Utah State News Highlights Utah Developments
National Guard unit forms in Mt Pleasant. Ogden depot to be remodeled at $8000. Milford sheep shipments to Nebraska. James Newton escapes Moab jail then recaptured near town. Ephraim elder Nela 8 Peterson dies at 85. Park City woman dies from ptomaine tomatoes. Senate backs Salt Lake City assay office. Bountiful forms Commercial club. Kaysville sets 5 mph speed limit. Logan to build $25000 school. Price waterworks bond discussion. Ogden thieves steal cash register. Garfield to get a new bank and smelter town. Scofield assault and robbery. Spring City smallpox case. Washington county drains progress. Park City miner Marvin Mangum killed. Alta miner Beck injured. Walkingshaw and Eddy blast endangers Walkingshaw’s life. Wasatch Orchard prepares first asparagus crop. Provo dance hall license $26. Provo dance hall license ruleing. Continental Life Insurance criticism. Nephi excursion to Nephi. 500 aboard. Ogden armory ground broken. $20,000. Layton family reunion. Spanish Fork forms county society. Kaibab game preserve bill eyed.
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James Newton
Moab
Nela
Peterson
Ephraim
Thomas O'Keefe
Park City
Senate
Salt Lake City
Beck
Columbus Consolidated Mining Company
Alta
Daly West
Alexander Walkingshaw
John Eddy
Walkinshaw
Wasatch Orchard Company
Ogden
Provo
Miners Must Stand Trial in Idaho Case Move
The Idaho Supreme Court sustains the prosecution's motion to strike references to the Denver arrest and extradition of Moyer Haywood and Pettibone in the Steunenberg murder case. The Western Federation of Miners leaders must stand trial. prisoners to be housed in Canyon County Jail Caldwell. Vincent St John habeas corpus decision reserved. writ denied.
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Boise
Ida
Steunenberg
Western Federation of Miners
Messrs
Moyer
Haywood and Pettibone
Denver
Idaho
McDonald and Gooding
Supreme Court
Haywood
Pettibone
Vincent St. John
Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
Canyon County
State Penitentiary
Caldwell
Colorado
Susan B. Anthony Dies in Rochester at 86
Susan B. Anthony’s life ended at 12 40 am in Rochester after a long illness linked to double pneumonia and heart failure. Her attending physician Dr M S Ricker said the death followed an extended period of unconsciousness after she contracted neuralgia and pneumonia following a suffrage convention trip.
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Rochester
N. Y
Susan B
Anthony
Miss Anthony
Ricker
Baltimore
New York
Chicago Wins Victory In Street Car Control
The U S supreme court decision grants Chicago near total local traction control by upholding state acts extending street railway charters to ninety nine years. It rejects extending contract rights longer than the charter life and leaves city ordinances and contracts governing street rights intact.
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Chicago
United States Supreme Court
Money to Defend Officials in Denver Mass Meeting
A Denver mass meeting at Coliseum hall protested the arrest of Western Federation of Miners officials held in Idaho over the Steunenberg case. Eugene V. Debs was billed but did not appear, and no reason was given. Funds were raised to aid the defense of Moyer Haywood and Pettibone.
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Denver
Colo
Coliseum Hall
Western Federation of Miners
Idaho
Steunenberg
Eugene V. Debs
Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
Requisition for St John Denver Governor Looks to Idaho
Governor McDonald issues a requisition to Idaho for Vincent St John who is under arrest in Boise. District Attorney Selig of Telluride county Colorado filed the application. The move stems from the murder of Benjamin Burnham during labor troubles while St John led the union.
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Denver
Colo
McDonald
Idaho
Colorado
Vincent St. Johan
Boise
Ida
Steunenberg
Selig
Telluride County
Coolrado
Benjamin Burnham
St. John
Propositions Rejected by the Coal Operators
New York reports the United Mine Workers wage and condition readjustment proposals for the anthracite field were denied by the operators committee. As a counter proposal, operators seek to extend the current award system from April 1 for three years while maintaining open shop policy and declining to sign with the United Mine Workers of America.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Behring Strait Rail Route Proposal Gains Steam
In St Petersburg a favorable current grows for a Behring Strait tunnel and an all rail US to Europe line. Baron de Lobel, for the American Trans-Alaskan Siberian company, presses the plan, seeks Russian concession, with Premier Witte’s circle backing closer US Russia trade. Emperor Nicholas chairs a mixed commission where de Lobel will present on March 16 seeking eighteen months to arrange and ten years to finish.
