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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
6
Last night at the Academy Auditorium a refined musicale was presented under the baton of Professor Muehlen. The program showcased refined performances by the academy artists and drew an attentive audience.
Today’s program lists events for Commencement Week at the Academy of Idaho. At 2:30 this afternoon certificate students’ class day exercises take place in the Academy Auditorium. Tonight at 8:30 the Senior Class play is on at the Auditorium Theatre.
The Academy of Idaho music department conducted by Professor C B Muehlen presented a full evening of performances. The program featured orchestral pieces, choirs and numerous piano and vocal solos, with strong student execution and enthusiastic audience response. Notable pieces included Freischuetz, Kathleen Mavourneen, Valse Arabesque, Zampa, and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 2. Performers included Miss Furey Milner Sheldon and Gwendolynne Furey among others.
Twenty workers were inside the Nova Scotia Furnishing company plant when a roof section collapsed during a blaze in Halifax. One man died and seven were injured as flames spread before crews contained the fire. Loss was about six thousand dollars.
The Shawmut automobile arrived in Topeka three quarters of an hour before Ford No 2 after spending hours stuck in mud between Topeka and Lawrence. Ford No 2 followed at noon. The Acme car has not been heard from.
The era landmark Wilbur Wright aviation feat near Paris and a scheduled event at the Orpheum theatre tonight with Friday night showings promising entertainment and spectacle.
The board reports Engine 1001 derailed on a five degree curve near Kemmerer Wyoming on May 26 1909 due to a low inner curve joint inside rail wear and uneven track. It notes heavy coal on top of the tank raising center of gravity and almost a full water tank, with a three quarter inch side bearing clearance.
Walter Taylor a dining car cook was arrested yesterday for stealing a revolver and faced a hearing this morning before A Moyes. Gus Parker a commissary department employee was jailed after the hearing. A carpenter from Perkins hotel celebrated his birthday by drinking and sleeping on the office floor. Charles Wilson pleaded guilty to unlicensed peddling and was fined 5 or 342 days on the chain gang. Wilson tried to sell a watch believed stolen.
In Anaconda Montana on June 9 the Montana Idaho & Pacific railroad filed articles of incorporation. Directors include J H Richards C BE Chrisman of Boise Idaho and James Gilson of Portland Oregon. The firm plans a 16 million dollar railroad from Lapwai Junction up the Clearwater to Lolo Pass Missoula Powell Granite Deer Lodge counties to Butte and is viewed as Harriman line competition to northern transcontinental routes.
Seattle police report a week of arrests and complaints against fake employment agents. Thirty residents paid 1 to 3 dollars for jobs never given, with ads drawing newcomers to Seattle. Some claimed to place workers at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Captain Tennat vows vigorous prosecutions to cleanse the city.
Miss Caroline Minturn Hall daughter of Mrs David Prescott Hall of Boston and granddaughter of Mrs Julia Ward Howe married Rev Hugh Birckhead at St George's church Stuyvesant Square where he serves as rector. The ceremony was conducted by Bishop Greer with assistance from Rev William Mercer Grosvenor in a society social highlight.
Seattle June 9 Fifty athletes from six northwest colleges will compete June 12 at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific stadium. Washington Oregon Idaho Washington State Whitman and Oregon Agricultural enter six to fifteen men each. The meet features top sprinters: Nelson, Huston, and Martin among others in the 100 yards and hurdles. Widespread expectation says Seattle will witness fast times and several records, with Burwell Bantz a leading discus hopeful.
Delegates from across the United States and Canada gather for the thirty-sixth annual session in Buffalo with philanthropy reformers prison and asylum leaders attending. The seven day meeting covers topics from tuberculosis control to social betterment and immigrant questions while tracing the organization’s 1874 origins and growth to about two thousand members.
Philadelphia June 9 Stan Ketchel and Jack O’Brien weighed in at noon for their six round bout each near 160 pounds. The crowd for the ringside is expected to be large. Ketchel promises a different strategy after their New York fight two months ago while O’Brien, famed for clever defense, aims to outpoint Ketchel.
A dispatch reports the locks of the big Canadian ship canal wrecked while the steamer Assinaboia and a Gilchrist line freighter passed through. The Perry G. Walker sank and the Empire City and Assinboia were badly damaged making it the canal’s worst wreck.
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