Trans-Continental Roads Prospect For Denver to Salt Lake
The proposed transcontinental route would connect Denver and Salt Lake, running south of Wyoming through Nebraska and Kansas plains. Backed by Walter Cheseman and other Denver financiers, the plan argues for strong development and compares with the Eureka and Eastern line in Idaho Oregon California, noting Weiser as a potential key junction on two transcontinental roads.
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Denver
Salt Lake
Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
Union Pacific
Wyoming
Walter Cheseman
I H, Moffat
Eureka & Eastern
Idaho
Oregon
California
Pacific
United States
Butte
Montana
Eureka
Weiser
Weiser Signal Notes on Lectures and West Indies Sale
Mias Stone, hired lecturer, arrived in London and avoided stating whether she would repay funds from her lectures. The Folkething voted to ratify the Denmark West Indies sale treaty with the US. Eastern railroads plan to counter Western lines’ tourist appeal by exploiting eastern resorts and keeping funds within the region.
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Mias Stone
London
Folkething
Roosevelt warnings veto irrigation bill in current form
An apparent preemptive veto threat from President Roosevelt targets the irrigation bill as drafted. The text asserts a private group seeks favorable terms and public reclamation, describing a supposed trust intended to benefit powerful interests, with biting rhetoric about hidden agendas and public expense.
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Roosevelt
United States
Philippines code bill may fund friars land purchase
Washington dispatches say a provision for buying friars land in the Philippines will appear in the civil government code bill under review by the Senate Philippines Committee. The plan uses bonds totaling up to 7 million dollars. Committee has not decided on franchises. With a large treasury surplus, funds appear available only via another bond issue.
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Washington
Philippines
Senate Committee On
Danish West Indies sale bribery claim spurs inquiry
Washington report recalls a March debate as Representative Richardson pushes for a committee to probe Captain Var Christmas’s charge that Danish officials bribed Congress and others to secure the islands sale. The tale recalls Rogers of Standard Oil threatening Senators and blocking a deal, with a murky history of influence and secrecy.
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Washington
Richardson
Jeader
Var Christmas
Danish West Indies
United States Congress
Payne
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil and Amalgamated Copper Co
Heeler
Rogers
Standard Oil Co
Rogera
United States
New York
Mandard Oil Company
Roberts Reply Warns of Preplanned British War Motive
In a biography of Field Marshal Lord Roberts by James McLaren Cobban, Roberts replies to Lord Lansdowne that after nineteen years of restraint he seeks this day. Cobban notes the Majuba victory split Britain's fate with the Boers and accuses England of cold blooded premeditated murder for gain.
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Lord Roberts
James McLaren Cobban
Lord Lansdowne
Cobban
Majuba Hill
Britain
England
Roads to success compel direct railroad lines
Salt Lake and Denver papers agree prosperity and growth require direct mainlines not branches. Towns cut off from a main route may gain limited commerce but tend toward slow decline, then commercial death, leaving a social condition like the dignified finish of aging.
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Salt Lake
Denver
In Memoriam Mil es Diplomatic Plan for Filipinos
The piece critiques General Miles proposal to use diplomacy to quell Filipino rebellion, likening it to past actions by McKinley Roosevelt Root and Corbin. It argues such ideas would gain Taft support only to prolong unrest and waste treasury funds, ending with a sardonic epitaph.
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Miles
National Anatomy
Burns
Taft
Peace Commission
Czar
Russia
China
United States
McKinley
Roosevelt
Root
Martinez Corbin
Irish Wayfarers Find Mile Post Bearing Grim Mark
Two Irish travelers encounter a mile post reading 64 miles from Washington. One mutters about a man buried nearby possibly an Irishman named Miles from Washington, and a four year old child. God rest him.
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Washington
Teddy
Miles
Take Your Medicine in Trade With Cuba
The piece denounces a reciprocity proposal with Cuba as a democratic measure guiding toward free trade yet serving the sugar trust and sugar interests. It accuses the administration of crippling a new American agricultural industry and redirecting public funds to a foreign people to aid land grabbers and trust politicians. The message warns that voters must accept the policy even if they dislike it.
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Cuba
Sugar Trust
National Treasury
General Otis retires after forty years service
Maj Gen Otia ends active army career on age grounds and will be succeeded by Maj Gen Arthur MacArthur as head of the Department of the Lakes at Chicago. The War department honors Otis with a general order praising his Civil War through Manila service and McKinley congratulatory messages on his Malolos victory. Secretary Root calls Otis’s retirement a duty well done and a credit to the nation.
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Otia
Department of the Lakes
Chicago
Arthur MacArthur
Department of Colorado
Denver
War Department
Otis
Manila
McKinley
Malolos
Root
Roor
Wanted Persons to Represent Wealthy Cause in Cash Weekly
Advert seeks several persons of character and good reputation in each state and county to represent and advertise an old established wealthy financial enterprise. Salary weekly with expenses, cash each Wednesday. Horse and carriage furnished if needed. References. Mail stamped envelope to Man ner 316 Caxton Building, Chicago.
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Caxton Baliding
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RR. K. Lockwood
Colorado
Boston
Memoriam
Sommercamp
Che
Tolabo
Hooyer
Bis Rantana
Moyer
Rans
Sommer’ S
Riggs Bros
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