Forest Fires Cause Major Losses Across States in 1908
A U S Forest Service report details vast timber destruction in Minnesota Michigan and Wisconsin with fires threatening towns and leaving many homeless. While the yearly losses may be enormous the nation finances and fire protection efforts push forward a broader national response and increased forest protection measures.
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Daily Tribune
Washington
Minnesota
Mich
Wheconsin
Ted
Wisconsin
Pacific
Rocky Mountain
Mc Eneland
Canada
Fas
Forest Service
Forest Ofme
Miss Larson Hosts Monday Evening Ladies Party
Mrs. D. C. Muth’s 613 Fourteenth Avenue home hosts a informal gathering for a dozen guests with Miss Lydia Larson as hostess and Miss Edna Hawking of Town as honored guest. Amusements include an impulse contest with a tissue paper mounted “Oat Congrena” prize and a shoe collection prize tied to the shoe display. Hertha Hall wins best shoe prize as music and refreshments complete the event.
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Larson
D. C. Muth
Fourteenth Avenue
Lydia Larson
Edna Hawking
Hawkins
Hertha Hall
Mpromptu
Kerr Awarded 500 Damages in False Arrest Case
Denver report states Police Sergeant W E B Sturges must pay 500 dollars for false arrest and imprisonment of Harry B Kerr. Jury found fraud and malice in the incident on Market street when Kerr, wearing a deputy sheriff badge, was arrested while engaged in legal business at a redlight district. Stidger, deputy District Attorney, had been serving warrants nearby before the city election.
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Ri Une
Denver
Harry B. Kerr
W. EB. Sturges
Sturges
Kerr
Market Street
Ae Prays Pina Nm Err
Stidger
First Train at Yampa Brings Joyful Welcome
Cheers from 600 people greeted the first railroad train into Yampa on the Moffat road and 70 passengers received an ovation. The Denver to Yampa run of 171 miles was cut from 29 hours to ten, opening local coal fields to the world.
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Yampa
Colo
Moffat Road
Denver
Old Greeley Boy Helps Roswell Grow
Roswell New Mexico has long benefited from James W Stockard a former Oasis hotel manager and buffalo hunter who arrived in Greeley in 1887 from Julesburg. He traveled widely before settling in Roswell in 1896 and has served as mayor while running a large auto business carrying mail and passengers across the prairie.
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Roswell
N. M
Greeley
James W. Stockard
Oasis
Sockard
Julesburg
Prairies
New Mexico
Old Colony Farm Sold Near Greeley
The Old Colony Farm near Greeley has been sold by J. B. Flower to Mrs. Reid of Denver with possession about December 1. Located two and a half miles southwest of Greeley and once owned by Robert Jones, former Arapahoe county sheriff. Flower bought it two years ago for $17,000 and now the price is about $30,000 after improvements.
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Old Colony Farm
J. 8. Flower
Hughes Again Named for Governor at New York Convention
Saratoga N Y Sept 15 The Republican state convention votes to nominate Charles E Hughes again for governor but no decision has been reached by late hours. Anti Hughes faction settles on David Jayne Hill ambassador to Germany as their candidate.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Charles BE. Hughes
David Jayne Hill
Germany
Tailor George Gahan Inherits Fortune Again
Pueblo tailor George S. Gahan learns his sister May Morrison Gahan died in Boston leaving him fifty thousand dollars. This marks his third fortune in recent years after losses in Cripple Creek and other investments. He plans to stay in Pueblo and manage money more prudently.
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Daily Tribune
Pueblo
George
Gahan
May Morrison Gahan
Boston
Cripple Creek
Two Lost Kids Restored Home
A five year old boy, found wandering near Eleventh street and Eleventh avenue, is returned to distraught parents after Marshal Williams canvassed cement houses to identify his family. Shortly after, another call brings the marshal to Eleventh street near Eighth avenue where a second child is reunited with a frantic mother.
