Utah State News Highlights From Salt Lake City Dispatch
The report covers public gatherings in Gunnison over scarlet fever, a Salt Lake City census cost of 4125 with statewide estimate 27000, a fatal fall in Salt Lake City, a Mantle Light & Power plant fire, a deadly accident near Sterling, and a mangling incident at a Carlin train. It notes mass carpentry strikes in Ogden, fruit shipments from Weber county, Eureka debt clearance, a suicide attempt in Ogden, and a wave of farm swindles by a fake commission man. It also details a large Utah canning season, cement production statistics for 1909, Willard dog care petition, multiple arrests, and a Salt Lake bear capture by Ephraim trapper Frank Stevenson.
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National Copper Bank
Salt Lake City
Mant! Light & Power Company
Roldo Peacock
Sterling
Hyrum McFarland
Ogden
Carlin
Novada
Weber
Ralph Hogan
Hogan
Utah
Idaho
B.S. Bisaman
Commission
Weber County
Blute
Haines
Ulahic
Wagoa
Cocheron
Willard Bringhurst
Balt Lake
Layton Bank
Park City
Frank Stevenson
Ephriam
White Ledge
Stevenson
Senate Passes Administration Railroad Bill After Long Debate
Washington reports the senate approved the administration railroad bill Friday night after more than twelve weeks of consideration. Only twelve Democratic votes opposed the measure, which was altered from Wickersham drafts and by White House talks. Insurgents backed the final form, while pooling and merger provisions were dropped and a court of commerce retained.
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Washington
Senate
Wickersham
White House
Court of Commercce
Infatuation and Embezzlement End in Tragedy in Salt Lake City
Inez Carhill a 19 year old daughter of D W Carhill ended her life Thursday by taking strychnine after her father discovered she had embezzled 400 dollars deposited for land investment. He learned only 100 remained and she revealed the money was given to a man named Wright in Idaho.
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Salt Lake City
Inez Carhill
D. W. Carhill
Continental National Bank
Idaho
Carhill
Myrtle
Garfield
Inez
Disturbances in Nanking Threaten Foreigners
Consuls report in Nanking native disturbers display an insulting stance toward foreigners and have defiled the American consulate walls. Placards urge locals to rise and slaughter foreigners and plunder property. The US cruiser New Orleans along with German and Japanese warships lie offshore to safeguard foreigners if the situation worsens.
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Pekin
Nanking
United States
New Orleans
Explosion at Utah cement works kills seventeen workers
An early 20th century report says a premature powder explosion at Devil's Slide in Weber canyon, Ogden, Utah, killed seventeen men, including Hugh McGuire the foreman. The powder crew worked in a tunnel as hundreds of cans exploded, blasting bodies through the tunnel opening.
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Ogden
Utah
Devil's Slide
Weber Canyon
Union Portland Cement Company
Hugh McGuire
McGuire
Boulder Looting Gang Suspected After Week of Robberies
Police traced a citywide burglary spree to a professional gang but arrested three youths, Raymond Condon 12 Willie Nelder 14 and Earl Young 12. The trio confessed and guided officers to an abandoned shack in the town’s lower section where much of the loot was hidden.
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Boulder
Colo
Raymond Condon
Willie Nelder
Earl Young
Search resumes for Rogers in Alaska amid thawing snow
In Seattle Washington the search for Alexander C. Rogers son of Rear Admiral W G Rogers commandant of Puget Sound navy yard is renewed under Lt John Rogers brother of the missing boy The 21 year old left for Alaska last June after stories of adventure and last wrote from Valdez on July 10 never heard from again
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Alexander C. Rogers
W. G. Rogers
Puget Bound
Navy Yard
John Rogers
Commodore Peary
Northwest
Valdez
Murder Fire Claims Kent Building Janitor John Larsen
Chicago report states John Larsen janitor of the Kent building was killed early Friday. His charred body was found after a fire caused major damage to the structure. Police indicate Larsen was beaten then the room set ablaze, leaving him to perish in the flames. An unknown man from an adjacent building was heard arguing with Larsen regarding repayment of money shortly before.
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Chicago
John Larsen
Kent Building
Larsen
Peru to Withdraw Soldiers From Ecuadorean Frontier
Washington reports Peru has indicated plans to pull back its troops from the Ecuadorian frontier. Ecuador has not stated its own withdrawal plans or a response timeline, prompting officials to assign potential war responsibility to Ecuador if mediation fails.
