Utah Statek News Roundup of Accidents and Developments
A windstorm at Green River damages the new jail roof and wall while Green River plans an artificial dye plant. Notable items include: a Colorado mine fatality, fence plans for Ogden canyon road, a broken jaw from a ball game, Springville art institute works, a Sevier county arm injury, a Washington county fatality, Hooley estate going to two children, Park City horse collision, Geneva lake resort remodeling, arm injury requiring amputation, a Rio Grande train fatality, a lamb with two mouths at Mt. Pleasant, possible Salt Lake streetcar strike, miners killed by dynamite at Frisco mine, a Fillmore fatality, Park City burglary, Cedar valley farming company formed, Ogden scenic railway project, Brigham City building boom, Riverton poisoning death, census figures for Utah, and Mexico earthquake evacuees. The Italian miner death from scalding coffee is noted.
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Fred Skinner
East Lake City
Colorado
Weber County
Ogden Canyon
J. Edward Gibbs
Weet Portage
Springville
Jakeman
Sevier County
Francis Hartley
Washington County
William T. Hooley
Edna Alf
Northwest Notes and Frontier Incidents Across West
Contractors began work on the Caliente and Ploche railroad last week with an expected three month completion. Fatalities include 16 year old BE Miler hit by a band car handle near Harper Wyoming and George Murphy shot at Darby Nevada for refusing fishing at a government dam. Other items: several deaths from accidents in Forsythe Montana and Redcliffe California. political shifts in Colorado vetoing an anti-sussion bill. Mrs. Farley travels from Dublin to Butte as her miner husband dies of pneumonia. a Carson woman receives a $1000 education fund. Roy Waltz, 19, from Sacramento crippled after brake beam accident near Reno. Montana court overturns a $25,000 Olson verdict. land office registrar dispute with William Wesley Brittain. Las Vegas saloon riot with Maloney killed. 82 year old Joseph Bray found kneeling in prayer. Laramie club to study monument to Bill Nye. Chicago burglar John Gerun recaptured. push for a Denver public lands convention June 18–20. Wyoming merchant W H Frazee heads to Salt Lake with Newhouse partners in multi state stores.
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Caliente & Ploche
BE. H. Miler
Harper
Wyo
W. H. Mills
Southern Pacific Company
Reno
Fallon
George Murphy
United States
Darby
Nevada
Shafer
Murphy
Government Dam
Martin Cole
Forsythe
Mont
Otto Snyder
Jennies
Carroll
Southpassa City
James J. Maehl
Curtis Street
Denver
Neef Bros. Brewing Company
Redcliffe
Cal
Buchtel
Colorado
General Assembly
James A. Farley
Dublin
Butte
Farley
Milton M. Detch
R. L. Colburn
Mamie Benning
Carson
Arlington Hotel
Roy Waltz
Sacramento
Las Vegas
John Maloney
Joseph Bray
Leadville
Colo
Bray
Laramie
Nevada mining boom and new exchanges surge across the West
The Nellie mine at Horseshoe Bend Nevada reports a great strike. Rosebud Nevada opens a mining exchange limited to seventy five members. Pallendoi Zenalia ships ore averaging 1500 dollars per car. Beaton Montana declares dividends. Beatty Nevada rises as a mining center with new ore bodies and railheads. Nevada and surrounding states see active development with many mills reopening and large investments in Mexico.
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Horseshoe Bend
Hiaha
Rosebud
Nevada
Patrick Sheehan
Lost Packer Company
Loon Creek
Idaho
Bank robberies and unrest dominate early 1900s headlines
Bank of Hazleton Iowa robbed of four thousand four hundred dollars. Bankis Louisiana desperadoes wounded five during lynching attempt. Lodz killings rise in labor feuds. several robberies target Farmers and Merchants bank in Bisbie. National Teachers association to meet in Los Angeles July 8 to 13. USA Steel sets rails price at twenty eight dollars per ton. Mrs Aggie Myers jailed for life for Kansas City murder. Esther McNeil dies at 94 in Fredonia New York.
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Adeehaa
Europe
France
Lodz
Russian Poland
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Bisbie
L. T
Los Angeles
National Teachers’ Association
United States Steel Corporation
Aggie Myers
Jefferson City
Kansas City
Esther McNeil
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Fredonia
N. Y
Raleigh
N. C
Cc. L. Scruggs
Assembly of New York
Amateur Athletic Union
C. B. Berkley
Department of Geology
Columbia
Mexico
San Francisco
United States
Hughes
Bingham
New York City
Smith
Georgia
Indiana
Charles W. Fairbanks
Warsaw
Door Latch From Prairie Farmer Idea
A reader describes a corner door latch crafted from an old buggy top joint bolted to a door. The opposite end swings free while a crib side is bored to fit a latch, with the carriage top bar bent to lock the end into a hole. The design reportedly resists rubbing open.
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Prairie Farmer
Corn Testing Reveals Seed Vitality Lesson
Prof. P. G. Holden notes that judging corn by eye fails to reveal weak vitality. At Iowa State College Ames many students tested 40 acres over two days, comparing field results with germination records. The trap showed all made mistakes, proving vitality cannot be judged without germination testing.
