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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
6
Reported ahead of the trial of Mrs. Emma Kauffman for murder, Parkston citizens flood Sioux Falls with letters seeking support for special attorneys. The letters hint at trade pressure on noncontributors by Parkston business leaders allied with the committee.
The Chicago Chronicle will cease publication with this issue due to ongoing unprofitability. An official notice signed by Editor H. W. Seymour states all liabilities will be met as usual. The paper began May 28 1895 as Chicago's only democratic morning paper.
June 3 report from Guatemala City describes President Cabrera's grip amid alleged plots against him. It notes potential execution for conspirators, Mexican claims of tyranny, and Americans facing arrest, travel restrictions, and extortion as 2,000 nationals fear for safety. The U.S. minister is largely imprisoned, and passports are devalued while Americans avoid streets and regiments.
The text asserts there is no possibility of release from incarceration, describing it as worse than death and emphasizing the severity of confinement.
Cheyenne prepares for Frontier Days on July 26 to 27 with elaborate events. Union Pacific has ordered a fine cowboy saddle as prize for the best rider. A Sioux warrior Beaver Tail caused alarm last year when he began to “make war medicine” during the parade but was found to have a toothache.
Secretary Taft will see telegrams and letters from Minnesota and Montana protesting the withdrawal of artillery from Fort Snelling and the abandonment of Forts Assineboine and Keogh. War department notes argue reductions are essential to abandon small posts and form brigade posts for better drill and discipline in larger formations.
Preston and Smith, Goldfield IWW leaders, convicted of murdering John Silva during the labor conflict. Preston receives 25 years, Smith 10. St John and six others indicted for murder were admitted to bail at 10 000 each. All seven must stand trial together as no conspiracy statute exists in Nevada. Trials likely not before August due to crowded docket. Bail granted due to jail health concerns and lack of a permanent courthouse and jail.
In President Gompers absence, AFL Secretary Morrison announced the revocation of the International union of Brewery Workmen charter for refusing AFL terms. The move affects all brewery workers unions nationwide, about 40,000 members.
In Shoshoni Wyoming the Big Wind river lee hosts placer miners along a four mile stretch. Miners use rade cradles and report gravel paying about a dollar per yard. Mercury supply has run out and rush orders to Denver are sent. Lode miners travel from the copper mountain district to join the discovery.
The piece reports a White House meeting with Roosevelt Taft and Longworth and notes seven Ohio postmasters named while Foraker and Dick are sidelined. It warns the Foraker Dick faction loses influence and outlines expected patronage battles, with Taft and Roosevelt backing rival booms and status in the 1908 GOP contest.
A Belt justice of the peace, John Q. Dempsey, is under arrest after allegedly striking Joe Buckingham a rancher who faced charges for jabbing a pitchfork into a cow. Buckingham appeared in court as the incident unfolded.
The judge struck Buckingham on the jaw in court, ejecting him for contempt. Buckingham was jailed, then released hours later after the judge’s change of heart. Buckingham quickly arrested Justice Dempsey in retaliation.
The body of Rev. Father Kaspar Haran of the Armenian Apostolic church was found in a trunk in a West Thirty-seventh Street tenement. He had been drugged and beaten, and carried a small leather bag with funds raised in New York for his Hoboken church. Police suggest a political motive tied to a Servian Armenian plot to topple the Serbian king.
The Denver board of county commissioners awarded a contract for 150 Dean voting machines at 750 dollars each to be installed by January 1, 1908. Only two of three state board recommendations entered the contest, the Dean winning highest support. Dean machines, made in Minneapolis, passed strict tests and can handle about 600 voters daily per unit.
Idaho authorities subpoena Ogden police officers and a jailer in Utah as part of the Haywood Moyer and Pettibone case. Detectives Pender Burke and Snyder receive subpoenas returnable June 6, while Steve Adams earlier aided a plea for bail with 75 dollars.
Governor B B Brooks of Wyoming announces delegates from each county to attend the Denver public lands conference. Appointees include Dr W T Cooke, Dr J M Wilson, Patrick Sullivan, Fennimore Chatterton, J G Phelps, Scott K Snively, J G Oliver, Ora Haley, J E B Osborn, John Hay and others. Senator C D Clark and Congressman F W Mondell also attend by Colorado governor appointment.
In Milwacker Wisconsin 150 La Follette supporters met to unite behind his candidacy for president. They adopted resolutions calling him the strongest and most logical choice and urging immediate work to secure delegations from other states.
A Burlington accommodation train collided with a main line special at York on May 31. The engineer and fireman escaped. the local engine crew were trapped and badly injured. President Harris and other Burlington officers were in the private car, along with James N. Hill of the Northern Pacific.
The Spearfish State Normal School outlines a full commencement week from June 7 to June 14 featuring diploma presentations for eighth graders, an annual sermon by Rev. J. W. Cowan of Crete Nebraska, and a series of performances and exercises at Normal hall Matthews Opera house and the campus. Alumni names and post graduate and five year course enrollments are listed with attendee names from Spearfish Lead and surrounding areas.
A blaze in Bellingham Washington destroyed three warehouses at the Pacific American fisheries plant, melting seventy-five thousand dollars worth of pig tin lead and solder into the sea. It is expected some metal can be recovered and sent to the smelter for refining. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The mammoth salmon packing plant was saved with great difficulty.
A committee appointed by American Mining Congress President J H Richards will seek repeal of the apex law seen as source of mining litigation. Members include Charles J Hughes Jr Denver Curtis Lindley San Francisco James D Hague New York John A Church New York and F A F Penrose Philadelphia.
Spearfish community reports D H Crary accepting Burlington freight office manager post in Deadwood likely within ten days. Architects Bartlett and Schwartz confer with President Cook on new normal school building. Snowstorm blankets area May 25 1907, river runs high but no damage. Supt Booth returns from Wyoming fish planting trip and heads to Yellowstone Park with colleagues for weeks of work there.
States Attorney Milck has recovered from pneumonia and may be up soon. Secretary Taft will arrive in Sturgis June 17 on the morning train and depart the same day on the eastbound evening train. A celebrated cross-country horse race spans from Portland to New York City with a Kentucky blue grass horse pitted against a Portland Arabian stallion. Lieutenant W O Reed of the 6th Cavalry, previously at Fort Yellowstone, is assigned to ride the Kentucky horse for local Fort Meade and Sturgis interest.
In Keystone area, several bridges were damaged by days of heavy rain. A pier under the Upham’s stable bridge washed out Friday night, causing the central span to collapse. A second bridge at town’s edge became unsafe for travel. Standish Smith survived a lightning strike while driving for Calumet, his horses fleeing down an embankment and one horse later killed due to injuries.
Mrs Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw, wife and mother of Harry Thaw, who has lived at the Hotel Lorraine during his imprisonment for the Stanford White murder, has moved with her mother in law Mrs William Thaw to a Park Avenue house near Fifty ninth Street.
Mrs Henry Bush wife of a millionaire Englishman files a formal complaint in Chicago May 31 describing her 25000 mile world tour stop. She finds Chicago dirtier than Rangoon noisier than London less cosmopolitan than Vladivostok and more wicked than Paris.
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