Nebraska Notes A Busy Round of Local Developments
Papillion forms Royal Highlanders lodge with 35 members. Cass County forecasts costs at 98900. Adams County reorganizes Hastings board with Hill as chair. Beatrice hosts New Home Telephone building permit valued 20000. Samson Swanson elevator in Oakland completed. Fourgeneratio convicted of horse stealing at Butte, Indian. Louisville delegates visit Plattsmouth over Platte River wagon bridge. Ellis farmer Rathbun adjudged insane. Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance meeting in Oakland reports prosperity. Plattsmouth Bank officers elected. Ten train cars of corn shipped from Pickrell due to car shortage. Fre ment residents south of the UP petition for dyke and willow matting. Hastings gas cut to 1.90 per 1000. Dodge County considers dredging machine. visit Burt county. Coal found in Boyd county near Kilagna farm. Fremont county board denies salary increases for clerk treasurer sheriff. Hastings Kinney Co buys Kimball commission house. operates Sink Bloom cigar factory. Abner Gillstrap rearrested on liquor charges. released on bond. Beemer new 4000 bushel grain elevator compliments Northwestern rail line.
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Board of
Dodge County
Burt County
Boyd County
Joseph Kilagna
Gross
Fremont
JL. A. Kinney & Co
Hastings
George W. Kimball Commission House
Sink & Bloom Cigar Factory
Abner Gillstrap
Dakota City
Nebraska Board Elects Mellor Secretary and Names Officers
The Nebraska State Board of Agriculture elected W. R. Mellor of Loup City as secretary after ballots showed no contest for the role. Peter Youngers was chosen president, Elijah Filley vice president, Joseph Roberts second vice president, and E. B. Russell treasurer. A new board of managers and several new members were also appointed, with Furnas’s successor and other positions filled. The fair dates are August 30 through September 7 in Lincoln.
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State Board of Agriculture
Lincoln
Bassett
W.R. Mellor
Loup City
Peter Youngers
Geneva
W. R. Melor
Elijah Filley
Reynolds
Joseph Roberts
Fremont
E. B. Russell
Blair
C. H. Rudge
H. L. Cook
G. W. Hervey
Omaha
C. Bassett
Gibbon
Merrick
Washington
W.C. Kaley
Webster
Robert. Furnas
A. J. Ollis
Nebraska Governor Predicts Freight Rate Challenge in Next Legislature
Governor Mickey outlines Republican priorities and warns that freight rates will be a major issue for the next Nebraska legislature. He notes railroad taxes and grain cases resolved, urges public education and a broader campaign to empower citizens and address freight rate policy.
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Nebraska
Mickey
Kansas
Chadron Official Resigns as Northwestern Superintendent
Frank Harmon resigns as district superintendent of Northwestern at Chadron. He is succeeded by L. N. Kostley of Ashland Wisconsin as assistant superintendent. Harmon plans to enter banking in Shoshoni Wyoming near the Lander line 100 miles west of Casper.
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Frank Harmon
Northwestern
Chadron
Kinkaid Bills Grazing Privileges For Public Lands
Congressman Kinkaid introduces a grazing lease bill for Nebraska Kansas the Dakotas and Indian Territory. Leases run twenty years from the date of leasing with annual payments due by December 15. Revenue allocations: reclamation funds one half of receipts. one fourth to state or territorial treasurers. three fourths to county treasuries per county commissioners.
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Nebraska
Kansas
North
South Dakota
Indian Territory
Receiver of Land Offices
General Land Office
Territorial
Imperial Chinese commission visits Lincoln Nebraska
Eight hours last Friday Lincoln Nebraska and the state university hosted a Chinese delegation led by Tuan Fang governor general of Fu Kien and Che Kiang and Tai Hung Chi junior president of the board of revenue. The imperial guests praised the reception and were entertained by Governor Mickey Mayor Brown the Commercial Club president J E Miller and Chancellor Andrews.
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Lincoln
State of Nebraska
The
State University
Imperial Chinese Commission
Tuan Fang
Fu Kien
Che Kiang
Tai Hung-Chi
Board of Revenue
United States
Mickey
Brown
Commercial Club
J. E. Miller
Andrews
Fortune Seeker Loosely Linked to Dying Father
George Thompson of Hastings learns from a friend that his supposedly dead father Adam Thompson on Washingtons Pacific coast is dying and wishes the son to inherit an estimated $100,000 fortune. Adam once lived in Holdrege and earned wealth through prospecting and mining before separating from the family.
