Mining Patent Application for Crown Point and Related Lodes
United States Land Office Helena Montana shows Stone Creek Copper Mining and Milling Company filing for patents on multiple lodes in Madison County. Claims include Crown Point Gold Dollar Homestead San Lawrence Copper Head and Mountain View Fraction with surveyed corners and areas totaling about 17.86 to 18.87 acres per claim. First publication December 25, 1903.
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United States Land Office
Helena
Monti
Stone ‘Creek
Crown Point Lode
Home Stake Lode
Discovery
San Lawrence Lode
Wasterly
Aasterly
Madison County
Ranga
San Lawrence
Vientana View
Recorder's Office
Montana
Copper Head
Mountain View
Barvey
May Flower Lode
Andrew A. Manser
Minnesota Lode
Montana Copper and Gold Mining Company
Amazon Lode
Frank D. Mrracue
Register
Helens
Mont
Congress
Magekc H. Edie
James Edie
Dillon
Towit
Beaverhead
Layrette Scott
Monroe Mann
Frank D. Mimacur
Register. Firet
Notice of Offers Opened in Helem Hills Lands
Department of the Interior U S Land Office Helens Hawaii announces offers opened for UHerman properties. The notice lists the persons and parcels under review with deadlines for selections and filings.
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Department of the Interior
Uoted
States Land Office
Helens
Hec
Nine Die In Godfrey Meteor Wreck Tragedy
Kansas City dispatch reports nine killed and thirty two injured when the Meteor passenger train from the south derailed at Godfrey Kansas. Several of the injured are expected to die and the conductor and flagging brakeman are among those missing or dead. The crash followed an opened switch by a prior freight train, sending the fast service train down an embankment.
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W. H
H. Saunders & CO
Dollar Doctors
Englewood Sta
Chicago
Kansas City
Godfrey
Kan
St. Louis
San Francisco
James Kilpatrick
Mosby
George Hoyt
Sapulpa
I. T
B. A. Dewees
Fort Scott
Theodore Bishard
James H. Twyman
Fleming
Asa Moreland
Lenexa
Lon Corbin
Bessie
Okla
Joseph Corbin
John Brubaker
Sheridan Kenable
Hoopertown
BF Garroway
Jonesboro
Ark
John Bell
Express Messenger
H. B. Darlington
John Bluebacker
J. A. Bartley
Corbin Brothers
Oklahoma
Japan’s Reply to Russia Reaches Baron de Rosen
Japan’s reply to Russia was handed to Baron de Rosen at the Russian legation and is not an ultimatum but asks reconsideration of key points. Baron de Rosen is recovered enough to resume talks. Sixty Japanese military engineers head to Korea to replace telegraph operators, a nonmilitary measure per official statement. Paris and London dispatches say Britain and France push for a rupture avoidance as Port Arthur ramparts are expanded and the old defenses demolished.
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Baron de Rosen
Japan
Russia
Komura
Daron de Rosen
Korea
London
Paris
France
Great Britain
St. Petersburg
Tokio
Daily Telegraph
Nagasaki
Port Arthur
Seven Boilers Burst at St Louis Power House Killing Four
A battery of seven boilers exploded at the St Louis Transit power house on Jefferson and Geyer avenues. Four employees died and ten were injured as brick walls and a heavy roof collapsed trapping nearly twenty workers. Rescue efforts were hindered by darkness and falling debris. The dead include W. Wilson and Louis Barber both listed as colored, with Frank Steele also among the deceased and William Gantt and Simon Mixon fatally injured.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Transit Company
Jefferson and Geyer Avenues
W. Wilson
Louis Barber
Frank Steele
William Gantt
Simon Mixon
Wilson
Wealthy San Francisco Agent Arrested in Land Fraud Case
John A. Benson a prominent San Francisco real estate operator was arrested at the Willard hotel by Secret Service agent John A. Burns on a bribery charge connected to a land fraud plot spanning multiple western states. Benson allegedly paid 500 to Woodford D. Harlan for information amid ongoing investigations and posted 5000 bail for a December 30 appearance as government attorneys seek grand jury action. Officials say the case could implicate several Interior Department staffers and prompt further arrests or dismissals.
