Mormon militia group forms in Idaho amid mining boom
Idaho community reports a militia company forming at Nampa while Boise plans a new lodge building. Thunder Mountain district weighs in with about 3,000 men. News notes oil and brick shortages, mine strikes, and the Bear to Mack Lake mail route upgrade amid a busy western Idaho scene.
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Fas
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Idaho
Academy of Idaho
Pocatello
Ikin
Mackay
White Knob
Marshall Lake District
Zenla Harlsche
Weiner
Bear
Mack Lake
Closed session ends as lawmakers sing patriotic anthems
Members of the House adjourned without day after a seven and a half hour session passing seventy bills and resolutions. The chamber erupted in singing of My Country Tis of Thee and The Star Spangled Banner as leaders and veterans joined in a farewell chorus. The Senate adjourned at five thirty with a heated exchange over Philippine matters and a conference report on the government bill amid sharp exchanges among Carmack Spooner Culberson and Lodge.
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Mississippi
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Tennesse
Spooner
Wiseconsin
Culberson
Texas
McComas
Maryland
Lodge
Mansachusetta
Gomi Rei
Mr. Frye
Report clears charges in Danish West India Islands purchase
Special House committee chairman Malzell releases findings after investigating bribery charges tied to the Danish West India Islands purchase. The report states no evidence any congress member was offered or paid bribes and that Christmas’s bribery claim rests on imagination, noting he could not borrow money for passage home.
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West Odin Islands
Christinas
Vance
Congress
United States
Indian
Ivain
Financial Bills Move Toward December Congress Session
Total of supply bills exceeds eight hundred million dollars. Flower bill stands to be considered again in December after debates and conferences. Hill bill to retire the standard silver dollar passes the house but awaits Senate action. Tragedy near Pawhuska Oklahoma as George Dickie is shot by Judge Petit. Petit then fires, killing Dickie. Amnesty proclamation terms for the Philippines agreed and to be made public there and in the United States.
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Oklahoma
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Cartie
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Philippines
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Tte
Fight in Senate Ends With Texas Senator Dragging Beveridge
A heated exchange in the Senate chamber ended with Texas Senator Bailey assaulting Indiana Senator Beveridge after adjournment. Desks toppled as colleagues, including Senators Hansborough and Spooner, intervened to separate them. Beveridge denied being insulted, while Bailey threatened severe harm and was dragged away toward the Democratic side.
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North Dakota
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Pexas
Weveridge
Bacon
Georgia
Harvey Layton
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Jessie Morrison Found Guilty in Second Degree Murder
Jessie Morrison, on her third trial for the 1900 June murder of Mrs. Olin Castle in Eldorado Kansas, is convicted of second degree murder. She killed Clara Wiley Castle with a razor eight days after Mrs Castle wed Olin Castle amid a love triangle. Morrison, daughter of H. M. Morrison, had previous trials resulting in manslaughter verdicts and a five year sentence before a new trial was granted last February.
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Dynamite raid at Leon post office ends in arrests
Sunday burglars tried to blow open the Leon Kansas post office safe but fled. Monday the postmaster was badly injured when a dynamite charge exploded while opening the safe. Two others reportedly injured. details scant. Horrible crimes with unknown perpetrators reported in Oregon and Oklahoma as well.
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Anfe
Mayet street fighting and wartime leadership a muddled report
Fragmentary Mayet arc reports describe street fighting in Cape Maytien between Ate Piven Whe supporters and General Aleals Nord wartime rulers. Partially named figures, provisional government actions, and vague factions surface amid political tension and upcoming Providency elections.
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Gelling
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Alou
Naruse
Irrigation Bill Boon to the West Is Outlined
Representative Newlands of Nevada champions irrigation in Congress outlining an automatic, self-sustaining bill. It provides at least 150 million dollars over thirty years from public land sales for irrigation works. Last fiscal year and current receipts total about six million dollars, with 3 million annually added as lands are redeemed, guarded by the Interior Secretary to ensure funds are available before contracts. Land monopoly is deemed impossible.
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Syed
Welner
White Koob Copper Company
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Hawelowedl
Terwinton Land Office
Dot Krein
Rey
Teter
Oler
Mae
Meibe
Newlanda
Nevada
Congress
Mr. Newlands
Secretary of the Interior
Body of Jesse James Exhumed Then Buried Beside Kin
The body of Jesse James, buried twenty years in the door yard of the James homestead near Excelsior Springs Missouri, was exhumed last week and buried in Kearney cemetery beside his father and wife. Mrs Zerelda Samuels and Frank James attended the service. Pallbearers were Quan trell era comrades. Jesse James Jr lifted his father s skull at the exhumation. A small crowd witnessed the ceremony with relatives and close friends present.
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Bandit
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James
Excelsior Springs
Kearney
Zerelda Samuels
Frank James
Mary
Quantrell
Bob Ford
Train wreck on Colorado Midland injures many. one dead
Sunday morning an excursion train from Cripple Creek struck a broken rail and seven cars piled into a heap. Francis M. English, a Colorado Springs musician, was killed instantly and about thirty others were seriously injured. Two trains left the rails with 371 passengers aboard, narrowly avoiding a larger death toll amid chaotic scenes. In Hayti, Admiral Killiek ordered troops ashore to back General Firman, threatening bombardment of Cape Haytie as consular protests mount. Bishops and foreign consuls sought harmony between factions, but efforts failed.
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Francis M. English
Colorado Springs
Hayet
Hayti
Killiek
Firman
Paris
Cape Haytie
Cholera in Manila Reports High Death Toll
Official reports show Manila with 1,740 cholera cases and 1,245 deaths. Provincial figures total about 9,000 deaths as records remain incomplete, according to Lieut-Col Lewis M Maus, insular health commissioner.
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