Northwest Notes From the Northwest Frontier News
Troops from the Thirteenth cavalry stationed at Fort Keogh Montana sail for the Philippines. Notable deaths include J W Moore known as Pike Moore who first found gold in Conke City in 1870, and June Brettaner a Chicamo financier who died in Denver. Strikes and crime ripple through Spokane Denver and Butte with arrests, holds, and mob actions. A Montana jury convicts L A Mott of first degree murder. Fires and accidents inflict heavy damage in Helena chestnut coal mine and Pueblo steel works. Legislators fail to fund Montana exhibit at St Louis fair. Federal authorities expose forged residence certificates near Helena. Electric plant upgrades underway in Carbon and Nevada counties.
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Thirteenthh
Fort Keogh
Mont
Philippines
J. W. Moore
Pike" Moore
Conke City
Gcaniiner, Mont
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
Pueblo
Federal
Train Oil Car Explosion Kills and Burns Dozens
A wreck on a Erie freight train carrying oil tanks sparked a massive blaze Monday near Wharfit. Two sections derailed and a tank was demolished, fire spread for miles, and a large crowd fled. Subsequent explosions sent flames high as many victims were burned or incinerated with unknown death toll.
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the Erie
Elty
Officers Drunk Onboard Ship Abandons Reef Near Hongkong
Captain Jorgensen and nine crew of the American fark Alexander McNeil stranded on Prater's reef after the vessel drifted from course following heavy intoxication on December 9. A drunken fight ensued. the ship's carpenter fired his revolver but with no effect. A boat with the fire mate and four crew disappeared. The stripped sailors waited three weeks before being rescued and taken to Honk-tang where the American Consul logged their comfort. In Congress the appropriations total for the session closed at about 1.554 billion, exceeding the Fifty sixth congress by roughly one hundred million.
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Jorgensen
Alexander McNeil
Prater’s Reef
Hongkong
San Fraucisco
Orient
Anclors
Hongkons
Honsktang
Congress
Sen
Allison
Committee On Appropriations
Dblilu
Soloman shot in Billings as Hennick held on
A Billings special reports Thomas Solomon was shot early today by H P Hennick with a .23 caliber pistol. The bullet hit the liver and fatal results are feared. Rennick is under arrest amid a drunken spree involving Solomon, Rennick, and a woman known as Pie who recently arrived from Mexico and opened a house in the Tenderium.
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Billings
Mont
Thomas Solomon
H. P Hennick
Rennick
Solomon
Pie” Kirk
Hulfworld
Mexico
Tenderium
Slain by Strikers as Streetcar Attack Shocks City
In Waterville, a violent strike action by the Railroad and Lighting Company workers led to a deadly shooting on a streetcar. Conductor Pant Mendentiy was killed, motorman Jake Cmembers was wounded, and Officer Memmelsohe died after being shot. Masked attackers boarded the car near North Main Street, opened fire, and fled as crew members prepared to resume service.
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Viciines Interovet Ferey
Watvebury
Caine
Monn
Railroad & Lighing Company
Jake W. Cnembers
Union
Geer Webernedorter
Orlin
Park
Math Street
Ami
Benson in Jail After Custody in Olympia
Christ Benson, accused of murdering Jas Morrell, was captured hiding in a deserted mill near Olympia, Wash. Sheriff summoned, door opened, Benson surrendered with no resistance. He had spent a week eluding pursuers in the brush, and claims the jail escape plan was not meant to kill Jailer Morritt.
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Christ Benson
Jasor Morrell
Beem
Olympia
Wash
Benson
E Benson
Kia
Morruit
Boy Capsize in River Killing Nineteen Men
An Italian boy aboard a boat crossing the Hudson near Glens Falls, New York, panicked and fell overboard twice as the vessel capsized. Swollen river waters and drowning left nineteen men dead. In a separate dispatch from Eureka, California a woman named Lucy Johnson killed her 9 year old child and herself, throat cut, while the baby died. the man survived.
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Glens Falls
Hudson River
Eureka
Cal
Lucy Johnson
Ed Albee
Freshwater
Seobee
Five Die in Aurora Road Hall Fire Near Hunter Creek
A report from Dawson details five family members burned to death at the Aurora road halls by Hunter Creek at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. Witnesses saw a blazing balling and could not water due to smoke. Names and affiliations are scattered through a garbled account, with mentions of Barnaie from Portland and Haird from Ontario, along with several officials and possible indictments. a public claim seeks $60,000.
