Big Horn Dredging Project Aims to Yield Placer Gold
G W Barry, vice president of the Big Horn Gold Dredging company, announces a large scale operation on the Big Horn river. Machinery for a 2000 cubic yard per day steam dredge, costing about 50 000, is en route to Pryor for launch mid August with a total outlay near 75 000. The project, backed by Keystone state steel magnates Garrett B. Linderman and James Gayley, seeks to mine auriferous sands and promise immense fortunes for the partners.
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Big Horn River
Red Lodge
G. W. Barry
Big Horn Gold Dredging Company
Hidden Canyon Gold Mines Company
Billings
New York
Pennsylvania
Barry
Keystone State
Garrett B. Linderman
South Bethlehem, Pa
James Gayley
Pittsburg
Gayley
United States Steel Trust
Richmond
Pryor
Burlington Railroad
Big Horn
Big Horn Canyon
Theodore Tilton Dead
Paris May 27 Theodore Tilton author and journalist died Saturday He was born in New York October 2 1835 and was editor of the Independent the Golden Age and the Brooklyn Union between 1856 and 1876 In 1874 he sued Henry Ward Beecher for damages over alienation of Mrs Tilton s affections The trial lasted 112 days and ended in a hung jury Tilton had lived in Paris since 1888 His last work a poem titled Lad ing of the May Flower appeared last year after days of pneumonia and heart trouble
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Paris
Theodore Tilton
New York
The
College of the City of New York
Independent
the Golden Age
Brooklyn Union
Tilton
Henry Ward Beecher
Omaha Population Pushes City Directory Figures
The thirty third Omaha city directory will list 63 300 names over age twenty not counting married women not in business. Including married women and children the population is 142 600, up 10 080 from last year. South Omaha shows 14 480 names and 30 140 population, totaling Greater Omaha at 172 800.
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Omaha
South Omaha
Greater
Shoemaker Remarries His Deceased Wife’s Sister
Karl F. Fouser, a shoemaker from Alliance Ohio, remarried his late wife’s sister Misa Mary Helwig after being informed of his wife’s death while he was in Europe. The wedding followed the funeral and burial, delayed until his arrival.
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Alliance
Ohio
Karl F. Fouser
Misa Mary Helwig
Fouser
Europe
Miss Helwig
User
Reward for Kindness After Many Years
Rock Island Illinois May 25 Two weeks hospitality to a sick homeless cow puncher seventeen years ago yields a $40000 Colorado land bequest to Milbur L Rutledge painter of this city. The bequest from H Paul who died recently shares a history of hardship and kindness that led the Rutledges to help two former cowboys and inspire future generosity.
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Rock Island
III
Colorado
Milbur L. Rutledge
H. Paul
Dotsierra
Paul
Otto Smith
Rutedges
Smith
Eleven Million in Banks in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs banks report over 11 million dollars in deposits. Exchange National leads with 3,349,672.40, First National has 4,000,027.96, followed by El Paso National 2,?47,624.47, Colorado Tithe and Trust 2,000,020.48, Colorado Savings 465,051.06, and Colorado Springs National 175,242.06.
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Colorado Springs
Exchange National
First National
el Paso National
Colorado Tithe and Trust Company
Colorado Savings
Colorado Springs National
Fire at Metropolitan Hotel Kills Two in Utica
May 25 report says George A. James of Clinton and Annie Sullivan a hotel employee died as a cigarette started a blaze in the elevator shaft destroying the Metropolitan hotel in Utica New York.
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Utica
N. Y
George A. James
Clinton
Annie Sullivan
Metropolitan Hotel
Calf Loss Tied to Cattle Dipping Practices in Wyoming
In Laramie Wyoming May 25 ranchers report increased calf deaths linked to compulsory dipping of cattle with a petrolatum soap emulsion. The odorating treatment makes calves and mothers indistinguishable by smell, causing mothers to fail to locate their offspring, silencing milk flow and starving many calves. Local herds near Wyoming station report a hundred or more dead, starved calves due to the process.
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Laramie
Wyo
Wyoming Station
Pretty Feet Die of Blood Poisoning After Shoes
Margaret Kelly aged 20 a Hancock schoolteacher bought tight low cut shoes. After days of wear a blister formed and she continued using them. A week ago the foot turned black and a physician diagnosed blood poisoning leading to her death.
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Atice
Margaret Kelly
Hancock
Deadwood Flood Strands City as Rail Lines Suffer Major Damage
Showers and rapid runoff flood Deadwood with water nearly reaching June high, flooding basements and streets. Rail lines suffer slides and washouts from Whitewood to Spearfish, while county roads become impassable and preparations for further rising water intensify.
High Water in the Belle Fourche Dam Breach Overflows
Rain in the Belle Fourche area causes dam concerns as water pours over unfinished sections six to eight feet deep. Machinery submerged and a cement house damaged. Bridge to Bullock addition washed out. Cattlemen report rivers running over banks and lambs at risk amid continuing cold rains.
