successor but Senator Philander Knox declined. The brief notice outlines Brown's decision and the anticipated vacancy.
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Knox
Washington
Henry Billings Brown
Philander
Spanish Editor in Barcelona Sentenced for Dispatch Printing
A local daily Theed El Divusive in Barcelona, Spain, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for printing 32 in dispatch concerning King Alfot. The court cited state security and royal reputation as the basis for the verdict.
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Spain
Theed
el Divusive
Alfot
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