Thursday, November 14, 1901. Expanding the Navajo Reservation.

About 200 square miles of land was added to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona by President Theodore Roosevelt.

November 14, 1901

White House

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of country in Arizona, viz., commencing at a point where the south line of the Navaho Indian Reservation (addition of January 8, 1900) intersects the Little Colorado River; thence due south to the fifth standard parallel north; thence east on said standard to the middle of the south line of township 21 north, range 15 east; thence north on the line bisecting townships 21, 22, 23, 24, said range 15 east, to the south line of the Moqui Reservation; thence due west to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement until such time as the Indians residing thereon shall have been settled permanently under the provisions of the homestead laws or the general allotment act approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stars., 388), and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 28, 1891 (26 Stats., 794).

Theodore Roosevelt

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Wednesday, November 13, 1901. First CB&Q passenger train arrives in Cody, Wyoming.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Blog Mirror, Railroads, This Day In Wyoming's History, Transportation, Wyoming, Wyoming (Cody)

Wednesday, November 13, 1901. First CB&Q passenger train arrives in Cody, Wyoming.

First CB&Q passenger train arrives in Cody, Wyoming.

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Monday, November 11, 1901. Racism and slander.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Alabama, Communists, Diplomacy, France, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, law, Ottoman Empire, Racism, Socialism

Monday, November 11, 1901. Racism and slander.

Voters in Alabama approved a new state constitution that disenfranchised African Americans  through procedural means, a model that would be followed by other Southern states.

Ioseb "Koba" Jughashvili, known to history as Stalin, went on trial before the Tiflis (Tbilisi) branch of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, to investigate slander against party leaders. They expelled him from membership.

France and the Ottoman Empire resumed diplomatic relations.

Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, was born Johanna Magdalena Ritschel in Berlin. She and her husband poisoned their six children before committing suicide on May 1, 1945.

She was born and raised Catholic, but converted to Protestantism to marry industrialist Günther Quandt, with whom she had two children.  She cheated on him so they divorced.  She later married Joseph. She also cheated on him.  Joseph cheated on her.

A life of total betrayal.

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Sunday, November 10, 1901. Gulf Oil and lame railroad anti labor excuses.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 1980s, 1985, Japan, Monarchy, Petroleum, Railroads, Unions

Sunday, November 10, 1901. Gulf Oil and lame railroad anti labor excuses.

The train carrying Emperor Meiji almost collided with another train stalled on the same track, when the Traffic Section Chief at the Semine Station allowed the Imperial Train to depart. 

This resulted in the dissolution of the recently formed labor union of engine drivers, the Kyoseikai.

Gulf Refining Company was incorporated in Texas.

I well recall Gulf. It went out of business in 1985, right about the time my career as a geologist was rapidly going out of potential business as well.

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Wednesday, November 6, 1901. Lift Every Voice and Sing

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Brazil, British Guiana, Diplomacy, Ethnicities, Guatemala, Guyana, law, Music, Pan American Conference, Personalities, Religious Music, United Kingdom

Wednesday, November 6, 1901. Lift Every Voice and Sing

J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson.

Lift Every Voice and Sing, often called the "Black National Anthem" was by brothers James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson.

Polymaths, Jams was an author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter and early civil rights activist.  Rosamond was a composer and singer.

The United Kingdom and Brazil signed a treaty agreeing to arbitration to establish the boundary between northern Brazil and British Guiana (Guyana). The King of Italy was the mediator.

Guatemala introduced its draft plan for an international Court of Claims for the nations of the Western Hemisphere at the Pan American Conference.

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Tuesday, November 5, 1901. Ben Kilpatrick arrested. First U.S. Automotive Hill Climb, Japanese-UK Alliance, French Navy at Lesbos.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 1910s, 1911, 1912, Automobile racing, Crime, Diplomacy, French Navy, Japan, Missouri (St. Louis), New Jersey (West Orange), Ottoman Empire, Texas (Sanderson), The Wild Bunch, United Kingdom

Tuesday, November 5, 1901. Ben Kilpatrick arrested. First U.S. Automotive Hill Climb, Japanese-UK Alliance, French Navy at Lesbos.

St. Louis police arrested Wild Bunch member Ben Kilpatrick in St. Louis for passing stolen money.

He'd be convicted and serve prison time until 1911, after which he was released and resumed his criminal career  He was killed during a robbery by a Southern Pacific Express messenger who clubbed him with a mallett during a March 1912 train robbery near Sanderson, Texas.

Kilpatrick's brains blew out of his head and stained the walls of the rail car.

The first automotive hill climb in the US occurred at West Orange, New Jersey.  Interestingly, such events were already popular in Europe.

The British cabinet voted in favor of a Japanese alliance with Japan.

The French Navy seized the Turkish Island of Midilli (Lesbos) in order to compel the Ottoman Empire to pay debts owed to France.

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Monday, November 4, 1901. No dissing the Philippine Commission and the Wandervogel.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, France, Germany, Outdoor Organizations, Personalities, Youth Organizations

Monday, November 4, 1901. No dissing the Philippine Commission and the Wandervogel.

The Philippine Commission passed the Philippine Sedition Act, making it a crime to "utter seditious words or speeches, write, publish or circulate scurrilous libels" against the occupation government or the United States.

Wandervogel, a self organized youth group, was officially organized in Germany.  The organization protested against industrialization by hiking and otherwise being in nature  It sought to revive imagined Teutonic values, and was nationalistic in outlook, although it did spread to some other countries, including France.

The organization was folded into the Hitler Youth, along with the Boy Scouts, in 1933.

The primary organizer of the movement, Karl Fischer, would see service with the Germany army during the Boxer Rebellion and remained in China thereafter  He was a prisoner of the Japanese during World War One.  He returned to Germany at some point thereafter and died in 1941 at age 60.

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Saturday, November 2, 1901. Assassination attempt on Tzu Hsi. Pan American Exposition closes.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, China, China (Henan), Monarchy, New York, New York (Buffalo), Pan American Exposition, Qing Dynasty

Saturday, November 2, 1901. Assassination attempt on Tzu Hsi. Pan American Exposition closes.

An assassination attempt was made on the life of the Dowager Empress, Tzu Hsi in Henan Province.  It was a directly armed physical assault.  She was not harmed.

The Pan-American Exposition concluded.

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Wednesday, October 30, 1901. Battle of Bakenlaagte.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Battle of Bakenlaagte, Boer Armies, Boer War, British Army, Louis Botha, Medicine, Nobel Prize, Science, Transvaal Colony