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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
2
The Federal report shows 105 more national banks since May 14, 1908, with Oklahoma seeing 71 withdrawals to reorganize under state law. Despite withdrawals, total bank resources rose, with capital and profits at $1.729 billion, loans and discounts up by $434.8 million, and deposits up by $517.4 million.
Paris reports the French Aerial league has outlined lines of dirigible balloons from Paris to Nancy Lyons Pau and Rouen. Five airships will be used with lengths 8 to A meters and capacities of 4500 6000 and 7000 cubic meters. They will cruise at about 31 miles per hour. The Wille Nancy balloon has been named and a Paris Nancy line with daily stops via Meaux and Rheims is planned.
Fred Bachman, a paralyzed bricklayer, was burned to death when a curtain caught fire from a lit cigarette or ash while he lay on a couch unable to move. The blaze enveloped him and spread to bedding as his mother nearby could not reach him. The fire department extinguished the flames.
Bert Garrett set dynamite under his house blowing apart the kitchen. Mrs Garrett and her daughter were inside and died, another daughter aged 16 perished, a son survived but injured. The blast killed three members and injured others as neighbors heard the explosion across the area. Garrett had shown strange behavior and sought self harm prior to the tragedy.
Forty one indictments returned by a grand jury on June 4 name several prominent figures connected to the Silver Peak mine in Pennsylvania and the Goldfield Florence interests in Nevada. Charges allege false reports to the state tax collector on mine outputs. names withheld pending service. Senator William Flynn of Pittsburgh linked to Silver Peak with others tied to Goldfield Florence.
San Francisco celebrated the reconstruction of the city after the 1906 quake with a grand ceremony. Jean Jules Jusserand presented Mayor E R Taylor a gold medal from France acknowledging heroic rebuilding efforts. The mayor praised Lafayette and other French allies of the American Revolution as crowds cheered in a major commemorative event.
Pat Andrew Carnegie writes to Premier Clemenceau donating $1 000 000 to the hero fund. He says the fund's success in Canada America and England prompts extending benefits to France. He envisions an era of peace among France Great Britain and America and a joint effort to end war and the murder of man by man.
Washington reports six hundred thousand dollars will fund Maca year Lohtho projects including road and trail construction, telephone lines, and other permanent improvements across large forest areas. The plan specifies agency work to extend ranger coverage and develop facilities in remote regions during the year 190% year.
Officials outline plans at the annual conference of North American state and provincial foretof teatth, urging government action to shield living from the dead. Key speakers address labor, defense, and policy changes as military and civil collaboration intensifies.
President Taft told Senator Guggenheim he cannot visit the West this summer due to continued fines and will delay the trip until fall. He planned to attend the Grand Army encampment in Salt Lake City August 10 and other events in Denver and Gunnison. He regrets disappointing friends and organizations who invited him.
The badly decomposed body of Edward Finley, linked to the December 3 saloon shooting of James Rafferty, was found by Mrs. Paul Bailer two miles southeast of Kalispell. The corpse lay beside a Winehear rifle with the fatal wound described as a complete skull blowout.
A rough morning in a Berkeley saloon ends in a fatal shooting after a bartender opened fire on a patron. The assailant drew a revolver and killed Howlin Tae Teallet in a chaotic confrontation, with bystanders and onlookers recounting a tense struggle before police arrived.
Fragmentary text describes Lambermer Lone, Mead, Hem Dave, and a company retreat from Booey to President Queal. The passage hints at labor dissatisfaction, potential resignations, and a push to lower wages amid unspecified events. Names and places are inconsistently rendered, making details uncertain.
The Jefferson Davis Memorial Association began in Glasgow in 1907 after a devoted drive by the Orphan Brigade and Kentucky leaders. General Bennett J. Young funded the initial seventeen acres at Fairview, with plans to raise 3000 more for a memorial housing Confederate records and a home for widows.
Ten of eleven lepers reexamined on Molokai are disease free after years in the settlement. Ages range from two to seventy nine. several have spent long periods in isolation and may seek return to the outside world. Some patients were admitted before bacteriological testing existed. Honolulu reports note possible natural cures in a few cases.
Ralph Rogers a Los Angeles banker travels from Palm Springs to Riverside County and recounts a harrowing incident where he and his companion were fired upon by an Indian police unit. They surrendered and were bound, kept under a scorching desert sun for hours as temperatures soared to 115 degrees while the dispute centered on land ownership.
In Idaho and Washington a flood threatens Lewiston and nearby rivers. The Clearwater River roars toward high water stages as the Commercial Trust bridge area and Snake River near Seven Towns face rising levels. Low water passages are being breached and rail routes may be blocked after further rise.
A 14 year old named Jeshoneli was injured when he climbed into a gap on a steam powered locomotive and fell onto an open track as the train derailed. Police arrested the boy following the crash.
A montage of incidents across the U S includes automobile hill climb troubles in Bridgeport Conn and a deadly Memorial Day cane blast in Wapakoneta Ohio. Reports describe drownings in Washington Park Chicago and Potomac River fires from a gasoline launch. Violent crime touches Los Angeles Providence St Louis and Mobile with murders and lynching cases. National freight rate changes in Mexico, leather price protests, and political shifts surface amid regional disasters in Mexico and California.
A collage of unconnected items reports a fatal lightning episode on a farm, a Spokane grand jury probe into embezzlement, a marriage engagement between Mary Adets and Spreckels, indictments against J H Berkeley, a miner's suicide, a burning mill and court removals, a diamond scholarship award, robbery claims, Yukon river drownings, a judge fined, a brakeman injured, and pioneering ideas shaping industry.
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