Utah State News Summary of Local Developments and Incidents
Weber club plans a new clubhouse and Ogden artisans form a seven member committee to prepare a new political platform. Brigham City merchants debate a half holiday for summer months. Salt Lake sheriffs gather June 15 for annual session. Provo property value climbs to 2.7858 million with state board adjustments. Thorne and Hayes avoid trial for Fassell murder until June. Milk samples show one good in twenty six below standard. A rock injures John Gordon at Brigham City court house site. Hand Cart Veterans form Daughters of Hand Cart Veterans association in Salt Lake. Western Pacific repairs along the lake shores progress. line to open soon. Ephraim hosts first Good Roads convention May 17 with regional officials in attendance. A hobo, Fred Beck, dies in a bonfire blaze near Ogden. Beaver City to get $75,000 water system funded by Salt Lake capital. completion within a year. Provo to vote on $80,000 water works and $110,000 electric plant bonds on May 24. Cora Wallace, a Salt Lake home resident, found with jewelry suspected stolen. Oregon Short Line surveyors in Cache Valley for Cache Valley branch improvement. Gabe Graham drowns after driver loses road near Ogden. Mrs Ellen Toms attempts suicide after husband deserts her. John J. Jones of American Fork hides $5,000 in a stovepipe. fire destroys the stable. William H. Brown, convict, returned from Lansing to complete thirty months.
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Weber Club
Ogden
Brigham City
Intermountain States
Salt Lake
Oden
Provo City
Herman Harms
John Gordon
New Court House
Gordon
Salt Lake City
Daughters of the Hand Cart Veterans’ Association
Western Pacific
Ephraim
Richard Lyman
Sanpete
Sevier
San Juan
Fred Beck
Hot Springs
Heck
Salt Lake Capital
Beaver City
Provo
Cora Wallace
Boise
Corps of
Oregon Short Line
Cache Valley
Brigham Young
Utah Central
Robert Graham
P. J. Moran Construction Company
Weber River
Ellen Toms
John J. Jones
American Fork
William H. Brown
Harry Tracy
Dave Lamp
Frank Edwards
Utah State
Lansing
Kan
Arbitration Likely for Philadelphia Transit Strike Settlements
A nineteen man committee from Philadelphia Rapid Transit barns voted to accept an AFL offered settlement. Details remain private but reportedly include elements of Mayor Reyburns March proposal. The 174 discharged workers may face arbitration while 28 have died in trolley accidents blamed on inexperience.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
American Federation of Labor
Reyburn
Taft addresses suffragists amid hissed remarks
In Washington President Taft, first president to greet a woman suffrage convention, admitted reservations about suffrage for women. He argued the ballot would be controlled by the less desirable class, provoking a storm of hisses he answered with a call for restraint in government proceedings.
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Washington
United States
Taft
National Woman Suffrage Association
Thinks Crisis at Hand Foresees National Hard Times
W C Brown president of the New York Central railroad warns of a looming national crisis from high living costs. He cites data showing consumption rising faster than production and compares the trend to two trains on one track, with the faster passenger train likely to overtake the slower freight train.
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New York
W. C. Brown
New York Central Railroad
Martin in Limelight on Philippine Lands Sale Clash
Washington report shows Representative Martin of Colorado compelling disclosure on friar lands sales and alleged sugar trust favors. The insular affairs committee said War Department documents answered the query, but the House tabled Martin’s resolution 144 to 121.
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Washington
Martin
Colorado
War Department
House
Insular Affairs Committee
Secretary of War
Olmsted
Tragedy at Turkey Track Ranch Ends in Death in Roswell
A. J. Luckle was shot and killed by W. J. Arnold at the Turkey Track ranch near Roswell New Mexico on Tuesday night. The duel began after an argument and both men sprinted toward the buildings for weapons. Luckle’s 12 year old daughter handed Arnold his revolver, and he used it to kill Luckle.
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New Mexico Ranch
Roswell
N. M
J. Arnold
A. J. Luckle
Turkey Track Ranch
Here
Luckle
Arnold
Lueckle
Colonel Cooper Granted Full Pardon in Tennessee
Nashville authorities report Colonel Duncan R. Cooper, previously convicted of killing former Senator E. W. Carmack and sentenced to twenty years, received a full pardon from Governor Patterson after the Tennessee supreme court affirmed the sentence. Robin Cooper, his son, awaits a new trial as the court split on the younger case with a dissent. The governor stated in the pardon that neither defendant is guilty and they lacked a fair trial.
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Nashville
Tenn
Duncan R. Cooper
E. W. Carmack
Patterson
Tennessee Supreme Court
Robin
Cooper
Supreme Court
Beard
Heroic Firemen Perish in New Haven Jail Fire
Six firemen were killed trapped by metal doors and barred windows during a jail fire in New Haven county. Three others were rescued by fellow firefighters after an explosion in the jail workshop caused a back draught and forced entry. People clung to a barred window as water was sprayed from outside before the roof collapsed and ladders were placed for rescues.
