Hawaii Officials Question Immediate Effect of Immigration Ruling
A Honolulu conference at the Department of Commerce and Labor sought a clear interpretation of Attorney General Bonaparte’s ruling on state aided immigration. Officials debated whether Spanish migrants aboard the Heliopolis and other groups may land before July 1, and whether island Hawaii may continue importing Europeans and Azoreans for plantation labor without violating the new law.
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Department
Honolulu
Mar
Territorial Board of Immigration
Sargent
Hawai
Heliopolis
Bonaparte
New Orleans
Charles Schuler
Agriculture
United States
South Carolina
Loulsiana
Hawaii
Europe
Azores
Azores Islands
Department of Commerce
America
Denies Harriman Suit Amid Union Pacific Affair
Interstate Commerce Commission chairman Knapp rejected New York reports that the panel would sue to force Union Pacific to dispose of its Southern Pacific stock and split the railroads. He said no authority exists for such action and an April 4 hearing will decide if Union Pacific and Southern Pacific are competing roads.
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Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Southern Pactic
Commission
Harriman
United States
Federal Court
Southern District of
W. H. Harriman
Funeral of Capt. Gibbon in Arlington with honors
The funeral for Capt. David J. Gibbon A S A retired was held yesterday at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. Full military honors included a cavalry escort from Fort Myer and a line of active and honorary pallbearers. Gibbon, born in Cincinnati, died Tuesday at the Washington Barracks general hospital at age sixty four after a medical career advancing from second lieutenant in 1872 to captain on retirement in 1904.
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Arlnston
David J. Gibbon
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
Herbert Scott Smith
Fort Myer
Andrews
Burt
U. 3
Chambers .McKibbin
Francis Moore
John O'Connell
U. 8
William H. Kell
U. S.A
Edmund I. Webster
Gibbon
Cincinnati
Ohio
Histon
Appoints Home Committee for U S W V DC
Commander Mitchell of the United Spanish War Veterans in the District of Columbia initiates plans for a permanent home. A home committee was appointed at Oppenheimer’s Hall to work with the department council of administration. Leadership includes Past Department Commander John Lewis Smith, Department Inspector B Murray, and Past Senior Vice Department Commander G Leyburn Shorey. A lecture on Federal Archives by Waldo G. Leland will follow at the Columbia Historical Society meeting at the Shoreham at 8 o'clock.
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Mitchell
United Spanish War Veterans
District of Columbia
Oppenheimers Hall
Department Council of Administration
Baper Walter Witchesse
John Lewis Smith
B. Murray
G. Leyburn Shorey
Federal
Federal Government
Waldo G. Leland
Department of Historical Research
Carnegie
Columbia Historical. Society
Shoreham
Boy Preacher Thornay Harrison to Speak at Hamline Church
Evangelist Rev. Thornay Harrison known as the boy preacher will occupy the pulpit at Hamline M E Church Ninth and F streets northwest Sunday at 11 o clock. Public is invited.
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Thornay Harrison
Hamline M. E. Church
Ninth
Watts Approval of Bryce Sparks Embassy Immunity Obstacle
Inspector seeks to arrest Arthur C Belson for wiring the British Embassy at 1300 Connecticut Ave without a permit or inspection. Assistant Corporation Counsel notes immunity unless Ambassador Bryce waives rights under international law. Warrant issued and held for Ambassador's stance.
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Kerns
Electrical Department of the District
Arthur C. Belson
Connecticut Avenue
Pugh
Bryce
Baison
Connectcut Avenue
Roosevelt Eyes German Tariff and Japanese Situation
The President plans to actively address the German tariff issue and the Japanese situation within two weeks. Talks with Secretary Root and North precede possible actions, with details shared for White House consideration. The Japanese question may unfold via an executive order invoking immigration law to curb passports aiding Japanese entry, as agreed with San Francisco authorities.
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Roosevelt
Root
Mr. North
Germany
United States
Canal Zone
United
San Francisco
Through Route Sought by Puget Sound Lumbermen
Commissioner Lane advised lumbermen in the Puget Sound region to file a formal complaint under the new railroad-rate law seeking a through route from Puget Sound via Portland over the Northern Pacific and then Oregon Short Line or Union Pacific to Missouri River points. Great Northern and Northern Pacific say they can carry only about one third of the lumber offered and have blocked through routes with Oregon Short Line or Union Pacific.
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Lane
Puget Sound
Larebermtent
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Lare
Kimbermen Weat
Cascade Mountains
Missouri
Tha Commission
Portland
Oreg
Oregon
Oregon Short Line
Union Pacific
Changes in Health Service Week Ended March 6 1907
The United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service issues an official bulletin listing changes of stations and duties for commissioned and noncommissioned officers for the seven days ended March 6 1907. Several officers receive leave of absence or reassignment, including Surgeons G. W. Stoner J. T. Burkhalter and T. W. Salmon, and Assistant Surgeons W. H. Prost Hugh de Valin Kennan McLarty Steam Wilson. Pharmacists L. P. Hall and E. Rogers receive promotions or leave, with various dates in February and March 1907.
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Department Jssues
United States Pubic Health and Marine Hospital Service
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
G. W. Stoner
BL. J. Reasnall
Herrisburg
Washington
J. T. Burkhalter
T. W. Salmon
W. H. Prost
Hugh de Valin
Wiwence
K. Kennan
A. A. B McLarty
Sureon
H. H. Steam
Teave
Sureson
J. G. Wilson
RB. Wilron
Barth
L. P. Hall
Allen
Ing
Racist E. Rogers
ADMIRAL SCHLEY RETURNS TO WASHINGTON FULLY RECOVERED
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has fully recovered from illness after a Baltimore stay and a late night return to Washington. He attended a Knights Templar banquet in Baltimore for Columbia Commandery No. 3, was ill notes. he rose and delivered an address later in the day.
