Probe in Land Office investigates graft and promotions
Secretary Hitchcock contemplates a broad inquiry into the General Land Office amid ongoing land fraud cases. The investigation would probe administration and personnel, including promotion practices and possible irregularities, with note of hoax letters and past clashes between Hitchcock and commissioners Hermann and other officials.
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Hitchcock
General Land Office
Sec
Mitchell
Hermann
Land Office
Land Office Administration
Congress
Department of the Intenor
Department of Agriculture
Department
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Combine
Tamoretti
Cleveland
Binger Herimann
National House
Hitchenk
Clack
Macey
Chik
Flo Im
Wedding present fund dispute at tablands office
Chief Clerk Metager denies soliciting contributions from clerks for a wedding present. Macey says he did not gather funds and only knows a present was bought. Chief Shaw recalls a meeting in the Assistant Commissioner’s office and confirms he contributed but did not solicit others. The present went to Mrs. Metzger, not her husband.
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Land Office
Macey Simce
Macey
Hermann
Metager
Tark
Ey Ag
Hybas Shaw
Vinion
Judge Henry Foote Dies in Washington of Pneumonia
California jurist Judge Henry S Foote died at 1742 P Street NW at 2 40 pm after a weeklong pneumonia illness. He was 62, born in Mississippi, longtime California lawyer and former U S district attorney for the Northern District. Survived by a widow and three sons in California. Interment likely in San Francisco. funeral arrangements pending.
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California
Henry S Foote
Foote
Mississippi
Stewart
P Street
Northwest
San Francisco
Cal
Judge Foote
Supreme Court
Cleveland
United States
Lost All in Speculation Aged Man's Offer Declined
Mr Justice Anderson in the District of Columbia Supreme Court heard a bankruptcy case against Charles T. Barber of St Paul Minnesota, once a prominent businessman and former owner of an insurance company. The Home Fire Insurance Company and others seek adjudication and the marshal briefly held Barber in custody on claims of concealed assets. Barber, 64, says he lost nearly all in Wall Street speculation, currently lists assets of 400 to 500 dollars, and proposes turning over those funds to the marshal if ordered. The hearing continued with Barber’s finances and past business history reviewed.
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Justice Anderson
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Charles T. Barber
St Paul
Minn
Home Fire Insurance Company
Omaha
Neb
Charles L. Saunders
Marthena Saunders
Alvin Saunders
Edward Krug
Charlotte Martin
Nebraska
Barber
T. Percy Myers
Obermeyer
United States
William E. Ambrose
Washington
St. Paul
Wall Street
Insurance Company
Columbia Heights
Fire at Bathing House in Bath City Ends with Escape
In Bath a blaze broke out at T. L. Collins eating house at 718 Twelfth Street NW last night. Samuel Armor, a boarder, jumped from a second story window to the yard below and escaped injury. He was bathing when smoke filled the room and flames drove him to flee. Armor gave the alarm from box 182 after reaching the ground. The four story brick building suffered about 800 dollars in damage, insured. Origin of the fire could not be learned.
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T. L. Collins
Twelfth Street
Samuel Armor
Mr Armor
Box 182
Eleventh
G Streets
Collins
Injured Boy Flees Garfield Hospital After Allege Collision
Thirteen year old Allen Reed of 2714 Sherman avenue northwest ran from Garfield Hospital last night after a collision on Eleventh Street with Ralph Van Horn. Reed was bruised and had been taken to the hospital by carriage before escaping the building. A. H. Lockwood of 617 Sherman avenue was involved in the incident at Florida avenue.
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Allen Reed
Sherman Avenue
Garfield Hospital
Eleventh Street
Ralph van Horn
Florida Avenue
A. H. Lockwood
Reed
Hospital
An & Carriage
Taft Urged as Chief Justice at Psi Upsilon Dinner
The twentieth annual Psi Upsilon Association banquet at the Raleigh Hotel honored Secretary Taft who was elected president for the coming year. Senator Spooner, retiring president, served as toastmaster and urged Taft for Chief Justice while also nominating Spooner for the Presidency. The event drew professionals and businessmen of Washington. officers were elected with Taft as president and a long list of fraternity members in attendance.
