Week's Happenings In the Active Marts of the West
Coast News summarizes a week of disasters and legal actions across the West. A San Francisco scaffold collapse fatally injured Thomas Bennett. a fatal shooting occurs in Dolores Street. a San Francisco butcher kills his wife and wounds his mother in law before suicide. Other items include a Redondo casino fire causing about 2500 dollars in losses, a penitentiary scaffold execution in Salem, and boats breaking from anchors near San Francisco with salvage underway. Additional notes cover a Coquille river lumber schooner drifting off and a three-masted schooner Sausalito grounding near the Farallones, while Gov. Gillett assigns a code index project with Judge Davis and aims to complete by October 1.
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Japanese May Sue Washington Over San Francisco Riot Damage
The Horseshoe restaurant proprietor plans to sue the city of San Francisco in California state courts to recover damages from anti Japanese riot attacks. District Attorney Devlin will represent the plaintiff, per private advices received. The Justice Department earlier indicated it had instructed Devlin to offer services if such a suit was filed.
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Navy Yards Fail To Compete With Private Builders
In Mare Island and Brooklyn yards bids for two 20,070 ton battleships are far higher than private shipbuilders. Public bids not released, but secretary Metcalf notes Brooklyn yard would cost an extra 650000 to 700000 compared to lowest private bid if chosen.
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Crisis deepens as Central America tensions rise
The State Department reports disquiet in Salvador and Guatemala ahead of frontier movements. Nicaragua plans another expedition, while Salvadoran President Cabrera fears internal plots and external aggression. The USS Milwaukee is ordered from Mare Island to protect American interests amid the possible trouble.
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Airship Pilot Narrowly Escapes After Brooklyn Landing
In New York a large airship led by Lincoln Beachey cleared Staten Island and Brooklyn before circling Battery Park crowds. The craft lifted to high altitude, then appeared to strike a sunken vessel marker and the pilot was thrown to the water. A nearby boat rescued him from the harbor.
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Troops on Turkish Frontier Strengthened Amid Turmoil
In Tiflis Russia, Russian forces along the Turkish Armenian frontier are greatly reinforced to curb migration of American refugees and to deter Armenian Armenian and Muslim clashes. Officials fear a repeat of the 1896 massacres as tension rises over frontier settlements and regional colonization.
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Bodies washed away from ancient cemetery at Zaveta
A report states that the old church at Zaveta on the Mexican side of the river below El Paso was wrecked by high waters and bodies in the ancient cemetery were washed away. The church dates to the sixteenth century. Also, Guadalajara near San Antonio, New Mexico, is reported washed away with no loss of life reported.
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Bombing in Erivan Square Stages Deadly Attack
A bomb exploded in Erivan square as a treasury attack aimed at a wagon with $125,000 exited by Cossacks. No bank staff were killed though over fifty people injured and $170,000 stolen. A second blast in a nearby house killed two brothers and wounded another. Police had not yet arrested suspects.
Lightning strikes pole near Roosevelt's office
A bolt hit a utility pole about 200 feet from the president's office causing alarm but no injuries were reported. The incident occurred at noon and was confirmed safe shortly after.
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Stolen Boy Found Slain in New Orleans Swamp
In New Orleans two miles inland a headless seven to eight year old Italian boy named Walter Lamana, held for a $6000 ransom, was found strangled near a swamp. Five Italians, two women, are under arrest as accomplices amid Mafia fears and heavy police protection at Orleans Parish Prison. Police report a confession from Ignazio Campigliano about the kidnapping and murder, with details of the plan and the body carried in a blanket to the swamp where it was discovered.
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Tony Gendusa
Annacataria
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Leonard Gelovia
Indian Girls Sold as Slaves Brings $1400 at Alert Bay Potlatch
At an Alert Bay potlatch drawing about 2000 Indians, a nine year old girl tall for her age and described as unusually pretty was sold to a 50 year old Indian for 1400 dollars, with younger girls and maidens from the Tsimpseans also fetching high prices as chiefs from neighboring islands bid.
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Alert Bay
Army Provides For Ute Indians In Exile
Secretary Taft says the War Department has resolved the Ute Indians' status after last winter's desertion from their reservation. Officers provided food to end of fiscal year and placed others on the Cheyenne River south reservation, with the Indian bureau set to take charge afterward. Seventeen per hundred New York residents reach seventy or older.
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Japan Has No Thoughts of Engaging in War
Public excitement over the American question wanes while agitation persists among opposition politicians. The Progressive bloc and a club faction seek to attack the ministry over U S relations to influence next year’s elections, blaming the Saionji cabinet for diplomatic weakness. War talk is not contemplated or entertained locally.