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New Haven
Conn
New Haven County
Imposter Claimant Loses in Melrose Estate Case
In Cambridge probate court Judge George F. Lawton branded the Dickinson, North Dakota claimant to half the Daniel Russell estate as an imposter and dismissed the case against the alleged Daniel Blake Russell after a record 194 day trial. State Senator L A Simpson, Dickinson claimant’s counsel, said the fight has just begun when questioned about an appeal.
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Cambridge
Mass
George F. Lawton
Dickinson
N. D
Daniel Russell
Melrose
Daniel Blake Russell
L. A. Simpson
North Dakota
Fairbanks Expedition Reaches Mount McKinley Summit
The Fairbanks party led by Thomas Lloyd reached Mount McKinley's summit on April 3 after a month’s climb from Fairbanks Alaska. Companions Daniel Patterson W R Taylor and Charles McGonnigle joined the ascent which surpassed the expected difficulty. They found no trace of Dr. Frederick A Cook’s ascent claim and planted an American flag on the rock summit while following Cook’s maps but could not verify any part of his story.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Mount McKinley
North America
Frederick A. Cook
Thomas Lloyd
Daniel Patterson
W. R. Taylor
Charles McGonnigle
Great Mountain
Cook
Gus Peterson
William McPhee
Hale and Hearty at 104 in Denver
William Taylor, born in Scotland and veteran of the Crimean Mexican and Civil wars, told Denver registration clerks on May 20 that he would be 104 at the city election. A Wesleyan disciple, he came from LaCrosse Wisconsin six years ago and says he reads fine print without glasses.
Pickpocket Profits by Stampede at Paris Opera Comique
During a La Tosca performance at the Opera Comique a box patron threw balls with a noxious compound into the hall provoking a stampede. A Dutch merchant lost 1200 dollars to a pickpocket during the disruption. Several arrests were reported with claims the act was a protest against Opera Comique management.
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Paris
Opera Comique
To Unite Blue and Gray Meet at Gettysburg Battlefield
Veterans of the civil war who wore blue and gray plan a reunion on Gettysburg battlefield this year. Lieutenant Colonel J A Walrous initiated the movement, promising to bring to light much historical data from the famous clash.
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Washington
J. A. Walrous
Rioting at Changsha Destroys Missions on Main Street
Report from Shanghai states natives attacked Changsha destroying three missions on the main street near rice shops. Governor said injured during the Yalmen assault with no known deaths. Rice scarcity and foreign propaganda fuel unrest, as British consulate was built by imported labor.
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Shanghai
Changsha
Provincelal
Roosevelt Honored by Austria in Royal Welcome at Vienna
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was received as a sovereign by Austria's ceremonial court. Emperor Francis Joseph hosted him personally at the Hofburg, signaling unprecedented esteem during the visit to Vienna.
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Roosevelt
Austria
Vienna
Theodore Roosevelt
Europe
Francis Joseph
Hofburg
Lockout spreads in German building trades
A German lockout in building trades began Friday affecting 150000 to 200000 workers. Berlin Hamburg and Bremen see limited participation while Munich shows wide spread tension between employers and unions. About 10 percent of employers refuse to join in sympathy with the workers. Roosevelt to attend Cheyenne frontier celebration, says Bonfils after meeting the colonel in Khartum.
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Berlin
Germany
Hamburg
Bremen
Munich
Landslide Buries Railway Camp in Quebec
An immense landslide started by a dynamite blast on Friday swept workers from a hillside near St Alphonse Quebec. The Haha Bay railway camp was buried under earth and rock with all nonescape, eight bodies recovered including Ladislas Gagne chief engineer and two Toronto assistants Willam O Brien and Joseph Jennings. seven are missing.
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St. Alphonse
Quebec
Haha Bay
Ladislas Gagne
St. Joseph
Willam O Brien
Joseph Jennings
Toronto
Ontario
Wage Dispute Settled for Nickel Plate Yard Workers
In Cleveland, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors resolved the wage dispute for nickel plate yard employees. Outside Chicago major points pay 47.40 an hour, minor yards 45 to 38 cents, with night work earning the highest. Chicago follow prevailing scale.
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Cleveland, O
Brotherhood of Railroad
Order of
Nickel Plate Railroad
Chicago
Nickel Plate
Woman Awarded 20000 Damages In Gasoline Fire Case
Rosalind Morris a severely burned girl from New York cannot wear a low necked evening gown due to burns from a gasoline fire after a car collision when her vehicle overturned by a surface car. She received 20000 of 100000 asked from the Metropolitan Street Railway receivers. The fireman who saved her was badly scalded and received a Carnegie medal for heroism.
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New York
Rosalind Morris
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
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