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Ecuador
Peru
Washington
New Paper Making Experiment Fund Approved
Washington report notes the house adopted a Mann amendment to the sundry civil bill enabling the secretary of agriculture to conduct paper making experiments with a $20,000 appropriation. Swazey of Maine criticized newspapers for muckraking critics who oppose free wood pulp and paper standards.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
House
Mann
IiNnola
Bandits Storm Oaxaca Hacienda Murder and Robbery
A Vera Cruz dispatch reports eighteen bandits led by Santanon attacked Hacienda Bella Vista in Oaxaca. Manager Roberto Voight and two natives were killed, Mrs Voight bound and maltreated. Looters forced $4,000 from manager Guillermo Guinger at nearby Hacienda La Pomona. two more haciendas face attacks as a posse pursues.
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Mexico City
Herald
Vera Cruz
Santanon
Bella Vista
Oaxaca
Roberto Voight
Mrs Doxey Acquitted in Arsenic Murder Trial
Mrs Dora Elisabeth Doxey was found not guilty of murdering William J Erder with arsenic. She wept as the acquittal was announced. The case against Dr Loren B Doxey charged jointly with his wife will go to trial within two weeks per Assistant Circuit Attorney Newton.
Cincinnati Mother Jones Ill at Hotel After Nervous Breakdown
Cincinnati labor activist Mother Jones, long involved in major mine strikes, is reported seriously ill at a local hotel after a recent nervous breakdown episode that began days ago and worsened by Thursday.
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Cincinati
Mother" Jones
Young Man Held in Atlantic Express Wreck Attempt
Reno police arrested 18 year old C B Pryor a Southern Pacific detective says Pryor aided the attempt to wreck the Atlantic Express at Blue canyon He was taken from the Overland Limited and claimed he was bound for Spearfish after working in Bakersfield California
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Reno
Nev
C. B. Pryor
Morris
Southern Pacific Railroad
Atlantic Express
Blue Canyon
Pryor
Overland Limited
Spearfish
Bakersfield
Cal
Murder Charge From Thirty Years Ago In Toledo Case
Meade county officers seek Mike Schamberger to take him to Toledo to answer for a murder alleged thirty years past near Toledo Ohio. An alleged confession says his half brother Joseph Miller of Springfield confessed the crime and was bribed to keep quiet.
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Deadwood
Toledo
Mike Schamberger
Meade County
Parker to Lead New Bureau of Mines in Taft Appointment
Edward W. Parker chief statistician of the geological survey is slated to become director of the new bureau of mines. The announcement will be made by President Taft upon return from the western trip.
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Washington
Edward W. Parker
Geological Survey
Bureau of Mines
Taft
Hoy Wetern
Tortured by Fiends After Assault in Barn in Brooklyn
Pauline Krayveka, 10, of Manhattan, was lured to a Brooklyn barn where she was bound and tortured with hatpins and fists. She was robbed of $99 and a gold watch and can. James Murdock was arrested and admits presence but denies active participation in the attack.
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New York
Pauline Krayveka
Manhattan
Brooklyn
James Murdock
Murdock
Honor memory of Custer at Monroe ceremony
President Taft attended a Monroe memorial for General George Armstrong Custer. A bronze equestrian statue funded by Michigan’s legislature was unveiled by Mrs Elizabeth B Custer with Nevin J Custer among guests, recalling the 1876 Little Bighorn battle.
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Monroe
Mich
President Taft
George Armstrong Custer
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn
Montana
General Custer
Michigan
Elizabeth B. Custer
New York
Nevin J. Custer
Hare
The Wages of War
The United Mine Workers call a strike on Saturday with engineers firemen pump men and emergency workers among the deserters. Over 4200 miners have left mines leaving many Miners Coal Operators Association operations unprotected as water and other threats rise.
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Chicago
United Mine Workers of Uinons
Miners’ Coal Operators’ Association
Cowboy Shouts Trigger Foot Wound At Florence Site
J. I. Luny, a cowboy working on a local ranch, was shot in the right foot by Al Johnson after a whistled tune prompted a confrontation near a Florence store. Doctors fear amputation may be necessary.
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Florence, Cole
J. I. Luny
Luny
al Johnson
Johnson
Arbitration decision boosts pay for locomotive firemen
The 27000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen won wage increases totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly after a Chicago arbitration committee under the Erdmann act settled the dispute. The agreement prevents a strike and affects forty nine western railroads.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Arbitration Committee
Western Railroads
Street Cars Cause Fatalities in Chicago Report
A Chicago report to Corporation Counsel Edward J. Brundage notes 110 deaths from street car accidents between July 1, 1909, and May 31, 1910, with fourteen fatalities in May. Twenty injured were children under ten, many seriously, one stormy month also recording 22 injuries.
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Chicago
Edward J. Brundage
John R. Caverly
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Salt Lake
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Mother Jones III
Mining Bureau
Custer
Whistler
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