Worst Storm Sweeps Northwest In Christmas Day Chaos
Six lives lost and damage around 200000 marked the Christmas day tempest across Puget Sound and coastal Washington and British Columbia. Winds reached 80 mph at Gray's Harbor and caused shipwrecks, power outages, and halted transit as crews struggled with the storm.
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Seattle
North Pacific Ocean
Washington
British Columbia
Puget Sound
Gray’s Harbor
Port Angeles
Strait of
Juan de Fuca
Tacoma
United States
Gus Quarstrom
Aberdeen
Wash
Michael Graznoff
Tyee
Pedder Bay
Victoria
B. C
Dawn
Lake Washington
Prohibition bust hits major rum running ring off Fire Island
Prohibition officials arrested Englishman Robert Graham Fothergill and five others on a motor boat near Fire Island as part of a vast rum running conspiracy. Fothergill carried 842,000 believed to come from his schooner Wrack, while authorities found a deserted seaplane with seven cases of whiskey and champagne. Fothergill and associates are arraigned on Volstead Act conspiracy charges and paroled without bail.
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New York
Robert Graham Fothergill
Fire Island
Fothergill
Nassau
Coast Guard
Seminole
Gresham
Time For Filing By Stockmen Ends Feb 1
Absaraka National Forest grazing permits for 1924 must be filed by February 1 per Forest Supervisor G E Martin. Existing permit holders should apply to their district ranger. new applicants to the office of G E Martin in the federal building. Districts 1 Reed Point 2 McLeod 3 Swingley 4 Springdale Lebo 4 Gailbraith Lebo 8 Wilsall with listed rangers.
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Livingston Enterprise
Absaraka National Forest
G. E. Martin
Federal Building
E. M. Grane
Reed Point
H. S. Kaufman
McLeod
Bozeman Prisoner Seeks Writ in Bank Robbery Case
Wil liam A Coffron alias Billy Coffron petitions for a writ of habeas corpus to gain freedom from Gallatin county jail. The hearing is set for Friday December 28 with Henry C Levinski of Butte representing Coffron. Coffron claims unlawful imprisonment without warrant since December 1 related to three year nationwide bank robbery investigations.
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Bozeman
William A. Coffron
Billy? Coffron
Montana
Northwest
Gallatin
B. B. Law
Henry C. Levinski
Butte
Coffron
Havre
W. S. Gordon
Burns Detective Agency
H. E. Loranger
Hill County
Loranger
Montana counties lose preferred claims in failed banks
Montana Supreme Court rules counties holding deposits in banks are general creditors not preferred, overturning a lower court ruling in the Bignell versus Cummins case. The decision traces county creation to legislature and asserts sovereign state rights, impacting bondsmen who back county deposits and their potential recovery.
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Helena
Montana
State Supreme Court
Powell County District Court
Henry Bignell
E. J. Cummins
First State Bank of
Ovando
Supreme Court
England
Horse Rustlers Taken By Wyoming Officers
Three alleged horse rustlers Robert Miltin of Kaycee Wyoming Thomas Small of Kirby Wyoming and Boots Powers of Sheridan are jailed after a three day roundup by Sheridan Buffalo Wyoming and Hardin Montana officers Miltin and Small were arrested in Sheridan after a warning from Hardin to Buffalo then to Sheridan Powers was captured in Buffalo
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Sheridan, Wyo
Robert Miltin
Kaycee
Wyo
Thomas Small
Kirby
Boots” Powers
Sheridan
Buffalo
Hardin
Mont
Miltin
Small
Powers
Kellogg Sails to London as New Ambassador
Former Minnesota senator Frank B Kellogg, newly named ambassador to Great Britain, sails from New York aboard the President Harding to assume the post. He aims to preserve and strengthen peaceful cordial relations between the two nations. Kellogg also marks his 67th birthday with a state room full of presents.
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New York
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Great Britain
Col. Geo. Harvey
Harding
Pioneer of Alder Gulch buried in Mountain View Friday
Andrew Billman a Montana territorial pioneer of Bannack Bozeman Livingston and Alder Gulch was buried Friday afternoon in Mountain View. Rev Dingle conducted the service with pallbearers C T Busha C N Skillman T K Lee W A Elges John P Campbell and L F Douthett.
