Hailey and Idaho News Roundup of 1900s Events
Local items report Hailey policy shifts and a new Watt Banking company in Halsey with 2000 capital. Nampa bans shimming machines. Fourth of July oration to W Borah in Halley. Jay Shepard, a Payette boy, hurt by wagon, and fundraisers for Heppner, Oregon quake victims. Freight strike lowers rates. a Kenneth farmer dies in a well. Storm damages Payette telephone exchange. smallpox threatens county commissioner Larkin. Mitchell body found at Raft River mouth. federal land withdrawal proposed for Blackfoot irrigation. Oregon Short Line rail extension under discussion. civic effort for moral welfare in Nampa. Harvey Hil timber foreman drowns in Sandpoint lake. Norman Vollmer graduates from Phillips Academy. P&M railroad ore rate cut to $2 per ton. Kendrick farm burns with $3,000 loss. Aged Mauser boy injures from accident near Soldier. First car through Halley draws crowd. Weber ships record wool cargo. Noble child injured in Reynolin Creek incident, expected to recover.
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Secretary of the Interior
Idaho
Blackfoot
Oregon
Nampa
Harvey Hil
Hope Lumber Company
Revolt of Convicts at Canon City Ends in Killings
Convicts under Kinch Kuykendall seized Canon City prison, overpowered staff, and seized the warden’s party including his wife. A chaotic escape attempt followed with dynamite blasts and pursuit by guards. Kuykendall was killed by Yardmaster John Clark. Joel Armstrong beaten but survived. others fled or were captured.
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Kuykendall
Congit
Colorado
Canon City
Wan
TD. Palmer
Stewart
Jan
Coll
Clarence Cleghorn
John E. Kent
John C. Cleghorn
Cleghorn
Fred Mra
John Clark
Joel Armatrong
Wii Cleghorn
Révalier
Talen
Mobburned Black man at stake near Wilmington
A northern mob led by a Virginian burned George K. White at a stake Monday night near Wilmington, Delaware, after accusing him of assaulting Miss Helen Bishop. Authorities fired on the crowd to quell the violence. several were hurt, and the jailer was overpowered. White allegedly confessed before execution. Other Black prisoners in the jail were not harmed.
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Mason and Dixon
Wilmington
Delaware
George K. White
Helen 8
Bishop
B. A. Bishop
Feudists Fight in Key stone West Virginia
A mountaineers party led by Floyd McCoy caused a disturbance in Keystone, McDowell County. They fired on repair of John Reynolds, sparked a pitched battle with police, left one dead and another fatally wounded, with several injured. McCoy’s party fled to the mountains carrying their dead and wounded.
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Floyd McCoy
McCoy-Hatcheld
Keystone
McDowell County
West Virginia
John Reynolds
McCoy
Reynolds
Highwaymen Shoot Man at Portland Barn
A man named Calof was shot by two highwaymen who entered a Portland barn Monday night to rob him. Calof resisted and cried out, provoking a robber to fire. The shot wounded him near the heart. his father arrived just as the attacker was entering the doorway. The injury is reported as likely fatal.
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Calof
Portland
Caloson
Mme
Calut
Change of venue in Kentucky murder trials to Harrison county
In Kentucky, jurors would likely convict Curtis Jett for the murder of attorney J. G. Mar cum in Jackson. Thomas White also faced likely conviction. Both cases relocate for trial to Cyntivane, over 100 miles away, in the Blue Grass region, with differing conditions from Breathitt county. Judge Redwine refused to hear changes of location amid rumors Governor Beckham influenced the transfer to Harrison county.
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Mit
Curtis Jett
Jackson
J. G. Marcum
Thomas White
Lexington
Cyntivane
Blue Grass
Breathitt County
Redwine
Court House
Beckham
Harrison County
Outlaw Hardee Killed After Jail Escape
Willam Hardee, sentenced to hang for the murder near Culberson in 1901, was killed by a posse seventy-five miles southeast of Glasgow Montana after escaping Glasgow Jail on the 6th. Posse member Charles R. Hill was also killed by Hardee during the pursuit.
