Mann proposes sweeping changes in interstate rail commerce law
A bill by Representative Mann of Illinois introduces broad reforms to railroad regulation. It would create an independent Bureau of Transportation to hear shipper complaints, allow the ICC to adjust rates and classifications, restrict railroads from owning competing carriers, and tighten stock bond issuance penalties with fines up to twenty thousand dollars and five years imprisonment.
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Washington
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Taft
Representative Mann
Illinois
Commerce and Labor Bureau
Bureau of Transportation
Attorney General of the
United States
Interstate Commercce Commission
Cold Wave Brings Subzero Temperatures Across Idaho
The weather forecast proved accurate as a cold wave slammed the region with eight degrees below zero in Pocatello and six below in Boise. Idaho Falls hit twelve below while Mc Cammon Bancroft Soda Springs and Montpelier also saw frigid readings. Morning temperatures rose above zero and the sun returned, suggesting the cold spell may be ending.
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United States Weather Bureau
Pocatello
Boise
Idaho Falls
McCammon
Bancroft
Soda Springs
Montpelier
Taft Announces Series of Special Messages to Congress
Washington reports President Taft will delay a message on the interstate commerce law until early next week while an anti trust message remains planned for Thursday. Friday a brief message to the Senate will transmit papers and the attorney general report on the Gravis charges against Secretary Ballinger. A conservation of national resources message is postponed to late next week.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
White House
Senate
Ballinger
Conspiracy Charge In Bank Wrecking Case Arraignment
Mrs Philip Allen Jr Ada Jackson of Chicago and Guy Roe of Winona Minn were arraigned in Madison Wis for a preliminary hearing on conspiring to conceal government property of Philip Allen Jr Allen a former First National Bank Mineral Point official was previously sentenced to ten years in prison for wrecking the bank
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Madison, Wis
Philip Allen, Jr
Ada Jackson
Chicago
Guy Roe
Winona
Minn
Allen
First National Bank of Mineral Point
Ship Subsidy Proposal Introduced in Congress
Representative Humphrey of Washington introduced in the house a bill for a United States ship subsidy. The measure is understood to have President Taft and the administration’s approval and to be the focal point of subsidy supporters.
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Representative Mann
Illinois
President Taft
Congress
Washington
Humphrey
House
United States
Taft
Indiana Tax Board Opens Annual Meeting at Statehouse
The Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners began its annual session at the statehouse in Indianapolis with John W. Cardle presiding. Governor Marshall and others, including John E. Lambi érre Haute, addressed the opening session as the meeting continued will proceed tomorrow.
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TAX Board
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners
Statehouse
Tomorow
John W. Cardle
Alent Ae
Marshall
John E. Lambierre Haute
Railroads Treated Fair says NY Central president
New York January 4. President W C Brown of the New York Central lines says he knows the bill will provide and it need not alarm investors or embarrass railroads seeking straightforward operation. Brown spoke after conferring with President Taft on proposed railroad legislation and relief over fears about the president's upcoming message.
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New York
W. C. Brown
New York Central Lines
Taft
Brown
Taft proposes thirty million loan for irrigation projects
In a special message on conservation President Taft will urge Congress to authorize a thirty million dollar loan to complete existing reclamation works. The loan would likely be floated as short term bonds or certificates of indebtedness.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Association of American Universities Opens in Madison
Leading universities gather at the University of Wisconsin for the AAU annual meeting. Notable figures include Harvard’s A Lawrence Lowell, Illinois’ E J James, Carnegie’s H Pritchett, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson, Virginia’s E A Alderman, Kansas’ Frank Strong, and Stanford’s David Jordan among others. Sessions continue tomorrow with broad academic representation.
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Frank Strong
University of Kansas
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
G. E. MacLean
University of Iowa
J. I.’. Downey
University of Minnesota
H. W. Ames
University of Pennsylvania
H. P. Judson
University of Chicago
A. Ross Hill
University of Missouri
W. L. Bryan
Indiana State University
Rhode Island Governor Aram J. Pothier Takes Second Term
Rhode Island governor Aram J. Pothier began his second term with inauguration ceremonies in the state capitol senate chamber. Secretary of State Parker presided as both legislative chambers and a large crowd attended the event.
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Providence
R. I
Aram J. Pothier
Rhode Island
Senate
Parker
Validity of Idaho Local Option Law in Supreme Court
Attorney General McDougall defends the Idaho local option law before the Idaho Supreme Court in Boise. The case challenges registration timing, nonresident solicitations, interstate commerce issues, and unity of subject in title, citing Knight vs Trigg. The brief asserts long-standing opposition to liquor sales and argues the law should be sustained.
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Supreme Court
Boise
Canyon
Idaho
Knight Vs. Trigg
State of
Karl Paine
Edwin Snow
H. G. Redwine
McDougall
J. H. Peterson
John F. McLane
C. M. van Duyn
Canyon County
J. M. Gilmore
Idaho County
Gillesby
Canyon County Board of Commissioners
Excursion Rates For Ogden Boxing Bout Published
Excursion rates to Ogden for the Pete Sullivan versus Bird Leg Collins fight are set with tickets on sale January 6 and valid through January 7. Jack Armstrong reports tickets must be bought on the 6th. special Pullman service may be arranged from Idaho points to cover attendees for the National Woolgrowers convention.
