Carnival of Crime Shocks Denver With Murders and April Confessions
A flurry of violence and confessions rocks Denver after a day of shootings, robberies, and a thirty year criminal career revelation. Notable cases include J H Cradlebaugh killing Fred Walton, May Tootham’s death by carbolic acid, and a dynamite blast aimed at Maria Lempedri in Central City.
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Denver
Cole
J. H. Cradlebaugh
Wallace
Idaho
Fred W. Walton
Cradlebaugh
May Tootham
St. Louis
Harry Nagahashi
Ida Rickson
T. Hamatini
Frederick Rollins
Myrtle
Bertha Thompson
Des Moines
David Siegel
Thompson
Cheyenne
Wild cattle roam unsettled lands near Coeur d'Alenes
Spokane reports describe several bands of wide horned wild cattle roaming timbered lands between Twin Lakes and the St. Joe and St. Regis river heads in Northern Idaho. Prospectors retreat when animals approach for water and forage, with large swaths south of the lakes remaining unexplored and untouched by white settlers.
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Spokane
Wash
Big Creek
Coeur d'Alenes
Panhandle
Idaho
Twin Lakes
St. Joe
St. Regis
Ok Ek
Roosevelt Standing Pat on Secret Service Restrictions
President Roosevelt tonight reiterates opposition to restricting the field of the secret service. He argues that last session’s restrictions circumscribed trained agents and would impede their ability to act where they could be most useful.
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Pepo
Roosevelt
Secret Service
Committee to probe American control of British meat supply
A government committee appointed last summer to investigate American influence on Britain's meat supply has concluded its inquiry and plans to report against interfering with American imports, arguing Britain requires the American supply. Also notes entry for a dirigible race from New York to Albany next autumn.
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John Bull
America
London
Daily Mail
Great Britain
Boston
Mass
New York
Albany
Boston-New York Aerial Navigation Company
Buffum Named Judge for Dry Farming Exhibit
Prof Buffman formerly led experimentation at the University of Wyoming for thirteen years and was tied to Colorado Agricultural College Fort Collins. He authored Arid Agriculture a guide for farmers in regions with less than fifteen inches of rain and is a leading arid agriculture authority. Luther Wyoming farmer Petr Allen notes rising dry farming interest and a large Luther delegation at the congress with hopes to win early prizes. Taft Banquet in New Orleans costs 25 dollars with about 1000 attendees and elaborate plans.
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Buffman
University of Wyoming
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
West
Petr Allen
Luther
Wyoming
Third
Dry Farming Congress
Clarence N. Jones shot in quarrel at Commonwealth Feed
In St. Louis a quarrel left Clarence N. Jones, president of Commonwealth Feed, dead. Police Commissioner Jones’s brother was reported to be involved as a suspect in the killing. A colleague, Herman A. Kretchmer, was later arrested on the killing charge.
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ST. Louis
Clarence N. Jones
Commonwealth Feed Company
Jones
Herman A. Kretchmer
Indictments for conspiracy to defraud government in Muskogee
A federal grand jury has returned indictments against eight prominent men including Gov. Charles N. Haskell and Walter R. Eaton on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government. Bonds are set at 5,000 dollars for Haskell who plans to appear Friday to post bond. Deputy U S marshals dispatched to arrest the indicted individuals.
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Muskogee
Federsl
Muskoge
Bonds
United States Marshalls
Gov
Chas. N. Haskell
F. J. Severes
A. Z. English
C. W. Turner
W. R. Hutchings
James W. Het
Walter R. Eaton
Owen
Haskell
Eaton
Turner
Phosphate lands open to entry under Mondell bill
Special to The Leader from Powell Idaho on February 3 reports the Mondell bill advances from the public lands committee. Phosphate lands worth about 2,000,000 acres now withdrawn in Wyoming Idaho and Utah will be opened to entry under placer mining laws. The bill to resurvey public lands passed the House unanimously. The same bill provides for forfeiture of unused rights of way. The president approved relief for Walter Keefe of Cheyenne for 425 dollars for personal effects damaged in Seattle.
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Wi PD. C
Public Lands Committee
Wyatting
Idaho
Utah
Congress
Mondell
House
Walter Keefe
Cheyenne
Seattle
Keef
Taft lauds canal work as inspection nears end
President Taft praised the canal operations during a 1912 inspection tour. He planned to visit Pedro Miguel and Miraflores lock sites and the Pacific entrance, receive Isthmian and Red Cross members at Culebra, and depart Colon for New Orleans Sunday afternoon.
