Utah News Roundup From Mt Pleasant to Salt Lake City
Mt Pleasant plans a laundry project while districts seek teachers. Lehi may get water works. Ogden sees burglaries. Hooper resident George Craythorne dies after a runaway. Eugene Dumault remains missing. Automobilists fined in Lopez? Salt Lake and Brigham City report half a million cans produced. Fire victim Mrs. Draney clings to life. Lillian Giles dies from matches fire. John Fleming, an insane transient, sent to asylum. May deaths total 285. state population 146 873. County schools seek consolidation. pension law for teachers debated. Local officials release Phillips, McFarland and Jennings in Daynes burglary case. Mildren Hush injured in wagon accident. Salt Lake boys head to Indiana camp. Child Elizabeth Von Kenel dies after ingesting carbolic acid. Salt Lake teachers push pension fund, new laws. Tingey releases Utah corporation laws and state constitution pamphlets. Joulah Heath arrested for assault. Stewart Jenkins killed by streetcar. Western Pacific labor improves. first division passes. Utah Engineers’ annual gathering a success with 190 attendees. William Craig promotes improved canning to prevent spoilage.
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John J. Fleming
Price
Utah
Heber M. Wells
Salt Lake
Phillips, McFarland and Jennings
Denver
Daynes
Rider County
Western Pacific
Elko
Utah Society of Engineers
Salt Lake City
Ogden
William Craig
Northwest Notes Roosevelts postmasters and Goldfield crises
President Roosevelt signed commissions for John J. Clapp of Basin Montana and Harvey A. Bocher of Lander Wyoming as postmasters. Telegraph facilities out of Goldfield are crippled by a strike. A Mont. collision at Yergen killed Conductor Harrison and Brakeman Durfree. Montana stockmen appeal forestry stock-off-reserve ruling to the circuit court of appeals. Barbara Reynolds shoots musician George Hurlbut in Portland. Goldfield awaits Denver convention impacts on miners and I W W. Goldfield gambling revenue noted at six thousand dollars monthly. Multiple fatal accidents across Nevada and Colorado including trains, blasters, and a railway wreck near Green Acres. Fourteen inches of snow at Butte, with damage to trees at Columbia Gardens. Justifiable homicide verdict in Butte over a wife shooting. Boiler explosion near Florence kills three Pueblo men. Drowning deaths in Boise River rescue attempt. An explosion destroys John Montgomery’s Agate road house. Rhyolite council to oust lot jumpers. Government survey may take control of property. Merchants foresee lower Goldfield prices. Mono lake drowning tragedy at Lake Sammamish. Anaconda smelter worker Butkovich fatally injured in copper furnace incident.
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Roosevelt
John 8. Clapp
Ba Ein
Mont
Harvey A. Bocher
Lander
Wyo
Goldfeld
Harrison
Durfree
Livingston
Yergen
Elrenit Court of Appeals
Montana
Butte
Lan Guage
Columbia Gardens
W. H. Garrity
Garrity
Rich mining strikes fuel activity in Good Springs district
The Seven Troughs area sees frequent rich strikes with Good Springs camp boasting numerous working and shipping properties. Nevada coal firms plan to avert a winter famine, while mines in Utah Idaho and Wyoming report high ore values and expanding operations. The Montgomery Shoshone mill nears operation as May coinage totals include gold and silver.
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Nevada
Good Springs
Fire wipes half of At tlea business section
A major fire destroys half the business section in At tlea while Cleveland endures extreme heat causing numerous prostrations. The week sees drownings, floods, and multiple accidents across the United States and Europe.
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Attlea
Cleveland
Ohio
Ryan Quits Wall Street to Enjoy His Fortune
Thomas F. Ryan ends his Wall Street career after 26 years, retiring to Nelson County Virginia to enjoy a fortune reported well above 100 million dollars. At 55, he may pursue a U.S. Senate bid, a long-held ambition, with his move signaling a shift from active management of major corporations. The piece also notes changing social attitudes toward divorce among the elite and how gossip circulates in society circles.
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Thomas F. Ryan
Wall Street
Europe
Giwantic
Ryan
Nel
Stock Exchange
Society hush on divorce subjects grows in New York
Society in New York now shuns open discussion of divorce and private marital matters. Some still gossip at affairs, but many pull away to discreet corners. Observers cite Abe Hummel and sensational trials as factors, while others say new respect for home privacy drives the change.
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Abe Hummel
Trafic
Gould
New York
Mrs Armour Plans Lakeside Estate Near Sagamore Hill
Mrs Philip D Armour widow of Armour Packing founder has quietly bought seven acres about three miles from Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay. The land, adjoining the Van Wyck farm, includes shore frontage and a depth suitable for a yacht. Purchase price about 1500 dollars per acre, with a single tract sale.
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Philip D. Armour
Armour Packing Company
New York
President Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Velt Place
van Wyck
Hooker T. Washington
Mra. Armour
Italian Crime Trends Rise In Italian Quarters
The piece notes growing convictions among Italian Americans as youths grow up in the city. It highlights willingness to testify against criminals, reduced fear of secret societies, and influence from Italian speaking clergy and settlement workers urging law obedience. A rise in Italian police presence aids in exposing crime.
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New York
Mafia
Black Hand
Lberty
Brown
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