Utah Promotes State Industry and Infrastructure Reach
Utah news notes tax receipts from forest reserves, a Salt Lake to Los Angeles route reopening, and plans to attract settlers. It cites state funding for commerce, sugar beet contracts, irrigation projects near Richfield, and a push for a state industrial league led by commercial clubs.
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Tooele County
Ita
Salt Lake
Hina
Los Angeles
Utah
Commercial Club
Nephi
Box Sider County
Box
State Food Commisssatoner
United States
P. P. Stathakos
Louis Toulas
Lund
Motena
United States Land Office
C. M. Midgley
Salt Lake City
John IR Qodekirk
Edward Barnes
Howell
James Don
Park City
Veter Martin
Doa
Manufacturers’ Association
Utah Chamber of Commerce
Carl A. Dadger
Piute Reservation
Richfield
Sevier County
Fiute
Spanish York
Lehi
Spanish Fork
Utah County
Frank Cronin
James Stevens
L Cam Scott
Edna Namblin Jackson
Uorth
House Votes to Expand Representatives Under 1919 Census
The House, with some Republican abstentions, passes the Crumpacker plan setting 433 members after March 3 1913 and notes if Arizona and New Mexico gain statehood they receive one seat each. States listed gain seats ranging from one to six, including New York six and Pennsylvania four. The measure awaits Senate ratification.
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Washington
House
Iower
Congress
Arizona
New Mexico
Senate
Alabama
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
New Jersey
New York
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
West Virginia
Hungarian Speaker Delivers Peace Message to U S Congress
Count Albert Apponyi stood at the speaker’s rostrum in the House to deliver a greeting from the old world to the representatives of the new. The chamber paused for a fifteen minute recess as Appert Apponyi was met with warm applause and a brief reception followed the address.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Albert Apponyl
Fifteen Miners Entombed After Mine Explosion Near Trinidad
Fifteen miners were entombed after an explosion at the Cockdale mine of Carbon Coal and Coke eight miles west of Trinidad on Thursday night. Seventeen men were in the mine. two shotfters escaped two hours later. The blast shook Trinidad and blew timbers 200 feet from the main slope, though no major rock falls were reported.
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Trinidad, Cole
Cockdale
Carbon Coal and Coke Company
Trinidad
Arizona Constitution Adopted After Wide Lead in Returns
Reports from Arizona towns show the anti constitutionist claim collapsing as returns from most counties indicate a three to one vote in favor of ratification. Apache county alone went against the measure, with a decisive negative result. In Idaho Herbert Sherer’s body was found in his Caldwell cabin with a shotgun blast, the back of his head blown away and brains scattered, the weapon left at the scene.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Apache County
Caldwell
Ida
Herbert Sherer
Henderson’s Verry
Snake River
Bristow Backs Direct Vote for U S Senators
Senator Bristow of Kansas urged the senate to support a constitutional amendment permitting direct election of United States senators by the people, challenging Santor Lodge on the issue. The Thursday address framed the measure as essential to reducing corporate influence in policies.
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Washington
Santor Lodge
Bristow
Kansas
Senate
United States
Roosevelt
Grand Rapids
Mich
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln
Taft Appeals to Farmers Over Canada Reciprocity
President Taft urged American farmers to support the Canada reciprocity pact claiming it benefits agriculture without harming farmers. He argued the agreement unites the two nations across a vast continent in a mutual commercial and social union, and that the overall gains justify adoption.
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Columbus
Taft
Triday
Dominion
Canada
Millions Are Starving Warns Washington in 1929 Cable
American Consul General Wilder reports to the Red Cross that 2009 000 people in China face famine with no crops until May. He urges immediate relief and a half million dollars to avert a catastrophe and says Chinese relief is inadequate.
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Washington
Untless
China
Wilder
Shanghai
American National Red Cross Society
Summit County Schools Chief Dies in Snowslide
Searchers found GO W Wilkins superintendent of Summit County schools dead in a snowslide in South Fork canyon Utah. Wilkins disappeared January 21 after leaving Theodore for his Pecos home. The slide, up to 100 feet deep, buried the canyon twenty four miles west of Theodore.
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Park City
Utah
GO W Wilkins
Summit County
South Fork Canyon
Theodore
Wilkins
Peca
Salt Lake City Arrest Billy Harret Linked to Humboldt Robbery
After a months long chase C A Harret alias Charles McCabe about 35 is arrested in Salt Lake City. He is suspected as the brains of the steamship Humboldt bullion robbery between Fairbanks and Seattle last August, where $50,000 in gold and $18,000 in registered mail were stolen.
