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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
4
A compilation of scattered reports from Wyoming Montana and neighboring states describes deaths accidents crimes and legal outcomes. Notable items include business leaders and miners involved in fatal incidents, a mayor acquitted, await hangings and life sentences, and a banker's scandal with fencing government land convictions.
Havana reports the New Year will mark the start of Cuba’s evacuation by the army of pacification. About 900 marines of the first provisional regiment will depart aboard the Prairie from Havana on January 1 bound for Newport News, with the remainder to sail midmonth. Cubans welcome the withdrawal as a sign of complete independence and show kindness to the troops.
In Helsingfors Finland a new expulsion drive orders thirty Hebrew families to leave. The senate restricts six month residency licenses with renewal at its discretion. Jewish property rights and citizenship are denied under old statutes, with a 1850 exception for 200 families. A new bill seeks to ban kosher slaughter, opposed by Russian Jews fearing copycat bans.
The Central Federated Union prepares to mobilize two hundred thousand laborers next Sunday to protest jail terms for Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. A committee is formed to arrange the event and adopt resolutions, sent to President Roosevelt, urging unions to refrain from seeking pardons and insisting no crime had been committed.
Ruth Ohlson a 14 year old San Francisco girl set a new world record for rapid shorthand writing by producing 850 words in five minutes and reading them back correctly before Superior Judge T E Graham. The test used a court transcript source unfamiliar to her and beat California 750 words in five minutes statutes.
Fire in the Victor Fuel coal mine at Hastings Colorado, twenty miles north of Trinidad, broke out again early Sunday after small gas explosions the previous day. Workers refused to reenter as crews attempt cross-cutting to reach the blaze. The fire began a mile from the main entrance and several miners were overcome by gas.
Blazing hotel on South Hill Street caused by basement explosion at Thayer Decorating Co stores paints and oils. Loss estimated at $100,000. About 100 guests evacuated safely as Captain A. J. Eley and Hoseman W. A. Burns sustained injuries.
A nationwide wave of prohibition expands in the South with many states going dry or near dry. Georgia experiments with near prohibition, North Carolina Alabama and Mississippi move to state wide bans, and Virginia shows rising anti saloon victories. Tennessee Kentucky Texas Arkansas face tightening controls as enforcement remains the main obstacle and crime drops accompany fiscal improvements.
Irvine Kentucky jury could not decide Beach Hargis fate in the murder of his father Judze James Hargis. Nine jurors favored acquittal while three urged conviction. Beach had a reported prior drunken incident and returned to Jackson after the fatal confrontation in his father’s store.
Orders issued Saturday to natives at TungAn near Amoy to stop planting opium poppies. they refused and a riot followed resulting in one officer and ten civilians killed. Six hundred troops were deployed to restore order and enforce the anti opium edict.
The White House announced a North American natural resources conservation conference to be held February 18. Letters proposing the plan have been sent to Canada and Mexico leaders, to be delivered in person by Gifford Pinchot, chairman of the National Conservation Commission.
In Los Angeles William Jefferson Powell, heir to half a million dollars and a future Baltimore society position, has been sentenced to 180 days in the local workhouse for vagrancy. He claims his fortune will come when he turns 25, a date three months after his release. Powell’s sentence follows his vagrancy conviction.
Paris police subdued a 24 year old royalist, Jean Mattis, who sprang at President Armand Fallieres during a morning walk with Mme Romondou and Colonel Lasson. The attacker, unarmed when captured, claimed to pull the president’s beard. Authorities found royalist papers and Merrier medals on him.
Charles Seinsoth a 16 year old Bell Telephone worker was found dead near gravel pits in Salt Lake City. Authorities believe he bought carbolic acid and may have taken his own life after being sent to collect a debt from Charles Washington a black man. Washington surrendered to police and his role is under investigation. The death may also be linked to an epileptic fit.
The city celebrated Christmas 1908 by directing abundant charitable funds to aid the needy. Rich and middle class donors supported workers in philanthropy aiding jails hospitals homes and institutions. Conservatively about 10 000 people received dinners and similar help on the day.