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St. Petersburg
Behring Strait
United States
Furrope
Baron de Lobel
Trans-Alaskan Siberian Company
Russia
Witte
Siberia
Nicholas
Race War Report Shakes Wilmer Alabama
Sheriff Powers received a telegram describing a race war erupting in Wilmer a lumber town twenty four miles west of Mobile along the Mobile Jackson Kansas City line. Several whites and blacks were said killed. The violence began when an unknown black man fired into company houses at A V Pringle turpentine operator. Pringle was shot in the hand while seeking aid.
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Mobile
Ala
Powers
Wilmer
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City
A. V. Pringle
Price of Coal Will Not Rise in New York City
New York City will not see a coal price increase for hard coal, even amid a strike, according to a statement from the anthracite operators publicity bureau. The group says 9,000,000 tons are stored in and around the city and that fob prices will remain unchanged regardless of labor action.
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New York
New York City
Publicity Bureau
Boiler Explosion Kills Two in California
A boiler on locomotive No 1617 exploded between Cape Horn and Gold Run on the Southern Pacific line. Fireman D W Austin of Rocklin and Brakeman W P Frazier of Sacramento died. Engineer F Doran of Rocklin was fatally wounded. The blast, one of the mountain division’s worst accidents, was caused by low boiler water, likely due to the engineer.
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Gold Run
Cal
Cape Horn
D. W. Austin
Rockin
W. P. Frazier
Sacramento
F. Doran
Rocklin
Mountain Division
Census official arrives after Cuban halt in Isle of Pines survey
Vavapa Dryden Fulton, appointed to take the censns of the Isle of Pines, has arrived after Cuban authorities arrested him for lack of permission. He reports the census was nearly complete before the stoppage, with inland residents under 2,000, about 1,000 Cubans and around 700 American residents.
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Vavapa
Dryden Fulton
Isle of Pines
Guard Around Jail As Nephew Confesses Murder
In Pagosa Springs Colorado an armed guard surrounds the jail to prevent lynching of Carl Weir who has confessed to killing his Uncle Joseph Weir. The body was found on the Sun Inst in Blanco Basin about twenty miles from town. The victim reportedly had over $6000 in cash and drafts, later found in the nephew's possession at arrest.
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Pagosa Springs
Colo
Carl Weir
Joseph Weir
Blanco Basin
Awful French mine disaster shocks the nation
Paris reports a catastrophic mine explosion at Courrieres in northern France. About 1,100 dead and 6,000 families affected as rescue efforts continue amid fires and toxic gases. Officials, engineers, and neighboring miners race to retrieve entombed workers, with 691 survivors reported and many bodies unrecoverable.
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Paris
France
Courrieres
himMcalt
Courriers
Pit No. 4
Dublef
Gauthier
Reacuers
Women in Battle at Mount Dajo Ends in Mass Casualties
Brigadier General Elisa reconnoitered Mount Dajo before the American assault on the Moro stronghold. An unofficial report says Moros and noncombatants, including women and children, mingled in the crater village and were killed in the fierce attack. Wounded Moros from the recent clash are reported in favorable condition. Six Mindanao troops are en route home or ordered back as quiet returns and local leaders express satisfaction with the campaign.
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Manila
Elisa
Mount Dajo
Mindanao
Joly
Attempted Pass Between Cars Ends in Tragic Death
San Bernardino California. William E. Hopkins about 25 of Arlington Riverside county was killed Sunday night in the Santa Fe yards at Colton. Hopkins was traveling from Riverside to San Bernardino on the Salt Lake road when he stepped from the train and walked between two boxcars. A Santa Fe switch engine backed down and crushed him, the wheels cutting his body nearly in two.
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San Bernardino
Cal
William E. Hopkins
Arlington
Riverside County
Santa Fe
Colton
Hopkins
Riverside
Salt Lake Road
Banta Fe
Trouble Breaks Out In The Philippines At Mount Dajo
Major General Wood reports heavy action at Mount Dajo near Jolo from March 6 to 8 involving troops naval department the constabulary and Moros. About 600 Moros killed in the crater while Americans suffer eighteen killed and fifty two wounded. Colonel Duncan led the Sixth Infantry. Artillery was hoisted up steep lava ridges. General Wood commends the troops work.
