Three Robbers Rob Eagle Club Seizes About $1000
A bold armed robbery at the Eagle Club saloon in Pocatello occurred at 10 40 PM yesterday as three men without masks seized about $900 to $1000 from dealers and game tables. Police pursued toward Onyx and McCammon, with a posse and telegraph reports guiding officers toward Onyx.
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Eagle Club
Griffith
McCammon
Onyx
Reas
McCammona
Bris Hicks
Dick Jones
Chat Room
McCammee
Noop
A Good Indian. Sieus Faille Dec 5
A garbled OCR note reports George Bess and one named Indien with a hanging event noted for the morning. The fragmentary text lacks clear context, dates, or locations to establish a full story.
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Sieus Faille
George Bess
Indien
Wes
Blizzard Conditions Halt Traffic Across Much of New York
A Blizzardia Trust report notes prevailing blizzard conditions across the greater part of New York state severely impeding traffic. Local nor’easters disrupt travel, forcing road closures and emergency responses as crews clear snow and restore routes. Transportation agencies urge caution and delay nonessential travel.
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State of
New York
Publicity Measure Re Trust Legislation Reported
Washington reports the House Judiciary subcommittee approved the Publicity bill and referred it to a special panel. The measure requires interstate corporations to file annual returns with the Interstate Commerce Commission detailing capital, earnings, assets, and staff wages, plus a 1 percent tax on outstanding capital stock.
Freezing Weather Reported in Arkansas and Texas
Memphis dispatch notes freezing temperatures prevailing across Arkansas and Texas as weather conditions continue to threaten crops and travel.
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Memphis, Tenn
Arkansas
Texas
Severe wind and snow storm hits Washington
A severe wind and snow storm struck Washington last night with ongoing snowfall continuing this morning.
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Washington
Reed Improves As Health Bulletin Is Issued
Washington December 5 The condition of former Speaker Thomas B Reed is considerably improved this morning physicians say The alarming symptoms last night have abated and there is no appreciable change in temperature pulse or respiration according to the bulletin
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Washington
Thomas B. Reed
Towed Into Port By Storm Sailor Schooner Polaris
The schooner Polaris, sailing from Everett for San Pedro on November 6, was towed into Port Townsend this morning with eleven feet of water in her hold. She shed part of a deckload after a gale forty miles outside Cape Flattery on December 3.
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Port Townsend
Deco
Everett
San Pedro
Cape Flattery
Carrie Nation Guilty of Disturbing the Peace
Carrie Nation was found guilty in Topeka Kansas on a charge of disturbing the peace after being forcibly ejected from several drug stores and a prominent hotel in the city.
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Topeka
Kan
Carrie Nation
Gets His First Rest
Charles B. Sortes, a Pacific coast newspaper man from Seattle to San Diego, is dead at San Bernardino from consumption.
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Los Angeles
Charles B. Sortes
Pacific Coast
Seattle
San Diego
San Bernardino
Miner Strike Sparks Coal Scale Demand in Colambes
Colambes Ohio December 5 1908 It is reported the miner author will demand an increase of 90 cents per ton in the coal mining scale.
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Colambes, O
Havana Treaty Turn Sparks U S Diplomatic Anxiety
Washington observers are surprised by an unexpected shift in Havana as the Catan treaty moves to the Havana house of representatives. A nationalist majority hostile to closer U S ties raises fear the treaty may be rejected.
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Havana
Sqsires
House of Representatives
United States
Quarles Offers Bill to Repeal Desert Land and Timber Laws
Senator Quarles of Wisconsin introduces a bill to repeal the desert land act and the placer mining entry laws, and to modify the homestead law to allow commutation of homestead entries. He says the aim is to preserve public lands for actual settlement and to curb abuses of the laws.
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Quarles
Wisconsin
President to Name Barrett as Minister to Tokyo
Washington December 5, The President will consider the vacancy caused by Minister Buck's death in Tokyo and is understood to name John Barrett of Oregon, then commissioner general of the St Louis Exposition in Asia and Australia, as minister.
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Washington
Buck
Tokio
John Barrett
Oregon
Asia
Australia
Pension appropriation set at 139.648 million dollars
The House Committee on Appropriations approved the pension appropriation totaling 139,647,600 dollars. This amount is 5,370 dollars more than the current year's pension budget.
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Washington
House Committee On Appropriations
A. H. Anderson Named United States Judge
Washington reports the President will appoint A H Anderson of Crawfordsville Indiana as United States Judge to succeed the resigned Jchea Saker. The announcement confirms a new federal judiciary appointment and states the candidate’s home city and role.
