Northwest Notes From Montana Headlines and Incidents
Troops from the 13th cavalry stationed at Fort Keogh Mont head to the Philippines. Pike Moore, who found gold in Conke City in 1870, dies in Montana at 70. Spokane labor strife looms over unions and Spokane Falls Gas Light. June Brettaner, Chicamo financier, dies in Denver from a shaving accident caused blood loss. Sunlight mines rally with posters urging miners to stay away. Denver arrest tied to a hold up of Charles Boyvin. Helena sees a costly gasoline stove fire at the Northern Pacific freight house. Missoula jury convicts L. G. Mott of first degree murder. death penalty sought. Portland reports W. D. Lovejoy jailed for forgery. A mob fails to seize Pleasant Armstrong in Daher City. Eugene sees a fatal shooting during a horse theft arrest. Chestnut coal mine fire cripples operations. 200 idle. Pueblo casting foundry accident kills one, injures three. John Goetechins dies from blood poisoning after a glass cut. An armless man robs a gambling table in Butte with a .44 revolver. Miner Michael Keating is shot by bar tender Mrs. Edward Paver during a bar disturbance. Montana legislature ends without funding for a St Louis exposition exhibit. Youn, a Chinaman near Helena, charged with forged residence certificates. Montana police seize forged documents. Electric power lines expand across Carbon and Nevada counties for a new plant using Carbon river dynamo power.
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June Brettaner
Chicamo
Denver
Sunlight
Cole
Stata
Eal Minera
Arthur Johnson
Charles Boyvin
Missoula
Ment
Mott
Portland
W. D. Lovejoy
Washington County
Idaho
Pleasant Armstrong
Daher City
Ore
Hales
Eliott Lyons
Eugene
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Chestnut
Bozeman
Mont
Pueblo
Butte
C. Payne
California Club
Michael Keating
Edward Paver
Baron & Butte
Paver
Keating
Montana
St. Loui
Tet
Revenate
Doli
Explosive train blast devastates Erie station area
A freight train loaded mainly with oil cars derailed near Erie in Monday night darkness. explosions followed, setting fire to tank cars and triggering a spreading blaze. Dozens died or were burned, with many bodies consumed. many surrounding residents fled the scene amid chaos and heat.
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the Erie
Elty
Officers Drunk Aboard Stranded American Vessel
Captain Jorgensen and nine crew of the American bark Alexander McNeil stranded on Prater's reef near Hongkong after drifting off course from December 9. A drunken fight followed, a boat with fire mate and four crew lost, no injuries reported. Sailors rescued after three weeks. later taken to Hong Kong. Also noting Congress approved appropriations totaling about 1.554 trillion dollars, exceeding the Fifty sixth congress totals. An itemized expenditure statement appeared before the Senate.
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Jorgensen
Alexander McNeil
Prater’s Reef
Hongkong
San Fraucisco
Orient
Anclors
Hongkons
Honsktang
Congress
Sen
Allison
Committee On Appropriations
Dblilu
Billings Special Reports Fatal Shooting in Drunken Spree
Thomas Solomon was shot early this morning by H. P Hennick with a .23 caliber pistol. The bullet struck the liver and fatal results are feared. Rennick is under arrest. The incident is linked to a drunken spree involving Solomon Rennick and “Pie” Kirk, a woman recently from Mexico who operated a house in the Tenderium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Mont
Thomas Solomon
H. P Hennick
Rennick
Solomon
Pie” Kirk
Hulfworld
Mexico
Tenderium
Train strike violence strikes Waterbury streetcar
In Waterbury a violent streetcar attack followed a broader strike by railroad and lighting workers. Masked gunmen boarded a car on North Main Street injuring officers and a motorman, with one officer fatally shot. Conductor and others were beaten as the crew prepared for a night meeting and the assailants fled.
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Killen
Waterbury
Benson Seized After Desperate Escape in Olympia Jail
Christ Benson, charged with murdering Jas Morrell, was captured in a deserted mill near Olympia, Washington. The sheriff forced entry, Benson surrendered without resisting, and claims he did not intend to kill Jail Morrell, following a week of eluding pursuit.
