Utah State News Roundup From Provo To Salt Lake
Utah news notes detail the Provo gymnasium dedication, minor rail wage changes, and Utahs year business by foreign insurers. Miner Patrick Morgan loses a hand in Park City. Idaho engineer deposits $170,000 in a Salt Lake bank. Survey work for a Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad extends across Millard and Uintah counties. Memorial home for miners near Salt Lake begins soon on a ten acre site near the university. County tax evasion probes target sheepowners. Senator Clark foresees summer rail construction on the Salt Lake end of the Los Angeles road. The polygamy amendment is urged by the Salt Lake ministerial association. Roosevelt pardons Lt. J Vowell and plans regular duty after. Millard surveyors push toward Pioche. Emsma Lucy Gates lauded in Boston as the Utah Nightingale. Licensing crackdown on medical practice. Northwestern Woodworkers meet in Salt Lake. Springville votes tax for a southern central school. Wayne Brown dies after a streetcar collision. Wheat and flour imports come to Ephraim. U S revenue agent cites fraud by Salt Lake mills workers. possible prosecutions loom.
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Clark
Montana
St. Louis
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
Reeden
K. W. Wisher
State Board of Medical Examiners
Jesse M. Stith
Utah Sheepmens Association
Northwestern Wooditowers’ Association
Utah
Wyoming
Kal
Washington
Oregon
Salt Lake City
wSs
Wayne Brown
Hal Brown
TD Street
Sie
Wayne
Ephraim
Defaulting Banker Chief Man Ophirp Linked to Utah Ventures
Detroit man Frank C. Andrews is under arrest on a warrant for misappropriation from City Savings Bank with about a million dollars overdrafts and other liabilities. Officials blame stock market speculation for his plunge from millionaire to entangled debtor. He has signed over real estate to the bank and met with creditors, while authorities anticipate a formal statement. Andrews backed Ophir ventures in Stateline and other Utah projects, funding property development and equipment. The Ophir enterprises are portrayed as lucrative by his associates amid corporate backers. Also noted is the anti anarchist bill presented in Congress to protect the president and suppress crime against the government, aiming to shield government officials and deter conspiracies while standardizing penalties.
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Frank C. Andrews
Detroit
Mich
City Savings Bank
Frank 0. Andrews
Andrews
Detroit Trust Company
Trust Company
Ophir Company
Stateline
M. Li. Eftinger
Ophir
Wolverine
Park City
Bingham
Effinger
Utah
Murder Mystery in San Francisco Echoes Durrant Case
The body of Nora Fuller, sixteen, found naked in an unfurnished 221 Sutter St. home, with signs suggesting strangling or poisoning. Autopsy shows non natural death. investigation links a man named John Bennett and alias C B Hawkins, who recruited her for babysitting via an ad. Possible motive linked to fear of exposure of their alleged relationship.
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Police Department of
San Francisco
Nora Wuller
Sutter Street
Nora Fuller
John Bennett
C. B. Hawkins
Bennett
Hawking
Philippine Protests Printed in Hong Kong Pamphlets
Pamphlets printed in Hongkong by the Filipino junta flood Philippine provinces and Manila. They reproduce a memorial to President Roosevelt expressing sympathy at McKinley’s death and asserting Filipinos will gain independence. The junta claims most pacified areas are kept only by stronger military force.
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Manila
Hongkong
Roosevelt
McKinley
Eleven Die In St Louis Hotel Fire
An early morning blaze destroyed the Empire hotel at 2700 and 2702 Olive Street, St. Louis. Eleven occupants perished, ten men and one woman, with seven others injured. Dozens escaped unharmed or frostbitten, and total occupants were estimated at 35 to 40. Building and contents valued at about 10000.
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Olive Street
St. Louis
Britain and Japan form alliance to preserve China and Korea
London issues parliamentary paper outlining a practical alliance between Great Britain and Japan. The dispatch from Lord Lansdowne to Sir Chaud Macdonald states both powers aim to preserve the Chinese empire, maintain the territorial status quo, and coordinate facing the Boxer disturbances with a binding international contract.
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London
Great Britain
Japan
China
Korea
Lord Lansdowne
Slte
Chaud Macdonald
Lord Tunsdowne
Gidie
Separation of Hindoo Twins Performed in Paris
Dr. Doyon separated Radiea and Tordin a pair of Hindoo twins connected like Siamese twins. The 20 minute operation was successful but doubtful in outcome due to one twin's illness and conilction. They had a membrane with large arteries and blood loss of one to two ounces. They reported pain in the membrane and both were very weak with some fever.
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Hindoo
Radiea
Tordina
Doyon
Paris
Desertion and executions reported in Army actions
Deserters from company E Ninth Cavalry faced hangings amid arms theft cases involving Pediment wel joined. Military commission hunted suspects at Wiet and Avien. Execution ordered and supervised by Henry I Wright of the Ninth Cavalry, post commander.
