Deadly forest fires ravage Montana and Idaho region
Fires across Montana and Idaho have burned 1700 settlers from homes and driven 1500 from residence with timber losses totaling eleven million dollars. At least 100 dead are listed with 53 known bodies recovered near Walllace. Rangers Kottkey Van Dyke Derrick survived after being surrounded by flames.
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My United Prey
Montana
Idaho
Walllace
Kottkey
Adair
van Dyke
Independence
Derrick
Saltese
City Engineer Thomson Lincoln Park Sale Questioned
A fragmented report questions City Engineer Thomson’s transfer of Lincoln Park for 12500 dollars to the city at parity, suggesting a potential missed profit. It also references figures Ole Hanson George F Cotterill M Robert Guggenheim Gene Romano and baseball magnate Dugdale in speculative notes.
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Thomson Lincoln Park
Ole Hanson
George F. Cotterill
The
United
Ox- Eng
M. Robert Guggenheim
Gene Romano
Anthe
Dugdale
Heir Claims $300000 Estate Across California And Wisconsin
Carl Fechner of Sheboygan Wisconsin sat in Pittsburg police custody claiming to be the heir to a 300000 estate. He alleges a sister Laura White left the property in California and in Lawrence where she died last January. Fechner hired lawyers to contest his claimed share.
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Pittsburg
California
Los Angeles
San Diego
Lascaden Park
Carl Fechner
Sheboygan
Wis
Fechner
Laura White
Lawrence
106 Year Old Stationery Firm Seeks Bankrupt Declaration
York August 24 The firm George W Leman and Brother oldest stationery house in the United States has filed in bankruptcy court seeking to be declared bankrupt. The company traced its origins to a century ago with M L Leman importing steel pens essential to the market.
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York
George W. Leman and Brother
United States
M. L. Leman
Escape From Forest Fire Amid Exploding Dynamite
Russell Jones a Puget Sound railroad bridge foreman survived a night in a coyote hole in Missoula Montana as a forest fire swept the area and explosions from 12 tons of buried dynamite roared nearby. He described a wall of fire racing up the mountain and brands flying for miles before the blaze veered away.
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Missoula
Mont
Russell Jones
Puget Sound
Loop District
Jones
Carrie Nation Chooses Liquor Over Cigarettes
Nebraska City reports Carrie Nation declares she prefers a drinking man to a smoking one. She refuses to ride with a cigarette fiend, choosing the other carriage after a driver in the smoking coach is joked about as dead drunk.
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Nebraska City
Carrie Nation
Princeton to Nicaragua Gunboat Deployment
Bremerton Aug 4 The gunboat Princeton departed at 10 this morning bound for Nicaragua via San Francisco.
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Princeton
Nicaragua
Bremerton
San Francisco
Taft Speech Forecast on Payne Aldrich Tariff
The Beverly dispatch predicts Taft will favor a tempered critique of the Payne Aldrich tariff, calling it the best yet capable of more perfection. It notes opportunistic tones from the president and recalls his earlier endorsement before the tariff’s contentious revisions.
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Beverly
Taft
Payne
Aldrich
William H. Taft
McKinley Denies Repudiating Cannon In Meeting Claim
Springfield Aug 24 Voters in Champaign Iowa hear whether Congressman W D McKinley repudiated Speaker Joseph G Cannon. McKinley says he did not repudiate Cannon nor attend a meeting where such a claim was made. He cites being in Beverly Massachusetts on the meeting day.
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Springfield
Champaign
W. D. McKinley
Nicholas Longworth
Joseph G. Cannon
House
McKinley
Cannon
Congressional Campaign Committee
Congressional Committee
Decatur
Beverly
Mase
Indian Girl to Wed Jap Man in Auburn Area
Helen Paynes 22, raised on a farm near Auburn, and A Kagami 29, a Japanese man working in Auburn, drew a license to wed yesterday with no objections. They left with August Bill, the bride’s brother, to find a minister for the ceremony.