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Belle Fourche
Middle Creek
Flooded basement and protecting property in city
The city workers are at multiple sites to prevent damage and protect property. The government building basement is slightly flooded but not seriously, and at 3300 this afternoon the snow reduced water flow past Lee street. If no warm rain follows, danger will be mitigated.
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Deadwood
Lee Street
Storming at Spearfish and storm effects
Spearfish endured two days of rain with valley snow since 2 o clock. The Burlington train to Deadwood initially ran on time but had to return. Road landslides and washed out bridges disrupt travel while Spearfish Creek swells but damage remains limited. Bear Lodge country reports continued rain for two days.
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Burlington
Deadlawood
Spearfish
Spearfish Creek
Bear Lodge
Storms Hit Sturgis And Rapid City Rains Continue
Rain has lasted 48 hours in Sturgis and Rapid City with no damages reported. The Northwestern passenger train departed Rapid City today at 1 p m.
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Sturgis
Rapid City
Northwestern
Rapid
Water flood at mine reaches thirteen feet on Star shaft
At 3 30 pm water on the 300 foot level rose a few inches over thirteen feet at the Star shaft station. It will take about 109 805 075 gallons to fill the 800 foot level while water is being sent down through the open cut to Lincoln Ellison and the north end tunnel. Water is forced in at the north end tunnel by steam and is rising about four inches per hour.
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Star Shaft
Lincoln
Ellison
North End
Fifty-Two Officials Fired in Kentucky Election Fraud Ruling
The Kentucky Court of Appeals voided the November 105 election in Louisville and Jefferson County for fraud and violence. Fifty-two officials including the mayor, city judge, prosecutor, aldermen, and county officials are ousted. Governor Beckham would appoint new officials. the governor must name a judge to appoint sheriff, jailer, clerk, assessor, coroner, surveyor, and attorney. Democratic officials have 30 days to seek rehearing.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
Louisville
Jefferson
Board of Council
Jefferson County
Beckham
Police and Fire Department
Obituary of William Woof Foresters Organizer in Chicago
Head of Catholic Foresters in Chicago, William Woof aged 67, an early settler and organizer of the Catholic Order of Foresters, died after a naval career in England and emigration to America. Born in Devonshire England, he helped establish the Foresters in Slay in 1868, a group now numbering about 17,000.
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Owicago
Willian Woof
Chigagto
Order of Foresters
Ix Dd
Devonshire
Engand
America
Slay
William Themis
Foresters
Frisco Anarchy Report Paints City in Strikes and Trial
San Francisco faces near chaos as strikes halt rebuilding and officials face graft charges. Mayor Schmitz undergoes extortion trial while 16 of 18 supervisors confess to graft. daily life disrupted by frame shack commerce, daylight streetcars, and widespread labor unrest across 14,000 workers.
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San Francisco
Cal
Miyor Schmitz
Board of Public Works
Rudolph Spreckles
Francis J. Heney
Breweries
Actress Lulu Glaser Weds Actor Herz in Private Ceremony
New York May 27 Lulu Glaser the actress married Ralph C Herz in the Little Church Around the Corner. The couple met in London while Glaser rested for Dolly Varden and Herz proposed during a mock love scene to avoid being heard by the audience.
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Herz
New York
Lulu Glaser
London
Cornelius Herz
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Cambridge
Dolly Varden
Hind
Salt Lake Millionaire Linked In Elopement Tale
A fragment notes a Salt Lake millionaire linked to a marriage plot involving Signor Marconi and the younger McCormick, with numerous others mentioned in the narrative.
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Signor Marconi
Mr. McCormick
Salt Lake
Milwaukee extension eyed to reach Butte by January 1
H B Earling general superintendent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul says trains should run through to Butte by New Year if all goes well. He toured the new line with officials, noted grading and track laying underway at multiple points, and described the route as opening a rich farming region six miles of Bad Lands avoided.
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Butte
H. B. Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Earling
Minneapolis
Rapid City
Missouri River
Montana Line
Terry
Mont
Miles City
Missouri
Pontis
Evarts
S. C
Standing Rock Indian Reservation
Minneapolis Tribune
Little Wolf leads Sioux rider to Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk May 27 reports Little Wolf a full blood Sioux from Bliss Oklahoma travels 1000 miles from Chicago to Washington to invite President to open the 101 ranch at the Jamestown exposition May 20. The 101 ranch is moved to Norfolk grounds covering two city blocks with a 15000 seat grandstand.
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Norfolk
Little Wolf
Bliss
Oklahoma
Chicago
Doughty
Washington
Virginia
Exposition Grounds
Far West
White House
Consul
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First Ward
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Sisters’ Hospital
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