Cabinet Discusses Osage Land Lease Extension
President and Cabinet consider extending a ten year oil lease on Osage lands in Oklahoma amid protests from Kansas and Osage leaders. Secretary Hitchcock cites vested rights and states that renewal would cover around 680,000 acres with terms similar to the original lease, while a smaller undeveloped segment remains excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Oklahoma
Oil Trust
Kansas
B Hitchcock
Og Tae
William T Leahy
Ami
Teahr
Leahy
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Senate
Scretary
Interior
Cs Soll
R Tihnat
Poe
Congress
Aye
Indian Illuminating Company
Secretary of the Interior
Committee On Indian Affairs
India
Koorick
Tegishiturt
Foster
Gas royalty set at 3100 yearly for each gas well
In 1906, the change raises gas royalties to 3100 per year per well replacing 50. Senator Long said he did not think Standard Oil linked to the producing leaseholder. Interior Department favored continuing development payoff for the exploiter with approval.
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Long
Standard Oil Company
Interior Department
Oil lease clash spurs state investigations across midwest
A Kansas and Oklahoma oil controversy prompts state legislatures to back probes into Standard Oil and Osage lands. Lawmakers in Oklahoma urge Roosevelt to investigate the Osage blanket lease and contract compliance while Kansas contemplates curbing oppressive corporations. Ohio and West Virginia officials consider refinery aid and punitive actions. A federal Bureau of Corporations inquiry ordered by President Roosevelt will report to Congress.
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Guthrie
Okla
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Indian Territory Oil Illuminating Company
Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Senate
Senate Oil and Gas Committee
House
Springfield
Heb
Standard Oil Company
State of Kansas
Shurtleff
Columbus
Ohio
Frank Monnett
American Anti-Trust Association of Chicago
Nouston
Texas
Pinckney
Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Chia
Kansas Legislature
Standard Ol Company
Wheeling Board of Trade
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Kansas Field
Bureau of Corporations
Garfield
Congress
Department of Justice
Hayes Will Sustained In Probate Court Will Contest
A jury in Probate Court presided by Justice Ashley M Gould sustained the will of James Hayes leaving most estate to Cardinal Gibbons as trustee to fund an industrial school for boys in the District. Catherine Hayes contested undue influence and lack of mental capacity. Attorneys argued for contestant and for the executor with support from Cardinal officials. Opposed by Federation of Labor. San Juan Porto Rico Feb 21 House of Delegates passed five day eviction law against tenants. AFL denounces measure and protests are held island wide. Executive council to be appealed to.
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Ashley M. Gould
James Hayes
Cardinal Gibbons
Catherine Hayes
Federation of Labor
San Juan
Porto Rico
House of Delegates
American Federation of Labor
Irregular Tax Sale Challenge in District Supreme Court
Dr. J B Gregg Custis sued the District Commissioners in District Supreme Court to stop Irene B Walter from receiving a tax deed to lot 3 square 1014. Justice Anderson ordered a stay until March 3 unless shown cause. Custis argues the sale April 12 1902 for 25 was invalid under 1898 acts and misreported by the tax collector, with late payment and erroneous purchaser name. Allegations include improper report, misstatement of taxes and costs, and bid restrictions.
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District Supreme Court
J. B. Gregg Custis
Irene B. Walter
Square
B. F Leighton
Custis
Anderson
Congress
J. B. Gregg Costin
Charles H. Wiltsie
Isie
Walter
Benson Case Deferred in Circuit Court Appeal
The Benson case in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals was postponed as government counsel asked for delay until the Supreme Court rules on the Diamond and Tite appeals. Benson, a California land owner, faces charges of conspiring to deprive the government of school lands and bribing land office clerks. prosecutors seek alignment with the Supreme Court decision.
