Idaho State News Highlights Early 1900s Ranch and Rail News
A scan of Idaho headlines notes land sales near Perkins, bank reorganizations in Caldwell totaling 1.5 million, and Rep Wrench from Washington to Moscow via his wife. It records injuries from a bulldog incident, railway murders, a broken leg on a Lithinet fall, new telephone lines Gilmore to Salmon, and a large Portland cement plant planned at Pocatello. Also covered are Wharton dam progress on Payette, Joseph Gill released from prison for a 1896 murder, a Western Telegraph extension, Oregon Short Line wood shipments to Rexburg, a costly horse theft case, smallpox quarantines lifting, a new iron bridge at Idaho Falls, and the Idaho State Sunday School convention in Nampa. Additional notes include routes Challis to Singiser, a Bannock Indian arrest, miner Frank Mandell’s pneumonia death, mill work disruption at Monarch in Atlanta, heavy snow near Atlanta to McHar, a jewelry store arson risk, and a Spokane doctor’s suicide note context.
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Joseph P. Gill
Aulehoi
Boise
Gotee Commercial Club
Han
Salt Lake Club
Pental Telegraph Company
Balt Lake
Bolin
Oregon Short Line
Maryeville
Rexburg
William T. West
Mimore
Idaho Falla
Idaho
Nampa
Thia
Challis
Singiser
Not Guilty by Insanity Verdict Shocks Spokane
The six year old Bidtney Slow was acquitted by insanity verdict in Spokane after a sensational five week trial. Jurors faced hostility with talk of tar and feathers as details emerged of the boy murdering his father James Sloane, then disposing of the body and washing away blood before returning to bed. The defense argued infancy insanity, and the court likely commits the boy to an insane asylum per his attorney F C Robertson.
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Bytkeane
Bidtney
Hy Bra Maeder
James Sloane
Spokane
Gald
Elvber
Sloane
F.C. Robertson
Work of life savers in Washington reported lifesaving gains
The annual report from General Superintendent Kimball highlights the lifesaving service's impact over the past year. It notes 44 percent fewer maritime disasters, 49 wrecks and 29 wrecked ships, 821 people rescued, and a total property value saved of 12,066,100 dollars against losses of 2,775,040 dollars. The system covers 27 percent of stations across Atlantic, Great Lakes, Pacific, with single stations at Falls of the Ohio and North Alaska.
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Washington
Kimball
United States
Tnt
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Thio River
Nori
Alawha
Cost of living rises faster than wages in New Jersey
New Jersey labor chief Winten Garrison reports to Governor Stokes that living costs have risen faster than wage growth and industrial expansion. He notes wages up 2.5 percent while living costs climb about 4 percent, with seven-year trends showing steady increases in the cost of living.
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New York
Winten
Garrison
New Jersey
Narrow Escape After Train Plunges into Embankment
A Southern Pacific train bound for Oakland derailed on a curve near Birmingham siding, plunging seventy five feet into an embankment. About thirty injured, many seriously, with the preserved speeds preventing heavier loss of life as the car overturned. Passengers from San Jose and surrounding areas were shaken and treated for injuries.
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San Jose
Cal
Elshiews
Coaeyen
Bogenay
Ronwthern Pacific
Oakland
Wright
Birmingham Siding
Denver Fire Destroys Ernest & Cranmer Building
Fire on Christmas Day heavily damaged the Ernest & Cranmer building at Seventeenth and Curda Streets in Denver. The seventh and eighth floors were destroyed, water damage flooded the basement, and the total loan on building and renters is about 200000 dollars. Upper floors housed lawyers and a vast western law library was ruined. The blaze began around noon on the sixth floor, cause undetermined.
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Denver
Ernest & Cranmer Bulding
Seventeenth
Curda
Washington trade push for U S samples to Asia and beyond
American manufacturers seek to gain Orient and South American market share by using the Bureau of Manufactures of the Department of Commerce. The bureau offers samples of cotton yarns piece goods belts braids handkerchiefs gloves laces towels and other items. Manufacturers chambers of commerce and other groups can request samples for distribution in China Japan India Australia Turkey Egypt South Africa and South America.
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Washington
Orient
South America
Bureau of Manufactures
Department of Commerce
China
Japan
India
Australia
Turkey
Egypt
South Africa
Chambers of Commerce
Leiter's Auto Kills Boy on Christmas Day
A 60 horsepower touring car driven by chauffeur Charles H. Raymond struck and instantly killed Samuel West, fourteen, in Washington on Christmas day. Passengers included Joseph Leiter, Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, and Mr and Mrs Franklin Remington of New York. Raymond was arrested and the party went to the Tenth precinct station. Raymond was paroled in the study of an officer to convey the Leiter party to their residence.
