Idaho News Highlights from Shoshone Journal
Idaho state notes report county valuations rising to 1 416 403 with Mussel to five counties. Articles of incorporation for Prat Bank of Genesee. Blackfoot fair dates set September 24 to 28. Yellowstone park extension work employs Polly thousand men. Latah county votes 90 000 for courthouse. St Anthony branch route upgrades planned. Accidental rifle discharge injures William Metrea. Hell Telephone extends Colburn to Bonner's Ferry. Coeur d Alene saloon raise to 500 budget. Typhoid cases from celery in hospital. Fremont County fair dates September 18 to 20. Nampa to host box factory planing mill and sash plant employing 100. Bannock county wealth up 104 984 over 1905. Newcomers day planned for Camas prairie. Russian thistle appears in Twin Falls area. Waterworks proposals near Ammon. Poley injured by premature blast near Nampa. Boise July hottest on record 104 degrees. U S government revenue from Henrys Lake reserve. Pine county accident fatal for Guy Cork. Mountain Home to build hotel and sanatorium. Fire damages hay crop near Tubs Palla. Nampa sugar factory near completion. Johnson arrested for robbery near Welser.
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St Anthony
William Metrea
Arrangee
Hell Telephone Company
Colburn
Bonner's Ferry
Coeur d'Alene
Muse
Oakland Street Car Crash Downgraded by Faulty Air Brake
A Telegraph Avenue street car packed with Berkeley and Idora Park revelers collided with a Key Route electric train at Farholt Street crossing in Oakland. A score of injuries reported with at least two may die. Motorman Pittman failed to stop. crash shattered windows and hurled passengers. Fire department cranes removed a victim trapped under wheels.
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Oakland
Cal
Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley
Idora Pari
Piedpont
Mole
Hoth Street
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Key Route
Pittman
Broder
Ittman
St. John
Oakland Fire Department
Bank of First National embezzlement shocks Birmingham
Alexander St. Chisholm paying teller at First National Bank was arrested on charges of embezzling 97000 of bank funds. W L Lima and J C M Hays, stock and cotton brokers, were charged with aiding the embezzlement. Bonds set at 50000 and 10000 respectively. Shortage tied to cotton futures speculation over months. Bank president says bank can absorb loss and isn’t ruined.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alexander St. Chisholm
First National Bank
United States
National Bank
Sims
Hays
Chisholm
W. P. G. Harding
Davenport River Tragedy Claims Five Local Victims
Five Davenport residents died Sunday while boating on the Spokane river about twelve miles northwest of town. Victims include Winnie Jones 19 A I Bergett 40 Mrs A L Bergett about Roy Howard 28 and A J Inman 34. Four saved others before perishing in whirlpools and strong currents.
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Davenport
Spokane
Winnie Jones
A. I. Bergett
A. L. Bergett
Roy Howard
A. J. Inman
Japs Won't Tackle Uncle Sam on St Paul Island
Tokio airmail dispatch says rumors of Japanese sea poncers being killed are unfounded and that the American ambassador in Tokio will investigate the matter carefully and equitably. The report notes efforts to preserve cordial relations between Japan and the United States despite recent tensions.
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Uncle Sam
Tenton
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
St. Pau Island
Asuka
Fought Buel to Death at Brown Lake Chewelah Washington
A violent Stevens County gun fight left William Dougan dead after twelve shots were exchanged with Mike McKale at Brown Lake Chewelah. Both men were veteran pros, over fifty, and argued over allowing a Chewelah party to fish in the lake. The first bullet wounded Dougan, who then fired six rounds before dying.
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Buel
Chewelah
Wash
Stevens County
Mike McKale
William Dougan
Brown ‘Ake
Minneapolis Welcomes 100000 for Grand Army Encampment
The Grand Army of the Republic encampment opens with about 100000 veterans arriving on Monday. Minneapolis decorates the city in a grand display with flags bunting and banners along streets and sidewalks.
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Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Revered preacher scoots from bathers at Campo Beach
South Norwalk, Conn. evangelist Rev James Clark tried to address bathers about Sunday desecration and indecencies of bathing on Campo beach Sunday. The crowd mocked him and hurled sand and water. He fled, with bathers in pursuit, and barely boarded a trolley car to escape.
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South
Norwalk
Conn
James Clark
Campo Beach
Roosevelt to Review Atlantic Fleet at Cyater Bay
Washington reports an order for formation of the Atlantic fleet to be reviewed by President Roosevelt at Cyater Bay on September 3 aboard the Mayflower. The fleet will number forty five vessels with 1178 guns, commanded by 812 officers and 15235 men, strongest ever assembled under the United States flag.
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Washington
Atlmntic
Roosevelt
Cyater Bay
Navy Department
Poison by accident ends life of former labor chief
New York figure John McMakin, once state labor commissioner, died at his Livingston Manor home after swallowing oxalic acid thinking it was medicine. He had mistaken the bottle bought the day before to cleanse a straw hat for a remedy, and died two hours later.