ELOPES WITH TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL IN BROOKLYN
Joseph Janser 34 and Katherine Loerch 12 both of Brooklyn N Y were arrested here today at the request of New York police after staying at a boarding house since yesterday under assumed names. A restraining order halted enforcement of the two cent passenger rate in South Dakota pending a March 1 hearing.
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Baltimore
Joseph Janser
Katherine Loerch
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York
Dakota
Sioux Falls
S. D
John
Carland
United States District Court
Court Martial of Captain Qualtrough in Tangier Charge
At Tangier aboard the Louisiana the court martial heard evidence that Captain Qualtrough was intoxicated at a reception. He said fatigue and one glass of sherry caused his condition while surgeon Craddell noted low physical state increasing liquor susceptibility. Pleadings continue with decision awaited. Also a separate inquest found a Bloomfield man carried $10,000 in European bank notes.
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Gibraltar
Qualtrough
Tangier
Louisiana
Craddell
Georgii
Mondell Attacks Mr Pinchot In House Speech
Wyoming representative Mondell denounced the forestry service as the most autocratic department outside of Tu if government. He urged using a $6,000 field glasses appropriation to spot home makers previously unnoticed by inspectors.
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Washington
Forestry Service
Department of Agriculture
Mondell
Wyoming
Weather report for Kington area highlights cold snap
February 3 weather bulletin for Wyoming shows snow or rain likely Thursday and Friday with gradual clearing. Readings include a high near 61 degrees and a low around 23 degrees, with measurable precipitation.
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Kington
Wyoming
Shorty French Becomes Columbia County Assessor in Dayton
Dayton Washington February 3 Fifty two inches tall and seventy eight pounds in weight A B W French known as Shorty French has taken over the office of assessor of Columbia County with headquarters in Dayton Mrs French weighs under seventy pounds and she and her husband and eight year old daughter weigh less than the average woman French came to Columbia County in 1892 after touring much of the United States and Canada He is 45 and a Wisconsin native He was nicknamed Shorty early on and the label sticks He defeated a Republican incumbent by 76 votes after overcoming a 250 majority européenne
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Dayton, Wash
A. Bw.french
Shorty” French
Columbia County
Wash
Dayton
French
United States
Canada
Wisconsin
Northwest
Teller of Colorado Calls for Full Executive Information
Teller of Colorado argued in Congress that information in executive departments is subject to Senate inspection. He compared Cleveland’s refusal to send information to the Senate with current conduct, stating the president must provide information unless withholding is legally justified and exceptional.
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Teller
Colorado
Ate Today
Nut
Saidneis
Congress
Cleveland
Senate
Boston Mayor Cuts City Costs by a Million
Boston Mayor George A. Hibbard is credited by City Auditor Mitchell with saving Boston about $1,000,000 in his first year in office. The reduction came mainly from discharging city laborers and reforming contract awards, according to the report.
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Boston
Mass
George A. Hibbard
Aton
Mitchell
Hibbard
Senate Reconsiders Action. Washakie County Measure Passes
The Wyoming Senate recorded a nay on reconsideration of Tuesday action while approving 21 bills including the Washakie county creation measure formerly Hot Springs. The House set the tax commissioner bill as a special order with Representative Vance to lead a two hour speech. Park County bill passes House 39 to 12 with five absent.
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Crumpine
Senate
Washakie County
Hot Springs County
House
Vance
Committee On Lands and Irrigation
State Senate
Washakie
Park County
Tragic double death linked to scandal in Philadelphia hotel
Police found the bodies of a man and a woman in a Philadelphia hotel room, clasped in an embrace. The man Maurice Patterson, about 50, and the woman Margaret Lomax, about 40, registered under assumed names claiming Lewiston, Pennsylvania as home. Investigators seek to determine if accidental gas exposure or a joint suicide caused the deaths.
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Philadelphia
Maurice P. Patterson
Margaret Lomax
Lewiston
Canroner
California Legislature kills anti Japanese bill
Nevada assembly passes anti Japanese resolution but omits federal interference. White House welcomes California setback as President Roosevelt fears backlash from exclusion laws.
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California
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