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Washington
Baltimore
Winfield Scott Schley
Thursiday
Columbia
Knights Templar
Crusade
Crusade Commandery
Avas
Aoa
Rom
Balloon plans by Signal Corps face practical limits
Brig. Gen. James Allen says the War Department will not pursue air navigation experiments and will keep the new balloon at Fort Omaha similar in design to existing coal gas types. Specifications aim for 78 000 cubic feet of gas, five crew, 1500 pounds ballast, larger than current balloons, with hydrogen gas plant planned for cost efficiency and self supply.
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Signal Corps
War Department
James Allen
Fort Omaha
Nebr
Ajlen
Allen
Cory
Army officers granted leaves and new cavalry assignments
The report lists leaves of absence for several officers and a large reshuffle of second lieutenants into cavalry and infantry regiments with ranks effective February and March 1907. It notes temporary charges at Fort McIntosh Texas and Fort Elfon Texas, plus naval vessel movements and recent admiral appointments.
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Wreter Ten E. Humphreys
Corps of Engineers
Secon
Ligut
Andrew J. “Lindsay
Clarence H. McNeil
Lynn
Mass
Behenectady
N. J
Bayonne
Fist Cavalry
Henry W. Butrd
Fifth Cavalry
Alexander H. Jones
Thirteenth Cavalry
Charen Ly Stevenson
Fifteenth Cavalry
Frank Chapin
Jacob E. Fickel
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Jesse W. Boyd
Ebenezer G. Beurst
Rush B. Lincoln
Billiam F. Sharp
Walter F. J. Hortignn
Bruce Megender
Highteenth
George Mf. Huddleson
Birteenth
Hampton M. Hood
Albert BE. Brown
Lockett
Iagene Robinson
Chester B. “Louchetm
Twelth
Harry ZL. King
Savalls
Quartermaster General of the Army
Fort Mclntosh
Tex
Jallies Ae Aealec
Hiram Mel
Powell
Twenty-Atth Infantry
Harry J. Hirach
Twentieth Infantry
Quartermaster's Department
Wendell L. Simpson
Albert J. Woode
Sixth Cavalry
New York City
William B Davie
Andrew J. ‘Lindsay
Navy Medical Appointments Noted in Early Records
Fragmented OCR notes list Navy medical personnel including AL H Simons 40 duty nomidant and Evalyn FR 3 Holmes, with appointments of assistant surgeons HL Hayden EV Valz R W Smith from March 6 1907. Mentions Acting Assistant Surgeon Fr Schwerin to Norfolk VA and a Naval Hospital assignment. Also references First Lieutenant and Marine Corps entries dated 1906 1907.
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AL H. Simons
Evalyn FR
Holmes
Marine Corps
Rearranging Monitors Guns For Florida Turret Tests
Norfolk Va Mar Preparatory to another test next week of heavy firing from 12 inch guns on the monitor Florida over and in close proximity to her turret to demonstrate that concussion under such firing will not jeopardize men within the turrets below a rearrangement of the heavy guns improvised on the Florida s turret and used in the tests made at sea this week is in progress. Though recent tests proved successful with the exception of shattering and cracking glass below the rearrangement planned will it is believed bring about still more successful results. The test on the Florida proved not only that the turret below such firing will be habitable but the blast had no perceptible effect on the machinery of the ship. The question of the effect of gun blasts arose in connection with the plans of the battleships South Carolina and Michigan which provide for an untried turret arrangement. Both ships will have two turrets fore and aft and set longitudinally the two nearest midship in penny at high elevation and at certain ranges firing over the lower ones their guns muses swinging directly over the roofs of the turrets below.
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Norfolk
Mar
Florida
South Carolina
Michigan
War ships to visit France for Bordeaux exposition
Several American war ships will be sent to Bordeaux, France, to participate in a maritime exposition celebrating Robert Fulton’s steam navigation. The exposition opens May 1 and runs six months, with a squadron detached from the fleet for the Jamestown Exposition to sail to Bordeaux likely in June.
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Bordeaux
France
Robert Fulton
United States
Jume
Secretaries Metcalf invites naval committee inspection voyage
Secretary Metcalf invites Senate and House Naval Committee members to join a naval stations inspection along the Atlantic coast including the new base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Acceptances have been received from Senators Hale Penrose and Carter. The party plans to travel aboard the Dolphin or the Mayflower departing Washington early next week.
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Metcalf
Congressional Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
Atlantic Cosal
Guantanao
Cuba
Hale
Penrose
Carter
Washington
Mission of Friendship Says Divine Aid Given Admiral Dewey
Senor Don Remon Fina the new Spanish Minister in Washington says his mission to the United States is to cement ties of friendship not to remind the United States of past defeat. He notes Admiral Dewey credited with victory in Manila Bay by what he terms divine aid and reflects on postwar Spanish progress and reform. He is the first Spanish minister to Washington since 1905.
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Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
United States
Sénor
Don Remon Fina
Senor Pina
America
Senor Ping
Fo Washington
Senor Ojeda
Sines
Regation
Lula Factor
Ema
Death of Harry Guilford longtime Adams Mapress assistant cashier
Harry Guilford aged forty eight died yesterday at his brother William P Guilford's home on Tenth Street Southeast after a year of tuberculosis confinement at home. Funeral services set for tomorrow at 2 PM with burial in Glenwood Cemetery. He leaves a daughter, Pauline Guilford.
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Harry 1
Wunorn
Adams Mapress’ Company
William 'P. Guilford
Tenth Stréet
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National Biscuit Company
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