Approves Lock Canal Plan for Panama Waterway
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress backing a lock canal for the Panama waterway. Taft's letter and engineers' reports favor the high level lock design, noting greater safety, speed, and deep water, with cost and time comparisons against the sea level option. The memo argues locks offer better navigation, military value, and overall practicality despite higher upfront costs.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Waterway
Taft
Board of Consulting Engineers
Isthmian Canal Commission
Stevens
Commission
of Congress
Gatim
la Boca
Wise Course on Isthmus Locks and Sea Level Canal
The speaker recalls a visit to the Isthmus and favors a sea level canal over a locks plan. He notes the immense, lasting value of a canal and contrasts the majority and minority reports, saying time and cost make a sea level design prohibitive with current prism and curve constraints.
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Chagres
Conger
Miraefiores
Isthmus
United States
Plan to Sell Indian Coal Lands Faces Tribal Objections
Choctaws and Chickasaws own about 400000 acres of coal and asphalt lands in Indian Territory. Senate Indian Affairs Committee nears report on a bill to sell or appraise leased and unleased lands under President direction, amid tribal protests that the plan cedes rights to lessees and upsets treaty provisions.
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Senate Committee On
United States
West
Texas
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Washington
Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Wey
Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish
South McAlester
J. T
Choctaws
J. F. McMurray
Clark
Wyoming
Hostetter's Will Aid Health Problems
The ad proclaims Hostetter's Will cured many ailments including poor appetite indigestion flatulence constipation dyspepsia colds grippe female health and general debility. It urges readers to try it today and promises broad relief.
Rate regulation debate stalls party lines in Senate
A veteran senator notes no clear party split on railway rate legislation and warns that efforts to align Republicans and Democrats could fail. The main dispute centers on whether Interstate Commerce Commission orders should be subject to judicial review and how far such review should extend, with both parties reportedly united in favor of governmental rate oversight but divided on review power. The Hepburn bill proposal to strip review, and President Roosevelt's stance, are analyzed alongside ICC officials' support for review and court oversight.
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Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Moseley
Commission
Circuit Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate Committee
Knapp
Clapp
Cockrell
Mellen Attacks Hepburn Bill On Railroad Rates
Charles Mellen president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad after a White House conference says the Hepburn bill is faulty. He argues it benefits small lines at the expense of major carriers and cites fairness and enforcement concerns. Roosevelt Moody Knapp and Prouty discuss a constitutional approach to appeals and rate provisions.
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Charles §. Mellen
New York
Mellen
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Mr. Mellen
White House
Moody
Cannon Lawe
Clapp
Delliver
Knapp
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Thoreoughly
Tao
Messrs. Moody, Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commissions
Congress
President Declines Attendance at Locomotive Engineers Meeting
The President yesterday declined an invitation to attend the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers biennial convention in Memphis next May. W. & Stone, grand chief engineer, and Thomas H. Miner, assistant grand chief, delivered the invitation with a Memphis civic delegation including Mayor Malone. The President is an honorary member of the order.
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Locomotive Engineers
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Memphis
W. & Stone
Brotherhood
White House
Thomas H. Miner
Malone
Order
Engineer Urges Lovering Bill for Alaskan Railways
W. B. Poland of Seward chief engineer of Alaska Central Railway told the House Committee on Territories that the Lovering bill is needed to guarantee interest on railway bonds. He said partially built lines cannot be finished without government support, while John E. Balaine of Seattle cited Alaska’s mineral wealth and said development hinges on railway aid.
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W. B. Poland
Seward
Alaska
Alaska Central Railway
House Committee On Territories
Lovering
John E. Balaine
Seattle
Wash
Mineral Wealth of
Indian Seal Hunters on Strike in Victoria
The steamer Queen City reports on Vancouver Island seal hunters striking for $10 per skin this spring after receiving $6 last year. No schooner has crewed up yet as talks stall and vessels await crews unable to secure a crew for the season.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Queen City
Vancouver Island
The Easy Oil Scott's Emulsion Promotion
Scott's Emulsion labeled easy to take and easy in action promises relief from griping and nauseating sensations of raw oil. It discourages crude substitutes and asserts superior health benefits over traditional cod liver oil.
Scott and Bowne Pharmacy Now Open on Pearl Street
Scott and Bowne, located at 409 Pearl Street in New York, operate a new storefront offering pharmaceutical medicines and sundries. The firm, a longtime local supplier, advertises prompt service and neighborhood accessibility to customers.
Tillman resolution seeks broad probe of railroads coal firms
A House committee report will seek a comprehensive inquiry into the alleged community of interest between railroad operators in coal fields and coal and mining firms with amendments to narrow the scope. The investigation may include Standard Oil relations to transportation firms, with action urged at once. The subcommittee, led by Hepburn Townsend and Adamson, favors Interstate Commerce Commission oversight. Attorney General Moody supports it and offers department help. The plan aims to extend the probe to all coal products and anthracite, with emphasis on shipper grievances and swift House action.
