Idaho State News Roundup Highlights Growth and Incidents
Idaho reports show state gains with W T Breckon robbed by a masthed man in Payette and a family shooting death near Emmett. Boise realty prices rise about 20 percent. new Copperville town laid on Salmon River. Idaho Northern railroad expansion toward Horseshoe Bend. steamboat service suspended on the Snake due to low water. inaugural ball at Home marked by governor and guests.
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W. T. Breckon
Payette
Tekod
Coeur d'Alene
H. FH. Taylor
Kootenal
Boise Realty
Frank
Siegel Hopper
Emmett
Siegel
Boise
Copperville
Salmon River
White Bird Creek
M. Glategay
Idaho Northern
Horseshoe Bend
Boise Street Railway Company
Pierce City
State Land Board
Feneral Land Office
Albion ‘Times
Snake River
Min- Wake & Southwestern
Government Dam
Assembly Begins Work in Utah Legislature
The Sixth Utah General Assembly opened with organizational steps. Thomas Hull named speaker, Stephen H Love to preside in the Senate, and a female member remains absent. Finances and revenue use are seen as priority while labor groups push for action and constitutional changes.
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Xesembly
Utah
Kearns
Thomas Hull
House
Stephen H. Love
Mnate
Legiaia
Colorado Political Calm Amid Governorship Row
A Denver special reports that aside from the governor's race, Colorado's political troubles are settled and Governor Peabody will oversee a lengthy hearing. Despite incendiary talk, incursions have been resolved amicably with no deaths or injuries and no violent clashes expected unless a counter current emerges.
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Denver
Colo
Saya
Peabody
Colorado
Alva ‘Ailathis
Peabody Followers Weaken In Colorado Election Battle
After inauguration, Alva Adame is declared duly elected governor of Colorado by the legislature. The return shows Adams 123,078 and Peabody 113,304, a 3,774 plurality. Lieutenant Governor Haggett announces the result amid cheers. Republican candidates for other state offices are declared elected. Contests barred by a postinauguration agreement. Peabody must decide on any challenge.
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Alva Adame
Colorado
Adams
Peabody
Haggett
Russia Sees No Change in War Policy despite Peace Talk
The imperial council and advisers including M Witte have concluded talks yet show no sign of shifting from a war end stance. Reports cite Foreign Minister Lamsdorff as possibly favoring peace, but no confirmation exists beyond his known peace leanings and Russia’s Manchuria pledge.
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Nicholas
Council of the Empire
M. ‘Witte
Mcate
Tlk
Lamadorff
Manchuria
Russia
Count Lamsdorff
Peace Party
Wool Growers Convention Debates Railroads and Packers
The fortieth annual Nations Wool Growers association meeting opened in Denver with Jesse M. Smith presiding. Reports and seven committees were formed to study a proposed reorganization of the National Live Stock association. A split exists over whether railroads and packers should join the governing body, with Hagenbarth favoring admission and many stockmen opposing any alliance with them.
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of the Nations
Wool Growers’ Associaty
Tabor Grand Opera House
Denver
Jesse. M. Smith
Utah
Fhe
Wool Growers’ Association
Carriea
Frank J. Hagenbarth
Live Stock Association
Therm
Surprise for Stoessel Detailing Kuropatkin's Position
A Japanese officer, sent to inform General Stoessel about the emperor's marriage, claimed Stoessel pressed for Kuropatkin's whereabouts. He showed a map near the Shahke river, asserted Kuropatkin was defeated and retreating toward Mukden, and noted Stoessel's credit in disbelief at the casualties cited.
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Port Arthur
Stoessel
Japan
Kuropatkin
Mukden
Mukilen
Shahke River
Kuropathin
RudMan
Indian Appropriation Bill Passes House Committee
The house committee on Indian affairs Monday finished the Indian appropriation bill totaling 7,244,906 with the current year at 9,878,480. A 2,000,000 cut stems from treaty stipulations while Indian schools face no reduction. The bill opens development of Indian mineral lands except those in Indian Territory.
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House Committee On Indian Affairs
Indian Territory
Russian Officers to Go to Prison in Japan
Russian commanders General Pook General Smyrnof and General Gorbatowsky decide to become prisoners of war in Japan. Five admirals at Port Arthur including Prince Outktomsky, with Rear Admiral Willmoon among those to accompany the prisoners. Half the officers will share imprisonment with their men and Stoessel along with other officers will be taken to Nagasaki for a brief stay before sailing to Russia on January 12 via Suez.
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Pook
Fourth East Siberian Life Brigade
Smyrnof
Gorbatowsky
Japan
Port Arthur
Prince Outktomsky
Willmoon
Stoessel
Nagasaki
Dainy
Russia
Suez Canal
Germany and Britain Near War Warned by Paasche
Berlin report quotes National Liberal leader Dr Paasche telling Creuse nach constituents that Germany and Great Britain were on the verge of war last week. He claims diplomacy averted the danger with difficulty and asserts certainty about how close the two powers were to conflict.
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Germany
Great Britain
Berlin
Dr. Paasche
Creusenach
Italian youth commits to asylum over Roosevelt plot
On his father Ralph A. Salvatore of Shelton Conn an Italian aged 19 was committed to Connecticut hospital for the insane. He was alleged to have planned to go to Washington to kill President Roosevelt and was said to have become imbued with morbid ideas after reading anarchistic literature.