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George ‘Thompson
Hastings
Pacific
Washington
Adam Thompson
Holdrege
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific Offers Norfolk Beet Sugar Factory Site
The Union Pacific through its industrial agent advertises the Norfolk beet sugar factory site and land as a prize for industries ready to occupy it and hire labor. A woolen mill may be planned, while a South Omaha packing plant idea failed though could succeed with capital. The factory has been empty over a year and includes 240 acres of fertile land.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Norfolk Beet
South Omaha
Russians Favor Constitutional Monarchy Over Republic
The Constitutional Democratic Convention in St. Petersburg endorsed a constitutional parliamentary monarchy. While republicans warned against military rule, supporters argued for ending autocratic wording in Russia’s fundamental laws and recognizing national assembly rights.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Badouin de Courtenay
National Assembly
Brazilian turretship Aquidaban sinks after explosion
The Aquidaban, a 4950 ton Brazilian turretship, sank at Port Jacarepagua near Rio de Janeiro after an explosion in the powder magazine. Three hundred crew perished and one officer was saved. four rear admirals and several others drowned.
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Port Jacarepagua
Rio Janeiro
England
Barroso
Minister of Marine
Bridegroom Proves Woman in Kansas City Dispatch
John Alliane Whittman wed Miss Marietta Jelley in Independence. Police reveal the bridegroom is a woman named Pauline Webster who says she dressed and lived as a man for three years and married for accommodation, to be prosecuted for perjury.
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Kansas City
John Alliane Whittman
Marietta Jelley
Independence
J. F. Buchanan
Whittman
Pauline Webster
Bank Cracksman Killed in Montague Robbery Attempt
A robber was shot dead during a bank robbery attempt at Montague Texas. G W Bradley, asleep in bank apartments, fired back and killed one assailant identified as Patsy Flanna, a Chicagoan, police said.
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Montague
Texas
G. W. Bradley
Patsy Flanna
Eight Hour Law to Stand Before Canal Bills
The eight hour law cannot be abrogated for Panama canal work and canal commissioners cannot receive extra compensation beyond salaries. Amendments on canal purchases and navy coal were debated but defeated. Half the bill remained when session ended. Two amendments passed without discussion. the eight hour provision was ruled as new legislation and sustained.
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Panama Canal
Williams
Sherman
Fitzgerald
New York
Persian capital revolt seeks rights through merchant exodus
Reports from Teheran describe a mass departure of about a thousand merchants from Tehran in protest against the shah’s government. The insurgents move toward Shad-Ab-UL Azim where a representative assembly elected by mullahs, merchants and landowners will be formed to exercise administrative and legislative powers. The body is expected to demand dismissal of M. J. Naus the Belgian minister of customs and Belgian customs staff.
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Persia
Teheran
Shad-Ab-Ul Azim
M. J. Naus
Thompson and Goss Named for Ambassadorship and District Attorney
President Roosevelt sent to the senate nominations of two Nebraskans. D E Thompson of Lincoln is named ambassador to Mexico, replacing the former minister to Brazil who held the post for years. Charles A Goss of Omaha is nominated as district attorney for Nebraska, succeeding Judge Baxter, a choice the Nebraska delegation had endorsed.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Nebraska
Ensign Wade Acquitted After Court Martial
Ensign Charles T. Wade was acquitted by court martial for alleged responsibility in the Bennington explosion in San Diego harbor. The court reaffirmed its original findings after reconsideration. Wade was detached from Mare Island Navy Yard and ordered to return home to await orders.
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Charles T. Wade
Bennington
San Diego Harbor
Cal
Navy Department
Wade
Navy Yard
Mare. Island
Rockefeller Grants 1.45 Million to University of Chicago
The University of Chicago board of trustees announces John D. Rockefeller donated 1,450,000 dollars. One million goes to permanent endowment, 350,000 funds current department expenditures to July 1, 1907, and 100,000 creates a fund whose interest benefits President W R Harper’s widow for life.
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University of Chicago
University of Chicago Board of Trustees
John D. Rockefeller
University
W. R. Harper
Heir to Mongolian throne to be chosen from princes
The dowager empress orders all eligible princes presented at the palace on Chinese New Year. From these, three or four will be kept in the palace for a year or two, and the emperor's successor will be named from among them, following Prince Tuan's dismissal over the boxer disturbances.
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Tuan
Orders Suit Dismissed In Missouri Insurance Case
State Insurance Superintendent Van Diver of Missouri received notice that a federal court dismissed the suit filed by New York Life Insurance to prevent him from enforcing his order of ouster from the ...
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Vandiver
Missouri
New York Life Insurance Company
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