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Psi Upsilon Association of Washington
Raleigh
Taft
Senator Spooner
Supreme Court of the United States
Spooner
Washington
Benator Spooner
Ohio
Philippines
The
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Supreme Court
Association
Barry Mohun
Lehigh University
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Nicholas Luquer
Roland Cotton Smith
Gallaudet
Grace
Albert Evans
William H. Taft
Ralph W. Lee
Charles Q. Tirrell
Gilbert H. Groavenor
William H.taft
A. R. Serven
A. A. Fisher
A. N Tasker
George X. McLanahan
Charles Ray Dean
Blaney H. Ball
Clarence Barnard
Joshua R. Buckelew
B. B Bullerby
John O Colling
Albert Evang
A A Fisher
EM. Gallaudet
Kenneth M. Goode
A P. Greeley
Charles B Hay
S. I. Kimball
Hyland c. Kirk
H. McGowan
Georges X McLanahan
Walter H. Merrill
Hamilton G Merrill
Barry Mobun
William J Quinn
A. L. Rogers
A. R Serven
Luther R. Smith
Roland C. Smith
John C. Spooner
Philip L. Spooner
J. Kennedy Stout
Arthur N. Tarker
David Whitcomb
A D Willard
Isaac H. Wing
Colored lawyer requests white designation on marriage record
William H. H. Hart, a colored lawyer and Howard University faculty member, applied yesterday for a marriage license to Mary M. Onley and demanded the form mark his color as white. Clerk R. J. Meigs explained the record form is set by law requiring age color and other details. The case was before Justice Samuel C. Mills.
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William H. H. Hart
Mary M. Onley
R. J. Meigs
Maizs
Hart
Meigs
Maryland Court of Appeals
Law’ Department
Howar@d University
Hart Farm
Maryland
Justice of the Peace
Samuel C. Mills
Doctors Defeat Joseph Reiss After Suicide Attempt
Joseph Reiss a 30 year old pattern maker swallowed two ounces of laudanum at his 2224 F street NW home in a bid to end his life. He was found unconscious and rushed to Emergency Hospital where doctors pumped his stomach and declared him out of danger. Police say this is his second suicide attempt in about a year amid unemployment and despondency.
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Joseph Reiss
F Street Northwest
Heiss
Foster Father's Shocking Rejection of New York Hotel Thief
Cattell of 2408 Hirat street NW says he has had no contact with his foster son for seventeen months and will not aid the man known as William Ellison or William Cattell, accused of hotel robberies totaling about 25000 in New York. He says the boy, adopted as a child, was educated and employed by him but vanished to study theft. A pawnbroker recalls the youth pawned a watch and chain to fund a New York trip, with claims of Georgetown University attendance.
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Cattell
New York
James B. Cattell
Hirat Street
Northwest
William Ellison
Lnter
John Calmus
Post
Washington Savings ‘Bank
Mr. Cattell
William Cattell
Pennsylvania Avenue
Georgetown University
Tau I Seta
Treasury
United States
Columbia
Narmil
Cation Williaw
William ¢ Blinbon
Move in McCaullys case to appeal contempt charge
Interest renews in Benjamin F. McCaully case as he seeks Supreme Court review of a contempt sentence imposed January 21 by Justice Wright. A writ of habeas corpus was ordered, hearing postponed to April 7, and McCaully released on bond, with Attorneys Birney & Woodard arguing the petition and contesting the legality of the sentence as issued on information and belief.
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Benjamin F. McCauully
Justice Wright
MeeCaully
United States Supreme Court
Clabaugh
District Supreme Court
McCaully
Warden Harris
Birney & Woodard
Mr. McCaully
Clark suit against McKay estate reaches trial today
Francis B. Clark of New York sues Mabel Grace McKay and Henry F Woodard as executors of Col Nathaniel McKay for 5100,000, claiming an estate debt tied to a Santo Domingo award. The case, set before Chief Justice Clabaugh, is expected to run about a week with Clark represented by Lambert Baker Poe Bullowa and the executors by Worthington Heald Frailey and Birney Woodard.
