Swift Justice by Tribesmen and Fatal Miners’ Accident
In Algiers a Moroc tribe attacked Bebrin, killing two villagers and torturing another before the Pasha. The captured tribesman was executed by the murdered villagers’ families. In Montana, two miners died at Never Sweat mine from a cave-in at the 1,600 foot level, with recovery not expected until tomorrow.
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Algiers
MSH
Bebrin
Elkear
Butte
Mont
James McGovern
Don McKee
Letters From Waskey and Hoggatt on Alaska’s Territorial Government
Washington dispatch: President Roosevelt received three letters from Delegate Waskey and Governor Hoggatt with recommendations for Alaska. Waskey urges a territorial government and mining law overhaul. Hoggatt opposes territorial status and favors a mining law commission review. Hoggatt’s Alaska year-end report to Congress is endorsed by the president and may influence appropriations and legislation.
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Waskey and Hoggatt
Alaska
Washington, D. GC
Roosevelt
Congress
Frank Waskey
Govermor Wilford B. Hoggatt
Waskey
Hoggatt
Waaskey
Coal Landa
Psident
Cheock
Territory of
Town of Clifton Destroyed by San Francisco River Flood
In Solomonville Arizona residents report thirty hours after the San Francisco river dam broke at Clifton the town is submerged and ruined. The population of about three thousand fled to the hills and will not rebuild. Initial death toll was exaggerated with eighteen known deaths confirmed and some missing, possibly drowned.
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Clifton
San Francisco
Solomonville
Ariz
San Franciso
Confessions Due in Missouri Boodle Case
Governor Folk received a letter from W. H. Ritter a former member of the Missouri House of Delegates now in Denver claiming to have received 250000 boodle money distributed among members of the combine Ritter says his conscience compels him to reveal what he knows about the boodling After a meeting with Circuit Attorney Sager Folk sent Ritter a telegram to come to St Louis Ritter vanished when the boodle probe began four years ago and has remained missing until his letter was received
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Jefferson City
Folk
W. H. Ritter
St. Louis
Alpine village abuse scandal shocks canton of Crisons
Geneva cable reports in Oberwaz, a remote Alpine village, young unmarried women aged 18 to 20 were ordered to appear before the village sexton who forged a pastor's signature. They endured flogging and humiliation until blood flowed, with threats silencing witnesses. Parents alerted police as the sexton faces serious charges.
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New York
Sun
Geneva
Tribune de Geneve
Oberwaz
Crisons
Sexton
Foreclosure suit filed by Cleary Creek Lumber against Terrills
A district court suit by Cleary Creek Lumber against W G Terrill Kate Terrill and Al Hilty seeks foreclosure of a lien on lumber due to alleged non payment. The report also notes twenty six thousand miners at Aber tillery Wales strike over non union work in the mines.
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Cleary Creek Lumber Company
W. G. Terrill
Kate Terrill
al Hilty
Abertillery
Wales
Senate Resolution on Dismissal of Twenty-fifth Infantry
In Washington the senate postponed discussion on a resolution for all correspondence in the case of the dismissal of the Twenty-fifth United States infantry colored. The measure also calls for the dismissal of all colored troops and faces bitter debate once considered by Congress. President Roosevelt refuses to discuss the radical nature of the resolution until Congress acts, though he is said to oppose arbitrary dismissals.
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Washington
Senate
Twenty-fifth United States Infantry
United States Army
Roosevelt
Congress
No Persia for the Kaiser Cologne Gazette Denies German Schemes
The Cologne Gazette refutes claims of German plots in Persia and argues Germany seeks only a joint Anglo Russian agreement on Asiatic affairs. It warns against an Anglo Russian clash and stresses uncertainty over its outcome. An unrelated joke item follows about an irate wife asking where her husband has been and a cuckoo clock.
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Cologne Gazette
Germany
Berlin
Persia
Russia
President asks congress to grant power for officers
President Roosevelt urges Congress to empower the president to dismiss any army or navy officer deemed unworthy, arguing courts martial in peace time are too lenient. He cites widespread reprimands of courts martial for dereliction of duty. Action on the matter was promised. New Zealand workers earn $2.50 to $3.50 a day.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
New Zealand
Banks Allowed Real Estate Loans Under New Law
Congress passed a bill permitting national banks to lend their money on real estate security reversing prior restrictions. Pressure from large banking interests accompanied the shift toward utilizing gilt edge securities for substantial sums in major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington, D. C
Diamond mine near Oroville opens today
The first diamond mine in the United States will be opened today about a mile from Oroville. M. J. Cooney, a renowned mining engineer, will operate the venture with Eastern and local capital backing. He has studied Butte and Plumas counties geology extensively and claims a diamond shoot has been found near Oroville.
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Oroville
United States
M. J. Cooney
South Africa
Coottey
Butte
Pluma
Cooney
Missouri River
Diamonds and associated minerals in parallel South African mines
The author notes geological traits identical to South African diamond mine shoots and pipes, mentioning manaccanite, spinner, oltroviaite, garnet, sphene, and serpentine pebbles as satellites. Diamond-bearing ground usually includes manaccanite and magnet-attractable black sand. diamonds without these markers are rare.
