02 Jan 1912
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1912
Page
1
Governing commission with broad powers recommends a new deal to fix Hawley's finances. Proposes a $2500 exemption for small homes, three constitutional amendments, and reduced bonding limits.
A state tax commission would gain sweeping powers including railroads telegraph and telephone oversight and county assessor supervision. Exempts $2500 from small home valuations and requires taxes of $20 and up to be paid semi annually in January and July. Biennial assessments after 1912 and quadrennial after 1914. Repeals tax credits. Delinquent tax titles may be sold and foreclosed in court. Fixed levies sharply reduced. Poll tax optional by county for able bodied. State levy capped at 3 mills, county 12 and municipal 6. County treasurer becomes ex officio tax collector.
Gov Hawley appoints Judge John F. MacLane and ex Attorney General Frank Martin to draft revisions to Idaho tax laws. The 170 pages cover proposed laws and constitutional amendments. no major upheaval, with focus on updating a system based on 1872 California codes. The commission rejects state utility taxation plans and notes mines will get a separate bill.
Berlin reports no new poison cases after the arrest of a liquor dealer who sold wood alcohol to shelter inmates and the confiscation of adulterated whiskey. The official death toll stands at 72 of 162 cases with 26 still ill.
Olaf Tveit moE Anton Johannsen and J E Munsey indicted on a conspiracy to transport dynamite were arraigned in federal court in Los Angeles and granted until January 12 to plead. Counsel cited need to consult labor leaders in San Francisco. Witnesses included Paul Scharrenburg and J E Hendricks. McManigal left for Indianapolis.
William J. Burns testifies before the grand jury as the dynamite inquiry resumes in Indianapolis. He plans talks with Oscar Lawler and District Attorney Fredericks, who arrive from Los Angeles. Ortie McManigal is brought in under guard, with officials planning additional indictments likely by week’s end. Detectives continue examining labor leaders for possible complicity amid heightened security to protect McManigal.
Bloodhounds failed to locate the dynamiters after a blast wrecked the Clarke opera house in Bedford Iowa on Sunday night. The north end was destroyed just before the planned opening and several workers were inside but no injuries were reported.
Chicago Jan 2 Jim Flynn and Jack Johnson may delay formal articles for a bout scheduled around the Utah Nevada line in June or July. Johnson says terms include 20000 for his share training expenses and a third of moving rights, but other engagements may interfere.
A new statewide campaign plan begins with rallies in major Wisconsin towns following a Waukesha meeting. Wisconsin leaders will be joined by national figures Ree, Caroline Bartlett Crane, Rachel Foster Avery, and other prominent equal rights advocates.
A gala for the new Nanking ruler signals disenthroning the Manchus and pledges peace and expanded commerce. Officials assure security and hope for stable relations with foreign traders, as regional leaders attend the ceremony.
Two thousand laundry workers in New York walkout for raises and a nine hour day. Employers warn the city may have to wash its own clothes or buy new linen if demands are not met.
Sugar City Colorado reports 15 to 32 degrees below zero for two weeks with heavy snow. Cattle die in hundreds while officials say snows will insure bumper crops next year. Local conditions mark the harshest cold spell in years across eastern and southern Colorado.
Missoula reports a heavy blizzard sweeping western Montana from the northeast. Snow falls rapidly and drifts under strong winds with severe mountain cold.
New York on January 2 six year old Louis Brown died shielding his four year old sister Helen from a blaze. A fireman found them beneath a bed unconscious in each other’s arms. Louis had wrapped his sister in a coat to protect her. she rests in serious condition.
Boston opens the Toy theatre with a season of eight alternate weeks presenting never before offered plays including In His House and Press Cut by Bernard Shaw. Noted society figures writers and musicians back the venture and all performers are volunteering their services for the launch.
Aram J. Pothier, among the nation’s youngest governors and Rhode Island’s first French Canadian leader, starts his fourth term today after a ceremonial oath in Providence.
Peking reports the empress dowager pressing Premier Yuan Shi Kai for two million dollars to renew anti US action. Indications show northern imperial troops eager to resume hostilities as tensions rise.
London dispatch reports Wang Wie Tze, envoy of Premier Yuan Shi Kai, joining the revolutionists in Tien Tsin and being named a leader of the republican troops. He vows to begin a march on Peking the next day.
Sun Yat Sen arrives in Nanking after changing the Chinese calendar to start the year with his presidency. He takes the oath of office before delegates from eighteen provinces and outlines plans for a central government, administrative reform, parliamentary elections, and restoring peace while promising neutrality from foreign powers.
Jackson Mississippi January 2 The biennial session of the Mississippi legislature convened today for organization. No United States senator is to be elected at this session but significant business awaits. The question of ordering a convention is among the important matters to be considered.
Chicago January 2 Forty cents a hundred pounds was the penalty for overshipping the old packers pool with penalties shared among discriminated members. Payments were made by weekly checks. Testimony by Henry Veeder in the packers pool trial covered 1893 to 1896 with EF J Martin of Armour & Company presiding at meetings.
Warden W M Moyer declared that Charles W Morse offered a bribe soon after his imprisonment in Atlanta federal penitentiary. Moyer said he refused the offer and reported to Wickersham authorities.
In Little Rock Arkansas campaigns for governor and U S Senate resume after a holiday truce. Governor Donaghey seeks a third term while Joe T Robinson fields a strong challenge. The senatorial race between Jeff Davis and a former congressman remains intensely debated.
Governor Chase Osborn proposes that both Taft and La Follette withdraw from the presidential race in favor of Roosevelt or Beveridge. He backs Taft over La Follette, criticizes La Follette's style and business stance, and notes La Follette will not speak in Lansing after missing a train.
LaFollette refused to comment on Governor Osborn's speech released this afternoon from Lansing.
Frankfort January 2 The Kentucky railroad commission has entered a protest against the appointment of Judge Hook of Kansas to a vacancy on the supreme court bench because he has expressed opinions adverse to the questions now pending before the court involving litigation of supreme importance to the rights of states and the jurisdiction on railroad commissions.
Henry M Flagler, longtime Standard Oil leader, celebrates his eighty second birthday in the south. He plans to be the central figure at a large January event marking the Florida East Coast railway overseas division opening, a project he funded with millions. He aims to connect Key West directly with the mainland via the new line.
Scores of farmers and stock raisers from across Kentucky arrived in Lexington for the annual institute at the State College of Agriculture. The gathering includes conventions of breeders for dairy and beef cattle swine sheep and horses with daily lectures and exhibitions for corn growers dairymen and horticulturists.
Frankfort Kentucky January 2 The biennial session of the Kentucky legislature convened today in the new capital A United States senator to succeed Thomas Hi Paynter is to be elected but the Democratic majority will vote for Ollie James who was unopposed in the November primaries for the senatorship
Kolemainan of Findland won the world championship professional marathon in Edinburg Scotland finishing in 2 hours 32 minutes 56 seconds. Hans Holmer of America placed second by ten yards and Fre Cameron of America finished third.
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