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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
8
The number of national banks rose by 105 since May 14, 1908, with 71 Oklahoma banks leaving the national system to reorganize under state law. Despite withdrawals, bank totals show deposits at 2.826 billion, loans and discounts up, and total resources up by 774 million.
Paris based French Aerial league outlines diriz fle balloons routes to Nancy Lyons Pau and Rouen with five eligible crews. Balloons measure 8 to 12 meters and carry 4500 to 7000 cubic meters. Speed about 31 miles per hour. The Wille Nancy namesake craft will serve Paris Nancy line with daily stops at Meaux and Rheims.
In Butte Montana Fred Bachman a paralytic was burned to death when lighted ashes or a dropped match ignited a curtain as he lay on a couch smoking a pipe. His mother failed to move to aid him as flames engulfed him and bedding. The fire department stopped the blaze. Bachman had been paralyzed a week.
Bert Garrett placed a dynamite charge under his house killing his wife, daughter and another child. a son and a girl outside were injured. The blast instantly killed eight from the family area and wrecked the home as Garrett had shown intent for self harm recently.
Forty one indictments returned by a grand jury accuse mining firms in Nevada and officials in Pennsylvania of making false reports to the state tax collector about property outputs. Named defendants include William Flynn of Pittsburgh connected to the Silver Peak mine and A D Parker and Thomas Lockhart linked to the Goldfield Florence venture. Release of individual names withheld until served.
San Francisco marked the city’s reconstruction anniversary with a French medal from Jean Jules Jusserand to Mayor E R Taylor. The ceremony honored Lafayette and other French allies of the American Revolution, drawing a brilliant crowd in an event seen as one of the era’s grand gatherings since the 1906 earthquake.
Pat Andrew Carnegie wrote to Premier Clemenceau pledging 1 000 000 dollars to the hero fund. He said success in Canada, America and England justified extending benefits to France. He praised growing peace among France Britain and America and urged concerted action against war.
Six hundred thousand dollars will be spent during the year for construction of roads trails telephone lines and other permanent improvements on the national forest lands. Funds are appropriated to extend forest coverage and build facilities across large areas for protection and access.
A frail transcript from the annual meeting of state and provincial chiefs in North America outlines calls to protect civilians from dead or living threats. Delegates discuss executive actions, naval strategy, and the need for new defense laws as wartime tensions rise.
President Taft told Senator Guggenheim that he cannot visit the West as soon as hoped due to ongoing fines of Mire. The trip near August to attend the Grand Army encampment in Salt Lake City and other events in Denver and Gunnison Irrigation will be deferred to autumn. He regrets disappointing friends and organizations who invited him.
The badly decomposed body of Edward Finley, alleged killer of James Rafferty, was found in brush near Kalispell two miles southeast of the city. The corpse lay with a rifle and trigger still in place, the weapon tied to the bartender’s death in the December 3 saloon shooting.
A bartender at the Berkely Chit saloon shoots a man during a morning confrontation. The killer yells threats, draws a revolver, and fatally wounds Howlin Tae at the counter before a struggle ensues and the assailant is killed. Police investigate the central railroad area and the Mount MeO bellon vicinity for context.
Convincing that, the workforce left the firm as Mead reduced pay and resisted the new direction. Management faced defections, while the company refused a favorable offer, keeping the president in place despite dissent.
The Jefferson Davis Memorial Association's plans progress after a 1907 Glasgow gathering. General Bennett J. Young led fundraising to buy seventeen acres at Fairview. a future memorial will preserve Confederate records and house widows of soldiers.
Ten of eleven lepers returned for reexamination near Honolulu are free of leprosy. Ages range from two to seventy nine, with several having spent years in the Molokai settlement. Some older patients may petition to return to the island after long isolation from friends and society.
Ralph Rogers, a banker, and his companion Jassist traveled from Palm Springs to Los Angeles and recount how they were captured by Indian police after being fired upon. The pair were handcuffed and held in the desert heat for several hours as temperatures reached 115 degrees while disputes over land ownership sparked the incident.
Severe Idaho floods push water levels up the Clearwater and Snake rivers. Lewiston bridge over the Clearwater is undermined as river rises toward historic highs. Lowland fords flood, rail blockage feared as rocks and piers fail.
A 14 year old boy named Jeshoneli climbed into a rail car and jumped from a speeding train. The engine coughed and derailed a few cars, causing several freight gates to be damaged and the frame around the wreck to be harmed. He was injured and then arrested.
Across reports from Bridgeport Connecticut to Washington Park Illinois a series of accidents and violent incidents injure many. A car hill climb crash in Bridgeport leaves several seriously hurt. a Wapakoneta Ohio explosion kills a man. a gasoline launch fire on the Potomac endangers couples. and a St Louis murder shocks locals amid other violent events.
A collage of short notes covers murders, indictments, drownings, mine and mill incidents, marriages, a suicide, a diamond scholarship, a police robbery report, and a fire at Dayton. Included are references to Spokane grand jury actions, a missing funds case, and a notable poisoning warning edge of the Yukon region.
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