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Edround A
Dubese
Lewis Russell
Ninth Cavalry
Wiet
Alay
Prominent Nevada Man Takes His Own Life
A special to the Salt Lake Tribune reports Judge T. W. Healey, a longtime Nevada resident, died by suicide Saturday night in Carson. He was found on his bed with a .38 caliber pistol in his right hand, the bullet entering the right temple and exiting through the left temple and pillow, instant death.
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Salt Lake Tribune
T. W. Healey
Nevada
Carson
Allon
Patterson Fire Devastates City Leaving Thousands Homeless
A massive fire swept Patterson New Jersey destroying commercial civic educational and religious structures valued at ten million dollars. The blaze began at midnight and raged for hours as fire units from surrounding towns joined the effort. Despite heavy destruction hundreds were left homeless and unemployed with a relief drive organized and Mayor Hinchcliffe stating the city would care for its own.
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Patterson
Wis
John Hinchcliffe
Fatal blasting accident at B&LE railroad cut near Greenville
A blasting accident on the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad cutoff near Osgood two miles east of Greenville Pennsylvania left one man missing and presumed dead, four fatally injured and seven with fractured injuries. Superintendent Thomas McCanville of Scranton suffered a skull fracture and a double leg fracture. Most injured were Italian workers identified only by numbers. the blast occurred after tampering with the battery during preparation for a blast in a 25 foot cut.
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Bessemer & Lake Erie
Osgood
Greenville
Thomas McCanville
Scranton
Meonville
Mystery surrounds murder of Washington ian John Herbert Prentice
John Herbert Prentice of Pullman Washington, 21, was shot at his father's home two miles west of town at 2 am. A coroner's jury ruled death from a putshot wound inflicted by his own hands but did not state if it was suicide or accident. The case remains enveloped in mystery as details unfold. The father, aged widower Dolus Prentice, is described as eccentric and recently discussed selling land believed to have connections to disputes with Liddell. Prentice heir to a $10,000 Oregon estate expects to receive it next month. Oregon Man Has New Gold Saving Process William Ibong claims a cheaper method yields three times more gold from ore, similar to Prof Winn's claims. Ibong reports testing ore from various regions, with a notable result from Ashland tailings producing 45 cents from ten pounds, despite the smelter having earned $40 per ton.
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John Herbert Prentice
Pullman
Wash
Dwetensell
Dolu Prentice
Ile
Edie
Rooney Liddell
Parbman
Decessed
Yamhill County
Oregon
William Ibong
Salem
Vrof. Winn
Denver
Prinlar
Long
Ashland
Boston Anti Vaccination Advocate Dies Risked Smallpox
Boston anti vaccination advocate Dr Immanuel Pfeiffer lies gravely ill from smallpox after he exposed himself to the disease at Galloupes Island hospital two weeks ago. He had opposed compulsory vaccination before a Massachusetts legislative committee and faced death while promoting repeal of the law.
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Boston
Immanuel Pfeiffer
Galloupes Island
Pfeiffer
Massachusetts
Interstate Commission urged stronger rail and tariff controls
The indusw lurnous mission has submitted its final report in congress. It spans over 1000 pages and first covers national progress agriculture mining and transportation. It recommends reviving strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission authority expanding its powers per Cullom bill 1900 and enforcing stricter tariff publication penalties and the long and short haul clause to curb rebates and discrimination.
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Indosw Lurnous Mission
Congress
Commission
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwestern Woolgrowers blast official over wool tariff
The Northwestern Woolgrowers pass a resolution to President Roosevelt and Congress criticizing N. S. D. North, a census statistician and secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, for opposing the wool tariff. Officers for the year are named. Salt Lake City to host the next meeting.
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Roosevelt
Congress
N. D. North
Department of Manufactures
North
National Associative of
Washington
Pacific Northwest Wool Growers’ Association
Jesse M. Smith
Salt Lake
Ministers Protest Against Russia-Chinese Treaty
British American and Japanese ministers in Pekin renew opposition to the Manchurian arrangements between China and Russia. Likely to push back the treaty’s postponement further. Powers opposing the Manchurian treaty mobilize Chinese plenipotentiaries, while China seeks favorable terms for all nations in China. Envoys shift protests toward Russia as the responsible party.
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Pekio
Ching
Mussia
Pihe
China
Lhe
Russia
Secretary Way’s Daughter Married in Washington Social Event
Helen Hay eldest daughter of Secretary John Kay and Payne Whitney of New York wed Thursday at noon at the Church of the Washington. The ceremony drew top officials including the President and cabinet, marking the season’s premier social affair in Washington.
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Helen Hay
John Kay
Payne Whitney
New York
Whitney
Waelington
Washington
Mie Prissent
New England
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Linh Donan
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House Committee On Judiciary
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England
Patterson, N. J
Ian
Northwestern Woolgrowersa Censore Poblie OmMolats
J. W Bailey
Portlant
Richard Scott
Alt. Kawerow
Frank Hagembarth
W. J. Flowerie
G. S. Hickox
Patrick Sullivan
J. N. Williamson
S. J. Cammeron
Frank Gooding
0. P. Hatch
Timothy Kinney
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