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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
2
Idaho state news reports confirm Nettleton as postmaster at Nampa and details on the Caldwell Baptist property sale. Items cover river levels, party conventions, weather, a hotel fire at Dubois, deer hunting warrants, summer school plans in Boisee, and crop damage from cold.
Charles H. Moyer William D B Haywood and George A Pettibone pleaded not guilty at Caldwell to murder charges in the Steunenberg case before District Judge Frank Smith. Trial fixed for about May 16 after demurrer overruled and bail denied. Jails ordered relocation claiming Canyon County jail unsafe. Moyer to Botne, Haywood to Welker, Pettibone to Caldwell jail.
Boise Idaho Tuesday Judge J H Beatty quashed habeas corpus writs for Charles Mayer Wil Ham Haywood and George Pet thane. He ruled the court had no jurisdiction to challenge how prisoners were brought to Idaho or to remand them to Colorado without extradition as fugitives. The defendants argued fraudulent entry and lack of extradition, but the judge said he cannot intervene to halt their detention and trial.
Washington report notes the Senate approved a broad pension appropriation bill, authorizing 9110,000,000 in public funds after brief debate. The railroad rate bill was laid aside for the day as the Fortifications bill dominated most discussion.
Mayor Weaver announces an agreement with the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company to overhaul local transport. The plan emphasizes a subway approach to modernize facilities, spur competition, and safeguard millions in franchise value.
Twenty armed men surrounded the Mutual Credit Society bank near the Bourse on Thursday afternoon. They restrained bank employees with pistols, looted the bank of 426000 dollars, and escaped despite guards attempting to intervene.
Twelve miners at Shenandoah mine in Conningham gulch near Silverton Colorado were killed when a heavy snowslide struck the boarding house during dinner. Twenty one workers were trapped. some escaped injured. The disaster follows slides that hit Green Mountain mill and tramway. debris swept away a cottage near Old Hundred mine.
Paris reports France will not yield on the internationalization of the police. Officials say the issue is central to the Franco-German dispute, with France backed by Great Britain and others while Austria hesitates and Italy and the US abstain. Vienna's wavering fuels Austrian doubt about Germany’s stance.
In Alamosa Colorado the area faces severe snow disruptions not seen since 1884. No trains reached Durango for seven days as snow slides trap the line on Cumbres Hill. Six engines and a large rotary plow are snowed in between Alamosa and Durango, with a plow sent from Salida pushed by three engines.
Thick snow covers the Sterling Colorado region with about a dozen inches of packed snow from Friday's thaw. Cattle are scattered across vast territory and the loss estimates rise as stock cannot reach rags without an immediate thaw. cattlemen fear high losses.
In Pottsville Pennsylvania Mrs John Morrison was shot and killed in bed after three masked burglars awakened the couple. Two burglars moved Mr Morrison to the first floor to take a purse while the third stayed with Mrs Morrison to stop an alarm. Authorities believe the motive involved preventing disclosure of the robber’s identity.
Washington reports say Mr. Shonts is about to resign as chairman of the Isthmian canal commission due to declining health from overwork. His nervous system has suffered, and an attack of boils led Secretary Taft, at the doctor’s urging, to order a two week rest.
A two-train head-on collision between Portland and Adobe near Pueblo Colorado during a blinding storm left many dead and injured. An operator's failure to deliver orders changed the meeting point. Fire and wreckage trapped passengers including homeseekers and foreigners, with estimates of fatalities around thirty five and total deaths uncertain.
Snow slides across Colorado mining districts from Denver to Aspen trap prospectors in isolated cabins. Silverton suffers edge damage as rail lines in the San Juan region and the South Park line near Leadville are blocked. Mines around Crested Butte lack transport amid mounting fears.
Postponement of the plenary conference on Moroccan reforms to March 20 raises delegate hopes that Germany and France will reach accord. Signs of agreement appeared Friday as representatives of neutral nations pressed for mutual concessions.
In Kansas City Missouri three months after arriving from St. Louis Miss Agnes Inman a corset maker died from a lodging house fire. Five other women were overcome by smoke and rescued from the annex of the Allman building at Eighteenth and Walnut Streets by firemen who found Miss Inman dead on the fourth floor. The fire area lacked stairs and was sealed off by an iron door.
A Denver & Rio Grande collision west of Pueblo, Colorado, leaves about thirty dead and many more injured or burned. Only seven bodies identified, two telegraph operators discharged, coroner's inquest ordered, and a poignant tale of a mother and infant amid the flames. In Russia, Kazan priests discuss selling church lands to aid starving peasants.
Three masked men abducted a young woman during a Saturday night Azrite ball at the Morenci dance hall. A pursuit by a posse ended with the abductees release as the fugitives fled into the surrounding hills. Local authorities and Tucson dispatches report the incident as a bold assault tied to social tensions in the region.
Denver Colorado. A slide at the Green Mountain mill near Silverton demolished the mill and assay office, engine room and tramway portion. Foreman D F P Hickey was swept away and his body remains missing. Reopening the Silverton road has been abandoned and a month may pass before clearance.
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