Young Hero Sought After Train Rescue At Great Risk
Officials search for a youth of about eighteen who saved Conductor Arthur from fire after a wreck at Hillside. He led a rescue party of Greeks, was severely burned, then vanished, later believed to have boarded a train. Another item reports nine year old Charles McFarlane losing three fingers and a thumb from a dynamite cap explosion near an abandoned mine.
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Pacific
Rawlins
Sept
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Arthur
Nne
Roy
Casper
Charles McFarlane
Boy Struck by Shot at Local Training Table
A ten year old boy, Albert Jamison, was struck in the side by a twelve pound shot hurled during workouts at the local training table. Officials fear internal injury as spectators report the incident amid the crowd of amateur athletes.
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Sheridan
Albert Jamison
Mason Grand Lodge closes with officers elected
The Mason Grand Lodge of Wyoming finished its session in Thermopolis electing Hugh Hines as Grand Master and William Daley as treasurer. W L Kuykendall of Saratoga was re elected secretary for his 26th term, the second oldest officer in American Masonry.
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Grand Lodge
Rock Springs
Sept
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Wyoming
Thermopolis
Hugh Hines
Laramie
William Daley
Rawlins
W. L. Kuykendall
Saratoga
America
Elopers Apprehended in Douglas Riot
Deputy Sheriff Barber chased and captured John Lowden and Miss Marvell Dateaman along with Robi Burdett and Miss Mabel Clark. The sixteen year old girls faced parental prohibitions as they attempted to elope to Colorado in a broken farm wagon drawn by two old ponies. In Green River the Union Pacific said it will move its western division headquarters from Ogden to Green River with October first as the date. Laramie reports A T Stein filed for his wife’s arrest after taking his savings and work tools. the wife was traced to Cheyenne and will be brought back to face her husband.
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Douglas
Green River
Union Pacific
Western Division
Ogden
Laramie
Wyo
A. T. Stein
Cheyenne
Beaver-Driven Irrigation Woes Hit Wyoming Farmers
Wyoming farmers report beavers blocking irrigation ditches at a troubling rate. Dams are forming faster than they can be removed, threatening crop moisture and prompting concern over a growing problem in the Laramie area.
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Laramie
Wyo
Wyoming
Section Man Thorsen Killed By Passenger Train
Peter Thorsen, a section hand, was struck and killed by a passenger train while walking through a tunnel on the Union Pacific line near this place. The enginemen said Thorsen made no attempt to move and the train could not stop in time.
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Kemeter
Union Pacific
Peter Thorsen
Thorsen
Despondent Woman Drinks Wood Alcohol Over Love
Omsha Sept 9 Mercedes La Roque a homemestic at the Farnam hotel attempted suicide by drinking wood alcohol. Police aided her recovery after Dr Harris and two officers counteracted the poison. Despondent over a love affair she had waited four weeks at the hotel and spoke of a man who had grown cold toward her.
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Omsha
Mercedes la Roque
Farnam
Farosite
Dra
T. T. Harris
Bishop
Wilson Burr
Polson
Waking in Box Car After Abduction by Two Thugs
Austrian man Canjer woke in a box car after being dumped by two assailants. He walked to a police station thirty six hours later with witnesses noting an attempted robbery on Thirteenth Street. Police arrested coworkers Munizier and Relege who deny the charges.
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Onitha
Sept
Frank
Daniel
Omaha
Digagagilapte
Canter
Canjer
Fourteenth and
Pierce Streets
Joe Munizier
Joe Relege
Thirteenth Street
South Thirteenth Street
Ivan Solic
Solic
Strest
Munizier
Relegze
Camelting Works
Day's Dead Striking News of Deaths Across Several Cities
Frederick Gebhard longtime New York clubman died at Garden City Long Island after health decline. Col Samuel A Merritt former Utah justice and California legislator died in Salt Lake City. George T Perkins prominent manufacturer and banker died in Akron at 71. Patrick O Hearn aged 105 in Worcester. famed Magnachuectis elder cited for long smoking and alcohol habits.
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New York
Frederick Gebhard
Garden City
L. I
Gebhard
Lily Langtry
Salt Lake
Samuel A. Merritt
Virginia
California
Tilaho
Cleveland
Merritt
Supreme Court of
Territory of Utah
Akron
Ohio
George T. Perkins
B. P. Goodrich Company
Second National Bank
Worcester
Mass
Patrick O’hearn
Magnachuectis
O' Hearne
Miner chased by wolves across Alaskan frontier
Alonzo Wells, a prospector near Cook Inlet, recounts being pursued for fourteen days by a pack of wolves after departing Kulk Arm on August 1. He survived while nine other miners reportedly fell to the attack and were overtaken in the Busifna river country north of the inlet.
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Wolvas Seward
Alaska
Alonzo Wells
Busifna
Cook's Inlet
Wells
Kulk
Kulk Arm
Frank Wylie
Wolf Pack Follows Miner Escape Through Desert Night
The wolves kept company with a traveling miner who slept bound to a tree. He heard a distant cry and found a ravaged miner’s pack with shredded clothing bones and evidence of a kill, though the miner’s identity remained unknown.
Indian planted Chelan apple tree valued at twenty thousand dollars
A Chelan apple tree near Shore Lake in Chelan County, planted twenty years ago by an Indian, is valued at twenty thousand dollars by an eastern Washington orchard syndicate seeking to propagate its unique golden yellow fruit. The tree, producing a distinct Chelan apple with strong keeping quality, won first prize at last year’s national show for new varieties. The nursery company declined to sell for grafting and will develop the fruit itself.
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Tacoma
Wash
Shore Lake
Chelan
Washington
Uplan Breaks World Trotting Record
Uplan driven by E. O. Eoder set a world trotting record for the mile with a time reported as 2:xx, hailed as the best performance of his career at Charles Oak Park on September 2.
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Uplan
Charles Oak Park
Eteet ‘Oder
Nebraska Man Sees Things In Town Odd Cat Startles Man
In Omaha on a Tuesday night, TR Mandell of Papillion believes he glimpsed circular insanity after spotting a calm black cat in the street. A police officer, Carney, reassured him by guiding attention to nearby street signs and theatre names until Mandell accepted that he was not afflicted.
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Omaha
Mandell
Papillion
Fourteenth and
Farnam Streets
Carney
Orlend
Krag
Henshaw
Philadelphia Swelters In Hottest September Day
Philadelphia endures the hottest September day in twelve years with a 92 degree government reading causing several prostrations as residents seek shade and relief from the heat.
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Philadelphia
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