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Tillman
Committee On Interstate and Toreign Commerce
Raiilroads
Standard Oil Company
Col. Hepburn
House
Interstate Commerce Committee
Tulman
Gillespie
Hepburn
Townsend
Adamson
Senate
Campbell
Kansas
Oil Company
Moody
Interstate Commerce Commission
Department of Justice
Congress
Commission
Naval Officers Assigned and Fleet Movements Reported
Orders to Rear Admiral G Reiter and Rear Admiral B P Lamberton, with midshipmen reassigned to ships in 1904, list departing conveyances including Texas Chicago Minneapolis and Rhode Island. Arrivals span Key West Honolulu Guantanamo Newport News with ships like Arethusa and Rocket. Meade arrives Honolulu. Wood Reed Wheeler retirement announced. Rhoda Island commissioned. actor Joseph Osborne killed after train fall.
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G. ©. Reiter
Lighthouse Board
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington, D. C
B. P. Lamberton
W. H. Booth
H. K. Aiken
J.B. Goldman
Texas
W. Wallace
Giazsford, Jr
G. Davis
W. N. Metcalf
Graves
CG. A. Woodruff
F. M. Perkins
Chicago
San Diego
Cal
Saturn
A. C. Meyers
TS. Moses
AL Sharp
L. M. Atkins
PH. Field
W. H. Stevenson
Minneapolis
B. D. Washburn, Jr
F. J. Bletcher
Jt, G. Stapler
H. B Kelly
N. M. Smith
Rhode Island
Key West
Brooklin
Galveston
Chattanooga
Naples
Lawton
Honolulu
Uneas
Arethusa
Guantanamo
Rocket
Norfolk
Hopkins
Truxtun
Worden
Stewart
Lawrence
Macdonough
Indiana
Newport News
Columbia
Hampton Roads
Yankes
Monte Criet
Denver
Santa Cla
Evolution of Whisky Purification and Origins in History
Fragments discuss distillation aims to reduce impurities and aid maturation of distillates, noting diluting and decanting methods at patent still works. Text traces whisky nomenclature from Usquebaugh to modern whisky, citing Henry VIII era Irish proficients and the broad meaning of the term as water of life and living water.
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wNettleton
Morewood
Admiral Reiter To Relieve Lamberton On Lighthouse Board
Rear Admiral George Reiter was ordered to relieve Rear Admiral B P Lamberton on the light house board under the Department of Commerce and Labor. Lamberton will retire February 25 due to age after a long naval career begun in 1861 and culminating in command in the Philippines.
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George . Reiter
B. P. Lamberton
Department of Commerce and Labor
Lamberton
Rejter
Philippine i
Squadron of Asiatic squadron ordered home yesterday
A fragment notes that a squadron of the Asiatic squadron remained at a station until an order arrived yesterday to return home. The terse wording implies a redeployment or recall, with no further details on destination or mission.
Army Orders Leave changes and retirements in 1906
Army orders record Major Granger Adams receiving a three month leave from around March 20 1906 and Lieutenant Colonel Henry G Ree extending ten years. Colonel William B Wheeler of the Twenty second Infantry retires effective February 1906 Brigadier General Palmer G Wood placed on the retired list February 17 1906. Recond Lieut George E Welson of the Third Cavalry to proceed to the Philippine Islands with transport sailing about March 25 1906.
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Palmer G. Wood
Henry A. Reed
William B. Wheeler
War Department
Wood
Reed
Col. Wheeler
Twenty-second Infantry
Granger Adams
Artillery Corps
Henry G Ree
William B Wheeler
George E Welson
Third Cavalry
Philppine Islanda An
Admiral Longnecker Retires From Navy After Service
Rear Admiral Edwin Longnecker, late commandant of the League Island Navy Yard, is placed on the retired list. Captain J. M. Daston will be promoted to rear admiral, Commander H. Osterhaus to captain, and Lieutenant Commander R. S. Griffin to commander. Longnecker entered service in 1861 and has 17 years and 6 months of sea service.
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Navy Department
Edwin Longnecker
League Island Navy Yard
Navy
J. 11. Daston
H. Osterhaus
R. S Griffin
Lpangnecker
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Rhoda Iland
Charlestown Navy Yard
Perry Garst
Meade
San Francisco
United States Army
Joseph T. Osborne
Osborne
British Parliamentary Commission On Whisky
Hebner
Willard H. Morse
North American Review
Reiter
ARMY
Admiral Longnecker
California Fig Syrup Co
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