Irrigation Congress Opens With Royal Proclamation
Salt Lake City hosts the National Irrigation congress opening with large attendance. An elaborate program features welcomes and a response by Francis G. Newlands, plus Miss Lucile M. Francke as irrigation queen. Messages from President Taft and Governor Wilson are read.
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Francis G. Newlands
Congress
Salt Lake City
National Irrigation Congress
Tabernacle
Lucile M. Francke
Taft
Wilson
Drainage expert cites vast irrigated lands near cities
Salt Lake City report outlines seepage and alkali as top handicaps in irrigation districts. C. F. Brown cites experiments in Hyde Park and Bear River valley showing high yields after tiling and drainage. He notes Utah as example and highlights potential multi-crop returns and per capita gains.
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Salt Lake City
C. F. Brown
Salt Lake
Twentieth
National Irrigation Congress
Hyde Park
Cache Valley
Bear River Valley
Colorado
Rocky Ford
North Yakima
Wash
Cache County
Utah
State of
Stringent Marriage and Divorce Laws Reform Proposals
Kansas City reports Missouri legislature may pass amendments framed by W. W. Wright a divorcee proctor. Proposed reforms include court domestic relations exclusive jurisdiction physical certification before marriage six months publication of matrimonial banns prohibition of marriage of mental incompetents degenerates and criminals interlocutory divorce decree one year after filing and final divorce not until one year after decree defendant barred from remarrying during plaintiff life.
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Kansas City
Missouri
W. W. Wright
Trial of dynamite cases begins tomorrow in Indianapolis
United States District Attorney Charles W. Miller says the trial of fifty one current and former labor union officials on conspiracy charges involving dynamite and nitroglycerin on passenger trains will start tomorrow unless illness delays the proceedings. Two venire sets of fifty were drawn from across Indiana. The defense gets ten temporary challenges while the prosecution gets six. Ortie E. McManigal, the government’s chief witness, is housed on the same floor as the courtroom.
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Indianapolis
United States District
Charles W. Miller
Indiana
Ortie E. McManigal
Federal
Developments in Illinois Murder Case Promise Sensational Details
Quincy reports early developments in the murder case of Charles Pfanschmidt, a prominent farmer, his wife, daughter Blanche age 16, and Emma Kaempen, a 20 year old school teacher. Bodies were mutilated and burned. skulls of the young women bore large holes. Pfanschmidt and his wife were decapitated.
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Quincy, Ills
Charles Pfanschmidt
Blanche
Emma Kaempen
Pfanschmidt
Ely Strike May Be Called Tomorrow
Ely November 30 A crisis in the labor situation is rapidly approaching If the companies refuse the conference with representatives of the union or set no date for such meeting it is probable a strike will be called tomorrow morning affecting all the companies in the district and 3500 miners.
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Ely
Quiet at Brigham as miners’ walkout lingers
Bingham Utah report notes outward calm after a two day mining strike. Four plus thousand miners halted work at United States and Yampa mines with no confirmation of resumed operations as of this morning.
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Bingham
Utah
United States
Governor withholds Texas marching permission from Mexican troops
Austin Sept 30 Gov Col quitt withdraws permission for Mexican federal troops to march from Marathon Texas to another point on Texas soil. He says he does not care to take the risk.
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Austin
Tex
Colquitt
Marathon
Texas
Independent Chinese Bond Sale Fails to Attract Investors
London report notes the recent Chinese loan issue attracted only about forty percent of its 45 million amount. Underwriters must subscribe the remaining sixty percent as the loan trades at a quarter percent discount.
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London
Wealth Projections Annotate Vast Asset Accumulation
The text discusses assets valued at 50 million dollars in present value with an additional 200 million to the west, yielding an aggregate annual production of 20 million dollars. It outlines the expected financial scale and geographic expansion of wealth generation.
Lawrence in Trouble Zone as IWW Strike Fails
In Lawrence Massachusetts a 24 hour industrial strike over the Ettor Giovanitti imprisonment drew limited turnout. Riots erupted as police clashed with pickets injuring several and leading to multiple arrests amid intimidating tactics and disrupted mill work.
