Hawley and Erb rail plan linked to Panama era goals
Chicago reports Edwin Hawley sought a transcontinental system with Gulf terminal access and Panama canal prospects. Now Erb is rumored to finance extending Milwaukee St Louis to the Canadian border and align with Missouri Kansas and Texas to form a Gulf trunk line via Oklahoma. The Bureau of Railway Economics provides nonpartisan data and analyses to guide such debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Oklahoma
Edwin Hawley
Huntington
Newport News
San Francisco
New Orleans
Hawley
Panama Canal
Migsisalpp
Gulf
James J. Hill
Great Northern
Mr. Erb
Erb
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Iowa Central
Canadian
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma Country
Mississippi Valley
Formation of the Bureau of Railway Economics
Taft praised economists for aiding government investigations into public concerns at the Washington meeting of the American Economic Association. The Bureau emerged from 1910 discussions among railroad presidents seeking exact facts to unify railway analysis and policy, leading to a general executive committee and coordinated associations in traffic, accounting, and finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Railway Economics
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bureau
United States
Europe
United Kingdom
France
Germany
American Economic Association
Taft
Bulureau of
Merican Railway Association
Girl Arrested for Bootlegging in Muskogee
Miss Cora Watkins aged sixteen from Afton was arrested by U S Marshal H H Trott in Muskogee for bootlegging. She claimed a man offered to pay her train fare to Joplin where she would obtain two suitcases of whisky and return. A preliminary hearing is set for tomorrow. The girl has six years of stage work and intended to inspect a waitress position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Oklo
Cora Watkins
Afton
United States
H. H. Trott
Joplin
Trott
Wiley
McClure QuillIon Wedding Last Night
Last evening at 616 West Canadian avenue in Blue Jacket, Roy McClure and Miss Helen Guillian were united in marriage. Rev Davis performed a quiet ceremony at 5 30 o clock. The couple then left for Timber Hill to start their new life, amid best wishes from friends in the city and nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh McClure
West Canadian Avenue
Roy McClure
Helen Guillian
Rev. W. ©. Davis
McClure
Wilson names Democratic campaign committee leaders
Geargirt New Jersey July 18 Governor Wilson announced the Democratic campaign committees to lead the presidential effort. The 14 member panel includes National Committee chair William F. McCombs and members Hudspeth Daniels Saulsberry Ewing Palmer Davies King Gore Gorman Reed McGillicuddy Burleson and McAdoo. The vice chair and finance posts were deferred with headquarters planned for Chicago New York and later western cities. The panel will form subcommittees including advisory press and finance, with a broad national roster under McCombs guidance.
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Robert S. Hudspeth
New Jersey
Joseph 5. Daniels
North Carolina
William Saulsberry
Delaware
Robert L. Ewing
Louisiana
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
Joseph E. Davies
Wisconsin
Will R. King
Oregon
National Committee
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
James O'Gorman
New York
James A. Reed
Missouri
Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Maine
Albert S. Burleson
Texas
McCombs
Daniels
Davies
Saulsberry
Hudspeth
Palmer
Gore
O'Gorman
Burleson
McAdoo
Campaign Committee
United States
Reed
Champ Clark
King
Supreme Court of the United States
Readily Sold Bulls Moose Seats At Chicago Convention
Chicago July 18 The third party national convention receipts opened at headquarters with 500 tickets sold in hours including a $1000 gift for fifty tickets from a single donor. A general committee of arrangements and sub committees was formed with Ralph C. Otts as chairman. The drive aims to cover convention expenses estimated at 25000. Governor Deneen was approached by telegrams about support for Roosevelt or Taft. Roosevelt favors a lakes to gulf deep waterway using Panama canal machinery to guard floods along the Mississippi.
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Chicago
Madill McCormick
Ralph C. Otts
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Deneen
Taft
Teddy
Mississippi River
Theodore Roosevelt
la Verne Noyes
Umnols
Production of Kansas Coal Reaches Nine Million Dollar Value
Kansas produced 6,254,228 short tons of coal in 1911 valued at 9,045,072 dollars, per a USGS Kansas Geological Survey release. Labor troubles in 1910 cut output 29.56 percent from 1900, with 1911 gains but still below five-year average.
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Kansas
EW. Parker
United States Geological Survey
Federal Survey
Kansas Eoological Survey
Mississippi Valley
Geological Survey
Oklahoma City Rejects Guthrie Petition Objections
Oklahoma City citizens committee defends capital move, says no technical objections will block Guthrie petitions for returning the capital. Voters urged to decide at November election after hearing Oklahoma City's side amid published Guthrie literature and petition irregularities. Local Logan county figures cited as part of the dispute.
