Visitors tour Butte Anaconda mines impress Montana officials
Montana officials toured Butte mines and the Washoe smelter in Anaconda as part of a municipal league convention. Delegates marveled at the Leonard pumping plant, the smelter complex, and the concentrator plant while learning how mining fuels the state economy. They received copper anodes as souvenirs and enjoyed an extensive cabaret after hours. The program for the convention included talks on sewerage water and street improvements with final sessions at the courthouse.
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Montana
Butte
Anaconda
Municipal League
County of
Cers
Leonard m
The
Leonard
Dunshe
George Moulthrop
Charles Swartz
William Carpenter
Anaconda Company
Mathewson
Anasconda
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Piiver Sow
Harmony Restored In United Mine Workers Convention
Indianapolis Idaho February 20 The United Mine Workers convention defeated a resolution for a financial investigation and backed President John P White after eight hours of debate. White announced wage conference plans in New York for February 10 and Mobile Alabama for February 1. Mother Jones urged unity and called for Germer and McDonald to shake hands with White. The anthracite miners drafted 19 demands including a 20 percent wage increase.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Miners’ Convention
John P. White
White
New York
Mobile
Ala
Jones
Adolph Germer
Duncan McDonald
Tocay's Standard Villa Capture Reported
County officers report Tocay's Standard Villa captured amid widespread rail traffic in California. Also notes on seven military service bills passing and various sections including sports, conventions, real estate, and court matters.
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Villa
California
Atta
England
Biilings
Montani
Weirick
Delsarte
Maine
Wilkes Stock Company
Butte
Military service bill passes amid cheers in House of Commons
London reports the military service bill passed the committee of the House of Commons at 11 pm amid loud cheers. Walter Hume Long defended the bill as preserving the current system with a statutory basis, while opponents praised its careful steering by Andrew Bonar Law and Long.
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London
House of Commons
Walter Hume Long
War Office
Philip Snowden
Blackburn
Andrew Bonar Law
Mr. Long
Bonar Law
John Dillon
Asquith
Explosion survivors tell stories to board
Five survivors of the submarine E.2 explosion testified to a naval court inquiry in New York denying any smoking at the time. Burned and bandaged, the sailors spoke as Lieut. Cook comforted them and emphasized no one blamed him. They could say little about post explosion events. The inquiry also heard that explosions occurred in both the after and forward battery compartments near Edison batteries.
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Eugene Carroll
Senator Mantle
Silver Bow Club
Malcolm Gillis
J. Stephenson
Kenneth Christie
Tom Angell
Hutte
James H. Rowe
Rowe
Mantie
New York
Naval Court
Cumberland Street
Charles M. Cook
Rush. Fay
Arydock
Nathaniel Usher
Navy Yard
Edison
J.A. Spillman
New York Navy
Sug Bestigne
Edison Storage Battery Company
Edison Company
Apsea Cee Fo
Negro chauffeur testifies Mrs Mohr hired men to kill doctor
George W Healis the young African American chauffeur reiterated under cross examination that Mrs Elizabeth Mohr hired him and two Black defendants to murder Dr C Franklin Mohr and Emily Burger for 5000 dollars. Healis described plans to shoot the doctor and to dump guns in a lake as the scheme unfolded and said he would tell the truth now.
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Providence
George W. Healis
Elizabeth Mohr
Henry H. Spellman
Cecil Victor Brown
C. Franklin Mohr
Emily G. Burger
Healls
John J. Fitzgerald
Warren
Brown
Spellman
Healis
Mobs Rally for Felix Diaz Around Torreon
From Paso to Torreon a crowd of about four thousand gathered shouting for Felix Diaz while Carranza adherents and Americans faced threats of killing. Reports say invaders moved toward Velardena and near Picardie, with banners and telegraph poles decorated, as tensions rose amid border unrest and industrial interests.
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Paso
Texas
Felix Diaz
Carranza
Velerdens
Atmericane
Salauten
Giaecoan
Mafigees
Benjamin
Poratlon
Jamen Brown Potter
Clodge i
Tapate
Picardie
Wage Increases Approved for Miners in Bingham Field
Several mining firms announce wage hikes effective February first or March first. Companies named include Lut Copper United States Mining Van Consolidated Utah Apex and others adjusting pay for cover job classifications in the Bingham Field.
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New York
Pal
Lut Copper
United States Mining
van Consolidated
Utah
Apex
Disastrous floods threaten in California and Mexico
Jan. 20. Severe floods and rainstorms devastate Southern California rail lines except the Santa Fe route to San Diego. Drowned include Frank Smith and Jonne Hivere, with others missing near Orange and the Santa Ana river. Colorado and Gila rivers surge, Winkelman and Yuma report marooned and homeless residents as levee work intensifies. San Diego estimates losses exceed 1 million dollars. Villa reports swirl about capture with conflicting dispatches from Chihuahua.
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Colon
Jonne Hivere
Orange
Calorge Dimmnick
San Bernardino County
Santa Ana
Ana Canyon
Iamick Tempe
Colorado
Yuma
Arta
Hayden
Gila
Winkelman
Ariz
Une
Font
Violent Russian Attacks Reported on Austro Hungarian Front
AP dispatch notes reinforced Russian offensives along the Hessarabian frontier with hand to hand fighting reported between Toporouts and Boyan. Claims of Austrian sector gains near Czernowitz and a Black Sea raid by Russian torpedo boats are included amid updates on Kut el Amara and Balkan fronts.
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Hessarabian
Toporouts
Boyan
Teutons
Czernowitz
Black Sea
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