Utah State News Highlights and Local Developments
Utah state news covers several items: Helnap extension track work being prepared, Deseret Agricultural Society premiums arriving for fall fair, Provo boulevard improvement plans, Payson school house project valued at $14,000, and Utah county valuation around 10.89 million dollars. Provo river fish report denies dynamiting, Salt Lake City officials arrest linked to a presidential notification, Fort Douglas troops redeployed to Ching Tro thousent, Payson population and Provo boulevard funding noted, Miss Mary Farr wins 5 centes voting contest in Spanish Fork, Park City Ontario Mining wiring Main Street for electric light, Mosiah Hancock walks 1000 miles to Riverton, soldiers assault a Chinaman in Salt Lake, Spanish Fork drowning of Edward Close, Major R W Young Jr returns from globe trek, Short Line weed-sprinkling train success, Gordon McPherson proposes Chinese attack plan, grasshopper damage reported in Utah county, M. Buin killed at Pale Lake, Marley Creek flow surge raises Salt Lake water concerns, accidental shotgun death of Byram Johnson, Marley's Creek daily discharge record, Salt Lake water famine fears, and other miscellaneous Utah county notes.
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Deseret Agricultural Society
Provo Pont
Payson
Utah County
Payaon
Provo
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Indy
Utah
Spanish Fork
Mary Farr
Galt Lake
Taylor
Arizona
Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake
Gordon McPherson
Benbroke
Chine
Liscum
Borne
Win
Buin
Zanesville
Pale Lake
Marley
Byram Johonen
Lon
Li Hung Chang Signals Hostage Status Of Ministers
London observers weigh Li Hung Chang’s warning that foreigners would be killed if Pekin fell as evidence ministers are held as hostages. Cabinet talks plan possible response should ministers survive. Sir Claude MacDonald’s July 4 plea for relief viewed as preluding massacre confirmation amid Japanese and British reporting.
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Li Hong
China
Claude MacDonald
London
Alice
Boitish Collegees
Gongers
Texas Populists Nominate Full State Ticket
The Texas Populist state convention nominated a full ticket led by Jerome T. Kirby for governor. The middle-of-the-road platform opposes fusion and avoids Bryan references, with no mention of imperialism or expansion. A resolution passed unanimously urging copyright of the platform before the Democratic contention.
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Texas
Jerome T. Kirby
Bryan
Naval base gaps in China crisis prompt move to Manila
The Navy plans for possible China emergency noting the lack of nearby bases. Manila lies about 2,000 miles from Taku and other powers hold closer positions. A convoy fleet may be needed to move ships between a squadron and Manila while refill ships and coal stores are repurposed from Spanish War acquisitions.
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Navy Department
China
United States
Manila
Taku
German reply to China's appeal on Pekin crisis
Count von Buelow, German foreign minister, refuted submitting the Pekin government telegram to the emperor until the fate of the legations and other foreigners in Pekin was settled. He insisted China must atone for Baron von Ketteler's murder and grant compensation before future conduct aligned with international law and civilization.
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Count von Buelow
Pekin
Baron von Ketteler
Conger
Herreary
Washington
Wo Ting Fang
United States
Hay
Eipher
Mediation and China policy critique in German press
German Leon's Like Mediation notes President McKinley's China policy move with mixed views. The Herliner Tageblatt questions U.S. credibility, blaming Washington for strategic missteps and chiding officials for being duped by China while lauding Hay's stance.
Rock Springs Rumors Spark Alarm Over Chinese Laborers
Sensational reports about an imminent massacre of Chinese laborers in Rock Springs Wyoming appear unfounded. The adjutant-general’s investigator wired that there is no trouble and no cause for alarm, noting citizens are agitated by sensational and mischievous newspaper reports.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
McKinley to Mediate China Crisis Conditions Set
The president has agreed to mediate between China’s imperial government and the powers upon conditions. The United States requires protection for foreigners including missionaries and traders, and restoration of order in China. The State Department will guide a formal approach to the powers with Chinese propositions once these terms are secured.
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Weant
Tle
China
State Department
Jean
Ministers Safe as Chinese Government Plans Coastal Dispatch
A dispatch from Shanghai via Consul General Goodnow states Prince Tuan reported all ministers unharmed on the 18th and no attack was then underway. The Chinese government plans to send the taung li to the coast under imperial guard, though Conger’s dispatch later described the legation under fire.
