Utah State News Roundup From Salt Lake Tribune
Senator Sutherland plans reelection before 2011 legislative session. York mine worker M J Hall injured in a premature blast. hospital in Salt Lake City. Springville Canning harvests tomatoes with 40 workers amid record crop prospects. Clarence Ernest to be tried January for shooting a man. Indian war records progress in county. Methodist Episcopal conference in Salt Lake City. fatal threshing accident near Holliday kills William Wayman. Ogden man fends off a panther with a pistol. Mrs. Catherine Harman fatally burned in Salt Lake City. Axter village townsite and large hotel construction planned near Denver Rio Grande. Uintah cattle dying from black leg. blanket vaccination under way. Weber and Davis farmers to meet about irrigation districts. Mukuntuweap canyon named a national monument by Taft near Orderville. Gunplay Maxwell buried in East Lake City. Blaylock burns threaten lungs in Ogden hospital. Rhodes scholarship exams set for October 19–20 at Utah. A G Anderson to move bee hives to California in winter. Williams family struck by lightning. both recover. Sheriff Wilson suspects Tran Olson in Uintah case. Olson insane and may be sent to asylum.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Sutherland
M. J. Hall
Hureka
Salt Lake
Springville
Commissioners of Indian War Records
Salt Lake County
Bhanpete County
Utah Mission
Methodist Episcopal Church
Salt Lake City
Holliday
William Wayman
Ogden Canyon
H. H. Melver
Ogden
Melver
Catherine Harman
Axter Village
Gunnison Valley
Denver & Rilo Grande
Uintah Reservation
Weber
Davis
Lagoon
C. KE. Blaylock
Oxford University
England
University of Utah
Utah
A. G. Anderson
Ferron
Anderson
Wilson
Weber County Beleves
Ie Tran
Olson
Omaha
Clark
Uintah
Cholera Outbreak Spreads Through Vitebsk and Rotterdam
A severe Asiatic cholera outbreak hits Vitebsk with 114 cases and 42 deaths in the last week, more intense than St. Petersburg. Rotterdam reports four cholera deaths and 42 contacts under observation while warning residents to boil water and milk. The Hague notes alarm across Holland and cancels the queen dowager’s planned Rotterdam visit.
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St. Petersburg
Vitebsk
Rotterdam
St. Petersbore
Hague
Holland
Princesses of Bentheim
Idaho county votes dry under local option law
Boise reports Canyon county in Idaho held the first election under the local option law. Canyon county went dry by 3162 to 1308 with Nampa and Caldwell both voting dry. Payette and Idaho county also approved the dry measure, while town and country precinct results varied.
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Boise
Idaho
Canyon County
Nampa
Caldwell
Payette
Idaho County
United States
Horrors of the Sea as Two Vessels Collide at Montevideo
Between 150 and 200 people drown or die in the collision of the Argentine excursion steamer Colombia and the North German Lloyd ship Schlesien at Montevideo harbor. The Colombia sank quickly after the bow was crushed. about seventy were rescued, most of the dead were women and children, while most survivors were men.
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Montevideo
Colombia
Bremen
Peonage claims surface in Pressed Steel Car case
The first testimony in the government peonage probe against Pressed Steel Car officials emerged in Schoenville where 3,500 workers on strike are alleged to have been forced to labor. Alexander Friedman, a Hungarian immigrant, testified he arrived from New York with around 100 other men under false pretenses and was confined after agreeing to overtime work.
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Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
Schoenville
Alexander Friedman
New York
Pressed Steel
Friedman
Spaniards Rout Moorish Defenses Along Moroccan Coast
Lisbon dispatches report general fighting on the Moroccan coast with Spanish artillery causing heavy losses to Moorish forces and 350 Spanish deaths. A column near Restinga destroys villages as prisoners are described as tortured. An deserter claims mass killings and 1,000 Spanish prisoners. Water shortages drive troops to drink from stagnant pools with 53 deaths from poisoning.
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Lisbon
Melilla
Restinga
Mount Guruga
Gunplay Maxwell Killed by Utah Deputy Sheriff
Price Utah reports gunman Maxwell known as Gunplay Maxwell was shot and killed by Deputy Ed Johnston after drawing a revolver during a confrontation. The incident followed Maxwell and an accomplice attempting a bank robbery in Springville in 1898. Maxwell had a long criminal history and was pardoned after aiding in a prison uprising.