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Christ Benson
Jasor Morrell
Beem
Olympia
Wash
Benson
E Benson
Kia
Morruit
Boat capsizing kills nineteen on Hudson River trip near Glens Falls
Nineteen men die when a work crossing boat capsizes on the swollen Hudson River west of Glens Falls New York. A frightened Italian boy fell overboard twice and was rescued first, then the craft listed and filled. Many could not swim. In a separate report from Eureka California, Lucy Johnson and her one year old child were found dead in the woods, throats cut, after she left her employer’s home in night clothes. The mystery motive remains unclear. The sea tragedy and the California homicide are reported in early dispatches.
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Glens Falls
Hudson River
Eureka
Cal
Lucy Johnson
Ed Albee
Freshwater
Seobee
Five Die in Aurora Road Halls Fire Near Hunter Creek
Five people burned to death in a Aurora road halls blaze near Hunter Creek at 2 a m Thursday. Victims include Charles Bernise and Thoemas Baird among others. Fire responders faced heavy smoke hindering water access. outrage over the tragedy erupts as a compensation claim is proposed.
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Adiipatch
Dawson
Aurora Road
Hunter Creek
Charles Bernise
Hollowbie
Thoemas Baird
Barnaie
Portlani
Ore
Haird
Ontario
Notorious Mole in the Wall outlaw Carey on the run
The last of the Mole in the Wall gang, known as Gaping Dick Carey, faces a $3,000 reward and ongoing pursuit across Wyoming Colorado Utah after a string of jailbreaks and dramatic captures. He escaped custody twice, using a broken leg feint and swift horse maneuvers, with authorities tightening the net in Routt County and near Lost Cabin. Carey’s past ties include the Bulol and Curry outlaw bands, with a history of cattle theft and train robbery.
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Gaping Dick
Carey
Wall
Cattlo
Invgo
Saratoga
Bulol” Caesity
George Curry
Hole-in-the- Wall
Caneral
Wyoming
Flower
Colorado
Medicine Butte Company
South Datots
South Dakota
Medicine Buty Company
Johinson Punty
Walton
Senator Madden
Lostcabin
Madden
Lauching Dick
Routt County
Offiers
Utan
Thompson's
Utah
Ofcers
Polygamy Dying Out Says Senator Smoot
Washington dispatch quotes Senator Smoot denying polygamy and stating he has been married once. He says his wife and six children live in Utah and that polygamy is dying out in Utah and Mormon territory with 766 polygamous families identified last August and ten years earlier a census showed five times that number.
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Smoot
Washington
Utah
Mormon Territory
Forced marriage crime report at Hastings Center robbery
Alonzo Clark and Elizabeth Austin aged 29, married six weeks, jailed in Oswego N Y charged with burglary and larceny. Mrs Clark alleges her husband forced her at night February 6 by threats to participate in entering a Hastings Center store, breaking a rear window, and aiding in taking merchandise and bedding.
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Alonzo Clark
Elizabeth Austin
Oswego
Sheepherder Frozen to Death Near Warm Autter Range
The body of D. rv. Norman was found on the Warm Autter range February 2 while he was discharged from the Daly sheep culd. He is believed to have wandered the range after losing his job. Little is known of his family. A separate note reports a desperate attempted robbery in Jehaunrahwrg center Friday where two men attacked customs officers, pepper sprayed them, and fled with money, a bystander hampered but no arrests detailed.
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D. Rv. Norman
Warmautter
Norman
Bweetwater County
Nienway
Jehaunrahwrg Wan
Hormeman
Jorn
Hemel
Deva Lacy
le Harve
Smoot Takes Oath to Join Senate in Provo
Smoot of Provo takes oath as full U S senator amid applause. Privileges and Elections Committee will study protests against sworn senators, with Burrows absent in Michigan. Question of contest moves set for committee action. Senator Hoar says oversight rests with Burrows upon return.
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Aportlexee Smoot
Provo
United States Senate
Smoot
Senate
Kearns
Tear
Burrows
Privileges and Elections Committee
Cortaln
Committee On
Privileges and Elections
Hoar
Michigan
Senate Opens Special Session with 27 New Senators Sworn In
The Fifty eighth congress senate convened an extraordinary session at noon on Thursday. An immense crowd witnessed the ceremony as twenty seven of the thirty new senators took six year terms, with seventeen of them previously re elected.
