Sherman Emphatic Denies Missionary Work in McMurray Lands Scheme
Vice President James Sherman rejects Gore testimony alleging he aided the McMurray land deal with Chickasaw and Choctaw lands. He says he has not seen Hammon since 1906 and recalls no missionary effort for the scheme. Sherman defends himself as not having any government contracts or profits from Indian affairs. He remains at Covey’s Camp with Mrs Sherman until Sunday night.
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Taft
McMurray
Hamon
Washington
Big Mooge
James Schoolcraft Sherman
United States
Gore
Muskogee
Oxia
Mr. Sherman
J G. McMurray
Sherman
Covey's
Senator Gore
Ilamon
Hamnon
Republican National Congressional
Oklahoma
Senate
Saia
Key
Kansas City
White House
MacMurray
House
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Tica
Shermen
Land deals and bribes tied to Indian land sales exposed
The article reports on a Washington hearing where Harmon and others admit to a non competitive bidding pact to win land cheaply for Indians. It details money loans connected to Senator Gore, a planned sale bill, and questions about improper proposals and hotel conversations as the investigation widens to McAlester and Oklahoma figures.
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Bena
Gore
Burke
Harmon
Congressman Miter
Senator Curtis to testify in Gore Indian land matter
Topeka Kans Aug b United States Senator Charles Curtis left for Muskogee to testify on Gore allegations. He will take the stand Saturday or Monday and plans to reveal that President Taft sought his and Vice President Sherman’s counsel regarding the Indian matter. Curtis says Taft decided not to open the rails or approve the contract with McMurray and Long for the large fee claimed in the sale of Indian lands. He asserts conferences should settle the charges and provides claimed proof of their standing.
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Washington
McGuire
Oklahoma
Sayne
Hamnon
McMurray
Gore
Na Lys
Topeka
Kans
Aug
United States
Charles Curtin
Muskogee
Curtis
Taft
Sherman
Ordeer
Long
Defends Stuart memory in Pittsburg killing
Special to the Washington Post from Winchester Virginia reports Dr George Murray Stuart's close friend Dr J M Mehaffey says the surgeon had no real relation with Edna Wallace and viewed her as infatuated. Wallace allegedly shot him as he slept, then killed herself after learning of his upcoming marriage to Miss Alice Pauline Simpson of Laws Virginia on August 10.
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Washington Post
Winchester
George Murray Stuart
Edna Wallace
Pittsburg
J. M. Mehaffey
Stuart
Tr Moehaffey
Pr Stuart
Wallace
Dr. Stuart
Alice Pauline Simpson
Laws
Death of Rear Admiral Walter Keeler Seofeld in this city
Rear Admiral Walter Keeler Seofeld United States Navy retired died at his home tonight from infirmities of old age. He retired in 1891 with the rank of rear admiral and served with Ferragut’s fleet off Charleston and along the Florida coast.
Powell Attempted Suicide After Father’s Murder Sentence
Aquila Powell son of E E B Powell shot himself twice in a Durham saloon after his father was sentenced to 30 years for murder. He walked in, wrote his and W H Josey’s names, fired, believed dead for 39 minutes, then revived. He had been drinking and recently lost work at the American Tobacco Company.
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Washington
Durham
N. C
Aquila Powell
E. E B. Powell
Travis
Paul Kitchen
North Carolina
Powell
W. H. Josey
Scotland Neck
American Tobacco Company
Held on poetess charges
Rockville Md August 5 Clarence L Gilpin a Sandy Spring resident appeared in police court waived hearing and posted bail for November term Miss Alice Hallowell the sunset Poetess of Washington filed assault and battery charges and suit for 10000 damages with sister Florene Hallowell as surety
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Washington Post
Rockville
Clarence L. Gilpin
Sandy Spring
Alice Hallowell
Sunset
Washington
Hallowell
Florene Hallowell
Miss Hallowell
Slaters
Mr. Gilpin
Circuit Court
Jury Acquits Mrs Rhodes in North Carolina shooting
A Raleigh dispatch reports Elizabeth Rhodes, a white woman on trial at Oxford for shooting a black man on her farm after a trespass warning, was found not guilty by a jury after fifteen minutes of deliberation. The case marks the third similar acquittal in North Carolina within a year. The negro was shot after allegedly attempting to attack.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
N. C
Elizabeth Rhodes
Oxford
North Carolina
Rhodes
Alexandria Police Probe After Rumors Of Assault On 15 Year Old Girl
Washington Post Bureau reports Chief Goods opened an inquiry into an alleged case of assault on a fifteen year old white girl who was allegedly decoyed onto a gasoline boat and detained. Two men, father and son, are named in rumors, girl sent to Dumfries to avoid publicity, no arrests yet. Also details of a divorce suit for Minnie R. Peck and a boy burned when his clothes caught fire at 408 Duke Street with rescue efforts described.