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Manila
Wood
Jolo
Naval Department
Constabulary
Mount Dajo
Tita
Rivers
Fourth Cavalry
Agnews
Sixth Infantry
Gordon Johnson
Signal Corps
Ene Cook
Pampanga
White
Duncan
Officials arraigned in Steunenberg murder case
Caldwell Idaho Friday morning Moyer Haywood and Pettibone appeared before Judge Smith with no plea awaiting next Friday at 10 o clock to answer the murder indictment tied to former Governor Steunenberg. Indictment accuses them of supervising construction and placement of the bomb and arranging it to explode when Steunenberg opened the gate.
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Caldwell
Idaho
Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Sit- Ue
Pettibone
Haywood
Stennenberg
Admission of Oklahoma as new state by Senate vote
The Oklahoma and Indian territories are to form a new state named Oklahoma once a constitution is adopted. The Senate bill, after striking Arizona and New Mexico provisions, provides for two U S senators five representatives a 110 member constitutional convention and standard state offices. Eligibility for convention includes male Indiana citizens aged 21.
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Washington
Senate
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Burrows
Indian Territories
United Stat
National
House of Representatives
Indiana
Taft to Be Appointed to the Supreme Bench
The Post says President Roosevelt will appoint William H. Taft of Ohio, then secretary of war, to the next vacancy on the U S supreme court created by Associate Justice Henry B Brown’s voluntary retirement. When Chief Justice Fuller retires during Roosevelt’s term Taft will be promoted to chief justice.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Henry 8. Brown
Harrison
Michigan
Fuller
Taft
Death of George Weir Found Near Pa gosa Springs
Pa gosa Springs Colorado reports that the body of George Weir once at Leavenworth Soldiers Home was found in a bushes clump after a search for a missing ranch resident. His nephew Oral Weir, 22, is under arrest as investigators probe the elder Weir’s death.
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Denver
Pagosa Springs
Colo
George Weir
Leavenworth
Kan
Weir
Oral Weir
Five Mutual Reserve officers indicted for larceny and forgery
Grand jury returned five true bills charging Frederick A. Burnham George D. Eldridge and George Burnham Jr of Mutual Reserve Life Insurance with grand larceny in the first degree and forgery in the third degree. Alleged acts include payments of 9000 to law firms claimed to settle company claims but said to target actions against officers personally. Bail set at 12500 each. pleading next Thursday.
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New York
Frederick A. Burnham
George D. Eldridge
George Burnham, Jr
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Grand
Public Congo Reform meeting at Tremont Temple
Boston speakers outlined alleged Congo Free State abuses at a Tremont Temple gathering under the Congo Reform association. Attendees adopted resolutions urging President and Congress to act and pledged support for any measures the U S government may deem expedient.
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Boston
Congo Free State
Tremont Temple
Congo Reform Association
Congress
United States
Washington House panel trims executive and judicial budget
The house committee on appropriations reports an executive and judicial appropriation bill totaling 29,194,181, down from 29,822,580 for 1906. The reduction of 1,145,573 reflects fewer salaries by sixty five workers and 226 positions cut from the estimates. Several limitations on the appropriations are specified.
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Washington
House Committee On Appropriations
Mutiny On Steamship Massachusetts Ends In Death
On Thursday a mutiny aboard the steamer Massachusetts at Brooklyn dock led to one death. Firemen faced ship officers and crew in a revolver clash until police, summoned by nearby sounds, drove the mutineers into submission as the body of James Slocum lay among the strife.
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New York
Massachusetts
Brooklyn
James Slocum
Four youths confess sixth attempt to wreck express train
Four young men arrested near Passaic New Jersey confess the wrecking plan on a Delaware Lackawanna Western east bound Buffalo express. They say this was their sixth attempt near Poscale and their motive was to see the excitement generated by such an event.
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New York
Passaic
N. J
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Poscale
Bridge Tragedy Kills Marchioness Corsini in Rome
The marchioness of Corsini aged 62 and her husband aged 69 were killed when their car overturned on a bridge in Rome while attempting to avoid four approaching carts. The driver was the marchioness, formerly Princess Barberini, and the passenger was her husband. The accident occurred on a suburban bridge as they sought safe passage for the carts.
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Rome
Marchioness
Corsini
Barberini
Victor Emmanuel
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