Worshipers of the Great City
Pittsburg boasts over 200 millionaires with many "New York crazy" residents who spend 20 million dollars yearly in New York for life’s needs and luxuries. The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce studies how to curb this outflow while social exaltation and goods still go to New York. A joke about a baby with no neck concludes this quirky item.
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Pittsburg
New York
Pitsburg
Pittsburgers
Parvenus
Delegation Asked for Million Dollar Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Fair Aid
At a banquet in Seattle the King county legislative delegation was urged to secure a $1,000,000 appropriation from the Washington state to aid the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair. The delegation members promised to use their best efforts to obtain that sum.
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Seattle
King County
Washington
Barnette's Suit Delayed as Defense Prepares Case
In Seattle the Caustens vs Barnette trial opens with plaintiff resting. Defense seeks dismissal for lack of proof. Case adjourned until after New Year to hear Captain Jarvis and Mrs Barnette testify. An elevator operators union is forming.
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Seattle
Caustens
Elevator « Operators’ Union
Seattle Labor Council backs anti Japanese drive
Seattle labor leaders wire San Francisco allies to aid in opposing Japanese naturalization as Governor Mead joins the broad opposition. Washington state residents view any law to naturalize Japanese as harmful, with Seattle citizens mobilizing to defeat such measures and push a statewide campaign. California representative Kahn dismisses San Francisco school turmoil as a tempest in a teapot, predicting a favorable U.S. court ruling if government action is taken.
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Jseattle
Seattles
Labor Council
San Francisco Sans
Men of
Seattle
Trades Union
San Francisco
Mead
Washington
Washington, D. C
Kahn
California
United States
Navy Paymaster Robbed at Esquimalt
Victoria B C December 6 Special to The News. The naval paymaster’s office at Esquimalt was robbed last night of $1700 government funds. Suspected are crew members of the ship Egeria, and the vessel is being searched by officers to locate the stolen money.
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Victoria
B. C
Esquimalt
Egeria
Tungsten Mines Sold to German Krupp Interests
F Gibson of Davenport, Wash describes tungsten claims in Stevens County near Deer Trail known as the Young property. Five claims were owned by Young and Gibson and recently Krupp representatives examined the mines, prompting sale to German buyers who plan a concentrator this fall and shipment to Krupp ordnance works.
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Stevens County
Young
Deer Trail
C. H. Young
Krupp ‘Works
Germany
Krupp Ordnance Works
Krupp
Putney Butte Molybdenum Mines Bonded North of Davenport
The Putney Butte molybdenum mines lie 15 miles north of Davenport in Lincoln county. Six feet of solid ore without quartz was noted by Professor Pratt of the US Geological Survey as a remarkable deposit. Tungsten and molybdenum are valued at $1.25 and $2.75 per pound respectively, with bond details undisclosed.
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Davenport
Lincoln County
Putney Butte
Pratt
United States Geological Survey
Britons Swindled Out of Vast Sums in International Scam
Philadelphia report of an elaborate mail fraud scheme aimed at wealthy Englishmen. An elderly well dressed man, calling himself William Trimble of San Francisco, was arrested for conspiring to defraud heirs of a rich Englishman by inducing £7,000 for a supposed mining property. Investigations triggered by a decoy telegram from William Moore led to Trimble’s capture.
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Philadelphia
William Trimble
San Francisco
Trimble
Hick
England
William Moore
Moore
Washington
Five months of swaps lead to a magnificent animal
A Loninville Counter Journal blurb recalls a buyer trading a four five dollar horse sixteen times over five months to finally acquire a present magnificent animal. The exchange centers on value and growing stakes in a rustic barter tale.
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Loninville Counter- Journal
No cabinet confirmations yet aid by Senate Naval Affairs
The Senate has ruled no cabinet confirmations will occur until all nominee investigations are complete. The Naval Affairs Committee has approved Victor B. Metcalf for the Navy Department, the only nominee to be approved so far.
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Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Metcalf
Washington
RC. CG
Senate
Committee On Naval Affairs
Victor B. Metcalf
Considine Wedding Feast Ends In Diamond Theft Tale
George F. Considine hosted a wedding dinner for actress Aimee Angeles at Cafe Martin after marrying at the Metropole. The bride’s diamond necklace vanished amid guests including Inspector McLaughlin and Pinkerton. A Detroit dispatch alleged a previous elopement with a banker’s daughter and his death from heartbreak.
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New York
George F. Considine
Hotel Metropole
Cafe Martin
Aimee Angeles
William W. McLaughlin
Central Office
William Pinkerton
Death by self in Gardiner mining man Charles Anderson
From Livingston we learn that Charles Anderson a known Cook City mining man died by his own hand at Gardiner. He had been missing since Thursday and his body was found in an old prospect hole where he had gone to take his life. Anderson once owned the Enterprise mine in Cook City.
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Butte
Livingston
Charles Anderson
Cook City
Gardiner
Anderson
Enterprise
Women to enter Penn as a separate college opens door
The Philadelphia institution will lift its ban on women January 1 and grant them access to the same studies and degrees as men, though it will not become coed, instead creating a separate college for women. In the South, child labor has surged to six times the level of two decades ago.
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Philadelphia
Univerity of Pennsylvania
Chicago Record-Herald
Pennsylvania
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John
Japan
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Spokane
M F. Gibson
Wash
Lincoln
Stevens
Mr. Gibson
Wiliam Trimble
Collis P. Huntington
Europe
Montana
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