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New York
John A. Benson
California
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Attorney
Houghton
United States Supreme Court
Benson
United States Land Office
Washington
Supreme Court
Ex Gov Taylor Defends During Drake Mock Trial
Former Kentucky Governor Taylor sent a letter to Co F Missman the student impersonating him at Drake University's mock trial outlining his defense. He states he aided the mountaineers for moral effect, they left five days before Gov Goebel's assassination, and he had no knowledge of the later plot. Gov Taylor is reportedly taking active interest in the trial.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fleet to Open River With Commodore Sutton Lead
Commodore Sutton will command fourteen tugs to clear ice on the Poloma River this morning. A dynamite squad led by Engineer Douglas stands by near the bridges to aid if needed. The goal is a ten day channel to prevent gorges, improve air circulation, and allow downstream navigation. Sidham vows street crews clear slush from Pennsylvania avenue while gutters are opened.
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Commodore Sutton
Sutton
Douglas
Georgetown
Sidham
Pennsylvania Avenue
Carrington Sentenced to Sixty Years in Manila Case
Manila February 21 Major Carrington convicted of falsifying civil government vouchers totaling 1500 dollars received a sentence of sixty years and five days. Tried on five counts, each sentence was twelve years and one day. He offered little defense and his attorneys raise only technical points. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court of the islands with further appeal to the United States Supreme Court if needed.
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Manila
Maj
Carrington
Supreme Court of the Islands
Supreme Court of the United States
Midvale Steel Wins Bid for Armored Plate Contract
Secretary Morton reverses rejection of bids and awards 1000 tons of armor plate to Midvale Steel Company of Pennsylvania, the lowest bidder, out of 3,400 tons sought.
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Morton
Midvale Steel Company
Pennsylvania
Military Academy Cadet Training Board Meets at Army War College
President orders study of cadet physical training at U S military and naval academies and swords policy. Board includes Brig Gen Mills Capt March Capt Coe Commander Halsey and Surgeon Bogert. Also notes transfers, duties, and upcoming inquiries into athletics and Japanese wrestling.
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Board of Army and Navy
Army War College
United States Military On Naval Academies
Army
Navy
Albert L. Miss
March
General Staff
Frank W. Coe
Artillery Corps
William F. Halsey
Edward 8S. Bogert, Jr
Gen
Mills
Capt
Taft
Morton
Chapman case sustains appeal overturns tax on contractor fee
District Court of Appeals affirms trial court ruling that Chapman a wholesale and retail wood and coal dealer is not liable for a $25 license tax as a contractor. Court finds the term building contractors in the tax statute too vague and uncertain and allows Chapman to recover the tax paid under protest.
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District Court of Appeals
Shenard
District Supreme Court
Chapman
Justices’ Court
Supreme Court of the District
United States
Judge Parker in Court in Interborough Railway Case
Albany Feb 21 Judge Alton B Parker former chief judge of the Court of Appeals appeared for the New York City Interborough Railway Company in a case over eight Bronxborough street surface lines. The Union Railway Company contends the lines are not needed and that 10 percent of stock was not paid in good faith. The appellate division said six lines may be built and today the Union Railway appeal was argued with Parker for the respondent and Chravath for the appellant.
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Albany
N. Y
Alton B. Parker
Court of Appeals
New York City
Interborough Railway Company
Belmont Syndicate
Bronxborough
Interborough Company
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Union Railway Company
To Union Railway Company
Judge Parker
Paul D. Chravath
Daughter Sues Father Over Lost Fortune
Chicago Feb 21 Cuthbert W Laing real estate dealer was arrested on a larceny warrant filed by his daughter Mrs Irene Laing Malcolm for 249812. He posted 10000 bond and faces March 2 arraignment. The case stems from a long dispute over a fortune left to the daughter by her mother. The bondsmen suit against Laing remains, one bondsman being former U S Senator William Ekson.
