Utah News Roundup From Ne apl to Salt Lake City
Electrical storm hits Ne apl barns on George E Howard farm burning them down. Five fires damage haystacks near Banta quin. Park City liquor licenses raised. Alta mine accident kills miner Joe Nehalephi. Provo hosts WCTU convention starting Sept 14. Utah press opposes railroad commission. Crane: 9 year old Clement Strong injured by exploding cart ridge. Doves shot near Kaysville. leg injury. Bevier county roads plan to spend 3000 on state road near Salina. Tooele fire destroys Henry Dorimus barn and farming gear. Marine corps enlistments in Salt Lake City peak at 73 recruits. Beets harvest begins. Cache valley crop short 40. Parasitic seeds blamed for wild fowl die-offs. Socialist ticket nominated in Salt Lake City. Major retailers return to pre urchin closing hours Sept 17, losing 10000 this summer.
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Nepal
George E. Howard
Charles Somall
Alt Lake City
Bantaquin
Farmington
Kaysville
Salt Lake
Ogden
Provo
Park City
Frank Daly
Joe Nehalephi
Columbus Consolidated
Alta District
Utah State Federation of Labor
Salt Lake City
Joan J. Ohleon
Hooper
Weber County
W. J. Burns
Beaver County
Utah Press Association
Tremonton
Railroad Commission
Clement Strong
Alpine
C. W. Whitman
Bevier County
Wil
Salina
Tootle
Henry Dorimus
Tooele
Cache Valley
Lewiston
Utah
J. W. Treman
Burreau
Washington
Socialiste
Plea for Conservation of Common Sense Gains Praises
Colonel George Harvey argues in the North American Review for preserving common sense amid unrest. He links labor and capital, notes strong financial health, and urges balanced government policy while teaching loyalty in schools and urging citizens to uphold duty and patriotism.
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George Harvey
The
North American Review
Harvey
America
Ciitizen
Republic
Progressive insurgents win three of twenty five Illinois districts
Insurgents gained victories in three Illinois congressional districts in the Friday primary. In the ninth district Chicago veteran Henry B. Bouwtell was defeated by Frederick H. Gansbergen who ran on an insurgent platform with regular GOP backing. In the eleventh district Colonel Ira Copley led the insurgent ticket.
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Chicago
Ilinoia
Henry
Bouwtell
Congress
Frederick H. Gansbergen
Gansbergen
Republian
Ira ©. Copley
Wlinois
McKenzie Wins Republican Nomination in Thirteenth District
John C. McKenzie secured the Republican nomination in the thirteenth district after a spirited contest with Reuben R. Tiffany. The seat is currently held by Howard M. Snapp, described as a stand-patter, while George W. Conn labeled himself a progressive conservative.
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George W. Conn
Howard M. Snapp
John C. McKenzie
Reuben R. Tiffany
McKenzie
Taft to treat all Republicans alike in patronage policy
In Beverly Massachusetts President Taft says no distinction between progressives and regulars will be recognized in federal patronage. Secretary Norton notes the president will withhold patronage from hostile lawmakers, but after recent primaries and conventions he regards progressives and regulars as Republicans and ready for party support. The Norton letter adds the fall elections will decide if differences from the last Congress are kept or forgotten.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Norton
Iowa
Congress
Babe Entombed Alive in Shallow Grave Incident Near Pierce
The three year old child of Mary Georgia was buried in a peach basket with a tin wash boiler lid in a yard near Pierce. After over forty hours coroner Macy of this county found the infant alive. The child was revived after rescue and stained with soil. The parents have been arrested.
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Greeley
Cole
Mary Georgia
Pierce
Macy
Georgia
Insurgent Sidelined as Cannon Secures Re nomination
In the eighteenth district Joseph G. Cannon was renominated by a sizable margin near 6000 votes. He faced Henry B. Downs, an insurgent from his own city, while Tiffany denied ties to standpatters and McKenzie ran as a progressive.
