Fire destroys Salt Lake Fuel Plant at Sunny side
A blaze at the Utah Fuel Company plant in Sunny side, Utah, causes an estimated 200000 dollars in damage. The loss cripples coke production for Salt Lake Valley smelters, leaving many with only days of supply and prompting telegraphic supply requests from eastern companies. Secretary Taft to inspect canal needs in Panama. A Charlotte correspondent recalls President Roosevelt's southern visit and praise for the president and his wife.
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Utah
Utah Fuel Company
Gould Corporation
Sunnyside
Salt Lake Valley
Washington Mine Case Draws Big Attention in New Mexico Courts
The Washington Mining Company dispute over Cochiti district land valued at $200000 or more has reached the New Mexico supreme court twice and the U S supreme court before being remanded for retrial. Judge Ira A Abbott presides in chambers as testimony from plaintiff Mrs Lockhart is heard, with next week anticipated to feature defendant witnesses from California and Idaho. Attorneys H B Ferguson for the plaintiff and W Childers and A W Dobson for the defendant lead the sides.
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New Mexico Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Second Judicial District Court
Ira A. Abbott
Chambbers
Plaintff
Lockhart
Washington Mining Company
Cochiti
Washington Ming
New Mexico
California
Idaho
H. B. Ferguson
W. . Childers
W. Dobson
Taft Says He Will Not Resign or Run for President
Secretary Taft announces he has no intention of resigning from the cabinet to campaign for the presidency and will remain in his post as long as the president desires. He reiterates he is satisfied with his present place and did not authorize any presidential boom. The Post notes rumors tying his Akron address to presidential ambitions.
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Washington, D. C
Poa
Taft
Akron
Ohio
Birthday Without His Presence
New York on October 27 marks Franklin D Roosevelt’s forty seventh birthday with the Roosevelt Home Club planning a banquet at the old Roosevelt home. The event honors the president though he cannot attend, as he travels aboard the cruiser West Virginia. The club aims to preserve the birthplace house as a national landmark and has about three hundred members. L P Glaser is president and Arthur Fuller the historian. FAR AWAY MINNESOTA JOINS IN HONORING.
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Roosevelt Home Club
Roosevelt
Roosevel
L. P. Glaser
Arthur Fuller
Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
Roosevelt Club
Ta Follette
Wisconsin
Folk
Missouri
Merchants
President Roosevelt Narrowly Escapes Death in Collision
New Orleans October 27 President Roosevelt aboard the lighthouse tender Magnolia was damaged in a collision with the fruit steamer Esparza while en route to the cruiser West Virginia. He and his party were transferred to the Ivy and later boarded the West Virginia, with no injuries reported.
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West Virginia
New Orleans
Magnolia
Roosevelt
Fuller
U. S
Loeb
Rixey
Ivy
Mississippi
Navy tightens duties of Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Washington Oct 27 By order of the Secretary of the Navy Charles J Bonaparte the duties of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy have been materially modified He must visit every first class ship and naval station on the Atlantic coast yearly and, if possible, travel to the Pacific coast for inspections He will file confidential reports and oversee naval militia affairs gift and property matters ship advertising and newspaper contracts He will also investigate personal conduct of applicants for marine or pay corps positions and report findings to the secretary
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Navy
Charles J. Bonaparte
Navy
Joana
Marine Corps
Marine
Pay Corps
Kaufman and O Brien Titan San Francisco Fight
Billy Delaney announces a San Francisco Athletic Club night main event featuring Al Kaufman versus Jack O Brien. Both fighters reported in good shape as San Francisco fans anticipate a straight role contest and lively taunting from the build up. Delaney favors clean breaks while supporters expect a strong crowd turnout. Heavy Artillery Holds Its Annual Reunion in Attica New York draws veterans and near-survivors to a G A R Hall as the regiment marks another gathering.
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Kaufman
O'Brien
San Francisco
Billy Delaney
al Kaufman
Jack O
San Francisco Athletic Club
Jack
Delaney
Heavy Artillery
Turbulence in Russia and Warsaw Fires Reach Peak
Reports from Petersiurs and Thorn describe warnings of military cartridge releases and a city cloaked in flames as unrest spreads. In Warsaw large fires burn while troops guard entrances and Odessa faces a feared clash as thousands of students gather despite police. Reinforcements flood St. Petersburg as darkness falls and rumors of mutiny ripple through the empire.