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Washington
A. H. Anderson
Crawfordsville
Ind
United States
Jchea Saker
What Alaska Wants
Washington report outlines Governor Beady's appeal and recommendations for Alaska. He urges overhaul of public land policy and related reforms to aid development and governance in the territory.
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Washington
Beady
Alaska
Alaska aboard plans and acts for St Louis exposition
Proposals outline an Alaska exhibit at the St Louis exposition with an appropriation and liquor license amendments. A five year term for a delegate to Washington, commissions for fishermen and mines, a native condition study, transportation encouragement, and Alaska made a lighthouse district with a tender.
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St. Louis
Railway unions to pursue wage talks orderly says grand master
Grand Master Morricey of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen says Chicago reports that 170000 men are forming a wage surge are not authoritative. Conductors and trainmen plan regular orderly action to address wage requests from western railways.
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Morricey
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainsmen
Chicago
Roosevelt designates Alabama referees for office
The Age-Herald Days notes President Roosevelt has named Joseph O. Thorne C. H. Scott and W. F. Aldrich as referees in Alabama to make recommendations for appointments. The referees proceed to the Lilly White movement.
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Birmingham
Ale
Age-Herald
Roceevelt
Joseph O. Thorreon
C. H. Scott
W. F. Aldrich
Alabama
Lilly White
Spanish Gunboats Found Near Mindanao Wrecks
Captain Pershing located remains of small gunboats in Lake Lanao on Mindanao after a return from Iligan. Mediation suggests an effort to raise the vessels. Constabulary Inspector Hendrix, reported killed in Samar, is alive but badly wounded after November 25 fighting with ladrones and a week in the jungle.
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Manila
Pershing
Lake
Lanao
Mindanaoo
Iligan
Vickers
Moros
Constabulary
Hendrix
Samar
Ladrones
Fireman Killed as Wall Collapses at Factory Fire
In Cleveland at 4 AM during the Likely and Rockett factory blaze, a wall section fell trapping engine company No 14 crew. Patrick H Joyce died instantly and six others were seriously injured in the debris.
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Cleveland, O
Likely & Rockett
Engine Company No. 14
Patrick H. Joyce
Fire destroys Grand Opera House in Stillwater
A morning blaze at 8 o'clock gutted the Grand Opera House in Stillwater Minnesota. The fire started under the stage and caused about 175000 dollars in damages. The opera house block, owned by a local syndicate, was totally destroyed.
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Stillwater
Minn
Grand Opera House
Ohio Valley Stove Makers Increase Prices Five Percent
Calumbes Ohio December 5 The Ohio Valley Stove Manufacturing Association has decided to raise stove prices by five percent.
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Calumbes
Ohio Valley Stove Manufacturing Association
Mutineers Abandon Ship After Shooting Captain
The British ship Leicester Castle from San Francisco arrived at Queenstown reporting a mutiny on Sept 20 by three American seamen. Captain Peattie and the second officer were shot, the second fatally, and the mutineers fled in a raft before the vessel reached port.
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Leicester Castle
Queenstown
San Francisco
Peattie
Thawing Dynamite Blast Injures Salubria Man
Antone Merck narrowly escaped death last Tuesday when dynamite he bought to blast a spring into a rock basin exploded near a stove. He was cast against a table, suffered a head cut and possible ear damage, while the blast wrecked the stove and part of the house. Merck estimates losses above 40.
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Salubria
Antone Merck
Thorn Creek
Merck
Morrison in Boise for political talks and power moves
Governor elect John T. Morrison arrived in Boise to survey political conditions. His Idanha headquarters faced many applicants, who claim Morrison offered encouragement, though friends deny any such promises. Clemin and Perrin's race for warden energy hints of regional influence on appointments.
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John T. Morrison
Cadwell
Idanba
Morrison
Martle
Clemin
Wallace
the Penitentury
Perrin
Mark Patrie
Immigration
Ada Ccanty
D. T. Miller
Frst
Academy News Notes Record New Student and Moves
Frank P. Stewart of Blackfoot started this week at the academy studying stenography Evglien and type writing. Rev Van Engelen gave an engaging talk before Thanksgiving. Florence Lee ends her studio to move to Headleie this month. J D McGee of Moore Idaho visited Thursday. McGee is a teacher with many years in the trade.
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Frank P. Stewart
Blackfoot
Mies Florence Lee
Headleie
Mies Lee
J. D. McGee
Moore, Idaho
Academy
Thareday
MeeGee
Himeslf
Steven
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