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Washington
Joseph Leiter
Mr. Leiter
Levi Z. Leiter
Franklin Remington
New York
Samuel West
Neera
Lester
Remington
Charles H. Raymond
Tenth Precince
Raymond
Leiter
Wronged Congo Natives Letter Seeks U S Action
A New York signed appeal led by J Pierpont Morgan and Dr Lyman Abbott asks Secretary Root to use moral influence of the United States to curb alleged abuses in the Congo Free State. The letter asserts widespread inhumanity toward Congo natives and urges U S intervention on humanitarian grounds.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Lyman Abbott
Eiihu Root
Mie
Congo Free State
United States
Congo
Philadelphia Man Expires While Wishing Wife Merry Christmas
Thomas Cardin, 62, of Philadelphia, collapsed and died of heart disease just after giving his wife a Christmas gift. He handed her the present, kissed her, and said a final greeting, then fell to the floor and died.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Cardin
Mr. Cardin
Derby farmer finds cash hidden in timber on Christmas day
Wiebt Kan Hen Bannon, a farmer near Derby, discovers $50 hidden between old logs while chopping timber for kindling on Christmas day. About $290 in mutilated bills were sent to the Treasury for identification, while the remaining money is reported in good condition.
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Wiebt
Kan
Hen Bannon
Derby
Treasury Department
Washington
Roosevelt seeks authority to ship food to famine China
President Roosevelt calls on Americans to donate to relieve millions in China facing starvation after floods destroyed crops across 40 000 square miles. He will seek congressional power to use transport vessels to deliver flour and essentials, with Red Cross channels for contributions and spending oversight by Charles Hallam Keep.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
China
Congress
United State
American National Red Cross
Red Cross
Department of State
Charles Hallam Keep
United States Treasury Department
Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt
Value of U S mineral production in 1905 near two billion
The Geological Survey reports total U S mineral production in 1905 valued at $1 623 877 127, up over $260 million from 1904. Iron worth $382 450 000, coal over 300 million short tons valued at $476 756 963, and fuels at $602 477 217. Other metals include iron ore, pig iron, manganese, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and platinum with varied tonnages and dollar values.
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Washington
United States
Geological Survey
California Mass Meeting Backs Exclusion of Japanese
A San Francisco mass meeting under the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League urged against unrestricted admission of Japanese and Koreans and Mongolians to San Francisco schools. Mayor Schmitz spoke in defense of the city school board and resolutions were adopted.
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San Francisco
Japanese and Korean Exclusion League
United States
Purcue
Schmitz
Gambling Houses Raided in Butte by Sheriff and Deputies
Sheriff Quinn with five deputies raided three gambling dens on Saturday evening in Butte Mont arresting ten players. Warranted by Judge Bourguin's court the California club rooms Board of Trade and King and Lowery's place were searched. Bail on each arrest set at 750 dollars following recent increases from 500 dollars.
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Butte
Mont
Quinn
Miner Entombed Reem for Days Is Rescued Alive
Bakersfield California I R Hicks a miner entombed by a cave in the Edison Electric Power tunnel seventeen miles northeast of the city was rescued at 1 25 Saturday night after fifteen days under sixty feet of debris. Five fellow workers perished and rescue efforts continued amid slow progress as the soil yielded. Communication by tapping on a water pipe confirmed Hicks alive beneath a steel car that saved his life.
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Bakersfield
Cal
I. R. Hicks
Edison Electric Power Company
Hicks
Goldfield Mines Close Down in Nevada District
Goldfield Nevada sees all district mines shut except Mohawk and Hayes-Monnette leas es as Judge Morrow issues an injunction to prevent unlawful removal of high grade ore and orders fifty US deputy marshals. I W W statement on December 11 bans mining where armed guards are used. guards to be openly reemployed as federal order enforced.
Will of Senator Brown Denies Bradley Heirs Support
Salt Lake City reports former U.S. senator Arthur Brown who died in Washington on December 12 left a will denying Mrs. Anna M. Bradley’s children any share or acknowledgment. The will filed in the probate division weekends divides assets equally between Brown’s own son and two daughters, Max and Alice Brown, and disclaims paternity of Mrs. Bradley’s children.
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Salt Lake City
Anna M. Bradley
Arthur Brown
United States
Washington, D. C
Bradley
Mama Max
Alice ‘Brown
District Court
Menelik Relapse Sparks Abyssinian Succession Strife
Rome reports from an authoritative source that Menelik II of Abyssinia has suffered a fresh syncope attack. Fear grows as the negus wavering on naming a successor raises fears of a fierce throne struggle once a successor is chosen amid Anglo Italian French British tensions.
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Rome
Meneliix
Abyssinia
Negus
Jisa
Menelik
Ras Michael
Italy
Great Britain
France
Nicaragua Franchises Arbitration Proposal Accepted
Washington and the department of state report that Nicaragua accepted the U S claim for reimbursement by George D Emery for the cancellation of a valuable mahogany franchise on public lands. The dispute will be submitted to a special arbitration tribunal to meet next spring in Washington.
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Washington
William D. Penfield
George D. Emery
Department of State
Nica-ragua
Emery
Nicaragua
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Frank Rameey
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Jane
Frank GC. Mandell
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