Idaho State News Roundup Hits Various Idaho Localities
The week’s Idaho brief covers Welser’s opera house opening, Albion’s commercial club formation, and Ada county’s farmers institute. Reports mention Bellevue schools reopening after a mallpox shutdown, a fatal logging camp accident on Dagger Creek, a Boise hospital skull fracture from a horse kick, and a fatal fall in Boise. Other items include hay shipments from Montpelier, a Cherian post office protest to D. R. Langlois, precious metals flow through police, a St. Anthony fire destroying Miles livery with heavy losses, and Nez Perce figure George Moxmox burned at home.
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Opera
Welser
Ciub
Albion
Farmers Institute
Ada County
Hellevue Jullie
Belie
Mallpox
Harry Miller
Boise
Brennan & Davis
Montpelier
Mo Cammon
Polnia
Postolicu
Cherier
Idaho
Ditiola
D. R. Langlole
Miles
St. Anthony
Horney
George Moxmox
Nez Perce
Juliaette
Moxmox
Carlisle School
Hastings
W. J. Turner & Co
Mountain Home
Salmon River
Florence Roa
Kingston Incident Closed as Governor Apologizes
London and Washington report the Kingston episode is closed after Governor Swettenham withdrew his letter to Rear Admiral Davis and expressed regret. Officials at the British colonial office and the U S state department decline further comment.
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Kingston
State Department
London
Swettenham
Davia
Volim Inoue
Colonial Office
Washington
Foreign Office
Admiral Davis
Eighty Lives Snuffed Out In Fayetteville Mine Disaster
Chartesta W. reports a detonation at the Stuart mine near Fayetteville blew hundreds of feet into the air and 80 or more workers 500 feet below were killed instantly. Most were American with families. dozens were colored or aliens. Rescue began as soon as possible after the blast.
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Chartesta
Stuart
Fayetteville
Stantly
Railroads deny special fares for soldiers to the Philippines
Omaha reports Union Pacific and Northwestern railways refused government rates for troop shipments. About 600 men 500 horses and equipment moved from Forts Robinson and Russell to San Francisco under standard fares. Military transportation officials express disappointment over the lack of reduced rates.
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Omaha
Union Pacific and
Northwestern
San Francisco
Quartermaster’s Department
Department of the Missouri
Forts Robinson and Russell
Union Pacific
Rush saves starving Alaska village with five months of relief
In January the revenue cutter Rush answered a telegram from Acting Governor Distin of Alaska about critical scarcity at Yakataga beach. The ship carried provisions enough for at least five months and landed them after rough surf. Twenty five men nine women and six children faced starvation before the cargo was secured. A six year old woman and an eight month old child were among those rescued.
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American Falls
Alvin Moon
Walies
St. Anthony
Seattle
Wasth
United States Revenue Cutter
Rush
Distin
Alaska
Yakataga
Beac
Yakatage
Ith
Horrible Crime of Clerk Charged in Washington
Police have arrested M Copeley a census office clerk on suspicion of murdering his wife Amanda and two children Raymond age two Ruth four months. After a quarrel Tuesday night he claimed his wife died by shooting herself but officers found the children concealed under bed coverings. He says he heard two pistol shots after they left the house and that he did not shoot them.
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Washington
M. ©. Copeley
Amanda Copeley
Raymond
Ruth
Copeleys
Copeley
Letter found in Brooklyn links suspect to Townsend death
A note signed by John Bell, mailed January 26 from a Brooklyn post office, addresses his brother Howard and hints at a suicide. Bell was arrested in connection with the Staten Island physician Dr. Charles W. Townsend murder, with the letter naming the sister who died a year earlier.
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New York
Charles W. Townsend
Staten Island
Brooklyn
John Bell
Bell
Howard
Letay
Townsend
Western stock saved as district day actions pass in House
Washington reports the House on District day passed a joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to sell during the next three months to Montana citizens coal at the sale site. It also provisions limited hay straw and grain from Fort Assiniboine stock for garrison use amid a famine threat from the blizzard. Representative Nixon of Montana cites 20 000 head near Assiniboine facing starvation due to the ongoing shortage.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Montana
United States
Fort Assiniboine
Nixon
Assiniboine
Too Much Talk in the Senate Endsrow
Washington report notes that Senator Hale criticized senators for talking too much and not enough work during Tuesday's session. The diplomatic and consular and fortifications appropriation bills were debated and eventually disposed of. Senator Beverage finished his lengthy remarks with a focus on child labor.
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Washington
Senate
Hale
Beverage
Wany Killed in Mine Explosion at Reden Shaft
A deadly fire damp explosion struck the Reden coal mine at St. John-on-Star, near Saarbruck, killing an estimated 150 to 200 workers. Seventy-seven bodies were recovered, with fifty six more known underground. rescue efforts were hampered by toxic gases and a subsequent blast, raising total potential casualties to around 300. Officials fear the lower levels are wrecked and may be flooded to halt the blaze. full entry and exploration will take a week.
