Salt Lake News Briefs Reflect Growth and disaster in 1907
Ogden school population judged smaller than a year ago amid water works plans for Springville. Utah National Guardsmen head to Wyoming maneuvers. measles cases decline. a Salt Lake boy near drowning. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad pays $22005 in incorporation fees.
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Ogden
Utah National Guardsmen
Emmett Crawford
Wyoming
William Davig
Perry
Charles Owen
Salt Lake
Saltalr
Utah Idaho Hospital
Logan
Dewesville
John Bingham
Jack Wilson
Jack Clark
Thistle Junction
Mill Creek
Salt Lake City
Harry W Peterson
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Company
Six British Columbia towns wiped out by epic forest fire
Six towns on the Cranbrook to the Kootenay area of the Canadian Pacific line are destroyed as flames sweep the Elko valley coal and lumber district. hundreds killed or missing, thousands homeless, with Feinle Michel Coal Creek Sparwood Hosmer and Crows Nest listed among victims as residents flee to open country. Railways rush trains to evacuate survivors.
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Cranbrook
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Canada
Elko Valley
Columbia
Montana
Feinle
Michel
Coal Creek
Sparwood
Hosmer
Crows Nest
Yernie
Troops Ordered to Navajo Reservation
Denver General Earl D Thomas commanding the department of Colorado has been instructed to dispatch six troops of cavalry to the Navajo reservation. The orders came from the War Department on Saturday amid fears renegade Utes may incite Navajos to rebel. Tensions rise over water holes and grazing lands as white settlers claim privileges. Troops to depart from Fort Whipple Apache and Wingate.
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Denver
Earl D Thomas
Department of the Colorado
War Department
Indiana
Whipple
Apache
Wingate
Cloudburst in Canyon Claims Two Lives in Nevada
A Verdi Nevada cloudburst Sunday afternoon swept through the canyon damaging cabins stock and logs. Miss Ita Tixley 24 daughter of John Tixley foreman at Verdi Mill & Lumber was washed away on the timber office porch and presumed dead Luke Smith an oldtimer also reported dead though unconfirmed. In Spanish Canyon near Steamboat Springs others were trapped but escaped or saved.
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Reno
Nev
Verdi
Ita Tixley
John Tixley
Verdi Mill & Lumber Company
Miss Tixley
Luke Smith
Lfe
Spanish Canyon
Steambort Springs
Gelderland Offloads at Willemstad as Venezuela Prepares
Dutch cruiser Gelderland arrived from La Guia Venezuela. Its commander says a shore landing was refused contact with the shore. Officials declined to accept letters and official messages to the German minister. Caracas reports Venezuela mobilizing for defense. Widespread belief Holland will act promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willemstad
Gelderland
la Guia
Venezuela
la Guira
Bigs
Roosevelt Overrules West Point Dismissals
President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Wright decide eight West Point cadets dismissed for offenses will be reinstated and punished by academy disciplinary methods. Wright says both leaders agree dismissal was too severe and the cadets confessed to their offenses in full.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Wright
United States Military Academy
West Point
Murder at Morrell Farm Sparks Inquest in Aurora
Wealthy farmer Will J A Morrell of Blackberries Center near Aurora was fatally shot by John Anderson, his farm worker. Anderson then killed himself with a shotgun. He had a history of heavy drinking and was reportedly demented. Anderson had been closely attached to Morrell as a trusted helper.
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Aurora
Will J A Morell
Blackberrs Center
John Anderson
Child Abducted From Chicago Home Is Given Her Freedom
Veronica Cassidy the 12 year old girl who vanished July 30 was found and returned to Chicago from Cincinnati. She said I J Blair placed her on a train and kept her in a rooming house in Ohio until Saturday morning before sending her home.
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Chicago
Veronica Cassidy
Cincinnati
I* J Blair
Blair
Ohio City
Desert Tragedy Near Yuma Claims Two Miners
Yuma Arizona reports the death of F D Spaulding a 46 year old automobile manufacturer from San Francisco after he and Mc Caurey started toward mines near Gila Bend against advice. Caurey was overcome by heat and found unconscious beside their machine. Spaulding died five hours later at Blaisdell. McCaurey revived and survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yuma, Ariz
Spaulding
San Francisco
Me Caurey
Gila
Mc Caurey
Yuma
Etlo McCauley
Blaishell
Acquittal in Douglas County Land Conspiracy Trial
In Portland Oregon a federal jury acquitted RN A Vooth of Eugene and his brother James K Rooth ex- receiver of the land office at Roseburg and Thomas J Singleton on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of 160 acres of public land in Douglas county. The jury deliberated nineteen hours. Many related complaints will be dismissed due to the lack of a conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Ore
RN A Vooth
Eugene
James K Rooth
Roseburg
Thomas J Singleton
United States District Court
Douglas County
Jealous Lover Shoots Rival and Sweetheart at Waterloo Bridge
In La Crosse Wisconsin John Newburg 24 a farmer shot Ara Bell Miller 18 and Wil Heide 24 after jealousy over a country dance. Miss Miller sustained a wrist cheek and abdominal wound while Helder fought Newburg and was wounded in the wrist before fleeing with the injured sweetheart.