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Oklahoma City
Guthrie Chamber of Commerce
Guthrie
Logan County
J. W. McNeal
Ts Committee
Cltina
Gloudburst Kills Twenty in Nevada
In a July report from Reon Nevada a cloudburst devastated Seven Troughs Nevada with at least seven confirmed dead. The Magus hotel was overturned by floodwaters and communications were crippled. Bodies recovered include Mr and Mrs Trenchard Milo Quaten and Mrs Mohawy and Mrs Reese. A Nevada and California railroad track between Mino and Keeler was washed out and telegraph wires are down.
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Reon
Nev
Lovelock
Magus
Mazuwa
Trenchard
Milo Quaten
Mohawy
Reese
Trenchards
Nevada and
West Decides Against Cruce Opinion in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City July 19 Attorney General West issues an opinion on Governor Lee Cruce’s letter. He finds the board of education’s authority to adapt textbooks at this time under the original act creating the textbook commission is not well founded and that the board possesses that authority.
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West
Cruce
Oklahoma City
Lee Cruce
Board of Educaton and
Text Book Commission
Decisions in Insurance Case Hits Oklahoma Supreme Court
Oklahoma City July 19 Opinions in these cases were delivered by division No. 2 of the supreme court. By Judge Rosser American Insurance Company Newark N J vs Mrs J M Rodenhause Carter County affirmed Phoenix Insurance Company Brooklyn vs W N Quinette Mercantile Fire and Marine Insurance Company Boston same Queen Insurance Company vs same all from Carter County reversed and remanded George W Barnes Sr vs Leander A Keys Muskogee County reversed and remanded Charles W Brooks vs Matthew Reynolds and Jack Hunt Oklahoma County reversed and remanded Cook County Liquor Company vs State of Oklahoma Murray County affirmed By Judge Brewer Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Company vs B O Johnson and Charles A Mants Pottawatomie County affirmed.
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Oklahoma City
Division No
Supreme Court Commission
Judge Rosser
American Insurance Company
Newark
N. J
Mra. J. M. Rodenhause
Carter County
Affirmed
Phoenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
W. N. Quinette
Mercantile Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Boston
Queen Insurance Company Ve
George W. Barnes
Leander A. Keys
Muskogee County
Charlea W. Brooks
Judge Brewer
Missouri, Kansas& Texask Railroad Company
B. O. Johnson
Charles A. Mants
Pottawatomie County
New York Hammond Quadrangle Topographic Map Issued
The state and the United States Geological Survey advance a statewide topographic survey in 15 by 15 degree quadrangles. The Hammond quadrangle covers a sparsely settled, road traversed region in northern New York with Oswegatchie River features and possible canal conversion creating a river island. Survey work from 1908 to 1910 by J M Whitman and W H Morey under state cooperation produced detailed Soploeraptite mapping and engravit x.
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New York
State of
Oxbow
Wegatchie
J. M. Whitman
W. H. $. Morey
United States Geological Survey
Depopulation of Browen Bow Black residents in Oklahoma
In Browen Bow Oklahoma during the past week white residents expelled more than one hundred Black citizens from the town near the Texan and Eastern Oklahoma railroad. Authorities deny or can't confirm arms were used as the Black residents fled on foot or by buggy to nearby settlements in Choctaw county.
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Broken Bow
Okla
Browen Bow
New Texan & Eastern Oklahoma Railroad
Notiow
Thp Sawmill Company
Chootaw County
Parcel post agreement reached on zones and rates
Washington July 19 senate committee on post offices and post roads agreed on the postoffice appropriation bill. A parcels post compromise set eight zones with rates from 5 to 12 cents per pound and a maximum weight of seven pounds. The bill, carrying about 262 million dollars, would increase house provisions by roughly 4 million.
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Washington
Senate Committee On
Holurne
Bristow
Kansas
Bourse
Bourne
Senator Bourne
Bourne and
Senate
Man Thrown From Train in City Accident
Andrew Adams was thrown from a westbound passenger train while moving between cars near the brick platform. He suffered injuries described as painful but not serious and was en route from Afton to Claremore.
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Andrew Adams
Brilsex
Adams
Afton
Claremore
Map scales and pricing for New York topographic sheets
The text announces a map scale of 1:62500 with contour interval of 20 feet and states copies of maps from the Geological Survey in Washington for 50 cents each or 3 dollars per 100 sheets. It adds that a free index map of New York showing mapped portions is available on request.
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New York
The
Geological Survey
Washington, D. C
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Mitnois
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