Fair Deal for Indian Officials Are Their Friends
Roosevelt's commissioner John B White reports on Minnesota national forest reserve, defending government square deal for Indians and addressing claims of unfair treatment in reserve creation. He notes the reserve safeguards headwaters, improves timber futures, and supports forest methods, while urging careful land classification and permanent public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Forest Service
John B White
Minnesota National Forest
Jade Buble
White
Jmllains
Thin Brysconerdt
White Houuse
Las Kresilent
Practical Lumber
Migsouri Jauwerard Moning Company
Limperreooul
United States Reserve
Mc White
Mississippi River
Lake Winnichigosish
Cass Lake
Leech Lake
Lower
Mississippi
Reseree
Cuss Lake
Witt
Legency
Washingtons Carriage and Mount Vernon Trust
A historic coach claimed to be Washingtons family property was brought to the city by Ro. Brown, a Philadelphia financier, who sold it to Mount Vernon Association. The buyer promised provenance and genuineness, but credentials were requested before transfer. Brown faced delays as the association pressed for verified ownership and removal terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Coteh
Washington
Mount Vernon
Brown
Red Brownfield
Pheladelphia
Jean
Fem
Wea Ae
Mount Ver
Sears
Felu
Sale
Arguments in Clark land fraud case heard by Supreme Court
The government sues Senator W A Clark over 11000 acres of timber land fraudulently entered and seeks cancellation of entries. Attorneys W M Hickford and George F Shelton represented Clark. The court also took up the United States vs Bitter Root Company case alleging Daly timber proceeds from public lands in Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Clark
Montana
We Supreme Court
Clark
W. M. Hickford
George F. Shelton
Supreme Court
United Sta
Bitter Ruut Company
Marcusg Daly
Pulaski Monument Design Open to New Submitter
Casimir Chodzinski the Chicago sculptor may submit another Pulaski memorial design for a Washington statue. The Pulaski statue commission met at the War Department with Taft presiding. Wetmore represented the Senate McCleary the House and Mr Hélinski the Polish societies of America. After discussion it was decided to allow a further design submission by June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casimir Chodzinski
Chicago
Washington
War Department
Taft
Senator Wetmore
Senate
Representative McCleary
House of Representatives
Hélinski
Polish Societies of America
Chodzinski
Barbershops in Washington Urged Cleanliness by Wiley
Dr Harvey W Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry says Washington barber shops are unclean and need health officer attention. He notes instruments are not sterilized and razors are wiped on questionable towels. He calls for a general hygienic crusade led by health authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Washington
Dr. Wiley
Turning Toward Research Director Emphasizes Educational Work of Department
The annual director’s report notes expanded agricultural station research and greater dissemination of education. It highlights nutrition and irrigation studies, the Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico stations, and a surge in school based agriculture, home economics guidance, and farmers’ institute development with limited funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Experiment Stations
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Good Roads
Taft’s Weight Loss Regimen Noted by Spooner Aid
Secretary of War Taft, ruler of the Philippines and canal supervisor, boasts a weight drop from 314 3 4 to 294 3 8 pounds in about a month. He aims for 250 pounds through strict dieting, exercise, and a daily routine guided by Senator Spooner. He avoids starches and fats, limits meat, and replaces bread with toast and special biscuits. Taft rides horses in Luzon and with Col Clarence B. Edwards, Insular Bureau head, as he tightens his regime amid canal matter turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Philippines
Secretary of War
Senator Spooner
Luzon
Manila
Itary Root
War Department
Ehhu Root
Imus
Theneft
Congress
Washington
Col
Clarence B. Edwards
Insular Bureau
Edwards
Punish Many for Cruelty in December Police Court
The Washington Humane Society reported 101 cruelty prosecutions in December. Agent Helen F Armour organized sixteen new humane bands totaling 682 members and spoke to eighty five bands distributing 3000 pages of literature. The executive committee met with President Chester A Snow. George W White was elected a member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Humane Society
Helen F. Armour
Band of Mercy Work
Chester A. Snow
George W. White
Drammond Kennedy
Mary A. Peet
W. Clarence Duvall
Edwin M.fruel
Harriet 2. Loring
John M. Gitterman
J. B. T. Tupper
David R. McKee
Eliza A. Richardson
Florence Murray
Bryan Praises Philippine Officials at Iloilo Banquet
William J. Bryan was feted at Iloilo with a banquet and a speech praising local officials and citizens as representative Americans who hold the Philippines interests, as his party travels Mindanao. Marines withdrew from Shanghai, with foreign blue jackets leaving patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iloilo
Manila
Jan
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Mindanao
Scutari Albania Earthquake Aid Sought From World Cities