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Maxwell
State
I la
Tragic Sea Tale From Makura Wreck Off Middleton Reef
The Makura reports the wreck of the Norwegian bark Carrol after striking Middleton reef on June 18. Only five of twenty two survived the ordeal, rescued by the steamer Tofu. Captain Anderson and the second mate died building a raft. Anderson’s wife, after watching others perish, killed her four children and then herself, believing survivors might resort to cannibalism.
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Victoria
B. C
Australia
Middleton Reef
Tofu
Anderson
Start of radium ore search in United States
Denver reports a Walsh backed movement to locate radium ore in the United States. The Vinson Walsh research department at Golden’s Colorado School of Mines will test samples of pitchblende free of coal and keep results confidential. A $5,000 check funds preliminary costs and the school may provide samples to help prospectors recognize pitchblende.
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Denver
United States
Thomas F. Walsh
Vinson Walsh Research Department
Colorado State School of Mines
Golden
Walsh
Taft urges early postal savings bank plan
President Taft said in conversations on Wednesday that in his message to Congress next December he will strongly urge the early establishment of a postal savings bank system. He plans to ask the Republican platform declaration in favor of postal banks be fulfilled promptly. Taft believes the system could place several hundred millions of dollars at the government's disposal.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Congress
Postal Savings Bank
Bronx Official Convicted and Removed from Office
Albany N Y Governor Hughes orders the removal of Louis F Haffen president of the Bronx borough for misconduct in office and neglect of duty He found he abused discretionary power failed to enforce contract time clauses misused public funds oversaw payroll loading and engaged in political robbery in the Bronx borough courthouse and highway improvements.
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Albany
N. Y
Hughes
Louis F. Haffen
Borough of
the Bronx
New York
Haffen
Bronx Borough Court House
Alabama Governor Signs Complete Prohibition Code
Montgomery news reports the entire state prohibition code, including the Fuller bill, signed by the governor. The measures ban liquor use in clubs, bar foreign corporations from violating temperance laws, permit impeachment of noncompliant sheriffs, assign municipalities enforcement duties, and prohibit liquor storage or screening at soft drink stands.
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Montgomery
Ala
Wireless operator sacrifices to save passengers at sea
Seattle wireless telegraph operator George W. Beccles went down with the Ohio after signaling for aid. His calls prompted rescue by the King Fisher, Humboldt, and Rupert City as Steep Point rocks claim the ship. Purser Stephens and others saved others but the Ohio sank in minutes.
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Seattle
Wfe
George W. Eccles
Alaska Steamship Company
Ohio
King Fisher
Humpoldt
Rupert City
Steep Point
Hishkish Narrows
British Columbia
Beccles
Stephens
Helena Woman Pleads Guilty in Poisoning Case at Crow Reservation
Mrs. Comes From War Pretty pleaded guilty to poisoning Harry Wolf at a January picnic on the Crow reservation. Her lover George Thomas also pleaded guilty as co defendants. Judge Hunt sentenced Pretty to three years and Thomas to sixteen months at Fort Leavenworth. The victim died after drinking the poisoned beverage.
Hill Warns Against Overly Optimistic Wheat Forecast
James J. Hill in a Friday interview warned crop statists about over speculation as he predicted the Northwest may harvest a crop about fifty million bushels larger than some years but cautioned that a bumper crop is not guaranteed. He said optimistic broadcasts could harm national commerce.
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St. Paul
Northwest
James J. Hill
National conservation congress meets in Seattle
The second session of the national conservation congress was held in the fine area building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Delegates expressed relief that the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy had been shelved and that the report on resolutions will likely omit the disagreement between the interior secretary and the chief forester.
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Seattle
Wash
National Conservation Congress
Fine Area
Committee On
Unknown Man Drowned Found by Two Boys in Snake River
Two boys hunting on an island in the Snake River discovered the body of a man believed to have drowned months earlier. The coroner and sheriff removed the body to Welser, noting the river is currently low after spring floods. A small sum of money was found in his pockets. He was well dressed.
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Welser
Idaho
Snake River
Betrayed by a Pal Recaptured in Utah
Hillan an alleged horse thief and ex convict who broke jail at Delta Colorado July 28 was recaptured Friday in Monticello Utah. He escaped after a hand to hand clash with Sheriff Williams nearly killing the officer. A former pal identified him leading to his arrest and Williams departed for Utah to bring the prisoner back.
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Grand Junction
Colo
D Hillan
Delta
Monticello
Utah
Hillan
Sherif Williame
Intermountain
Williams
Uanh
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