Utah News Roundup Highlights Local Events and Incidents
Brig ham City hosts peach day on September 16. Willard Power supplies Ogden streetcar power. Reclamation work on the Straw berry project paused awaiting funds. Moffat road to run Denver to Salt Lake City trains within two years. Idaho marksmen win gun club shoot in Salt Lake City. Orden High School may open in September. Tragic infant deaths linked to impure milk from city dairies. two-year-old also dies from same cause. Southern Pacific freight traffic may curb Ogden shop payoffs. Ogden merchants facing law enforcement over violations. Mrs. Laura Miner dies at 72. respected judge’s wife. KM Whipple, famed Ogden journalist, dies in El Paso TB hospital. Oxden businessman John C. Baker near death after self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Typhoid outbreak on desert near Cisco with four deaths. Joe Starkey shot in Bingham aftermath. Frank Conelda in jail. Fire destroys barn and hay near Heber. $2,000 loss. Ogden school population falls. Greeks influx noted. Utah & Idaho Railroad Amends articles to connect Ogden-Lucia with major lines. Mrs. James Cook finds missing child dead on Southern Pacific tracks. Secretary Ballinger authorizes temporary power withdrawal of 240 acres along Ashley creek. Raphael Grange of Ogden dies after bicycle collision. legs amputated. Provo prohibition convention proposes anti liquor ordinance for county cities.
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Brigham City
Willard Power Company
Moffat Road
Denver
Salt Lake City
Idaho
Orden High School
W. P. Greighton
Salt Lake
Capital City
Frank Torgensen
Southern Pacific Railroad
Ogden
Laura Miner
Au Relius Miner
Utah
East Lake City
Whipple
United States Revenue Gauger
el Paso
Texas
John C. Baker
Oxden
Cisco
Joe Starkey
Frank Conelda
Bingham
Starkey
Coneida Ia
Jact
William McDonald
Heber
Utah & Idaho Railroad Company
Box Elder County
Cassia County
Ogden-Lucia
Central Pacific
Minidoka & Southwestern
Congress
Raphael Grange
Provo
Thaw Ordered Returned to Asylum After Ruling
In White Plains New York Justice Isaac N Mills denied Harry K Thaws habeas corpus bid ruling release would threaten public peace and safety An order to return Thaw to Mattawan was signed The decision upholds Thaws insanity and paranoid delusions and ends his bid for liberty The Thaw family and attorney reacted with shock as Thaw remained calm in jail
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Pittsburg
White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Isaac N. Mills
Thaw
Stanford White
Mixed Her Husband Divorce Suit in Error
In San Francisco William M Melton, long dead, was named in error in a divorce suit by his widow through a clerical mix up. The plaintiff meant her second husband William Rolleri and must refile, awaiting a new default judgment after correcting the names.
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San Francisco
William M. Melton
Superior Court
Clymena Rolleri
Fort William Declares Martial Law Amid Labor Riot
The city of Fort William Ontario is under martial law for the first time in its history after a clash between 1,000 striking dock laborers and Canadian Pacific police. Twenty four men were injured and three killed including Chief Ball of the railway police and two strikers. A militia unit was mobilized after Mayor Pelletier read the riot act as rail workers pinned down twenty five constables inside the CP bunk house and fired at the building before police stopped the assault.
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Fort William
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Ball
Railway Company
Pelletier
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Change of rulers in Bolivia as Villazon takes office
Elidore Villazon was inaugurated as president of Bolivia on Thursday succeeding Ismail Moutt. He is believed to favor Argentina’s award in the Bolivia Peru boundary dispute, sparking expectations of disorder which have not occurred. The opposition among lower classes targeted General Manuel Jose Pando, the new foreign minister, for supporting the Argentina award.
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la Pas
Bolivia
Elidore Villazon
Ismail Moutt
Villazon
Argentina
Peru
Manuel Jose Pando
Sheriff ends evictions in McKee's Rocks strike zone
Pittsburg. The Allegheny county sheriff refused to continue evictions of strikers and families from Pressed Car company houses at McKee's Rocks. He asked the company for deputies to move furniture but says the company refused. He will not allow deputies to carry out further furniture removals. Rioting continued in the Schoenville strike zone, with a foreigner killed, fueling intense excitement.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Pressed Car Company
McKee's Rocks
Schoenville
Flood Keeps Monterey Reeling After Santa Catarina Burst
A storm flooded Monterey Mex causing extensive destruction and at least fourteen deaths with estimates as high as fifty. The Santa Catarina river overflow swept San Luisville district washing away many homes, damaging over six hundred houses, and leaving most survivors destitute.
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Monterey
Mex
Santa Catarina
San Luislle
Local option law upheld by Idaho district court
Judge Wood in Boise rules the local option law constitutional despite imperfection. Liquor interests challenge the act as an appeal from Ada county commissioners ordering September 8 election. Court acknowledges flaws but finds no constitutional repugnancy. An appeal to the supreme court may occur, though ruling expected after election date.