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New York
John McMakin
Livingston Manor
N. Y
Great ‘Ony
Speculated and Lost official commits suicide after account loss
W H Hyron secretary of the National Board of Trade of Kansas City shot himself Saturday after telephoning a director that he was short ten thousand dollars. The body was identified Sunday. He came here from St Pat last year where he was known as an accountant. The note hinted the loss was from a national account.
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Kansas City
W. H. Hyron
National Board of Trade of
St. Pat
National
Chicago Professor Frye Returns After Thirty-One Years
After an unexplained 31 year absence, Professor Charles H. Frye former superintendent of the Chicago normal school, returns home. On arriving he hands his wife a roll of currency totaling $5,000 remarking to "Awe me no questions." Frye was 31 at his disappearance and had sent no word since.
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Chicago
Charles H. Frye
Chicago Normal School
Frye
Silver Wanted by Uncle Sam for Coinage Purposes
The government will resume silver purchases for coinage for the first time since the Sherman Act repeal. Tenders open to 1 pm on the 16th and every Wednesday thereafter, with delivery at Philadelphia New Orleans or Denver mints. Treasury may reject tenders. About $33 million in silver has been coined since 1900 under related authority.
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Washington
Blyer
Director of the Mint
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Denver
New York
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Mystery Woman Found Dead Near Temescal Canyon
Police probe in Santa Monica seeks identification of a fashionably dressed woman found decomposed in Temescal Canyon two miles from town. The body, likely a month old, shows a bullet wound in the head and is described as about 25 years old, five feet two inches, 110 pounds, wearing finest garments with no hat or wrap. Authorities consider murder probable.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Woman Dies from Rattlesnake Bite Near Covina
Anna May Reichard, 22, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking with friends from a Covina area camp. The group traveled four miles to Canyon Falls through Fish canyon, where the accident occurred.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Anna May Reichard
Covina
Mies Reichard
Fish Canyon
Canyon Falls
Miss Reichard
Son Obeyed Father in Fatal Shot Near Frederick Md
At the command of his father Fred Debold 17 shot and killed George Smith neighbor’s son amid long standing feuding over berries picked on Debold land. Debold directed the act pointing at the younger Smith before the shotgun blast struck the heart killing him instantly.
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Frederick, Md
Fred Debold
John Debold
George Smith
Edward 0. Smith
Debold
Smith
First Woman to Sail Modern Airship Identified
Fort Worth report confirms Mrs F A Crenshaw, once known as Nelile de Vaughn, a famed aeronaut and circus performer who died by self harm Tuesday. Funeral Thursday recognized the identity. her husband acknowledged it. Crenshaw pioneered a successful airship voyage on September 26 1905 in Los Angeles.
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Fort Worth, Trex
F. A. Crenshaw
Nelile de Vaughn
Grand Duke Nicholajevitch narrowly escapes shooting at Krasnoye-Selo
Patrols detain several guardsmen after bullets fired during Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholajevitch review at the Krasnoye-Selo guard camp. Aide de camp cites possible accidental shots, but investigators pursue a deliberate plot by disloyal guardsmen to assassinate the Grand Duke.
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Petersburg
Nicholas Nicholajevitch
Council of National Defense
Imperial Guards
Krasnoye-Selo
Fred Ball
Penalty Paid as Hicks Bond Hanged for Boise Murder
William Henry Hicks Bond was hanged at 6 11 Friday morning at the Idaho State Penitentiary for the October 6 1904 Boise murder of Charles Daly. Bond, 30, born in Cornwall, confessed guilt but denied all charges. He died quickly as the drop broke his neck. Rudolph Wetter, slated to be hanged with him, received a reprieve until the next pardons board meeting.
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Boise
Idaho
William Henry Hicks Bond
Charles Daly
Bond
Cornwall
Butte
Mont
Rudolph Wetter
Eight Hour Law Disregarded by Canal Commission
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, condemns the Isthmian Canal Commission for allowing Chinese coolie labor on the Panama Canal project. He notes the existing law bans Chinese laborers from U S possessions and calls the move a violation of law, equating the canal with American possession.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama
United States
Panama Canal
Car Derailed Near Chardon Injures Eight
A Cleveland and Eastern Traction car with about fifty passengers jumped the track eight miles southwest of Chardon Ohio. Eight people were injured, some seriously, and about a dozen others were nearly drowned when the car plunged into a large stagnant pool.
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Cleveland
Cleveland & Eastern Traction
Chardon
Grand Duke Nicholas Declines Commanderin Chief Post
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch has refused the post of commander in chief of all imperial troops where martial law exists, tendered August 4. The timing relative to the August 10 Krasnovac-Selo attempt is unclear, but he argues such a post should go to a military man, not a grand duke.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas Nicolaievitch
Krasnovac-Selo
Nicholas
Doctor Killings In Oklahoma City Over Business Feud
A special report from Maysville describes Dr Patterson fatally shooting Dr Herrod on main street in front of the post office. The killing stems from ongoing business disputes after Patterson sold his practice to Herrod and later returned to reenter the field.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Maysville
S. K
Patterson
Herrod
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Movern Evening Journal
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