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Willam Hardee
Glasgow
Mont
Charles Sneary
Culberson
6Th
Iast
Charles R. Hill
Hardee
Hardee Killed After Ambush as McKinney Escapes
An armed ambush ended in Hardee's death while McKinney fled, leaving a chaotic aftermath marked by multiple shots and a difficult discovery. The sequence of events suggests a planned attack with one assailant killed or captured later, while McKinney evaded capture.
Death toll estimates rise in Heppner flood disaster
Latest developments show Nat will pass all prior estimates in Heppner Oregon. Prominent citizens estimate 260 to 400 dead, with many bodies not recovered. Some washed to the Columbia River forty miles away, others buried in town cellars. Workers probe widespread debris as frozen flesh and hall drift complicate retrieval.
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Columbia River
Hall
The Sweet Girl Graduate
A posse pursuing Hardee and McKinney after a prisoner escape follows their trail across the Missouri River. A gunfight ends with Hill dead as the raiders attempt to evade capture in Montana’s Bridger Creek region amid reports of a looming grasshopper plague threatening local range land and vegetation.
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Hardee
McKinney
Missouri River
Hill
Montana
Bridger Creek
Palatial Breakers Hotel Destroyed by Palm Beach Fire
The Breakers at Palm Beach Florida a flagship east coast hotel owned by Flagier and known as the Florida Monte Carlo was swiftly consumed by a kitchen blaze in the Casino. Within an hour the hotel the Casino and nearby stores burned while flames leaped across the wind driven timber. Rescue crews halted the spread but the enormous wooden complex housing about 600 guests became a mass of flame. the Poinciana spared a near miss as embers scattered to adjacent cottages.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Flagier
Chicago
Brands
Six Thousand Slain In Moorish Rebel Battle
A Tan Di Metnotah dispatch reports Moorish forces led by the war minister suffered heavy losses, with about 6000 killed in a fight at Ammediona against rebels. The Madrid correspondents say the insurgents surprised the sultan’s army and claimed victory for the pretender’s supporters.
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Tan di Metnotah
Soat
Ammediona
Madrid Correspondencia
Tangier
Senhaya
Ergunba Kabyles
Correspondencia
Lightning Strike Kills Six At New Senecaville Mine
A storm hit near Senecaville Ohio destroying a mine shaft and houses after lightning struck a barn sheltering carpenters. Six men died and several were wounded as 3,000 pounds of dynamite exploded or ignited. Windows were broken across Senecaville, a town of 300. The injured were transported from the scene.
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Senecaville
Ohio
John Saitzburger
Alaska Central railway linked to Alaska gold boom
The Alaska gold output is now 30000000 annually and will rise with a new railroad from Resurrection Bay south coast to the Tanana river. Reward Construction Company of Chicago secured the contract to build and equip 113 miles from Recorrection Bay through Cook Inlet to the Susitna valley up to the Tanana river.
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Alaska
Resurrection Bay
Tanana River
Chicago
Reward Construction Company of
Alaska Central Railway
Recorrection Bay
Cook Inlet
Sussuma Valley
Yukon
Uncle Sam Denies Recognition to King Peter
The United States delays credentialing King Peter's government, awaiting proof of punishment for guilty parties, while Minister Jackson to Greece and Servia postpones presenting credentials. Exports of boots and shoes rise sharply, likely surpassing 4 million pairs in the current fiscal year after 1902 totals.
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United States
England
Jackson
Greece
Servia
Peter
Kisses Declared Wife’s Personal Property by Judge
An Indianapolis dispatch reports a Kokomo judge ruled a wife may kiss whomever she wishes without breaching marriage vows. Kisses are declared the wife’s personal property and may be shared with friends regardless of race color sex or servitude. A separate Apache county incident near Holbrook reports Henry Barrett killed and Prime Coleman fatally wounded in a cattlemen clash over grazing permits on the Apache Reservation.
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Indianapolis
Kokomo
Holoroox, Ariz
Apache Indian Reservation
Holbrook
Henry Barrett
Prime Coleman
Apache County
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