Utah News Roundup Highlights Health Risks and Local Developments
A smallpox scare reappears in Weber County while Willard forms a brass band. Salt Lake City hosts a health convention and opens two soup kitchens for the unemployed. Local accidents include a brakeman’s crushed hip and a man beaten by a falling shaft. Efforts advance a Grand Canyon preserve bill, a proposed Salt Lake summer race track, and road improvements led by Ogden’s Good Roads group. Local officials report mine fees and safety upgrades.
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Weber County
Willard
Harriman
Salt Lake City
Utah
Nota
Ebank
Paneme Bonda
Join Sullivan
Park Cuy
A. Grech
Lakeside
Lehi
Kane
Roy Johnson
Trane
Arest
Charles Smith
Smith
Grand Canyon Fame
Smoot
Congress
Ira LD Hasden
Boston Consolidated
Garfield
Plcce
Oregon
Robert Ormon
Beromning
Intermountain West
Gronthas
Steve Bobich
Bingham
Board of Park Commissioners of
Ogden
City Hall
Lester Park
Union Pacific Railroad
Ogden and
Coalville
W Iiter
Riter Brothers
Logan
C VP Robinson
Robinson
Minority currency bill before the House proposes wide reforms
The Minority Currency Bill, introduced by Representative John Sharp Williams, seeks to overhaul national bank reserves, shift half to gold, cap liabilities at 30 percent of capital, limit bank loans, permit 50 percent of reserves in U S or state bonds, and create a $46 million fund for failed banks. It also empowers the comptroller to require bank consent and establish an elastic currency mechanism with interconvertible bonds.
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Washington
John Sharp Willams
Misalselpp
House
Nationale
National Bank
United States
Pitt
United States Emergency Treasury
Capitol Scandal Trial Amid Claims of Whitewash Letter
Stanford Lewis testified that Architect Huston’s letter to former Attorney General Carson was drafted at the urging of former Governor Pennypacker and others and was intended as a whitewash. He said a coordinating letter was prepared during a Harrisburg conference to fit with other capitol construction documents from state officers.
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Pennypacker
Harrisburg
Sanderson
Stanford Lewis
Hluston
Carson
Penny
Pacher
Snyder
Lewis
President disputes over acting public printer switch
Washington reported that William S Rossiter was named acting public printer replacing Stillings. The Treasury refused to approve the bond citing presidential overreach, saying Captain Tl T Brian, as associate public printer, should succeed. Rossiter then yielded to Brian who will act as public printer while Rossiter continues his inquiry work for the president.
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Washington
William S Rospiter
Stillings
Treasury
Rossiter
Tl T Brian
Brian
Government Printing Office
Portuguese Republicans Predict Imminent Republic Amid Turmoil
Portuguese republican leaders forecast a republic within months, claiming growing nationwide adherence from doctors to village priests. They warn the monarchy will fall without force, citing King Manuel's fragile stance, foreign debt crises, and upheaval in commerce as pressures toward change.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Tortugal
Manuel
Carlos
Dom Pedro
Brazil
England
Assassinated Rulers Laid To Rest In Lisbon
In Lisbon the bodies of the murdered king and crown prince were carried in golden chariots drawn by eight hooded horses to the pantheon. A royal funeral pageant with a long ceremony followed, with three salvos and musketry echoed by British warships as a final rite concluded after seven hours.
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Lisbon
Son of Priest A Murdemer In Lisbon Murder Case
The article reports Manuel Res Silva Buissa, son of the Abbe of Vinhtes, as the leader of the band that killed King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz in Lisbon. Born in Drasanz, Portugal, he had nine siblings and was a republican thinker who defended his ideas in public. His family, described as well off, still resided in Vinbaes.
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Itio Janeiro
Carlos
Luiz
Lisbon
Manuel Res Silva Buissa
Drasanz
Portugal
Tvant
Africa
Buissa
Burlington Bound for the Coast Route Approved
Burlington railroad directors approve a transcontinental route from Montana to Kearney Nebraska linking with the Northern Pacific. General Manager Holdredge disclosed the plan during a Wyoming hearing on Friday as the company contests a power dam project on the Big Horn River by Asmus Doysen.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Burlington Railroad
Lhe
Northern Pacific
Montana
Kearney
Burn Tobacco Barns Attack on Adams Tenn Night Riders
Armed riders visited the farm of Hugh C Lawrence and Wash T Vicker in Adams Tennessee on Friday night. They destroyed barns and 20000 pounds of tobacco and wounded Lawrence and his son. A negro was whipped mercifully. Lawrence opened fire, wounding a rider in the cheek and his son in the leg. Lawrence and Vicker did not join the union.
