Congress to Vote on Question and Spelling Standardization
Congress debates a bill to require old time spelling in prints authorized by Congress. A government statement notes exports of meat and dairy products totaling about 250 million dollars for the year, including 200 million in meat and 35 million in live cattle plus 10 million in dairy products, reflecting a sixty percent rise in the decade.
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Congress
America
Washington
House
Department of Ecommerce and Labor
Wide Utah coal land fraud indictments hit major rail firms
A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned indictments against Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line railroads, Union Pacific Coal, Utah Fuel, and Harriman and Gould officials for interstate commerce violations and coal land frauds. Defendants face $3,000 bonds. several perjury indictments await unsealing.
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Salt Lake
Harriman and
Gould Lines
Utah
Wyoming
Salt Lake City
Federal Grand Jury
United States District Court
John A. Marshall
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Union Pacific Coal Company
Utah Fuel Company
Harriman and Gould
Harriman
Union Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Everett Buckingham
Moore
D. J. Sharp
Gould
H. G. Williams
Robert Forester
W. R. Foster
Alexander M. Cowie
Sunnyside
Elroy N. Clark
Denver
George A. Moore
United States
Fred R. Mayard
Washington
House passes bill creating Olympic game preserve
The House approved a measure to establish a game preserve spanning nearly seven hundred thousand acres within the Olympic forest reserve in Washington state.
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Washington
Olympic Forest Reserve
New York Congressman Proposes 10 Percent Civil Service Pay Rise
Washington December 7 Congressman Southwyek of New York introduced a bill to raise salaries of all civil service employees by ten percent.
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Washington
Southwyek
New York
Hotel clerk tapped till in Idaho
Idaho Falls report says C M Peterson night clerk at Porter house tapped the till and fled with 186.50. He was captured in Ogden and held for Sheriff Jones of Bingham County. Earlier he embezzled 100 from a local milkman and fled to Boise but settlement halted prosecutions.
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Porter
Idaho Falls
Ogden
Tribune
Porter House
Jones
Bingham County
Peterson
Boise
Wholesale Killing by Negо Slave? Noted in Grantville Raid
A black man in Grantville Mississippi murdered four people and wounded three others before being captured. He killed a woman in a boarding house, shot Officer Koffer who was likely fatally wounded, barricaded himself inside, then killed two more Black workers and a White man. Captain Quinn and Assistant Clerk Abercrombie were wounded before the assailant was subdued. Lynching appears likely.
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Grantville
Miss
Kofler
Quinn
Abercrombie
Fire destroys Cornell Chi Psi house killing several students
The Chi Psi fraternity house at Cornell University burned early today, killing at least four and possibly seven or more. Several students are missing or fatally injured as walls collapsed during firefighting. Firemen died while battling the blaze and three others are near death. the property loss is about $200,000.
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Chi Psi
Cornell
Ithaca
Cornell University
O. L. Schmuck
Hanover
H. M. Nichols
Chicago
F. W. Grelle
Orange
N. J
C. J. Pope
McCutcheon
Heyburn Seeks Amendment to Railway Rate Law
Washington December 7. Senator Heyburn today proposed an amendment to the railway rate law to require railroads to extend the same through rates to Boise Spokane and adjacent western points as to through shipments to the coast. The measure would grant inland points equal rate as coast shipments and back to the inland point. Twin Falls Postmaster appointment news follows. Congressman French recommends W H Greenough for Twin Falls postmaster replacing W W Dunn who resigned.
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Washingon
Soret Mosburn
Boise
Spokane
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Heyburn
Twin Falls
French
Postal Department
W. H. Greenough
W. W. Dunn
Coeur d'Alene
Confesses to murder in Dayton street crime
Dayton July 7. David Curtis, a mentally limited man who sold newspapers, confessed to the prosecuting attorney that he assaulted and murdered Dora Gilman in the street on the night of November 20.
