Utah Bankers Meet in Provo and Other State News
The Utah Bankers Association held its third annual convention in Provo with about seventy five attendees. In Ogden the eleventh Utah Pharmaceutical Association convention drew 300 delegates and urged a $500 fundraising drive. Provo city council appropriated funds for a public swimming pool. A rancher identified a Morgan area fatality as Frank Wilson, 48, presumed frozen to death. Capitol commission members returned from the East with style pointers for the new building. May 13 sentence for gang member Brown to five and a half years in Lansing. An illuminated clock-sign may soon adorn Salt Lake City. A hunting accident near Salt Lake left 15 year old Oscar Tate with a leg wound. not dangerous. Davis County spent $2000 on main-road improvements with state funds. A stray bullet lightly wounded Mrs Lottle Williams in Salt Lake. William W. Dalton was found not guilty of federal mail robbery. All Utah sheep must be dipped between Sept 15 and Oct 16. Attorneys general from a dozen states attended the Salt Lake convention. Salt Lake will host a Drama League of America branch. Provo youth Hugh Atherly, 13, was injured in a gun accident. Civil War veteran Jesse W. Tillett, 75, died in Salt Lake. Utah Development League plans to address telephone rates. Oregon Short Line to run a nine days New York excursion from Salt Lake Aug 16. David A. Evans, 50, Jackson Ohio, died at Saltair, after drowning in water at the baths.
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Provo
Utah Parmaceutical Association
Ogden Jast
Prove Thea
Morgan
Frank Wilson
State Capitol Commission
Capitol
Brown
Salt Lake
Kangas
Lansing
Oscar Tate
George Derrick
Davis County
Mra
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Williama
William W. Dalton
United States Mail
Frice
Utah
Drama League of America
Stepa
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Young Atherly
Atherly
Jesse W Tillett
Kit Cargon
Utah Development League
Oregon Short Line
New York
David A. Dvanus
Emma Coal Company
Jackson
Ohio
Saltair
Coronation of George V Unite Empire in London Crowning
Reports from London detail the coronation of George V as king of Great Britain and Ireland. Representatives of Britain’s overseas dominions joined the opening ceremonies, with royal processions, pageantry, and notable arrivals including Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian party. Safe conditions prevailed despite inclement weather, and the event drew widespread loyalty and celebration across the empire. Two fatal coronation accidents were reported, plus a serious fall of Captain Leslis McCowan.
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London
George V
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
Westminster School
West Territory
Prince of Wales
Coward
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Lord Strathcona
Admiralty
Westminster
Limitiges
Barnstable
Leslis McCowan
Canadian Mounted
Secretaries of Lumber Associations Indicted In Sherman Case
A federal grand jury indicted thirteen Chicago area lumber dealers secretaries for alleged Sherman antitrust violations. The defendants formed a “trust of power” aiming to control distribution by requiring sales through retail dealers and excluding wholesalers and manufacturers from direct sales. They organized the Lumber Secretaries' Bureau of Information, incorporated in Illinois in 1905, to represent thousands of retailers.
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Chicago
Tdourteen
United States
Lumber Secretaries' Bureau of Information
Illinois
Arctic Hero Captain Jarvis Dies by Own Hand in Seattle
Captain David IT Jarvis, famed Arctic rescuer and long time head of the Alaska based Norgin Guggenheim enterprises, died by suicide Friday in the Seattle Athletic Club. An envelope on his desk contained a trembling note reading I am tired and worn out. His 1897 relief voyage saved 275 whalers.
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Seattle
Wash
David IT Jarvis
Revenue Cutter Service
Congress
Norgin Guggenheim Enterprises
Alaska
Seattle Athletic Club
Jarvis
Arabs rout Sultan's troops near Gheesan
Rebels in great force surprised and cut up a Turkish column commanded by Mahomed Ali Tasha outside Gheesan on the Red Sea coast about 100 miles north of Nodeidah. About a thousand Turkish soldiers were killed and Mahomed Ali Pasha retreated as 600 fugitives suffered dagger wounds in desperate close fighting.
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Hodeidah
Arabia
Mahomed Ali Tasha
Gheesan
Nodeidah
Mahomed al Pasha
Sixty Five Children Poisoned At Picnic Near Resort
Sixty five children who attended a city picnic near a resort are suffering ptomaine poisoning. Fourteen are seriously ill. Ice cream eaten by the children tested clean, but state board of health may investigate colored cones and containers used for the ice cream.