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Ashington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Chief Goods
Dumfries
Wilkes Street
Goods
Gewimng & Isien Woue Mes Muyner
Robert
Robert S. Barrett
Duke Street
Newport Society Guests At Resort Amid Dense Tennis And Polo Plans
Newport social season continues with visits from Edward N. Tatter and William Griffin of New York, Mrs Stevenson of Westbury, Mrs Nast, Mr James, and others. Tennis doubles at the Casino, polo matches planned for Aug 22, and numerous dinners and gatherings at villas and clubs. Notable attendees include Mrs Norman Whitehouse, Commander Basile Soldatencoff, and various foreign guests. secretaries, ambassadors, and officers mingle with summer residents.
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Newport, Hooe
Aug
Edward N. Tatter
New York
T. Suffern Tatter
William P Griffin
Ialan
R. L Stevenson
Westbury
Commodore
Edwin D.worran
Livingston Kean
New Jersey
Sidney Webster
Conde Nast
Europe
Mr Nast
Arthur Curtiss James
Peabody
London
Boston
Reginald Brooks
James J. van Alen
Norman Whitehouse
Basile Soldatencoff
Imperial Russian Navy
H. Rich
W. Balding
England
Rudolph L. Agassiz
Frederick H. Prince
Frederick Mallett
Paris
Ranelagh
Rock Savage
Earl of Grosvenor
Lord Rockburgh
R. Grenfell
PA. Gil
J. Mitchell Clark
Green Mountains
Vermont
Gray Craig
Jonkheer de Beaufort
Washington
J. Clarence Sharp
Lawrence Andrews
Colby van Dam
Lorie van Dam
C. C. Curtis
Porto Rico
Alexander Soldatencoff
Russia
A. B. Carman
Cambridge
Joseph Sampson Stevena
Groton
Hugh Od. Auchin
Cloas
Newport Golf Club
Walter Norman Eldridge
Thomas Ridgway
C. Moore Cromwell
Henry Symes Lehr
R.M. Winslow
Frank K. Hill
Walter G Ghara
Charles L. F. Robinson
Newton Adams
Berger
Marjoria Rand
Adama
Stewart Adams
Clambake Club
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Howard
Graham
William E. Carter
Henry B. Kane
Herbert M. Harriman
George I. Beott
Maraden J. Perrie
T. Suffern
Honeysuckle Lodge
Ruggles Avenue
Wiliam Starr Miller
Elisha Dyer
French Vanderbilt
Harbourview
John R. Drexel
Tathers
Charles A. Gove
Delaware
Newport
Jamestown
Army
Navy
John J. Mazon
J Fred Pierson
Barger
Falls Across Running Saw Claims Roanoke Leader at Sawmill
News from Montvale Bedford county reports C. C. Williamson prominent farmer and church leader fell across a running saw at a sawmill yesterday afternoon. He was 67, married and formerly president of the Patterson Palmer Hat Company of Roanoke.
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Roanoke
Montvale
Bedford County
C. C. Williamson
Hel
Patterson- Palmer Hat Company
Hotel Alpin Burns in Hot Springs Blaze
Fire destroyed the crowded Hotel Alpin in Hot Springs Virginia on August 5. Guests and firefighters fought the blaze but the building could not be saved while guests at a nearby hotel helped save personal property. No injuries were reported and property loss is estimated at about 100000 dollars.
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Hot Springs
Alpin
Hotel guests listed by city in travel notice
A long list of guests staying at various hotels across cities such as Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Atlanta Louisville Baltimore and San Francisco includes numerous individuals and couples from Raleigh St James and Willard among others. The notice enumerates names with affiliations and residences, detailing travelers in transit or dropped at multiple properties.
