Utah News Roundup From Murray To Ogden
Murray plans a Carnegie library while East Lake City milk dealers raise prices. An Ogden can factory may open, and Spanish Fork grants interurban railroad franchise. Fair exhibits include a ten pound trout. Beaver County hosts a four day fair beginning September 21. An association forms to improve Salt Lake area agriculture. Buena Vista race track grand stand burns for about 10,000. Apple shipments rise to 400000. Harvest Home day at Willard draws hundreds. Intermountain Good Roads convention prep. A new Ogden bank opens with wealthy financiers. Weber river floodwater conservation discussed. Salt Lake City court disturbance lands two day jail term. Annabella waterworks adds pipe. Salt Lake murder suspect to be extradited. Dopes’ overdose death in Salt Lake jail. Utah sends two reps to Milwaukee tax convention. School curriculum to drop physiology in lower grades. Emery honey crop valued at 25000 with 6000 bees. Roy peaches boast high yield. Mt. Pleasant bee car sold after contracts. Utah county alfalfa weevil prompts control efforts.
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Murray
Carnegie
East Lake City
Ogden
Spanish Fork
Beaver County
Beaver City
Salt Lake City
Buena Vista
Willard
Intermountain Good Roads Association
Utah
Nevada
Idaho
South Dakota
Plain City
Weber River
Weber County
John Orsel
Annabella
William Jeffries
Salt Lake
B. J. Mack
International Tax Association
Milwaukee
Hardin Benonson
J. J. Thomas
Emery County
Elberia
L. Stokes
Roy
Mt. Pleasant
Utah County
Salt Lake County
Robbery on Colorado Midland Ends in Death
On the Colorado Midland between Divide and Floressant a train raid ends with one robber dead, Engineer Stewart shot in the leg, and an unknown hobo wounded. Conductor Wesley Steele's westbound train fights off the bandits as a posse led by Sheriff Von Puhl pursues the suspects.
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Leadville
Colo
Colorado Midland Railway
Divide
Floressant
Stewart
Sherif von Puhl
Midland
Wesley Steele
Mile-Post 2
Therain
No. 3
Uprising in Philippines Threatens Nueva Vizcaya
Rebels led by Simeon Mandac seize Solano in Nueva Vizcaya as a constabulary rushes to scene. Telegraph lines north of Bayongong cut. exact follower count unknown. Officials doubt the uprising is serious.
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Nueva Vizcaya
Manila
Simeon Mandac
Hocos Norte
Mandac
Solano
Nueva Vistcaya
Bayonong
Panama Assembly Opens as Mendoza’s Reelection Sparks Debate
The Panamanian national assembly met in session and read President Mendoza’s message. It reviewed two years of events and foreign relations, noting cordial ties with other nations. The message did not mention the United States and its view on Mendoza’s reelection.
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Panama
National Assembly
Mendozgu
United States
Senor Mendoza
Firefighters Hospital Costs Drive Special Tax Plan
Forestry officials report no appropriation from Secretary Wilson to cover forest fire hospital bills. The district has spent over $2,000 on care for the injured and a 25 cent per man assessment falls short. Plans are being prepared for a special tax covering all forestry employees to meet the expense.
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Missoula
Mont
Forestry
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Washington Census Counts New York as World’s Second City
Figures from the thirteenth decennial census released Thursday night by the director show New York City in Greater New York reaching a population of 4 766 888, making it the second largest city in the world. Since 1900 New York’s population rose by 1 429 681, a 38.7 percent increase, compared with 1 437 202 under the previous census.
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Washington
New York
London
Firefighters Subdue California Forest Hill Blaze
A force of 150 soldiers aided by hundreds of citizens fought a fierce fire in California near Forest Hill. They subdued the flames on Thursday after the blaze threatened destruction. A large area of timber land was burned over.
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Auburn
Cal
Forest Hill
Leaps From Roof to Death and Roosevelt Speech
A former Rocky Mountain Bell executive, David 8. Murray, leaped from Deseret National bank building in Salt Lake City and was killed. Despondency from finances and alcohol use cited. Roosevelt declared insurgent Republicanism and support for wider national government powers for new nationalism.
