Seattle Shootout Ends Manhunt as Cordova is Wounded
Detectives cornered the Mexican felon Joseph Cordova known as Ed Johnson near Pike Street and Adams. He fired a colt revolver and was shot by Detective Holland and others after a clash that wounded him and a bystander. Cordova confessed to burglaries and was linked to a patrolman murder in Salt Lake City. he said he drew to shoot the Utah sheriff.
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Deltas
Joseph Cordova
Joe Garcia
Charlies
Lake City
P Holland
Bia
William Peter McClurs
Ed Griffith
Prankiaik
Seeriff Emery
Pigeon
Picom
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Cordeva Holland
Griffith Maish
Pike Et. Petersen
Cordova
Frank Clark
Charles Tennant
Clark
Emery
Utah
Adams
Pike .T
Seattle
Ed Johnson
Salt Lake City
Charles 8 Ford
Adame
Wayside Hospital
Roosevelt Nomination Drive Gets Senate Backer
Senator Jonathan Bourne, publicizing Roosevelt's potential renomination, says the people want him and that Taft’s strength is Roosevelt's reflected power. Bourne, Oregon's direct-vote advocate, notes Roosevelt’s unique leadership and predicts a refusal to decline if the people call.
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Star Lossiel
Washington, D.C
Jonathan Bourne
Washington
Roosevelt
Bourne
Taft
Taft Ie
Hrgan
Oregon
United States
Water Access Secured for City Ward by Purchase Plan
Councilman Hines wins promise of city water for his ward after fire and water committee votes to buy a private water plant for 2500 dollars. Plan extends service to all areas, including South Park, with a 25000 dollar appropriation for a Beacon Hill standpipe and a 104 mile main to park district.
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Hines
Fire and Water Committee
South Park
Beacon Hill
Park
Murder at noon at San Francisco Nickel Theatre
W H Carmen, 30, shot and killed his wife Margaret Carmen, a cashier at 616 Broadway Nickel Theatre, in front of a crowded crowd. He had followed her after she left him and reportedly said I told you to kill you if you left me. He had just moved to San Francisco from Spokane six weeks earlier and was employed by the Great Northern Railroad as a bookkeeper.
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San Francis
W H. Carmen
W. A. Carmen
Noe
Margaret Carmen
Carmen
Gelting Tekets
San Francisco
Apokane
Great Northern Bailroad Company
Iis
Han Peencites
Broadway
Indaw
Widow Anna Aldrich Murder Case Rocks Dixie County
The body of wealthy widow Anna Aldrich was found in a hole at the foot of an uprooted tree on the Copper fork seven miles east of Dixie. Sheriff Haviland says John and Jack Karnes, with a third brother Bud, are jailed after tying the ranch owner to a murder plot. authorities await official remains handling.
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United Press
Ells Walla
Copper
Dixie
Anna Aid
Dixie Lasit
Dorsey Hranton
Fred Roff
Aldrich
Barnes
John
Jack
Karnes
Weeneeay
John Holmes
Bish
Branton
Roff
Brunton
Fort Walla Walla
Vutheritt Haviland
Ccovener Martin
Walla Walla
Bud
Disorder at King county Republican convention opens in Egan's hall
Opening session in Egan's hall erupts into disorder as Nicholas Schmitt and Temporary Chairman J H McGraw clash over whether delegates should be chosen from wards or senatorial districts. McGraw adjourns to let steering committees caucus, with later plans to seat delegates from senatorial districts and name a Jones ally Mee to chair.
