Hungry Run Murder Brings Foreman to Hungry Run Timber Fight
A logging dam watchman on Hungry Run is murdered. Ann Wright hires Bill Harrington, UW engineering student, to log her land. Harrington uncovers tampered boundary posts and plans a staged showdown with Levens and Hyland crews while preparing a strong crew and camp for winter operations. Lola Levens reappears, raising tension as Harrington seeks justice and control over disputed timber.
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Hungry Run
Chippewa Crossing
Ann Wright
Bill Harrington
University of Wisconsin Engineering
Harrington
Levens
Hyland
Lola Levens
Ann
Lola
Chippewa
Eddie
Levens and Hyland
Bear Lake
Cook
Eddie Pichette
Ing
Astir
Leslie
Miss Levens
William C. Harrington
Pichette
Long Rodough
Rodney
High
Bill
Rod
Charley
Hell
Charley Wright
Holdup Victim Saved by Watch During Bakery Shootout
In San Francisco two bandits entered a Guerrero Street bakery and fired at Walter Terry, the manager, who survived a heart wound thanks to a watch in his vest. Patrolman Carpenell engaged the assailants, capturing one suspect and forcing a dramatic chase, while the other fled, believed wounded.
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San Francisco
Guerrero Street
Walter Terry
Mission Mergency Hospital
James Carpenell
Carpenell
James Jackson
Terry
Jackson
Esther Land
Carpeneli
Orders Youths Spanked by Judge in Court
Woodbury New Jersey Police Recorder Frank L. Johnson sentenced three schoolboys Franklin Heiser sixteen Norman Redfield fifteen and William Elliott twelve for breaking a motion picture theater exit door lock to see a film. Each was fined five dollars and then flogged by Johnson with a borrowed strap. Mothers approved and promised to spank the boys at home.
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Woodbury
N. J
Frank L. Johnson
Franklin Heiser
Norman Redfield
William Bhlliott
Johnson
Slayer Suspect Nabbed After 29 Quiet Years in Missouri
George Presnell alias George Miller, sought since 1903 in Bakersville North Carolina for murder, was arrested at Prathersville Missouri after 29 years living as a respected resident. He allegedly killed Louis Buchanan, a farmer, in a fight over Presnell’s first wife. He left Bakersville following the stabbing and fled to Oklahoma.
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Columbia
George Presnell
Ifty-Nine
Bakersville
N. C
Prathersville
Here
George Miller
Louis Buchanan
Presnell
Okla
Lumber camp debate over bringing woman to Hungry Run site
Harrington weighs Ann's wish to reside at Hungry Run camp as lumberjacks debate the idea. The crew backs the move, joking about baths and neckties, while tensions rise over rivals Levens and Hyland who threaten to steal her timber. The mood mixes humor with warnings about unscrupulous men.
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Bill
Merry Old ‘Hingland
Levens
Hyland
Harrington
Ann
Hungry Run
Notable Local Jurist Remarries and Serves in Trials
The subject moved to Columbia after a period in Hemia, remarried in 1908, and held public roles as justice of the peace. He served as a juror in two murder cases, including one where the defendant was sentenced to hang.
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Hemia
Columbia
Moscow Street Crews Operate in Gas Masks Revealed
Street car conductors and motormen in Moscow wore gas masks for two and a half hours as part of a Moscow defense scheme by Osoaviakhim to test if normal work could continue during a poison gas attack. About four hundred workers participated without ill effects.
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Moscow
Osoaviakhim
Society For Defense
Love Duty in Divorce Court Reunites Couple
In Philadelphia a judge attorney court attendants and spectators coaxed William and Blanche Bradley to reconcile in domestic relations court. Bradley asked to drop a seven dollar weekly payment as she now works. Her attorney announced she would return to him. The judge and others urged reconciliation with song and humor. The couple left arm in arm, urged to take a second honeymoon.
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Philadelphia
William
Blanche Bradley
Bradley
Judge Glass
Two Men Die After Poison Mistake In Isolated Cabin
In Oregon and Idaho’s snowbound Juniper area two men Vernon Hight aged 45 and Raymond Lee aged 24 died after taking what they believed to be medicinal salts. Officers report they tried remedies as a crystalline poison, used by Hight in trapping, led to their deaths. Dewey Wickes, a cowboy, found the bodies after a two day trek to Star ranch in Owyhee county. A note scribbled by one man before collapse described the events.
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Jordan Valley
Ore
Renly
Vernon Hight
Raymond Lee
Idaho
Dewey Wickes
Juniper
Owyhee County
Star Ranch
Hight
Felon Drowns Attempting Rescue at Folsom Dam
In Sacramento California Thomas Seymour a fellow convict from Los Angeles slipped and fell into the Sacramento River during a prison work party at the Folsom dam. Charles Holland a 39 year old inmate from Los Angeles leaped in to save him but died. Others pulled Seymour to shore. Holland's body was recovered later.
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Sacramento
Calif
Charles Holland
Folsom
Los Angeles County
Folsom Dam
Thomas Seymour
Los Angeles
Holland
Seymour
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Allhide
A. Kingsmuth
Wakefield, Michigan
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