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San Trernardino
State Board of Health
Expedition to Lower California Abandoned in Juarez Run
Report states that the 1636 Mexican troops destined for Lower California from Chihuahua have been unloaded after trains carried them Friday afternoon. The Lower California expedition is reportedly abandoned.
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Juarez
Lower California
Chihuahua
Wool Tariff Revision Passes House Amid Debate
The House approved the Underwood wool tariff bill 221 to 100 with 25 Republicans joining Democrats. It cuts duties on raw wool to twenty percent ad valorem and lowers rates on partly manufactured wool and wool products, aiming to reduce annual tariff revenue by just over $1 million, effective January 1 but likely not reaching the Senate this session.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Francis
Ohio
House
Was and Means Committee
Senate
Taft denounces dangerous drug frauds seeks tougher pure food law
President Taft, in a New York prepared message transmitted from the White House, denounces drug manufacturers as purveyors of dangerous frauds and urges Congress to amend the Pure Food and Drug Law this session. He warns that without strengthening provisions highlighted by Supreme Court decisions the nation will again be flooded by injurious nostrums and cure-alls. The message was sent to both the Senate and House.
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Washington
New York
White House
Congress
Taft
United States Supreme Court
Senate
French Cabinet Falls After Confidence Vote In Paris
Premier Monts and his ministers resigned after a Friday confidence defeat in the chamber of deputies. Resignations await President Falleries to return from Rouen before taking effect.
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Paris
Monts
Chamber of Deputies
Minsters
Falleries
Rouen
Englishman Aims to Consolidate Wyoming Oil Interests
London based Colonel Harrison Power states in an interview that he is organizing a consortium to consolidate Wyoming oil interests. He claims English capital of 16 million dollars has been attracted and the effort is nearing a successful conclusion.
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Wyoming
London
Harrison Power
the Tribune
Fiend Kills Girls Story Tarnished By Doubt
In Globe Arizona a prospector named Olds is jailed after his lower jaw was shot away in an apparent attempt to end his life. Two girls ages 11 and 13 were found drowned in the Salt River twenty four miles from Globe, where Olds had claimed he was shot by a Mexican or Indian. Authorities doubt his tale as their bodies were brought to Globe and a trail from the riverbank to the road leading to Globe emerges. Wesley Goswick, father of the victims, was restrained while intending to confront Olds.
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Globe
Arle
Mula
Mirtle Goswick
Salt River
Kingly Olds
Glms
Olds
Old
Wesley Goswick
PLOA for Better Highways Convention Closes in Idaho
The second annual Intermountain Good Roads association meeting in Pocatello elected EC R Sherman of Buhl as president and William Wallin of Pocatello as secretary treasurer. The group adopted a plan calling Congress for land grants of 10 000 30 acres to western states, to be managed by a national highway commission, and urged a five member highway committee to outline interstate coordination. They urged uniform wide tire legislation and a minimum fifteen ton road capacity for county bridges.
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Pocatello
Idaho
EC R Sherman
Bubl
William Wallin
Pocatelo
Logan
Utth
Intermountain Good Itords Association
Congress
National Highway Commission
Desperado Shot by Deputy in Utah Ranch Standoff
The report states Heber City Utah is the scene where deputy Scroggs of Evanston Wyoming fatally shot Al Murdock after a refused surrender. Bob Meeks, a notorious thief, is fleeing an armed posse in the mountains near Theodore amid a deadly pursuit and a cattle stealing ring is mentioned.
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Heber City
Utah
al Murdock
Depuy
Scroggs
Evanston
Wyoming
Theodore
Bob Meeks
Flore
Meeks
Murdock
Mehs
Coast of Chile Devastated by Big Pacific Storm
Valparaiso reports a great cyclone that wiped coastlines from Pisagua to Antofagasta. Torrential rains followed, killing or injuring over 200 people and causing immense property damage. Iquiqua flooded, many vessels and craft foundered, buoys adrift, steamers report derelicts.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Pisagua
Antofasca
Iquiqua
Seaman Convicted of Murder on Saratoga
Tokio John MD Atkins, a seaman aboard the U S cruiser Saratoga, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the murder of John L Saunders, a New Orleans bluejacket. He was tried before three Japanese judges on June 23.
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John MD Atkins
Saratoga
John L. Saunders
New Orleans
Atkins
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Stas
Avia
Simmons
North Carolina
Sultan
PLOA
Intermountain Good Roads Association
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Seaman
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