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Salt Lake City
C A Harret
Charles McCabe
Humboldt
Fairbanks
Alaska
Seattle
New York Rep Pursues Taft Action Over 1832 Treaty
Representative Parsons of New York introduced a House resolution asking President Taft to declare the 1832 treaty with the United States breached by Russia. He alleges Russia denied Jewish American citizens the travel privileges extended to others.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Parsons
New York
Taft
Joliet’s Oldest Newsboy Nearing End of Years
Joliet’s longtime railroad newsboy at 102 years old remains a familiar figure at the station. Ill health dims prospects for recovery as he approaches the second year of his life in the trade and looks toward another birthday.
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Chicago
Orasmus Page
Joliet
Page
Hayti President Simon executes rebel leaders
In Cape Huaytien, Hayti, President Simon order ly executes General Millionard and two other officers, plus four revolutionaries. Reports say General Appolon and others may be shot as the government seeks to deter the uprising, with consuls seeking to prevent further bloodshed.
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Simon OF
Hayti
Millionard
Cape Huaytien
Simon
Vallierles
Troy
Vallieres
Appolon
Montreuil Guillaume
Duval
Death of Gerelda Samuel mother of James boys reported
Mrs Gerelda Samuel aged around 56 or 62 and mother of James boys died on a St Louis and San Francisco train fifteen miles from Oklahoma City while en route to Kansas City from her son Frank’s farm near Fletcher. She was born in Kentucky and educated at a convent in Lexington.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Zcieldy Samuel
Miank
Jesse James
St. Louis
San Francisco
Kansas City
Frank
Tletcher
Samuel
Kentucky
Lexington
Lisbon bill drafts separation of church and state
The draft bill for church state separation in Portugal guarantees liberty of conscience education and propaganda while placing churches under clerical control with the sole stipulation that clergy may maintain them.
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Portugal
Lisbon
Largest US submarine cruiser launched at Newport News
The Dreadnaught submarine cruiser Seat was successfully launched Wednesday from Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. It is described as the largest and most powerful submarine in the United States Navy.
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Newport News
United States Navy
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Brutal Nevada murder blamed on rustlers and Indians
In Washoe county northern Nevada four stockmen Warry Cambron J Laxague Peter Crasupine and B diando are found shot and mutilated after weeks missing. Authorities suspect cattle rustlers. some theories implicate Indians. Bodies left on snow, horses and arms stolen, robbers fled.
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Reno
Ney
Nevada
Washoe County
Warry Cambron
J. Laxague
Peter Crrasupine
B Indiano
Archbishop Ryan Dies in Philadelphia at Archbishop Residence
The Most Rev Patrick John Tyan Archbishop of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of Pennsylvania died Saturday afternoon at the archiepiscopal residence in Philadelphia after a period of heat trouble. He was born in Thurles Ireland on February 20 1831 and his paternal ancestors were the Oryans prominent in Irish history.
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Philadelphia
Patrick John Tyan
Pennsylvania
Ryan
Thurles
Tipperary
Ireland
Punishing Aristocratic Smugglers in New York Trial
Federal Judge Martin sentences Mrs Moebert G Hill to the Tombs from Friday night to Monday morning and fines her 2000 dollars. The payment is made and she is led away crying hysterically. She is the daughter of Morris Menges, a Brooklyn horseman, and the divorced wife of Captain James Hill of the British army.
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New York
Martin
Moebert G Hill
Till
Morris Menges
Brooklyn
James Hii
Senate Eulogies Laud Charles J Hughes Jr of Colorado
On Saturday in the Senate a speech honored the life and work of the late Senator Charles J Hughes Jr of Colorado. Senators Clark and Warren of Wyoming also offered remarks praising Hughes and his contributions.
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Hughes
Washington
Senaor Smoot
Senate
Charles J Hughes, Jr
Colorado
Clark and Warren
Wyoming
Use Army Transports Funds Passed by Senate
Washington amends to fund army transports with a 50000 appropriation to implement the bill for moving Ted Cross sufferers. In Topeka a liquor sales ban is upheld. The supreme court affirms a Waver law barring liquor sales for medical or mechanical uses. Two women disarm a holdup at the Denver White House patrol station until police arrive.
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Washington
Ted Cross
Senate
Topeka
Supreme Court
Denver
White House
Senate OKs $500000 Year for Embassies Abroad
The senate passed a house bill providing five hundred thousand dollars annually to fund construction of buildings for American embassies and consulates in foreign countries.
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Washington
House
Senate
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