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Iowa
Ames
Ita
Prof
P. G. Holden
English tarred roads provide cheap road surfacing
The Birmingham method uses dry sweep cleaning tar and sand to create a surface resembling asphalt. A second tar coating is added after two to three weeks for durability. Beckenham tests with tar oil dry quickly and wash away in rain, offering lower cost but requiring more frequent renewals and limited material supply.
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Birmingham
England
Beckenham
Farm Work for Higher Yields This Year
Plan thorough corn field cultivation before planting paya big. Provide pasture for hogs and remove chip piles to thin ground. A three row thick evergreen windbreak around house barn and yards will conserve fuel and boost comfort for people and livestock.
Irrigation in France Under Private Management
A Paris Academy report notes farmer ignorance and conservation hinder irrigation enterprises backed by private capital. It urges government control and water sold by volume rather than fixed flow to let each farmer receive the exact amount his land requires.
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France
Academy of Sciences At
Paris
Furnishing a Litang Room with Discarded Furniture
The article describes transforming an old drawing room by using discarded furniture with flower patterned cretonne, slip covers, and dyed carpets to create a cohesive plain toned, charming living room. Cretonne window treatments and a marbletopped table tied the look to a sunny bay window.
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Cretonne
Peppers stuffed with Malaga Brapesa recipe idea
A hostess surprise features large green peppers hollowed and filled with Malaga Brapesa grapes. After stuffing the tops are replaced and the peppers chilled in the Icebox for about two hours, served on a watercress bed. The instructions note a light mayonnaise dressing and halved seeded grapes.
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Malaga
Diet for Invalides and Light Foods
A physician prescribes a light easily digested diet for the invalid. Heavy meats are avoided and only short grain flesh like chicken, game, and rabbit is allowed. Oily and pink fish such as salmon are excluded. white fish is preferred with whiting noted as the best, often stewed in milk rather than fried.
Borax Recipe Said To Rid Kitchens Of Cockroaches
In kitchens where roaches are found, powdered borax should be sprinkled around the fireplace and into corners infested by insects. When swept away, replace it immediately and persistently. With steady use, the kitchen will be free of pests in a surprisingly short time. It is wise to repeat Borax occasionally even after clean.
Store Winter Clothes With Hangers For Wintergn Storage
To store winter clothes use ample closet space with garments kept on hangers. Enclose in a dust and moth proof muslin bag with drawstrings top and bottom. Soak bag in strong turpentine, air out fumes, then fit bag around clothes and hanger and tighten strings. Furs may be preserved similarly.
Household First Aid Instructions From Ancient Remedies
The fragment advises actions for choking and throat irritation, including coughing while on all fours, applying a mustard poultice with examphorated oil, and gargling salt and baking soda solution. It also prescribes treating insect stings or bites with a paste of starch powder, chloroform, and eau de cologne applied immediately.
Velvet Muffins Recipe Steps
Cream two tablespoons butter and sugar. Beat two egg yolks with one cup milk. Stir in one quart sifted flour with two teaspoons baking powder and half teaspoon salt. Fold in stiff whipped egg whites. Bake in hot greased irons until blisters appear.
Chocolate Whips Dessert Recipe From Pages
Scald one pint of milk and beat yolks from three to four eggs slightly. Add four tablespoons sugar, one ounce of chocolate, and one half saltspoon of salt. Flavor with vanilla and pour on hot milk slowly. Cook in a double boiler until thickened. Chill, then whip half pint of cream. Fill glasses with custard and top with whipped cream before serving.
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Owen Greenan
Serlowa
Geneva Lake
Utah Lake
Fred Blickensderfer
Salt Lake
M. M. Brown
Wood's Cross
Rio Grande
Brown
Mt. Pleasant
Leon Torrey
Frisco
George Jennings
Mra
John Starley
Fillmore
C. N. Prisk
American Fork
Provo
Cedar Valley
Sutherland Amusement Company
Ogden
Ogden Sanitarium Resort
Brigham City
Perry
Daniel Densley
Riverton
Ben
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Noble Warrum
Utah-Mexiican Rubber Company
Sanseen de Vaptista
Tomenteo
Northwest
Supreme Court of Montana
Alice Olsen
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
District Court of
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Olson
Heinze
Amalgamated
Sheridan
Wye
W. F. Brittain
Buffalo Land Office
Senate
William" F. Brittain
Wesley
Roosevelt
Brittain
John Gerun
Chicago
Tacoma
Day Jewelry Company
Colliege
W. H. Frazee
Wyoming State Senate
Balt Lake
Samuel Newhouse
Zenalia Company
Pallendo Ie
Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated
Nevada Northern Company
Utah Copper Company
Sinaloa
Sonora
Coachuita
Durango
Nueva Leon
Beaton & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Company
Bamberger-De Lamar
de Lamar
Nev
Beatty
Golden Eagle
Government Creek
Dry Susie
Maggle Creek
Lone Mountain
Elko County
Angels Camp
California
Utica
Matson
Stickles
Angels Quarts
Crystal
Lightner
Salmon
Jack Creek
Thia Creek
A. L. Ranney
Midnight Bell
Alpine
Lehi
Louise Consolidated
Willard
Utah Smelting Company
Fred Hillman
Mizpah
Bankis, la
Bank of
Hazleton
India
Bengal
United Provinces
Punjab
Pittsburg
Mary Johnson
Otte Johnson
Hegro
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