Utah News Roundup From State Supreme Court To Wheat Plots
The Utah supreme court rules the municipal judgeships law constitutional. Spring wheat planting is delayed while farmers await better weather. Arbor Day observed with tree plantings by Gov Wells and staff. Z B Decker of Parowan passes away at eighty six. A man killed near Port Douglas when a wagon wheel ran over his head. Reed of Springville and Mapleton discuss large bet allotments for crops. An agreement between spouses aims to ease divorce proceedings, per supreme court decision.
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Z. B. Decker
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Port Douglas
Betele Knecht
Mia
Battle of Convicts Ends in Bloody Prison Fight
Two convicts at the state penitentiary, William Browns and Ed Hamilton, fought with a knife and iron bar in a noon corridor clash. Brown, wounded and bleeding, fled to his cell as Hamilton pursued. Both men were severely mutilated and unlikely to survive per prison physician Dr. A. C. Young. Neither would speak of the tragedy.
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Tragedy at Rawlins Follows Drunken Groceryman Murder
At Rawlins Wye on Monday night Frank Keele, a grocer known for drinking, shot and killed Thomann King a railroad man and city marshal John Baxter during a confrontation at his store corner Front and Fifth streets. Baxter died after Keele fired in self defense. King died of a left chest wound. Keele was described as a desperate character while drinking.
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Tornado Rips Through Neosho County Kans Killing Child
Word comes of a tornado at St. Pal Neosho county Kansas on a Saturday destroying a large amount of property injuring five people four of whom cannot recover Mrs David Chamberlain and three members of a German family Longham will recover David Chamberlain receives a severe head injury while several other persons sustained minor injuries The brick school building was destroyed homes of Chamberlain Longham and Melluse blown away Many houses unroofed Depot platform carried from town The tornado crossed through nearby farms near Cherryvale all buildings on Stanley Foster’s farm badly damaged and their two year old child fatally hurt with a fractured skull
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Two Men Charged in 1858 Jennie Hickey Murder
Richard B. Finn a plumber and Martin L. Marooney a clerk were arrested in Chicago for complicity in the murder of 14 year old Jennie Hickey. Both are held without bail. Marooney described Finn striking the girl and carrying her toward the lake then returning alone.
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Court suspends dividends ban for Northern Securities case
At St Paul Judge Sanborn granted a stay allowing Northern Securities to receive dividends from Great Northern and Northern Pacific. The court suspended the decree’s dividend prohibition during appeal upon bond of 96000 with 50000 conditional to prosecute the appeal, while other decree provisions remain in force. The appeal may be decided by the Supreme Court around November 1903 amid Chicago riot disturbances linked to celebrants. A separate incident reports Chris Narveson shooting himself after trauma from an earlier incident in Opbis Gulch.
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Clark leads push to connect Salt Lake City with Los Angeles by rail
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Senator W A Clark has bought all lines and equipment south of Salt Lake, including the Leamington cut off, for the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. Grading will begin at Daggett and extend through Nevada, with a hoped completion in about two years.
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Heath
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Moe
Alrowty
Montana
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Noruia
Cal
Lightning Strike Kills, Burns Nebraska Family
During a thunderstorm near West Point Nebraska a lightning bolt struck the Sendigriff farm home. The father mother and four children were badly burned and unconscious. The father dragged his wife and three children to safety but could not save one child whose charred body was found among the ruins.
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Neb
Uebtolng
Fred Sendigriff
Geoveaponts
Sendigrift
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