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Ralph A. Salvatore
Shelton
Conn
Washington
Roosevelt
Connecticut Hospital For
Itan
Nineteen Year Old Girl Married Uncle in 1902
Matd Lebon aged 19 testified before Justice Scripture at Rome New York that in 1902 she married her dead father's brother. Orphaned at age two she drifted with relatives until last September when her sister Mrs Verne Vale of Allentown Pa wrote revealing the marriage. Justice granted a decree of annulment.
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Lebon
Rome
Verne Vale
Allentown
David
Two Killed in Fight Over Mining Claim in Kawich Range
In the Kawich range near Tonopah Nevada two Tonopah miners Jack Longstreet and Jack Maney were slain in a dispute over mining claims. Prospectors Frank May and Ralph Wardell were badly wounded. Sheriff Cushing travels to Golreed to recover the bodies and pursue other fighters.
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Kawich Range
Tonopah
Nevada
Jack Longstreet
Jack Maney
Frank May
Ralph Wardell
Cushing
Tonopsh
Longstreet
Maney
Golreed
Warde
May
Combine Business With Pleasure In Mukden New Year Scene
A Mukden dispatch notes January 2 celebrations by Japanese inside Russian lines with kites and giant balloons bearing a Happy New Year inscription. While festivities continued the Japanese attempted to attack the village of Vito. Russians answered with artillery, halting the advance and preventing occupation.
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Muate
Mukden
Yar
Vito
Colorado Legislature Creates 15 Member Election Fraud Committee
Amid confusion the Colorado legislature passed a resolution to form a committee of fifteen to canvass the governor election vote and report by 2 PM Monday. The panel includes five senators and ten representatives, with twelve Republicans and three Democrats, organized under Senator Arthur Crawford of Colorado Springs as chairman.
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Colorado
Arthur Crawford
Colorado Springs
Derby collapsed on revolving stage at London Coliseum
At the Londons Coliseum a vivid Derby representation on a revolving stage ended tragically Friday when jockey Dent attempted a cross and his horse stumbled on the ironwork surrounding the platform. The horse fell into the orchestra and Dent, thrown head first, died in hospital soon after.
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London
Dent
Germans Have Another Battle With Hereros
Four companies of German infantry, one of cavalry and half a battery of artillery in German Southwest Africa fought insurgent Hereros on New Year’s Day. The clash ended in a bayonet charge through undergrowth and the rout of natives. Lieutenant General Von Trotha reported heavy native casualties but gave no figures.
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Africa
von Trotha
Japanese Try to Stir Up Mongolians Advices from Urga
A reported systematic campaign by Japanese officers and emissaries aims to stir Mongolia to raid and destroy Baikal and Siberian roads. The plans reportedly win favor with princelings and Llamas, but the populace remains passive, maintaining profitable relations with Russia.
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Urga
Mongolia
Baikal
Siberian
Japanese thrust repulsed at Ingoy village fight
On a January night Japanese searchlights targeted the Russian advance at Ingoy village. They met hot rifle fire and were driven back. The same day Russian foragers near the Hun river captured four Japanese, retook their carts, and recovered a dead Japanese officer.
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Ingoy
Hun
Port Arthur Directs Ship Away After Mine Fears
The British cruiser Andromeda left Welhamwotom with hospital stores and surgeons for Port Arthur but was refused landing by Japanese due to unlocated mines. At a nearby bay, Japanese officials rejected aid and kept distance. Chefoo reports show harboring Russian sick and wounded is limited to a small number across Chefoo Shanghai Welhal wel and Tsingtau, leaving most to remain at Port Arthur.
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Andromeda
Port Arthur
Chefoo
Tie Tsia
Shanghai
Welhalwel
Tsingtau
Coupse
Bhanghal
Tien Tsin
Russia
Henegal Nogi
Idaho Legislature Opens With Governor's Liberal Policy Push
Idaho's legislature held a joint session Thursday to hear the governor's message. He urged liberal policy toward state institutions, opposed a twenty year extension of timber franchises, and asked party pledges to be carried out. He noted adultery is not a crime in Idaho and urged a law to make it sick, and asked for a law to make polygamy a crime while supporting the two mile limit law.
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Bath
Idaho
German Influence Felt as China Appoints German Arsenal Manager
The North China Daily News reports Chou Fu, the new Nanking viceroy, has named a German, Basse, to run the Shanghai arsenal. This could push out the British ordnance head and shift control of arsenals at Chinanfu, Hankow, Shanghai, Nanking, and Tien Tsin to Germany. A Manila dispatch notes a Japanese cruiser patrolling San Bernardino Strait. Takayi approached Manila harbor but did not enter and sailed away under full steam.
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North China Daily News
Chou Fu
Nanking
Basse
Shanghai
Ordnance Department
Chinanfu
Hankow
Tien Tsin
Manila
San Bernardino Straits
Takayi
Manila Harbor
Attempted train wreck on B&O line near Underwood West Virginia
In Underwood West Virginia an attacker tried to derail the New York and Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio line by forcing a switch with a heavy iron bar. It took twenty minutes to remove the bar after the strike. The train carried over 200 passengers and narrowly escaped a crash when the switch gave way. A trackman found the faulty switch.
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Underwood
W. Va
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