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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
1
Justice J Frank Hunt outlines upcoming legislative work and goals for the current session. He discusses priorities and expected committee actions affecting state policy.
The piece notes J Frank Hoot, Bannock county representative elect, spending time in the city while Hant is seen as next House speaker. Hunt travels north Idaho for his candidacy and discusses senatorial selection, reapportionment, voting rights for Soldiers' Home residents, and abolition of Insurance Commissioner, plus updates on sheep laws and election reform.
Vance Stowell of Owinza drove a batch of jack rabbits to Gooding last Friday and captured twenty six animals in a corrall. They were shipped to Salt Lake City Utah for a phase with hoande to obtain rabbits for this purpose.
President Roosevelt will not arbitrate the Venezuela controversy. The Hague tribunal will hear the case after cables show the Allied powers consent to arbitration with Roosevelt as preferred but the matter referred to The Hague. Notes indicate no entry of Monroe Doctrine into the arbitration process and a potential, smaller cash requirement than earlier stated.
Three hundred striking Union Pacific shopmen travel to New York at EB Harriman’s request to confer with him and President Burt about a settlement. The move follows a threat of a broader strike by Southern Pacific boilermakers if no settlement is reached. The dispute, six months old, centers on higher wages and opposition to piece work, with demands to discharge strike breakers and reinstate all laid‑off workers.
In New York on December 26 the suit by Harry Nevelson against J P Morgan over coal supply failures in a leased apartment has been settled out of court. Morgan's agent promised ample coal supply in the future.
Pekin December 26 General Miles arrived today and will be received by the imperial family. He will review the Chinese troops tomorrow as part of the ceremonial arrangements.
Figures from the Journal of Commerce indicate January payments will be the largest on record with total interest and dividends exceeding 162 million dollars. The report highlights a peak in corporate distributions amid year-end financial activity in New York.
Austrian manufacturers announce a ten percent price increase on shoes citing higher leather costs. They blame extensive European hide purchases by Americans who have drained continental stocks.
Denver December 26 J H Her bert resigns as manager of the Denver and Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern railroads and will join January 1 as vice president and general manager of the Colorado Southern railroad and vice president of the Fort Worth and Denver in a major leadership shift.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain arrived in Durban this morning aboard the Good Hope after crossing from England.
The State Bank of Weiser Idaho converts into the First National Bank of Weiser with a capital stock of 60000 and the conversion approved by the comptroller of the currency.
A coal miner rescued from the Colorado and Southern wreck said there were fourteen miners in the same car as he and perished. The death toll is estimated from twenty five to thirty as the car lies under wreckage. All the men were bound for Trinidad to spend Christmas.
The will of Mrs Ulysses S Grant filed today divides her estate into four equal parts. A one thousand year old memento from the Empress of Japan goes to the Museum of Arts in New York. The estate includes a city house valued at about $40 000, cash $10 065, stocks and securities around $4 000. The four children are heirs.
A Washington dispatch says Senator and Mrs Dubois of Idaho welcomed a daughter born Tuesday night.
A cablegram from the cableship Silvertown reports nearing the buoy off the Island of Oahu with about 450 fathoms of water beneath the line. It states 2238 nautical miles of cable have been paid out and notes no further word will be received until the shore end splice is completed.
Advices from Kansas and Missouri report severe weather nationwide with a coal famine hitting Mexico Missouri where no coal remains for sale. Temperatures plunged to zero last night as residents scramble for fuel and heat.
The bitter winter continues with frigid readings from multiple locales south of the Ohio River. Sioux City reports fifteen degrees below zero this morning as the cold spreads through the region.
A Manila cablegram reports Captain Robert McGregor of the engineer corps died of appendicitis. The military officer was serving in the Philippines region.
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