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St. Petersburg
Vexsali
Ostrov
Studente of Brakof
Grindlell party believed lost in Tiburon Island
Guaymas Mexico October 22 1 Hofman a party member who left Douglas Arizona in June to explore Tiburon Island has returned reporting the rest of the party perished from lack of water and food. He says the Papago guide advised returning by boat from Guaymas and that a search party may be sent with Haltean. Grindell’s brother left Hermosillo with Mexican soldiers to join the search as Hermosillo authorities were notified of Hofman’s arrival and a courier was sent to Guaymas.
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Mexico
Hofman
Prof
Grindell
Douglas
Ariz
Tiburon Island
Arand
Lapt
Fintaninks
Giaymias
Haltean
Hermosillo
Hamman
Guayain
No Birthday Dinner Served At The White House This Day
Washington D C October 27 For the first time in years President Roosevelt will not be with his family on his forty seventh birthday today as he travels aboard the West Virginia from New Orleans to Norfolk The usual cabinet and congressional calls were omitted while telegrams and gifts arrived at the White House The family celebration was postponed until the president returns to Washington
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Get
Roosevelt
Twentieth Street
New Orleans
Norfolk
West
Virginia
Washington, D. C
U.S. Cluiter
West Virginia
Mmembers
Congress
White House
Patrick fails of new trial and treaty delays
A chaotic multi item dispatch reports Albert T. Patrick appealing for a further trial in New York with murder conviction. It notes an interstate commerce conference in Chicago predicting radical railroad rate legislation, and that treaty talks with China are postponed awaiting Congress action on Chinese exclusion. Miss Alice Roosevelt arrives in Washington by train after a cross continent trip.
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Chicago
Steinway Hall
Studebaker Hall & An
MacKenzie
Trinidad
Colo
American Stock Growers’ Association
Congress
Roosevelt
Albany
N. Y
Court For Appeals
Albert T. Patrick
W. M. Rice
United States
David B. Hill
Washington, D
China
Diamond mining in old Kentucky
Pittsburg readers learn the Kentucky Diamond Mining Development company may develop Elliott county lands in Kentucky with Kimberlite deposits. David Draper of Johannesbourg has surveyed the site and favorable prospects are noted. Several parties reportedly offer 2000 dollars each for the venture. Also reported is a planned Uniontown & Wheeling Short Line railroad to run from Uniontown to Wheeling, opening Greene county and 100000 acres of western Pennsylvania coal lands within eighteen months.
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Pittsburg
Kentucky Diamond Mining Development Company
David Draper
Johannesburg
South Africa
Elliott County
Diamond
Thompson
Uniontown
F. Maroney
New York
Greene County
Pennsylvania
Ancestral Acres to Be Sold by Heirs
New York October 27 extensive Van Cortlandt estate about 500 acres in Croton on the Hudson has been sold to the Wood Harmon company. The property granted to Van Cortlandt family by King William III and never before sold, with the king's signed grant still shown at the manor. Sellers Catherine T. Matthews and Anne M. Van Cortlandt, sole surviving heirs, retain the manor and about thirty acres. St Louis Wool Market steady and unchanged.
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New York
van Cortlandt
Croton
Inter-City Golf Match for Cup Opens in New York
The Lesley cup event began this morning on the Garden City Golf Club links with teams from the Metropolitan Golf Association the Golf Association of Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Golf Association. Each team includes bona fide residents and members in good standing of clubs within the competing districts. A large gallery gathered as a spirited contest was anticipated.
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New York
Metropolitan Golf Association
Golf Association of Philadelphia
Massachusetts Golf Association
Garden City
Railroads Face Large Orders and Legal Battle
New York Central placed orders with several manufacturers for a 25 000 freight car train, an ambitious outlay amid rail expansion. In Colorado a switch engine derailment injured seven, two seriously, after a slippery track caused a rear end crash into a passenger train. Illinois Central faces a major tax dispute over about 93 000 in back taxes plus 7 percent accrueables, with expected legal resistance as state auditors seek levy. Lead and copper markets in New York remain quiet and unchanged.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Save the Times
Chicas
Wen Et Ane
Hilthdts Central Railroad
Ilinois
Stead
McCullogh
Ilinois Central
McQuilogh
Temperance Women Arriving for National WCTU Convention
Cal Oct 27 Deled to the Women s Christian Temperance Union trooping to the city for the National WCTU convention opening there today. About six hundred delegates from state organizations were to attend. Mrs Lillian M N Stevens presided and delivered her annual address. Miss Anna A Gordon also spoke. Prominent speakers were invited to address the meetings.
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Cal
Deleeodd
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Oly
First Congregational Church
WCT
Lillian M.N. Stewons
National Organization
Anna A. Gordon
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