Acquittal in Utah colored man murder trial Ogden
Clarence Ernst, colored, was acquitted in Ogden for the murder of Charles Staples. Salt Lake route officials hold talks in Salt Lake City on railway reconstruction. Sidney Dibble, 78, Springville settler, found dead in bed. Park City rioting leads to arrests after knife injuries. Coal imports ease Salt Lake coal shortage. Union Pacific hotel repair funded for Ogden depot. Crawford loses leg from Salt Lake runaway incident. Mrs. Mary Dalley Campbell, pioneer and long-time Salt Lake city recorder, dies at 84. Kane County Commercial Club, one year, forty members. Park City Light and Power installs new system. Ogden woolgrowers plan local food warehouse for emergencies. Lorn Lorn, Huntsville, survives snowslide after ribs broken. Gas mains expansion at Ogden depot prompts large plant plans. Anonymous threats over parker fatality believed crank. Woolgrowers reelect officers. tariff stance unchanged. Good Roads program set for Jan 26–28 convention. Salt Lake Real Estate Association halts foreign labor import ads. Salt Lake police crackdown on women soliciting men in streets. Deserter Joseph Haley identified as Mains Street robber.
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Clarence Ernst
Ogden
Charles Staples
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Sidney Dibble
Springville
Logan
Red Light
Park City
Wyoming
Utah
Union Pacific
Ogden Depot
W. H. Bancroft
Alexander Crawford
Mary Dalley Campbell
Robert Campbell
City Recorder
Kane County Commercial Club
Kane County
Park City Light and Power Company
Observatory Peak
Gap
Lorn
Huntsville
Harriman
William Howell
Parker Faut
H. H. Henderson
Utah State Woolgrowers' Association
Salt Lake Good Roads Association
Spry
Joseph Haley
Main Street
Taft Seeks Thirty Million Bond for Irrigation
President Taft's conservation message urges a 30 million dollar bond issue to complete government irrigation projects. Delivered by Assistant Secretary Latta, the speech focuses on conserving land water forests minerals and power sites and inland waterways. Congress paused pension work to read the message, eliciting Republican and some Democratic approval.
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Washington
Taft
Latta
Chamber
West
Rule with an iron hand ends Madrid gunpowder plot
King Alfonso presided over a strict crackdown on internal unrest sparked by military revelations. He ordered the removal of Madrid's Count Villara and other captains general, and ordered arrests of officers linked to the conspiracy. Newspapers credit swift measures against a broader plot potentially aiming at a Carlist uprising under Don Jaime.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Morocco
Villara
Villadolid
Corunna
Valencia
Don Jaime
Fire Traps Miners in Colorado Fuel and Iron Shaft
A blaze started by a match dropped in a mule stable straw cut off 300 miners in No 2 mine at Trinidad Colorado. Officials say all escaped through connections to No 1 mine and Raney mine. Other Colorado Fuel and Iron crews were ordered to Berwind but the order was countermanded as the fire was brought under control.
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Trinidad
Colo
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Raney
Eagle
Starkville
Primero
Sopris
Japs Plan to Open Port Arthur Port City Trade
Japan intends to open Port Arthur to world commerce, according to Tokio dispatches cited in the Japanese embassy reports. The move would place Port Arthur on a footing like other commercial cities, not as a free port for duty-free or bonded goods.
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Washington
Port Arthur
Tokio
Hamburg
New York
Roosevelt Shoots White Rhino Cow and Young Rhino
News from a Smithsonian African scientific expedition reports the party traveled via native runner and canoe service up the Bar-el-Jebel river. Three African hunters suffer dysentery while the rest are well. Col Roosevelt shot a white rhino cow and a young rhino on the first night at Cape Rhino on the Congo side of the river.
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Roosevelt
Butiaba
Smithsonian African Scientific Expedition
Bar-el-Jebel
Africa
Col
Cape Rhino
Congo
Bar-el-Jebel River
Trade Ties With Germany Face Half Billion Stakes
Washington faces nearly five hundred million dollars in trade at stake as the Dingley era reciprocity with Germany expires February 7. If no understanding is reached between Secretary Knox and the German ambassador within a short window, general German tariffs will replace existing rates on all American imports, likely prolonging a costly brinkmanship before normal trade can resume.
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Washington
America
Germany
State Department
Dingley
Knox
Labor unions blamed for high living costs
Springfield, Mass. John Kirby Jr., president of the National Manufacturers' Association, charged the labor trust with driving up prices. In a Tuesday address he defended his group against a Civic Federation Review attack, saying unions raise wages and restrict production, eroding the dollar's purchasing power.
