Idaho State News highlights and incidents across the region
Former Congressman King of Utah backs Senator Dubois of Idaho for vice presidency. Arthur Goode sentenced to life for Mrs. Jennie Aubrey murder in Wardner. Water franchise granted in Hailey and work to start. Idaho State Press annual meeting set in Coeur d Alene September 8 1903. Oregon Short Line’s new Nampa station completed. Frank Kuck fatally shot by friend on hunting trip in Pocatello. Payette chicken business expands with 600 birds from modest incubator. Chinese on Owyhee row results in injuries and jailings. Horse Shoe Bend prospector Joseph Connor committed to insane asylum. Fremont county selects site for state industrial reform school near St Anthony. Bear Lake assessor reports 1903 valuation up to 1 101 889. Wallace poor farm proprietor Carl Trobridge’s cat freak births four kittens joined. Coeur d Alene fire injures Bartlett. left leg amputation. Ogden and Salem youths jailed at Soda Springs for burglary with tools. Coeur d Alene fire devastates mills. boiler explosion. Lewiston Harbaugh arrested for bribery over Salmon river lands filing. Bear Lake sheep count 11 018. wool not taxed. swine drop noted. Lewiston-Waha Lands Irrigation plans to reclaim 35 000 acres using Waha lake.
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Coeur d'Alene City
Oregon
Owyhee
Carl Trobridge
Wallace
Coeur d'Alene
Bartlett
Spokane
Coeur -Alene Lamber Company
Lewiston
M. H. Harbaugh
Salmon River
Bear Lake County
Lewistown-Waha Lands Irrigation Company
Waha Lake
May war threat over Russian consul murder in Monastir
The czar calls for exemplary punishment of the killer of Russian consul M Rostkovenki in Monastir and all implicated officials. A Turkish gen d arme shot the envoy, wounding him in the head and hip as his carriage and coachman were also struck. Russian outrage grows, warning of possible trouble if reparations are not made.
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Monastir
Hurricane hits Martinique causes widespread damage
Martinique was struck by a violent hurricane lasting ten hours with two hours of peak destruction at Fort de France. Hundreds of houses lost roofs and several ships were damaged while debris-filled streets and impassable roads hindered travel. No fatalities reported. towns including St Marie Carbet St Joseph and Francois affected as the storm moved northwest.
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Martinique
Fort de France
St. Marie
Carbet
St. Jospeh
Francois
Miners Seek Injunction in Georgetown Case
Judge Frank Owers issued an injunction against all members of the Citizens Protective League restraining them from interfering with eighteen Idaho Springs Miners, driven from town after the Sun and Moon mine blast. Attorneys filed criminal complaints and warrants were issued, with the sheriff ordered to Georgetown to appear before the judge.
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Georgetown
Colo
Frank Owers
Citizens’ Protective League
Idaho Springs
Owers
Sensational Case In Northern Montana Court Clash
Judge Hiram Knowles cites United States Commissioner H J Meili of Havre to show cause why his appointment should not be revoked. Meili faces probe into acts as Havre Township justice of the peace involving alleged bribery for forgery dismissals. Separate reports recount Ray’s accusations of assault, a tar-waste drenched night camp incident, and a fatal feud near Oleta Oklahoma with William Cooper and James Cooper dead, Sam Barrett wounded, and Barrett’s killer jailed.
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Hiram Knowles
Federal
United States
H. J. Meili
Havre
Mont
Meili
William Cooper
James Cooper
Sam Barrett
Oleta
Woodward County
Oklahoma
Young Cooper
Barrett
Coopers
Woodward
Root to resign as secretary of war toward January
Oyster Bay reports Elihu Root will resign as secretary of war effective early next January. He will be succeeded by William H. Taft if plans stand. Root plans England trip for Alaskan boundary work before resigning. president expects several months of service still. Taft seen as probable successor and trusted by the president.
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Elihu Root
William H. Taft
Philippines
England
Alaskan Boundary Commission
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Taft
Root
Demented Man Killed by Officers Near Davisville
An unknown deranged man was shot and killed by officers near a farm house in Davisville Cal Friday night during a pursuit of convicts from Folsom prison. The man, who had been in the area several days seeking work, appeared to act oddly when ordered to surrender. He was identified after death as a local man not tied to the escapees, and the officers who fired the lethal shot were exonerated.
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Ray
Walla Walla
Wash
Hadley Station
Folsom
Davisville
Cal
Notorious Bank Robber Bob Meeks Adjudged Insane
Bob Meeks a famed western criminal linked to the Hole in the Wall gang was convicted for robbing Montpelier Bank and sentenced to thirty five years in Boise penitentiary after Bear Lake County escapes. He was recently deemed insane and moved to the Blackfoot state insane asylum.
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Meeks
Bear Lake County
Montpelier
Paris
Deer Lodge
Mont
Butte
Butch” Cassiday
Standrod
Boise
Bob Meeks
West
Wyoming
Boise, Idaho
Blackfoot
Paris Railway Disaster Leaves Many Dead in Tunnel
Eighty four bodies are recovered with the death toll expected to rise above one hundred after two Metropolitan electric trains collided in a Paris tunnel Monday night. Panic and wrong-way evacuations caused suffocation as smoke hampered rescue attempts until firefighters could enter the tunnel. Most victims were laborers returning home from work.
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Lst
Paris
Metropolitan Electric
Raiding New York Pool Rooms
Police raided the Sixth avenue pool room run by The Allen for the eighty eighth time. About 300 men, white and black, were present but only four were arrested. The place was fortified with iron bars. detectives burst in as the front door was left slightly open to catch the lookouts.
Pius X Crowned In Grand St Peter's Coronation
The coronation of Pope Pius X occurred Sunday in St Peter's Basilica before about seventy thousand people. Cardinal Macchi placed the triple crown on the pope as bells rang and the choir sang, marking a historic rite not seen for fifty seven years. The basilica, crowded beyond capacity, displayed a gilded papal throne and white altar arrangements while barriers sectioned the space for order.
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St. Peter’s
Cardinal Macchi
Rome
Europe
Doomed South Sea Islands Swept By Storms
A Pacific flood and later southwest gales threaten the Lowarchipelago Tuamotu group. Nearly 600 drownings and $500000 in losses from January’s flood, with four additional deaths feared after six months of fierce waves. The steamer Excelsior sustained heavy damage on the Tahiti to Marquesas run as islands were flooded and cocoanut trees and houses destroyed.
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South Sea
Low Archipelago
Tuamotu
Pacific Ocean
Excelsior
Tahiti
Marquesas
Roosevelt on Finance and Race Tensions in North Carolina
President Roosevelt outlines currency reform aims to senators Milliard and Heyburn, favoring elastic currency backed by government bonds though some proposals may be difficult. In Henrietta North Carolina tensions flare as two black workers are assaulted at a major cotton mill area. one critical, armed white and black crowds disperse under extra police, with more trouble feared.
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Heyburn
Roosevelt
Congress
Millard
Henrietta
North Carolina
Windstorm wrecks miners homes in Pittsburg Kansas
A heavy wind and rainstorm swept Pittsburg Kansas and nearby areas on Saturday injuring several and killing one. At Central Coal and Coke Company mine 31 twenty three small houses were demolished and about thirty more were blown from foundations or toppled. Mine 37 sustained further damage with additional houses affected and twenty five to thirty minor injuries reported.
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Kans
Vicinty
Central Coal & Coke Company
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