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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
3
Fifteen persons are believed killed by a tornado near Havoc. Property loss is described as enormous with all wires down and details unobtainable. The event is billed as the severest in the state's history.
In Omaha and Douglas county servant girls average 45 dollars monthly after room and board. City teachers make 60 dollars, county teachers 50 dollars. Living costs like streetcar, laundry and incidentals cut net income for teachers, helping explain teacher scarcity. Reports from City Schools Superintendent Davidson and County Schools Superintendent Yoder note low pay as a factor.
Three dynamite filled devices were received by Governor Buchtel, David H. Moffat, and Charles B. Kountze in Denver on Tuesday. The devices were not exploded. Kemp V. Bigelow, a book store clerk who confessed to police, sent them and provided no motive. He had previously warned of an assassination plot at the home of gambling king Fa Chase, where seventeen sticks were found. Bigelow remains jailed.
Mrs Jesse L Driskill died at her Spearfish home at 2 pm yesterday after heart trouble. A pioneer resident of Lead, she was 41 on the 16th of last month and leaves her husband and five children, two sons and three daughters. Funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 pm from the family home with Rev Jeffries of the Methodist church officiating.
A wealthy farmer, Sever Gullickson, living west of Arlington, was struck on the head two miles from his home, knocked unconscious, and robbed of forty dollars. He crawled home two miles to his doorway with a broken collar bone and scalp wounds, a second local holdup in two days rousing residents.
Crookston Minnesota October 11 Grundy Grundyson the 11 year old brother of Ralph Grundyson the boy accidentally shot at Jesson about two weeks ago has made a full confession stating that he shot his brother No one knew that the two boys had a gun that could be shot the account ends abruptly with the sentence unfinished
A rifle left at home sparked a fatal misfire as two brothers hunting squirrels in the woods caused a boy to be wounded in the chest. The elder boy confessed the accident and the brothers created a tale of a wild man to explain the tragedy, while the wounded boy clung to the story for 20 hours. The neighborhood was soon aroused by the incident.
Lead 10 CilCAdd patrons may leave Lead at 5 30 in the morning and reach White City in about thirty hours via Pierre. The new time card arrives at the local office and the schedule pleases travelers. A 5 50 morning departure from Lead connects with the Chicago liner at Deadwood, with the 6 0 train altered to run hourly on its present plan. The direct Chicago service to Deadwood starts Monday evening, benefiting Black Hills residents and shortening distance to the eastern United States.
Miss Margouixe Crane, who disappeared last August while en route from Pierre to Long Lake, has been located in Sioux City Iowa. She fell ill on the train and was found by her father B Crane after a prolonged search. She once ran a millinery store in Huron and later claimed land in Stanley County South Dakota. She started for Long Lake August 20 and was missed after stopping in Pierre. her trunk arrived before she did. The father hopes she will recover fully soon.
In Chicago on October 1, cold and windy weather did not deter fans from filling the stands for a baseball game. Brown and Kling led Detroit, while Mullin and Schmidt starred for Chicago. After a shaky first inning, Chicago held the lead and then held Detroit scoreless, finishing with a decisive final score.
In Iola Kansas Oct 10 the jurors who investigated Miss May Sapp’s death were taken to Moran and back today. Samuel K Whitlow the married man linked to the case remains under guard in jail after claiming the girl killed herself over unrequited love.
In Columbus Mrs Jassie Chadwick remains in a very serious condition as doctors report no change in her health.
Secret service investigators report that over 300 Italian laborers on the Denver to Chicago track line formed a theft ring. Cars were entered by roof removal or floor lifting, with merchandise discarded along tracks and recovered by accomplices. The scheme, centered between Denver and Omaha, prompted mass dismissals.
Charles P. Baird son of an official at Wie Bald win Locomotive works killed a boy named Iore in Neuilly while driving fast. The driver escaped a mob led by two Englishmen after the incident. Police rescued him. consul general intervened and he was confined for magistrate investigations.
