Utah State News Snapshots From Across Utah Territory
Leamington cut off track now fifteen miles below Stockton. Springville builds a canal for an electric light plant. A Salt Lake City carpenter dies from a fall on a job. A freak calf with five legs born in Salt Lake City draws interest. Utah National Guard may camp with regulars in Wyoming. Roosevelt skips buffalo hunt on Antelope Island due to time. Smallpox quarantine persists in Salt Lake City with new cases. Crosshopper pest likely to be studied in Sanpete County. Diphtheria and membranous croup claim twenty one young victims in Tropic area. Dr. Washington Franklin Anderson, 84, first Utah Medical Society president, dies. Clyde Ellison on trial for killing Undertaker Watson amid family trouble claims. Sheep losses from winter and disease reported at 7.8 and 21 percent respectively. one boy injured by a fall from a horse near Elainore. A stray bullet injures a Salt Lake City girl. Mining engineer Victor Clement dies in Mexico after operation. renowned worldwide. Multiple accidental injuries hit a Brooklyn family in a single week. Sheep counts put at about 20 percent loss, contested by local flock masters. Richfield boy, 11, convicted of tabernacle break‑in, five years in industrial school. Utah Agricultural College settles on two sites for five dry land experiment farms. Draft memorial for vast Utah forest reserves opened to settlement. Hitchcock names dates.
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Springville
John Alexaner
Salt Lake City
Judah Howells
National Guard of
Utah
Wyoming
Roosevelt
Antelope Island
Clyde Ellison
Undertaker
Watson
Ellison
Agricultural Department
Don Pavis
Brooklyn
Elainore
Weath
Litta Alda Kowa
Victor M. Clement
Baltillo
Mexico
Mr. Clement
George Barney
Ahild
Candland
Ganpele
Charles Christensen
Richfield
Bhat Ely
Hitchcock Heaviny
Miner Dies After Fall From Third Story Window
A Deep Creek miner C KR West fell from a third story window of a Salt Lake City rooming house and died next morning. Police suspect murder by Ike Hughes a black ex convict who quarreled with West Sunday night and is held for investigation. Hughes says he was on the third floor whenWest fell but denies involvement.
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C. KR. West
Deep Creek
Commercial Street
Salt Lake City
Holy Cross Hospital
Ike Hughes
Hughes
West
Collision Kills Eleven as Trains Meet North of Buffalo Kans
A Missouri Pacific stock train collided with a rear of a work train just north of Buffalo Kansas. Eleven crew members died in the wreck and authorities launched an investigation into the cause.
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Missouri Pacific
Buffalo
Kans
War in Somaliland describes British defeat by Mad Mullah
A dispatch from Aden reports Brigadier General Manning relieving Colonel Cobbe near Gumborra Somaliland after a fierce engagement with the Mad Mullah’s forces. About 2,000 of the Mullah’s horsemen were killed. The British losses are unknown. Colonel Plunkett’s detachment suffered heavy losses with 170 officers and men dead, and the survivors wounded. The Mullah’s force totals range from 3,000 to 4,000 mounted troops and up to 5,000 spearmen.
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Aden
Arabia
Cobbe
Gumborra
Simaliland
Galadi
Milaah
Plunkett
Milah
Somalia
President Roosevelt visits Omaha amid strong winds
Ten thousand people gathered at the Coliseum in Omaha to hear President Roosevelt. The day featured gusty winds and a sand laden dust storm that greeted the president in Lincoln earlier. An estimated 66,000 residents lined the streets along the parade route, highlighting strong party support despite travel difficulties.
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Coliseum
Omaha
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Prairies
Kelly Is Not Guilty In Dr Cayley Murder Case
James W. Kelly, a Butte newspaper man, was acquitted of murdering Dr. Henry A. Cayley after a jury deliberation of about one hour. Kelly testified the room was dark and he fired to defend himself when he believed an attack was imminent. A dying Cayley blamed Kelly, while witnesses noted Cayley was with Mme Ruth La Bonta in Kelly's room. Kelly was discharged as soon as verdicts were read.
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James W. Kelly
Butte
Mont
Henry A. Cayley
Kelly
Dr. Cayley
Mme
Ruth la Bonta
Cayley
War on Black People at Santa Fe Ills Colony Attack
An unknown Black youth about 17 was killed by a mob near Santa Fe Illinois after attempting to assault Branson Davis’s 10 year old daughter. A camp of Black workers in bridge tents was attacked, their tents burned, and gunfire exchanged. several Blacks were struck but none fatally.
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Santa Fe
Ills
Branson Davis
Wreck Disaster Sends Twenty Five Injured and Four Dead
Twenty five injured, ten seriously and four fatally, in a Greek workers wreck. All victims Greek except Peter Frye of Buffalo, the boss on the site. Wreck blamed on misreading orders. Scene resembled a battlefield under drizzle as fire debris burned and bodies lay where removed.
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Peter Frye
Buffalo
Debrig
Roosevelt Keeps Sabbath in Grand Island Nebraska
President Roosevelt and party spent Sunday in Grand Island Nebraska. He attended St Stephen's Episcopal church in the forenoon and rode fifteen miles in the afternoon with Senator Dietrich. They visited Taylor's sheep ranch and the Soldiers Home greeting veterans.
