Idaho News Roundup From State Fair To Mines And Farms
Reports note queen contest results and militia activity as Governor Steunenberg plans travel with workers. Apple shipments to the eastern market rise while Nine Mile mining shows boom potential. Harvests and frost impacts mix with real estate gains from Holse. Idaho volunteers head to San Francisco, grain yields improve, and a fatal accident near Namipa is reported.
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Ralotina
Semn
Davernor Steunenberg
Nine Mile
War Preparations Dramatize Johannesburg Retreats and Moves
Johannesburg reports war looming as residents flee and trains fill. The town council provides three months of food for men and animals while inmates from a children's home head to Natal. Prominent politicians depart. Herr Fischer Woe attends a Volksraad session. Kroger signals near certainty of conflict.
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Johannesburg
Natal
Pretoria
Fischer
Volksrand
Krager
Afrikanders
Herr Hoffmeyer
Cape Colony
London Morning Post
Kroger
French officers accused of barbarous cruelties in Soudan
The Matin details alleged brutal acts by Captain Voulet and Captain Chamoin in the French Soudan, including beheading a questioned native, killings of women and children, village burnings, executions for not pursuing natives, and mutilation of corpses with heads displayed on pickets. An expedition under Lieutenant-Colonel Klobb was sent after them.
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Paria
Matin
Voulet
Chamoln
Klobb
Chamoin
Troops About to Return From Manila Draw Details
The Kansans will sail on the transport Tartar with 800 returning and 200 remaining in Manila including 150 reenlisting. Three Kansan officers and thirty men killed, nineteen officers and men die of disease in the smallpox epidemic, 123 wounded. The Washington regiment sails on the Pennsylvania with 675 men embarked and eight officers plus 206 men staying behind. one officer killed, one wounded, one dead from accident, 24 killed, 198 wounded, nine dead among the remaining.
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Manila
United States
Kansas
Washington Regiment
Pennsylvania
Nevada Cavalry
Ohio
Ultimatum to China warns of action over German deaths
The German minister to China Baron Von Ketteler delivers an ultimatum to the Chinese government after a clash in the Kalo Choa Hinterland. Six Chinese were killed and Germany demands safety of life and order, threatening further steps if unmet.
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Shanghai
Kalo Choa
China
Baron von Ketteler
Germany
Cincinnati Lecture Sparks Riot Over Philippines Talk
Editor Marat Halstead calls any critic of Otis a traitor to the country after a heated Economic club lecture on the Philippines. A man claims two thirds share the sentiment, prompting Halstead to denounce traitors as the crowd edges toward violence before cooler heads prevent bloodshed.
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Cincinnati
Marat Halstead
Economic Club
Philippines
Halstead
Otis
Mr. Halstead
Pension Roll Shows Large Net Growth and Death Toll
The report by Hon. H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, records 40,229 names added and 43,156 dropped in the year, with 84,345 due to death. Expenditures total 148,955,052 and the pension roll value stands at 191,619,961. The roll includes 753,481 soldiers, 87,415 widows and dependents, and 673 nurses, with 45,765 original applications filed and 37,077 allowed. During the year 109,819 claims were rejected, many for increases.
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Washington
H. Clay Evans
Spain
Yaquis Routed After Telegraph Destruction Near Pitaya
A volunteer force from Hermosillo joined Colonel Pienadoe to arrest the Yaqui band that burned telegraph lines to Potam. About eighty Yaquis clashed with the troops. one soldier was killed and the Yaquis were routed. General Torres’s headquarters have been cut off from telegraphic communication for five days. The Yaquis burned roughly a mile of telegraph poles and removed the wire.
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Hermosillo
Mexico
Pitaya
Pienadoe
Potam
Torres
Filipinos Routed in Hills by American Forces
Dispatches from Cebu report American troops under Colonel Bayless with two field pieces attacking a native force that ambushed four soldiers. The fight drove the natives from entrenched trenches with no American casualties and some heat prostrations. native losses unknown.
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Manila
Cebu
Bayless
Revolution in Dominican Republic Yields Authority to Ministers
President Figueroa relinquishes executive power to a ministerial council in Puerto Plata as a provisional government forms for elections. In California, Hoff murder case re hearing planned by the California Supreme Court on October 11.