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King County
Egan's Hall
Nicholas Schmitt
Seventh Ward
J. H. McGraw
Bmith
McGraw
House
Scott Calhoun
Schmitt
Hevelle
Ankeny
Jones
Mee Graw
Gill
Clue Letters Tie Suspect to Gunness Farm Fire
LA PORTE Indiana May 7 The Gunness farm mystery deepens as Bessie Conklin the Michigan City sweetheart of Ray Lamphere now under arrest reveals Lamphere warned of plans to burn the Gunness home If she sold the property authorities continue digging turning over ground and recovering watches to identify nine victims Coroner notes long buried remains show injuries and possible asphyxiation Letters found linked to Helgaline suggest Norwegian ads luring him The Gunness home with heavy locks and barred windows is probed for hidden bodies CHICAGO May 7 Coroner Hoffmann and police plan to dig the former Gunness home premises to search for bodies Sheriff Smutzer heads to Chicago to pursue a theory the Austin home was a murder front
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United Press
LA Porte
Ind
Guoness Farm
Bessie Conklin
Michigan City
Ray Lamphere
Miss Conklin
Gouness
Lamphere
Gonnees
Gunness Tet
Indiana
Helgaline
Michigan
Bluebeerd
Chicago
Hoffman
Schuettier
Gunness
Austin
Smutzer
Victims Injured In Auto Crash At Fourth Ave And Andover St
Hazel Rose remained seriously injured and unconscious after a car driven by Edward Bennett plunged through a railing at Fourth Avenue and Andover Street Tuesday night. Alice Teater rested last night and is not in immediate danger, though she suffers a compound fracture of the right hip. Henry Hibbard showed pneumonia symptoms and Edward C. Bennett was listed as fine that morning. The wrecked auto was removed by a derrick. the engine and front axle were crushed. Oliver Hagen, a Broad Street grocer, said Teater is unknown to him.
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Edward
Fourth Avy
Andover St
Miee
Alice A. Teater
Henry Hibbard
Edward C. Bennett
Hibbard
Oliver Hagen
Broadway North
Alice Teater
Wanted man captured in Great Falls arrests in Canada case
A man believed to be Patrick Mullen, sought for the death of Angelo Orlando, an Italian mine worker, in Michel, British Columbia, September 1 last, was arrested at Great Falls, Montana. He will be brought to Victoria to face trial.
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Victoria
B. C
Patrick Mullen
Angelo Orlando
Michel, BL
Great Falls
Mont
Farmer killed as runaway wagon drags him to death near New Westminster
Robert Bowell, a farmer living near New Westminster, was dragged a hundred yards by a runaway wagon yesterday and died instantly when his neck was broken as he was pulled under the wagon.
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Vancouver
Robert Bowell
New Westminster
Water shut off notice for portions of Youier Way and 24th to Ziatava
Water will be shut off on Youier Way from 20th to 24th Avenue from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 24th to Ziatava from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 8. Residents should plan accordingly and secure necessary water supplies.
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24Th Ave
Ziatava
Express Messenger Murdered on Rio Grande Train
Charles H. Wright, express messenger on the Rio Grande line, was killed overnight during a robbery while his car was looted. Wright’s body was found in the car upon arrival this morning as officials search for the perpetrator and motive.
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United Press
Denyse Cole
Charles H. Wright
Rio Grande
Rob
Wright
Seattle Post Office Reports Big Revenue Gain in 1908
The statement by Assistant Postmaster W. J. Colbett shows Seattle postal business closes March 31, 1908 with gross receipts more than $100,000 higher than the previous year.
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W. J. Colbett
Seattle
Freshman Debaters Clash On Immigration Question
On Friday May day the freshman debating teams from Franklin and Washington high schools meet in a debate. The event takes place in the Washington high school auditorium at 3 p m.
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Franklin and Washington High Schools
Washington High School
Train Bandit Confesses in Butte Dynamite Case
Lewie Ferris, who confessed to planting 25 sticks of dynamite under the Burlington Flyer wrecked Friday night, is taken to the hill to dig up cached powder. He also admits involvement in the North Coast Limited holdup two weeks earlier. Railroad men threaten to lynch him. Ferris remains under heavy guard.
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United Press
Butte
Mont
Lewie Ferris
Burlington Flyer
Ferris
North Coast Limited
Builder's Collapse Kills Plumber in Marshfield
A two story frame building under construction on Lower Broadway for I B S Smith collapsed today in Marshfield Oregon. Plumber F McKellar was killed instantly and a man named Miller was seriously injured. Several others escaped serious harm.
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United Press
Marshfield
Ore
Lower Broadway
Smith
F. McKellar
Miller
Tenement Fire Kills Four Residents
A tenement blaze started by firebugs in an airshaft killed four people including Samuel Sachs Mrs Eva Berg and Hat tie Kopelam an unidentified man and left over twenty residents injured. The child Hat tie Kopelam perished in the grate at the fire escape. The building housed more than twenty residents who were asleep when the fire began.
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Tomi Ben Meer
Samuel Sachs
Eva Berg
Hattie Kopelam
Ata
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