Annabella to be incorporated as Utah town by county board
County commissioners grant petition to incorporate Annabella. Other notes report rising living costs in Salt Lake area, a planned strychnine program for ground squirrel control in Tooele County, limited tuberculosis among Davis county cattle, and a strong Utah wool market with eastern buyers paying 18 to 22 cents a pound. Reports cover local deaths, an electrocution lawsuit, and civic meetings on interurban rail franchises.
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Annabella
Balt Lake City
Tooele County
Salt Lake
St. George
Salt Lake, Los Angeles
San Pedro
Davis County
Utah
P. G. Taylor
Weber County
Harrisville
Kane Commercial Club
Board of
Kanab
Utah County
Provo
George Johnston
East Lake City
Johnston
John
Bramwell
Fred Bramwell
Telluride Power Company
Hazel Astill
Sandy
B. c. Coter
Hooper
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Ogden
John Quincy Adams
Kanal
John Cramm
Kanal Dam
Adams
Edith Sutherland
Renator
George Sutherland
Robert Elmore
New York
Washington
California
Wiley Parker
West Weber
Parker
Alonzo Hadley
Salt Lake City
Fred Madsen
H. T. Warnes
Rasmus Henningson
Manti
Denmark
Hyde Arrest Follows Grand Jury In Swope Death Case
Dr B C Hyde, husband of the late Colonel Swope's niece, was arrested in Kansas City on a murder charge in the death of Colonel Thomas H. Swope. He appeared in Independence before Justice W F Loar and was released on $50,000 bond. A grand jury had been convened after a coroner’s jury attributed death to strychnine poisoning.
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Kansas City
Theengthy
Thomas HU H. Swope
B.C. Hyde
John G. Paxton
Swope
Hyde
Colonel Swope
Independence
W. F. Loar
Ralph 8
Latshaw
Conkling
Senate clashes with court over congressional summons
Washington discusses whether a court can compel congress to appear before it. The Senate instructs Senators Reed Smoot Jonathan Bourne and Duncan Fletcher not to comply with Justice Wright of the DC Supreme Court. The dispute stems from a Valley Paper Co contract for government printing office paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Committee of Congress
Senate
House
Reed Smoot
Jonathan Bourne
Duncan Fletcher
Justice Wright
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Valley Paper Company
Holyoke
Mass
Government Printing Office
Congress
Twenty Four Hour Transport Limit Debate Moves
Fred H. Gooding of Idaho secretary George Walker of Wyoming FE H Callister Salt Lake Peter G Johnson Idaho and President Stillman of the National Humane Society met with Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe to advocate a sixteen hour limit bill. The measure, introduced by Representative Wanger of Pennsylvania, sets sixteen hours as the maximum time livestock may be kept in a car during interstate transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fred H. Gooding
Idaho
George 8. Walker
Wyoming
National Wool Growers’ Association
FE. H. Callister
Salt Lake
Peter G. Johnson
Stillman
National Humane Society
Wilson
McCabe
Agricultural Department
Wanger
Pennsylvania
Spitzer Denounces Sugar Trust After Conspiracy Conviction
Oliver Spitzer former dock superintendent of the American Sugar Refining plant at Williamsburg protests the sugar trust after receiving a two year sentence for conspiracy to defraud by underweighing sugar. He says the trust deserted him despite twenty nine years of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sugar Trust
Oliver Spitzer
American Sugar Refining Company
Williamsburg
Atlanta
Martin
Spltner
Calhoun appeals ten hour law ruling before court
United States minister to China William J. Calhoun appeared before the supreme court of Illinois on Thursday seeking to overturn Judge Tuthill's July decision that the ten hour workday for women is unconstitutional. The ruling held the limit infringes on a woman's right to contract for her labor.
Child Drinks Poison in Denver Kitchen Tragedy
Edith Seman a 24 year old daughter of H W Seman found a bottle of carbolic acid in the kitchen Thursday afternoon and drank it dying within minutes. Other children nearby tried to take the bottle but she drank before they could reach her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Edith Seman
H. W. Seman
Pinchot Attacks McCabe Over Forestry Training Policy
Former chief forester Gifford Pinchot defending forest service rangers in New York cites solicitor George P. McCabe’s move to end collegiate forester training funded by government as a secret attack on the service. Pinchot calls the action cruel and a needless loss to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gifford Pinchot
United States
National Conservation Committee
Rangers
Forest Service
National Arts Club
Pinchot
George P. McCabe
Department
Morgan may testify on Ohio telephone deal
In New York J. P. Morgan might testify soon about his firm’s purchase of a controlling stake in the United States Telephone Co. of Cleveland and the Cuyahoga Telephone Co. Minority stockholders accuse Morgan’s firm of acting for American Telephone & Telegraph to acquire six Ohio and Indiana independents, claiming the deal violates antitrust rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
S ix
Ohio
Indiana
Senate to Probe Price Increases Across Goods
Washington reports the senate will launch a broad inquiry into rising prices of food and other necessities. A seven senator special committee will investigate value increases across daily life goods, salaries, earnings, and tariff effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Couple Murdered Over Failed Investment in Cleveland
Police say George Boscarde 29 confessed to killing John Janowski and his wife in their bed over a $60 debt he lent to Mrs. Janowski to secure her affection. Boscarde allegedly demanded repayment and struck them with a gas pipe, leading to their deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
John Janowski
George Boscarde
Boscarde
Janowski
Meyers Plan Near Approval in Naval Affairs
The house committee on naval affairs signals tentative approval of Secretary Meyer's navy reorganization plan. The panel will act next week, allowing the secretary to demonstrate the plan's value over the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer
Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Secretary Meyer
Head-on Collision Wrecks Car as Passengers Suffer
In Ogden Utah a motor car on the Malad branch of the Oregon Short Line collided with a passenger train in the railroad yard. The car was wrecked and thirty or more passengers were shaken up with at least three seriously injured. The car attempted to take the town track bypassing orders. Passengers say the car was a veritable death trap with no exit except a narrow doorway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Utah
Garde
Case
H. W. Logan
Twenty-second Street
Suicide Jump From Luna Theater Roof After Chase
George Johnston a laborer who had acted suspiciously in central Salt Lake City Tuesday night ran to the Luna theater on Third South street and leaped from a three story height via a fire escape. He died from a fractured skull broken jaws and crushed limbs. Police pursued him.