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Francis B. Clark
New York
Mabel Grace McKay
Henry F Woodard
Nathaniel McKay
Clabaugh
Circuit Court No
Clark
Henry W. Thurston
Georgia
Col McKay
Thurston
Col. McKay
Treasury Department
Santo Domingo
Lambert & Baker
John P. Poe
Baltimore
Warship for Azpiroz to convey dead ambassador home
The Mexican government accepted a U S tender to send a warship to transport Ambassador Azpiroz to Mexico. The cruiser Columbia will depart around April 8 from New York, with remains resting in a vault at Oak Hill until voyage begins. Full military honors planned at St Matthew’s Church with Seventh Cavalry, field artillery, engineer corps, and embassy staff attendance.
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United States
Don Miguel de Azorez
Mexico
Columbia
Erland
Vera Cruz
Oak Hill
State Department
War Department
Senor Azpirog
St. Matthew’s Church
Chaffee
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Myer
Washington Barracks
Edward Burr
Engineer Corps
I Street
St. Matthew's Church
Father Lee
Don Roderigo de Azpiraz
Legation
John Foster
Gamboa
Senor Gamboa
Gaffaires
Torres
Oak Hill Cemetery
Fort Monroe
New York
Catafalque
Bureau of American Republics
Weather conditions forecast and re ports from Washington
Weather bulletins describe a vast disturbance centered over Eastern South Dakota affecting the interior U S with warming on the eastern and southern sides and rain snow and cooling on the west. Forecasts call for rain showers and thunderstorms in Missouri Upper Mississippi valleys and Ohio Valley Tuesday and Wednesday with winds increasing. Frost warnings issued for Washington Oregon Idaho and interior California. Temperatures logged across cities and a Philadelphia arrest for fake pretenses of a man named Hagen after passing several worthless checks locally.
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S. Dept of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
South Dakota
Middle Atlantic
New England
Slope
Missouri
Upper Mississippi
Hike
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
Atlantic States
West Gulf States
East Gulf States
Upper Lake Region
Missouri Valley
South Atlantic
East Gulf Coast
Nouth
West Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
Grand Banks
Texas
Oregon
Idaho
California
Rockefeller Gift to Mission Board Was Unsolicited
Secretary James L. Barton of the American Board states Rockefeller offered 160000 dollars to aid mission work as a spontaneous, impulse driven gift. He describes an earlier private approach, careful inquiries, and mutual contacts leading to the pledge without solicitation by any Rockefeller family member or staff.
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Barton
Rockefeller
Boston
Mass
James L. Barton
American Board of Commissioners For Missions
John D. Rockefeller
American Board
New York
Amory H. Bradford
Montclair
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Escaped to Get Married Florence Jordan Plans Frustrated
Florence Jordan, a former St Elizabeths patient, escaped to Baltimore seeking a marriage to Howard Neagle. Baltimore authorities intervened with doctors and a nurse, and the couple redirected plans. Neagle resides at 1630 North Calvert Street. Jordan reportedly had seven years at Elizabeths and was on probation two weeks ago before attempting marriage.
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Florence Jordan
Washington Post
Baltimore
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington
Howard Neagle
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Dr Howe
Could Not Refuse to Wed Bride in Brooklyn Abduction Case
Madeline E. Gildersleeve Stewart, sixteen, says Occult Influence drew her to wed Edward W. Stewart who was arrested after the ceremony. Stewart denied coercion and faced two charges, with $500 bail set until Wednesday. In a separate Police Court case, Carrie Hardy was jailed nine months for stabbing Henry Hall during a Good Hope social gathering.
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Washington Post
New York
Madeline E. Gildersleeve Stewart
Edward W. Stewart
Butler Street
Stewart
Carrie Hardy
Kimball
Henry Hall
Good Hope Hii
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Furs
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Fifteenth Street
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Epesha
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