Utah News Flurry Highlights State Events And Incidents
June reports show flag day observances statewide, new Mor mon chapel plans in Ogden, a severe knife attack in Ogden, and a Logan Providence streetcar talk. Other items include mining outing crowds in Salt Lake, a Heber Chase Kimball birth anniversary, and a 1911 Grand Council meeting site choice for Ogden.
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A. R. Ander
Mexicans plot revolution as troops rush to Cananea district
A Herald dispatch from Naco reports 63 Mexicans surrounded at a Cananea rendezvous were marched to be killed by troops. About 100 rifles seized. Cananea, site of a past uprising, now hosts 500 soldiers with more en route from Hermosillo to quell forest fires in the Ojo mountains. A prominent anti Diaz figure warns troops may be needed before the election. Border rifle ammo has been quietly bought up, leaving none available locally.
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Utah to present silver service for battleship Utah
Utah's silver service for the battleship Utah will have over 100 pieces crafted from Utah silver mined in state. J H Leyson Co of Salt Lake City was awarded the contract, with designs approved by Governor Spry's committee featuring the great seal sego lily and sea gull. The service costs $10,000 and includes trays bowls and dishes engraved with pioneer scenes and Utah landmarks.
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J. H. Leyson Co
Spry
Taft pushes record number of laws passed
Washington Republicans highlight that during Taft's presidency Congress enacted many major measures. Tariff revision, railway legislation, conservation policy, New Mexico and Arizona statehood, postal savings banks, and injunction regulation have moved through both houses, though the anti injunction bill remains for next session.
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Taft
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Arizona
Missouri Supreme Court files to oust five meat packers
Jefferson City petitions allege Armour Packing Swift Morris firms violate anti trust law and conspire to restrain trade. Hammond Packing and St Louis Dressed Beef Provisions are accused of controlling Missouri business as subsidiaries of National Packing.
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Missouri
Supreme Court
Major
Armour Packing Company
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
Hammond Packing Company
St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision Company
National Packing Company
Cotton Market Conspiracy Indictments Hug NY Trading
Federal authorities charge James A. Patten and seven others with conspiracy in restraint of trade under the Sherman act. Indictment names Eugene B. Scales Frank B. Hayne William P. Brown M. H. Rothschild Sidney J. Harmon Robert M. Thompson and Charles K. Little. Bail set at 5000 for five defendants as warrants issued for three. The case references coercive prices and links to Alabama Georgia and Carolinas mills.
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James A. Patten
Chicago
Eugene B. Scales
Frank B. Hayne
William P. Brown
M. H. Rothschild
Sidney J. Harmon
Robert M. Thompson
Charles K
Alabama
Georgia
Carolinas
Cannon Defends Old Rules in House Clash
In a late session address Speaker Cannon defended the house rules as amended by the Fifty first congress and criticized critics. He charged writers with ignorance and false promises. Congress then quickly passed two key administration measures the railroad and statehood bills, with the Senate having already acted, and Taft set to sign.
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Cannon
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Mann
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Dynamite Outrage in Polish Railway Station Attack
A bomb exploded among gendarmes at Gordgisik station on the Vienna railroad thirty miles away, killing one, wounding four, and injuring the chief slightly. The bomber was captured as authorities link the act to Radom violence. In Villepreux France a collision between the Granville express and a local train killed nineteen and injured thirty, with wreckage catching fire and service suspended.
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Four Drowned in Pleasure Boat Capsizing at Shoshone
Four men died when a pleasure boat capsized at Shoshone. The drowned are Helena A Gowney assistant engineer R Soper assistant engineer Don Calkina and laborer Soul Wall connected with the reclamation service.
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A. C. Gowney
R. ©. Soper
Assisant
Don Calkina
Soul Wall
Reclamation Service
Shoshone
Trust suit filed against Great Lakes Towing company
The U S government claims the Great Lakes Towing company located in Cleveland Ohio restrains trade and seeks to oust it from its charter. The suit cites interstate tug and wrecking operations from Duluth to Buffalo.
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Great Lakes
Department of Justice
Washington
Great Lakes Towing Company
Duluth
Buffalo
Roof Collapse Kills Atwood Ranch Pair In Kansas
J J Campbell 75 and his son J J Campbell Jr 28 died when the roof of an old sod house on their Thomas county ranch collapsed. The men were well known throughout northwestern Kansas.
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J. J. Campbell
J. J. Campbell, Jr
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Kansas
Flood Devastates Ahr Valley Killing Hundreds
Cologne reports conservatively 200 dead in the Ahr valley flood caused by days of heavy rain and a cloudburst. Eighty seven bodies recovered along river banks. fifty lives lost at Sault when a bridge collapsed. Many bridges destroyed and Italian and Croatian laborers perished in their beds as barracks were washed away.
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Governor Halts Jeffries Johnson Fight in California
California Governor Gillett banned the Jeffries Johnson prize fight planned for July 4 in San Francisco and ordered work stopped on the arena. Promoter Tex Rickard said he would move the event to Nevada, with Reno or another city as a likely site.
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James J. Jeffries
Jack Johnson
Tex Rickard
Convicts to Improve Roads at Montana Gaol Roads Session
Opening session of the Montana Gaol Roads convention in Billings featured W B H Geerer as speaker. About 1,500 visitors and 700 delegates from across the state attended, with many women present, endorsing convict labor for highway construction and county prisoner use beyond town limits.
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Montana
W. B H. Geerer
Senate Receives House Bill on Army Engineer Corps Change
Washington report notes the House bill would expand the army engineer corps and allow the president to supersede the reclamation service chief F H Newell with an army engineer director. The measure was sent to the Senate by the military affairs committee and a minority view is expected from Senator Dixon.
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Engineer Corps
Army
F. H. Newell
Reclamation Service
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Committee On m
Dixon
Amateur Aeronaut Killed In San Francisco Glider Practice
A 17 year old amateur aviator, Eugene Speyer, died after falling fifty feet from a glider attached to an automobile during a Friday practice flight in San Francisco. Speyer was the son of a wealthy widow of the city.
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Eugene Speyer
Speyere
Another Destroyer Launched Warrington for Government
Philadelphia reports the torpedo boat destroyer Warrington launched Saturday. Built for the government by the Cramps, the vessel measures 21 feet overall and aims to reach speeds of thirty knots per hour under contract requirements.
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