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Roosevelt
Grand Island
Nebraska
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Dietrich
Taylor
Missing Man Returns After Indian Smuggling Incident
Deputy United States Marshal Ut ting, long missing in Guneight country, has returned to Phoenix. He says one Indian smuggler was captured near Barrajito ranch by him and two Mexican companions. While handcuffing the smuggler, the Texicans escaped and hid a carbine near the cabin door, but he was shot dead by one of the Mexicans before he could act. The Indians vow revenge against the officer.
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United States
Utting
Phoenix
Arizona
Barrajito Ranch
Sacrifice Was Aseleen In Tragic Austere Tale
Twenty years ago John Crempa, recently buried at Perth Amboy New Jersey, lived with his wife in Noutia Hungary. She faced a stabbing accusation by a former admirer. Crempa confessed to shield her and was imprisoned so she could care for their child. After ten years he was freed to learn she lived with another man. He returned to America and spent his last days in New Jersey.
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John Crempa
Perth Amboy
N. J
Noutia
Hungary
Crempa
América
New Jersey
Immigration figures point to record year ahead
Bureau of Statistics monthly Commerce and Finance report shows nine months ending March 1903 immigration at 44,425 versus 70,576 in the prior year. Projections suggest the fiscal year ending soon will exceed any prior year except 1889, when total reached 798,599.
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Bureau of Immigration
Bureau of Statistics
Fon
Commerce and Finance
United States
Confection Threat Ties Hulze to Bakersfield Case
Jennie Fox, consort of Ay Hulze, alleges a plan implying Hulze and an unnamed man helped defend McKinney's room in the Chinese joss house at Bakersfield California against officers. McKinney's room saw two officers killed. The third man’s identity is unknown. Since imprisonment Hulze attempted suicide twice and feigns insanity, suspected to be sham.
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Jennie Fox
Ay Hulze
Hulze
McKinneys
Bakersfield
Cal
McKinney
Insano
Governor Richards Dead In Cheyenne Wyoming
Deforest Richards aged governor of Wyoming died Tuesday in Cheyenne from acute Sabane cane. Born August 6, 1849 in Charleston New Hampshire, he moved to Alabama to raise cotton and held offices as sheriff and county treasurer. He founded banks in Chadron Nebraska and Douglas Wyoming, later became mayor and state senator, winning the governorship in 1898 and again in 1902. Finnimore Chatterton becomes acting governor as Wyoming lacks a lieutenant governor.
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Deforest Richards
Alee
Cheyenne
Wyo
Richards
Charleston
N. H
Phillips Andover Academy
Alabama
Hinwell
Chadron
Neb
Chadron National Bank
Douglas
Converse County
Wyoming
Flrst National Bank
Tecket
Finnimore Chatterton
Lynchings in Sight in Canby After Assault
Residents pursue a tramp who assaulted Mrs. Tillie Willis at the home of ex-County Commissioner Bair. A revolver was pointed, the attacker fled toward Barlow, alarms spread, and a posse followed along the railroad. Descriptions have been telephoned south, raising belief he cannot escape.
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Canby
Ore
Tillie Willis
Bair
Willis
Barlow
Western Union Telegraph Strike Nears Decisive Action in Butte
No change in the Western Union strike at Butte yet indicators point to a decisive move. Western Federation of Miners and American Federation of Labor declare the telegraph company unfair to organized labor. The outcome will affect nearly every town in the northwest.
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Western Union
Butte
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Federation of Miners
American Labor Union
Telegraph Company
Northwest
Discovery of the Cause of Smallpox
Dr Councilman of Harvard Medical School announced at a meeting of the Boston Society of Medical Science the outcome of investigations with Dr George Burgess Mograth and Dr Walter Remsen Brink Kerhom and the Boston board of health. Smallpox is caused by a microorganism representing the lowest form of animal life, linking it to diseases like malaria and setting it apart from many bacterial infections.
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Councilman
Harvard Medical School
Boston Society of Medical Science
George Burgess Mograth
Walter Remsen Brink ‘Kerhom
Doston Board of Health
Hoston
Corpse and mourners fall into cellar during funeral
A Chicago cottage scene left a coffin mishap trapping mourners as the floor collapsed into the cellar. Seven mourners were seriously injured but expected to recover. Separately in Oregon a farmer, William Armstrong of Philomath, died after a Jersey bull attacked him, injuring his ribs and collarbone. the bull was shot to stop the attack.
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Martin Meyerhoffer
Chicago
William Armstrong
Philomath
Ore
Armstrong
Terms of Protocol Arranged at Joint Embassy Conference
Venexuele and allies set terms of protocol to submit to The Hague tribunal the issue of preferential treatment. The convention will be signed next Monday after the return of Sig Ror Desplanches the Italian ambassador from St Louis. The agreement followed a conference at the British embassy with Mr Bowen Venezuela’s plenipotentiary the Italian and British ambassadors and the German minister.
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Venexuele
Hague Tribunal
Sig- Ror Desplanches
St. Louis
Bowen
Venezuela
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