Governor-Elect Buchtel Faces Dual Roles in Colorado
Governor-elect Charles S. Buchtel of Colorado vows to manage both duties as governor and chancellor of the University of Denver. He plans to keep his residence near the university and continue overseeing its 1,200 students while serving as state chief executive, asserting the dual task is achievable with early rising and tight scheduling.
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Denver
Rado
Henry A. Buchtel
University Park
Capitol Hill
University of Denver
Methodist
Doctor Buchtel Tackles Governor Bid as Builder Leader
The article portrays Dr. Buchtel as a physician of both medicine and divinity, a six foot tall Denver pastor of Trinity Church and a key builder of Colorado institutions. It notes his role reviving the university and argues Colorado needs a constructive leader rather than a fighter, with Buchtel urged as a possible governor candidate and mentions other political moves and incidents.
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Buchtel
Divinity
Trinity Church
Denver
Colorado
Ffairs
Peraps
Vernor
Dr. Buechtel
Joseph Wolk
Ed” Butler
St. Louis
Colado
Convict Shaving Policy Sparks Controversy in Newcastle
Frank Johnson, a death row inmate in Newcastle Pennsylvania, is forced to grow a full beard after county commissioners deny payment to a barber. Sheriff Ayers arranged a barber, but the service cost 21 dollars, a sum refused by officials, leaving the prisoner unshaven.
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Newcastle
Frank Johnson
Johnson
Ayers
Judge rules Jap cannot become citizen under new law
Menominee Mich Dec 7 County Clerk Hanson reports the assistant secretary of commerce and labor in Washington has said a Japanese applicant is not entitled to naturalization papers under the new law. Papers may be issued only to whites and Caucasians and to Africans.
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Menominee, Mich
Hanson
Department of Commerce and Labor of
Washington
Too Old to Stand the Shock Deadly wagon accident claims farmer
Peter Van Potten aged 85 a farmer east of Lansing Mich for thirty years died from injuries after a team backed into a building trapping him between the wagon and the wall breaking several ribs.
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Lansing
Mich
Peter van Potten
More Time for Schmitz and Ruef
In San Francisco on December 7 the grand jury indicted Mayor Eugene F. Schmitz and Abraham Ruef on five extortion counts each. Judge Dunne granted a continuance at defense counsel's request to allow more time to plead, with next Monday set for arraignment.
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San Francisco
Eugene FE. Schmitz
Abraham Ruer
Dunne
Tie Up in Odessa Harbor Disrupts Local Trade
Odessa reports ongoing harbor tie ups as local seamen strike. The Russian Navigation company brings about a thousand union members from Kiev in an effort to break the strike while police expect clashes as strikers prepare to move.
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Odessa
Russian Navigation Company
Union of the
Kiev
Church Floor Sinks Causing Panic in Wilmot Service
In Wilmot Wisconsin during a funeral at a Methodist church the floor sank four inches causing a panic. People crowded toward exits and several were trampled and injured before the service continued at the grave. Rev Williams stayed by the casket as the alarm subsided.
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Kenosha
Wis
Wilmot
Williams
Folk Grants Moratorium For Missouri Murder Case
Jefferson City Mo Dec 7 Governor Folk announces a respite until January 10 for Mrs Aggie Myers and Frank Hottman of Kansas City who were convicted of murdering Myers husband and sentenced to death The delay is to await Justice Brewer of the US Supreme Court ruling on a writ of error from the Missouri Supreme Court
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Folk
Justice Brewer
Jefferson City
Aggie Myers
Frank Hottman
Kansas City
Myers
United States Supreme Court
Missouri Supreme Court
Be a man father urged by dying daughter in Decatur
Decatur Illinois report tells how Miss Lou Kates, dying of consumption, begged her father Wesley Kates in the county jail to reform. He promised to change, but she died soon after at St Marys hospital. The grieving father was led away by the deputy sheriff as he faced the tragedy.
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Decatur
Ill
Lou Kates
Wesley Kates
St. Mary's Hospital
Wetes
Venars
Explosion at Calumet Mine Kills Miner in Gas Silent Shaft
An explosion at the Quincy mine in Calumet Michigan releases blasting powder in shaft No 21 level five. Miner William Gogg n is dead. Dennis Shea is fatally injured and Jacek along with John Sullivan are seriously hurt. Forty men were in the shaft. many overcome by gas and smoke.
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Michigan
Calumet
Miceh
Dee
Quincey
William Gogg'n
Dennis Shea
Jacek
John Sullivan
Dominican insurgent leaders attacked by government forces
A dispatch from Santo Domingo states twelve insurgent leaders gathered at Puerto Plata were attacked en route to La Biga. Perico La Sallay was killed and the remaining leaders were captured or absorbed by government forces.
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Washington
Emilio C. Joubert
Puerto Plata
la Biga
Perico la Sallay
Porter elected representative from Niagara Falls in beef trust race
Representative elect Peter A. Porter of Niagara Falls New York defeated James Wadsworth in a contest against the beef trust. He comes from a prominent fighting family with General Peter B. Porter as grandfather and Colonel Peter A. Porter as father who fell at Cold Harbor. Porter is a former New York state legislator and Niagara frontier historian. The campaign emblem featured a cow for humor.
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Peter A. Porter
Niagara Falls
N. Y
James W. Wadsworth
Beef Trust
Peter B. Porter
John Quincy Adams
Cold Harbor
New York
Niagara Frontier
Etiquette Senate Divides On Executive and War Department Issues
Washington December 7 The senate adopted the Penrose resolution asking the president for information on the discharge of negro troops from the Twenty fifth Infantry and the Foraker resolution directing the war secretary to provide all related records. Foraker produced war department testimony challenging the evidence and arguing the need for proper trial rights.