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Senate of the Fitty Eighth Congress
Carnival of Murder Imminent in Pekin intrigues
Reports from Pekin warn of an imminent outbreak and empress dowager plotting with Yung Lu to aid Tung Fu Halang. Western reforms are denied while foreign guidance is prohibited in viceroy jurisdictions. Chinese sources claim plans to escort Fu Chun to Pekin and to eliminate Kwong-Hau upon arrival.
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Pekin
North China Daily News
East
Yung Lu
Tung Fu Helong
Kanan
Tung Fu Halang
Fu Chun
Prince Chun
Kwong-Hau
Race Convention Proposed by Wisconsin Senate
The Wisconsin senate advanced a joint resolution urging the governor to convene delegates from other states to form a convention in Atlanta on July 4 to study the race question. The move aims at better understanding and a just solution, per officials. Also noted is Washington’s claim of no immediate plans to remove U.S. troops from Cuba amid Cuban Senate criticism.
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Wisconsin Senate
Atlanta
Washington
Cuba
Senate
United States
Cute
Jumped Through Car Window Near Kent Lite Thiredny
A garbled report describes a man and woman involved in a disturbance near a Northern Parted Walled area by Kent, with unclear details. The fragmentary text mentions a train, a wife, and names such as Neale and Ayala, but facts are severely obscured in the OCR.
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Amialanmator
Mothon
Kent
Neale
Moorning
Conflicting World News and Trials Highlight Early 1900s Tensions
A chaotic wire of reports covers looming war preparations in Central America, political shifts in the United States, criminal cases including Knapp’s murder confession, and the Panama Canal debate. Notes from London, Tangier, and Caracas relay colonial and financial concerns, while local incidents in Missouri and Illinois report violence and legal actions.
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Northwest Notes
Thirteenthh
Fort Keogh
Philippines
J. W. Moore
Pike" Moore
Conke City
Gcaniiner, Mont
Spokane
Spokane Falls
John Goetechins
Laurin
Federal
District of Columbia
Fiood
Nebraska
Lincoln
Ned
Columbus
Idwin
Polme
Columban
Owke
George Cooper
Frank Wagner
New York City
Coriinra
Charles Waest
Warner
Cooper
Viciines Interovet Ferey
Watvebury
Caine
Monn
Railroad & Lighing Company
Jake W. Cnembers
Union
Geer Webernedorter
Orlin
Park
Math Street
Ami
Jack
George J. C. Perry
Maga List
Agnes Me Hhoe
Samarville
Maem
Asi
Mgr Morton
Waverley
Comebridge
Siew
Jai
Mitehurg
Artiflee
aKrioment Fur & Ght
Daeliv
Ditcher
Committee On Privileges and Elections
China
Wyoming Range
Fravela
Barber
Luwk
Waltlemen
Whem m Galik
Ard
Vatthomen
Big Anny
Ty Lowre
Mayer Hint
Alma
Ohio River
Willan Booth
Baivation Army
England
Tmerone
Knapp
Ohio
Baa
Pavadron
Chicago
Cincinnati
Meenlul
Sicily
Naples
Guatemala
Salvador
St. Joseph
Roosevelt
Mile
Mario Dourlenac
Humbert
Paria
George Hughes
Orange
N. J
Franklin Atrest Methodist Church
Panama
London Morning Post
Tangiers
Mooriah
Jacob H. Smith
St. Louis
Thompson
W. H. Thompson
Florence Maybrick
London
Uake
Piec
Menrose
Kruger
Holland
South Africa
Joseph Sloan
A. Taliaferro
Mins
Sloan
Taliaferro
Caracas
Bouth Dekota General Assembly
Senatore Doyiagh
Waliworth
Hudelyh
Maraylia Kelthor
Montgomery
Keuthor Wen
Soutly
Caroline
Sly
Thir
Sao Balvador
Garren Idor
Cutimad
Ceaniel
Keequlel Ferrera
Manelluileatery
Benur Houllin Gan
Pwuntyelive Trun Bitle
Dunlling
IAWAA
Munich
Sian
Maauwacter
Angluin
Lon Tlig Co Pelni
Alk Waneddukus Bien Aa & Ventrontiany
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