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Tiffany
McKenzie
Joseph G. Cannon
Henry B. Downs
Beer Vat Collapse Floods Fort Wayne Streets
A brewery vat collapsed during foundation repairs in Fort Wayne Indiana releasing 18 000 gallons of beer into the streets. Workers trapped by the rush were rescued as beer drained into a sewer and the Maumee river.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Aude
Maumee
Cook's Backer After Records Sails Toward Utah
Copenhagen reports the Danish steamer Hans Egede bringing news that John H. Bradley, financial backer of Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s north pole expedition, sails to Utah to recover records and instruments Cook claimed to have left at an Eskimo settlement northeast of Greenland. The captain suspects Cook accompanies Bradley but offers no proof.
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Copenhagen
Hans Egede
John H. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Utah
Cook
Greenland
Bradley
Wreck on Burlington Route Kills One, Injures Eighteen
A head on collision on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line one mile north of Holt Missouri at 6 20 last night left one dead and eighteen injured. Authorities say a misunderstanding of orders caused the wreck.
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Holt
Col Halon
Chicago, Burungton & Quincy
Here
Ordera
Final Revised New Testament to be Published in China
The final revised edition of the New Testament and the completed Psalms of David are now going to press in Chinese. A translators' committee meets at Chefu for its annual conference, aiming to resemble the English authorized version in impact across China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
China
Chefu
Leper's Children May Attend School in Lansing
Four daughters of John Jensen, a leper, from Calumet Mich, were ruled by Attorney General Kuhn not to threaten school safety and cannot be barred from public schools. The decision supports inclusion of affected children in public education under Michigan law.
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Lansing
Mich
John Jensen
Calumet, Mich
Kuhn
Shakers Sell Mercer County Holdings to George Bolton
The Society of Shakers near High Bridge Mercer county sold 1800 acres valued at 150000 dollars to George Bolton. Bolton pays 5000 dollars in cash and undertakes to support each member of the society for life. Fourteen members remain aged seventy to ninety.
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Communistic Society
Harrodsburg
Society of Shakers
High Bridge
Coone
George Bolton
Mercer County
Bolton
Shakers
Prohibition Platform Backed by Utah Democratic Convention
The Utah Democratic state convention adopted a platform favoring state wide prohibition and direct primary. It rejected a liquor referendum provision and backed initiative recall and other reforms. Ferdinand Erickson and C. C. Richards were named as party candidates for Congress and the supreme bench.
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Provo
Utah
United States
Ferdinand Erickson
Mt. Pleasant
Congress
CC. C. Richards
Wne
Ogden
Supreme Bench
Wyoming GOP Renominates Potter and Ballinger Endorsed
The Wyoming Republican convention met in Rawlins with United States Senator Francis F. Warren presiding. Secretary Ballinger’s conduct and the Payne-Aldrich tariff were endorsed by the party alongside Taft administration support. W. EB. Mullen of Sheridan was named candidate for Governor. other nominations included Chief Justice C. N. Potter for the Supreme Court and William R. Schmitter for Secretary of State.
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Robert DB. Forsythe
John T. Baird
Superintendent of Public Instruction
A. D. Cook
Oldest Congressman James McGrew Dies in West Virginia
James Clark McGrew, claimed oldest U.S. congressman, died at his Kingwood home in his ninety eighth year. He served in the Forty first and Forty second Congresses and was among the fifty five Unionists in the Richmond convention who opposed Virginia's secession.
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Kingwood
W. Va
James Clark McGrew
United States
Richmond
Virginia
Taft Turns 53 Quietly at Summer Home
President Taft reached his fifty third birthday at Burgess Point summer home in Beverly Massachusetts. He received many congratulatory letters and telegrams but no public celebration. He and Secretary Norton played golf at the Myopia club links in the morning.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Burgess Point
Norton
Myopia Club Links
Night riders burn two barns in Bracken county
Night riders in Bracken county burned two barns Thursday night injuring no people but stirring tension between equity and anti equity factions. The barns belonged to W. O. Broadford an equity society solicitor and George B. Kenney a non equity planter.
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Brookville
Bracken County
Equity
W. O. Broadford
Equity Society
George B. Kenney
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