Idaho News Roundup From Shoshone and Boise Areas
A Jackson County style fire destroyed a Caldwell brick business last week with about 1000 dollars damage. Idaho Woolgrowers meet in Weiser, and candidates for Idaho mining revival are noted with alfalfa mill work planned in Nampa. Authorities report no typhoid in Nampa or tributaries while a sugar factory debate shifts plans to Nampa. Five men convicted of bootlegging at Rupert and a Nez Perce death after booze excess are reported. A Boise jewelry shop owner is found dead, cause unclear.
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Senate
George N. Ifft
Nampa
Idaho
Northwest Fruitgrowers’ Association
la Grande
Oregon
Payette
Rupert
Charles Deadhorse
Lewiston
Aying
Charlotte Weaver
Lilie Brown
Neral Weaver
Boise
San Francisco
Kamiah Townette
Red
Not So Easy as Was Korea The Peking Talks Open Secret
The continued failure of Baron Komura to conclude negotiations with the Chinese government at Peking is an open secret. Some in Japan believe concessions fall short of Portsmouth treaty aims, with railway issues and guard postings unresolved. Pressure from Russia France and Germany is cited as shaping China's stance and Cabinet weakness concerns rise. German emperor’s kindness to former Japanese POWs is noted, though distrust of his diplomacy lingers.
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Tokio
Baron Komura
Peking
Japan
Portsmouth
Kimin-Ching-Chung
Polaee
China
Russia
France
Germany
Walsh Controlled Banks Suspend Operations In Chicago
Three major Chicago financial institutions led by Chicago National Bank Home Savings Bank and Equitable Trust, all controlled and largely owned by John H. Walsh, suspended operations on Monday. They anticipate rapid reorganization and closure. The collapse is attributed to substantial loans to private enterprises.
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Chicago
West
Chicago National Bank
The
Home Savings Bank
Equitable Trust Company
John H. Walsh
Walsh
Little Sickness on the Isthmus Washington
The October report from Col. W. C. Gorgas chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone shows three yellow fever cases. He notes this indicates an early disappearance of the disease with Panama often free when no nonimmunes were present. October featured favorable conditions for yellow fever with many nonimmunes and a wet hot month.
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Washington
W. C. Gorgas
Panama Canal Zone
Gorens
Panama
Anti Foreign Riots In China Reach Serious Stage
Washington reports Shanghai sees a serious situation as a strikealike dispute over cases before consular courts escalates. Two foreigners killed, many wounded, naval forces guard streets. American casualties denied so far. two American cruisers proceed to Shanghai.
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Washington
State Department
Shanghai
Department
Wan
Burton of Kansas L eignored In Appointment of Committees
Senate standing committees were announced on Monday. Every Republican senator received a chairmanship except Burton of Kansas, who was ignored entirely in response to his request not to be placed on any committee pending charges in court. Vacancies were left for Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin and Senator Gearin of Oregon, neither yet sworn in.
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Washington
Senate
Burton
Kansas
LaFollette
Wixconain
Gearin
Ordgon
Keither
Government’s desperate reply to Russia unrest endorses harsh measures
In St. Petersburg the government states it sought a peaceful regime but faced armed Socialist campaigns and mutiny calls. It says the crisis forced drastic steps to preserve order and elections, arguing radical aims would fade if order is restored, while warning of political misrepresentation.
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Douma
Passes Canal Bill in Senate After Extended Debate
Washington senate passed the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill on Saturday after a long debate that dominated the day. Speakers included Bacon urging an amendment on canal commission salaries, Allison detailing the bill, Berson criticizing Bishop's role as a press agent, Stone attacking ship purchases for Panama supplies, and Newlands favoring geological survey control of the project.
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Washington
Senate
Bacon
Allison
Berson
Bishop
Stone
Panama
Newlands
Geological Survey
Four Prominent Men Implicated in Town Murder Case
James Sherman, 19, operator at Argus Publishing’s stationery dept, confesses to murdering pawnbroker Sam Studzinsky on August 23 to gain robbery proceeds and implicates Dr E A Long, dentist Walter Gooch, ex-night marshal Russell Botkin, and David Atchison in the crime plus a post office burglary and other robberies. Jewelry from Studzinsky’s home was recovered from a cache. County Attorney Roy E Ayers says an attempted poisoning of himself and wife occurred December 1 in a bid to derail the case. Mrs Ayers noticed strychnine in a bathwater sample after returning home at 2 am. All suspects deny the allegations. some inconsistencies in Sherman’s stories arise.