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Salt Lake City
George Johnston
Luna Theater
Third South Street
Guice
Farm Output Lags Population Growth Explains High Food Prices
Chicago report cites farm output lag as cause of rising prices. K P Plarrigus told the Council of North American Grain Exchanges that beef prices cannot fall while the U S has about 4,000,000 fewer breeding cattle in January 1910 than the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
K.P. Plarrigus
Council of North American Grain Exchanges
Pfarrious
Peculiar California Case Involves Dentist and Lung Complication
H W Pell won a $2000 judgment on Wednesday against Dr A A Shaw a dentist. The suit claims during a teeth extraction three molars slipped into Pell s lung and caused two years of tuberculosis like illness before the tooth was expelled by coughing revealing the true cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
H. W. Pell
A. A. Shaw
Pell
Prehistoric Relics Unearthed Near Cochise Arizona
Frank C. Erwin uncovering an irrigation ditch site fourteen miles from Cochise found utensils skeletons a twenty foot long wall and tablet like hieroglyphics with remarkable markings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
Arizona
Frank C. Erwin
Cochise
One Survivor of Shipwreck off Minorca
The General Chanzy ran aground on Minorca reefs in a night storm with 187 aboard and 186 perishing. Algerian customs officer Marcel Rodel survived and is hospitalized in Ciudadela after rescue by a fisherman. Passengers were mostly officials and their families, with a small mix of soldiers and foreigners. two Anglo names appear in an opera troupe.
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Palma
Mediterranean
General Chanzy
Minorca
Marcel Rodel
Ciudadela
Cayo
Algeria
Stakely
Algiers
Insiders Accused in Wella-Fargo Melon Scandal
A stockholder charges that Wella-Fargo insiders knew a 300 percent melon would be cut and tricked investors. An agent allegedly traveled nationwide to induce holders to sell above market yet well below the post announcement price. The case will be presented to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wella-Fargo Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Waterways Funded: 42 Million for U S Projects
The rivers and harbors appropriation totals 42 355 276 dollars with 7 206 430 earmarked for continuing contracts. An additional 7 000 000 outside cash is for future continuing contract expenditures. The bill serves as an annual budget though no rivers and harbors bill has been reported since March 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Largest alienation verdict in Brooklyn case tops 75 thousand
A Brooklyn woman, Mrs. Charles C. Hendrick, won 75 000 dollars in an alienation of affections suit against actress Laura Biggar allegedly responsible for alienating the plaintiff's husband Dr. Charles C. Hendrick. The verdict is described as the largest-ever in such a case. Neither defendant nor plaintiff attended the trial, though both were represented by counsel.
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New York
Charles C. Hendrick
Brooklyn
Laura Biggar
Hurricane Wrecks Village Near Lakeland Florida
A powerful hurricane hit the central Florida region with Lakeland area towns taking a direct hit. A station three miles north of Lakeland was nearly destroyed as the building collapsed, lines were blown down, crops damaged, and twenty five people in the station were injured or killed.
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Tampa
Lakeland
Bank of Highland Robbery in San Bernardino
A lone robber held up the Bank of Highland cashier and two patrons on Friday in San Bernardino California, escaping with a tray of gold believed to be under $1,000 after firing shots to deter pursuit. A sheriff's posse pursues the suspect.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Bank of Highland
To Cure Leprosy by X Rays Arrives for Experiments
Denver physician Dr HW Stover believes X-ray rays may cure leprosy and departed for Hawaii on Friday to conduct tests at Molokai leper colony. He carries a compact, specially built apparatus including a new invention.
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Denver
HW. Stover
Hawaii
Molokai
Stover
Richmond killer executed after nine murder case
Howard Little was executed by electric chair at dawn in the Richmond penitentiary for the September murders of Mrs Beasie Justin her son in law George Meadown and his wife and three children in their Buchanan county home near Hurley.
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Richmond
Howard Little
Beasie Justin
George Meadown
Hurley
Buchanan County
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Utah State News
Col
Thomas Swope
Wool Growers
Humane Officers
Spitzer
England
M'Cabe
Morgan
Florida
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