Utah News Highlights From Salt Lake City Area
Salt Lake Market prices reach as high as 2560 a bushel while taxes in Salt Lake County surpass 1 million dollars. Winchester school near Murray closes to curb diphtheria. Salvation Army feeds over 700 needy on Thanksgiving. A Salt Lake restaurateur fined for selling liquor. Italian victims from Adrian train wreck hold Salt Lake tickets. Rumor places George Wright in Honglum. Mrs. Judge plans a Salt Lake memorial home for widows. Rabbit hunters near Tooele distribute 1800 rabbits to the poor. Federal Labor union forms in Salt Lake with street laborers among members. Dr P J McKenna fatally injured returning from Park City. Utah Montana league discussed among baseball magnates. Salt Lake fair grounds to build a mile track. Hotta Heil returns to Utah wintering. Produce prices soar. eggs and butter rise. wheat imports from Oregon/Washington expected. University of Nevada beats Utah 4 to 0 on Thanksgiving. Mrs Mary B Neboker of Payson dies after Thanksgiving, age 63. Salt Lake bakers form a union to curb profanity and misbehavior. A row at a Black community dance ends with Oliver Hamilton wounding John Miller. W J Marston loses an eye at Silver King mine in Park City. LB Lockhart found murdered near Dolores river, Grand County. Postal Telegraph gains right of way along Oregon Short Line for Utah-Idaho line transmission.
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Salt Lake
St. Potts
Adrian
Mich
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John Judge
Erda
Tooele
Federal Labor Union
Biles’ Ban Quett Park City
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Fortuna
Egga
Tourket
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Washington
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University of Utah
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Payson
Oliver Hamilton
John Miller
Hamilton
Miller
Silver King
Park City
W. J. Marston
Coin for Philippines proposed silver peso coin
Special Commissioner Charles A. Conant urges Congress to authorize a Philippine silver peso legal tender for 50 cents in gold, containing twenty five grammes of silver. Coinage should be limited to prevent excess and kept at gold parity. Mexican dollar and other coins to cease being legal tender after date set.
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Root
Charles A. Conant
Philippines
Taft Ordered Home On Leave By War Secretary
The secretary of war issued orders sending Governor Taft to Manila on leave to recuperate his health. He will depart for the United States on the first available transport. The Kilpatrick from New York should reach Manila soon and may be ordered to San Francisco if Taft prefers to avoid New York.
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Taft
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New York
Kilpatrick
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Montana
Toole
van Sant
Minnesota
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington Railways
Northern Securities Company
Securties Company
Consumptives Barred From Entering United States
In Brooklyn Friday Judge Thomas sustained the treasury department ruling in the case of Thomas Boden of Philadelphia. The decision bars Boden a consumptive from landing in the United States while his wife and child, preferring Erie Island, will return to Ireland. The judge noted no question of law was raised and the matter concerns the right of consumptives to immigrate here.
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United States
Thomas
Brooklyn
Treasury Department
Washington
Thomas Hoden
Philadelphia
Boden
Erie Island
Ireland
Filipino sympathizer swears oath upon arrival in Manila
Kake Warren of Boston, a Filipino sympathizer who toured the United States with Sixté Lopez, was detained by a U S commission on arrival at Manila. He swore to refrain from actions against the government before gaining liberty and then accompanied Lopez to Hongkong under guard.
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Boston
United States
Sixté Lopez
United States Commission
Manila
Warren
Sixto Lopes
Hongkong
Lopez
Lopes
Americans Hurt by Pitfall in Bohol Action
First Lieutenant George Feeler and Second Lieutenant Richard Wetherell of the Righteanih infantry sustained severe injuries from tamboo spikes in a pitfall near Carmen Bohol on Friday causing extraction surgery. Lieutenant Smith was lightly hurt. Feeler, a New York native, joined as second lieutenant in May HW, with Wetherell and Ira A. Stith promoted from the ranks in February last.
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Richard Wetherell
Ira A. Stith
Highwaymen Attack Rogge on Fifth Arcane Chicago
J W Rogge was assaulted Friday morning near Madison Street by two highwaymen. One choked him while the other searched his pockets for money. They tossed him through a large plate glass window, then fled as a pursuing crowd chased them into an alley. Rogge survived with only cuts and bruises.
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J. W. Rogge
Fifth Arcane
Madison Street
Chicago
Roggo
Oklahoma Governor Removed From Office Amid Corruption Scrutiny
The president removed Governor Jenkins over improper contract dealings with the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company. Memorandum cites stock interest, personal benefit sought, and fiduciary breach as grounds for the action, noting the governor failed to uphold public duties and policy.
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Thomas B. Ferguson
Oklahowa
William M. Jenkins
Jenkson
Okahoma
Oklahoma Sanitarium Company
Jenkins
Tumopoum Rodsey
Hospital Attendant Convicted of Murdering Patient
The jury in the case of William Webb Ferguson charged with the murder of Dr. D. L. Barnew of Monticello by poisoning at the Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville last May returned a verdict of guilty after seven hours deliberation. Punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary. Separate verdicts involved Plum As tantt and Battery in related cases in Pinehe Nevada.
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D. L. Barnew
Monticello
Central Hospital For
Jacksonville
Mattle Harnes
Quincy
Mra. McWillisms
Mra Barnes
Perguikon
Pinehe
Nevada
Ellis
Fay
Nev
Talbot
Three Meothe Found Guilty In Faith Healer Case
Eugene Brooks an elder of Dowle's Christaln Catholic church in Zion was found guilty and sentenced to three months in Victoria jail without hard labor for aiding John Rogers who was guilty of manslaughter for failing to provide medical attendance to his infant children during diphtheria illness that killed them. The sentence was paused pending appeal on whether medical attendance was legally required for life.
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Eugene Brooks
Dowle
Christaln Catholic
Zion
Victoria
B.C
John Rogers
Hrocke
Colorado Man Abot Beaten and Shot in Telluride
Colorado man Abot James Phillips, a nonunion employee of the Smugglers-Union in Telluride, was brutally beaten by unknown parties and afterward shot through the right side. Local authorities investigate the strange assault and shooting incident.
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James Phillips
Telluride
Colo
Free ‘Duesday
Sixty-Eight Die In Michigan Wabash Train Wreck
A head on collision of two heavily loaded passenger trains one mile east of Adrian Michigan killed eighty people and injured about 140. The westbound immigrant train and the Continental Limited suffered severe damage as fire and wreckage hampered rescue efforts. Authorities blamed the eastbound engineer for disobeying orders. Relief trains reached the scene late as flames burned car after car.
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Midh
Continental Limited
José
Moot
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Root
Taft
Spooner
Dried Bodies From Ural Exhibit At New York Museum
An display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York features the Hyde collection from the Southwestern United States. It shows ten desiccated human remains from a burial cave in Grand Gulch canyon southern Utah. The bodies appear as bone bundles due to extreme dryness. Oregon mine owner on trial for fraud Nelson Halkett, mine owner in Halver City Oregon, faced federal charges in Des Moines Iowa. Indicted two years ago for using the mails to promote sale of stock in the Wh gold mine at Baker City.
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American Museum of National History
New York
Hyde
United States
Grand Gulch Canyon
Utah
Oregon
Nelson Halkett
Halver City
Des Moines
Balliett
Baker City
Aper
Sean
Wonderful field of beets yields high sugar content
A farmer reports a field of beets with 4 percent sugar producing 12,705 pounds of refined sugar per acre. He notes two additional acres were planted but unclear outcomes.
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