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San Francisco
Washington
John A. Benson
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Willard Hotel
Secret Service
John A. Burns
New York
Burns
Benson
Woodford D. Harlan
Special Service Division
General Land Office
Land Office
Russia Orders Mediterranean Fleet to Join Port Arthur Squad
London reports Russia has ordered the Mediterranean fleet to the far east and assembling at Bizerta. Sixteen warships will join the Port Arthur squadron as tensions rise with Japan over unresolved demands. London insiders see war in the far east as likely without a Russian retreat.
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Mediterranean
Port Arthur
London
Russia
Far East
Bizerta
Japan
British Foreign Office
Lord Lansdowne
Daily Express
Portsmouth
Devonport
the Express
Admiralty
Chicago Alderman Brennan Sentenced in Ward Fraud Case
Alderman John J. Brennan received one year in the house of correction for complicity in ward election frauds. Charles McCarle drew six months and Herbert E. Kent three months on similar charges.
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Chicago
Solon
John J. Brennan
House of Correction
Gary
Charles McCarle
Herbert E. Kent
Chicago Grain and Provisions Trading and Closing Quotes
Heavy liquidation weighed on wheat with May closing at a loss. Provisions rose 10 25c, while corn and oats showed varied prices across futures. Cash prices list No 2 red and spring wheats and multiple corn and oats grades in Chicago.
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Chicago
Chicago and Kansas City Livestock Prices Report
Chicago cattle and hog receipts and price ranges for today and tomorrow show mixed to higher demand. Kansas City receipts reflect slight gains in cattle and flat to higher hog and sheep markets with noted price bands across stockers, feeders, and bulls.
Cattle Hog and Sheep Receipts Report From South Omaha
South Omaha data show cattle receipts near 2 500 with varied prices for native and western steers cows heifers and calves. Hog receipts around 6 000 with ranges from 4.20 to 4.40 and bulk near 4.25 to 4.30. Sheep receipts about 10 000 with western yearlings around 3.10 to 4.55 and lambs up to 5.76.
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Chicago
Kansas City
South Omaha
Texas
Wethern
Cleveland Man Slays Family Then Kills Himself
Roscoe W. Derby a Cleveland machinist murders his wife Della and three children Harold eight Alice seven Thomas five then shoots himself. Police believe financial hardship and Christmas pressure triggered the killings. Derby left a note to a friend predicting the deaths.
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Cleveland
Roscoe W. Derby
Della
Harold
Alice
Thomas
Derby
The Man Who Came Back From the Nevada Diggings
An old timer recalls death and eerie apparitions of his dead partner John Griggs in Crow Valley and Bald Eagle Gulch Nevada. He describes sightings, a fatal powder blast, and a near Ashtabula train incident where Griggs allegedly appeared to warn him.
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O. B. Warner
Nevada
Crow Valley
Johln Griggs
Griggs
John Griggs
Griges
Bald Eagle Gulch
John Grigga
Ashtabula
John.riggs
Strikers Force Secrecy Over Funerals in Chicago
Chicago dec 21 unions pickets deter funeral notices as livery drivers strike. Families delay announcements fearing harassment. some bodies kept in vaults until after settlement. Undertakers report secrecy to prevent picket interference. health officials allow postponements for public safety.
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Chicago
Health Department
A. B. Perrigo
Liverymen’s and ‘Undertakers
Recall of Jack the Ripper Murders Strikes New York
A mutilated body of Sarah Martin was found in a sailors resort in James Slip New York identified as the victim in a Jack the Ripper inspired incident. A Swede registered as Carl Nelson accompanied her. he left before authorities found the body. The throat was cut and the body severely mutilated while the room showed no struggle.
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New York
Whitechapel
Jack the Ripper
James Slip
Sarah Martin
Carl Nelson
Walden University dormitory fire claims nine dead
Fatal fire at Walden university dormitory in Nashville on December 21 leaves nine confirmed dead and two missing. Survivors include students who jumped from the building and remain in critical condition. Prayer services were held in white and black churches as prayers and collections followed.
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Nashville
Tenn
Walden University
Fatal double tragedy ends in suicide in Chicago
In Chicago on December 21, Fred Pflugradt a machinist, shot his wife who lay ill with a week old baby beside her. He fired twice wounding her fatally then killed himself. The infant survived uninjured.
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Chicago
Fred Pflugradt
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