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Adiipatch
Dawson
Aurora Road
Hunter Creek
Charles Bernise
Hollowbie
Thoemas Baird
Barnaie
Portlani
Ore
Haird
Ontario
Notorious Wall gang outlaw Carey pursued across mountain trails
The outlaw known as Gaping Dick Carey, last of the Mole in the Wall gang, carries rewards totaling about 3000 dollars. He eluded pursuit after spreading from Wyoming into Colorado and Utah, repeatedly escaping overnight holds and clashes with authorities. Carey’s past with the Bulow and Curry gangs and his capture and breakout at a Lost Cabin ranch are noted, with ongoing searches across Routt County Colorado, Utah near Thompson’s and surrounding areas. dozen shots fired, uninjured, but pursued.
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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 reports Senator Smoot denies polygamy claims. He says he is married once, his wife and six children live in Utah, and polygamy is dying out in Utah and Mormon territory. He cites a census and notes 766 polygamous families as of last August.
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Smoot
Washington
Utah
Mormon Territory
Forced burglary case ties spouses in Oswego jail
Alonzo Clark and Elizabeth Austin both aged 29, married six weeks, are jailed in Oswego N Y charged with burglary and larceny. Mrs Clark says her husband compelled her by threats to help enter Hastings Center to rob a store, with him breaking a rear window while she waited outside.
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Alonzo Clark
Elizabeth Austin
Oswego
Sheepherder Frozen to Death on Warm Range
The body of D. rv. Norman was found on a mountain range near Warm autter February 2. He had been discharged from the Daly sheep culd and is believed to have wandered the range after losing his job. Little is known of his parents and whereabouts. A separate incident details a desperate attempt at a New Jersey robbery in the center of Jehaunrahwrg on Friday. Two men attacked customs officers with pepper and escaped after police intervention.
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Butte
C. Payne
California Club
Michael Keating
Edward Paver
Baron & Butte
Paver
Keating
Montana
St. Loui
Tet
Revenate
Doli
George Cooper
Frank Wagner
New York City
Coriinra
Charles Waest
Warner
Cooper
D. Rv. Norman
Warmautter
Norman
Bweetwater County
Nienway
Jehaunrahwrg Wan
Hormeman
Jorn
Hemel
Deva Lacy
le Harve
Smoot Takes Oath as Senate Member in Provo
Smoot of Provo was sworn in as a United States senator. A motion moved by Senator Reed to refer protests about sworn-in senators to the Privileges and Elections Committee was approved without comment. Senator Hoar said the committee’s course depends on Senator Burrows, who is in Michigan and will not return soon.
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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
Special Session Convenes of Fifty-Eighth Congress
The senate convened an extraordinary session at noon Thursday per the president's proclamation. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony. No business was transacted beyond swearing in twenty-seven new members for six-year terms, with seventeen of them previously reelected.
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Senate of the Fitty Eighth Congress
Carnival of murder imminent in Pekin intrigue
Chinese dispatches report an imminent outbreak and a scheme by the empress dowager and grand chancellor Yung Lu to aid Tung Fu Halang in marching on Pekin. Western reform pretexts hide real instruction to viceroys opposing foreign methods, with a plan to install Fu Chun’s son as emperor and eliminate the current ruler Kwong-Hau.
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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 urged by Wisconsin senate
The Wisconsin senate backed a joint resolution asking the governor to invite governors of other states to name delegates for a convention in Atlanta on July 4 to discuss the race question. The measure says continued debate could lead to a clearer understanding and a just solution amid national Cuba troop discussions and other dated events.
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Wisconsin Senate
Atlanta
Jumped Through Car Window Near Kent Line Train
A fragmentary report describes a person leaping through a car window near Kent line of a Northern Parte Walled traih. Morning Neale and others are mentioned with chaotic details and unclear actions following the incident.
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Amialanmator
Mothon
Kent
Neale
Moorning
Vast 1903 World News Summary Mixed Events
A chaotic digest reports on war talk in Guatemala and a Spanish routes shift, US political flirting with Panama canal, Kruger health, and gold basis talks in Mexico. It notes Joseph Sloan’s fatal duel in Columbus Mississippi and a London Florence Maybrick note, plus indictments of “petra quick” firms in Chicago.
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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
United States
Jacob H. Smith
St. Louis
Thompson
W. H. Thompson
Florence Maybrick
London
Uake
Piec
Menrose
Kruger
Holland
South Africa
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Killen
Waterbury
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Maem
Asi
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Waverley
Comebridge
Siew
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Mitehurg
Artiflee
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Daeliv
Ditcher
Committee On Privileges and Elections
China
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Cute
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
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Meenlul
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Naples
Joseph Sloan
A. Taliaferro
Mins
Sloan
Taliaferro
Caracas
Bouth Dekota General Assembly
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Waliworth
Hudelyh
Maraylia Kelthor
Montgomery
Keuthor Wen
Soutly
Caroline
Sly
Thir
Sao Balvador
Garren Idor
Cutimad
Ceaniel
Keequlel Ferrera
Manelluileatery
Benur Houllin Gan
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