Democrats Fail to Agree in Caucus on Railroad Bill
Associated Press reports Democrats in the Senate caucus failed to reach a consensus on the railroad bill. The group split over the Dilas amendment while the Overman provision broadens inter branch matters. Debate continued with numerous amendments and a delay to await a democratic conference. The bill’s printout and parallel column layout were discussed for future consideration.
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Senate
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Sutherland
Yayoter
Overman
North Carolina
Elkine
Hale
Bacon
Halley
Clapp
Minnesota
Elkins
House
Robbed Postoffice at Kanapolis During Storm
During a thunder storm three men broke into the Kanapolis post office, loaded the safe on a truck and took it away where it was pried open. They escaped with six hundred dollars in cash and one thousand dollars in stamps. the robbery was not discovered until today.
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Associated Press
Salina
Kans
Kanapolis
Porter Attacks Passenger on Westbound Train Near Sapulpa
Bristow Oklahoma June 6 Harry Barry a white man is in hospital after severe wounds from a knife attack by a black porter on a westbound passenger train near Sapulpa. The assailant was removed from the train and mob action was quelled by officers. Barry’s condition is critical with life not expected. The porter faces possible assault charges with intent to kill.
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Bristow
Oklo
Harry Barry
India
Ubon
Spreen Bristow & Mob
oMeern
Tulsa
Sapulpa
Barly
Necro
Pawsengers
Tralomen
Qualified Voters for Saturday Election
Attorney General Weet haw advises that electors who became qualified voters after July 1 1910 need not register anew in cities before exercising voting rights on March 1 1916. This follows a 1908 decision allowing non registration for those already qualified by that date.
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Weet Haw
Will Linn
Lee Ton Bownd
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Navy Secretary Urges Maximum Efficiency and Drill
Annapolis Md June 3 Secretary by the Navy Meyer urged that the navy be kept at all times the greatest possible military efficiency. He compared old models with modern battleships to show how officer and crew training must evolve and stressed exacting drills to ensure speed and fuel economy. He warned that deterioration of readiness invites danger and called for longer service at high ranks to build experience before supreme command.
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Associated Press
Annapolis
Meyer
Naval Academy
Michigan
Washington
Navy
al Parta Jwest
Offeets
Schooling Plan for Rural Growth Urges Consolidation
A Minn. agricultural official urged consolidation of rural schools to create a year round campus on farms. He described a model where a single campus serves five to six miles, with elementary and high school rooms, laboratories, vocational spaces, dorms, and farm labs for crop rotation, forestry trials, and home economics.
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Finteh Chetr Biatr
Crooketon
Haye
Atudente
Clarus
Achoplater
Segregated Land Bill Reaches President for Signature
Washington June 4 The House passed the bill authorizing disposal of surface lands for agricultural use and it now awaits the president's signature to become law. Chairman Weeks schedules a late night meeting to discuss reporting the postal matings bank bill, previously agreed by the House caucus.
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Associated
Washington, D. C
Houws
Weeks
House Committee On
Hous
Tribute to Memory of General George A Custer at Monroe
In Monroe Michigan on June 4 President Taft attended as orator of tribute services for General George Armstrong Custer and 254 cavalrymen who fell at the Little Big Horn in the bad lands of Montana on June 26, 1876.
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Associated Press
Monroe
Mich
President Taft
George Armstrong Curter
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn
Bad Lands
Montana
Folk Announces for President at St Louis Dinner
In St Louis on June 3 former Governor Joseph W. Folk outlined his presidential bid in 1912. He urged equal rights as a guiding government principle, graft and corruption stamping out, tariff reform, honest enforcement of laws, utility rate regulation, state rights, territorial preservation in the western hemisphere, expanded trade, a direct election of senators, and opposition to special interests in politics.
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St. Louis
Migsduri
Joseph W. Folk
Folk
Democratic Party
Western Hemisphere
United States
Black assaulters sought after drugstore incident in McAlester
In McAlester Oklahoma yesterday three men labeled as Grubbs Batson and a third Black man were wanted for an assault on two white girls. They surrendered today after an unknown fan weapon damaged a rear door and struck a man near a drug store. The girls escaped with minor injuries.
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McAlester
Okla
Grubbs, Batson
Negro
Herbs
Suffragette Leader Ill After Operation
Carrie Chapman Catt president of the International Woman's Suffrage Association is seriously ill after an operation yesterday in a private sanatorium. Her recovery is doubtful in the latest bulletin from New York.
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Associated Preas
New York
Mra
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman's Suffrage Associaion
Mer
Danish Liner Runs Ashore Near Norway
A Danish liner bound for New York from Copenhagen ran ashore today off Norway. A lifeboat crew was dispatched to evacuate passengers as rescue operations continued at dawn.
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Associated Prowse
Christiangand
Norway
United States
Copenhagen
New York
Lawmakers Consider Commission on Workmen’s Compensation
A House judiciary committee in June 1911 discussed forming a six member commission to investigate and recommend statutory worker compensation. Two senators, two representatives, and two experts would report by November 1, 1911 with proposed legislation to regulate employer liability for workman injuries and deaths, amid debate over Sabbath laws and radical reforms.
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Adele Territoire
Rand
Rhood
Washington
Aken
Judiciary
Distri
Moon
Pennsy Republican
Sabwaith
Niinois
Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
England
Seminole allotment titles under scrutiny amid land loss fears
Washington reports allege widespread irregularities in Seminole county land titles. District Agent Cordell says forgery and dubious conveyances threaten allottee property while Secretary Ballinger seeks no appropriation from Seminole funds to cover eminent domain actions and protections.
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Washington
Seminole County
Ullah
House
Ballinger
Cordell
Oldfield and Others at Kansas City Auto Meet
Associated Press reports Oldfield Janet Henry Oldfield Lewis Strong and others will drive autos at the Kansas City auto meet opening at Rim Ridge today and continuing tomorrow. An exhibition by Oldfield in a two hundred horsepower Biltzon Beox occurs today, while the main event is a fifty mile free for all for stock cassing. Directors postponed tomorrow’s events due to rain.
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Hy Associated Preas
Kansas City
Janet—Hanry Oldeld
Lewis Strong
Rlm
WIM Elect Officers At United Commercial Travelers Meet
The 1G. T. WIM elects officers at the annual convention in Kansas City with B S Wykert elected grand councilor J F Leach Jr conductor and George K Hooper secretary as business sessions proceed in the morning.
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Associated Prous
Kansas City
United Commercial Travelern Association
B.S. Wykert
Okalhoma City
J. F. Leach, Jr
Guthrie
George
K. Hooper
Atchison, Kans
Receiver Appointed for Jones Dry Goods Company
A receiver for the Jones Dry Goods Company, a major regional retail general merchandise concern, was appointed by the federal court in Kansas City Missouri on June 4. The action places the store under court supervision amid ongoing restructuring and asset management.
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Kansas City
Jones Dry Goody Company
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United States Naval Academy
Crockston
Minn
Jane
Willet M. Hays
Jones Astates Department of Agriculture
Northern
Minnesot Development Association
Adeust
George A. Custer
Missouri
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Ise
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