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Sault Lake City
David 8. Murray
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Montana
Deseret National Bank
First South
Main Streets
Mr. Murray
Kentucky
Eli Murray
Murray
West
United States
Bell
Olga Marix
Wilbur W. Flagg
Marix
Board of Inquiry
Maine
Havana Harbor
Genevieve
Union
Osawatomie
Kan
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Hoax Leads Firemen Into Fatal Sewer Hoax Tragedy
Brooklyn firefighters and police officers were nearly killed after falling for a hoax by children claiming a girl had fallen into a manhole. They entered a large sewer pipe to rescue the child and were overcome by toxic gases, later saved by medics.
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New York
Brooklyn
Beverly Declared Summer Capital by Taft
President Taft announced during the Beverly Massachusetts cornerstone ceremony that Beverly would remain the summer capital for two more years. Melville Woodbury, presiding, called the president Beverly's most distinguished summer boarder.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Melville Woodbury
Wyoming Coal Miners Return to Work
An agreement reached Thursday between coal operators and southern Wyoming miners ends a months long strike. Several thousand men will return to work pending ratification by a joint convention in Cheyenne on September 9.
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Denver
Colo
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Farmer killed by Mad Hog in Hartford district
John H. Bartlett, a farmer from Dalton Connecticut, died at his home after being attacked by a 400 pound white Chester boar three days earlier. The hog inflicted a leg wound before Bartlett could escape.
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Hartford
Conn
John H. Bartlett
Farmer
Dalton
Chester
Homestead Law Broadly Construed
Washington secretary of the interior writes to Senator Smoot interpreting the homestead act to allow residency distance based on farming ability. If the homesteader personally farms or supervises cultivation and improvement, the department will not inquire into his residence place.
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Washington
Frank Pierce
Secretary of the Interior
Reed Smoot
Department
Tried to Save Lincoln Aide Near Death in Asylum Ward
Major Henry Reed Rathbone, once an aide to President Lincoln, lies near death after a stabbing during the assassination night. He has long been an inmate at Bildershein asylum where he resided in marked luxury. Years earlier as American consul he murdered his wife and was declared insane.
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Hanover
Henry Reed Rathbone
Lincoln
Bildershein
Wealthy Chicago manufacturer ends life at New York hotel
Solomon J. Hirsch a wealthy clothing maker in Chicago killed himself at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York by cutting his throat while at his desk and writing letters before entering the bathroom and dying. Illness was cited as the cause of his act. Helen M. Gould receives honorary degree from American College for Girls in Constantinople. The college, aided by Miss Gould and run by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, honors her support. Nellie Boyle dies at county hospital after a fasting protest by Holy Rollers lasting thirty eight days, police intervention having interrupted the fast.
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New York
Solomon J. Hirsch
Chicago
Knickerbocker
Helen M. Gould
American College For Girls
Constantinople
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Gould
Holy Roller
Los Angeles
Nellie Boyle
Holy
Cloak Makers End Long Strike After Nine Months
New York reports the cloak market strike settled on Friday night. Seventy thousand workers return to jobs, with ten thousand dependent on them facing eviction. Industrial losses exceed ten million dollars in wages, while the broader losses reach into the millions. The move concludes a mostly peaceful nine month stand, despite some disorder and a court injunction against a closed shop.
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New York
Goff
State Supreme Court
Idaho primary results show Brady renominated by Republicans
Idaho returns indicate Governor Brady, Republican, won renomination by a large majority amid light turnout and many candidates. Hawley was chosen by Democrats for governor. James H. Hawley opposed by state prohibitionists. Numerous state offices and party nominees were listed. count delays arose from compulsory second-choice voting.
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Brady
Hawley
Boise
Tda
Idaho
Congessman Hamer
French
James H. Hawley
B. E. Hyatt
K. I. Whitney
Chamberlain
Grace Shepperd
Supreme Court
J. L. McClear
J. Hunter
B W. Jones
Joseph T. Carruth
O. V. Badley
Frank L. Moore
Gertrude Noble
J. A. Czizek
Currency Law Construes Emergency Currency Use
Washington officials disclosed Secretary MacVeagh's ruling on commercial paper under the emergency currency law. Banks may circulate up to 500000000 in emergency money at the first sign of stringency. The law requires papers to represent actual commercial transactions with at least two responsible signatures and a maximum four month term.
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Washington
MacVeagh
United States
Wood, Taft Confer Over Army Budget Aims
General Leonard Wood chief of staff and President Taft held several hours of talks in Beverly Mass on estimates for the next fiscal year. They announced a plan to limit army expenses to the lowest figure compatible with service efficiency.
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Wood
Taft
Beverly
Mass
Leonard Wood
United States Army
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Kansas
Helen Gould
Cloak Makers
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