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Washington
Senate
Penrose
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Foraker
Secretary of War
Culberson
Texas
Subside Debate Moves Toward Narrower Ship Subsidy
Washington reports indicate a compromise on the ship subsidy bill nears. Chairman Grosvenor proposes an amendment limiting subsidies to South American and Oriental trade as Secretary Root’s expansionist policy is echoed. The anti compulsory pilotage bill failed 110 to 164 amid labor and state rights tensions.
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Washington
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Grosvenor
Gallinger
Root
House
Littlefield
Maine
United States
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
American Federation of Labor
Humphrey
Mann
Illinois
Middle West
Fordney
Michigan
Senate and House Actions Stirred by Military and Canal Topics
The president and the secretary of war were urged to provide all information in the public interest on the discharge of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Morgan pressed a resolution to put the Panama railroad under the Isthmian Canal Commission. No action followed. An executive session occurred. In the House the anti compulsory piloting bill failed after four and a half hours of debate. No other major business occurred.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of War
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Morgan
Panama
Isthmian Canal Commission
Regulate the Whistles Bill Advances in Senate Action
Washington December 7 The house fisheries committee agreed to a favorable report on the Bennett bill granting port boards power to regulate whistle blowing in land waters. The measure aims to reduce noise in New York harbor.
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Washington
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Board of Supervisors of Ports
New York Harbor
Christmas gifts to U S Cuban officers and staff eyed
The provisional governor of Cuba has decided that Christmas gifts sent from the United States to officers soldiers and employees must meet regulatory requirements. The measure aims to control shipments and ensure proper handling and clearance through official channels.
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Washington
Cuba
United States
Serving in Cuba Shall Be Admitted Free of Duty
A policy note states that individuals serving in Cuba shall be admitted without duty. The measure indicates preferential treatment for military or official personnel deployed abroad.
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Cuba
Rail traffic stalled as storm disrupts Midwest lines
Heavy storm spreads rain and snow across the Dakotas and southern Minnesota. Telegraph wires are down, delaying Chicago St Paul routes and Great Northern services. The Oriental limited arrives 30 hours late, and coast trains face slow equipment delivery from the west.
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St. Paul
Minn
Dee
Dakotas
Minnesota
Cheago-St. Paul
Great Western Telegraph Service
Dodge Center
Great Northern
North Dakota
Great Northern Comet
Oriental Limited
Chandler Bank Solvent Says Chandler After Macomb Bank Freeze
V Chandler issues a statement on the Macomb bank he controlled which closed doors last week. He lists assets totaling 506781 and liabilities equal to that amount with 50000 capital stock and surplus. He notes 100000 in bills payable to Chicago banks and unencumbered real estate valued at 300000 plus several thousand dollars in personal property. He asserts he can settle every dollar of the bank's liabilities with his property.
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Macomb
V. Chandler
Bank of Macomb
Chicago
Chandler
Chicago Market Report 1906 Hog and Cattle Prices
Chicago December 7 1906 market summary shows hogs steady to strong with receipts about 28000 today and 27415 yesterday mixed packers 84 10 to 66 Lee light 86 15 to 86 42 heavy shipping grades 85 90 to 86 10 pigs 5 55 to 6 40 porkers 6 40 to 6 45 cattle 3000 strong sheep 12000 steady receipts about 12000 market strong to higher native and western cattle prices listed with ranges and futures mixed column shows market slow and easy at advance core prices for beef and lambs with heavy packers and rough grades noted as well as Texas steers and stockers and feeders by price bands.
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Texas
North American Commission Co. Ad Promises Square Deal
A Chicago based firm, The North American Commission Co., solicits inquiries with a pledge of a square deal and reliable communication, inviting potential clients to “write me any time.”
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North American Commission Co
Chicago, Ill
Senate Will Not Act on Plan of Constitutional Convention
Des Moines conference adjourns after creating the Interstate Senatorial Convention to push state legislatures to demand from Congress a call for a national constitutional convention. Thomas A Cheshire chairs the executive committee with peers from Louisiana Colorado Oregon Indiana. If Congress acts to submit the amendment, the convention dissolves. if not, the movement proceeds.
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Congress
Thomas A. Cheshire
Des Moines
Thomas J. Kernan
Louisiana
Prank & Troudy
Colorado
W. R. Bilis
Oregon
M. Kimbrough
Imdiana
Representative Strode
Nebraska
United States
United States Senate
Clifton Is a Total Wreck
Solomonville Arizona December 7 details of the Clifton flood disaster reveal widespread devastation. Practically every building damaged many swept away. Several escapes from death reported including two men who saved themselves by breaking through a plate glass front. Residents spent Monday night on hills and many missing in the Mexican quarter are believed drowned. Damage runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars and rebuilding may not occur.
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Solomonville
A. T
Clifton
Thaw Trial Delayed to March or April Next Year
The murder trial of Harry K. Thaw for slaying architect Stanford White will not start until March or April next year unless District Attorney Jerome agrees to reshuffle court calendars. The district attorney's office announced the change.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Jerome
Attempted suicide by inmate in South Bend jail
In South Bend Indiana on December 7 William Cook the man alleged to have killed John Perkins attempted to take his own life in his jail cell by stabbing himself with a jackknife. He did not wound himself seriously.
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South Bend
Ind
William Cook
John Perkins
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