Youth scheme to extort 50000 from mining heir thwarted
Russell Crawford former university law student and Bliss Baker planned to extort fifty thousand dollars from Col. D C Jackling of Utah and San Francisco by threatening Mrs Jackling to test the machinery of the law. They face arraignment as police mention elopement details and prior imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Crawford
University of California
San Francisco
Calif
Col. D. C. Jackling
Utah
Mra. Jackling
Bliss Baker
Crawford
Colonel Jackling
J. E. Reed
San Jose
Stockton
Baker
Hornsby Boosts Home Run Total to Lead League
Rogers Mornsby of the St. Louis Nationals hit four home runs this week to raise his season total to 71 and keep the major league lead. Boo Meusel of the Yankees sits second in the American League with 18 homers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rogers Mornsby
St. Louis Nationals
Boo Meusel
Yankees
Water rights fight ends in fatal injuries and murder charge
Mike Kerins, 65, died after a dispute over irrigation and water division near Buena Vista. Deputies say John Ferris and his son Lee Ferris attacked Kerins ten days ago, causing severe wounds. authorities plan to file first degree murder warrants Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bsanda Cole
Mike Kerins
John Ferris
Lee Ferris
Buena Vista
Depty
William Rush
Ferris
Kermnes
Earthquake Recorded in Faenga Italy at Dawn
Parthouakre Recored Faenga Italy June 28 AP says the sessmological observatory recorded a quake early this morning lasting about two hours with an estimated epicenter about 5400 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parthouakre
Faenga
Italy
Sessmological Observatory
Pictorial Puzzle Solves From Bird To Sun Rise
Puzzle page lists clues for a cross and down word game with numbered starting squares. Entries include a bird, a state abbreviation, an eastern place, and words like fat opposite and pennies slot. Additional words cover shade of brown and a kind of seafood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dent
Nick
Avalanche kills two in the Sierras near Kernville
Two Los Angeles men on a weekend fishing party were killed by an avalanche in the high Sierras about 20 miles above Kernville in Kern county. Reports say a heavy rain storm preceded the slide and no earth tremor was noted.
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Los Angeles
High Sierras
Kernville
Kern County
Denver Man and Girl Shot by Bandit Near City
Robert M. York twenty eight and his companion Miss Margaret Deindorf were shot by a highwayman who demanded their car. York suffered four head wounds and a shoulder wound while Deindorf was wounded in the mouth as they fled. A nearby picnic party heard the shooting and police hunt the intoxicated attacker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Bandit
Robert M. York
Margaret Deindorf
Colo
York
Denver General Hospital
Lightning Kills One Wounds Another in Gunnison
Roy Hall, 35, of Cedar Edge, Colorado, was killed instantly when struck by lightning on a Gunnison street. James McMillan, 30, his brother in law, was unconscious and later paralyzed from the waist as the storm disrupted the town's telephone, telegraph, and electric light service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Hall
Gunnison
James McMillan
Colo
Cedar Edge
Inlaw
McMillan
Hall
Overnight Air Mail Service From New York to Chicago
New York and Chicago begin overnight air mail service on July 1, cutting transmission time by a full day. Planes operate both ways nightly except weekends, supplementing existing trans continental service. Mail must be in New York by 8 8 P M and Chicago by 7 30 P M for next morning delivery.
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New York
Chicago
Landlord and tenant joke frames convent pact misstep
Cartoon caption from London Punch shows a humorous exchange about a landlady and a tenant who joke they entered into a convent together and now seek to exit the arrangement. The quip relies on a play on words about joining a religious house and the reluctance to break the bond.
Lost Land Arctic Quest Aboard Bowdoin and Peary
Aboard the Bowdoin under MacMillan the expedition presses north toward Etah Greenland with National Geographic scientists and Navy air crews. The Peary carries Byrd and other Navy personnel including pilots and engineers as the search party advances.
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Bowdoin
Etah
Greenland
Macmillan
National Geographic Society
WNP
Utah
Ralph Robinson
Merrimac
Mass
John Jaynes
Somerville
Melkon
Booth Weymouth
John Retinartz
South Manchester
Conn
Benjamin H. Rigg
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Walter N. Koelz
United States Bureau of Fisheries
Ann Arbor
Mich
Jacob G. Gayer
Peary
United States Navy
Richard E. Byrd
U. 8
S. N
Navy
Portland
Ore
Earl E. Reber
Chicago
Andrew C. Nold
Mattenan
Ind
Nels P. Sorensen
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Floyd Bennett
Warrenburg
N. Y
Carpenter Weld in Murder Case Near Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on June 28 a 21 year old carpenter Paul Grabert was arrested as a material witness in the disappearance and murder of May and Nina Martin two girls aged 12 and 8. The bodies were found in a field on the city outskirts months after they vanished. Witnesses say Grabert and former night watchman H. C. Stone were in Grabert’s car with the girls at the time. Stone, jailed for a statutory offense, was brought in but denied knowledge beyond newspaper reports.
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Los Angeles
Paul Grabert
May
Nina Martin
Grabert
C. Stone
Stone
Sheriff's Office
Walkout of Union Miners Threatened in Ohio
In New Philadelphia Ohio on June 28 union miners were told they would all be called out if the wage scale adopted at Jacksonville Florida last year is abrogated by the United Mine Workers of America. International vice president Philip Murray of Pittsburgh denounced the operators demand as reprehensible and a mask for destruction of the miners' organization.
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New
Philadelphia
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Jacksonville
Fla
Philip Murphy
Pittsburgh
International
Tuscarawas
Murray
Steamer Peary Sails For Arctic Regions
The steamer Peary of the Donald MacMillan Arctic expedition sails from North Sydney after the Bowdoin departs with Commander MacMillan aboard. Sailors aboard the destroyer Putnam salute as the Peary clears port. The Bowdoin and Peary plan to meet before Melville Bay cross to Etah Greenland to establish a base for flights seeking new territory.
Dillenbeck Elected Chairman of State Spiritualist Board
Denver elects Mrs. J. Dwight Dillenbeck of Colorado Springs as chairman of the Colorado State Spiritualist association board at its annual convention. Miss Agnes Penman of Colorado Springs and Mrs. Isabel Keator of Pueblo named to the board.
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Denver
Colo
J. Dwight Dillenbeck
Colorado Springs
Rado State Spiritualist Association
Agnes Penman
Isabel Keator
Pueblo
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Livingston
Livingston’s
July Furniture
H. Livingston & CO
West Gold Ave
the Covenant
Arctic
Explorer
Charles F. Rocheville
Albert Francis
Honolulu
Hawaii
George Steele
Roxbury Mass
FE. F. McDonald
L. Hosmer Freeman
South Veymouth
Dean Publico
P. D. Davidson
Maynard Owen Williams
Lieut
J. G
M. A. Schur
Central Press
Siecut. Comdr
R. E. Byrd
Carpenter Weld
Caticura
Dillenbeck
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