Cheyenne to receive $1 million waterworks expansion
The United States government will contribute $400,000 toward Cheyenne waterworks, with the city matching $500,000 in bonds. The project adds two large Crow Creek reservoirs, expands storage to about 5 billion gallons, builds Crystal Lake, and includes 26 miles of new piping to Fort Russell and Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne
Ted States
Crystal Lake
Crow Creeks
Crow Creek
Granite Springs
Middle Crow Creek
North Crow
Booth Crow
Seepeee Lake
Round Top
Fort Russell
Cheyennne
F 1
War Department
Fort
Russell
Guggenheim Explains Raid on American Smelting Stock
New York dispatch reports Deal Guggenheim, head of the American Smelting and Refining, addressing a public statement from years past. He defends actions amid speculation about the firm and its associates Ryan Cole and followers in copper and tin smelting, noting no intent to form a new company and disputing shareholder concerns.
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New York
Dealel Gugsenheim
Smeara. ReGing Company
Arbuchies
Ryan Cole
American Smelting and Refining Company
Ceres A Cimpon
Jury polled to find Kelley not guilty in burglary case
Public Prosecutor allowed the jury to vote after confusion over procedure. Albert Chapman led a formal poll resulting in a verdict of not guilty for Kelley charged with stealing from a merchandise car on the Cheyanne Denver Union Pacific line. Fitzsimmons pleaded guilty to passing a check at Citizens National Bank and awaits sentence.
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Matson
A. Ed Stir
Thadi
Albert Chapman
Kelley
Cheyanne
Denver
Union Pacific
Canada
Jar Service
Fitzsimmons
Pitzsimmons
Citizens’ National Bank
Six Bank Robbers Battle With Citizens in Neb
Six robbers after dynamiting the Keene bank safes engaged in a pitched battle with local citizens at Keene and later at Gibbon Nebraska, escaping in an auto with 55000. One robber believed wounded, purses in pursuit. Robbers had forced vault doors and secured 3000 before fleeing. Autoly pursuit followed to Gibbon where guards remained outside as others worked inside.
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Gibbon
Neb
Farmer's State Bank of
Keene
Commercial Bank of
Purtsuit
Taft selects Wickersham as Attorney General in cabinet
Washington reports Taft naming Wickersham of New York law firm Strohg Cadwalader to be attorney general. Interior, state, war, and agriculture secretaries under discussion with Ballinger, Knox, Wilson, Hitchcock and others tied to Pennsylvania politics and party plans.
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Seattle
Interior Department
Capitol
Taft
Root
Commerce and Labor
Straus
James Wilson
Frank Hitchcock
Washington
Preal- George
Taft Announces Knox as Secretary of State
Augusta Ga December 1 President Taft announced the appointment of United States Senator Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state in his cabinet. The announcement followed Knox's telegram saying he would accept the premiership in Taft's cabinet. Taft stated the offer was settled and had been made last Sunday in New York.
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Augusta
Eelet
Taft
United States
Koox
Pennsylvania
Knox
New York
Conference on Salton Sea railroad damages at White House
A government panel met at the White House to fix compensation for the Southern Pacific railroad for work around the Colorado River overflow that created the Salton Sea on the California Arizona border. The session opened but was interrupted by a cabinet meeting.
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Southern Pacific
K. KH
Washington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Colorado River
Salton Sea
California
Arizona
White House
Three Murderers Hung in New Westminster Jail
Three men James Jenkins Jack Portella and Lee Chung were hanged at the provincial jail in New Westminster B C The execution began as Havogman Rad tightened the ropes and Jenkins and Chung trembled while Portella remained still All three men dropped in unison from the same frame
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New Westminister
B. C
James Jenkins
Jack Portella
Lee Chung
Havogman Radelite
Jenkins
Chung
Portella
Civil service rules eyed in census clerk appointments
The National Civil Service Reform League meeting in Pittsburg calls for merit based selection of the 4000 plus census clerks for the next census through competitive examinations. It opposes noncompetitive appointments, criticizing Roosevelt's view of the process as exposing bureaucratic masks.
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Pittsburg
National jOrvat Service Reform League
Roosevelt
Rock Fall Kills Colorado Mine Boss near Marion
Glenwood Springs Colo Dec 18 Cue Marekett mine boss for the Colorado Fuel and Drop Company at Marion twenty miles south of Serewan instantly killed yesterday by the fall of a large rock. Marekett 40 grave old and leaves a wife and five children in Italy.
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Rock Fall
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Bryan Criticizes Rooseveltism Overstepping Authority
Lincoln editorials quote W J Bryan criticizing President Roosevelt’s Panama canal message as a new dangerous doctrine. He argues public criticism must be free and warns against using the attorney general to punish critics. He supports legal investigation of the Panama deal and defends free speech for publishers and citizens.
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Lincoln
Neb
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
New York World
Pagel
Pulitzer
Congress
Panama
House
Senate
Congressmah Fe
Knox
Mr. Knox
Senator Knox
Three Bandits Hold Up Oregon Express Train
Three bandits robbed the Chicago express on the Oregon Railroad eight miles east of Portland. They seized $4.30 in cash from Huff and about $650 in diamonds and cheap jewelry. The robbers overlooked over three thousand dollars cash in a tile behind a cafe. No passenger cars or registered mail were touched.
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Oregon
Portland
Ore
Chicago Express
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Express
Huff
Passéeng- Lop
Swedish Ship Sinks and Eight Die in North Sea Collision
reports from San Francisco and Devon describe two maritime disasters. The Swedish steamship Lindhalmen, 603 tons, sank off Goodwin Sands after a collision with a German steamer, drowning eight crewmen. Separately in San Francisco H A Jones of Southern Pacific faced protests over proposed tariff increases on westward freight.
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San Frangisco
Gal
H. A. Jones
Southern Pacific Company
Devon
England
Weamer Lindhalmen
Goodwin Sands
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Guggenheim
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Tapp
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