Idaho State News Highlights From Boise to Wallace
Idaho items report on electric roads planned near Lewiston and Caldwell depot construction at Burley. County teachers’ institute in Caldwell drew about 40 attendees. Portland race horses to Botwe State fair. Rural delivery route established at Troy. William Hodges died by carbolic acid. Twin Falls windstorm damaged homes and lumber. Mary Howell named assistant secretary of horticultural commission. Short Line extension to Yellowstone Park planned for fall. A bullring at Weiser burned, likely arson. Boise visitors to Portland fair total $200,000 in spending. Bear robbed Laclede mine fuse. one shooter escaped. Joseph Lawrence on the run from the state pen. Camas prairie continues to attract settlers from Washington. Charopaiga loses a limb in a mill accident. A J Green chosen for Idaho day at Lewis and Clark expo. Natural gas strike near Welser endangered workers. Thomas Kirby promoting northern Idaho grains at Portland fair. Deputy Harbough enforces game laws. 15 arrested, 14 convicted. Dr. Robert S. Law dies at 87. famed mining operator. Wille A. Belknap bound over on assault charge after Wallace hearing.
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Joseph Lawrence
State Penitentiary
Camas Prairie
State of Washington
Dlapatch
Coeur d'Alene
Charopaiga
M.D. Wright
A. J. Green
Wolver
Idaho
Welser
Thomas Kirby
Minho
Portland
Grangeville
Harbough
Lewiston
Robert
Law
Law Died At Horse Last Week From Apoplexy, At the Age of 87. Dr. Law
Wille A. Belknap
Featherstone
Wallace
The Cruel War Ends at Portsmouth Peace Conference
The long and bloody war between Russia and Japan ended with peace terms agreed by M. Witte and Baron Komura. Preliminary armistice plans were set, and the treaty framework moved to M. De Martens and Mr. Dennison. Roosevelt’s mediation credited for preventing a shipwreck of negotiations.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Japan
Russia
M. Witte
Baron Komura
Roosevelt
Ruawla
Nicholas
Meyer
Sakhalin
Wea
Rooseevlt
Far East
Chanta
Oyama
Itwan
la Peronse
Hokkaido
Pacific
Clanwe
Oyater Bay
Mr. Roosevelt
Jusaia
Mr. Roowert
Veteran Miner Feared Dead in Death Valley's Death Valley
Bullfrog Nevada report says veteran miner Judge L Bethune brother of Harry Methune of Butte Montana is presumed dead in Death Valley. James C Weller father of Earl C Weller of Telluride Colorado claims to have found a black mule near Surveyors Wells with Bethune papers and bible. No trace of Bethune found. animal led toward water after owner lost control.
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Bullfrog
Nev
Judge L. Bethune
Harry Methune
Butte, Mont
Death Valley
Mr. Bethune
Randeburg
James C. Weller
Earl C. Weller
Telluride
Cole
Bethune
Ethine
Asleep Four Months in Yonkers Child
Eight year old Charles Canopi of Yonkers has remained in a continuous trance like sleep for over four months. Doctors from New York and Yonkers are expected to study the case as specialists in nervous diseases consider it unprecedented. The incident began April 6 when he fell after spinning around a lamp post, then soon afterward suffered head pain and rapidly entered unconsciousness.
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New
Pania
Fate Turns Grim In Seine Rescue And Tram Crash
In Paris a dressmaker attempted suicide by leaping into the Seine and a water rescuer was seized by cramps. Police rescued the exhausted couple in a boat and they were being taken to a hospital when a tram struck their cab, crushing legs and killing the man and woman. In Danville a sixteen inch steam pipe burst at the electric light plant, killing John Richards and William Thornton and injuring three others all married stokers and cinder-pilers.
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Paris
Seine
Danville
John Richards
Georgetown
Willam Thornton
Ed Caldwell
A. A. Tuttle
Samuel Niccum
Fool Killer Is Needed Here Barkeley
Rose Terry was blinded when nine year old Rudolph Windham fired an airgun at her on her birthday. The youth had threatened her after she turned a hose toward him and he aimed at her eye with the weapon.
