Four Northwest States Late News Briefly Told
Choice selection of items from the week noting Colfax new post office after 1903, Judge John Arthur touring the state, Stevens county fair success, 300 cavalry at Fort Walla Walla, Spokane city budget of 472836.23, harvest shifts in Franklin county, nominations for UW presidency, undertaker licensing exam, wheat purchases, Coulee City Adrain cutoff surveys, Horse Heaven harvests, North Yakima state fair open, grain inspections in Tacoma, Tacoma sash and door factory fire, 1902 wheat crop outlook in Wilbur, state supreme court ruling on tickets, Spokane race horse deaths, Idaho notes including Wallace fortune tellers license, normal school growth, penitentiary warden change, St Joe timber belt road work, Rocky Mountain Bell strike, Kendrick wheat prices, a doctor’s death near Emmett, Mat Smith drowning, and the state prison board seeking warden replacement.
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Colfax
John Arthur
Masonry
Washington
Stevens County
Fort Walla Walla
Spokane
Franklin County
Cooley
Chicago
University of the State of Washington
Northwestern Warehouse Company
Thornton
Coulee City-Adrain
Horse Heaven
Yakima
North Yakima
Tacoma
Wheeler, Osgood & Co
Wilbur
Wallace
EB. L. Ballard
Martin
Spalding
Lapwal
Placer Creek
St. Joe
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Kendrick
Ernest H. Brown
Montana News Capsule From Missoula and Beyond
Missoula schools enroll 1076 the largest ever. State valuation hits 185,625,657 up from 166,787,593. Labor party nominee Martin Dee chosen for Congress. Rosenthal dies at Butte after illness. Dixson and Holloway named for Congress and Supreme Court. Princeton expedition yields cretaceous finds in Montana. Arid land areas found near Great Falls with crops growing without irrigation. Northern Pacific engineer David Owen dies after a Mountain collision near Livingston. fireman survives with minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Montana
Martin Dee
Congress
Labor Party
Joseph H. Rosenthal
Butte
Republican State Convention
President Roosevelt
Joseph M. Dixon
W. L. Holloway
Bozeman
Supreme Court
Marcus Farr
Department of Geology
Princeton
Fort Union
Big Timber
Department of Agriculture
Elwood Mead
Department
Mead
Great Falls
David Owen
Northern Pacific
Helena
Livingston
Fricke
Telegraph Office
Owen
House
The President Improves After Leg Injury
President's doctors dressed the leg wound and report the injury is improving. Inflammation recedes slowly and doctors await signs that bone involvement is not present. The president stays in good spirits, confined, reads on a lounge, and will attend to business when ready.
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Washington
Dr. F. W. Dakin Indicted In Cleveland Bribery Case
Grand jury indicts Dr. F W Dakin for offering a bribe to a city official in Cleveland Ohio. He allegedly paid 2000 dollars to Councilman Charles Kohl to vote against a natural gas franchise, with Kohl turning the money over to Mayor Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Dakin
Cleveland
Ohio
Dr. Dakin
Charles Kohl
Kohl
Johnson
Murder at Empire Garden reveals grim New York killing
Police describe the slaying of James B Craft a Glencove magnet as a tailors murder with the victim fatally struck after displaying money in the Empire Garden cafe near Broadway West Twenty ninth street The body was headless later found burning in the furnace As detectives questioned Tobin and accomplices the case points to robbery with multiple arrests and a witness Mamie Moore providing crucial statements
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New York
James B. Craft
Glencove
Long Island
West Twentyninth Street
Broadway
Craft
Thomas Tobin
Walter Craft
Cortlandt Street
Tobin
Polce
Alexander McAnerney
Robert Kelly
Thomas Kelly
Empire
Mamie Moore
McAnerney
West Twenty-ninth Street
Sheehan
Empire Hotel
Jealous husband shoots wife at Royal hotel in New York
Harry Rose stage manager at Garrick theater shoots wife Belle Berger at their Royal hotel apartment on Thirty third Street. He surrenders revolver to a sergeant saying I have shot my wife. He cites jealousy after discovering a man at home three days earlier. He says he has been married 14 years and presses that he is square. The same article notes a massive steamship combine by J P Morgan is nearly finalized and to be announced next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Rose
Garrick Theater
J. P. Morgan
MINERS STRIKE AND TROOPS CALLED OUT IN COAL BELT
A regional coal strike prompts sheriffs to pledge troops to preserve peace as several collieries face disruption. Reports detail train interference by strikers, mobs targeting non union workers, and patrols by troops to prevent further violence. Additional items note mine conditions, oil plans, and political speeches accompanying the era-wide unrest.