Parsoe resident near Mission, southwest of Hore, reports government considers opening about two and a half townships of Crow Creek reservation land not used by Indians. Prominent men show interest. decision possible by next spring. Land described as suitable for farming and grazing and likely to be quickly taken up.
Lincoln October 11. Food Commissioner Johnson issued a notice to Omaha packers that oleomargarine sold in Nebraska must bear a stamp with the net weight and the contents in packages. The Globe subscription is noted.
The piece argues readers judge novels by entertainment value and price, not literary merit, while some authors aim for deeper needs. It notes libraries draw brisk trashy-literature sales though patrons seek genuine quality, and discusses supply chasing demand amid vast publishing. Also mentions Kashima disaster lessons and a Liberia gift anecdote with Roosevelt ties.
The piece mocks shipping risks as steamers battle fog and icebergs while joking about fines for searching lee waters and a flashy buyer seeking a racing chauffeur. It hints at Delmas in a thaw trial and rails at railroad labor and trust busting politics in a brisk Globe-like column tone.
Ida Husted Harper in the North American Review surveys France Switzerland and the United States where woman suffrage faces strong resistance. In Europe the outlook is challenging as France and Switzerland show backward progress, while in the United States women fight without male support. The piece notes forty five parliaments and a voter base as barriers, yet records growing public sentiment and possible eventual gains, warning that the U.S. may become last among civilized nations to grant voting rights.
A French firm in Lyons perfected a practical method for capturing nature's colors for amateur use. The process uses a plate with colored cornstarch layers and a color-sensitive emulsion, plus a yellow filter to balance brightness. Exposure ranges from one to two minutes indoors and fifteen to twenty seconds outdoors, with development in twenty to twenty-five minutes.
The king, exposed to continental vaudeville and American variety shows, was startled by the singing rather than the morals. He found ragtime and "Mother" songs not immoral, but peculiarly shocking in tone and delivery.
Louis Gourdain, a wealthy eccentric who boasted of building his own jail if not sent to prison, has been adjudged insane. The case draws attention to his possession of strange and unusual desires, described by observers as warranting a straitjacket.
The piece notes that volunteer autoists driving military cars in German maneuvers killed three and injured fifty, claiming they are unpunishable by law. It questions how Kaiser’s forces can trust these drivers to avoid harming his own troops in rear combat, arguing that war upholds no safety for opponents or allies.
A fragmented opinion piece mocks the Americus order over a mistaken face on a St. Gaudens colony, questions Socialist labeling, notes Twain’s Oxford image, and critiques Morton’s denial of Ryan’s wealth while hinting prices may rise and fall. It ends urging Globe subscription.
The article profiles Theodore Hook as a teenage prodigy with a large income and social fame. It details his prankster antics from stealing street signs to orchestrating elaborate dinners unveiling his own gilded eagle gag and his bold social escapades ending with a court appointment in Mauritius and a $10,000 salary, per the New York Press.
A London and Southwestern railway village, Liss, staged a remarkable boiling of an entire ox at a luau held years ago. A brick lined pit housed a tank large enough for the carcass, lowered by chains from above. Vegetables accompanied the meat as it boiled for seven hours, showcasing a village plunge into wholesale cookery.
A well known Boston clergyman joked about the desirability of chronological coherence in written ideas. He recalled a minister in New Hampshire who spoke of events in disjointed order with phrases like the late sexton’s funeral and a Thursday chapel service. The quip was reported in Lippincott's.
An Irishman goes hunting notices a bluejay atop a fence and shoots it. He then discovers a dead frog raised at arm's length, working with a pushed air. He declares the frog looked fine before blowing its fibers off its own.
In a terse street exchange, Misa Wine quips that men wear their hate in church, while Miss Gidiay retorts that many would be curious about a distant boat, city, or temple setting. The fragment hints at social satire amid a crowded pews moment.
A fragmented clipping mentions the Athinta Constitution and subscribes to the Globe. The readable text hints at a general pattern of people learning the tail of a story and then finding their way home, but details are unclear.
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