Indians Fight Flooding as Fort Hall Reservation Faces Reservoir Threat
Major Frank Caldwell, agency superintendent, orders engineers off the Fort Hall reservation while seeking permission from Washington to halt a proposed 60 000 acre storage reservoir above American Falls. The plan would flood rich grazing land and threaten the Indians cattle business. Kuhn Buhl syndicate promoters have raised about 20 million dollars for Bruneau and American Falls projects.
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Fort Hall Reservation
American Falls
Portnent
Bannock
Frank Caldwell
Engineering Corps
Washington
Caldwell
Interior Department
Fort Hall
Owyhee County
Kuhn-Buhl Syndicate
Twin Falls North
Bruneau
Elmhurst Mayoral Election Sees Blacksmith Versus Banker
Elmhurst voters decide tomorrow whether a blacksmith or a banker will be the first mayor as Elmhurst moves from village to city. Schumacher heads the Progressives backing city government while F H Gotterman leads the Stand patters opposing the change. The new administration will resolve ward divisions water plant purchase and annexation of subdivisions.
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Elmhurst
H. ©. Schumacher
F. H. Gotterman
National Association of Retail Grocers Meet Opens in Springfield
Several hundred delegates have arrived in Springfield for the thirteenth annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers. The four day sessions will address pure food law enforcement parcels post and trading stamp legislation. Oklahoma City is bidding for the next convention.
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Springfield
Ill
National Association of Retail Grocers
Oklahoma City
Enumeration Day to Boost Pocatello Census Count
May 14, designated Enumeration Day in Pocatello, Mayor Church to issue proclamation urging all residents to participate. Laborers and business owners asked to pause work to ensure every person is counted. organizers hope to reach ten thousand residents, with Corliss coordinating extra checkers and three enumerators. Automobile owners are urged to donate cars to transport counts.
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Pocatello
Church
Gate City
Burt B. Corliss
Commercial Club
Corliss
Engineer Johnson Struck by Train at Chalk
Freight Engineer W. E. Johnson of this city was struck on the head by the pilot bar of a passenger engine as a fast train passed Chalk yesterday afternoon. He was unconscious, then sent to the L D S hospital in Salt Lake for treatment and is not seriously hurt.
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W. E. Johnson
Chalk
Johnson
Salt Lake
Kentucky Derby Looms at Churchill Downs Tomorrow
Louisville reports the thirty sixth Kentucky Derby will be run tomorrow afternoon at Churchill Downs with a purse of $6000 for the winner. The event is billed as the greatest racing showcase on the western turf.
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Louisville
Churchill Downs
George Crowned King of England
London May 9 George V was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas. Heralds in scarlet read the proclamation at St James Palace as crowds watched the ceremony amid rain and funeral pageantry. Buckingham Palace later announced the queen mother was well and bearing up bravely.
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St. James Palace
Edward
Ireland
India
London
George V
Great Britain
St. James’ Palace
Victoria
John D. P. French
Marlborough House
Duke of Cornwall
Mary
Duke of Norfolk
Eng
Sir Alfred Scott-Chatty
Garter
Duke
Sir Alfred
Coldstream Guards
King
Marlborove House
Buckingham Palace
Terrific Explosion at Canadian Powder Factory
An explosion Sunday night near Ottawa destroyed the General Explosives plant across the Ottawa River in Hull. Ten dead and at least fifty injured as a crowd watching a nearby baseball game faced flying debris and shattered windows in Hull and Ottawa.
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Ottawa
General Explosives Company
Ottawa River
Hull
Parliament Building
Rideau Hall
Earl Grey
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Ovly
Just Out of Jail Benson Drops Dead in Auto Crash
John A. Benson a Contra Costa county millionaire and former land fraud defendant died less than a day after his Alameda jail discharge. He had served a year for land fraud and was linked to the Perrin case and the larger Benson-Diamond land fraud trials in Washington.
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San Francisco
Alameda
John A. Benson
Contra Costa County
San Ramon
Benson
Edward B. Perrin
Arizona
Tehama County
Binger Hermann
Hyde- Benson - Diamond
Washington
Miners Disorderso at Westville Sparks Guards Around Mine
In Danville on May 9 the Westville mining situation grew tense after three shots were fired at a sentry at Busen No 2 mine. A sentinel was unharmed but stones were thrown at him. Guards surround the powder magazine and the manager Alva Hurlburt's home amid threats to blow up the mine facilities.
