Roosevelt may stand by Landis in trouble
From the Salt Lake Inter-Mountain Republican Chicago report dated Sept 10 President Roosevelt may intervene in the clash between Attorney General Bonaparte and Judge Landis over the immunity issue in the Chicago and Alton railroad case. Officials expect a solution to harmonize federal officials, allow the grand jury probe to proceed, and possibly indict the road if immunity is violated. Simultaneously the Standard Oil fine case moves toward appeal as leverage in the dispute.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Bonaparte
K. M. Landis
Landis
Standard Oil Company
Sims East
Sims
Department of Justice
Standard Oil
Bonapare
Two Kinds of News in Butte 1H Mines Shutdown Forecast
Mining reports from Butte indicate a dual news pattern with one line noting potential mine closures and another highlighting contrasting developments. Officials warn that closures could affect employment and local economy amid uncertain market signals.
Copper mines in Butte to slow work not stop
Two statements in this morning's Butte news describe a looming mine shutdown. An Associated Press dispatch citing Amalgamated Copper sources says mines near Butte are to suspend operations for an indefinite period due to overproduction and weak demand. It notes a 250 million pound copper surplus, a drop in September output, and a market price around 15 cents per pound.
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Butte
Associated Press
New York
Amalgamated Company
Amalgamated Copper Company
Putte
Mont
United States
Stock Exchange
Henry H. Rogers
Fairhaven
Mass
Rogers
Boston
Montana
Erratic Countess Weds Famous Italian Singer
From London advices report the Countess of Montignoso wed Signor Tozzell the Italian singer in a scandal tied to her former life as Princess Louise Antoinette of Tuscany and archduchess of Austria. She previously eloped in 1992 with Belgian tutor Andre Giron, then faced a public scandal.
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Fron
Spokesman-Review
New York
London
Countess of Montignoso
King
Saxony
Signor Tozzell
Louise Antoinette
Tuscany
Austria
Friedrich August
Devender
Andre Giron
Europe
Giron
Iron
Idaho land fraud case prompts special grand jury
Federal judge orders a special grand jury to convene September 19 amid sensational charges from Frank Martn's lawyers claiming U S Attorney Ruick coerced the Borah indictment. Affidavits from three grand jurors allege Buck argued before the panel and presented blank indictments.
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Base
Idaho
Dietrich
M. EK. Burch
Frank Martn
Senator Borah
United States
Ruick
Borah
Buck
Butte mine curtailment to 40 percent of output outlined
John Gillie of Amalgamated Copper said the Butte mines will reduce monthly copper output from 20 million pounds to about 7 to 8 million. No general shutdown is ordered, but Sunday work and all construction are halted as a market slowdown and stockpiled copper prompt retrenchment. The aim is to keep many miners employed through winter.
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Butte
John Gillie
Amalgamated Copper Company
Mr. Gillie
Prisco's New Police Chief Named by City Board
The board of police commissioners elected W. J. Biggy as chief of police. Biggy previously served briefly as chief under Mayor Phelan and spent the last nine months as an editor of the superior court while custodian of Abraham uef, a key figure in local graft cases.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Board of Police Commissioners
W. J. Biggy
Biggy
Phelan
Superior Court
Abraham @uef
Milk Congress Gathers 400 Experts in Brussels
In Brussels on Sept 12 a second annual session of an international milk congress opened with over 400 scientists, doctors, and philanthropists from Europe and America. Nathan Straus of New York spoke on pasteurization and pure milk laws to protect infant life, noting New York’s expansion of pasteurized milk and model stations. Delegates reported progress across Europe in reducing infant mortality.
