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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
10
The Kemmerer Camera issues list the Kemmerer Publishing Co as publisher and name staff including editors and managers. The text references providers and a local staff slate with names such as Frank Pfeiffer and Casey, indicating a community newspaper byline.
A long list of Montana stories and incidents is reported. A Butte woman, Mrs Wilson, faces arrest on a $160 theft charge. Pioneer John M Hayes died near Assoucada aged 95. Billings saloon shooting leaves a bystander dead by Dick Bileks. Various crimes, labor fundraisers, and civic notes fill the page. Currents include fort Douglas explosive tests, Salt Lake’s female holdup, and new federal building ground broken in Butte. Also noted are flights of ore boats planned for Lewiston Idaho and fires injuring a San Bernardino child.
Officials report a settlement plan for the Pennsylvania anthracite strike. A commission including an army or navy engineer, a federal judge, a sociologist, and a mining expert would decide issues between operators and workers, with miners returning to work once the commission is formed. The proposal aims to end the strike and govern employment terms for three years.
The sultan of Bacolod Mintanao rejects friendly overtures from General Sumner commander of American forces in Mindanao. He declares he desires war and fortifies Bacolod with rifles. An American force from Camp Vickers may move to seize the Bacolod stronghold. Additionally a Berlin report notes possible manufacture of briquettes from coal and peat as a cheap fuel substitute amid a Pennsylvania coal strike.
A tornado swept several Illinois areas including Wainey Camp Point and Quincy causing property destruction and injuries. Homes damaged, residents exposed to the elements, and several people reported in critical condition or dead. The storm also disrupted other regions with scattered collapse and alarms.
The provisional Haitian government says General Nord has occupied Limbe with earlier reports dated September 2. Ports at St. Marc Gonalves and Wort de Paix will be blockaded starting October 12 with three armed steamers en route. Government forces hold Williamston and Mirebail with no serious fighting recorded so far.
Three masked men hijacked a Burlington express five miles from Lincoln Nebraska at 1 30 am. They forced the engineer and treman off the locomotive into the express car. the messenger Willing Lupton remained uninjured as the safe was blown open. Only three shots were fired to terrorize passengers and the brakeman who investigated.
Governor Odell denounces coal operators in a heated New York conference with Senator Penrose and President Baer. He argues for labor union recognition and presses for a conciliatory solution to ongoing industrial tensions.
Lewis Sylvester of Aurora Illinois a contractor missing since August 23 was located in Portland hospital Oregon ill with brain fever. A letter to his wife says he was in a hospital for weeks after leaving Aurora for a Chicago business trip carrying about 8000 in currency.
The jurors find Mee Anne Pulitzer died from violence at the hands of William Hopper Young in Jersey City after her body was found in the Morris canal on September 14. Also covered are brief notes on tariff changes and fund accusations amid political controversy.
Reports describe 700 of 1,600 Louisiana militiamen reporting to armories as crowds jeer and throw stones. Governors and business leaders urge settlement without troops while soldiers, loyal to friends among strikers, hide and resist deployment.
Telegram correspondence between Western Federation of Miners leaders and John Mitchell shows plans to halt coal mining across the United States and Canada until the coal strike ends. WFM pledges cooperation to withdraw miners from western and Canadian coal belts if Mitchell joins.
Derid Wilcox of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, spokesman for regional operators, sent President Roosevelt a letter urging federal action in courts to break up a conspiracy restraining interstate trade. The letter, made public in New York, echoes a prior note with the same demand.
Ground broken on the Whitehorne and Palmer ranches near Laramie Wyoming to cultivate Lespi and Russian thistle as summer forage. About eighty head of stock were later driven into a pen for feeding as the plant matured, with cattle showing satisfactory results.
Fragmentary report lists numerous items from military to crime to industry. Mentions Ceorge Allen Koeman, a Pa shooting incident, Grand Army appointing a General, fires and insurance losses, naval plans, Brazilian arrests, and a stalled voyage to Japan. Includes references to Chicago explosions and the World Fair preparations.
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