Utah State News Briefs Show Oil Work and Far-Flung Events
Reports from Utah detail oil drilling near Huntsville and nine smallpox cases in Salt Lake City. Mercur rebuilds, juror and witness fees in the Mortensen murder trial total 3410.20. Weather notes include Salt Lake City's cold July night and frost threatening crops near Mt. Pleasant. Fire damages Mt. Pleasant mill. beer consumption in the capital runs high. several injuries and legal actions captured in quick items across the state.
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Huntsville
Salt Lake City
Rovo
Mortensen
The
Weather Bureau
Lul
A. Wiswell
Salt Lake
Mt. Pleasant
J. J. Feely
Salt Lake Tribune
Small Volcano at Work in Tulsa Oklahoma
Gas escapes from fissures and a continual hissing roar is heard as surveyors report cracks in mound sides north of Tulsa. A small volcano at the top of the highest hill tosses large boulders, while experts claim a great oil and gas field beneath and pressure from shallow depth fuels the disturbance. Residents grow nervous over the developing situation.
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Tulsa
I. T
Expedition Ravaged by Cholera on Punitive Head Hunter Mission
A London dispatch reports cholera decimating a 10 000 strong expedition sent to Sarawak to punish head-hunters. By June 7 the flotilla dwindled from 515 boats to forty amid high heat, with over a thousand deaths and hundreds sick. Dr Vyner Brooke and the expedition later returned to Singapore.
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London
Larry de Windt
Siberia
Charles Vyne Brooke
Sarawak
Singapore
Straits Settlements
Batang Lubar
Vener Brooke
Vyner Brooke
Jessie Morrison Sentenced for Murder in Eldorado
Jessie Morrison was convicted of second degree murder for killing Mrs. Olin Castle at her Eldorado Kansas home in January 1900 by cutting her throat with a razor. She received a twenty five year sentence after three trials. motion for new trial was overruled and an appeal to the state supreme court is planned.
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Jessie Morrison
Entire Family Murdered Near Prudence Oklahoma
Report of a grisly murder near Prudence thirty miles southwest of Enid Oklahoma. The bodies of a man a woman and two children were found mutilated stripped of clothing with no identification. Authorities suspect robbery by strangers traveling overland and note the perpetrators fled with the victims team and belongings. Separately a farmer named Gynes on the Stappey plantation near Americus Georgia killed a colored farm hand wounded a Negro woman and was shot twice in a deadly altercation. Gynes says self defense.
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Prudence
Enid
Oklahoma
Gynes
Stappey Plantation
Americus
Garrison in South Africa to total 50000 under Lyttleton
The London Daily Mail reports a permanent garrison of 50000 men in South Africa under Lieut General Lyttleton. A vast reservist system will spread across farms and official posts, ready for emergency service. Teachers in the Philippines are accused of attempting to influence Catholic children toward Protestantism and will be instructed to cease, as the government policy dictates no religious bias.
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London Daily Mall
Lyttleton
War Department
Philippines
Wright
Tracy Still At Large In Port Madison Escape
Tracy the escaped convict remains missing after leaving the Johnson home Saturday at Port Madison. Forty Indians patrol Kitsap county as guards lie in ambush near Bethel and the coast of the lower sound is watched. The Whitehall boat used to flee with Anderson was found at Miller's bay containing only oars, suggesting Tracy may soon reappear or be forced from hiding.
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Tracy
Johnson
Port Madison
Kitsap County
Lower Sound
Bethel
Miller's Bay
Whitehall
Anderson
Venezuelan battle reroutes government forces near Barcelona
Three thousand Venezuelan government troops under General Castro were routed July 3 between Barcelona and Agua by General Rolando’s revolutionary army. Government losses included ammunition and equipment, with many soldiers deserting. Rebels moved to Barcelona, city surrounded as panic spread and shops closed. President Castro fled Caracas on a 400-man guard to Lagujara, then to Barcelona aboard the Ossum.
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Castro
Barcelona
Agua
Revolutionary
Rolando
Venezuela
Caracas
Valencia
Laguyara
General Ferrer
Lagugara
Ossum
Beveridge Declines VP Bid Despite Rumors
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, then in Indianapolis, rejected a Chicago dispatch claiming he was urged as a vice presidential candidate in 2004. He stated he would not be a candidate, had not considered it, and was content with his Senate work.