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Ogden
Pete Sullivan
Fall River
Mass
Collins
Salt Lake
Woolgrowers
Pocatello
Jack Armstrong
Sullivan
the Tribune
Idaho
Carpenters Vote Raise in Wages in Pocatello
After April 1 all union carpenters in Pocatello will receive 5 dollars per day for an eight hour shift. The new schedule was voted at a union meeting and local contractors were informed of the change.
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Pocatello
Battle Impending on the Isthmus
Washington reports indicate no current peace efforts by Nicaragua's leaders Madriz or Estrada. Unofficial intelligence says Estrada massing troops toward Managua while Madriz sends forces east to meet them, suggesting a clash may unfold before Estrada nears the capital.
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Washington
State Department
Nicaragua
Madriz
General Estrada
Estrada
Managua
Wool Growers Meeting Opens in Ogden With Record Delegates
Jan 4 Ogden reports the annual convention of the National Wool Growers association opens with an advance guard in place. Secretary George S. Walker forecasts about 1500 delegates from Ohio Wyoming Idaho Montana Nevada and Oregon. Public lands tariff on wool top topics. governors and prominent officials to speak.
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Ogden
National Wool Growers’ Association
George S. Walker
Ohio
Wyoming
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Oregon
D Ogden Mills Dies at 84 in California Home
Darius Ogden Mills philanthropist and financier, father of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, died at his winter home near San Francisco tonight of heart disease. He was 84 years old and survived by his daughter.
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San Francisco
Darius Ogden Mills
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
Here
Cook's Polar Records Routed to Washington for Review
Washington reports that Dr Frederick A Cook's polar records are en route from Copenhagen to Washington for National Geographic Society examination. President Willis L Moore of the society announced he would not seek re election, prompting speculation of a renewed polar controversy.
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Cook
Washington
Frederick A. Cook
Copenhagen
National Geographic Society
Willis L. Moore
Society
Short Line Montana Division Tie-Up Ends After Severe Snow
Heavy storms crippled the Montana division with the Short Line for days. A rotary snow plow, then a wrecker, both stuck, as crews cleared beaver canyon and resumed service to Butte from Pocatello. One engineer injured, extensive drifts, freezing spray, and multiple slides halted traffic along the line.
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MontAna
Pocatello
Beaver Canyon
Butte
J. L. Pratt
Dubois
Femont Trading Company
Idaho Falls
Continental Divide
Los Angeles
Denver Strain Warms Colorado Storm Hits Eastern Slope
A Denver storm sweeps the eastern slope from the continental divide to the state boundary and from north to south. Stockmen fear heavy losses while traffic remains largely uninterrupted. Reports reach from Durango in the southwest.
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Denver
Colorado
Continental Divide
Durango
Alabama railroad rate case opens in Louisville testifies L&N officers
Testimony began in Louisville on the Alabama rate dispute. Alabama fixed passenger fares at two and a half cents per mile and lowered freight rates, which the railroads claim are too low to sustain. The three year old case centers on state action and rail carrier schedules.
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Louisville, Ky
Alabama
Louisville and Nashville Road
Aviator De La Grange Killed in Bordeaux Flight
Leon De La Grange, French aeronaut, died when his aircraft fell about 65 feet in Bordeaux. The crash occurred in gusty winds up to 20 miles per hour and the pilot was crushed under the wreckage. Death was instantaneous.
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Bordeaux
Leon de la Grange
de la Grange
Jealousy Motive Behind Near Tragedy in Twilight Zone
Florence Gordon faced Police Judge Moyes after firing two shots at her former lover Edward Forshey near the Senate saloon on North First avenue. Gordon pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and was fined 25 dollars. Forshey was released.
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Florence Gordon
Edward Forshey
Moyes
Miss Gordon
Forshey
North First Avenue
Senate
Jim
Murder and suicide at Idaho Falls shock town
Special to the Tribune. Idaho Falls January 4. W W Riley proprietor of Capital Cafe shot and killed his old friend Dr J W Mercer a veterinary surgeon then killed himself. No motive given domestic trouble with Riley's wife who left him. Mercer leaves a wife and three boys. Riley a wife and two children in Idaho Falls and two in Oklahoma.
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The
Tribune
Idaho Falls
W. W. Riley
Capital
Ithis City
J. W. Mercer
Riley
Mercer
Smith & Wesson
Spinners Meet To Seek Better Cotton Yarn Prices
Leading cotton yarn spinners of the south and representatives of commission firms met in Charlotte to discuss yarn market conditions and seek improved prices for their product.
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Charlotte
N. C
South
Feverish New York market on unsettled stock scene
Extreme fe verishness shaped today's money market and unsettled stock conditions in New York.
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New York
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Wool Growers’ Meeting
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Silverton
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