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Springfield
Mass
John Kirby, Jr
National Manufacturers’ Association
Labor Trust
Kirby
National Civic Federation Review
Jeffries Johnson Championship Fight Likely in San Francisco
Jack Gleason assured Monday night that the Jeffries Johnson title bout will be staged in San Francisco or nearby after filing for a permit before the board of supervisors for a forty five round ring fight this year. Local law now limits fights to twenty rounds. This marks the first permit request for a longer contest in years.
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San Francisco
Jack Gleason
Board of Supervisors
Tragic Fate of the Man of Mystery in Venice Factory
Venice, Al-Soul Smith known as The Man of Mystery and said to be a French nobleman, died after being crushed at a local factory on Monday. He lived on a harbor house boat and only recently worked in manual labor after thirty two years in the area, reputedly saving thirty two lives from the Mississippi River.
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Venice
Soul Smith
Smith
Mississippi
Made Business of Marrying Baron in Bigamy Scams
Hoboken authorities declare Baron Emil Kar von Mueller arrested in Los Angeles on a bigamy charge. Police allege he, also known as Von Der Hagen, practiced the crime on a wholesale scale, victimizing at least fifty women across New Jersey and California over the past ten years.
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New York
Emil Kar von Mueller
Hoboken
Los Angeles
Cal
von Mueller
von der Hagen
Here
California
Brutal Abuse Allegations Hit Atlanta City Stockade
An investigation by a grand jury found cruel treatment at the Atlanta stockade. Superintendent Gay D. M. Vining, suspended, and guard Pete Cornet were found guilty of assault and battery for beating Floyd Green, a Black inmate, including bucking machine and wall suspension. Vining, 73, led the facility for 15 years.
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Atlanta
Gay D. M. Vining
Atlanta City Stockade
Pete Cornet
Floyd Green
Captain Vining
Green
Vining
Stockade
Pinchot's Successor Named Forester and Associate
President Taft appoints Henry S. Graves director of the Yale Forest School to succeed Gifford Pinchot as United States forester. Albert F. Potter becomes associate forester, continuing Pinchot policy and lineage. Graves led the Yale forest school since 1900 after serving in Pinchot’s division. Potter hails from California, joining the forestry staff nine years ago.
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Washington
Taft
Henry 8. Graves
Yale Forest School
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Albert F. Potter
Pinchot
Graves
Division of Forestry
Potter
Overton W. Price
California
West
Plea for Open Range At Livestock Association
Dwight B Heard of Phoenix urged scientific use of open range at the American Livestock association session. He said forestry irrigation and grazing are inseparable and that federal control is essential for grazers on public lands. Denver speakers discussed farm range evolution and cattle raising in Argentina and Japan.
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Denver
American Livestock Association
Dwight B. Heard
Phoenix
C. J. Gavin
Herbert W. Mumford
Ilinois Agricultural College
Argentina
Issa Taminura
Livestock Industry
Japan
Tragic loss of iron steamship Czarina off Coos Bay
The iron steamship Czarina bound for San Francisco foundered on the North Spit of the Coos Bay bar after a storm. Only one survivor, Harry Kentzel, second engineer, amid heroic life saving efforts by Marshfield crews. Six crewmen perished after taking to the rigging.
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Marshfield
Ore
North Pacific
Czarina
Coos Bay Bar
Harry Kentzel
United States
San Francisco
Kentzel
Confession in Gunness murders raises new details
The Post Dispatch cites a claimed confession by Ray Lamphere, who died in Michigan City penitentiary. It alleges Lamphere and a woman accomplice chloroformed Mrs Gunness and three children, disputes Jennie Olson’s death, and claims Lamphere aided in disposing of three male victims including a possible third husband.
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St. Louis
The
Post-Dispatch
Ray Lamphere
Indiana
Michigan City
Kelle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
EB. A. Schell
Lamphere
Lien
Battle at Acoyapa reported amid censorship in Nicaragua
Washington reports a battle at Acoyapa with Chamorro and Vasquez in action between midnight and daylight Thursday. Zelayan forces retreat toward Managua as Estrada’s army advances in three divisions, Chamorro leading with American manned batteries at Rama.
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Washington
Acoyapa
San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Hatrada
Chamorro
Vasquezz
Zelayan
Managua
Estrada
Acoyopa
Watch
Rama
Messages and Money In Congress Fortifications Bill Passes
Washington report notes the house approved the fortifications appropriation exceeding five million dollars. The senate debated granting four million in claims for postmasters who served 1864 to 1874, amid partisan friction and a Pen-initiated attack against claim agents. Also discussed was destroying about 1,000 tons of old public documents including messages from presidents to Congress.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Penrose
House
Congress
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