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Beveridge
Albert J. Beveridge
Indianapolis
Washington Dispatch
Chicago
Senate
Murderer Dies in Chicago Police Cell by Rope
Theodore Oelfner, who on Sunday killed his wife and wounded his baby and a 17-year-old stepdaughter, died by his own hand in his cell at the police station Chicago Monday night using a rope made from his own garments. The wounded baby remained alive but unlikely to recover.
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Theodore Oelfner
Chicago
Deltier
Aguinaldo Freed After Amnesty First Meeting With Chaffee
Aguinaldo, timid after amnesty on July 4, was freed from guard duty and met General Chaffee. Lieutenant McKinlay served as interpreter as Aguinaldo learned he could travel but sought night visits due to daylight fear. Chaffee offered equal protection and declined easing his testimony duties. Wary of revenge from Luna’s supporters, the former leader considers social calls at night in Cavite Viejo.
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Aguinaldo
Johnson
Chaffee
William E. McKinlay
Ninth Cavalry
General Chaffee
Cavite Viejo
Cavite
Wright
Luna
Fate of Andree party near York Factory revealed
Rev Dr Ferries reports from Winnipeg that Andree and two companions were killed by Esquimaux near Fort Churchill after a balloon landing. Old Huskie’s people witnessed three explorers being attacked when a gun signaling a dispute was fired. Hudson Bay Company notes a reward for Andree gear.
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Dr. Ferries
Winnipeg
Man
York Factory
British Territory
Andree
York
Esquimaux
Old Huskie
Fort Churchill
Ralph Alstine
Hudson Bay Company
Ferles
Tragic Deaths Tie Grand Forks Couple to Bath Tub
Charles J. McCormick a prominent Great Northern conductor and his wife were found dead together in the bath tub at their Grand Forks North Carolina home by their son. Authorities report poisoning evidence but consider suicide the prevailing theory.
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Charles J. McCormick
Great Northern
Grand Forks
N.C
Chicago Man Kills Wife and Baby Son in Sleep
Theodore Devieur a Chicago laborer killed his wife as she slept then shot his baby son and his step daughter Lizzie Strumm who were also sleeping. He wounded the girl and fired at two stepsons missing them before hiding in a barn until arrested by officers.
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Theodore Devieur
Chicago
Lizzie Strumm
Oenfeur
Polles
Bank Officials Arrested in $60,000 Wells Fargo Embezzlement Scandal
Harry T. Duke assistant cashier and Alexander A. Robertson paying teller at Wells Fargo Salt Lake City were arrested for embezzling $60,000 over ten years. Special Detective J X N Thacker uncovered a concealed defalcation system. Robertson, a city council member, vanished June 28 and confessed after pursuit. The case caused nationwide shock.
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Harry T. Duke
Wells-Fargo & Co. Bank
Salt Lake City
Alexander A. Robertson
Duke and Robertson
J. X N. Thacker
Mr. Thacker
Robertson
Vno
Riots in Rostov as troops clash with rioters in Russia
Dispatch from St Petersburg reports labor riots lasting days at Rostov on Don in Ejatrinsoly province southern Russia. Troops fired on rioters with many killed or wounded. Leaders wore fantastic uniforms and decorations, attacking factories in the name of the Czar to end machinery that lowers labor needs.
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St. Petersburg
Rostov-on-lon
Ejatrinsoly
Russia
Rostov-on-Don
Wreck Near Gloversville Kills Fifteen. Twenty-Nine Hurt
A collision on the Mountain Lake electric railway near Gloversville New York on the Fourth of July killed fifteen people and injured twenty nine. The head on crash occurred about 10 30 p m two and a half miles north of Gloversville as two crowded cars moving opposite directions collided at high speed.
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Gloversville
N. Y
Mountain Lake Railway
Murder, a Philippine Veteran Surrenders to Police
William F. McAllister a 30 year old Philippine veteran from Wheatland Illinois surrendered to San Jose police admitting a cold blooded murder in the Philippines. He says an insane desire to kill led him to shoot a Filipino man while in company K of the 30th United States infantry during the Spanish American War.
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William F. McAllister
San Jose
Cal
McAllister
Wheatland, Ills
Philippines
Thirtiepy
United States Infantry
Anarchists Attempt to Storm Brest Magazine
Anarchists fired on a sentinel near the Brest fort magazine wounding him as two assailants fled. A prior attempt Saturday evening suggested a planned explosion. the magazine held powder for five agency ridges.
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Brest
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