Senator Suggests Anti trust Clause in Land Leases
Nelson Minnesota senator proposes including an anti trust clause in land leases to curb monopolistic practices. The move aims to prevent collusion and ensure fair access to property.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
1
Nelson Minnesota senator proposes including an anti trust clause in land leases to curb monopolistic practices. The move aims to prevent collusion and ensure fair access to property.
A bill from Senator Nelson of Minnesota aims to implement Roosevelt's land reform ideas. It would lease public lands with coal and gas deposits, ban inter state restraint, and allow immediate cancellation for lease violations. Leases would pay royalties and follow new government rules.
Fragmentary text indicates policy to open lands to lease under government regulations with preferred restrictions. The phrasing suggests official action to limit or control access while enabling lease opportunities under set rules.
Washington reports a new independent study on Japanese immigration to the United States with a summary given to President Roosevelt. Frank Sargent, commissioner general of immigration, briefed the president on Hawaii routes from Japan, with an official report pending.
Milwaukee Pec 26 Announcement is made of a gift of 110000 to defray the entire expense of the construction and equipment of a new home for Marquette college to be erected at Grand avenue and Eleventh street Milwaukee. Donors are Mr and Mrs Robert A Johnston and their son Rev Robert Story Johnston S J of Fiorizcant Mo Trustees offered to change the name to Johnston college but the Johnstons declined preferring the institution keep its name. Father Johnston is an alumnus of the college.
Enderlin North Dakota December 26 The switching crew in charge of the freight train is blamed for the wreck that followed when passenger train 106 eastbound crashed into a freight engine and cars killing and injuring over twenty. Coroner T Patterson of Ransom county led a three member jury to fix responsibility. The verdict cites incompetence of the freight switching crew and notes Soo Line management negligent in hiring inexperienced men. Sidney D Adams of Lisbon acted for the state's attorney in his absence. No arrests confirmed yet though anticipated in some quarters.
Five hundred horses and mules burned at Har per Bros livery stables in Atlanta on December 26. Loss estimated around $100,000. Explosion caused by safeblowers blowing the safe in the office, overturning a lamp.
Washington reports Ambassador Thompson says President Diaz acts promptly to address property damage from the Colorado River overflow into the Galtos sink in the Imperial Valley. The note indicates U S and Mexico cooperation to restore affected lands and protect residents.
Dec 26 dispatch says the shah’s reserve strength is gradually failing and he no longer rallies when given stimuli. Factually reports a weakening monarch with reduced responsiveness.
Meridian Mississippi reports a fortified group of black residents two miles from Wahalak vowing to resist locals. They threaten to burn the town in vengeance for two killings of black men and a wounding of another by a Mobile and Ohio conductor. White citizens arm as militia arrives with Gatling gun.
In Rutland Vermont on December 26 officials in Ira Vermont opened a probe into the shooting of Mrs Mary Parker Gilmore wife of Charles Gilmore as she greeted unseen guests at a wedding reception. Two shots rang out from darkness hitting her in the arm and her sister in law Mrs Henry Gilmore in the shoulder. The bride's wound is described as serious while her sister in law's injury is not severe.
Sixteen year old Henry Siebele bought a revolver with savings to buy a Christmas gift for his mother and shot his stepfather Henry Brinker as he attacked the mother with a hatchet. Brinker died from five gunshot wounds. Siebele was arrested.
Clyde King, 25, shot and killed Elias Jobes, his brother in law, in Jobes barn at Osseo near Minneapolis. Two shots struck near the heart. King jailed, says act was in self defense after being captured at Maple Lake while telephoning his father in North Dakota.
Akron officials remit the $500 fine for former Councilman Jerry Amundson who faced trial on bribery solicitation charges. His jail term, suspended on condition, had been supported by prominent men who argued he had already suffered punishment and could not pay the fine due to poverty and large family responsibilities.
The St. Petersburg court martial sentences Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and three squadron commanders to death for surrendering to the Japanese at the Sea of Japan battle of May 28, 1905. the court asks the emperor to commute to ten years in prison, with four other officers jailed briefly and the rest acquitted.
In St. Petersburg on December 26 a murder at the hands of unknown assailants has left prominent Russians, including ex-officials tied to the Von Plehve and Sipiaguine regimes, apprehensive about their safety and possible reprisals.
In Springfield Ohio on December 26 a Big Four passenger train collided with train No 96 in the western part of the city. Eighteen passengers were injured while the crew of the passenger train jumped for safety.
Messenger lost packages containing checks totaling 10000 for Indiana Columbus and Eastern Traction Company employees. Checks were scattered along Dayton streets after a wagon incident with some recovered by Mittendorf and an ex councilman. Several forged checks reported among merchants and employees.
About 4,000 striking printers in the United States for an eight hour day received a Christmas gift from the International Typographical Union totaling $10,000. Each man got about $2.51 in addition to weekly strike pay. The gift included a coin and a suggestion to buy a Christmas turkey for their families.
In Wisconsin on December 26 W McGill, a wealthy mine owner from the West, allegedly killed relatives named McGill after being rejected by his parents for twenty one years and invited all McGills in the state to a dinner. His aged father and mother are overcome with joy, with reports of his fortune tied to past predictions in Denver Seattle Minneapolis and Portland.
Havana December 26 Governor Mase signed a decree appointing a commission to revise Cuba laws. The panel will draft an electoral law and provisional and municipal codes governing the organization and functions of the judicial system.
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