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State Department
Goodnow
Shanghai
Princes Tuan
Taung Li
Eny
Prince Tuan Wan
Conger
Thati
Lts
Totalators
Constrocter Guard
Alaska Canadian boundary delimited near Dalton trail
The provisional boundary between Alaska and Canada was completed across the Dalton trail and Porcupine district.Americans in the area say they lost much of what they believed was territory.Surveyors H. Tittman of Washington and W. King of Ottawa set the monument following the modus vivendi agreed months ago by Secretary Hay and representatives after the joint high commission adjourned.
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Alaska
Dalton Trail
Porcupine District
OF. H. Tittman
Washington, DC
WF. King
Ottawa
Russians Repulse Chinese Near Wei-Hai-Wei
Russian reports describe two clashes with Chinese forces near Wei-Hai-Wei in which Chinese troops were repulsed after stubborn resistance. An Eastern Chinese railway engineer telegraphs from Alyatcht that Chai Lar has fallen to Chinese troops, while Russians concentrate at Charbin per Jinpatch.
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Wei-Hai-Wei
M. Krutizl
Alyatcht
Trane-Haikal
Chai Lar
Thin Jinpatch
Charbin
Sheep Slaughter Report Near Wyoming Line
A courier from Rawlins relayed that a party of mountain cattlemen from Colorado visited Martin Johnsons sheep camp in Stoutt county across the Wyoming line and slaughtered over 100 head of sheep. Herders were not molested but warned not to bring more sheep across the border.
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Rawlins
Carbon County
Koutt County
Colorado
Martin Johnson
Wyoming Line
Stoutt County
Guilty Plea in Conspiracy Case Involving Fraternal Group
Minn Margeret Sheban, former secretary of the Sinois Council of Knights and Ladies of Security, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the organization. Paper cadavers were used to justify collection of money claimed to be due on polleten. National headquarters for the Democratic party were set up on the second floor of the Auditorium in Chicago with fourteen rooms used for campaign business.
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Minn Margeret Sheban
Binanlal
Sinois Council of Knights and Ladies of Security
Inktranes
The
Democrate
Auditorium
Chicago
Japan Volcano Erupts Killing and Injuring Hundreds
Mount Aruma near Handaluan in Japan erupted on Tuesday July 1 reviving memories of the 1848 disaster. Two hundred persons were killed or injured while several villages were flooded and ruined by lava streams.
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Aruma
Handaluan
Japan
Leva
Fusion Defeated In Idaho Amid Party Split
Idaho fusion talks collapsed after Populists demanded control of key pardoning board posts, sparking a Democratic Silver Republican alliance. Ticket lines formed in Pocatello with prominent names like Frank Hunt and J. W. Reid, while Prohibition candidate John J. Wooley received formal nomination. Remains of American soldiers from the Battle of Buena Vista were to be moved from Mexico, and Texas wool inventory showed 3,000,000 pounds held as growers resist market prices.
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Idaho
Democrata
Insuea
United
Pocatello
Coeur d'Alene
Perfet
State Pardoning Board
Pardoning Board
Steuvenberg
Shoshone County
Papalleta
Stensenberg
Hoth
John J. Wooley
W. J. Scully
San Antonio
Bucon Vista
Saltillo
Mexico
Tet
Zachary Taylor
Santa Rone
Texas
Hope for Safety of Legations Raised Amid Peking Turmoil
Reports from Washington describe a Hong Kong to Pekin telegram via Secretary Hay urging a rapid relief expedition to Beijing as Chinese troops bombard the legations. Officials caution about code security and debate authenticity while pressing international unity to avert a general massacre of foreigners.
Kentucky Democrats nominate Beckham for governor
The Kentucky Democratic state convention nominated Governor Beckham to fill the unexpired term of William Goebel. The platform pledges against mob rule and vows that law and order will prevail in Kentucky, denying lynching or mob violence as arbitration of disputes.
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Kentucky
Beckham
William Goebel
Ted Father
Avmangestas
Law and Order
Anil Abil Pverail
Li Hung Chang Says Pekin Mission Incomplete and Delayed
The Italian consul in Hongkong reported Li Hung Chang informed him of plans to go to Pekin to negotiate with the powers in compliance with the emperor and Empress Dowager. He could not forward a dispatch as requested by Signor Baglioni, and said he had no means to do so. Li Hung Chang told the consul that Canton must obey orders, not Portim.
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Hongkong
Lil Hong Chang
Pekin
Signor Bagel
Li Huang Chang
Li Hung Chang
Feporta
Cuatoma
Canton
Poltin
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