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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
6
Idaho reports a range of local events from Caldwell to Nampa. June start for a Caldwell normal school, Fourth of July celebrations planned, fires, accidents, and a fatal shooting in Burns Springs. Deluge of small town sports, local governance changes, political contests, and business concerns. Baseball leagues dissolve. Nampa and Caldwell remain active.
Early Sunday morning the three story hotel in Jackson Kentucky owned by Captain B J Ewen burned to the ground. The Inn held fifteen guests who escaped unharmed. No insurance covered the structure or furnishings. The origin of the blaze is believed incendiary amid ongoing murder trial fallout surrounding Agathet Jett and White and the assassination of Lawyer J B Marcum.
Widespread disaster hits Heppner Oregon after a wall of water rushes through the town, flooding streets, wiping out homes, and prompting a large relief effort. Local hero Leslie Mattock guides residents to safety in Lexington as 300 coffins are requested for the dead.
Miss Amenda McFarland a 14 year old pursued six gray wolf whelps in a rocky crevice to claim the state bounty. She mounted a Winchester rifle remained at her saddle and chased off the parent wolves after which she returned home with the young wolves.
Official word from Butte states the cutoff from Columbia Falls to Jocko on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern routes will be built at once. Work begins within sixty days to unlock Montana’s rich country and provide a direct path from Crownpoint coal fields to the Butte and Anaconda mines and smelters.
Hugh O'Neil a ranchman near Meeker Colorado was arrested by the marshal for rowdy conduct. He was marched to the river bank where a mob of about twenty men stripped him whipped him with two bogey whips and then ordered him to leave the country and never return.
President Roosevelt received a saddle horse named Wyoming as a tribute from Wyoming citizens after a Wyoming trip. Cheyenne presented a horsehair bridle saddle blanket and quilt. A drought-era tragedy reported a shepherd drowned by a freshet near Lusk and found in a cottonwood tree twelve feet above water.
A fast mail train bound east into Pocatello derailed after striking a misaligned switch near the yard end. Fireman Bowers was killed, engineer William Bryans and mail clerk Ben A Campbell sustained serious injuries.
In a wartime interview Prince Peter states that the nation owes vengeance for the assassination of the Servian king and queen. He says a king could not bear a frown from assassins, and admits he has no power to punish the nameless conspirators. He adds that becoming king may never happen.
A violent afternoon thunderstorm and rapid rain caused rivers to overflow as bridges were swept away and buildings toppled. Over 200 bodies recovered within city limits, with massive property damage estimated at 500000. Relief arrived from outside as citizens began quick burials and cleanup. In Serbia, Prince Peter Karageorgevitch was elected king after a swift vote, with Belgrade calm and newspapers filled with election coverage.
The illustration, from D. M. Duncan's history of Manitoba and the Northwest, shows Manitoba and western territories totaling 270,000,000 acres. The farming land good for cultivation covers 135,000,000 acres, while 4,000,000 acres are under cultivation. Despite a small cultivated core, over a hundred million bushels of grain were harvested last year.
Report from Belgrade states King Alexander I and Queen Draga have been assassinated along with the queen’s brothers and key ministers. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch is proclaimed king by the army, with Parliament to meet June 15 to confirm. The plot was military backed with broad Serb support and the capital now quiet.
In New York City Friday Judge La tombe upheld the railroad position in the Interstate Commerce Commission appeal. The W R Hearst proceedings sought contracts and witness answers the witnesses refused on counsel advice. The decision bars forcing testimony and enforces railroad insulation from the questions.
Edward McIntyre a Teminook Pa hotelkeeper aged 47 died Friday after ending a forty days fast begun to treat a severe paralysis. He weighed 165 pounds at the start, dropped to 118 during the fast, and gained seven pounds in the three days before his death. He grew delirious Friday night and later became unconscious.
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