Mine Explosion At Kemmerer Kills Five Injures Nine
Special to Leader Kemmerer Wyo Jan 20 One of the worst mine disasters in Kemmerer Coal Co Mine Number Four dust explosion occurred with 120 men present Five men died all Americans named James Smith James Hanson Peter Hamilton Joseph Dixon and James Ward Nine others were fatally injured and taken to Rock Springs hospital Manager P J Quealey and editor Watt Brandon aided in arranging care The accident caused by a windy shot near the north entrance left a panicked crowd at the mine but air and fans later remained in good condition.
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Kemmerer, Wyo
Ocea
Kemmerer Coal Company
James Smith
James Hanson
Peter Hamilon
Joseph Dixon
James Ward
Laramie
P. J. Quealey
J. Watt Brandon
Leary Quealey
California
Kemmerer
Granger
Rock Springs
Rock Springe Hospital
Quenley
Wrat
Watt Brandon
Kellmerer Camerer
Mike Quentey
Cowboy Missing in Wyoming Blizzard Strands Youth
Relatives fear for William Lee Corbett and five companions after a cattle drive from Baggs Wyoming toward Vernal Utah. A blizzard cut communications two weeks ago as search parties span Wyoming and Utah. Corbett’s disappearance came up during an $8 000 property case before Judge Whitford.
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William Corbett
Denver
Colo
William Lee Corbett
Wyoming
Utah
Baggs
Wyo
Corbett
Hig
B. Martin
L. C. Carberry
Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs
H. H. Stem
West Thirty-second Avenue
Colorado
Northwestern
Vernal
Rages
Nat Baker Nominated for Public Money Receiver in Douglas
Denver report says Senators Warren and Clark plus Rep Mondell back Nat Baker of Lusk for the Douglas Wyoming land office post to succeed the late Samuel Slaymaker. Baker, a former Democrat who backed Thompson in 1908 voting stalemate, seals a months long contest with dozens of contenders ending in Baker’s favor.
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Denver
Colo
Warren
Clark
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Nat Baker
Lusk
Douglas, Wyoming
Samuel Slaymaker
Baker
Cole
Democratic United
John Charles Thompson
Haker
Thompson
Wyomis Simcoe
Douglas Place
Poe
Gunboat Hods Up Ship Africa Bound
In Hodeida Arabia on January 20 the Italian gunboat was held up by the British ship Africa bound for Aden. Italian officers were sent aboard the Africa and Turkish officers including Colonel Riza Bey the famed veteran were removed.
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Hodeida
Arabia
Africa
Aden
Riza Bey
Vyceman
Many Drown When Launch Goes Down Off Marshfield
A launch named Nort Star owned by Captain Joseph Yonmaker with crew William Brainard Frank Tanner Don Ferri and Ira Albee broke down near a bar and capsized. All on board were lost. The incident occurred near Marshfield on January 20.
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Marshfield
Joseph Yonmaker
William Brainard
Frank Tanner
Don, Ferri
Ira Albee
Governor Carey Grants Parole After Child Plea
A seven year old girl and her mother pleaded with Governor Carey to free her father Michael Laser from the Sheridan county penitentiary for man slaughter. The governor, known for kindness to children, paroles Laser who faces one to four years remaining on his sentence.
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Hall
Wyoming
Board of Pardons
Michael Laser
Sheridan County
Carey
Hawlins
Wee
Slaughter
Dee
Parmellee
Tor Tienen
Tragic Home Call and Shipwreck Rescue Mark Day
In New York Ulysses Grant Hatch, an agriculture department inspector, refused his wife’s telephone plea, then she killed herself. In Norfolk a wrecked three mast schooner Harry Prescott’s crew of five clung to rigging for over thirty hours before four were rescued by the revenue cutter Itasca near Wilmington, N C under severe cold and starvation. Captain May Die and two crewmen were hurt in the ordeal and treated at the Hatteras station.
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New York
Ulysses Grant Hauch
Department of Agriculture
Norfolk
Harry Prescott
Itaséa
Walmington
Prescott
Wilmington
N. C
Iife
Schoomer
W. R. Philbrook
T. S. Smith
G. C. Robbing
Hatteras
Government Making Good in the Packers Trial
In Chicago on January 20 the US district court heard that the government, in its six week Packers trial, has made progress in proving a Chicago packers cartel restrained trade. The government had examined seventeen witnesses and offered 120 documents in evidence by adjournment time.
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Chicago
Ilo
United States District Court
Wilkerson
Leader Advertising Columns Boost Local Merchants
The Leader promotes its morning edition as the best advertising medium in the city. It urges merchants to use the paper as a moral and effective channel to reach the buying public and suggests patronizing the Leader Advert Lab.
Cattle Dead in Stock Cars After Blizzard Freight Loss
Perry Iowa January 20 One of the heaviest losses for a railroad in years occurred on the Hook Island route during the recent blizzard. Eighteen carloads of cattle froze to death and stood for feet in the open stock cars as life left them from over exposure. The shipment was delayed sixteen hours between Neola and Council Bluffs before train crews noticed the condition and notified officials. At least 260 head died in the wreckage of the frozen transport.
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Perry
Iowa
Hook Island
Connell Bloffe
Neola
Council Alutin
Witil
Welsh Stricken with Illness Forces Fight Cancellations
Freddie Welsh the English lightweight collapsed from a neck muscle convulsion injuring his spine during training at his quarters in Los Angeles and will cancel tonight's bout with Hobby Waugh at the Vernon arena. Surgeons call the injuries serious. This was the second fighter felled in Los Angeles the same day as the scheduled match. Ad Wolgant earlier fell ill with appendicitis hours before facing Welsh.
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Los Angeles
Freddie Welsh
Englieh
Big Horn Basin Farm Product Value in 1911 Surges
Commissioner Ray Schenck notes farm products in Big Horn and Park counties reached an estimated 4 441 117 dollars in 1911, about one fourth of the two counties total value. Alfalfa near 4 million and honey and apples boosted output, with state totals around 15 million and 83 percent more cropland projected for 1912.
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Ray Schenck
Hig Horn
Wyoming
Big Horn
Park
Famous detective to electrify grand jury
Washington reports William J. Burns, famed detective tied to the McNamara dynamiters, has worked for months to prepare testimony for next week’s Senate committee on Senator Lorimer’s election. Burns claims a witness confessed to a $1500 payment, and a photographic confession method was shown in executive session.
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Washington, D. C
Lorimer
William J. Burns
McNamara
Hurnsla
Washington
Burns
Senate Committee
Keane to receive sacred pallium in Dubuque ceremony
The Most Reverend James J. Keane will be invested with the pallium at the cathedral in Dubuque tomorrow. Archbishop Ireland of St Paul will preach the sermon as bishops and priests from several states attend the historic rite marking Keane’s leadership. The pallium, a white woolen band with three purple crosses, symbolizes papal authority.
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Dubuque
James J. Keane
J. Keane
Ireland
Raul
Rome
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Ward
SK Cowboys
STORM
Young Corbett
Mary Mackey
Martha J. Corbett
U. S
Douglas Land Office
Africa Bound
Hatch
Moralig
Blo Horn
Bananza
China
American Red Cross
State Department
Red Cross
Keane
Cheyenne
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