Newark to go west amid Pacific fleet moves
Mashington dispatches say United States Consul Osborn at Apis confirms news dispatches. Admiral Kautz plans to take the Philadelphia to Samoa, Newark to follow via Magellan, Philadelphia to Samoa after coal at San Diego. Kautz doubts leaving within a week unless another ship is secured. He notes Costa Rica and Nicaragua favor U S canal construction under government control.
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Pythians Back Hot Springs for National Sanitarium Site
A Post Dispatch special from Hot Springs Ark reports the Grand Lodges Knights of Pythias Missouri Arkansas Illinois and Indians committee will recommend establishing a national Pythian sanitarium in Hot Springs. The site would involve an investment of 501 dollars. A curling tourney in New York notes a $200 Mitchell trophy. St Louis holds it for a year as eight clubs compete. The odd wedding joke ends with a Bible line.
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New York
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Milwaukee
National Curlers’ Association
Hoboken
Lawyer John A Kieinhans on Kansas Statute Revision
Kansas State Statute Company manager John A Kieinhans critiques calls for a new revision of the Kansas statutes. He notes past sales, costs, and contracts for the 1877 to 1597 sets, argues for state printing and a legislative commission, and says most lawyers bankers and farmers already own the statutes. He warns the push may primarily benefit law book publishers rather than taxpayers or lawyers.
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Kansas Statute Company
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Snalge
Supreme Court
Mormons Oppose Roberts in Reorganized L D S
In St Louis on January 20 members of the reorganized church of the Latter Day Saints voted to oppose seating B H Roberts in Congress. They adopted resolutions urging opposition until he complies with the law and asking their district representative to push for justice and barred seating for any avowed polygamist.
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Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints
B. H. Roberts
Utah
United States Congress
Congress
General Wood on Cuba war needs and sanitation plans
General Leon A Wood told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that 50 victors must stay in Cuba due to malarial sickness, with only 35 to 45 percent fit for action. He warned half the force is unfit and 60 percent of Cuban troops are frequently disabled. He advocated sanitation, contemplated acclimation challenges, and proposed building a Santiago Havana railway with private funds. He also suggested Cuba could become a market garden for army vegetables.
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Leonard Wood
Senate
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Great Britain
Proctor
Wood
Santiago
Havana
Payne to chair Ways and Means as vacancy debated
Washington reports the succession to chairmanship of the Ways and Means committee appears assured with Payne’s move. speculation grows on which Republican will fill the vacancy as discussions name Sherman of New York McCall Levering and Richardson of Tennessee as potential successors to the Democratic seat left by Lin’s retirement.
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Levering Mssachusetts
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A Municipal Experiment Plans of Haverhill Mayor
The New York Journal reports Haverhill will test a socialist mayor, Chase, as the city may enact a minimum wage ordinance for street workers at two dollars for eight hours. The plan marks the first socialist mayor in an American city and promises broad labor reforms.
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Mayor Chase urges Pingree plan and city labor program
Mayor Chase backs the idea of giving the unemployed land to farm with city supplies, to expand the fuel yard at the city farm for labor earnings, and to award city work to the lowest bidders. He warns cheap work lowers standards while advocating city self sufficiency and a form of intelligent socialism.
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Pingree
England
Chane
Haverhill
Paris Exposition Officials Return to Chicago for Appropriation Hearing
Paris January reports that Perdin and W Peck, U S commissioners, have returned from Washington accompanied by Woodward and Drake. Heads of departments have been summoned to Chicago to refine estimates for congressional approval. A hearing with the appropriation event was arranged amid tense talks with President McKinley.
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W. Peck
Washington
Weneral Woodward
Mary Drake
Liberal Arts
Congress
Peck
Wreck Verdict Favours Senta Fe In Wyandotte Court
A damaged report from Lang station describes a strong wreck involving the Beneals, a passenger train and the Senta Fe line. The jury ruled in favor of the railway after considering claims of an explosion and hearing witnesses. The case cites Tolowest the cor shon and related hearings, with Herron and Siba figures in the proceedings.
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Railway Beeenany
Herron
Sansa Sloe
To Have His Wife's Eye Treated in Philadelphia
RO Moers of Great Bend Kansas, left for Philadelphia with his wife to have her eye treated for a troublesome affection. They will be away for a period to seek medical care and rest, with plans to return after treatment.
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RO Moers
Great Bend
Kan
Philadelphia
Greyhounds Return to Cottonwood Falls by Prominent Sportsman
Jane M G W Helata, a well known sporting figure from Cottonwood Falls, sent a shipment of greyhounds yesterday to Quem after recalling them from California.
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California
Cottonwood Falls
Jane M.G. W. Helata
Quem
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