Utah State News Highlights From Utah Papers
The Oregon Short Line anticipates heavier summer travel. Beet planting in Mt. Pleasant district reached 52 sores this year, down from 108 last year. Roosevelt visit to Salt Lake City looms with possibly 500 cowboys in the parade. Prof J. J. McClellan to compose a comic opera “A Romance of Japan.” M Howe, pioneer pork man, dies at 83. Merchants of American Fork Lehi Pleasant Grove Alpine grant clerks half holiday in summer. Rio Grande Western contract awarded for grading work by Straw & Storrs of Springville. Infant found murdered in Bast Lake City. coroner’s jury unable to locate parents. Clyde Ellison acquitted in Salt Lake City murder trial. Kimberley mill worker suffers broken ribs in belt accident. Miss Matilda Land injured in bogey accident. Captain Andrew J. Burt reports Utahs fare in the Philippines. 12-year-old Wilford Miller dragged to death by a horse near Paro. Mrs Clyde Ellison seeks divorce. Sam Newton attempts wife murder. hero saves her. Prince Nanzeta Montezuma visits Zion, exiled Aztec ruler aged 25. Red Price pardoned for health, not yet sentenced for Denver murder. Jordan River pumps resume water supply to Salt Lake valley farmers. Sevier county log shift near end. yield appears up to expectations.
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American Fork
Lehi
Pleasant Grove
Alpine
Straw & Storrs
Springyville
Jorian
Bast Lake City
Clyde Ellison
Salt Lake City
A .S. Watson
Ellison
Watson
Salt Lake
Killings and disruption as Jackson strike escalates
In Jackson Tennessee the Moblie and Ohio railroad strike grows violent with one man killed and trains blocked. Police reacted to a wreck at Union depot blamed on strikers. Will Yarboro, brakeman aboard a train led by Captain Pringle, was shot and killed. Company plans to seek federal troops to restore order.
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Moblie & Ohio Railroad
Jackson
Tenn
Gaston
Union Depot
Will Yarboro
Yarboro
Pringle
Bethel
Pershing Returns From Taraca Campaign at Lake Lanao
Captain Pershing and his column back at Camp Vicars after the Taraca action. The Moros offered no further resistance east of Lake Lanao. Prisoners swore allegiance to the United States and were released. Nine dattos and a sultan were among Taraca fort casualties. Population of Taraca estimated at 20,000 with Lake Lanao district at 100,000. Pershing notes prior underestimation.
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Captain Pershing
Vicars
Mindanao
Lake Lanao
Taraca
United States
Tarace
Cheyenne Seeks Injunction Over Fort Russell Stables
The city of Cheyenne asks a court to enjoin the federal government from constructing two large stables on Crow Creek at Fort Russell. The creek supplies Cheyenne’s water, and the plan could pollute the water source and render it undrinkable for domestic use, despite the ongoing dispute between the town and the fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Crow Creek
Fort Russell
Fire devastates Ottawa as arson suspect linked
A massive blaze in Ottawa Ont destroys hundreds of houses and millions of feet of lumber. John White, recently released from prison for arson, is arrested near the scene and likely to be charged with starting the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
John White
Plague Declared In Peru and Frontier Troops Active
Bubonic plague declared infected in Callao and Pisco Peru while Guayaquil merchants fund city cleanup. Frontier forces at the Peruvian border block communications as Payta’s board of health warns. Eight hour day adopted in Trade Dollar mines at Silver City Idaho with union approval. changes expected within days.
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Callao
Pisco
Peru
Guayaquiara
Coamos
Board of Health
Payta
Cal
Silver City
Idaho
Rosse Rat
Cowan
Ruined by Volcano Destroys Coffee Region in Guatemala
Report from Guatemalan visitors describes widespread devastation near Santa Barra earthquake ash clouds. Coffeeships, plantations, and land across about 6 000 square miles buried under 1 to 15 feet of ash and lava, with one third of the crop ruined and 300 000 quintals of premier coffee lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guatemala
Santa’ Barra
Manuel Huertado
Statemilh
Buried Alive in Town Court Yard Rescue
A stone mason is abducted by two masked men who force him into a carriage, drive him to an old courtyard, uncover a hidden chamber with a terrified woman, and threaten him at close range in a dramatic kidnapping report from Baku to the New York Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Tim
Saya
Baku
New York Herald
Confessions Tie See Yup High Binders to Murders
In San Francisco two of four See Yup high binder societies presidents arrested for alleged complicity in the killing of Tom Vick a member of the Chinese Educational society. They signed confessions detailing a conspiracy to kill 400 Educational members for rewards of 500 dollars per informant and 300 dollars for other members. Gunmen and hatchet men were to receive 200 dollars in gold per maimed person. If arrested the society would cover defense costs and if convicted 1500 dollars would be sent to relatives in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Tom Vick
Chinese Educational Society
See Yup Society
China
General Haines Warns of Fever Risk on Isthmus
General Haines of the Isthmian canal commission returns from the isthmus reporting fever prevalent among natives and dangerous to white men. He cites yellow fever or a malignant marshal fever as severe, urges government sanitary control, and says full sanitary conditions would take about a year to achieve.
