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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
8
Elmer Kivinen, a 16 year old, shot and killed his drunken father Wall Kivinen during a pursuit at a farm near Great Palla. The boy claimed self defense and protection of his mother and sister after the father threatened to kill them. A farmer’s inquest held him for further investigation.
Marines at Kasaim barracks behind the American embassy mutinied Saturday night refusing to embark for the vallows porte. The old garrison, nominally surrendering, were swayed by agitators to protest exile from the capital. General Schefket supervised, with troops ranged nearby. The mutiny ended as key leaders faced trial. officials called it the work of a few ringleaders, praising the rest for obedience.
New York report says federal prosecutors will press criminal cases against individuals behind the American Sugar Refining company after recent disclosures. Henry Stimson, acting special attorney, vows no let up and notes prior penalties total 124000 for the corporation. He cites 2140000 back duties restitution and aims to prosecute officers or employees responsible once testimony is ready.
Nairobi dispatch reports ex-President Theodore Roosevelt and son Kermit bagged four lions in a May Hills hunt with 200 native followers cheering. Roosevelt’s first lion hunt yielded three kills on the first shots, while Kermit scored the fourth. The trip, praised by the party, comes amid Selous’s broader pursuit of lions in the region.
About six hundred sailors and a hundred officers and cadets arrived May 1 and were hosted in Golden Gate Park San Francisco on Sunday. Lieu tenant Poteet guided the visitors who praised the park and toured by auto and streetcar to the munte pavilion for a band concert. Thousands of citizens gathered to glimpse the visitors in uniform and cadets wore German style helmets with gold braid.
An English nurse reports that Armenian women and girls were shot or carried off by Turkish mobs during attacks on Adana and surrounding districts. Heavily wounded patients crowd emergency hospitals, with 16 000 Armenians left homeless and lacking bedding, clothing, or food. Bodies lie in fields and homes burn as dysentery and unsanitary conditions spread.
The House of Commons faces a deficit nearing eighty nine million dollars across the empire. Chancellor Lloyd George plans modest new revenues while meeting extra costs from existing sources. He highlights Navy outlays and old age pensions as primary deficit drivers and signals a future rise in naval expenditures due to Europe's unsettled state.
Butte a noted inventor of smiling apparatus killed his wife and two children then took his own life on a brother’s ranch near Ada Mont He was an escaped lunatic who had recently broken from Warm Springs Insane Asylum The motive cited involves a patent dispute and a proclaimed robbery of his invention.
Geattie Banker Parkhurst, once tied to the Firat Nathanal Bank, was found guilty by a federal jury of embezzling 50 009. Testimony linked Parkhurst to schemes involving San Francisco Chicago and New York bank offices as prosecutors showcased manipulated bank balances. Prohibition candidate Eugene W Chafin defended the era’s drive to limit saloons in the south amid predictions of a dry trend across the region.
Porter Smith of Chicago, a Dartmond graduate, shot and killed Helen Ayer Marden, a Smith College senior, on Thursday and then died by suicide. Miss Marden, daughter of Frank Marden of Bougerville, had broken an engagement and refused renewal. Smith had persistently pursued her for some time.
Washington reports the attorney general instructed the Tulsa U S district attorney to seek new grand jury action and press indictments against Governor Haskell and others over land irregularities. The move aims to expedite prosecutions by presenting the cases to the new grand jury.
Ameterdan progress le betom features a ship Halve Maan launched from the navy yard. The vessel, described as a queer mobile craft, is a token of friendship from Neuther lands to America. It is expected to be a highlight of the naval parade at the Fulton event.
The wounded man identified as PF Warnord was found near the Pourtoeith stakeout with his injuries. Mrs A Martin formerly Nan Pate is linked to the event and was brought to the police for questioning. Three relatives arrived at the Emergency Hospital seeking care for the victim.
A massive tornado corridor swept from the lake region into Arkansas and Alabama, killing and injuring many. Reports from Tennessee, Mississippi, and nearby towns describe destroyed homes, blown down houses, and churches, with dozens of fatalities and extensive property losses across Hale, Franklin, Huntsville, Eder, and Mammoth Springs as storms churned through the area.
Deposed Venezuelan leader Cipriano Castro awaits his wife in Paris as upheavals unfold worldwide. In Reynolds Pennsylvania, four Potts Powder workers died in a packing-house incident. Kentucky court proceedings touch Beech Hargis, while a cyclone near Memphis claims lives. Violent crime appears from Toluca to Los Angeles, with political shifts in Hawian legislature and defunct opera directors in Vienna. Submarine incident and naval losses add to wartime tension. Local disputes erupt into fatal shootings, and a grand jury investigates lynching in Oklahoma, reflecting a era of unrest and volatility.
A ragged OCR fragment describes floods, robberies, and killings in the West. It mentions Reno gambling, Chinaman labor, a fatal knife wound in Albany area, and a Spokane builder tied to large mining interests. Also notes Laramie mills resuming, flood-year damage, and a water plan debate.
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