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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1903
Page
13
Utah state notes show the supreme court upholds a law creating municipal judge ships as constitutional. Reports cover local civic events, farm conditions, and social notes across Fairview Salt Lake Ogden and other communities with updates on wages, crops, and public services.
Two convicts, William Brown and Ed Hamilton, fought in an Utah prison corridor early Monday. Hamilton used an iron bar, Brown produced a long knife, and both suffered grievous wounds. Brown died soon after, Hamilton severely injured but alive, with both refusing to speak. Brown faced a 40 year murder sentence. Hamilton had been jailed for assault with intent to commit murder.
Frank Keefe, a grocer, shot and killed City Marshal John Baxter and Thomann King in Rawlings Wyoming on a Monday night. Keefe, described as a desperate drinker, fired from his rear store on Front and Fifth streets, then attempted to flee as Baxter tried to intervene. Baxter died on the sidewalk. King, a railroad man of standing, died of a heart wound after helping Baxter. Keefe is jailed. King and Baxter were well known in the community for their service and status.
Word came of a tornado in St Paul Neosho county Saturday destroying a three story brick school and several homes. Five injured, four life threatening, including a Chamberlain family member and a German Longham family member. Depot platform moved. town roofs torn off. five minute storm. Near Cherryvale Stanley Foster farm buildings damaged and a two year old child fatally injured from a fractured skull.
Richard B. Finn, a plumber, and Martin L. Marooney, a clerical worker, are jailed without bail for the murder of 14 year old Jennie Hickey in Douglas Monument park. Marooney claims he witnessed Finn strike Hickey and carry her toward the lake, then saw Finn alone later. Finn denies involvement. Hickey's body was found in Lake Michigan near Thirty-fifth Street in September 1858.
In St Paul Judge Sanborn granted Northern Securities permission to pay dividends to Great Northern and Northern Pacific, suspending the decree's ban on such payments during appeal after bond of 60,000 was posted. The bond covers prosecution of the appeal and any damages to the United States. The remainder of the decree stays in force. The appeal likely to be decided by the Supreme Court in November 1903. Firecracker riot erupts among Eastern Chicago Greeks. three wounded, no serious injuries. A bystander, Henry Oppenheim, aided, and police shot the leaders. three arrested. Chri Narveson, asleep near Ophish Gulch, awoke, self-inflicted wound, then walked five miles to Blackfoot, Mont.. likely fatal.
Senator W A Clark reports purchase of Oregon Short Line South of Salt Lake and Leamington cut off with 99 year lease on Salt Lake terminal facilities. Grading will start at Daggett California. line will extend through Nevada toward Callentes and Riverside with 75 pound rails. San Pedro system aims for open access, independent operation, and completion in about two years as trains run Salt Lake to Los Angeles within eighteen months per Senator Kearns.
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