Wheat Market Sees September Wheat Close at 88
Chicago market report notes September wheat closing at 88 with activity steady as traders assess supply and demand factors. Prices hold firm amid harvest progress and speculative interest.
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Chicago
Bannock County Fair Opens With Pocatello Day
The first Bannock county fair starts tomorrow in McCammon lasting three days. Pocatello day greets a large crowd as Gate City band performs. Silas Christofferson flies an aeroplane for twelve minutes from 800 feet. Special excursion trains service east and southbound passengers from Pocatello at 10 a.m. and return from McCammon at noon.
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Bannock County
McCammon
Pocatello
Gate City
T. R. Jenkins
Silas Christofferson
Portland
Roosevelt hits Marshall as Taggart machine ally
In Chattanooga on September 30, Roosevelt labeled Governor Marshall of Indiana a representative of the Taggart machine. He attacked Wilson for moral posturing over the New York gubernatorial nomination while not objecting to Marshall as a running mate.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Marshall
Indiana
Taggart
Roosevelt
Wilson
New York
Sailor fatally stabs clerk after robbery claim in Chicago
Michael Cooper, a sailor robbed of his earnings two hours earlier, rushed across the street and stabbed David Weathers in the jugular vein. He told police he aimed at the man who robbed him.
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Chicago
Michael Cooper
David Weathers
Cooper
Weathers
Deny Intervention Story Reported By Senators
El Paso report says Senator A B and Senator Smith denied today that the special senate committee investigating conditions in Mexico had decided to recommend intervention.
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el Paso
A. B
Senator Smith
Senate
Mexico
No Standard Oil Money Ties Found in Bliss Papers
Cornelius Bliss Jr testified before the Senate committee and said he found no papers showing John D. Archbold or Standard Oil contributions in his father’s campaign records. The auditor’s report confirmed no such entries for the 1904 fund, while Bliss noted his father destroyed certain books and believed campaign funds were confidential. Letters from Roosevelt and Taft were among personal items revealed.
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Washington
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr
Senate
Clapp
Republican Committee
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Harry 8S. Ness
Mr. Bliss
Roosevelt
Taft
Bliss
Augusta Strife Spurs Military Court Martial Over Killings
In Augusta Georgia on September 30 a murder probe into three citizens killed during a street railway strike began. Militia guards at a plant deadline face military court-martial with captains Jowitt and Henderson among those at risk as negotiations fail.
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Augusta
Jowitt
Henderson
Leaders on Trial for Textile Strike Murder Case
Three hundred fifty possible jurors fill Essex courthouse as Ettor Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso face trial for the Anna Lopizzo murder tied to the Lawrence textile strike. Attorneys and officials present. jury completion expected in two to three days.
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Salem
Mass
Joseph J. Ettor
Arturo Giovannitti
Industrial Workers of the World
William D. Haywood
Essex County Superior Court
Ettor
Giovannitti
New York City
Annie Lopezzi
Lawrence
Lopezzi
Joseph Caruso
Kttor
Anna Lopizzo
Essex Court House
Ciovannitti
Anna Lopizza
Caruso
Hazelwood
Fred H. Moore
Los Angeles
W. Scott Peters
Haverhill
John P. S. Mahoney
George E. Roewer, Jr
Boston
Ettor and
James H. Sisk
Lynn
Harry C. Atwell
Governor Wilson Heads to Atlantic City for Good Roads Congress
Seagirt Sept 20 Governor Wilson left Seagirt for Atlantic City to welcome the good roads congress. The engagement was set before his presidential nomination and was not expected to include a political address.
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Seagit
Covernor Wilson
Seagirt
Atlantic City
Road Roads Congress
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New Mexico
Francis
Newland
Arthur Hooker
Douglas White
California
Dr.e. Mi Queen
Industrial Workers
Joseph Ettor
Everett Mill
Willam D. Haywood
Wheat Market
Bannock County Fair
Teddy
Marshal
Archbold
Republicn
Geovanitti
The
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