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Barkeley
Rose Terry
Rudolph Windham
Miss Terry
Windham
Ine
Mountain Climbers Meet Death in Austrian Alps
In Innabruck Austrian Tyrol at least five Alpine fatalities were recorded Monday. Two Meran tourists died on the Pollegal in the Zillerthal Alps, a Bavarian lawyer was killed while climbing the Hoofats group, and four Dresden students ascended the Hoher Pell and fell, leaving one dead and others fatally injured. A youth of sixteen perished on Mount Mythenstock. London reports add a curious clause in the will of John Nash Peake of Bellevue Congleton, a Staffordshire justice, demanding his executors hire a doctor to sever the main arteries before burial to render the corpse unrecognizable.
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Innabruck
Tyral
Meran
Edelwaisa
Pollegal
Zillerthal Alps
Dressen
Hoherpell
Mythenstock
London
John Nash Peake
Bellevue
Congleton
Staffordshire
Famine Devastates Seville Districts Officials Report Severe Shortage
Bread lines and looting mark the Sevillian famine as Ostina and Almonéia announce exhausted resources for distressed workers and families. Government relief is small, with 200,000 unemployed. Count Romanones tours Andalusia urging heroic relief measures amid widespread desolation.
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Seville
Spain
Ostina
Almonéia
Acija
Romanones
Andalusia
Jerez
Cais
Malaga
Cordova
Russia's Ultimatum in Peace Talks at Portamouth
Russia refuses financial concessions to Japan and calls for Roosevelt brokered compromise. Ambassador Meyer relays Moscow stance to Roosevelt. Russia offers to cede half Sakhalin and pay for POW maintenance but rejects indemnity, insisting it would rather fight.
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St Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Russia
Japan
Portamouth
Nicholas
Roosevelt
Meyer
Sakhalin
Fire tragedy on the Charos Heck yacht ends in deaths
Eric Patrick MacMahon, Pa Captain of the yacht Mystic, was burned to death when a fire started in his cabin aboard the Charos Heck. Eighteen others were nearly suffocated, rescued after firefighters arrived. The blaze, likely caused by a lit cigar thrown on the floor, caused limited financial loss.
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Eric
Patrick MacMahon
MacMahon
Flood Claims Family of Six at Big Otter Creek
Five people perished when flood waters from Big Otter creek swept through Clay county. The Picks family home was surrounded by water and only the mother survived after clinging to debris. The 17 year old daughter was among the victims.
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Charleston
W. Va
Big Otter Creek
Clay County
John Picks
Miner Survives 24 Hours Entombed In Mine Cave In Butte
Don Sullivan, a Utah miner from Eureka, Utah, endured a cave-in at the Mountain Consolidated mine in Butte for a full day and night. He slept to conserve strength as air grew thin, tapped walls to signal to rescuers, and emerged unassisted with a smile after fifty miners freed him.
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Butte
Mont
Don Sullivan
Utah
Bullivan
Eureka
Mountain Consolidated
Sullivan
Murder and arson near Kerrytown shock Washington town
A Kerrytown saloonkeeper Phillip Ross and his wife were murdered for money and their bodies cremated in their home to destroy evidence. Ross had run a saloon two miles from Kerrytown near the Northern Pacific line. Kerry Lumber Co. A. S. Kerry found the burned building and charred remains Monday morning.
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Seattle
Phillip H. Ross
Kerrystown
Northern Pacific
Kanasket
Ross
Kerrytown
A. S. Kerry
Kerry Lumber Company
Ross Place
Abducted Woman Rescued After Robbery Attempt
Mrs Lena Moniz was forced by an unknown assailant early Monday to walk ten blocks, bound hands, before he fled from Eighteenth and Grove streets after stealing her purse containing $3. No clues to the ruffian's identity.
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Oakland
Lena Moniz
Eighteenth
Grove
Twenty Go Down in Storm Off Florida Coast
A gale-driven sinking of the American steamship Peconic off Fernandina Beach, Florida, claimed twenty lives including Captain Jones who had sailed from Philadelphia to New Orleans with coal. The rapid disaster occurred around 12 20 AM as a massive wave shifted cargo and the vessel listed, leaving only two survivors to relay the tale.
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Fernandia
Fla
Peconic
Jones
Bough
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Florida
Orly
Amelia Beach
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William Hodges Mild
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Twin Falla
Mise Mary Howell
Boise
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Pure Food and Horticultural Commission
Anthony
Yellowstone Park
Weiser
Laclede
Brain
Saklalia
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