Marsh Creek land rush sparks contests at Blackfoot
A tale from Pocatello describes a stampede of prospectors flooding the Blackfoot land rush for the Marsh Creek and Belle Marsh claims. Tenderfoots lose out to wily veterans as several locate on prized tracts and others contest. Injuries and jockeying for position mark the opening day with multiple filings and disputes.
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Pocatello
Blackfoot
Myers Cohn
Ed W. Gittins
Wim. Watts
Marsh Creek
Jared Green
Political warfare and canal debate roils Idaho Democrats
Boise political gossip centers on Idaho Democrats as factions clash over 1902 candidacies. Morgan denounces the Panama route in Senate Isthmian canal debate while Spooner measures and amendments unfold. House prepares for Philippine civil government vote as tensions rise.
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Morgan
Panama
Spooner
Clark
Montana
Senate
Allison
Inter- Oceanic Canal Committee
Fairbanks
Isthmian Canal
Panama Canal
Jease James' at the Auditorium sparks civic debate
A play by the McCallum Stock Company opens as discussion rises on the Philippines bill. Cooper of Wisconsin, chair of Insular committees, launches a long speech praising the measure and its world changing impact. He argues the mission is to expand freedom and civilization in the archipelago.
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H. A. Jacobs
Mr. Jacobse
T. B. Shelly
Portneuf Siding
Signal 16
Lucky Boy
Senate
America
Jease James
The
McCallum Stock Company
Phillippines
Cooper
Wisconsin
Philippines
Mousiehy
Repblic
Great Coal Strike Voices Hope Amid Contracted Scale
Reports from Saginaw and Des Moines indicate a national miners convention halted local settlement talks for 2500 Michigan bituminous workers. Michigan may vote for a general strike while Iowa leader J P Reese opposes one. 15,000 miners remain under a one year contract with operators.
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Saginaw, Mich
Michigan
Des Moines
J. P. Reese
Lowa
United Mine Workers
Street Car Strike Sparks Stone Attacks in Pawtucket
Disorder over the street car strike flared in Pawtucket as Weedon and Prospect line cars were pelted with rocks. Two employees were injured until infantry restored order.
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Weedon
Prospect Street
Fire destroys Creede block. $200,000 loss
Fire yesterday in upper Creede Colorado wiped out a whole block causing about 200000 dollars in damage. Sixty families are left homeless. William Stewart and Fritz Zint are missing and likely dead. Several persons were injured. The blaze started in a vacant saloon and is suspected incendiary.
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Creede
Col
Upper
Wm. Stewart
Fritz Zint
Fire destroys Diamond Drill Works pattern shops in Bardsboro
A large blaze in Reading Pennsylvania today leveled the pattern shops and foundry of the Diamond Drill Works at Bardsboro. The fire caused an estimated loss of eight hundred thousand dollars. The Bannock Abstract Company offers records of ceded land portions and all land or water entry entries.
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Reading
Diamond
Bardsboro
Bannock Abstract Company
Wye building lots offered at twenty five percent off
Real estate notice announces sale of building lots in the Wye with discounts of twenty five percent from current prices. Sale available in various quantities from single lots upward. Also promotes Ballard's Honey and Hound Syrup as a cough remedy with price ninety five and a half cents at Mrs Al Cooke.
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Wye
Ballard
AL. Cooke
Paterson Mayor Takes Command as Mills Open Under Guard
Mayor Hinchcliffe directly leads police in Paterson New Jersey as ten silk mills resume with workers armed by order of the mayor. Authorities report clashes with Italian crowd in the Italian quarter and a parade disperses as police guard Turner hall. The mayor bans nonexecutive union meetings and warns arrests for incitement.
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Hinchcliffe
Win‘chesters
Turner Hall
Dyers' Helpers’ Union
Old Mont Pelee Eruption Reaches Fort de France
A column of slime about 100 meters high erupted from Mont Pelee and fell near the town, enveloping parts of Fort de France and damaging twenty two houses. No deaths reported as the furious volcano continues to terrorize the West Indies.
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West Indies
Fort de France
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Rebels report in Ciudad Bolivar amid no Orinoco blockade
Cablegram from Minister Bowen in Caracas states the Venezuelan foreign minister says revolutionists hold Ciudad Bolivar but there is no blockade of the Orinoco River. дипломатический обмен remains cautious about broader actions.
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Washington
State Department
Bowen
Caracas
Ciudad Bolivar
Orinoco
Disbursing Officer Arrested on $7000 Funds Misappropriation Charge
Henry Rechtin, disbursing officer in the Department of Justice, was arrested in Washington on charges of misappropriating seven thousand dollars of government funds. Rechtin, a Cincinnati native, confessed the shortage.
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Washington
Henry Rechtin
Department of Justice
Rechtin
Cincinnati
Wreck on South Carolina and Georgia line near Shelby
A mixed train on the SC and GA extension railroad plunged through a steel bridge into the Broad River at Shelby. One man was killed and fourteen injured as the accident occurred this afternoon.
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Shelby
N. C
South Carolina
Georgia Extension Railroad
Broad River
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Tribune
Fort Hall
General Land Office
Bannock Abstract Office
Five Mile
Tenderfoot
Temp Smith
Belle Marsh
E. Miller
Red Butte
Miller
St. Anthony
C. J. Johnson
Mr. Garrett
Portous Siding
James Stanger
Idaho
Philippine
Boise
State Committee
Joseph Hutchinson
Congress
Dewey
United States
Martin
Democratic Party
Bacon
Mitchell
Oregon
Iowa
Pawtucket, R. L
Cuuncil & White
Patterson, N. J
Old Mont Pelee
Venezuela
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