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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
3
In St. Anthony Idaho a steadfast sheriff known as The Fighting Sheriff has quelled six years of western violence. Once nights of drinking and gunfire gave way to peaceful streets as he curbs raids and keeps order in the frontier town.
A local resident explains preferring St. Anthony where he earns 125 dollars a month and lives, despite receiving employment offers from Boise Salt Lake and other cities. He cites home ties and community appeal.
A motor car carrying seven people fell over an embankment on Magnolia bluff in Seattle, killing Mrs. Amanda Ottolenduy of New York. Vera Brace, 12, witnessed the crash and ran three-quarters of a mile to Interbay for help. it took about half an hour to free the trapped occupants.
A Dutch colonial brick house with gray shingle roof will rise on the east side of Main Street near Forty fifth. Architects A Van Brunt & Brother design the residence for Marvin H Gates. The first floor includes a living room reception room dining room kitchen and oak finished rooms.
Frederick B. Lynch, manager for Governor Johnson in the Democratic race, says Bryan cannot win on the first Denver ballot. He asserts Southern delegates with 250 votes will tilt toward Johnson on the second or third ballot, predicting Johnson’s nomination in Denver with many uninstructed delegates backing him.
In a small town of about 2,000 inhabitants the marshal known as the fighting elder describes his record of 1,600 arrests in six years and recounts facing gunplay from cowboys and sheepmen. He says he never killed a man, used a club when needed, and earned a gold fire department badge for rescuing a woman in a hotel fire.
Rear Admiral C S Sperry of the Atlantic fleet recommends Captain Richard Wainwright, head of the second division, be appointed acting rear admiral at once. The Navy department plans to place him in command of a world cruise fleet, a promotion due as he heads toward the Orient.
Two new Navy scout cruisers the Chester and Birmingham have arrived in the North River from Boston. They are unarmored messenger vessels with high speed and long range. Official tests are planned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Boston May 28 four subsidiary organisations met today as part of the anniversary week program. The seventh annual meeting of the Unitarian Historical Society along with a public meeting of the Massachusetts convention of Congregational ministers a conference of post office mission workers and the Meadville Alumni association annual meeting were held during the forenoon.
General James Parke Postles, morocco leather manufacturer and Civil War veteran who earned a Congressional bravery medal for Gettysburg, died in a hospital following injuries from a fall down stairs at a Masonic temple two weeks earlier. Commendation for Linwood's Principal praised Emma J. Lockett for dismissing pupils amid danger.
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