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Saionji
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United States
Lost Pacific steamer wreck near Corral Chile
News from Santiago reports a Pacific Steam Navigation steamer bound Panama to the south coast wrecked in a heavy squall about fifty miles north of Corral. One passenger and one officer saved. The ship left Corral with engines out of order and began returning to Valparaiso. Four passengers and eighty seven crew were aboard. It is feared nearly all perished, with a sister ship Arequipa having sunk near Valparaiso four years earlier.
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California Hunters License Law Sets Fees and Rules
The last Legislature enacted a hunters license law requiring a state permit to hunt in California after July 1. Residents pay 1, nonresidents 10, and aliens 25. Licenses cost one year and must be produced on demand. Fines range from 10 to 100 dollars or jail time for hunting without a license. Aluminum licenses are issued with date stamps and can be obtained via county clerks or the Fish Commission in San Francisco.
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Speedy scout vessel Chester launched at Bath Iron Works
Bath Me The scout cruiser Chester, one of the latest two fast warships, was launched from Bath Iron Works. It is part of a class of three scout cruisers authorized by congress April 17 1904. Costing 1688000, the vessel uses new American turbine technology and is designed for 24 knots, second only to torpedo boat destroyers.
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Telegraphic Brevities recap of global disasters and incidents
Heat deaths mount in Pittsburg reach fourteen. Roosevelt appoints William F. Frear as Hawaii governor for August start. Tug Constance lost off Riversville with all six crew drowned. F R Walker kills wife then himself after jealous quarrel. Topeka tornado and hail devastate Ulysses, injuring Miller daughters. windows shattered. Horrific theater fire in Victoria, 360 Chinese audience killed. New York ten killed in tenement collapse. rescue scenes visible. Western floods in Montana bring high water, drownings in Forsythe and Miles City. Glasgow and Simms Creek fatalities reported.
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French Troops Grow Restless Amid Mutiny Reports
Paris reports rising insubordination within the army as France faces demoralization tied to socialist anti military propaganda. The government debates stern measures, exile of mutineers from the eleventh infantry, and delaying peacetime courts martial legislation while Clemenceau seeks to weather parliament’s summer recess.
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M. Clemenceau
Do you really mean to say colonel that you ran for Congress
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a sharp exchange about age and candidacy. A colonel affirms he ran for Congress before turning 16, recounting he served as a page in the House to support the claim. The remark spotlights political rituals and early exposure to government.
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Philadelophia Ledger
Night Operator Foils Robbers at Santa Barbara Station
In Santa Barbara California two masked men held up the Southern Pacific night operator at Gandalpe station near the coast during a swift pistol duel. The operator, protecting the safe, fired ten rounds and drove the robbers off. Day Operator Green aided pursuit as suspects fled across tracks. Sheriff hopes to collar them. descriptions include a tall six footer in a white hat and a shorter man in a black derby. The same pair had previously attempted to rob Campobonia the town banker, but left empty handed after a threatened letter and a sack of iron workers was left at a railroad point.
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Passenger Lifeboat Disaster Aboard Wrecked Vessel
Santiago Chile pacific steam announces only passenger aboard the Santiago drowned after wreck in heavy squall seven miles north of Corral. Ninety two aboard, including twelve English officers, all perished except one survivor. Lifeboat dashed on rocks after drifting.
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MARRIES FIFTH TIME AT AGE OF EIGHTY ONE
Chicago geologist and engineer C8 sian Guthrie, 81, announces plans to wed for the fifth time next Monday evening. His fiancée is Elizabeth Fowler, 35, a noted match for the octogenarian’s bold pledge to marriage as the natural state. Guthrie jokes of four prior marriages and accepting one more at four score and one.
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Solve Mystery of Priest s Murder
New York police headquarters received a cablegram from Cor sul General Skinner in Marseilles stating Boghus Parkain was arrested there at New York police request for the murder of Father Kasper Vartarian whose body was found in a trunk in a West Thirty-fifth Street lodging four months ago.
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Corsul
Japan and US near new treaty aimed at equal footing
London dispatch reports Tokyo and Washington may replace the current treaty in 1909 with terms designed to place Japanese subjects on equal footing with Europeans. No major disputes expected before then.
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United States
Fraud Strikes Russo-Chinese Banks in Vladivostok
In Vladivostok the Russo-Chinese bank reportedly paid out $50,000 on a forged check before the recipient fled. A man described as an evolutionist in frontier officer attire reportedly drew $30,000 from the Chinese bank with a forged instrument and absconded.
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