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Helen Paynes
A. Kagami
August Bill
Miss Paynes
Auburn
City Agencies Set Preemptive Rules Ahead of Busy Season
The water department orders sprinkling wagons to dust unpaved streets in poorer riverfront areas while Highland drive remains unusually clear. Northern Pacific directs crews to avoid blocking the waterfront during ferry rush. Prosecuting Attorney Vander Veer enforces the anti cigarette law strictly.
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Water Department
Highland Drive
Wanted for desertion Humphrey sighting near Edmonds and Tacoma
A desertion case from 1902 to 1910 seeks W. E. Humphrey alias from the Stand Out Gang. Now 48, he was last seen around Edmonds city hall and wandering near Tacoma talking about appropriations drydocks and submarines. No reward offered. God hates a coward.
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Will E. Humphrey
Edmonds
Tacoma
Roosevelt declares war on old guard at New York GOP
Del Roosevelt attacks the old guard in New York Republicans after Will iam H Barnes signals readiness for a fight at the Saratoga convention. He vows to attend to press for a clean and decent party policy despite opposition.
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Herkimer
N. Y
del Theodore Roosevelt
Saratoga
Hoke Smith Returns to Power in Georgia Nomination
In Atlanta on August 24 Hoke Smith won the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nomination by a 26 000 plurality over Governor Brown. William Howard defeated Livingston for the Fifth district nomination. Congressmen Lee Hardwick and Edwards were renominated.
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Atlanta
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Brown
William Howard
Onxresaman Livingston
Lee
Hardwick
Edwards
Athlete Missing in Forest Fires Near Big Fork
Spokane dispatch reports fear that Joe B. Halm star athlete of four years with Pullman has perished with his crew in fires near Big Fork Idaho. The group last heard from Saturday and were enveloped by flames on all sides as Halm had recently joined the forestry department.
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Spokane
Wallace
Idaho
Joe B. Halm
Pullmancol
Big Fork
Denver shorthand record set at reporters' convention
Clyde Marshall of New York, world champion shorthand writer, averaged 26 percent words per minute at the shorthand reporters convention in Denver establishing a new record.
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United Press
Denver
Colo
Clyde Marshall
No Pickpockets Reported At Circus In City
About 60 000 people witnessed Barnum and Bailey circus performances in the city over two days as extra patrols and plain clothes officers prevented any pocket picking.
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Barnum & Bailey's
Wappy
Drowning Ends Spree Near Commercial Inlet
William Gillis, after several days of excessive drinking, waded into the river at Commercial Inlet in Nanaimo and drowned before help arrived. Local authorities reported the incident as a self inflicted end to his spree.
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Nanaimo
Can
William Gillis
Commercial Inlet
Service stripes provoke ire at Seattle Electric
Kind Mr. Furth bills loyal streetcar workers 50 cents for a white service stripe that marks five, ten, or fifteen years of faithful service. The mock gesture, critics say, is a plain robbery as men dig up wages for a small token decoration from the Seattle Electric company.
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Purth
Furth
Seattle Electric Company
Jacob Furth
Cudahy Children Placed With Grandfather After Divorce
Mrs Edna Cudahy arrives in Chicago with four children to custody of Michael Cudahy the millionaire packer under court order. She declines discussing divorce and says she will devote life to her children, denying plans to return to the stage.
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Vetted Press
Chicago
Edna Cudahy
Jack” Cudahy
Kansas City
Michael Cudahy
Packer
Red headed insurgent Murdoch arrives in Seattle
Victor Murdoch a burly Kansas insurgent who speaks at Land Park and the Alhambra theatre after a 50 hour wakeful journey arrives in Seattle. He jokes about politics, says Washington is insurgent like Kansas and predicts quick action. He seeks sleep after a long hungry journey.
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Victor Murthe
Kansas
Sethis
Bellingate
Land Park
Iney
Alhambra Theatre
State
Wisconsin crowd seeks La Follette visit in Seattle
Victor Murdock of Kansas speaks in Seattle as Wisconsin supporters raise funds to bring Senator La Follette to the city George Hannon leads the fundraising effort for the visit.
