Copper War Explodes With Dynamite At Minnie Healy Mine
Warlike clashes between F Augustus Heinge and Amalgamated Copper factions spiral into dynamite blasts near the Minnie Healy mine in Montana. Leonard mine workers blast toward the Healy shaft endangering 800 miners below. legal rulings block injunctions as both sides clash over ground boundaries and safety.
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Rutth
Mont
Minnie Healy
F. Augustus Heinge
Amalgamated Copper Company
Healy
Hennie
Heinne
Butte
Leonard
Boston & Montana
Amalgamated
Minute Healy
Firing raids and prison escape tales in Colorado and California
In Trinidad Colorado authorities plan further deportations of strike leaders and carry out house to house raids for firearms in Las Animas County. Telluride reports President Mercer of the Western Federation of Miners imprisoned and bond issues loom while exiles return and are pursued. An undercover man named Eldridge linked to the Folsom prison break is identified by tattoos and scars. California pursues murder charges and a $504 reward is offered, Downey involved in claims.
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Trinidad
Colo
Las Animas
Western Federation of Miners
Boundamen
Mercer
Forbes
Telluride Union No. 1
Corcoran
California
Utah
Idaho
Raymond
India
Eldridge
Folsom
United States
Kldridge
Downey
Cudihee
Mysterious tattooed man tied to Folsom prison break returned
A jail turnkey identifies the escapee as Harry Eldridge aka Raymond, a 30 year term leader in the Folsom breakout. Corcoran, stabbed during the escape, recognizes Eldridge. Eldridge denies the charge but will be extradited to California to face murder and highway robbery cases. Corcoran and Sheriff Cudthee escort him toward extradition.
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Folsom
Cal
P. W
Seattle
Raymond
Harry Eldridge
Mberty
Eldridge
California
Corcoran
Negro
Cudthee
Harry
Birldridge
Escaped suspect in Terence Scott case sparks police hunt
Police were shocked by the belated report that C. B. Duncan, charged with manslaughter in the Terence Scott dynamite explosion, escaped from Constable Jack Meek's custody in Justice Cann's court Friday afternoon. Authorities fear Duncan may have panicked and wandered away, possibly killing himself, and circulars are sent to other cities to locate him. Duncan and C. J. Erickson are jointly accused of causing the child's death.
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C. B. Duncan
Terence Scott
Jack Meek
Justice Cann's Court
Duncan
Meek
C. J. Erickson
James Champouz Sentenced to Hang for Concert Hall Stabbing
James Champouz was sentenced by Judge Bell to be hanged at Walla Walla on May 6 for stabbing Lit tle Brace, a concert hall girl, through the brain in November 1902. Cham poux acted with deliberate jealousy in the murder. G. M. Flake faced arraignment on worthless checks and was bound over for trial on April 4 with a $260 bond. he proclaimed innocence and promised proof.
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James Champouz
Little Brace
Bell
Walla Walla
Champoux
G. M. Flake
Justice Cann
Mplake
Japanese Steamer Lan Yu Maru Aground Near Quelpaert Island
The Japanese steamer Lan Yu Maru ran aground at the entrance to the Yellow Sea near Quelpaert Island. The Aki Maru struck a rock but reached Port Hamilton, though she was leaking badly.
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Yokohama
March
Quelpaert Island
Yellow Sea
Port Hamilton
Attorney Louis Meyer Ends Own Life in Cyanide Case
In St. Louis on a March day, attorney Louis Meyer aged once valued at half a million dollars notified police by letter that he would commit death by his own action. Officers found him and his wife dead at their home along with their pet cat, the cyanide of potassium the means of death.
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ST. Louis
March
Louis Meyer
Meyer
Residents challenge city plan to tax district for Fourteenth Avenue work
Property owners in the district bounded by East Union Street Nineteenth Avenue Jackson Street and Shroadway oppose a proposed special tax to fund Fourteenth Avenue improvements. A hearing on the assessment roll is set for April 11 in the superior court. A protest committee led by W. W. Poster Charles Lincoln and T. J. Casey will oversee litigation with headquarters at 40 Pacific block and signatures and funds accepted there. The committee report will be presented at a meeting on Thursday evening at 1216 East Columbia Street.