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Andrew Billman
Bannack
Bozeman
Livingston
Montana
Mountain View
Michigan
Iowa City
Iowa
Pikes Peak
Denver
Fort Bridger
Salt Lake City
Billman
Alder Gulch
Avalanche Gulch
Helena
Blackfoot City
Opher Gulch
Diamond City
Merry War In Church Postponed For Week
New York December 22 Protestant Episcopal leaders announce a holiday truce in the intra church feud. Modernists promise sermons tomorrow aligned with Bishop Manning’s diocesan letter urging a Christmas pause. Dr M Norman Guthrie of St Mark’s plans a pulpit statement but will avoid controversy.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
William T. Manning
House of Bishops
Manning
M. Norman Guthrie
St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery
Synod Hall
Railway wage talks continue for 12 per cent increase
Cleveland report says train service men push for a 12 percent raise despite Rock Island engineers' year's wage settlement. Firemen on Rock Island seek new terms. Trainmen and conductors plan to reconvene with the New York Central after year’s start, per W G Lee.
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Cleveland
Chicano, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co
Rock Island
Warren
Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
D. B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firmen
Slane
New York Central System
New York
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
George Vidal Of Deer Lodge Miraculously Escapes Truck Collision
George Vidal son of Dr C E Vidal superintendent at Galen TB sanitarium crossed Northern Pacific tracks on Milwaukee avenue and was struck by a switch engine ambulance wrecked but Vidal escaped unharmed. Witnesses rushed to help but he climbed out of the wreckage unaided. The engineer and Vidal both believed the collision was unavoidable as Vidal misread the flagman’s signal.
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Deer Lodge
George Vidal
C. E. Vidal
Montana
Galen
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee Avenue
Young Vidal
Tax Revision Delayed as House Committee Moves to Jan 10
The House Ways and Means Committee suspended tax revision consideration until after year end with a Jan 10 report on administration features. The delay clears the path for soldiers' bonus legislation and involves possible shifts in capital gains taxation, under study by treasury experts. Chairman Green will press technical features with a subcommittee while main panel reconvenes Jan 3.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Green
Treasury
Republican Conference
Fire devastates Illinois state asylum dormitory
A devastating blaze at the Chicago state hospital for the insane in Dunning killed fifteen patients and possibly three more. The fire started in ward No 3 of a tuberculosis dormitory, likely from an overheated boiler, and engulfed half the building. Firefighters battled mud-clogged streets as attendants evacuated patients, with six bed-ridden individuals carried out and several injured by the hurried exit.
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Gallatin Valley
Bozeman
Bozeman City
Jack Mendenhall
Billman
Bridger Creek Canyon
Sour Dough Creek
Sour Dough
Yellowstone Valley
Yellowstone
East Fork
Cooke City
National Park
Livingston
Bitter Root Valley
Sweet Grass County
Harvey Woods
Chicago
Chicago State Hospital For Insane
Dunning
Bandits wreck train near Celaya in Guanajuato state
Reports from the Mexico City Juarez train indicate more than twenty people were killed when a fast limited train was wrecked near Celaya Guanajuato after rebel soldiers removed rail spikes. Many passengers were crushed or died after being unable to receive medical aid.
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EL Paso
Tex
Celaya
State of Guanajuato
Mexico
Mexico City
Texas City
Walsh Would Restore Prewar Wheat Scale
Senator T. J. Walsh endorses restoring the pre war purchasing power of wheat and principal farm commodities through an export commission. In a letter to C. F. Tate of Lewistown, secretary of the Export Commission League, Walsh pledges support and urges speedy passage of relief measures embodying the plan.
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Helena
T. J. Walsh
C. F. Tate
Lewistown
Export Commission League
Walsh
Mr. Tate
Southern States Oil Suspends In Trading
New York curb market suspended trading in Southern States Oil Corp shares and in the brokerage firm Richards Hutchison & Co amid an NYSE probe into curb market activity. Ex Governor Haskell said the firm had no role, but he and several unrelated individuals had traded the stock.
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New York
Southern States Oil Corporation
C. N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Richards, Hutchison & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Haskell
Wall Street
Railroads to Present Arguments Over Consolidation Hearings
The Interstate Commerce Commission schedule assigns six days starting Jan 7 for railroad consolidation hearings. Topics include the New York Central and Pennsylvania issues, New England, southern lines, and western carriers like Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Great Northern, and Northern Pacific, with Texas and Kansas commissions and Union Pacific also represented.
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Washington
Interstate Comercce Commission
United States
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Reading
New England
Boston
Southern Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line
Norfolk & Western
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Texas and Kansas Railroad
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
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Chicago, Milwaukee and
Seattle-Tacoma
Pacific Ocean
Thistle
Jacox
Port Angeles Harbor
Wyoming
Illinois
Southern States
Railroads
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