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Saarbruck
Reden
St. John-on-Star
Terrific Squall Hits Hongkong Harbor
A fierce rain squall struck Hongkong Monday morning. In ten minutes more than fifty Chinese craft sank in the harbor with over a hundred natives drowning. No white casualties occurred. Shore launches rescued many aboard the swamped boats.
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Hongkong
Sani
Mine Fire Near Van Houton N M Claims Lives
A mine near Van Houston New Mexico, operated by the St Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific company, caught fire Monday morning from a mislaid shot. Most miners escaped. three are believed suffocated. Rescue attempts have failed as flames resist extinguishing.
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Trinidad, Calo
Willow
St. Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Company
van Houston
N. M
Judge Beatty Resigns From Idaho Federal Court
Boise Idaho judge James H Beatty who has served sixteen years on the United States District Court for Idaho announced to President Roosevelt his resignation with a request for a successor to be appointed before March 4 He gave no reason for retirement and said he is nearing the age for retirement with a pension.
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Boise
Idaho
James H. Beatty
United States Court For the District of
Cuban Trade Growing From United States Exports Increase
Washington reports the United States exported goods to Cuba totaling 4,491,944 dollars in the past year, over three million more than 1905, while imports from Cuba fell to 86,055,295 dollars, down about 10,000, the sugar price decline cited as the cause of reduced American imports.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
Republic
McClellan Denied Appeal Over City Election Ballots
Mayor McClellan was denied permission to appeal a ruling that blocked destruction of ballots from the last city election. The appellate division previously upheld a lower court’s order preventing ballot destruction. McClellan sought to take the case to the Court of Appeals, but the Tuesday decision halted that plan.
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New York
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
McClellan
Tower Court
Court of Appeals
Murder Verdict in London Blackmailer Case
Coroner's jury returns wilful murder verdict against Horace G Rayner for the January 24 shooting of William Whitely a prominent merchant. Evidence at the inquest yields few facts and the motive remains a mystery, with police suggesting blackmail as a failed attempt. Whitely's sons and his employer testify they never knew Rayner before the tragedy.
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London
Horace G. Rayner
William Whitely
Rayner
Prospectors Fought Over Water Hole in Arizona
In a desert water dispute near Sa Tome Ariz two brothers Bill and Lynn Desplain faced off against landowner Jones at Bear s Wells after two weeks of thirst. Jones was killed and Bill wounded in the clash over access to the scarce water supply.
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el Paso
Texas
Arizona
Desert
Bill
Lynn Desplain
Bear's Wells
Satome
Ariz
Jones
Bill Desplain
Revolting crime of mother for burning children with hot iron
In Harlem a stepmother Mrs. Kate Cravius faced Magistrate House after two young girls Nellie age 7 and Jennie two years younger testified she branded them with a red hot stove lifter for making noise. She fainted twice during the shocking recital and claimed mania. The children bear enduring scars from the burns and she admitted the acts amid an asserted bond with the victims.
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New York
Nellie
Jennie
Magistrate House
Harlem
Kate Cravius
Six Boys Perish in Burning Factory Fire
Dover reports the Cocheco Manufacturing No. 1 mill disaster where six boys perished in the blaze. Six hours after the fire, overseers said no employees were missing, but firemen later recovered six male workers' bodies, each severely burned and unidentifiable. The incident caused about $600,000 in losses.
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Dover
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
Runaway carries Kansas City club players to injuries at Fort Riley
Seven members of the Kansas City Athletic club basketball team and Lieutenant Mettler of the artillery corps at Fort Riley were injured when a carry-all overturned after a runaway down a hill on the way to the railway station. Lieutenant Mettler suffered a compound fracture of the leg and the club members were badly cut and bruised.
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Fort Riley
Kansas
Kansas City Athletic Club
Mettler
Artillery Corps
Company exonerated in Primera mine explosion inquest
The coroner's jury verdict exonerates Colorado Fuel and Iron company and its employees of all blame for the Primera mine disaster that destroyed twenty four lives. Nearly 100 witnesses testified. no trace of Reese J. Lumley, the American fire boss, was found.
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Trinidad
Colo
Primera
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Reese J. Lumley
Steel land purchase for Gary industrial city
United States Steel Corp closes on 2500 acres in Gary Indiana for 3 million dollars. This landmark acquisition expands land holdings to 8000 acres for the proposed industrial city, with an estimated total investment of 75 million dollars once completed.
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Chicago
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Ind
Steel Corporation
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Idaho State News
Minnard
Cama, Prairie
Soldier
John Johnson
Dagger Creek
Blue
Willan
Jennie Rust
Pocatello
City Hospital
Isaac Spears
T.W. Thomas
Interior Department
Areo
Lost
West Virginia
Northern
Uncle Sam
Little Mining Camp
Wany
van Houston, N. M
Island
Primera Mine
Steel Tees
Norea
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