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Danville
Westville
Busensen
Alva Hurlburt
Busen
Refrigeration Association Opens First Annual Meeting
The American Association of Refrigeration began its first annual meeting at the Hotel Astor in New York on May 9. Delegates will discuss proposed national cold storage legislation and planning for representation at the International Congress of Refrigeration in Vienna next fall.
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New York
American Association of Refrigeration
Hotel Astor
International Congress of Refrigera
Vienna
Indians Arrest Warrants For Alleged Boy Murder
Sheriff George B. Grimm in Pocatello holds warrants for five Indians alleged to have killed 16 year old Robert Treanway whose discovery of a horse theft led to the shooting. Fort Hall Indian police aid, with hourly arrests expected in the case near Nevada.
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Banocks
George B. Grimm
Kiko County
Nevada
Pocatello
Robert Treamway
Treanway
Fort Hall
Grimm
Novelist Varie Celebrates Fiftieth Birthday in London
In a modest Thames Embankment residence James M Varie, the noted novelist and playwright who separated from his wife, received birthday congratulations from inmate friends. Letters and telegrams from far and near reflect public admiration for his charitable dealing with his divorced wife.
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London
Thames Embankment
James M. Varrie
Flathead Lands Rush Draws Land Seekers to Missoula
Missoula Montana May 9 hundreds of land seekers pour into the city to file on Flathead lands and claim choice parcels. Names are called four every half hour today and tomorrow then four every fifteen minutes until a list of three thousand is exhausted.
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Missoula
Mont
Misoula
Commercial Club to Meet Tonight in Pocatello
Pocatello Commercial club plans a special meeting to decide whether to urge Senators Heyburn and Borah and Congressman Hamer to back an amendment to the interstate commerce bill. The amendment would prohibit higher freight rates for shorter hauls. President J T Young issued the call after returning from Salt Lake City where he discussed the issue with local officials.
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Heyburn and Borah
Hamer
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pocatello Commercial Club
J. T. Young
Salt Lake
Corliss
Young
Two Horse Thieves Caught at McCammon
Cassia county men John and George Kidd were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Sim Sterrett and Sheriff Grimm of Nevada with Cassia Sheriff Don Loveland in McCammon after trailing their wives from Oakley. One prisoner reportedly served eight years in Idaho pen for a similar offense.
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John
George Kidd
Cassia County
McCammon
Sim Sterrett
Grimm
Elko County
Nevada
Don Loveland
Kidd Brothers
Oakley
Pocatello
Sterett
Lovel
Idaho
May Wheat Closes At Record Chicago Market Level
Chicago May wheat finished at 1,147 percent, signaling a dramatic rally in prices as traders weighed supply and demand dynamics. The unusual figure suggests a notable market spike and strong activity for the period.
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Chicago
Trapp Lifts A Scalp In Gate City Baseball Thriller
Gate City Indians defeat DeKay's Beet Diggers 18 to 11 at Grove City in a high voltage game. Otto Barthold pitched five and a half innings, allowing seven hits, while fans traveled on a special train. four errors doomed the Beet Diggers in the sixth as Blackfoot scored four. Brezee and Barthold led with heavy hits including a Barthold home run and Bistline's spectacular double. Next up, Trapp takes Indians to Twin Falls for three games.
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Pocatello
Blackfoot
Gate City
Indians
DeKay
Owens
Jolly Jack Burns
Grove City
Billy Trapp
Band Boys
Fair Grounds
Colorado
Dillon
Moore
Leon Molinelli
Brezee
Claud Bistline
Barthold
Fox
Dorseh
Tuttle
Bistline
Kestner
Fred Murphy
Vucatello
Tilly Fortier
al Brezee
Bus al
Hu Fortier
Billy
Claud Bustline
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Major Caldwell
Pittsburg
Blacksmith
L. R. Gravis
Alaska
Mayor Church
George
King OF
England
Canada
Babie
Flathead
Eddie Plank
Philadelphia
M’cammon
Cassia
Trapp
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