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Dayton
Dee
David Curtis
Dora Gilman
Atlas Distillery Begins Denatured Alcohol Production
The Atlas distillery in Peoria Illinois started full production of denatured alcohol today under the whiskey trust regime. Officials announced rapid scaling of output and adherence to new denaturing standards amid ongoing industry adjustments.
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Peoria
Ill
Atlas Distillery
Whiskey Trust
Heyburn bids land courts in Idaho and west states
Senator Heyburn proposes public land courts in each land state to replace current appeals from local land offices. The plan would appoint competent judges, create district land courts with juries, and allow appeals to a national appellate land court and then to the Supreme Court on certain issues. The measure aims to curb incompetent handling and ensure fair, law based decisions on land disputes.
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Washington
Heyburn
Congress
General Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Land Commissioner
Land Office
Hitchcock
Public Land
National Land Court
Ne O Iais
Prac
Interior Department
United States District Court
District Land Court
Appellant Land Court
United States
Appellate Land Court
Land Court
Supreme Court of the United States
December Term Ends With Court Adjourning
Court adjourned the December term as Judge Budge and Reporter Hamer left for home. An order set next year’s terms in Bannock, Bear Lake, and Oneida counties on specific dates. A divorce decree Norton v Norton was granted by default. A temporary injunction restraining Sheriff Harvey from selling hay under execution was made permanent in favor of Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company.
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Budge
Hamer
Thes
Bannock County
Bear Lake County
Oneida County
Norton
Mining firm starts tunnel at Pappoose claims near Fort Hall
James Bell this morning left the city with two wagon loads of mining camp supplies and four miners for the Pappoose Mining company a New Pocatello corporation in formation for development of a group of claims abutting on Fort Hall mine. A long tunnel to tap the copper gold and silver vein in the Fort Hall lower workings will be started and prosecuted through the winter.
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James Bell
Ity
Pappoose Mining Company
Pocatello Corporation
Fort Hall
Pappoose
Nell case explores marriage legality in divorce action
Mrs Prudie Nell sues her husband Joseph Nell for cruelty and seeks a divorce. The couple contest their status as legally married after a Utah ceremony within six months of Idaho divorce. Arguments for and against the validity of their marriage will be filed in written briefs to Judge Budge and a decree decision follows in chambers. Helzheimer represents Mrs Nell and Willis Reeves represents Mr Nell.
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Prudie Nell
Joseph Nell
Budge
Nell
Mr. Helzheimer
Utah
Idaho
Willis Reeves
Deseret Norton Sues for Divorce Abroad
Mrs Precinda Norton filed a suit for divorce in the circuit court through Attorney Willis Reeves. She cites abandonment and failure to provide by Hyde Norton, formerly a telegraph operator at Oxford, whom she married in 1904. Norton is said to be in Ohio.
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Circuit Court
Willis Reeves
Precinda Norton
Hyde Norton
Norton
Oxford
Ohio
Transfer of appeals to appellate land court under land office decisions
In the process for reviewing land office decisions, peals from the commissioner of the general land office shall be transferred to the appellate land court.
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Commissioner of the
General Land Office
Appellate Land Court
Frightful Death of F. W. McKeon
Frank McKeon, an aged Civil War veteran and Pocatello pioneer, was burned to death in a west side shack fire at 5 25 am. The coroner and fire department believe intoxication led to an accidental blaze. The body was taken to Manassa brothers parlors for coroner’s examination.
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Frank McKeon
Pocatello
Benton Street
McKeon
Manassa Brothers
Jake Roeske
Pocatello Water Co
Cas
Robert KE
Addie
Smith
Mr. Addie
Meleon
Boise
Short Line
Benton Street Bridge
Warrant Call For City of Pocatello
City of Pocatello advertises payment of all warrants up to No 6217 with interest to November 28 1908 at Bannock National Bank. After that date interest ceases. Dated November 28 1906 Ni T Reeves City Treasurer.
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Joker
U. S
Senator Heyburn
Badge
Lewis Hay
Pappoose Company
Nell Case
F. W. M’keon
G. A. R. Post
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