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Victor Murdock
Kansas
Seattle
That Awful T. R. Worries Wall St
Theodore Roosevelt is described as a dangerous man and a menace to Wall Street. H C Duval former secretary to Chauncey M Depew called him dangerous and cited his impromptu railway train speeches as the chief danger before sailing for Europe.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Wall St
H. C. Duval
Chauncey M. Depew
Europe
Duval
Roosevelt
Seattle households face city garbage plant tax plan
Fred Sawyer chairs Seattle finance committee proposing that operating costs for the city garbage plant be levied on individual households. Nine neighborhood improvement clubs oppose the plan arguing it shifts costs from downtown business to residents. The committee meets next Friday to weigh recommendations, with Mayor Gill favoring general fund payment and Sawyer pressed by residents to resist the tax.
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Seattle
Seattie
Fred Sawyer Sawyer
Ite
Star
Sawyer
Beacon Hill
Mount Baker
Rainier Heights
South End
West Green Lake
Jefferson Heights
Salmon Bay
Rainier Valley
Mtd Ward
Chamber of Commerce
Municipal League
League
Gill
Fred Sawyer
Man Falls From Mistaken Stall In Mule Attack
Dan Friedman, awoken by his crying baby, enters the wrong stall on Long Island Sound and is struck by a mule, suffering four broken ribs. He is taken to a hospital and jokes that next time the baby cries it will get condensed milk.
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New York
Dan Friedman
Dan
Long Island Sound
Flossie
Fast 46 Days Denver Youth Enters Food Fast for Cure
Rowland Miller a young Denver student has not eaten for 46 days and plans to fast 10 more in hopes that a so called fast cure will relieve his catarrh. The case is documented as a religious or health fasting endeavor with no medical confirmation.
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Denver
Rowland Miller
Man Killed by Infuriated Steer at Chicago Stock Yards
Michael Burns, an employee at the Union Stock Yards, was killed in a pen when a maddened steer charged and tossed him. Burns was sorting cattle when the animal attacked, overpowering him as horns pierced his body.
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Chicago
Michael Burns
Union Stock Yards
Burns
Weather Forecast: Fair Tonight and Warmer Thursday
The weather map shows fair conditions tonight with a warm trend continuing into Thursday. Moderate north easterly winds are noted as the day develops.
Pope Pius X Objects to Modern Women’s Fashion
Rome dispatch reports Pope Pius X denounces current feminine fashions as scandalous attire and asks bishops to publish pastoral letters expressing disapproval of the prevailing extreme modes.
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London
Rome
Pius X
Woman Freed After Killing Betrayer in Unwritten Law Case
In New Orleans Mamie Mc Laughlin was acquitted for the death of Hugh Smith, the wealthy bachelor she charged with betrayal. The Era club plans to pursue a supreme court test of one law for men and women. The verdict came after a swift jury deliberation, and club women express satisfaction at the decision.
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New Orleans
Mamie McLaughlin
Hugh Smith
Era Club
Magalia Braces for Ravening Forest Fire Threat
A fast moving blaze roars toward the mining town of Magalia along the Feather river. Strong winds push flames toward frame houses as Paradise Valley to Stirling City residents rush to defend homes. An unidentified man lies near death from severe burns after being caught in a dry gully.
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Chico
Cal
Feather River
Magalia
Sawmill Mountain
Paradise Valley
Diamond Match Co
Stirling City
Rag Picker's Fortunes Bring Hidden Wealth to Newark
In Whippany New Jersey rag sorter Herbert Streuble earning six dollars weekly finds valuables in waste and rags at a paper mill. Last week he recovered items worth about 1800 dollars including a sapphire and diamond ring valued at 500 dollars wrapped in a handkerchief. In Newark an estate of Mrs May L Mc Graw is to be administered by N B Somer appointed by Judge Main. The two heirs, a son and daughter, requested the trustee.
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Newark
N. J
Alek
Herbert Streuble
Whippany
May L. McGraw
N. B. Somer
Main
Made-in-Washington Day Sparks Seattle Window Display
Saturday will be a citywide Made-in-Washington Day as every Seattle store window showcases Washington products from breakfast foods to donkey engines. The Chamber of Commerce and civic groups urge residents to buy Washington made goods and learn the state’s manufacturing variety.
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Washington
Seattle
Chamber of Commerce
Commercial Club
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