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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
2
A blast during a postponed St John's Day event at Holy Hosary Catholic church in Kansas City fatally wounded Antonio Gramife and two others, maiming others and injuring policemen. The gas-pipe bomb, built by Gramife, exploded as the crowd fled, causing shattered windows and a panic.
A westbound passenger train with about ninety aboard collided with an eastbound stock train one mile east of Whitehead, sixty miles west of Grand Junction at 3:22 AM Saturday July 10. Engineer Heldeman and Fireman Haoggageman died later. freight crew injured. Several passengers injured though none killed. Stock cars wrecked, sheep killed. first sleeper and baggage damaged beyond use. Reading orders error blamed. four trains had preceded the special.
Russian expedition from Baku lands at Enzel Persian seaport with 1000 Russians and 800 Cossack cavalry eight field guns eight machine guns natives show hostility leaders of revolutionists foretell Teheran entry and shah deposition likely. meanwhile a Pacific train wreck at Bear Creek kills two aboard Epworth delegates. Pueblo becomes dry as saloons shut amid ward favoritism row.
Former U S Senator William A Clark of Montana and New York joins the Albany Hargesses corps. He receives a membership certificate and is named master of the corps with rank captain. The roster’s previous head was Edward H Harrien John Morey. A chaotic report follows describing accidents and federation news in Nevada and Montana.
The Senate passed the tariff bill by 46 to 34 despite Republican opposition. Democrats like McLaurin and Money joined in votes for the measure, while many Republicans including Beveridge Bristow Brown and Clapp opposed it. Senate amendments totaled 840, delaying House action but not delaying conference. The bill expands protections and contemplates reductions in some life necessities, while tobacco sales restrictions were loosened following Senator Brawley’s amendment.
Rock Springs Wyoming reports John Jarvis a 70 year old Utah pioneer and former Salt Lake resident was found murdered at his Brown's Park ranch near Bridgeport. His son James Jarvis discovered the scene July 7 with a blood trail to the Green River and rumors of a ferry boat missing. Suspects were traced from Brown's Park to Rock Springs but the trail was lost.
Patrick Calhoun, president of United Rails, faces trial Monday July 19 in San Francisco before Superior Judge William P. Lawlor. The case stems from alleged bribery offers to a supervisor to influence votes on an overhead trolley permit granted in 1964. A change of venue motion was denied.
A resident of Pur gy, a Denver suburb, shot and killed his wife Elvie and then killed himself with a bullet on Thursday afternoon while listening to The Holy City. The couple had been separated for six months as Mrs Brown refused to let her daughter return to Parr.
Ban Frevotees Christian C Jama son along with other men are jailed on defrauding claims linked to a bigamy scheme. Police say John Madson, sought in many cities for bigamy, married or deceived twenty four women including Mrs 8 P De Bennett in this city. Victims were widows or divorced women. He faces trial in Stockton, police pursue full confession.
Frank Edens of San Antonio says he was imprisoned in Ciudad Juarez for eighteen hours on suspicion of being a wanted robber. He alleges Mexican guards beat him with a rifle and stabbed him with a bayonet after escaping a jail door. Edens claims officials refused to call the American consul.
In a London confrontation, suffragettes led by Mrs Despard waited near Parliament and attempted to breach the police cordon around Prime Minister Asquith’s Downing Street residence on Friday afternoon. He paused on his steps, stated he would take the petition, then entered without listening to explanations.
San Francisco Tamalpais once famed for the crooked railroad and scenic views may be converted into a vast public park. If plans by leading Transbay city citizens succeed, the mountain will become a water supply source for the Transbay cities, within the district set aside by the state legislature.
Kansas City vaudeville singer stopped in at the Summer Park to visit friends when a backup act went awry. A misfired shot fatally struck Miss Robinson behind the scenes, tearing the skull and brain, with doctors reporting grim prospects for recovery.
Washington report details the death of Major J. W. Lang, a retired U.S. Army leader once superintendent of the Michigan state soldiers' home, who was struck by an automobile driven by learner J. W. Lawrence. Lang had long spoken against automobiles, declaring a crowding desire to see them burned. The chaotic note of the dispatch also references surreal, garbled passages about Bequimaux, Peary, and a general drift through disconnected imagery.
The tug Grayting, en route from Panama to Seattle with three crew under Captain A. A. Moore, vanished after departing May 17 and was believed lost in June near Cape Blanes. The small steamer, hired by Panama Canal contractors, faced delays in supply and was provisioned for forty days.
A chaotic roundup of incidents includes a Colorado option law ruling, typhus deaths in Monterey, a coal strike in Sydney with mass refusals, cholera quarantine threats against Russia, parachute fatalities in Portland, cannon accidents in Camden, and a deadly explosion in New Jersey. Other items mention denatured alcohol inspectors dismissed, trials postponed in Omaha, a Los Angeles railway safe robbery, a mountain lion injury in Morgan Mill, a balloon accident in Waukegan, the death of George A. Pollock, Hudson-Pulton ceremony plans, a fatal boarding-house fire, a Nogales record attempt, a San Francisco shooting misinterpreted as suicide, and assorted political and legal notes among various cities.
A garbled national roundup reports a range of events from train wrecks near Beattie to a Beeden collision 30 miles west of Orang, with ore losses and fires in Oregon. It notes a bank robbery at Everett Washington, whisky flings in Montana, a Rose Nevada murder, Missouri River navigation congress elections, and Alaska Yukon Pacific fair crowds. It also mentions a murder suspect in Colbert Washington, a suicide in Superior Montana, and a robbers’ violence in Withesen Washington.
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