News of the World Condemned Items From Various Lands
A roundup notes the death of Maine Chief Justice Wiswell in Boston and other brief items: Taft elected National Red Cross president. Mrs. Frank H. Greer dies at 50. Harry St. John dies in Oklahoma City. Dr. W. H. Moore elected president of the National Good Roads, at Muskogee. Pope’s physician Dr Lappon dies in Rome. various Senate and House actions on taxes, labor, meat inspection, and public schools. Roosevelt’s message read in both houses. Terry McGovern in hospital for sanity. Panama Canal expo talk. many local and national items, rail, agriculture, and crime notes.
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Missouri
National Good Roads Association
Muskogee
Lappon
Rome
W. Morgan Shuster
Washington
Philippine Commission
Terry McGovern
Brooklyn
N. Y
Shepard
Texas
Robert G. Cousins
Illinois
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Hitt
Slayden
Beveridge
Indiana
Senate
Roosevelt
San Francisco
California
Congress
Kittredge
Department of Commerce and Labor
National Rivers and Harbors Convention
House
Hunt
Indictments Tie Railroads and Utah Coal Firm in Land Fraud
A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City indicted Union Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Short Line Railroad Company Utah Fuel Company and officials of Gould interests for coal land frauds in Utah. Indictments allege dummy locators filed on 1400 acres in Sevier County with schemes to convey claims to Utah Fuel, plus $1600 payments per claim funded by loans from various agents. Bench warrants issued and bonds set at $3000 each as investigations continue with further indictments expected after holidays.
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Pueblo
Cal
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
W. P. Dilworth
Oklahoma City
Portsmouth
Eng
Menelik
Abyssinia
Europe
William Walter Webb
Milwaukee
Washington
Judson B. Clements
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Supreme Court
Illinois Central Railroad
Mississippi
Houghton
Mich
Arizona
Clifton
Indianapolis
Kansas
New Englands
Congress
United States
Des
Moines
Chicago
F. L. Eaton
Sioux City
Towa
Thomas Warnell
Liberty
Garland Moore
Mias
Clara West
Bois d'Arc
Missouri
Springfield
Arthur C. Harper
Los Angeles
Lynn
Mass
Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Topeka
Federal Grand Jury
Salt Lake Utah
Harriman and Gould
Utan
Supreme Cour of Missouri
Jefferson City
Supreme Court of the United States
Old Fally
Virgina
Chr Psi
Cornell University
St. Paul, Minn
Salt Lake
Grand Jury
Utah
Ue A
Ie ‘Oatee Sacer
United States Court
John A. Maranack
Union Pacific Railroad
Coopens
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Union Eg Coal
Harriman and Gould Corporations
Gould
Utah Fuel Company
H. G. Williams
Fred R. Maynard
Maynard
Wyoming
West
Sevier County
Robert Forrester
Forrester
George A. Moore
Denver
Utao Fuel Company
William H. Bird
Bird
Coal Land Offer In Routt County Land Sale Case
State Land Board hears a major Routt County land bid from Bernard L. Castor representing St. Louis and Chicago capital. Offer to pay ten dollars per acre for one million dollars or seek a fifty year lease with later purchase. Board to study the proposal and dispatch an appraiser. action possible at next meeting.
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Routt County
Denver
State Land Board
Applie
Tom Hi
Bernard L. Castor
St. Louis
Chicago
Castor
Harrington
Former Senator Shot in Hotel Room Drama
In Raleigh hotel Senator Groves was shot by Mrs. Bradley who used the name A B Brown. She claimed Brown fathered her child and urged marriage. Brown previously faced adultery charges with Mrs Brown, who later died. Bradley pleaded guilty but was not punished.
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Senator Groves
Raleigh
Salt Lake
California
Evans Water Supply Cement Tank Builds Evans Reservoir
A Denver Republican report describes a novel cement reservoir thirty eight feet deep and ten feet in diameter built around wells at Evans. Artesian water was directed into the tank after sinking the structure into place, providing a sanitary water supply for a town much larger than Evans.
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Denver
Evans
Rvana
Land Tax Decision in Otero County Court
In District Court Judge Voorhees refused to grant an injunction blocking the Otero county treasurer from collecting taxes on state purchased land. The case centered on the validity of the assessment, with about $24,000 at stake.Owners expect countywide interest and plan to appeal if defeated.
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Puebla
Colo
Thursdny
Voorhees
Otero County
Otero
New Trial Sought After Alibi Evidence in Van Wyk Case
Weaver moves for new trial claiming newly discovered alibi proof for Woutertje Van Wyk after Gerrit J. Van Wyk and wife were convicted of murdering Gerritje Haast. Motion before Judge John J. Mullins alleges court errors including Mullins leaving the bench during closing arguments, enabling improper proof to be introduced.
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Weaver
Woutertje van Wyk
Wray
Colorado
Gerrit J. van Wyk
Gerritje Haast
van Wyk
Teaac Pelton
John J. Mullins
Board of Education Seeks Federal Action on Japanese School Segregation
San Francisco’s Board of Education submitted a facts statement to U S District Attorney Devlin and telegraphed it to Washington for Attorney General Moody. The document argues the 1904 treaty with Japan and California law justify separate Oriental schools and requests federal action to ensure Japanese descent children receive equal educational rights.
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San Francisco
Board of Education
Burke
United States
Devlin
Washington
Moody
Empire of Japan
Senate
California
Board of Education of
School of California
Good Roads Legislation Moves in Colorado Frontier
Denver delegates at the Good Roads conference formed a six member committee on legislation to push a highway commission act in the Sixteenth General Assembly. The group endorsed state prisoner labor on roads and urged a broad state aid program, with Thomas F. Walsh declining a committee post due to engagements, aiming for active legislative action next year.
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Denver
Good Roads
Sixteenth
General Assembly
Highway Commission
Colorado
S.A. Osborn
F. Kyle
Montrose
Charles W. Towies
Littleton
J. Y. Munson
Larkmer
F. L. Luethi
Boulder
Everal
Thomas F. Walsh
Walsh
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New York
Neville
Massachusetts
F. D. Coburn
Sumner
Danner
Bradley
Arthur) Brown
Evans Water Supply
JAP School
GASE
Colorado Roads Convention
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