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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
1
Three armed men robbed the Eagle Club saloon in Pocatello last night, taking between $900 and $1000 from tables and a gaming room. They fled by train, pursued by a wide posse. officers reported two gunmen captured near Onyx and on the way to McCammon.
Bronx Falls December 5. George Bear, an Todian, was beaten in the morning.
A snow and sleet storm delays traffic across New York with heavy snow in Albany and blizzard conditions in Schenectady Newburgh and Saratoga. Reports from Pennsylvania Philadelphia and other areas describe similar blizzard like conditions and widespread travel disruption.
The House Judiciary subcommittee reported favorably the Publicity bill and sent it to a special panel. The measure requires every interstate or foreign commerce corporation to file annual returns with the Interstate Commerce Commission detailing capital stock, paid in capital, indebtedness, assets, earnings, net income, dividends, and wages, with a 1 percent annual tax on outstanding capital stock.
Tonight the program features Hello Bill at the Auditorium and the W O W Orchestra dance at St Josephs Hall. The event lines up a lighthearted show with live music and dancing for local crowds.
Washington dispatch states former Speaker Thomas B. Reed shows improved condition this morning. Doctors note the alarming symptoms are abating and vital signs like temperature pulse and respiration are stabilizing, with no notable fever or distress.
The schooner Polaris, from Everett to San Pedro, arrived at Port Townsend with eleven feet of water in her hold after jettisoning part of a deckload of lumber forty miles outside Cape Flattery on December 3.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was found guilty on a charge of disturbing the peace in Topeka Kansas. She was forcibly ejected from several drug stores and one prominent hotel in the city.
Charles B Horton, a newspaper man known along the Pacific coast from Seattle to San Diego, is head of San Bernardino of consumption.
The Columbus Ohio report states that the bipvera will seek an increase of 20 cents per ton in the coal mining scale. The source notes this proposal as an authoritative stance to adjust compensation for pick mined coal.
Washington reports a surprise shift as the Catan treaty moves to the Havana house of representatives. Officials fear the nationalist majority may oppose closer US relations, risking the treaty's fate despite Minister Squires' earlier assurances.
Senator Quarles of Wisconsin introduces a bill to repeal the desert land and placer mining laws and to permit commutation of homestead entries. He says the aim is to preserve public lands for actual settlement and that the laws have been abused.
Washington December 5 The death of Minister Buck at Tokio opens a vacancy the President is expected to fill by appointing John Barrett of Oregon presently commissioner general of the St Louis Exposition in Asia and Australia to be minister.
The House Committee on Appropriations approved the pension appropriation bill totaling 189,847,600 dollars. This amount exceeds the current year by 5,370 dollars.
Washington reports the President will nominate A H Anderson of Crawfordville Indiana to the United States judiciary to succeed John Baker in a mid December decision. The appointment fills a vacancy and signals a shift in the federal bench.
Washington December 6 Governor Brady of Alaska in his annual report urges an overhaul of the public land system, arguing for reforms to improve management and utilization across Alaska. The recommendation signals potential legislative attention and policy shifts in state priorities.
Proposals include an appropriation for an Alaska exhibit at the St Lucia exposition, liquor license law amendments, a five year donation claims law, a district Washington delegate, fisheries and mines commissioners, study of native conditions with Congress report, support for transport efforts, and making Alaska a lighthouse district with a tender.
Cleveland dispatch says Grand Master Morrisey of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen reps Chicago reports of 170,000 men forming a wage rise coalition are not authoritative. Conductors and trainmen plan to seek higher pay but will follow regular orderly procedure.
President Roosevelt designates Joseph Thompson O H Scott and W F Aldrich as referees in Alabama to recommend men for state offices. The three referees oppose the Lilly White movement and will assess candidates for official appointments.
Captain Pershing located remnants of small gunboat wrecks sunk by Spaniards at Lake Lanao on Mindanao in 1898. Moros guided him to visible hulls while returning from Iligan to Camp Vickers with plans to raise the vessels. Inspector Hendrix, reported killed in Samar, is found alive but badly wounded after a Nov 25 fight with bandits and jungle wandering.
In Cleveland at the Likely and Rockett factory ruins a wall collapse during a morning fire burying seven firefighters. Patrick H. Joyce died instantly and six others were seriously injured as the crew fought the flames.
A morning fire at 8 o'clock gutted the Grand Opera House in Stillwater causing an estimated loss of 175000 dollars. The blaze originated under the stage from unknown causes and the opera house block belonging to a local syndicate was completely destroyed.
The Kie Valley Stove Manufacturing Association has decided to increase the price of stoves five per cent.
The British steamer Leicester Castle from San Francisco arrived at Queenstown with news that on September 20 three American sailors mutinied. They shot Captain Peattie and his second officer. the second died. The mutineers left the vessel on a raft in mid ocean and were later not recovered.
Antone Merck barely survived a dynamite accident at his Thorn creek homestead after thawing five sticks for a spring basin. The blast knocked him into a table, cut his head, injured his ears, and damaged the stove and house, with losses estimated over $40. No other pieces exploded.
Governor elect John T. Morrison arrived in Boise to size up capital city politics. His Idanha headquarters are besieged by applicants, who claim mixed signals about post January steps. Perrin, Wallace candidate for state penitentiary warden, met Morrison, with Perrin’s backers predicting a hard race for Patrie.
Frank P. Stewart enrolled at the academy this week with stenography English and typewriting. Rev. Van Engelen delivered a thoughtful talk to students before Thanksgiving. Miss Fiorenca Lee quits her stand to move to Henolain this month. Miss Lee has done excellent work and will be missed. Mr. J D McGee of Mecore Toigho visited Thursday. he has fifteen years of teaching experience.
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