Coast Happenings Mirror Weekly Recap of Local Events
A condensed resume of events across nearby communities highlights pheasant distribution in Nevada, a San Diego park fountain donation, a fatal head injury in San Jose, a jail inmate’s throat wounds, self performed nose surgery death in San Francisco, drought-driven Exodus in Vera Cruz, a Civil War veteran killed by a car in Petaluma, mosquito control efforts at Ocean Park, a murder plea in San Bernardino, a snakebite harming a Mason Valley child and family dog, with details on victims, places and outcomes.
Girls Riot at Reform Home Ends in Jail Pickup
Fourteen inmates at the Home of the Good Shepherd riot over mistreatment. Eleven leaders were taken to police HQ, three more join them, then all moved to county jail. One girl, Barbara Crane, suffered a badly lacerated arm. The group sang and cheered on the way to jail, prompting a circuslike scene as officers booked them.
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Los Angeles
Home of the Good Shepherd
Barbara Crane
Dishman
Dixon
Oklahoma Flood Ravages State With Five Dead
Oklahoma City June 1 Five persons are dead and a dozen seriously injured as unprecedented rains flood the northern and eastern regions. Bridges washed out rail lines damaged and crops ruined across towns including Shawnee Tulsa Vinita and Enid. A cloudburst at Kremlin destroys homes and crops. a tornado at Morris damages structures and injures residents. Many acres are inundated and thousands of acres submerged as rivers rise.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
W. W. Brown
Foraker
Mattie Jones
Kremlin
Morris
Ernest Scott
Black Bear River
Vinita
Billings
Not for Publication Banter on Yurpa Speeches
A visitor notes Yurpa attends many banquets and plans to publish after dinner speeches. Tommy counters that fore dinner speeches will be even more interesting, as Pa’s talks occur when dinner runs late, sparking playful quips about timing.
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Yurpa
Tommy
Survivors Tell Thrilling Tale Of Shipwreck Rescue
The Dora brought 194 Columbia survivors to Seattle after a March shipwreck near Unimak Pass. Italians panicked and resisted boats while Japanese and Americans helped, forming a life line to Scotch Cape lighthouse eight miles away, where harsh terrain and scarce shelter tested endurance.
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Seattle
Seward
Alaska
Dora
Columbia
Unimak Pass
Vera
Scotch Cape Lighthouse
Christ Christoophenson
Ernest Anderson
Eee
Cameron
Scotch Cape
Girl assaulted by an insane Chinese man at Grass Valley ranch
Miss Frances Noell, daughter of a wealthy rancher, was attacked by A. P. Gee, an insane Chinese man, at a Grass Valley ranch. Her father and three ranch hands overpowered him after he rushed the woman, and Gee was tied up and sent to the county jail in Nevada City. He had been recently released from jail on a misdemeanor and wandered the hills barefoot overnight. The incident ended with Gee subdued and injured from the struggle.
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Grass Valley
Cal
Frances Neeil
Here
A. P. Gee
Martin
Gee
Nevada City
Noell
Massive Midwest quake rattles multiple states and cities
An earthquake lasting several seconds shook Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Iowa and nearby areas starting 8 41 30 a m causing minor damage in Beloit Joliet Dixon Dubuque and other cities fires started by overturned stoves and shattered china and widespread telephone disruption as residents felt the tremor in Davenport Janesville and Muskegon with belated public acknowledgment after newspapers reported the natural phenomenon
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Chicago
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
Contiguous Territory
Springfield
Davenport
Janesville
Wis
Muskegon
Mich
Beloit
Peoria
Kewanee
Rockford
Jolie
Wise
College
Joliet
Dixon
South Haven
Benton Harbor
China
Dubuque
Zeppelin Breaks Airship Distance Record In Long Flight
Count Zeppelin piloted the airship from Friedrichshafen to Bitterfeld and then to Berlin, covering about 456 miles in nearly 22 hours. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Berlin as searchlights prepared for a landing at Templehof, but the craft returned to Friedrichshafen amid disappointment.
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Friedrichshafen
Bitterfeld
Berlin
Count Zeppelin
Templehof
Friederichehafen
Echterdingen
Friederichshafen
Abolish Death Penalty Bill Passes Illinois House
Telegraphic dispatch notes that Illinois lawmakers approve a bill ending capital punishment in favor of imprisonment. Other briefs report: 105 locomotives contract with Baldwin Locomotive Works, a fatal head injury and hospital care in New York, a lynching in Georgia, Zion City settlers buying land in Alberta, Taft cornerstone plan scrapped in Chicago, Adams Express wins interstate liquor shipment case, a Texas lynching in Abilene, Judge Girtden’s harsh remarks on drunkards, rising floods in Oklahoma with potential recession of waters.
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Springfield
Illinois
Wounded Italian recounts pistol duel in New York
Antone Rueto told police he was wounded in a pistol duel he fought earlier in the night at a house in Haver straw. He was found by ferry house police in pain and taken to Flower hospital where he said his assailant was also badly wounded.
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New York
Antone Rueto
West Shore
Flower Hospital
Rueto
Haverstraw
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Pacific Slope
Reno
Nev
San Diego
J. Wilde
American National Bank
San Jose
Southern Pacific
Greece
Yerothos M. Panos
Modesto
James Bord
Boyd
Francisco
Oscar N. Taylor
Berkeley
the Lace Hospital
Vera Cruz
Mex
Tantoyuca
Petaluma
Anthony H. Stevens
Stevens
H. M. Maxwell
Oakland
Penn Grove
Ocean Park
Short Line Beach
Health Department
San Bernardino
Thomas Barreras
Antonio Moreno
Cucamonga
Barreras
Alaskan
Aurora, Ill
Zeppelin
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Harriman Lines
Daniel Weber
Lincolnton
Albert Aiken
John Spiers
May Bay
Winnipeg
Man
Zion City
Edmonton
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Taft
Council Committee On Public Buildings of
New City Hall
Kentucky
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States Today
Adams Express Company
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Express
Abilene
Tex
Tom Barnett
Alexander Sears
Girten
Muskogee
Arkansas River
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