Menace of wolves prompts stockmen meeting in Nebraska
Northwest Nebraska Stockmen's Association reports 15 percent cattle losses yearly, 90 percent due to wolves, with 10,000 wolves killed annually by ranch workers. Proposals include sharpshooters, wolf dogs, and coordinated cross-state action across Nebraska Wyoming Colorado and South Dakota to curb the mountain wolf menace on western ranges.
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Nebraska
Kearny
Neb
Northwest Nebraska Stockmen’s Association
Church
Australia
Kearney
Wyoming
Colorado
South Dakota
Henderson Clark
Three Bar Ranch
Great Northwest
New York Sun
New Flying Machines Push Birds as Power for Flight
Two inventors seek army contracts by proposing bird powered aircraft. One uses a self leveling chair to ride eagles, observing below while in flight. The other employs a balloon carried by a chain of twelve storks, with the driver steering from a basket as the birds pull the craft.
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Ordnance Department
Army
St. Nicholas
Perpetual Motion Claim From Jefferson Inventor
Albert S. Russell of Jefferson Indiana believes he solved perpetual motion with a device: a large partially submerged cylinder with cups and holes that allegedly cycles water to move a mill without fuel. He explains gravity drives the sequence as each cup sinks, then is replaced by the next, repeating continuously.
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Albert S. Russell
Jefferson, In
New York Herald
Headless Woman Ghost Haunts Cumberland Siding
Trainmen on the Baltimore and Ohio and West Virginia Central near Cumberland Maryland report sightings of a headless woman at Greenwade siding between Cumberland and Keyser West Virginia. Locomotive crews say the figure appears from an old culvert, vanishes if followed, and has frightened several workers into quitting or fearing further shifts.
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Baltimore and Ohio and
West Virginia Central
Cumberland
Greenwade’s Siding
First Bridge
Keyser
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Trial Court Laughing At Step Snafu In KC Suit
In Judge Henrys court Ella Downend sues Kansas City for 5000 over injuries from a sidewalk step. Attorney George Jones for the city argues the step is only a path to the witness chair and unlikely to trip anyone. He then trips over the same step while pointing to it, causing laughter in court.
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Henry
Kansas City
Ella Downend
George Jones
City
Mr. Jones
Kansas City Journal
No Legacy to Cigarette Fiends Heirs forfeit legacies
The will of the late George G. Seaton of Rockford Illinois leaves four nieces and six nephews sums from 100 to 200 dollars with a proviso that any legatee who uses cigarettes or alcohol to excess forfeits that portion to a charitable institution to be selected by the executors.
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George G. Seaton
Rockford
Ills
Philadelphia Press
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