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Brussels
Europe
America
International Milk Congress
Nathan Straus
New York
Mr. Straus
Wyman
Public Health Services
Roosevelt
Congress
New York City
Rat Bounty Declared to Help Knob Plague Control
San Francisco board of health approves a 10 cent bounty on each rat caught and delivered to the health officer. Quarantine on buildings with plague patients is limited to fumigation periods. Mayor and health officials visit hospitals and isolation site as 23 plague cases with 12 deaths are reported, Dr. Rupert Blue arriving from Washington to take charge.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
Ophuls
McConkey
Health Board
Rupert Blue
United States Marine Hospital Service
Washington
Wind storm ends Missoula show and unsettles debts
A severe wind storm in Missoula tore down signboards and awnings, toppled a large tent show near the Northern Pacific depot, and injured its furnishings. Manager Brown, once jailed over Sunday performances, has left town after bond was forfeited. Credit men report unpaid bills from the company, including a merchant owed $100 and other accounts surfacing amid the exodus of actors and crew.
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Missoula
Northern Pacific
Olast
Brown
Phillips
Veterans Die After Parade in Saratoga
Two veterans succumbed to exposure following the Grand Army of the Republic parade in Saratoga New York. The Woman's Relief Corps elected Miss Kate RE Jones of New York City as national president.
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Associated Press
Saratoga
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Woman's Relief Corps
Kate RE. Jones
New York City
Lusitania Prowess at Great Speed Reported
Wireless dispatches from Sable Island at 4 PM say the Lusitania has passed beyond the wireless zone and may be in touch with Nantucket. Operators place her about 380 miles from Sandy Hood lightship, averaging 25 knots, risking a record voyage if she maintains speed to finish by 7 AM tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Halifax
N. S
Sable Island
Nantucket
Sandy Hood
Noblemans Murder Claim Ties to Moscow Lawyer
Moscow report claims Count Komarowski was slain by lawyer Prilukoff, not Nicholas Naumoff, after the pair allegedly plotted with the murdered man’s vaudeville artist wife Mme Tarnivskabu. The count, a national guardsman and state councilor, had insured his life for $100,000 to the woman.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Count Komarowski
Venice
Prilukoff
Nicholas Naumoff
Komarowski
Vaude Ville
Mme. Tarnivskabu
National Guards
Wild man roams Tacoma near Franklin school
A thin, matted haired man wearing a breech clout was spotted near Franklin school at Twelfth and Lawrence streets by several pupils at dusk. The sighting, the second in a few weeks, caused the children to flee in fear as the man disappeared into nearby brush.
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Spokesman-Review
Tacoma
Wash
Pranklin School
Twelfth and
Lawrence Streets
Negro murderer captured after short manhunt in Lewistown
Sheriff’s pursuit of Plea Summers, a colored man suspected of killing Red Dougherty at a grading camp, ends quickly as Summers surrenders in the foothills. He says Dougherty threatened him with a gun, but authorities doubt his self defense tale. Summers faces murder in the first degree charge with a possible Saturday hearing. Judge Brassey orders 10 black witnesses to post bonds or face jail.
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Standard
Lewistown
Ed Martin
Summers
Ayers
Dougherty
Red
Pacific Cruise Requires Vast Coal Freight for Fleet
The equipment bureau of the navy department estimates that 253000 tons of coal will be needed to move and coal the Atlantic battleship fleet at Mare Island. Of this total 133000 tons are semi bituminous and the rest Welsh coal. The coal is to be shipped from Atlantic ports in vessels of American or foreign register.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific Coast
Mare Island
Equipment Bureau
Navy Department
Atlantic
Wife of Naval Officer Murdered at Her Home
Mrs Mary Lawless Rorschach wife of Lieut Frank Rorschach U S N and sister of Joseph T Lawless former Virginia secretary was murdered in her Portsmouth home by an unknown burglar Early today she shot at the intruder then was killed with her own pistol The murderer fled dropping the pistol as he escaped She was a noted Virginia musician and about 38 years old
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Salt Lake
Norfolk
Mary Lawless Rorschach
Frank Rorschach
Joseph T. Lawless
Commonwealth of Virginia
Park Avenue
Parkview
Portsmouth
Plan President's Voyage Down the Mississippi
General MacKenzie announces near completion of plans for President Roosevelt and the inland waterway commission to travel down the Mississippi next month. The president will sail on a special boat while the commission uses another craft, likely the government boat Mississippi. The lighthouse tender Lily is assigned for the president's party and will await them at Keokuk, Iowa, on the 30th instant.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mackenzie
Mississippi River
Roosevelt
Inland Waterway Commission
Mississippi
Lily
Keokuk
Iowa
Marriage for life declared a crime by astronomer
In San Francisco an astronomer Professor Edgar A. Larkin told the San Francisco Sociological Society that marriage should be abolished and that marriage for a stated time is a crime. He argued that women are hindered in progress by marriage and that the Anglo-Saxon race could be endangered if women cannot develop freely.
