Alaska May Get Railroad
Washington reports the senate will vote on a government owned Alaska railroad after speeches by Pittman and Dillingham. The Chamberlain bill would authorize about a thousand miles of track costing up to 35 million dollars, linking the Pacific coast to the interior. Weeks may elapse before the House acts.
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Senate
Washington
Pittman
Dillingham
House
Wickersham
Chamberlain
Pacific
Alaska
Interior
Live Stock Association Concludes Convention in Denver
The American Live Stock Association closed its annual convention in Denver Colorado after adopting resolutions for federal control of the open range stricter sanitary rules to protect livestock owners in Mexico farm education and support for the federal department of agriculture and national forest administration.
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Denver
Colo
American Live Stock Association
Mexico
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Lord of Strathcona to be buried beside wife
Relatives of the late high commissioner of Canada decide to honor his wish by burying him beside his wife rather than Westminster Abbey. A public funeral service will be held at Westminster Abbey.
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London
Suit to Recover Millions Filed Against Railroad Directors
Suit to recover more than fourteen million dollars has been filed in the federal district court in St. Louis against ten former directors of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. The action alleges mismanagement and seeks monetary restitution.
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St. Louis
Federal District Court
St. Louis and San Francisco
Hardwood Manufacturers Association Ends Twelfth Convention
Memphis Tennessee January 22 close sessions urged closer cooperation and affiliation by speakers at the twelfth annual convention. Prominent lumber men from northwestern and middle western states attended in large numbers. It was believed St Louis or an Arkansas city would host next year's gathering.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hardwood Manufacturers’ Association
Northwestern
Middlewestern
St. Louis
Arkansas City
Refugees Fed At Light Cost In El Paso Camp
A Fort Bliss roll call lists 4987 Mexican refugees in El Paso with 3526 soldiers among them. Forty wounded are at Marfa and expected to arrive. Feeding each refugee costs 33 cents per day.
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el Paso
Fort Bliss
Marfa
American Sugar Refining loses interest in beet sugar mills
New York January 22. Edwin J. Adkins chairman testifies that the American Sugar Refining company no longer has any interest in beet sugar refiners or a voice in their management as hearings resume in the government suit to dissolve the company under the Sherman anti trust law.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Edwin J. Adkins
Gorgas Nominated Surgeon General of Army
Washington January 22 The senate military committee voted to report favorably the nomination of Colonel W C Gorgas to be surgeon general of the army.
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Gorgas
Washington, D. C
Senate Military Committee
W. C. Gorgas
Law measures urged to curb narcotic habit at Madison Square
Speakers at the Chemical and Drug exposition in Madison Square Garden call for federal action and strict enforcement to curb cocaine morphine and heroin use. They urge New York Pharmaceutical Association and others to push legislation mandating standard receptacles and capsules for poisons, with a Albany lobbying plan by January 26.
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New York
United States
Madison Square Garden
New York Pharmaceutical Association
Albany
Temple to adopt town manager charter in Texas
Temple citizens are expected to approve changes in a new charter completing today that sets a town manager form of government like Dayton Ohio. Commissioners will elect a manager who will oversee all municipal departments, making Temple the third Texas town to adopt the system after Denton and Amarillo.
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Temple
Tex
Dayton
Ohio
Texas
Denston
Amarillo
Fishing for the Lost Boat
Salvage operations began in Whitesand Bay to recover the submarine A.7 which sank Friday. The craft lies about 200 feet beneath the surface four miles from shore, and rescuers work to raise it.
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Plymouth
Whitesand Bay
Local Union Backs Cooperative Supply House Plan
Bear Creek Mont January 22 A local union sends a resolution supporting a cooperative wholesale supply house under international union management to curb rising living costs.
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Bear Creek
Mont
International Union
Fire saves judge Neville’s Gulfport home during presidential visit
President Wilson’s Pass Christian vacation featured a dramatic rescue cue as flames and smoke poured from Judge J. H. Neville’s Gulfport residence. The president, with two secret service men, directed efforts and calmed Mrs. Neville while fire crews acted, turning a crisis into a display of quick leadership. Neville, long a Mississippi legal figure, praised the moment as a chance to show the president as a fire chief.
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Wilson
Pass Christian, Miss
Judge Neville
White House
Gulfport
Neville
Secret Service
Mrs. Neville
Eight liquor indictments issued by grand jury
The grand jury returned eight indictments this morning centering on local option liquor violations including selling maintaining a nuisance or transporting liquor into dry areas. Indicted were Tony Gabie Para Taso James Harris Tony Pattis Malcolm Martin Charles Humber Vince Jackson and Grace Bradley. Gabie and Pattis are in county jail others bonded and awaiting summons.
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Tony Gabie
Para Taso
James Harris
Tony Pattis
Malcolm Martin
Charles Humber
Vince Jackson
Grace Bradley
William Edwards
Edwards
Tribune
Battle parties rage across Texas border towns
Presidio El Paso and San Antonio compete to host battle parties organizing trips to Ojinaga Juarez and Nuevo Laredo as federal rebel engagements unfold nearby.