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Puerto Plata
Figuero
Imbert
Anco
San Francisco
Sept. S
Albert Hoff
Hoff
Supreme Court
Mary Clote
Hotchin
Jiminez Arrested as Wood Blocks Santo Domingo Trip
General Juan Isidro Jiminez the Dominican revolutionary aspirant arrived with his two sons and was denied landing by General Leonard Wood the military governor. He was placed under arrest and plans to reach Santo Domingo to claim the presidency are not yet permitted. Jiminez called Go mez a friend and claimed revolutionaries hold most of the republic except the capital. Twenty six trunks were searched revealing no arms.
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Santiago de Cuba
Juan Isidro Jiminez
Republic of Santo Domingo
Leonard Wood
Santo Domingo
Havana
Jiminez
San Domingo
Gomez
Soldier Boys Land with Welcoming Return from Grant
1 400 men including veterans from Wyoming Idaho and North Dakota arrived aboard the transport Grant to a royal reception at the Presidio San Francisco. Three Idaho and three Wyoming company men were killed or wounded in the Philippines with several others ill or convalescing. The regiments reported heavy combat including a key charge at San Juan del Motte and San Pedro Macatit. The units will be mustered out in about three weeks with high praise from state officials. In Porto Rico the insular commission recommends a civilian government and a law code with English as official language while political rights are limited and courts remain Spanish for now.
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San Francisco
Wyoming
Idaho
North Dakota
Grant
Presidio
Philippines
Nagasak
Strobel
Frantz
Thomas Fitzgerald
Rio Janeiro
Maua
Honolulu
George Rogers
R. F. Weidmer
San Pedro Macarti
Joseph F. Spath
San Juan del Motte
O'Brien
Tuteman
DeForest Richards
Stonenberg
Miller
Washington
Insular Commission
Kennedy
Curtis
Major Watkins
Porto Rico
Root
United States
Chinese Emperor Starves Amid Court Plots in China Tibet
Dispatches from Tacoma report Hwang Hao now receives three meals daily with two vegetables and a bowl of rice, amid fears of further starvation tactics. A Tibet riot near Pao An endangers Christian missionaries Rev. George Shields and wife and Mrs. McBeth, who fled to Lanchee as China Inland Mission workers remain.
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Tacoma
Wash
China
Hwang Hao
Tibet
Pao An
Kansu
Christian and Missionary Alliance
George Shields
McBeth
Lanchee
China Inland Mission
Lesson in Patriotism in Yokohama
Five thousand United States troops have passed through Yokohama and Tokyo for about two days each without incident. The American community, though small, has organized generous hospitality for an army of 10 000. Hosts are energetic and grateful, while the Japanese have learned a new lesson in patriotism.
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Yokohama
United States
Tokyo
Ambushed near Cebu forces report ambush and punishment
General Otis dispatch dated August 27 notes four soldiers ambushed and killed near Cebu with mutilation. Robber bands of Negros scattered and returning to sugar plantations. Armed Tagals punished. favorable conditions for civil government under military supervision. Little change in Panay and Cebu. Withdrawal of volunteers and regulars last year limited active campaigns.
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Washington
Otis
Hughes
Coilo
Cebu
Panay
Cebu Ie
Rebels Take Santo Domingo as Government Surrenders
A telegraph from Santiago de Cuba reports the Jimines revolutionists entering Santo Domingo with Andriagno Gral Jon as Santo Domingo evolutionists emissary. The capital government surrenders amid limited details available. La Mascona La Marche named as the Jimines representative in Santo Domingo.
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New York
Andriagno Gral- Jon
Santiago de Cuba
Revolutionisten
la Mascona la Marche
Santo Domingo
Transvaal Government Refuses Further Concessions
Capetown Aug 30 The Transvaal government replies to British Secretary of State for the Colonies Chamberlains latest offer and says it will adhere to its position and make no further concessions Commandant General Joubert states in an interview that the republic will resist interference with its independence as one man.
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Oapetown
Chamberlain
Transvaal
Joubert
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