Los Angeles report states the First National Bank of Monrovia California was robbed of about $29,000 sometime Sunday night. Detectives are pursuing leads but have not identified suspects or made arrests. The loss was discovered when the bank opened Monday morning. Bank officers decline to discuss details. President John Bartlet confirmed the robbery.
In Curtice Ohio masked robbers forced H A Schabow to open a farm house safe and take 180 dollars. They tied him to a bed gagged him and burned his feet with matches while another robber watched with a revolver. A horse and buggy were stolen as police hunt the pair.
Samuel Gompers receives twelve months, John Mitchell nine months, and Frank Morrison six months for contempt of court for defying an order against listing Buck Stove under We Don't Patronize. All appealed. bonds set at five, four, and three thousand dollars respectively as Gompers’ wife and daughter watch.
The Missouri Supreme Court ousts Standard Oil of Indiana and Republic Oil from Missouri and dissolves Water-Pierce Oil of St. Louis. Each company is fined 50,000 dollars. Water-Pierce faces dissolution January 12 unless it proves it will operate independently. The court found conspiracy to fix prices, control refinery trade, suppress competition, and mislead the public about separate entities.
The semi official Aleimeine Zeitung reports Baron Von Aehrenthal has reversed his stance and now says Austria will not compensate Turkey for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina under any circumstances. The change alarms observers who think parliaments would not approve any payment.
Peter Claudianes of Oakland, charged with dynamiting the home of former Supervisor James L. Gallagher, was found guilty by a jury after eight minutes and on the first ballot. Judge Waste sentenced him to life imprisonment at San Quentin.
Jin Wan Chang, the Korean who shot Durham White Stevens in San Francisco on March 23, causing Stevens' death two days later, is found guilty of second degree murder. The verdict came in Judge Carroll Cook's department after a lengthy trial concluded near midnight.
The single turret monitor Wyoming arrives at the bay after testing in oil fuel use. It will be renamed Cheyenne as Wyoming is reserved for a new class of battleships under construction in the Navy.
A jumble of clipped lines notes varied ideas from a naval surgeon general proposing a dental corps, a man’s election bet marriage, stadium plans, and reflections on appetite and work while hinting at broader themes of longevity and theater.
An Arkansas editor dismisses the main subject by labeling Emperor Bill as too gabby. The brief note hints the editor sees merit in brevity but does not expand on specifics.
A recent Paris movement to tax tourists collapsed as French men chose to continue soaking visitors as before.
A renowned French driver named Szisz has just arrived and will respond to his employer with a noise like a soda fountain when called, signaling his readiness to work.
The piece argues that Europe must stop ridiculing American wealth as respect for wealth has shaped many matrimonial talks, warning against any display of condescension in ongoing negotiations.
Clergymen report that evangelist Gypsy Smith has converted several local ministers, leaving observers puzzled and at a loss for words about the impact and meaning of these changes.
A historical note claims an ancient Chinese law required the new emperor to be from the next generation. It suggests a pro regent lobby shaped and preserved the rule across eras to influence succession.
English civilians fear a German airship attack as invasion scares persist. The meteorological gloom and reports of Zeppelins shadow North Sea skies, shaping public anxiety and daily life.
A Supreme Court judge in Iowa ruled that the football season ends with Thanksgiving. He stated that the rest of the year may be for study, but the football season proper ends with general Thanksgiving. The remark reflects an older era when courts weighed in on sports schedules.
In Mons France Dufour has produced thermometer tubes from pure quartz. The tubes are highly transparent and resist heat better than glass, enabling thermometers to measure very high temperatures. Melted tin is stable up to 465 F, while quartz can withstand temperatures up to 1800 F without softening.
At a Dublin meeting, Prof G Elliott Smith argued that earliest Nile remains align with later specimens showing Egypt and Nubia were inhabited by the same race. He noted little physical change over about six thousand years, with men averaging roughly five feet three inches.
The text traces the term czar and its Slavonic roots, noting Bulgaria’s ruler adopting the title tsar after independence. It explains the spelling car or czar, the c sounding ts, and that English adoption came via the Slavonic form czar. It compares tsar and czar pronunciations with Russian usage.
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