Utah state items highlight frost damage and local incidents
The Utah dispatch lists widespread effects from frost on beet crops near Moroni and house fires near Washington. It notes injuries from accidents in Ogden, Elsinore, and American Fork, legal and budget updates, and a push to regulate traveling licenses and establish a free labor bureau in Salt Lake City.
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Park City
American Fork
Lehi
Jacob Bastian
Washington
Utah
Summary of scattered early 1900s news items across multiple topics
A compilation notes suicides and bystander deaths in Columbus and Hobo ken, wage disputes on railroads, and a deadly longshoremen clash at a riot. Bankers meet in Santa Barbara with 372 California banks present. Panama Canal official David Ross to resign for Chicago business post. Goreville fire causes 75000 loss. Hawaii governor visits US, and Orrin Potter dies in Chicago. India plague deaths reach 455892, Punjab worst. Morocco agrees to French reparations over Mauchamp murder. Special delivery stamps phased out July 1. Five masked men whip a town marshal in Indiana. London conference backs an all British subsidized route to Australasia. Evansville streetcars operate with non union workers. New York governor elected NW Baptist president. Berlin building trades lockout affects 60000 workers. Missing Mexican mining figure J J Clarkson last seen in Guadalajara. Bank of Asher robbery suspects escape. Orizaba textile workers settle compromise. Topeka bank robbery admitted. 1880 Republican convention delegates to Chicago plan.
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David W. Ross
Panama Canal Commission
Chicago
Goreville
All
Governor Carter
Hawaii
San Francisco
United States
Roosevelt
Washington
Orrin W. Potter
Hilleteville
Ind
Oscar Morris
Imperial Conference
London
Wilfrid Laurier
United Kingdom
Australasia
Canada
Evansville
Louis
Nashville
Bohne
Hughes
New York
General Baptist Societies
Mining news roundup highlights Nevada and Utah activity
Ore shipments reported by Western Ore Purchasing reach 2428 tons. Schwab surveys Bullfrog mines while Carlin Nevada seethes over Lynn district placer gold. Park City production totals 3 681 760 tons. Anaconda Copper earns 8 842 669 in 1906 profits. Springville Utah launches Eva Mining. Lovelock Humboldt county strikes grow, Mountain View mine in Pine Idaho resumes development. Goldfield and Silver Pick Triangle issues surface amid corporate shifts as silver climbs to 71 cents.
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Tonopah
Western Ore Purchasing Company
Charles M. Schwab
Bullfrog
Carlin
Nevada
Lynn
Park City
Daly Judge
Silver King
Daly Weat
Ontario
John D. Ryan
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Sprincemont
Duck Creek
White Pine County
Fire and accidents across the west claim multiple lives
A series of incidents in 1900s West headlines report a Laramie fire destroying several business houses with $10,000 loss, miner D Bruen killed at Francis Mohawk mine in Goldfield Nevada, Miss Helent Murphy's death from spinal meningitis in Missoula Montana, and eighteen related cases in the city. A stampede at Keystone ranch near Trinidad Colorado kills 40 cattle after a 200 foot plunge. Additional notes cover a bunkhouse arson arrest in Silverton Colorado, broken bridges from ice on the North Laramie river, and various regional legal and political developments.
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D. Bruen
Goldfield
Nevada
Helent Murphy
Missoula
Mont
Keystone
Trinidad
Colo
James Dorman
Silverton
North
Laramie
Garrett Crossley
Gillespie Crossing
Rock River
Garrett
Wyoming
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
J. T. Carroll
Butte
Woodville
Helena
Clark Road
Gans-Nelson
Union Pacific Territory
Trousseau of Miss Fish Will Cost a Fortune
New York society circles buzz over Marian Fish bride elect with a $250000 Paris trousseau. A $50000 gown leads a dozen gowns valued above $10000 each. Her mother and a purchase team staged the wardrobe in six cedar chests, while the wedding moves from St Thomas to St Bartholomew’s. The Bible House stands dwarfed by skyscrapers, yet its 88 years produced 70000000 Bibles in 150 languages through colporteurs worldwide.
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New York
Paris
Trousseau
Marian Fish
Stuyvesant Minh
Albert Seabriskie Gray
Catherine of Russia
Mise Fish
Misa Fish
Heroof
Europe
Astor Place
Bible House
American Bible Society
Africa
Livingstone
Stanley
Estate Saga Lingers After Years Of Litigation
Daniel Riker died in 1850 leaving a vast estate and a tangle of lawsuits. A partition suit in 1873 triggered formal fights, missing heirs quests, and court delays that drained fortunes and produced deaths births and shifting heirs across generations. The lengthy dispute, likened to Jarndyce v Jarndyce, finally nears resolution after decades of legal wrangling.
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Daniel Riker
Jarndyce
Charles Dickens
Howse
Bible House and World Reach in Bible Translation Efforts
The article notes Bible translation efforts worldwide from early arrival of Western interpreters to modern projects in China, Japan, and the Philippines after Dewey's Manila victory. It also reports a long Williamsburg bridge property dispute, with heirs of the Havemeyer family awaiting final court decisions and salaries, potentially yielding about $220 per surviving heir from a once large estate.
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Peary
North Pole
China
Japan
Admiral Dewey
Manila
Philippines
Williamsburg
Havemeyera
Fifth Avenue
Court of Appeals
Jerry the Lug and the Tenderloin Characters
Jerry the Lug visits by Mr. Bountiful and gains trust to reach a hidden stash in a cigar box. His nimble fingers discern high denomination notes from low as he learns he inherits fifty nine dollars. Kentucky Colonel remains his steadfast ally guiding his nights in the Tenderloin where Jerry and Matches Mary were famed figures.
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Jerry
Kentucky Colonel
Mary
Hellevue
Tenderlols
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Salt Lake City
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Cedar City
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Mt. Pleasant
State Council of the Knights of Columbus
Ogden
Idaho
Co. L. Hutchings
Elsinore
Utah Grocery Company
Springville
Union Pacific Railroad Company
W. J. Shealy
Shealy
J. E.taylor
Pocatello
Samuel Newton
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Adams
Alata
Delaware
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Brooklyn
Tingey
State Board of Health
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Lindeman
Salt Lake
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W. E. Knowles
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Board of Land Commissioners
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Samuel Birne
Mira Island
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W. ©. Wallace
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A. A. Sands
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Schurz
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Pioche
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Ely
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Mount Nebo
Lovelock
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Trinity Range
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Pine
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Elliott
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McNeil's Island
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George Melville
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Guthrie
Pagslon
Miss Fish
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Jerry the Lug
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