Utah State News Encampment and Local Affairs Overview
The Utah G A R held a weeklong annual encampment in Salt Lake City. City workers received a pay raise from 3.50 to 4 per day. American Fork voters bonded 16,000 for a new schoolhouse. Park City chosen as next encampment site. Salt Lake City imposes hotel guest registers. Beekeepers plan a St Louis exhibit of 3 to 5 tons honey. Brigham Lyon sentenced to ten years for assaulting a 15 year old. Purchase Exposition spending 7,400 with 1,000 for furnishings. Y M C A in Salt Lake aims to raise 1,000 for a new club home. Snowstorms threaten sheep losses up to 40 percent near Richfield. Ephraim farmers optimistic on water. Gibon to present carved cane to the President. A two‑story building collapsed in Salt Lake City causing property damage. Smallpox cases reported and quarantines maintained. A miner injured at Annie Laurie mine near Richfield. State Industrial School library to gain 600 volumes via 500 appropriation. Senator Wig says road work to finish in two years. Rumor and mischief claims about Roosevelt visit. Electric wire accident injures a boy in Salt Lake. Richfield bonds accepted by State Land Board for waterworks, 14,000 bond issue swapped for 15,000. A family tragedy: 13‑year‑old son severely injured after a horseride incident.
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Salt Lake City
Park City
Beekeepers’ Association
St Louie Exposition
Mahil
Brigham Lyon
Cantonon
Etate
Funda
Richfeld
Nome
Ephraim
Gibon
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Aoe
Salt Lake
Fifteen Dead as Nebraska Tornadoes Wreak Havoc
A string of brutal adult storms swept across Clay Franklin and Kearny counties in Nebraska last Sunday evening. Fifteen people died and twenty were seriously injured as twisters destroyed homes and outbuildings. Total damages are expected to reach about sixty thousand dollars. At the Daniel McCurdy home near Norman many relatives gathered and were not spared until the storm demolished the house, killing four and injuring others. An minister among the injured and other residents faced the deadly event with warnings and peril.
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Clay
Franklin
Kearny
Coun Hel
Norman
Dantel McCurdy
Mistaken for robber shot near Pueblo water station
James Richardson, a farmer, was shot in the groin by F Stevens on the Missouri Pacific railroad twelve hours from medical help. Stevens, jailed in Pueblo on assault with intent to kill, says he mistook Richardson for a robber. Richardson, unable to get aid, is not expected to recover. both men are farmers and Richardson's family nearby.
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Uneble
James Richardson
Missouri Pacific
DIES OF GLANDERS IN NEWARK STABLEMAN
A Newark colored stableman Simon Wilson dies from glanders, disease linked to horses. This marks the second local case this year, with Alfred Meyers also noted as affected. Officials warn glanders can transmit from equine to humans and urge precautions.
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Glandern
Simon Wilson
Newark
N. J
Alfred Meyers
Tha Dineasa
St Gaudens Statue of Gen Sherman to Be Presented in New York
The Chamber of Commerce plans Memorial Day presentation of Atcustus St Gaudens' heroic statue of Gen William Tecumseh Sherman for New York City. The sculpture shows Sherman on his charger with Victory beside him, hailed as a premier American sculpture by New York Prose.
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Gen. Sherman
Chamber of Commerce
City of
New York
St Gaudens
Ifim
Eally
America
Debtors in bondage scandale shocks Alabama region
Report describes a pattern of peonage near Montetsy Alabama. Robert No Franklin is indicted for keeping a black man in servitude. Investigations allege magistrates and others arranged for unfree labor by advances leading to long terms of cruel servitude.
Series of Fierce Storms Hit Eastern Nebraska
A sequence of violent storms swept eastern Nebraska on Monday and Tuesday, spawning several small tornadoes. Hastings reported heavy damage, with buildings torn apart near Hastings and Pamahon. Fermon north of Omaha also struck, injuring residents. Across the region railroads, bridges, and homes suffered extensive damage, with total losses running into thousands of dollars. One town, Davey, northwest of Lincoln, saw thirteen injured and many structures destroyed.