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Salt Lake Liver-Mountain
San Francisco
Edgar A. Larkin
San Francisco Sociological Society
Larkin
America
Japanese Satisfied with Canada Promise in Vancouver Aftermath
Tokio dispatch notes Nichi Nichi editorial expresses confidence in Canadian authorities protecting Japanese treaty rights. It praises Canadian and English press for condemning the Vancouver outbreak and hopes for full justice. The piece suggests a model solution could guide Pacific coast states of the United States toward lasting peace along the Pacific.
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Tokio
The
Nichi Nichi
Japa
Vancouver
Pacific
United States
Longworth Denies Third Term Talk In Visit
Con gressman Longworth, speaking for himself and wife during a Honolulu to San Francisco stop, says the island tour was delightful with no notable features and no talk of trouble with Japan. He notes President Roosevelt never entertained any thought of a third term and they will stay until Saturday before proceeding to Cincinnati.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Longworth
Honolulu
Roosevelt
Longworths
Cincinnati
First Hunting Accident Reported From Helena
The first hunting accident of the season in Marysville, Helena county, injures James McWethy, 15, who was shot in the arm and groin after handing his .32 rifle to companion Charlie Edwards to examine. The cartridge exploded and the wounds are not dangerous.
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Helena
Marysville
James McWethy
Charlie Edwards
McWethy
Kansas Finishes Speed Trials Slightly Slow
The battleship Kansas, sister to the Vermont, completed speed trials with an average four hour speed of 17.81 knots and a 24 hour endurance of 17.09 knots. Navy department officials deem the record entirely satisfactory despite being below the 18 knot target from the acceptance trial.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kansas
Vermont
Navy Department
Express Safe Opened In Montana Train Robbery
Two masked men stopped the Great Northern Oriental limited seven miles west of Rexford Montana. They forced the engineer to back to the express car and sent the messenger and mail clerks to the coaches. Robbers looted registered mail from sacks and rifled the express car safe after blasts. they fired a volley and fled. One bandit was about 56 inches in height and tall, the other notably shorter, both in black clothes and soft hats.
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St. Paul
Great Northern Oriental Limited
Rexford
Mont
Sien
Reward Offered for Railroad Robbers Capture
Helena dispatch reports a westbound Great Northern train held at 2:40 AM near Rondo Montana. Robbers rifled mail and express cars and escaped with loot. no injuries. A $10,000 reward was posted for their capture and conviction. Investigators proceeded to the scene. possible cross into Canada suspected. Northwest Territory authorities notified. Value of loot not disclosed.
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Standard
Helena
United States
Carl Rasch
J. Parker Veazey
Great Northern
Rondo
Teton County
Rexford
Rasch
Kootenai
Canada
Tobacco Plains
Northwest Territory
Attell Edges Walsh In Ten Round Bout Here
Abe Attell of Chicago earned the decision over Jimmy Walsh of Chelsea Massachusetts after ten rounds in Indianapolis on Sept 12.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Abe Attell
Chicago
Jimmy Walsh
Chelsea
Mass
Morgan in Auto Chases Fast Train and Scares Villagers
In Pittsfield Massachusetts J Pierpont Morgan chased an express train from Pittsfield to Lee covering about 12 miles in around 16 minutes. Accompanied by Capt E J Smith and Col Oswald Latrobe the trio used Lanier estate car to keep pace with the New York New Haven and Hartford line. Police along the route halted the chase and the train waited minutes for the car to reach Lee station.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Massachusetts
J. Pierpont Morgan
Lee
E. J. Smith
Col
Oswald Latrobe
New York
Mr. Morgan
Allen Winden
Lenox
Charles Lanier
South Street
Lee's
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United States Circuit Court
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