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Boise
Idaho
Wood
Ada
Supreme Court
Baker urges new independent Panama line to aid U S commerce
Baltimore financier Bernard N. Baker reports to President Taft on alleged discriminations by the Panama Railroad and Panama Steamship Company. He proposes government support for independent steamship lines on both coasts linking with the railroad, while not proposing government operation of ships.
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Baltimore
Bernard N. Baker
Taft
Panama Railroad
Panama Steamship Company
Baker
Plenty of Work for Unskilled Laborers
Washington reports 3000 persons found work in six weeks via the information division of the department of commerce and labor Most were sent to northwest wheat fields though factory labor is also in demand The division limits itself to unskilled labor amid protests from labor organizations against government hiring of skilled workers
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Washington
Information Division
Department of Commerce and Labor
Northwest
Department
Division of Information
McHarg
Guests Lose Lives in Vernon BC Hotel Fire
Eleven people died and four were injured when the Okanagan hotel in Vernon British Columbia burned in the early hours of Tuesday. The brick veneer structure housed about sixty guests mainly laborers. Firemen arrived to find both stairways engulfed in flames as the blaze spread rapidly through the building.
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Vancouver
B. C
Okanagan
Vernon
Tug Goes Down in Ocean Off Cape Ann
A naval tug Nezinscot capsized off Halibut Point while carrying anchors for the battleship Missouri. Three crew members were lost including the captain, while Captain Evans the surgeon and others drifted on life rafts. the surgeon drowned and others were rescued near Lanesville after a west gale.
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Rockport
Mass
Cape Ann
Missouri
Nezinscot
Portsmouth
Boston
Halibut Point
Ain
Lanesville
Evans
Father Slain by Son in Duluth, Boy Arrested
J H Ostby a prominent Duluth grocer was shot and killed by his 11 year old son at home on Wednesday night. The boy was arrested and would not speak. Family dispute over a funeral bill reportedly preceded the tragedy.
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Duluth, Minn
J. H. Ostby
Duluth
Engagement Reveals Royal Blood of West Virginia Senator
A London cable reports Senator Henry G. Davia of West Virginia has royal lineage through his granddaughter Katherine Elkins as she becomes engaged to the Duke of the Abruzzi. Mrs. Albert Levin Richardson in London finds Davia’s ancestors descend to AD 814 during Charlemagne’s era through Italian kings, tracing a long royal line.
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New York
Henry G. Davia
West Virginia
Katherine Elkins
London
Albert Levin Richardson
Baltimore
Davis
Idaho Youths Accused in Fatal Mud Lake Family Tragedy
In Idaho Falls Idaho a mother Mrs Augustine Pierce and son Edward are accused of complicity in a fatal case involving Gustave Pierce at Mud Lake Fremont county thirty five miles from the Oregon Short Line railroad The younger son Paul admits to striking his father and says his mother and brother helped bury the corpse after a coffin was made from barn boards A neighbor BIL Williams prompted arrests by questioning disappearances Mrs Pierce and Edward were found camping near the city and jailed The Pierces once owned 320 acres of prime land and earlier a sanity dispute led to Gustave being jailed and later released.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Augustine Pierce
Edward
Gustave Pierce
Mud Lake
Fremont County
Oregon Short Line
Paul
Wiee
Bil” Williams
Pierces
Pierce
Seventeenth National Irrigation Congress Closes
The Spokane gathering adjourned after electing officers and naming Pueblo Colorado as next meeting site. Resolutions praised Pinchot and Newell, urged a 10 million irrigation fund from Congress, and commended the Mississippi deep waterway. Richard W. Young of Utah and L. Newman of Montana were elected second and third vice presidents.
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Spokane
Pueblo
Colo
Pinchot
Newell
Forestry and Reclamation
Congress
Mississippi Deep Waterway
Seventeenth National Irrigation Congress
Richard W. Young
Utah
L. Newman
Montana
Youths Rob Bank in San Francisco Valley Bank Heist
Two masked youths armed with shotguns robbed the Valley Bank of Santa Clara shortly after 10 p m and seized 7000 dollars from the cashier and three clerks. They fled in a waiting car but were captured two hours later seven miles away without resistance. Both suspects appeared to be under 18 and this was likely their first crime.
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San Francisco
Valley Bank of
Santa Clara
Got Even With Jokers Becomes Bees Sting Prank
In Aspenwall Pennsylvania Stephen Swarts sought revenge on jokers by placing a keg with an ice cake. A guest released two pecks of mad bees from the keg stinging Swarts and his friends about five hundred times. The bees were imprisoned to swarm.
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Aspenwall
Stephen Swarts
Swarts
Snitz
Swartz
Steve
Swarta
Brutal Murder at Lodging House in San Francisco
Agnes Brascesso, a young laundry worker, was found dead in a Post Street lodging house room. The body showed a cut throat and a severely battered head. Found by L D Prosser, the room was shared with George Curry, a motorman and paroled convict from San Quentin. Curry later died by his own hand.
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San Francisco
Agnes Brascesso
Post Street
George Curry
L. D. Prosser
Prosser
Curry
San Quentin
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