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Ona
Hastings
Ferman
Omahs
Patich Wa
Parlahy Winwitt
Ormhealae
Sowthwout
Perth
Eern
EL Neotrash
Papillion
Plattsmouth Rapart
Mt Davey
Lincoln
Waa
Floods Hit Salina Kansas City Hard
Salina Kansas endures its worst flood with about 100 families displaced and damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Four inches of rain fell in 24 hours as the northwestern part of the city remains submerged and residents, including women and children, are evacuated by boat. The Missouri Pacific grade to the west is flooded and could submerge the entire western section if waters rise further.
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Salina
Kan
Ita
Missouri Pacific
Red Headed Politician Wins Big Race in Kansas
In Kansas on Tuesday Victor Bar dock reports a Republican candidate named Murdoci, dubbed the red headed, carried all thirty six counties and likely all 120 precincts in the Seventh district. He defeated the Democratic opponent by wide margins, sometimes thirty to one, with strong backing from red tops.
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Kansas
Victor Bardock
Yomineh
Congress
Eatin
Murdoci
Battle Over Love Ends in Fatal Shooting at El Paso
In El Paso Texas Marciano Rengal and famed fighter were shot through the heart and killed by Salvador de Caarilla an official of the Mexican customs house. Rengal battered down a door where Castillo was visiting his sweetheart who had closed the door in a bid to keep him out. Castillo fired instantly killing Bengal.
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Marciano Rengal
Cloudburst at Midnight Destroys Enid Bottoms
A severe storm struck Enid Oklahoma at midnight flooding the bottoms three feet deep and 200 feet wide. About 100 houses were submerged while rescuers worked through the night aiding displaced residents. Rainfall in the past ten days was among the heaviest in state history and more damage was feared.
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Old
Oklahoma
Enid
Ihs
Perrone
Okishoma
Ent‘l
Idaho Canal to Reclaim 75000 Acres for Settlement
The American Falls Canal and Power Company awarded to Lyman Skeen of Ogden will build a canal from the Snake River above Blackfoot. The 58 mile route in Blaine and nearby counties will irrigate 75000 acres, with 87000 acres already set aside for water right holders.
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Idaho
Salt Lake City
American Falla Canal & Power Company
Lyman Skeen
Ogden
Snake River
Blackfoot
Bingham County
American Falla
Blaine County
United States
Shooting at Nampa Sparks Interracial Clash in Idaho
A Sunday ball game in Nampa Idaho ended in a shooting affray when a Boise youth struck a Nampa player. Policeman Grogan was wounded in the shoulder by a colored booth keeper James T Quartes. A bartender Bers Williams was arrested with a mob that sought to lynch the prisoners. The jailer’s keys were blocked by police surge and the mob was dispersed.
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Nampa
Idaho
Grogan
Boise
James T. Quartes
Bers Williams
Vchlaf
Arsenal Blown Up In Santiago Dispatch
A Santo Domingo dispatch reports the arsenal at Santiago blown up on Saturday by enemies of the government. General Fries killed and twenty one people mortally wounded. Troops pursue General Jose Alvaraz, alleged author of the explosion. Gunboat Colon carrying General Deschampes to Sanchen lost off Cane Espaila. Deschampes and four others survived in a boat, others perished.
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Santiago
Fries
Jose Alvaraz
Colon
Deschampes
Sanchen
Cane Espaila
Tornado-Struck Oklahoma Towns under Water as Floods Rise
Storm and flood lash Oklahoma with a tornado near Watotga Okila demolishing homes of Z P Atterbury and Robert Payne. Atterbury carried fifty feet. son and daughter severely hurt. Orchards and crops ruined. Arkansas River flooding. Kaw City nearly submerged. farmers flee Ponca City and Newkirk.
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Okila
Z. P. Atterbury
Robert Payne
Mirna
Aterbury
Arkansas
Kaw
Finn
Ponca City
Newkirk
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