Utah Race of Events in Sevier County and Salt Lake
Sevier County graduates rise to a record high while San Pedro road adds sixteen engines of the latest type. Springville elder William Roylance dies. Mrs Roylance arrived in 1852. Salt Lake City hosts a president’s parade injuries and thefts reported. A strike at Utah Light & Power. church resolutions in Los Angeles denounce United States donations to Smoot. Multiple accidents, storms, and a large smallpox outbreak near East Lake City and White Sulphur Springs reported with casualties and damage.
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Sevier County
San Pedro
William Roylance
Springville
Roylance
Utah
Salt Lake City
Rusela
Cyclone in Georgia Kills Many in Gainesville Area
A noon cyclone struck Gainesville Georgia causing heavy loss of life and extensive damage. About eighty killed in the cotton mill district and eighteen in the city core. The three story mill collapsed trapping workers. rescue efforts continue amid widespread destruction. Water shortages and fear of further collapses in North Topeka add to the crisis.
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Gainesville
Joseph le Fan
Kansas City Flood Threatens City’s Life
Dreaded flood leaves Kansas City in darkness as gas and electric lights go out and the water works shut down. Rail transport is disrupted and the city faces possible destruction if waters do not recede in days. Reports from Kansas City Kansas indicate about 20,000 people isolated at home with heavy property losses and uncertain death toll.
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Ughta
Kensap City
Kansas City
Kan
Loss of life exaggerated at Topeka disaster report
Early reports from Topeka Kansas say the death toll was overstated. Thirty four people are now listed as known dead with about 200 still unaccounted for at North Topeka, 160 in the upper area.
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Topeka
North Topeka
City Faces River Flood Fatalities Estimated Near Fifty
The report notes a parallel to Kansas City Missouri and warns of rising flood danger with a likely death toll around fifty if the river rivers surge. It cautions that conditions could worsen quickly without swift action.
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Kansas City
Floods in Kansas Ravage Kaw Valley in 200 Mile Span
Across Brookville to Kansas City a 200 mile long flood stretches three to fifteen miles wide. Up to ten feet of water submerges almost all area causing tremendous loss of cattle, crops, barns, fences and property. Death toll uncertain and danger ongoing amid historic flood conditions.
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Galveston
Kaw Valley
Kansas
Brookville
Kan
Kansas City
No Race Death by Own Action in Family of Thirteen
Oscar Weber of Atlantic City embraces the Roosevelian theory by striving to pound out a living as a cabinetmaker for a family of thirteen children. Ten are boys, the eldest is 15, and the youngest is an infant. Weber and his wife come from Saxony and Bohemia respectively. A family photograph shows all but one child who was away when the photo was taken.
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Thomnas P. Murphy
Price
Wilson Hotel
Salt Lake City
Nevada
Utah
Reno
Nev
Cudahy Packing Company
Thea
Sevier County
East Lake City
Sous Weak
Atolls
Eek Os Mae
Oscar Weber
Atlantic City
Weber
Saxony
President Roosevelt Visit Hailed In Salt Lake City
President Roosevelt's Salt Lake City stop drew a massive crowd as the presidential train arrived at 8:230. He rode a long parade route to the city and county building then to the tabernacle for a keynote speech praising Utah’s mining agriculture and irrigation. He stressed individual effort and urged preservation of ranges and forests while praising Utah’s pioneers and settlers.
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Trioh
Balien
Salt Lake City
Tabernacle
Senator Kearns
Ogden
City Hall
East
Roosevelt
Utah
Snd
Pioneera
Rome
President Roosevelt visits Idaho and Montana amid large crowds
President Roosevelt tours Idaho stopping at Pocotalo Boise American Falls Kimama Shoshone towns, escorted by 200 Bannock and Shoshone guards. In Boise he speaks to railroad workers and honors Indian guards. He plants a tree in the state capital and praises irrigation. He then travels to Butte where a mega crowd greets him, dining with labor leaders at Columbia Gardens before an evening banquet.
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Idaho
Pocatalo
Boise
American Falls
Kimama
Shoxhone
Gloom Ferry
Mountain Home
Nampa
Pocatello
Roosevelt
Fort Hall Reservation
Cald
Pitt
Loeb
Morrison
Alexander
Butte
Mullins
Miitia
United States
Clark
Montana
Carridge
Secret Service
Streste
Court House
Citiens
F. Lloyd
Labor and Trades Assembly of
Silver How County
Columbia Gardens
William A. Clark
Monasins
Mulling
Antizens
T Nm
Frank A. Boyle
Giver Bow Labor and Cracan Assembly
Montana Legislature Aims Exposition Representation 1905
Mothers of the Montana legislature, before adjourning, added an amendment to fund Montana exhibits at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland 1905. The measure plans transferring the display from St Louis to Portland with appropriations totaling fifty thousand dollars for St Louis ten thousand for Portland and twenty two thousand six hundred for capitol and grounds.
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Montana
Portland
Ad Louis
St. Louis
Capitol and Grounds
Elk in Captivity Kills Itself at Columbia Gardens
A famed elk known as Teddy Roosevelt in captivity at Columbia Gardens near Butte, in Senator W A Clark’s mountain resort, charged an icehouse and fatally gored itself Monday afternoon. The immense animal, one of the largest in captivity, was spurred by an angry melee with nearby cattle.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Columbia Gardens
W. A. Clark
Butte
Elk’s Pen
Ingenious Robbers Arrested in $7000 Cafe Heist
Bennett Bibl and James Williamson are under arrest at Birmingham. They are charged with robbing the cafe of the Union passenger station ticket office of nearly $7000. Detectives describe an ingenious scheme involving a hole bored through the ceiling and a magnifying glass to read the combination. A separate report notes a labor strike in Spokane with resumed work and wage details for masons, plasterers, and helpers.
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Bennett Bibl
James Williamson
Birmingham
Alm
Union
Spokane
Masons
Harpers
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EI Bede, Publisher
Logan
Utah State News
Utah Light & Power Company
Je T. Dickens
Salt Lak
Ssit Lake
Mt. Pleasant
John W
Brig Farnsworth
Mt. Pleazant
Walter Ruswell
John Abernathy
B. McVey
Morris Morris
Lake
Samuel W. Daris
Spanish Park
Naleon
Los Angeles
Smoot
Ftore
Jones General
White Sulphur Springs
Georgia
Fea
Hiusce
North Topaka
Mr. and
Mire, Oscar
Weber and Children
of Bavor
Jane
Seth Bullock
Seventh Street
Jefferson
Fonaten
State House
Copper City
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