Taft Tour in Midwest and Northwest Outlined
President Taft traveled through Milwaukee La Crosse and Winona addressing crowds in hot weather. He spoke on postal savings banks arguing for government backed thrift and noted bank interest disparities. The report also highlights Taft’s anticipated visit to Pocatello September 26 and mentions Peary’s Arctic records and pole pursuit.
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Pocatello
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Winona
Minnesota
State Fairgrounds
Chicago
Roosevelt kills big bull elephant in Mweru district
Theodore Roosevelt hunting in the Mweru district killed a bull elephant with good tusks. Kermit Roosevelt, hunting at Guaso Nyiro, bagged five lions and three buffaloes. Theodore plans to join his son after the elephant skeleton is preserved and says the party is well and having capital fun.
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Waterless town faces threat as fire nears
Escondido, thirty miles north of San Diego, is without water after yesterday's forest fire destroyed hundreds of feet of the city's flume. The town has only a small remaining supply which was exhausted this morning, leaving Escondido at the mercy of advancing flames.
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Here
San Diego County
Hailey's Comet Seen Naked Eye After 74 Years
Chicago reports Hailey's comet visible to the naked eye for the first time in 74 years. Professor Burnham of Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva observed it Wednesday and Thursday nights and secured two photographic negatives.
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Hailey
Burnham
Yerkes Observatory
Lake Geneva
Wright sets high flight record at 765 feet
In Berlin on September 17 Orville Wright, before a court gathering including the empress, broke the record for height in flight achieving 765 feet.
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Berlin
Orville Wright
City Learns of $2000 Due Pocatello in County Funds
Alderman Carl A. Valentine announced that about $2000 from Bannock county road and bridge funds, accumulated for five or six years, should go to the city treasury. Clerk Leon F. Molinelli was instructed to demand the money from the county treasurer and place it in the city street fund for highway improvements.
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Bannock
E. G. Gallet
Pocatello
Fremont goes dry in Fremont County Idaho election
Rexburg Idaho September 17 at the local option election prohibition supporters won by an overwhelming majority. From 24 precincts heard including St Anthony and areas with heavy wet voting the tally stands 3065 for prohibition 402 for saloons. The contest drew strong interest throughout the county.
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Rexburg
Fremont Co
Ida
St. Anthony
Prohibition
Taft Town Violence Sparks White Residents’ Resolve
In Muskogee Oklahoma on September 17 a black man dynamited the store of one white resident in Taft a strictly negro town. The blast damaged the structure and the white men vow to stay as fears of further clashes rise.
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Okla
Taft
Bank Robbery Hits Neosho Falls Bank
Three robbers dynamited the safe in Neosho Falls Kansas early today and escaped with 3000 dollars. They wrecked the bank building and exchanged shots with the city marshal during their escape.
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Neosho Falls
Kas
War scare ends as Bolivia and Peru settle border dispute
Washington reports Bolivia and Peru have settled all difficulties over their boundary, ending the war scare that had unsettled the region.
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Bolivia
Peru
Turf men arrested on anti-bet laws violation
Gravesend, Sept. 17. Six members of the Metropolitan Turf Association were arrested at the race track today on a charge of violating the anti bet laws.
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Fire at Pocatello Mercantile saves four horses
Firefighters from Pocatello battles a blaze that started in a small stable adjoining the Mercantile Company building. Four horses were saved despite two being badly burned. main stock valued over 50 thousand dollars escaped major damage due to hoses and a narrow firebreak. Two stables burned, total losses estimated around 60 thousand dollars with about a thousand-dollar official loss. Cause under investigation with theories including locomotive sparks or sleeping tramps. The department credited for heroic work and preventing greater explosions.
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Pocatello Mercantile Company
Julius Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Drawing for Tracts Tomorrow Afternoon
Registration for Gray and Gray's drawing for acreage tracts north of Pocatello closes tomorrow at noon. The drawing will be held in the afternoon as interest in converting sagebrush into farms grows, with Bannock county soil products exhibit by Gray and Gray showcased as one of the city’s finest. Tom Reynolds, street overseer, arrived with vegetables from his farm two miles south, including six inch beans, a citron as big as a bed, a tub sized squash, and丰 onions potatoes and tomatoes, showing the soil’s richness after one year of farming this spring.
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Gate City
Bannock County
Tom Reynolds
Arm
Bishop Ward I Taken Ill in Kobe Mission Tour
Bishop Seth M. Ward I of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, arrived in Japan last month for missions work, lies seriously ill in Kobe with little hope for recovery, according to dispatches from Tokio dated Sept. 17.
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Episcopa Church South
Japan
Kobe
Treat Resigns as U S Treasurer in October
Washington reports United States Treasurer Charles S Treat has resigned effective in October. No successor has yet been chosen.
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Washington
United States
Charles 8. Treat
Two men change plea in larceny case amid city trials
M Castenlero and Manuel Margno pleaded guilty to grand larceny for stealing near $1000 in ladies suits from a box car bound for a Twin Falls store. John Dallas was acquitted. Edward Allen faces robbery trial as his co-defendant James Daley is in state prison. Local court adjourns anticipatedly with many cases pending.
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KE. A. Walters
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W. H. Lockhart
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Hyrum Toolson
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Wyoming
Budge
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Terrell
F. H. Marble
John A. Stewart
McCammon Investment Company
Federal Court
Milner
Walters
Building Collapses in Chicago Construction Site
A three story brick building nearing completion at North Sayer and Milwaukee Avenue collapsed in Chicago. Three workers were killed, two bodies recovered, five missing, and fifteen injured. Rescue operations continue as crews search the rubble.
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North Sayer
Milwaukee Avenue
Johnson Improves as Governor Faces Pneumonia
Rochester Minnesota September 17 Governor Johnson's condition today grew more hopeful though danger from pneumonia and complications remains. There are promises of a speedy recovery.
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Johnson
Aged Priest George McCloskey Dies in Louisville
Bishop George McCloskey of Louisville, the oldest living Catholic prelate in the United States, died today at 8 05 a m in Louisville. His passing marks the end of an era for the local church and national hierarchy.
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Louisville
George McCloskey
United States
Eagles' Convention Set for St Louis in 1910
Omaha Sept 17 The fraternal Order of Eagles voted to hold the grand aerie convention in 1910 at St Louis. The decision was announced today and ends the selection process.
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Order of Eagles
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Grand Aerie
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