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Sherif
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Coal Company
Jacobs
Reading
Philadelphia
Luther
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Road
Shenandoah
Gobin
Potts
Locusdale
Farquhar
Centralia
Mount Carmel
Lehigh Valley
Packer No. 2
Spokane Interstate Fair features bike races and grand attractions
The Spokane Interstate Fair runs October 6 to 14 with bicycle races as afternoon feature. Organizers promise bright racing prospects and plentiful amusements, with many fruit and vegetable prizes, livestock displays, and daily balcon as censons drawing crowds. Hints of arriving horses and trotters from Butte suggest a strong racing slate.
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Spokane
Smith
Butte
Evans to Investigate Boxer Uprising in China Provinces
Washington Sept. 30 Rear Admiral Robley D Evans second in command of the Asiatic station and soon to command US naval forces in the east has been sent up the Yangtze river to investigate and report on the situation in the Chinese provinces where a new Boxer uprising is expected according to United States Minister Conger.
Wedding Fire Tragedy in Web Near Moscow
A St Petersburg dispatch reports 400 peasants at a wedding in a barn at Web near Moscow were trapped by a fire started by a cigarette. Panic caused women and children to be trampled, and within 15 minutes over 100 guests died from suffocation or burns, with many injured.
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London
St. Petersburg
Web
Moscow
World News Recap from the Past Week Excerpts
A digest of global and domestic events highlights deaths and political moves. Notables include Major William Davenport of Montana and Henry Phipps aiding Boer relief. Roosevelt census order for the Philippines. Alaska and Turkestan earthquake reports. a San Antonio marksman setting a clay target record. and shifting trust policies impacting packing houses.
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Father McKinnon
Manila
Roosevelt
Washington
McGillis
Skagway
Topeka
William Davenport
Ong
Montana
A Oencas
V.guelan
London
Atttorney
Knox
Pane
Panama Canal
United States
Adolph Toepperwein
San Antonio
Texas
Minneapolis
Willamette Iron Works
Portland
General Botha
Henry Phipps
Arthur White
Rotterdam
Chicago Tribune
Philippines
General Alger
Michigan
Beechwood Improvement Company
South Sharon
Golden Eagle
Frank McKie
Taskenta
Russian Turkestan
Kashgar
Turkestan
Astyne
Jagnui
Aksuksitche
William Dinkela
Japan
Charles H. Abbott
B. P. Birdsall
Carrion
Iowa
Congress
National House
D. B. Henderson
Funston
Department of One
Stratton to contest will for Colorado Springs home
Denver, September 29. Harry Stratton of Pasadena after a conference with attorney Judge Gunnell and Wolcott Vaile decided to contest his father Winfield Stratton's will. The estate, estimated at 10 to 12 million dollars, would fund a home for the poor and sick in Colorado Springs. The will would forfeit 50 000 dollars to Stratton if he contests. Also from Denver a Rawlins Wyoming freight wreck killed at least four men with three bodies recovered. An unrelated note asks if a fascinator improves a woman.
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Denver
Col
Harry Stratton
Pasadena
Cal
A. T. Gunnell
Colorado Springs
Wolcott & Vaile
Winfield
Stratton
Estim
Colo
Rawlins
Wyo
Rawling Yard
Union Pacific
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Morthwest
Superior Court
Henry Lawshe
Thecoma Railway & Power Company
Lawshe
Spokane Interstate Fair Grounds
Geon
Blockhouse Field
Emmett
Lieutenant Holbrook
Mat Smith
Harrison
Adair
State Prison Board
C. E. Arney
State Penitentiary
E. L. Ballard
Owyhee County
Dewet
the Hague
Déwet
South Africa
New Orleans
New Orleans Street Railway Company
Scranton
Hoboken
James Winston
Grassy Island
Lackawanha
Corea
Ala
Helen Robertson
General Randall
William Jonhson
Tuscar
Boise
Stone
Pennsylvania
Sheridan
Tyrone
Helen Dickinson
Mobile
Stockton
Oakland
Southern Pacific
Mmer
Mise Swift
Pittsburg Press
Reot
Akron
Root
American Republic
Republican Party
McKinley
House of Representatives
San Joaquin Valley
Morgan
Morgan Syndicate
Ews Sims
Hemis
Cheres
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