Successful Aeroplane Exhibition in New York
Henry Parmin from Paris performed his first U S flight under an American syndicate at the Brighton Beach race track Sunday. The display proved his ability to fly under favorable air, drawing about two thousand enthusiasts as Farman traveled nearly a third of a mile in about thirty seconds without rushing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Parmin
Paris
Mrrighton Teach
Farman
Prophesies Prosperity by Henry C Adams for the decade
Professor Henry C Adams, long in charge of statistics and accounts for the Interstate Commerce Commission, predicts superior prosperity for the United States over the next ten years. His close study of industrial and financial conditions and his ties to railroad operations inform a confident forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Henry C Adams
Interstate Commerce Commission
Adams
Train wreck near Topeka kills engineer saving passengers
Santa Fe passenger train No 3 the California Limited derailed twelve miles west of Topeka after an open switch. Engineer Henry Rossiter died after staying in the cab to apply airbrakes. several passengers hurt as engine and cars left the rails and tore up two hundred feet of track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Santa Fo
California Limited
Wakarusa
Here
Henry Rossiter
Rossiter
Gompers denies labor vote pledge
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, denounces a report that he would or would not deliver the labor vote to any political party as an infamous lie. He says organized labor will support the party best representing its interests and argues enemies may injure him personally but cannot sway his battle for AFL principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Gompers
Heat Wave Edges Into Night With Rising Death Toll
Chicago reports eleven heat related deaths and over sixty prostrations after five days of extreme heat. Four more deaths were added on Thursday as several victims remain critical. The forecast relief delayed beyond midnight and a maximum temperature reached 9 degrees.
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Chicago
Lion on Stage At Paris Exhibition Incites Panic
A lion escaped at the electrical exhibition in Paris and entered a theater rehearsal. Three women bravely retrieved slippers to strike the beast into submission until the lion tamer arrived, after which the animal greeted him with apparent joy.
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Paris
France
Marpeilles
WIL Give Lumber Trust a Run for Their Money
Missouri Texas and Oklahoma attorneys general file ouster quo warranto and injunction suits in Shawnee county court against the Yellow Pine association of St Louis. The action seeks to break up an alleged illegal lumber combine driving prices to an unreasonable, fictitious level.
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Topeka, Kane
Jackson
District Court of
Shawnee County
Yellow Pine Association of
St Louis
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma
Aiso
Candidate Villa Attacks Spaniards in Manila Speech
The Spanish consul in Manila reports to Governor General Smith that Simon Villa, a municipal board candidate, denounced Spaniards and friars and said he would favor killing all Spaniards if another insurrection occurred. The governor general is reviewing the matter as Villa persists with intemperate speeches.
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Manila
Smith
Simon Villa
Villa
Trouble in Honduras Caused by Americans
A diplomatic dispute erupts after President Davila cancels the exequitus of foreign consuls in Ceili Honduras. American consul Drew Linard and Vice Consul Reynolds, with French and Norwegian colleagues, deny breaching propriety and say they simply relayed the revolutionary demand to the local commandant. The United States protests neutrality concerns amid Honduras' revolution and aims to avoid entanglement in Central American affairs.
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Washington
United States
Honduras
Davila
Ceili
Amercan Cous
Drew Linard
Reynolds
France
Norway
State Department
Central America
Three Towns Flooded After Cloudburst In Colorado
A cloudburst in the Oak and Coal Creek headwaters sent a torrent through three Colorado towns. Bridges washed out and damage tops $100000. An elderly woman, Miss Burns, was rescued in serious exposure, with no fatalities reported. livestock drowned and hundreds of homes flooded in Rockside and Williamsburg. Florence suffered Coal Creek flooding and over 100 homes inundated.
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Tiorence
Colo
Miss Burns
Rock Site
Williamsburrg
Florence
Coal Creek
Hope for Lamphere in Gunness murders case
Dr Walter Haines of Rush Medical College found strychnine and arsenic in the stomachs of Mrs Belle Gunness and two children, in quantities sufficient to cause death. Attorney Worden argues the findings show Lamphere could not have been involved in the deaths of Mrs Gunness, her woman, and the Heleigen child.
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Li Porte Ind
Mack
Walter Haines
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Andrew Helgelén
Aberdeen
Belle Guinness
Gunness
Worden
Lamphere
Conference on Panama discussed by Wright and Bishop at Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay news records a Friday night session at Sagamore Hill where Secretary of War Wright and Isthmian Canal Commission head Joseph Bishop joined President Roosevelt to review conditions in the American canal zone and the canal relations with Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
American Canal Zone
Panama
Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
Sagamore Hil
Wright
Isthmian Canal Commission
Joseph Bishop
Bishop
Shah Postpones Election Amid Teheran Turmoil
London Times reports from Teheran that revival of the Turkish constitution unsettles reactionaries and boosts nationalists. The Shah and entourage fear appearing to imitate the Sultan and decide to delay the election.
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London
Times
Teheran
Auto Run Down by Train in Philadelphia
Charles Jumphreys chief clerk in the bureau of police and Harry E. Bromley upholsterers materials dealer were fatally struck by an inbound express train while driving a touring car across Reading railway tracks at Slanting Park avenue in the northern city. Portions of their bodies were scattered along the tracks for about 100 yards with pockets containing identifying clues.
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Philadelphia
Reading
Park Avenue
Charles Jumphreys
Bureau of Police
Harry E. Bromley
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Utah
Utah State News
Springville
Manufacturers & Merchant's Association of
Good Roads
Francisco Ciddeo
British Columbia
Kamloops
Bcgc
Matt Soban
Bingham
Joe Maurovich
George N Sanders
Salt Lake & Ogden
Lagoon
Bedhs Hot Springs
Alton Brooks Parker
Iellowstone Park
Vme
Western Picifie
Feckwith Pass
Sierras
Presedit
I. O. Austin
Salt Palace
United States Land Office
Crow’s Nest
Trict of
Havasu
Castro
Lumber Trust
Colorado
Sagamore Hill
Shah
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