Commissioners received an appeal from Scutari Albania asking for aid to rebuild homes after the summer earthquake. The municipality seeks funds from major cities to help impoverished residents regain livelihood and prepare for winter. Commissioner Macfarland offered to collect and forward donations to the Scutari relief committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Scutari
Albania
Macfarland
Philip Stanhope Becomes a Peer in the English Lords
Advanced radicals push reforms as Hon. Philip Stanhope accepts a peerage under the Liberal administration. The Stanhope line traces to Earls and Dukes, with ties to Lord Chesterfield and the Duke of Wellington. The piece sketches family history, Hanover and Brunswick issues, and potential regency questions in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
England
Philip Stanhope
House of Larda
Woolsack
St. Louis
Royal Navy
Stanhope
Earl Stanhope
Atlantic
Earl
House of Commons
Earl of Chatham
Wiliam Pitt
Harl Stanhope
Robepierre
Lord Chatham
Pitt
Hester Stanhope
William Pitt
John Moore
Corunna
Palestine
Lady Hester
Duchess of Cleveland
Lord Rosebery
Harrington
Chesterfield
Camden
Queen Elizabeth
Durham
Lord Chesterfield
Earl of Stanhope
Mahon
Island of
Minorca
United Kingdom
Lord Mahon
Lord Macaulay
Chevening
Kent
Stanhopes
Pitts
Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
Lord Stanhope
South Africa
Debating Society Elects Georgetown Law Officers
Georgetown University School of Law debaters elect Frank P. Jenal president David C Fitterer vice president Ive Roy Paddock secretary and Ignathia Cuttle treasurer for the second term. The group considers intercollegiate propositions from Cornell Boston University and others on whether operation and maintenance of trusts harms the American people and endangers republican government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Law
Georgetown University
Frank P. Jenal
David C. Fitterer
Ive Roy Paddock
Ignathia Cuttle
Cornell University
Boston University
Meier embezzler ends life aboard Cunard liner Carmania
Detective Harry Reynolds chased Charles E Meier from San Francisco to London before losing him near the Statue of Liberty. Meier shot himself in cabin 63 of the Cunard liner Carmania, died aboard, as Reynolds testified at the ship’s pier. Meier, 45, born in Germany, had stolen $25,000 from Palmer Sec Wine Co. three months earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
San Francisco
Galveston
Bremen
Paris
London
Sergt
Harry C. Reynolds
Carmania
Charles Street
Charles E. Meier
Reynolds
Germany
Palmer Sec Wine Company
Meier
Conditions in Russia Government Is Optimistic
In St Petersburg officials express belief that liberal opposition will line up against violence while turmoil continues in the Baltic provinces Caucasus and Don region. The government expects a lull over holidays but anticipates broader unrest with the national assembly and peasant action looming as spring approaches. Assassinations and martial law mark the period as socialists and revolutionists push for power amid reports of mock courts and strict controls in occupied towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltic
Caucasus
Don
St. Petersbure
Jane
National Assembly
Enteriain
Constitutional Democrats
Teriioki
Finland
Law and Order Party
St. Petersburg
Jamyerov
Prince Pudjuba
Ehier
Tsarskoe-Selo
Warsaw
Poland
Novonungsk
Polititan
Courland
Tennallytown A Quiet Spot
Tennallytown police substation in Washington reports 163 arrests in the last year and 320 held since opening February 1, 1904. Though quiet and orderly, officers hope for a major crime to bring activity and pride. Also lists Ancient Order of Hibernians officers led by Hugh Harvey and Patrick Carr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tennallytown
Washington Department
Frazier
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Hugh Harvey
Arthur Bmatt
Patrick Carr
Thomas Cook
James Greely
John Quigley
John Gavin
Jerry Donovan
Matthew Walsh
John McCarthy
Patrick Niland
John MaGowan
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Minnesota Forest Reserve
Panama Canal
Spooner
Humane Society
Shanghai
P. A. Drury
Franklin T. Sanner
A. G. Clapham
Dr. King
Professional Men OF
Eugene A. Jones
Prince Albert
Prussia
House of Hohenzollern
Duchy of
Brunswick
William
Albert
Duchy of Brunswick
Duchy
Hanover
Duke of Cumberland
German Empire
Confederation
Duke of
Cumberland
William I
of Cumberland
Dibe
Prince George
Queen of
Austria
Hizel Frederick
Charlotte of
Oldenburg
Duke of Gumberland
Manquise DB Fontsnoy
Little Old New York
Florrie” Sullivan
Tammany
de Ate
Ahearn
Charley White
Florrie
McClellan
Theresa Flood
Fourth Avenue
208Th Street
Williamsburg
Philanthropic
James Flood
Society of Medical Jurisprudence
Library of Legal Medicine
West Forty-third Street
Carl Beck
Society
St., Mark's Hospital
Lillian
Catherine Mosni
Memorial Hospital
New London
Conn
Trig
Forty-fifth Street
Broadway
Tommy Atkins Express Company
Sixth Avenue
Mary Ellen Lease
William Jennings Bryan
Kansas
Afri
Mr. Bryan
Murray Hill
New York City
Mothers’ Club
Hne
la Gascogne
Erfcan
Lancia
Juanica
Mary Noonan
William Astor
Red Bank
N. J
Mrs. Astor
Mary Neonsa
Mrs Astor
Miss Noonan
Fifth Avenue
Robert Collier
Astor
Cedar Street
Wall Street
Miss Criffen
Yonkers
Helen Etting
Peter J. Etting
North Broadway
Westchester Trust Company
First Unitarian Church
Miss Hitting
Unitarian Church
Miss Etting
Cinders
Tombs
Brooklyn
Spencer
Andrew W. Walker
Twenty-third Street
Frederick F. Marquand
Clark Street
Walker
Russia
Hibernian
Newspaper Bruiy
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