Sumpter Woman Shot as Perkins Plans Labor Capital Clash
In New York George W Perkins jokes about quitting business to focus on labor capital relations and opening offices in Trinity building. William J Corey laughs off rumors of a Schwab steel venture, while Perkins eyes new political and business ties. The story mixes disparate notes from late 19th century industrial circles.
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New York
Europe
Olympia
George W. Perkins
William J, Corey
Steel Trust
Trinity Building
Hawkers’ Trust Company
Corey
Chiles M. Schwab
Second Coming of Christ Next Year at Zion City
Proclamation filed in Lake County by John Taylor and H L Burnette proclaims the second coming of Jesus Christ next year at Zion City founded by Dowie. The document names Voliya as Antichrist and outlines new doctrines with biblical references and a 1909 date.
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Chicago
Zion City
Alexander Dowle
Elijah
Lake County
Zion
Voliya
Jesus
Messiah
Israel
Frontier Round-Up Attendees Spark Cheyenne Festival
Cheyenne Wyoming hosts the fifteenth Union Frontier celebration with crowds of cowpunchers and cowgirls, dust-filled streets, and four days of frontier sports and military drills. Notable visitors include J Roy Kaley and Sheriff T D Taylor of Pendleton Oregon, special representatives of the Round-Up association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Frontier Management
J. Roy Raley
T. D. Taylor
Pendleton
Oregon
Unique jail on a telegraph pole in Oroville
Western Pacific news from Oroville reports Gerlach set to replace the peculiar jail with a portable steel rail confinement. The old jail hung prisoners by chains from a telegraph pole as a public deterrent with minor trials in a local justice court. Gerlach, a rail division point near the Nevada desert, is said to house few residents but a notable gang of troublemakers.
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Oroville
Cal
Western Pacific
Gerlach
Gerlach City
Western Pacific Railroad Division
Nevada Desert
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F. E. Livengood
the Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Ladies Home Journal
Tan
Koeppens
Maland
Sumpter
Baker
Ore
Charles Bogers
Gus Pletcher
Fechner
Beyers
Portland
Perry M. Barker
Linon Quarry
Barker
Elty Rock Pile
Bentenes
Dowih
Judah Mnamaf
Tyrael
Jesus Christ
God
Frontier
Spokane
Albert Kemp
Earl Miller
Louis Nelson
Springdale
Nelson
Mr. Nelson
Oxfords
Wohlenberg Dept
HI Boston S
MT. Hood
Tallman & Co
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