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Adama
Tenn
Hugh C Lawrence
Wash T Vicker
Lawrence
Lawrences
Vicker
City Held Responsible for Crossing Death in Los Angeles
Coroners jury returns an unusual verdict in the Salt Lake train collision with a Brooklyn avenue car. Officials say the conductor was killed when the car toppled onto him after he signaled to proceed. Verdict charges city of Los Angeles with neglect for not providing a crossing watchman.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Colhelan
Salt Lake
City of
Hall Found Guilty in Wheeler County Land Case
Former U S District Attorney John H Hall was found guilty of conspiring with Butte Creek Land Livestock and Lumber to uphold an illegal fence around 20000 acres of public land in Wheeler county The trial began in January and featured sharp exchanges The judge suspended sentence and gave 60 days to file notice of appeal with until May 31 to prepare a bill of exceptions
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Portland
Ore
United States
John H. Hall
Butte Creek Land, Livestock & Lumber Company
Wheeler County
Lionel R Webster
Bell Defends Larger Navy Plans for Pacific Coast Forts
General Bell, chief of staff, met with the house naval affairs committee for three hours to discuss expanding the navy with emphasis on the Pacific coast defenses. Subic Bay fortifications and a Pearl Harbor dry dock were examined. a bill to start the dry dock with $200,000 was introduced.
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Washington
General Bell
Army
Hobson
Alabama
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Pacific Coast
Subic Bay
Manila
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Railroads Prepare for California Fruit Shipments
Ogden reports that Southern Pacific Union Pacific and San Pedro lines gear up to handle a glut of California fruit shipments. Fast freight engines and refriger ator cars are being upgraded to haul perishable cargo to eastern markets.
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Ogden
California
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
San Pedro
Lands Withdrawn From Entry For Carson Project In Nevada
About 22 500 acres in Nevada are withdrawn from public entry under forest withdrawal provisions related to the Truckee Carson Irrigation project. The lands in townships 17 18 138 and 19 25 26 east Mount Diablo meridian are segregated and not subject to disposal under public land laws. They are designated for use in the Carson reservoir project.
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Washington
Truckee Carson
Nevada
Mount Diablo
Meridian
Carson Reservoir
Spur of Montana and national item roundup in 1907 period
A sweeping 1907 style wire bundle reports crime and politics across Montana and nearby states. Notables include Murtilwest noting a fatal domestic shooting in Colorado City. Governor Toole resigning with successor Lidwin Newis named. Roosevelt dispatches on Goldfield and Alaska Yukon Pacific exhibit. Wyoming forest funds and state police plans. multiple Montana murder trials and bank case developments. John Walsh 14 fatally shoots his 13-year-old brother. public bureau for Denver convention. state land claims tied to Cut Bank and the Great Northern Railway.
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Carte Ryan
Colorado City
Toole
Montana
Lidwin Newis
Denver
American Federation of Liboi
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Speecial Commission
Goldfield
Sparks
State of Wyoming
Wolfe Copinus
Anaconda
Rochester Minn
Copinuga
I‘ Shaw
Washington Volunteers
Washington
Hig
Portland
W WN Cooley
Kalispell
Mont
Stanford University
Uhlman
University
Cooley
Menlo Park
Jacob Ilist
Joseph Anderson
Harry Logan
Fourth Street
Henry J Gruber
Bowser
Northern Pacific
Butte
Engineer Clow
George Haskins
George Flowers
Dense
Convention League
Colorado
Senate
Senator Pyles
Congress
Alaska
Seattle
West
Pyles
Great Northwest
Judie Laach
Comsat Butte Robem M Lyons
Char
Aetna Bank
Bine Anit
Augustus Heinze
ATB Clements
Heinze
Lewistown Alent
John Walsh
Bony
James Cavin Towers
Frank Clow
North Coast Limited
Timn
Boulder
Wade
Cut Bank
State Board of Land Commissioners
Great Northerp Railroad
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Wavernor
Pennsylvania
Treasury Department
Assassis
Prince Luiz
A Murdemer
Furlington
Tennessee
Attorney Hall
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