Utah News Roundup Highlights Local Disasters and Deaths
Moroni lad Ike Nelson fractured jaw after a fall. Sam Briley, former Salt Lake City saloon owner, died by morphine overdose on the 30th. Toquerville region reports drought hurting farmers and stockmen. 42 CM I plans to distribute 100 tons of coal as Christmas charity in Salt Lake City. Cedar City forms a new bank in Tron county with 15000 dollars capital largely subscribed. Abiel Leonard, bishop of the Opia copal diocese, dies at St Marks Hospital. Huntsville resident James Slater injured after hay baler accident. Fireman Hi J Griffin killed. engineer Bogart hurt in Montello rail collision. Ogden residents move to New Path. Ogden ward council race ends with Emmett defeating Priver. Holy Cross hospital aims for top operating room between Chicago and San Francisco. Moss Kifford of Salt Lake City found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in murder case.
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Hi J Griffin
Bogart
Montello
New Path
Ogden
President’s Message Praises Reforms and Panama Treaty
Roosevelt outlines domestic reforms, anti trust enforcement, and currency issues. He lauds the department of commerce and postal prosecutions while detailing Alaskan boundary settlement and Venezuela arbitration. The message also covers Philippines policy, rural free delivery, and the Panama canal treaty framework with terms and compensation.
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Post Office Department
Alaslan Loundary
Far Northwest
Iecalla
Territory of
Alaska
Congress
Congresag
Mondell Plans Frequent Reclamation Conferences in Congress
Representative Mondell, new chair of the irrigation committee, aims to invite Reclamation Service officers under the new irrigation law to hold regular conferences with members. The goal is to gain practical knowledge of arid land reclamation and maintain close contact with government projects.
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Mondell
House Committee On Irrigation
Additon
Reclamation Service
Congress
Minneapolis crank Peter Filiott escapes asylum in St Peter
A special reports that Peter Filiott, a Minneapolis crank arrested in Washington while trying to force his way into the president’s presence, has escaped from the insane asylum at St Peter Minnesota.
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Peter Filiott
Minneapolis
Washington
St Peter Minn
Roosevelt declines to intervene in Telluride strike
President Roosevelt on Monday refused to intervene in the Telluride Colorado miners strike noting he has no power or right to act at present. Senatorseller and Patterson of Colorado had urged federal action to ease the dispute between miners and state authorities.
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Roosevelt
Telluride
Colorado
Western Federation of Miners
Senatorseller and Patterson
Public lands reform proposed for Philippine Islands
The president asks Congress to approve regulations for lease sales and disposition of public lands in the Philippines including homesteading selling and leasing terms to perfect titles and patents for native settlers plus town site development and court review of concessions and grants. A separate incident reports Lady trainer Mauled by four lions in Dessau and a telegraph operator in Thacher WV shoots an intruder after he assaults her.
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Congress
Philippine Islands
Islands
Philippine Court of Land Registration
Thacher
W Va
Norfolkh & Western Raioad
Kate Royburgh
William Howardson
Howardson
Miss Royburgh
Colorado Governor Declares Martial Law in Cripple Creek
Governor Peabody proclaims Cripple Creek under martial law and suspends habeas corpus as he cites insurrection and lawlessness after the Vindicator mine blast. Idaho precedent cited. military to arrest strikers and other alleged offenders as the alteration of the jail to hold hundreds is planned.
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Peabody
Colorado
Cripple Creek
State House
Idaho Supreme Rout
Idaho
Coeur d
Army Strength and Expenditures Reported by War Secretary
Secretary of War Root states that as of December 1 1902 the regular U S army had 3686 officers and 66003 enlisted, totaling 69589, with hospital corps and colonial units included. By October 15 1903 actual strength was 2682 officers and 65500 enlisted, with large forces in the Philippines. Expenditures for the year ended June 30 totaled 108,577,762. appropriations for 1904 stand at 121,917,345, and an estimated 1905 total of 125,929,393.
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Philippine Scouts
Porto Tuco
Regular Army
Philippines
Peabody and Mitchell Confer on Mine Strike
The fiftieth eighth congress opened after an extra session with limited business. Governor Peabody and United Mine Workers leader Mitchell held a three quarter hour conference to discuss the strike but offered no settlement while agreeing to avoid violence and to deploy troops if provoked.
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Fifty Eighth Congress
Senate
Congress
Joh Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Peabods
Hastings Italian quarter clash ends with cleaver attack
Eleven women wives of striking coal miners aided by Marshal Milt Hightower and George Waybright tore down shanties at Victor Fuel properties. Marie Vanelli struck Hightower with a butcher knife, nearly severing an ear, as others beat Walbright. The women were arrested and sent to Trinidad for trial. In separate notes the treasury secretary seeks funds for Salt Lake public building and requests 50 000 for Ogden Building plus 256 000 each for Laramie and Evanston. Yellowstone park improvements cited at 250 000.
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Marshal Milt Hightower
George Waybright
Victor Fuel Company
Hastings
Cola
Marie Vanelli
Hightower
Walbright
Trinidad
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Salt Lake
Ogden
Laramie
Evanston
Yellowstone Park
Censorship Placed on Victor Daily Record Editorials
Major Naylor visited Victor Colorado editor Kyner at the Victor Daily Record to enforce censorship. He barred publication of leading editorial remarks on the situation and forbade printing the miners' executive committee official statement.
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Victor
Colo
Miner Mauled by Stranger Dog at Stable Door
John Culp a Shamo kin Fa miner opened his stable to feed his horse when a strange tramp dog leaped from the manger and clung to his shoulders. The dog savagely turned on him tearing his nose and biting his neck. After a hard struggle Culp shook off the animal and it fled. He is in serious condition with unknown if the dog was mad.
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John Culp
Shamokin Fa
Paris man shoots at private dance wounding rival and killing fiancé
Frank Dawson of Paris Missouri shot at a private Madison dance after a failed engagement with Miss Annie Hart man. He fatally wounded his sweetheart and seriously wounded rival Obe Flughes. Dawson’s prominent family is noted.
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Annie Hartman
Frank Dawson
Paris
Obe Flughes
Madison
Dawson
Dawsons
Shaw’s Daughter A Writer. Peetess to Be Presented to Society
Miss Shaw daughter of the secretary of the treasury will be presented to Washington Society at a large reception soon. The young woman will join the social circle in the capital.
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Peetess
Washington
Miss and Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Reception at Arlington Hotel to Welcome Cabinet Women
On December 16 at the Arlington hotel in Washington a thousand invitations will be issued and all cabinet women will assist in receiving guests. The president and Mrs Roosevelt will attend with all diplomatic and high officials present. Miss Bhaw has chosen literary tastes and has written several short poems of merit.
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Arington Hotel
Washington
Mra Roosevelt
Omndala Miss Bhaw
Short cotton crop may force mills to close down
Boston mill men warn a widespread curtailment of production is likely in the coming months due to high raw cotton costs. The unsatisfactory finished goods market and stagnant prices push northern mills toward reductions, with 175000 New England workers affected and 65090 already facing 10 percent pay cuts, plus an additional 7500 expected to lose wages.
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United States
Boston
North
New England
William Springer Dies at 64 in Washington DC
Former Illinois congressman William Bf Springer a Democratic leader in the Forty fourth to Thirty third congresses and former Ways and Means Committee chairman died at his Washington DC home. He was 64 and contracted pneumonia in Chicago on Thanksgiving day.
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William Bf. Springer
Illinois
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
House
Washington
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