Prairie fires rage across plains with losses mounting
A meteor-like string of fires sweeps from Red Lake to Tilden in Minnesota and Manitoba. Locomotive sparks ignite multiple blazes in Minnesota and Kansas, destroying grain, hay, and buildings. Manitoba workers die in fires, and overall losses run into millions. while other Western incidents include railway bond validation, a giant Bell project, and a cross continental walking wager.
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Red Lake
Tilden
Canadian Pacific
Deathi
CHU
St. Paul
Arizona
New Mexico
American
Minnesota
Iowa
Dakotas
Manitoba
Red River Valley
Red Lake Falls
Fosston
Kertsonville
Crookston
Maple Lake
H. Timmerick
Hermann
Elm Creek
Sugar bounty cases set for November ninth
Secretary Carlisle announces hearings on the sugar bounty cases for November ninth. Many other brief items include a Kansas burning loss, a Missouri professor's death, a Springfield convention, and various political and railway notes from across the country.
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Carlisle
Atlanta
Wellhouse & Sons
Henry Gibson
Missouri State University
Western Catholic Union
Springfield
Ill
Chang Pu
Hu Kien
Hormosa
Alexander Cross
Court of the Queen’s Bench
Montreal
L. Yates
Pleasant Plains
Southwestern Traffic Association
St. Louis
Voorhees
Reinagle
Carlinville
South Carolina
Hesing
Chicago
American Street Railway Association
Harvard
Massachusetts Guardiera
Louisburg
Two Iowa Decisions and Nebraska Notes on Oct. 21
Supreme Court of Iowa hands down two decisions. One upholds liability for delayed shipment on a Western Union telegram to a feed stable. the other limits excessive license fees on peddlers as not prohibitive. Nebraska items report Centennial attendee register, a Webster City sheriff shooting incident, irrigation bonds passed in Dawson County, a post office thief trial, a jellyheaded homicide, and local frost and losses.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Supreme Court
Market Street Railway Company
Toprea
Rhodes
Robert Giles
Giles
Supreme Court of Iowa
Dakota
Bot
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Ottumwa
Register of
Nebraska
Tilden
George L. Miller
John O. Bonnell
Society
New Library
The
State University
Goothenberg
Neb
Lincoln and
Dawson County
Platte River
Bic Sprites
Naubauer
Sidney
Omaha
Perry Wright
Perry Norton
Permington
Fatal Revolver Battle Kills Goldfield Marshal
Onierie Ormak Colo Oct 21 Town Marshal Dan Benton is killed and Frank Smith Andy Coyle and Frank Stephens wounded in a gun battle over a revolver in Goldfield at Bull Hill. Smith and Cook demanded return of the weapon. Benton refused and both sides exchanged fire from about 100 feet. Benton died instantly. Smith wounded. Stephens injured. Coyle hit in the thigh. The fight caused intense excitement in the hills.
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Minishal
Colorado
Onierie Ormak
Colo
Dan Benton
Goldfield
Frank Smith
Andy Coyle
Frank Stephens
Bull Hill
Cook
Benton
Burt
Smith
Cool
Marshal Benton
Unsuccessful Bank Robbery at Anaconda Bank
A hidden dynamite attempt to rob Hoge Dayly and Co. at Anaconda failed. A man named A L Firpo was captured on the roof, implicating Will Darling who fled and was later arrested after a fall. They planned the theft three months, found about 6,000 in silver and 100,000 in gold, and damaged the vault with faulty explosive.
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Tandon Market
New Yor
Great
Anaconda
Messrs. Kahn, Leobe & Co
Rothschilds
Messrs. Cassat, Wernher, Bert & Co
Exploration Company of London
Wall Street
Segum
Messrs
Lounsbery & Co
Purlusers
Anaconda Mining Company
Tmne
Mrr
Hamilton Smith
London
Hearst
California
Messis.a
B. Huggin
Mr. Lewis
Marenk Daly
Anaconda Company
Rafe
Anaconda Bank
Sar Lake
Butte
Mon
The
Tribune
Hoge Dayly & Co.’s Bank
A. L. Firpo
Firpo
Will H. Darling
Darling
Appointed Commissioners Named by Judge Edgerton
Judge Edgerton appointed United States commissioners James Norton at Elk Point and O C Stuart at Chamberlain. BE Morrow resigned from the position.
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Sioux Fants
Edgerton
United States
James T. Norton
Elk Point
O. C. Stuart
Chamberlain
BE. Morrow
Venezuela crisis nears acute stage with arms orders
New York dispatch reports Venezuela’s government has ordered 10 modern Maxim guns from Britain and will mobilize a syndicate of U.S. capitalists to rush prospectors and workers to develop concessions in Venezuela’s gold lands. American counsel asserts the Orinoco company will press its title and move to work its concessions despite British claims along the Imataca mountains and Barema fields.
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New York
Venemuea
United States
Great Britain
William N. Ausford
Orovico Company
Oronico
Imataca
Schomberg
Robert Schomberg
Venezuela
Point Baroma
Schomberg Line
Guiana
Paraman
Barema
Orinoco Company
Captain Hooper Reports Bering Sea Fleet Activity
Captain Hooper reports to the treasury department on the Bering sea fleet. Vessels cruised over 36 000 miles and boarded 171 sealing vessels. In the sea of the award 42 000 miles were cruised and 81 216 seals skimmed examined including 12 247 males and 18 868 females. The total catch is estimated not to exceed 35 000 for the season.
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Hooper
Wastuncron
Bering Sea
Treasury Department
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Cal
W. L. Hoblitzer
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J. L. Price
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E. E. Johnston
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FIG. Syrup CO
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Aly
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William Gta
Touke
Appleman
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Appleman Bros
Atlantic
Society Directory
G. A. BK
G.A. R. Hall
R.M
Red Cloud Tribe No. 17
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