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Chicago
Cuthbert W. Laing
Irene Laing Malcolm
Laing
Malcolm
United States
William Ekson
Internal Revenue Receipts January 1903 Rise Over 1904
January 1903 internal revenue receipts reached 17,380,443, up 484,959 from January 1904. Spirits fell 13,853 to 10,368,025. tobacco rose 522,378 to 8,504,294. Other items show small gains and losses, with seven month totals at 199,799,156, down 144,656 from the prior year.
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Internal Revenue
Food adulteration common in Connecticut study
New Haven reports from the Connecticut agricultural experiment station show more than one third of six thousand food samples across sixty one kinds were adulterated last year. While staples like flour sugar cheese condensed milk and tea were generally clean, unsafe practices included adding chemical antiseptics borax and formaldehyde to milk and dyes or preservatives to tomato ketchup and chili sauce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Murderer Charles Cawley Dies in Six-Mile Ferry Home
Pittsburg February 21 Charles Cawley the young man who killed his mother and four other relatives during temporary insanity over a mechanical invention died yesterday at his grandmother's home near here. He had been released from jail sick with consumption and had been living at Six-Mile Ferry Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburg
Charles Cawley
Six-Mile Ferry
Pennnsylvania
Here
Chinese baby excluded arrives in San Francisco
San Francisco telegram reports a two year old adopted by missionary Miss Carrie Dreibilbies was denied landing in the United States. The child born to Chinese parents in Kiu Kiang along the Yangtse River was brought on the steamer Siberia while the missionary travels home to Pennsylvania. In other headlines a gas drum explosion in St. Paul killed bookkeeper Fred Keepe and injured two others at Bishop and Babcock works. Joseph Rupp pleads guilty to forgery in police court awaiting grand jury action. China postpones patent and copyright regulations per Charge dAffaires Coolidge in Peking.
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San Francisco
Mary Dresblilbies
Kiu Ktang
Yangtse
Shanghai
Siberia
Carrie Dreibilbies
Kiu Kiang
Pennsylvania
St. Paul, Minn
Bishop & Babcock
Fred Keepe
Rupp
Joseph Rupp
Yale to Restore Old South Middle and Add Library Wing
The Yale corporation votes 80 000 to restore Durfee Hall to its 150 year old lines and improve sanitation. Grosvenor Atterbury is named architect for the remodel of Old South Middle. Funds from the Stass bequest will build a library addition. Emory Speer is named Storrs lecturer. Taft and Elihu Root chosen as lecturers. A 3000 gift establishes the Henry Pierson Johnes scholarship funded by Mr and Mrs Goldsmith Johnes.
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Hammond
Prince, Gardner
Hermann
Hogg
Miller, Roberts
Atel Iion
William T. Harris
Commissioner West
Darneille
Justice Harlan
Droop
John A. Logan
Bundy
Ailes
Riggs Bank
New Haven, Conn
Yale Corporation
Durfee
Grosvenor Atterbury
Old South Middle
Tion
Stass
Emory Speer
Macon
Storrs
William H Taft
Dodge
Eithu Root
Henry Pierson Johnes
Goldsmaith Johnes
Newburg
Liquozone claim of germ destruction and free trial offer
A promotional appeal touts Liquozone as a cure all for germ diseases, emphasizing oxygen gas as its core, declaring safety and effectiveness, offering a free bottle and paying a druggist for full-size samples to prove results with a $1000 guarantee, and listing numerous diseases claimed to be treated. The ad urges readers to request a coupon for a free trial, asserting no obligation and nationwide use.
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Cal
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Philippines
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Sixth Infantry
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Gol
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Eleventh Infantry
Albert J. Mohn
Fourth Cavalry
Arthur W. Morse
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
Nineteenth Infantry
Philippine Islands
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N. Mex
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Ancon Hospital
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Admiral Dewey
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T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Virginia
ST. Louis
Paris
Thirteenth and
Harvard Streets
Columbia Heights
Sues
Internal Revenue Receipts
Connecticut
China
Coolidge
Peking
Department of State
Chestnut Farms Dairy
Geo
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Liquozone Company
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