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Lewiston
Mont
James Sherman
Argus Publishing Company
Sam Studelnsky
E. A. Long
Walter Gooch
Russell Botkin
David Atchison
Studzinsky
Sherman
Roy E. Ayers
Mrs. Ayers
Ben Hur at Salt Lake Theatre Promises Grand Spectacle
Salt Lake City audiences flock to General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur with elaborate stage craft, camels, Arabian steeds, and sea drama. The production runs December 26 to 30 at Salt Lake Theatre, with railways offering low excursion rates for visitors.
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Salt Lake City
Lew Wallace
Bethlehem
Salt Lake Theatre
Utah
Salt Lake
Atrocities in Elizabethpol Leave One Thousand Dead
Dispatch from Tretizand Asia Minor dated December 14 reports Tartars attacking Armenians in early December. Armenians resisted and tried to flee, but fugitives were massacred. Street fighting and house to house conflicts followed for days before Tartars set fire to the town. One thousand are dead.
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Parla
Tretizand
Asia Minor
Elizabethpol
Pacific University President alleges college recruiting plan
Portland statement from President Dean W. N. Ferrin of Pacific University accuses eastern colleges and other Oregon schools of buying Pacific students for athletic talent. He says twelve Pacific students have received offers from Oregon and Washington colleges and three current Washington college football players were recruited from Pacific's 1904 team.
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Portland
Ore
W. N. Ferrin
Pacific University
Forest Grove
Eastern Colleges
Oregon
Ferrin
Washington
New York Life Chief Ill With Pneumonia at Home
President John A McCall of the New York Life Insurance Co is reported very ill at his home 54 West Seventy second Street since attending a directors meeting last Wednesday Despite medical advice he attended the meeting and shortly afterward contracted pneumonia The article notes his grip and illness began after the meeting and he remains confined to his residence in New York City
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New York
Jonn A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Tis Home
West Seventy-second Street
McCall
Philippine Commerce Forecast For 1906
Washington estimates by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor indicate that United States trade with the Philippine islands for the calendar year 1906 will total about 20 million dollars. This compares with roughly 15 million in 1904, about 10 million in 1900, four million in 1898, and just over four million in 1897, the year before American occupation.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Philippine Islands
Manhunt for Albany murder suspect spreads to Montana
John Hammond, wanted in Albany New York for killing his wife and concealing the body in a trunk, has been sighted near Forsyth in Rosebud county. Authorities wire New York with reports growing since Hammond was allegedly seen November 30 in Missoula. His associate Young Strong, who traveled west with Hammond, deserted him at Missoula after warnings of the charge were issued.
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Hebrg, Mont
John Hammond
Albany
N. Y
Forsyth
Rosebud County
New York
Hammond
Mineoula
Young Strong
Missoula
Proletariat Issues Bold Manifesto Against Autocracy in St Petersburg
In St Petersburg the Invisible government publishes a manifesto declaring treasury bankruptcy and urging universal tax refusal, gold payments for wages, and withdrawal of deposits. It accuses the government of squandered income and foreign loans, calls for a constituent assembly, and signals anticipated reprisals and arrests.
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St Petersburg
Workmen's Council
Pan-Russian Union
Social Democrats
Social Revolutionists
Poland
Robbery on the North Coast Limited Express
Two masked men halted the westbound Spokane to North Yakima limited at seven o'clock Saturday night fifteen miles west of North Yakima Washington. They forced the engineer to stop the train then moved the locomotive mail and express cars away. The robbers used seven dynamite charges blasting the express car ends and safes and fled with the loot after firing at the fireman and brakeman. The amount stolen is unknown.
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Spokane
Wash
North Coast Limited
North Yakima
Kansas Senator Indicted for Land Fraud Probe
A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment against State Senator F. Dumont Smith for influencing a federal officer to neglect duty. Five other indictments were issued. Smith, a district representative from southwestern Kansas, is charged with conspiracy with his law partner Roscoe Wilson.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
F. Dumont Smith
Smith
Roscoe Wilson
Explosion Kills Five at Dupont Dynamite Works
Five workmen were killed when about 1400 pounds of nitroglycerine exploded Saturday at Dupont dynamite works near Marquette. The explosion, in the mixing house, wrecked most of the plant and shattered windows across town. only a few buildings survived.
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Marquette
Mice
Dupont Company
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