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Eleventh Street
Eleventh Avenue
Marshal Williams
Westovers
Kidlet
Bubsky
Eighth Avenue
Frank Marshall
Big Ditch
Williams
Marshall
Greeley Club prepares larger rooms in Gordon block
The Greeley Club will move into expanded quarters in the Gordon block by October. The new space adds 1200 square feet, gas piping and cooking facilities, more furniture, carpets, and two more billiard tables. Membership sits at 142 with a 156 cap, rules demand three recommendations and a $25 entrance fee. The club remains a social hub with reading rooms and past Colorado Whist tournaments held there.
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Greeley Club
Gordon Block
Bething
Greeley
J. W. McCreery
J. L. Lb
Wm Mayher
J. M. B. Petrikin
W. C. Wilson
Mayer
Wm. Mayher
Col. Co. A. White
Harry McAfee
C. T. Neill
Colorado
Portrait seized in Thaw case reveals milliner judgment
A New York sheriff seized a brown study of Mrs. Thaw by Harrington Mann owned by her. The milliner had won a judgment on September 2 for 226 dollars after purchases including waists priced at 125 and 135 dollars and a 140 dollar skirt with 450 dollars paid on account. The frame was designed by Stanford White and the portrait is linked to the Thaw-White case.
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Daily Tribune
New York
Harry K .Thaw
Brown
Thaw
Harrington Mann
Stanford White
Annual Elopement Sparks Warrant Between Kin
Philadelphia Sept 15 Harry Green sought a warrant for Samuel Shore his brother in law after accusing his wife Goldie of annual elopements with Shore. Green said the Russian married couple tied the knot years ago and since then Goldie leaves for an unannounced pilgrimage with Shore who runs a cigar store at Twenty third and Chestnut. He claimed the scheme has nearly bankrupted him while Shore is also married to Green's sister and has a five year old son.
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Daily Tribune
Philadelphia
Goldie
Harry Green
Carey
Samuel Shore
Green
Russia
Shore
Twenty-third
Chestnut Streets
Prohibition Candidate Chafin to Speak in Colorado Cities
Doctor Chafin the prohibition candidate for president will address crowds in the courthouse here next Saturday evening. He travels across Colorado from Boulder to Greeley, with a sermon scheduled in Denver on Sunday. He is likely the sole presidential candidate to speak in Greeley this campaign.
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Doctor Chafin
Court House
Two Babies Drown in Colorado Irrigation Ditches
Two infant victims drowned in irrigation ditches near Fort Collins Colorado Edward Maiker age two was drowned in a ranch irrigation ditch at LaPorte owned by his father Henry Maiker Aleda Wolt age four daughter of Lenhart Wolt was drowned at Timnath her body carried by water found an hour later in subsequent search reports from Sept 15 indicate two separate drownings in local ditches.
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Daily Tribune
Fort Collins
Colo
Edward Maiker
Henry Maiker
LaPorte
Timnath
Aleda Wolt
Lenhart Woilt
Five Die as Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Wreck Rocks Clarksdale
Five persons were killed and 26 injured when two coaches of a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley passenger train left the track two miles south of Here near Clarksdale. The train departed Jackson at 6:25 a.m. and, approaching Clarksdale, ran at an unusually high speed before the chair car and day coach plunged down an embankment. The overturned cars were filled with passengers and crushed into wood and iron.
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Daily Tribune
Clarksdale
Miss
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Here
Jackson
Migs
Government merger suit selects Denver examiner in Harriman lines case
In Salt Lake City on September 15 the federal court named Sylvester G. Williams of Denver special examiner to take evidence in the United States government suit against the Harriman Pacific railway merger. Judge Willis Vandeventer signed the order and Robert B. Taylor of St. Paul was named chief stenographer. Evidence filing will begin in Denver around October 12 and all defendants have answered.
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Herriman
Daily Tribune
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sylvester G. Williams
Denver
United States
Harriman Pacific Railway
Willis Vandeventer
Circuit Court of
St. Paul
Robert 8. Taylor
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