Idaho State News Highlights on Ore and Rail Plans
Idaho reports mining gains with $1,226,040 in gold and $9,000,000 in silver produced for 1904. Mineral output, rail construction from Minidoka to Rock Creek, and electric Boise to Pearl line planned by 1906. Also notes Sawmills, school counts, teacher pay, and local incidents including accidents and a fatality near Meridian.
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Indiana
Fort Hall
Peart
Bid Bey Brevenes
Montpelier
Bear Lake
Ame Association
Hame
Salmon City Hax & Lady
Mra
George Lewis
Joe Louis
Noel
Sandpoint
Pettit Ming
Atlanta
Rogb Benes
Heylurn
Idaho
Boise Traction Company
Bolaw
Pearl
Twin Palle Ldt
Bite & Bank
Pring
Tess Mills
H. Goxan @& Co
Blackfoot
St Anthony
Port Arthur Falls After Prolonged Defense
Port Arthur surrenders after months of siege as General Stoessel yields to Japanese forces led by Admiral Togo. Capitulation terms to be arranged after the pomous defense, with praise for both sides and the siege’s costly toll on ships and troops.
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Port Arthur
Nogi
Stoessel
Toklo
Russia
Japan
Far East
Shen
Kay
Trosa
Chemulpo
Korea
Shantung Peninsula
Veesel
Vladivostok
Orient
Toga
Toadstead
Pitsowo
Kwantung Peninsula
Dalny
Gerelberg
Oku
Wafangkau
Telissa
Togo
Nog
China
Tema
Russians Off Coast of Madagascar Reported By Dispatches
The Russian second Pacific squadron under Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, with five battleships, three cruisers, transports Kamchatka and Anadyr, and hospital ship Orel, anchored at Balat Muric Madagascar on Monday. The dispatch boat Tibau later went to Tamatave to file reports. The Idbau notes the ships are in excellent condition despite a severe storm.
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Madagascar
Rojestvensky
Second Pacific Squadron
Kamchatka
Anadyr
Orel
Balat Muri
Tibau
Tamatave
Idbau
Praises For Storssel and Port Arthur Defense
Admiration pours in from Earl Roberts and Viscount Wolseley for General Stowers defense of Port Arthur. Field Marshal Baden-Powell calls the surrender honorable after a splendid defense. Public figures praise bravery and tenacity on both sides amid the great struggle. Major General Turner warns Russia may turn its attention to India’s northwestern frontier.
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Stowers
Port Arthur
Earl Roberts
Viscount Wolseley
Baden Powell
Baden-Powell
Alfred Turner
Russia
India
Cost of Peabodyism and Insurrection Bonds Proposal
State Treasurer Whitney Newton of Colorado reports total cortidentes of Indebtedness issued for military expenses in 87764 and urges the legislature authorize an unave teyable to 000 Insurrection bonds. He proposes twenty five year terms with interest not to exceed 3 percent annually.
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Whitney Newton
Colorado
Explosion at Sea Sees Ship Arrive After Disaster
The Panteh steamer Mallia from Hamburg to Savannah reached Tamniton Bermuda with details of a Norwegian barque Jarpesin crew rescued after its explosion. The Marpeala blew up with cargo of nap killed. seven crewmen were saved and landed at Hamilton.
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Mallia
Hamburg
Savannah
Tamniton
Bermuda
Bari Jarpesin
Jensen
New York
Cotta
Son F
Ftamilton
Russia demands free transit rights through Far East waters
Reports from St Petersburg say the public reacts with calm to Port Arthur’s fall, while Russia insists Japan must recognize its right to free transit of ships through Far East waters. Tokyo marks the surrender with celebration and officials say no peace talks are likely without such recognition.
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Russia
Japan
Far East
St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Stoessel
Tokio
Nogi
Port Arthur Surrender Report Shows Heavy Russian Losses
The record of Russian forces at Port Arthur details a 35,000 army with 7,000 killed 16,000 wounded or ill and 8,000 in forts of whom 2,000 cannot fight. General Stoessel warned General Nogi that 6,000 of the forts’ 8,000 could fight. Russians put Japan’s cost of the fortress capture at 10 million dollars.
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Port Arthur
Chefoo
Stoessel
Nogi
Japan
Boat Inferno Near Huntington After Towboat Explodes
A spectacular explosion on the towboat Defender in the Ohio River near Huntington West Virginia sent flames across its twenty barges. Twenty eight crew, only ten to twelve rescued alive, Captain James R Woodruff of Pittsburg hurled into the river but saved. Identified dead is Thomas Duffy of Pittsburg, a fireman. Others, including Robert Holland of Pittsburg and Joseph Moore of Oakland, Pa., are hospitalized with severe injuries. An engineer’s young son is reported killed and a lone woman aboard is badly hurt. The Defender, owned by Pittsburgh Towboat Company, burned for over an hour.
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Ohio River
Huntington
W. Va
James R. Woodruff
Pittsburg
Thomas Duffy
Corio Polic
Robert Holland
Joseph Moore
Oakland
Defender
The
Pittebure Towboat Company
Death clash near Goldticki sparks conflicting reports
Reports from Nevada state that frontier figures Jack May and Jack Longstreet were killed and a third man wounded in a recent fight in the Kaweech range, sixty miles east of Goldfell. One account links the dispute to a Tengpah claim, another cites mining claim locations as cause.
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Goldticki
Nevada
Jack May
Jack Longstreet
Kaewich Range
Goldfell
Tengpah
Escape attempt at Folsom prison ends with guards killing convicts
A Friday assault at Folsom State Prison in California led to a failed breakout. Prisoners attacked with a rock crusher, seven convicts killed by guards within seconds as Captain Murphy and other guards defended the line. Warden Yell joined the defense, ordering shooters to maintain the exit line.
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Murphy
Chas
Jolly
Taylor
Joly
W. H. Harris
Captains Murphy
Haris
Hi Ris
Harris
Yell
Japs Capture Fort on Rihlung Mountain in December
A Tokyo report from the Third Japanese Army claims the test center column seized the parapet on Rihlung mountain on December 28 after heavy explosions and fire, then occupied inner gun positions and the gorge fort. Elsewhere, a raid in Selby, South Dakota saw county records taken and the courthouse dismantled for transport, provoking local unrest. The Chinese minister met with Secretary Hay about an arbitration treaty with China, with no definite reply yet, while efforts to advance the exclusion treaty continue.
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Rihlung Mountain
Tokio
Port Arthur
Hay
China
Conelu
Congress
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Earth
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Tts
Woom Riile
Murrayford
Thunder Mountain
John Brookshire
Meridian
A. Sidebotham
Bolwo
Colorado Springs
Cripple Creek
Bolen
Bright
Elmore
Urieil
Tate
Offiar
Wit- Hamebure
Salman River
George HW. Black
Low Feton
Little Brown Men
Stoesser
Storssel
Britten
California
Rihlung
Selby
Bangor
Court House
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