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Presido
Tex
Presidio
el Paso
San Antonio
Texas
Ojinaga
Juarez
Nuevo Laredo
Miners Seek Federal Control Of Mines And Railroads
In Indianapolis on January 22 the United Mine Workers convention reviews the resolutions committee report. The committee is expected to advocate government ownership of mines and railroads.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Resolutions Committee
United Mine Workers Convention
Has the Bee Stung Bryan at Democratic Dinner
Washington report notes Democrats speculate Bryan aimed to spark a senatorial bid after saying it had long been his ambition to sit in the United States Senate. Secretary Bryan praised President Wilson and the new era of idealism at a dinner honoring Senator Myers of Montana.
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Washington, D. C
Bryan
United States
Senate
Lord Baltimore
Ident Wilson
Myers
Montana
League Ready to Engage in Legal Battle
Chicago reports President Gilmore of the Federal League has outlined plans for a legal war on baseball with lawyers preparing both defense and offense. Toronto franchise move to Cincinnati denied. Chas Weeghman refused a registered package thought to contain William Killifer's contract with the Federals marked Killifer.
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Chicago, Ills
Gilmore
Federal League
Toronto
Cincinati
Chas
Weeghman
William Killifer
Federals
Killifer
Pioneer Aviator Charles K. Hamilton Dies at 28
New York January 22 Charles K Hamilton a pioneer aviator who flew from New York to Philadelphia and back died suddenly at his home from internal hemorrhage His wife was awakened by groaning and found him dead before medical help arrived He was 28 years old.
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New York
Charles K. Hamilton
Philadelphia
Hamilton
Wreck on Meath Line Kills Sudbury Woman
Train No. 9 derailed by spreading rail at Meath Ottawa reports a Sudbury resident, Mrs J J Sammon, killed and fifteen aboard injured, seven seriously as fire crews worked. Pacific coast congressmen push to bar Asian laborers with hearings opening on the Baker immigration bill targeting Japanese Chinese and Hindus.
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Ottawa
Ont
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie
Meath
J. J. Sammon
Sudbury
Ontario
Washington
House Immigration Committee
Baker
California
Johnson
San Francisco
Portland
Oregon
Seattle
Plans for San Jacinto refight in moving pictures
Houston plans to recreate the San Jacinto battle for the Texas independence anniversary. The first cavalry of the Texas National Guard will perform the fight, with monuments on the battlefield area barring filming there, so the reenactment will be staged on the outskirts of Houston.
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Houston
Tex
San Jacinto
Texas
First Cavalry
Texas National
Owards
Building for Pocatello to Cost $93 575
Palmberg and Mattson of Astoria were named the contractors for the Pocatello post office building. They submitted the lowest bid at 93 575 dollars, securing the contract.
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Pocatello
Washington
Palmberg & Mattson
Astoria
Senate endorses Pindell as ambassador to Russia
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported favorably on 8 M Pindell's nomination to be ambassador to Russia. Delays followed alleged correspondence with Senator Lewis and Representative Stone over limited service and federal patronage. Chairman Bacon said the panel found no grounds to block confirmation.
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Washington
Foreign Relations Committee
Pindell
Russia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
8. M. Pindell
Lewis
United States
Representative Stone
Bacon
Receiver hearing delayed in Interstate Consolidated Telephone case
In Butte Montana an affidavit by H R Risley Montana Independent Telephone manager seeks to disqualify District Judge J J Lynch from hearing the Interstate Consolidated Telephone case to appoint a receiver, delaying the proceedings. Defendants move to quash the case.
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Butte
Mont
P. B. Moore
Billings
Interstate Consolidated Telephone Company
J. J. Lynch
H. R. Risley
Montana Independent Telephone Company
Collected Coin for Campaign Colluded in Cortland Case
Cortland New York January 22 William H Kelly of Syracuse Democratic state committeeman and Fay C Parsons chair Cortland County Democratic committee are jointly indicted for violation of the civil service law in collecting political contributions from civil service employees.
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Cortland, N. Y
William H. Kelly
Syracuse
Fay C. Parsons
Cortland County
Democratic Committee
Denver press lobbyists linked to Pittsburg radium concern
Washington D C Jan 22 The house mines committee learned that Joseph Flannery president of the Pittsburg Radium Producing Co sent telegrams to a Denver newspaper urging organized opposition to the government plan to withdraw public radium lands from mining.
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Washington, D. C
House Mines Committee
Joseph Flannery
Pittsburg
Denver
First Territorial Pioneers Gather for Aged Meeting
In Lincoln, on January 22, 200 gray-haired pioneers met at the Temple Theatre for their annual gathering. A phonograph provided Indian tom-tom and squaw vocal rhythms from the Omaha and Sun dances, captured by Prof. M. R. Gilmore for preservation in the university archives.
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Lincoln, Neb
Temple Theatre
Territorial Pioneers’ Association
M. R. Gilmore
University Facullty
University
Meat Packers on Rack Before a Federal Jury
The federal grand jury began an investigation into Swift & Company alleging a $60,000 rebating arrangement with the Ann Arbor Railroad. Packing house and railroad workers testified, with shipments allegedly moved by other lines to Ann Arbor line points at car load rates. Beef allegedly circulated town to town along the line.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Swift & Company, Packers
Ann Arbor
Grand Jury
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John — L. Litem
Jake Kilrain
Richburg
Miss
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
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A. R. Richards
William Edgington
Steve Stratens
Ernest Hoffman
Albert Perry
Hoffman
Foolish Pherdinand
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