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East Union Street
Nineteenth Avenue
Jackson Street
Shroadway
Fourteenth Avenue
Superior Court
W. W. Poster
Charles Lincoln
T. J. Casey
Pacific Block
East
Columbia Street
Five Deaths In One Family Strikes Daly Line
Boston reports another Daly family tragedy as Timothy Daly brother of comedian Dan Daly dies this morning. In the past nine weeks the Daly family has suffered five deaths, marking a grim sequence for the well known Irish American clan.
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Boston
Mercha
Timothy Daly
Dan Daly
Forester Clerk Kills Himself at Kenning Mass
A former White House clerk and brother of Rudolph Forester, an assistant secretary, killed himself by shooting in his Kenning home this morning. He had recently left the White House.
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Washington, D. C
Forester
White House
Rudolph Forester
Kenning
Habeas corpus sought for detained son Ah Bing at Port Townsend
Chin Guey through Judge Humphries applies for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Ah Bing held by immigration authorities. Ah Bing, born in Seattle in 1%, was taken to China and returned last January when arrested.
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Chin Guey
John B. Humphries
Ah Bing
Port Townsend
Immigration Authoritie
Ah Hing
Seattle
China
Sin
Shawmut Cargoes for Orient Arrives From Tacoma
The Heston Steamship Shawmut reached port from Tacoma and loads freight for the Orient including supplies for the relief department. The remaining cargo of cotton flour canned meat tobacco cigarettes vehicles and hardware is bound for Japan and China with calls at Kobe Tokio Nagasaki Shanghai Hongkong and Manila. No Russian port is included this trip. Dr Anita N McGee and her war nurses will sail as passengers.
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Heston Steamship Company
Shawmut
Tacoma
Orient
Iee A
Japan
China
Kobe
Tokio
Nagasaki
Shanghai
Hongkong
Manila
Anita N. McGee
Noted San Francisco embezzlement suspect arrives in New York
Edward T. Masterson, sought for $106,000 embezzlement by the Continental Building and Loan Association, arrived in New York from Germany aboard the Von Moltke. He had been arrested at Kiel some time earlier.
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New York
March
Edward T. Masterson
San Francisco
Continental Builiding and Loan Association
Germany
von Moltke
Kiel
Delays Hit Northern Pacific Trains Through Montana
Snowbound conditions in Montana and North Dakota stall two transcontinental trains. Blockades persist on the Miles City cut-off as snowplows struggle with deep accumulations. In Washington Roosevelt nominates J J Greenwald of Utah to be surveyor of customs for Salt Lake.
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Northern Pacific
Montana
North Dakota
Miles City
T. Paul
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
J. J. Greenwald
Utah
Balt Lake
Floods Hit Indianapolis and Grand Rapids Power Loss and Destruction
Indianapolis endures a devastating flood with power plants flooded and bridges washed away. Losses top $1 million in the city and surge beyond in surrounding areas as communications fail and water runs through pumps. Grand Rapids also suffers severe damage with the flood surpassing 1844 records by three feet and $700,000 in losses, leaving residents cold and hungry while militiamen aid rescues.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Grand Rapids, Mich, March
Grand Rapide
Physicians to Meet in King County Medical Association
The King County Medical Association will hold its monthly meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms this evening. William Lewis, recently arrested, faces a hearing before Commissioner Keifer at 4 o'clock this afternoon on charges of forging a postal money order signature.
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King County Medical Association
Chamber of Commerce
William Lewis
Lewis
Keifer
Burton Guilty in Senate Seat Dispute
The jury found United States Senator Joseph R. Burton of Kansas guilty on six counts for illegally accepting fees from Rialto Grain. Sentencing awaits Judge Adams with a possible fine up to 10000 and two years in prison plus disqualification.
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ST. Louis
March
United States
Joseph R. Burton
Kansas
Rialto Grain Company
United States District Court
Adams
Burton
Southern
Candymaker Loses Exemption Bid as Non Mechanic
Judge Hanford rules against R A Ford a bankrupt in Everett decision denying exemption of tools and stock. Ford claimed candymaking was a mechanic’s trade and sought to exempt his equipment. The extensive argument addressed the nature of his work and the limits of exemption.
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Hanford
R. A. Ford
Lord
Everett
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