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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1906
Page
6
Idaho state notes report diverse mining output with gold silver copper and lead producers across counties. Quarantine on diphtheria at Emmett cited amid public health scare. Emmett Bank opens with 10000 capital. Drought of details on several local incidents, infrastructure projects and personnel moves.
The four-to-five year boom to Manhattan Nevada accelerates as Goldfield and Tonopah miners flood the Nye county camp. Roads to Manhattan near capacity with wagons autos and teams. Bidders pay up to 200 for cars daily while room and bath prices surge and saloons rake in profits amid a lawless rush to the new field.
Mayor Thompson directed Chief of Police George A. Sheets to shut down gambling establishments in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night. Detectives Richard L. Shannon and George Raleigh were sent to warn gamblers and enforce the order, leading to immediate closure of the open houses.
Vancouver lineman William Burgess of the British Columbia Electric Railway was electrocuted at Powell Street and Dunlevy Avenue while soldering a transformer joint atop a high pole. He reportedly slipped and grasped a live line to save himself, receiving a fatal current.
A street duel on Durango's main street left Thompson of La Plata county and Police Officer Jeane Btenee mortally wounded. Thompson died that afternoon, ending a feud dating from the late election when both sought sheriff. Sheriff Thompson had lived in Durango for twenty years.
In Haverstraw New York a landslide at Rockland street end swept eight houses into brick excavations dropping a hundred feet. Sixteen people most from prominent families perished as houses burned after the slide cut water supply, hindering firemen from saving lives.
John M. Pattison was sworn in as governor and reviewed a 4,000-strong parade from a glass cage. Despite midwinter weather he stood on foot warmers to acknowledge the crowd. He urged national insurance supervision to benefit policyholders and reduce costs, noting his own role as head of a life insurance company.
Washington announces complete failure of the Bermudez Asphalt company talks with the Venezuelan government in Caracas. The company's treasurer Clyde Brown has departed, and Secretary Root has asked President’s special commissioner Calhoun for a report to base immediate departmental action. The report may be sent to Congress with proposed measures.
London reports from Berlin indicate Germany seeks joint reform execution in Morocco and shared frontier oversight. If pressed, France will resist and Britain will back France, risking a serious impasse. Britain hopes for settlement but fears German persistence may require all delegates' effort with U S Spain and Italy likely to support. War rumors loom though Berlin policy leaders are not the war faction.
George Channel, 42, a carpenter, was fatally shot at his nephew Clarence Murphy’s home at 857 East Flat South Street. An accidental discharge from a .22 caliber Browning revolver held by the 10-year-old caused two bullets to strike Channel in the head, near the ear, with fatal result. The boy is the son of Frank Murphy, an agent for Eastern Oregon White Pine Lumber Co. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon around 1 o’clock.
Corry Pennsylvania witnesses tell of an engineer failure to recall orders on the Philadelphia and Erie line Saturday night. Engineer Kavanaugh, questioned about why he was on the main track, allegedly cried I forgot all about the passenger train. Three men died and twenty were injured, with authorities hopeful all the injured will recover.
Eureka civil engineer L. Evans seeks a $120000 guaranteed bonus from Humboldt County if a railroad is built within three years. The route would start at Eureka and run via Delta Trinity river Pitt river and Sierra Nevada through Alturas Lakeview and Yale in Oregon, then southern Idaho to Casper Wyoming. The direct line spans 1100 miles with spurs totaling about 1800 miles.
While seated beside his sick brother in law, Polson was mistakenly taken by George Stevens on Monday and died within an hour at the city hospital. His brother in law Robert Louis Gillespie, aged 66, died an hour later. Stevens, a Harvard graduate, had a prior steamship competence from Boston to New York but lost most of it in a cotton crash two years earlier.
Count Witte, in an Official Telegraph interview from St. Petersburg, rejects foreign press sensationalism about Russia’s crisis. He asserts Russia will emerge renewed and notes France maintains friendship and goodwill toward Russia, which Moscow also reciprocates.
Salt Lake City eyes a glass factory with officials predicting a market within a year. Operators of the Manufacturers and Merchants association say the outlook is strong and a well-funded manufacturer seeks to invest heavily, requesting supplies of sand and freight rates to Salt Lake.
Washington reports the Panama Railroad company submitted its ten months ending October annual report to Congress. After fixed charges and operating costs, $264,248 remains, a little over five percent on capital stock. Total earnings rise by $100,204, an 18.77 percent increase from last year.
A fire at the Erskine Reed owned boarding house at 1611 Missouri Avenue in St Louis on Saturday killed three women boarders. A fourth woman broke a leg leaping from an upper window as smoke drove occupants toward a bathroom where the three bodies were found. All three victims were badly charred.
Paris reports former finance minister Kokovsoff states Russia faces a 1906 extraordinary budget of 241 million dollars after 35 million revenue. Major items include repatriation and maintenance of Far East troops, reimbursement of Japan for POW outlays, and expenses for reservist families and strikes.
Robert Shadwell a longtime criminal was found murdered in the Chinese section of Butte Mont on Sunday before daylight. Police suspect a blunt instrument caused head wounds and a crushed skull after an apparent fight or revenge in an opium den, with the body dumped in an alley.
The naval academy saw Stephen Decatur Jr acquitted and restored to duty only to be rearrested for hazing charges under1903 and 1874 acts. He plans to fight these charges. unofficial word says Midshipman Trenmor Coffin Jr from Carson City Nev was convicted of haring and dismissed.
Snow on Sunday night made rails slick and caused two street car crashes in St. Louis. Samuel Griffin brother of Walter D Griffin a member of the house of delegates was ground to death after slipping in front of a car. A Cherokee car struck an Olive street car at Olive and caused injuries to Mrs Addie Lawson and G C Jones with others badly bruised.
A woman calling herself 155 years old, named Philadelphia Mary McDonald, died at the home for aged colored persons. She claimed birth on November 14, 1770 and spoke of Valley Forge scenes with Washington’s soldiers in 1777-78. Relatives say she was robust in health.
Four men died and twelve were maimed after a dynamite blast at the Dolése & Shepard plant in Gary Indiana. Two employees were warming dynamite when it ignited the nearby stock, causing a powerful explosion that was felt twenty miles away.
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