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California
Arthur G Fisk
L & Fisk
Wenhelmer
San Francisco
Willard BW. Relder
Los Angeles
Shoreham
Whorgia—Mes
St. Louis
Willard
Michigan
James E. Ware
Thancliffe
Grand Rapids
Raleigh
J. ‘E. van Mall
Kalamazoo
New York
E. Mullin
Albany
St James
William 5
G. Copeland
Miss Alles Copeland
Marion
A. Stein
Cincionati
Willard Edward Chriatman
Massilon Riggs
James Robgria
Wits
Columbus
Texas
H. Albert
Dallas
Virginia
G E_ Turner
Richmond
James
Efr Schoen
P. R Carter
Howard Scribner
Leesburg
Virginius Worth
Miles Claire Guilliame
West Virginia
Gertrude Homer
Clarksburg
W. & Haymond
Sutton
R Hite
Fairmont
Stephen Davis
Morgantown
Daily Diet Hints Proper Monodiet Overcomes Dyspepsia
Experiments cited show that each food requires a specific secretion for digestion and elimination reflects decaying ferments. Excessive flavoring and mixing at meals obscure natural flavors, promoting disease and early decay. A single food supplying essential elements often leads to improvement in dyspepsia even if other conditions are not ideal.
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Pavlov
Army Leaves and Duties In August Orders
Army orders detail leaves of absence for several officers including Capt. Grosvenor L. Town send and Capt. William M. Smart with varied durations. Other officers face assignments to machine works and powder plants in Maryland New Jersey and New York plus lighthouse district duties and inspections of wireless equipment. Several Cols and Majors are sent to supervise navigation aids construction and repairs while staff at Fort Leavenworth receives duty assignments and August 15 report deadlines.
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Grosvenor L. Townsend
Miret Infantry
William M. Smart
Charles EB. Swartz
Tenth Infantry
John Bynnington
Leroy T. Hilmin
Aninance Department
Detrick & Harvey Machine Company
Baltimore
Corps of Engineers
Congress
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Solomon W. Roessler
Porto Alpin
Eveleth Winslow
Hewaken
Jay J. Morrow
Alaskan
Charles McK. Saltzinga
Signal Corps
New York
Omar Bundy
Department of the Minsouri
Frank C Baker
Roderle P. O'connor
William B. Davis
Tactical Corps
Army Service School
Fort Leavenworth
Keys
Thomas G. Hanson
Eighth Infantry
William Biffy, Jr
Ninth Cavalry
Chasa de Krafft
Medical Reserve Corps
Naval Officers Receive Orders Amid Vessel Movements
Orders to Ensign J G Sumpter to Weekington for promotion and to various naval duties are issued by the Navy Department in Washington. Additional officers are assigned to duty at the Navy pay office and medical bureaus, while movements include ships like Attivod Prairie, Rocket, Dolphin, and Albany among others to ports such as Bradford, Norfolk, Boston, and Honolulu.
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J. CG. Sumpter
Weekington
B. A
Bureau of ‘Navigation
Navy Department
Neleartnter
Walte
Piaihte
P. G. Copeland
Rensecladr Polytech Ble Lratitute
Troy
Burg
A. E. Lee
Attivod
Prairie
Bradford
Rocket
Norfolk
Dolphin
Rogton
Cleveland
Mare Island
Wolverine
Cheytomm
Mich
Birmingham
Southern
Patuxent
Provincetown
Lebanon
Boston
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Nebraska
Rhode Island
Virginia
Rockport
Jews
Indiana
Mastechusetts
Herta
Azores
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Attagh
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Minnie R. Peek
Circuit Court of Alexandria
Willum H. Peck
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G F Foster
G S. Turner
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Riggs
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Hetterton
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Love Point
Eest
Pelchew
Cussapeske Bey
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Meath
Nehoboth Beach
Boing
Uetil
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Vila ‘Chesnpeake Bay
D. Canal
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Bey Ite
Ona” Beught
Dey
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Wharf
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U. S. Marine Band
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Adutts
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Good Cutsin
Wells
Fern
Alexander
A. Blair
Saya
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W. A. Blair
People's National Bank
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Col. Blair
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Cherbourg
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Transport Line
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Maine
East River
ADY. RT
Hamburg
Wirelows, &c
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Ritz-Carlton A
Hamburg-American Eine, & PL
Droop & Sons Co
13Th & & RW
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Merchants and Miners Trans. Co
Heatern
Ana
Norfolk and Washington
W. P. Turner
Pamener Wramis
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Buckroe Beach
Buckroe
Chesarenks
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Old Point Railway and Electric Company
Greney Springs
America
Copscity
H. C. Carter
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Virginia Beach
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Lee Emswiller
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Bowens
Foster
Harpers Ferry
Howse
Lovett
New York City
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Martinique
New Fenn Depot
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