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Haines
Isthmian Canal
Parrot Saves Man by Cries of Help in N J House
A parrot attracted by shouts of murder and help led neighbors of George B. Andrews in Washington New Jersey to rush to his home where they found reports of a life threatening incident unfolding.
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George B. Andrews
Washington, N. J
Horrific city crime leaves man bound and wounded
In a remote city district a man was ordered to wall up an opening with a woman behind it and threatened with death. Stones and tools lay in the room as the mason sealed the exit. A parrot’s cries and a man named Andrews, injured with a deep neck wound, tied to a ceiling repair scene. A physician sewed six stitches, warning death would have followed in minutes.
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Hadge
Pellos
Andrews
Nicaragua Considers Gradual Move to Gold Standard
Nicaragua weighs shifting from the aflyer to the gold standard with a gradual plan likely spanning years. Mr. Core, Nicaragua’s minister in Washington, has submitted a comprehensive study of the U.S. financial system to guide the reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicaragua
Core
Washington
States
Allies to sign protocol with Venezuela envoy Bowen
Final permission reached in Washington for the Italian, British and German embassies to sign a protocol with Mr Bowen Venezuela's Plenipotentiary. It covers sending the question of preferential treatment to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. Bowen remains neutral as allies seek cohesion on joint or separate signatures.
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Britten
Washington
Bowen
Venezuela
Hague Tribunal For Arbitration
Bower
Lansdowne Declares Persian Gulf Warning to Powers
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne asserts a British Monroe doctrine for the Persian gulf warning that any foreign attempt to establish naval bases or fortified posts there would be met with war. He stated this in the house of Lords and his stance draws cautious approval while responses from interested powers are awaited.
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Lansdowne
Persian Gulf
Great Britain
House of Lords
Lord Lansdowne
Gulf
Martial law and clashes near Vanitea and Salonica
Turkish troops clash with Bulgarian bands around Vanitea leaving sixty Bulgarians dead and four Turks killed while thirty houses burn at Vanitra. Bulgarian forces led by Petroff routed at Kripestaz with seven Bulgarians killed. Dynamite bombs seized at Salonica as martial law is proclaimed. Italian ships Serdegna Francesco Morosini Carlo Alberto and Cala Tafima arrive at Salonica.
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Vanitea
Doeltzer
Vanitra
Petroff
Kripestaz
Salonica
Serdegna
Francesco Morosini
Carlo Alberto
Calatafima
New York Governor Odell Signs Guard Discrimination Bill
Odell signs a drastic measure to bar labor unions and employers from discriminating against National Guard members. The law makes it a misdemeanor to interfere with employment of Guard members or to deter enlistment by threats. It also forbids unions from passing discriminatory resolutions or by laws against guardsmen.
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Odell
New York
National Guard
Negroes Given Recognition at Alabama Republican Conference
The conference in Montgomery marked the first time Negroes were recognized in Alabama's Republican history. Whites and Negroes sat separately, with referees W. F. Aldrich, Charles R. Scott, and Jo Thompson organizing the meeting to correct mistakes and address wrongs from the Birmingham convention.
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Republican Party
Alabama
Montgomery
W. F. Aldrich
Charles R. Scott
Jo Thompson
Aldrich
Birmingham
Tragedy at a Ball in Big Creek Hotel Dance
A free fight at a hotel dance in Big Creek near the Toscola county line left three men involved. Dave Trombley of West Bay City, 35, was shot dead Harry Schindehette of Bay City, 30, fatally slashed and Prank Defoe, 28, seriously injured.
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Bay City
Mich
Big Creek
Toscola County
Dave Trombley
West Bay City
Harry Schindehette
Prank Defoe
Bombs as Bulgarian Weapons Stir Balkan Unrest
Vienna dispatch reports Bulgarians using bombs to fuel street battles across the region. Despite mass arrests, disturbances persist, women and children actively involved. Planned bomb outrages claimed in Mancetonia towns. Bombs found in homes at Uskub in European Turkey.
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Vienna
Salonicn Gay
Mancetonia
Uskub
Turkey
San Francisco Strike Ends After Wage Scale Accord
Laborers Protective Union and Contractors Association in San Francisco amicably settled differences on May Day strike. Workers returned Wednesday to a new wage scale with reduced hours on new contracts since March and nine hours for all other work.
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Laborers’ Protective Union
Contractors’ Association
San Francisco
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Ez. T, Ryde, Publisher
Logan
Utah State News
Oregon
Mt. Pleasant
T18
Roosevelt
J. J. McClellan
Tig Organ
Tabernacle
Japan
M. Howe
Utah
C. Scott
Kimberley
Annie Laurie
Sam Newton
Sunday
Newton
Nanzeta Montezuma
Zion
Red” Price
Coldstille
Denver
Jordan River
Salt Lake Valley
Monay
Sevier County
Tomes
Calcula
Crakeman
Jackson, Tenn
Railway Company
Pershing
Uncle Sam
Panama Canal Region
Parrot
Chicago
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