Utah News Highlights From Across Counties and Cities
Utah postmaster appointed in Ranch Kane County. Senator Smouets bill gains Senate approval. Horse fair planned for Ogden next summer. Ogden cement plant resumes output at 2,000 barrels daily. February deaths 115 and births 149 in Salt Lake per health board. 19,466 acres certified as indemnity school lands in Salt Lake district. Mattview epidemic diphtheria closes schools and suspends gatherings. Uphraim considers waterworks installation with citizen canvass. Saloon license increases to 100 prompting some Ogden renewals not to apply. Interior orders modify Uintah grazing rules to allow cedar fence post cutting. Joe Sullivan seeks transfer of trial for fair hearing. Mrs HM Caruthers dies aged 67, mother of WJ Haywood. Willard Canyon power plant about 50,000 cost to compete with Ogden lighting. Ogden children out of school due to scarlet fever measles diphtheria epidemic. 70,000 sheep near Cisco, Grand County with 100,000 and 140,000 head sheared at Modena. Man with spotted tongue said to indicate epilepsy. Harry Schubey faces assault issue in Ogden. Leht Piatt burns in rescue attempt. child saved. Frank Duey suicide in Oakland after wife’s illness. Salt Lake juvenile court targets poolroom patronage at tender seats. two shop owners arrested. Mrs Alice Lmma Oliver dies in Springville from poisoning. W H Wattis cites impending Western Pacific railroad orders resuming construction. State board to buy five years of set books. May 6 textbook convention. Cisco reports dying sheep belonging to Colorado ranchers. range poison blamed by cattlemen.
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Horsemen of
Webb County
Ogden
Union Porsuang Cement Company
Salt Lake
Board of Health
Utah
Salt Lake City
HM Caruthers
William J Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Willard Canyon
Utah Light & Railway Company
Cisco
Grand County
Modena
Harry Schubey
Pantone
Oakland
Cal
Alice Lmma Oliver
Willard Oliver
Golconda
Nev
Springville
W. H Wattis
Utah Construction Company
Western Pacific Railroad
Wattis
State Board of Education
Grand Junction
Colorado
Convicts Dash for Liberty at Montana State Prison
Warden and assistant warden attacked as three inmates George Troch Wil Hayes and another unnamed seized a chance to escape. Warden Conncy was fatally wounded and two convicts were shot by the warden after drawing his revolver. The uprising followed a trial for infraction of prison rules.
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Deer Lodge
Rock
Hayes
Ita L
Bean Jong
Signs of cautious improvement in financial markets
In New York City signs from the business world show tentative improvement after the crisis. The Amalgamated Copper decision to resume Montana production is seen as positive, but copper prices remain unsettled and rail freight car surpluses and weak railroad earnings cloud outlooks. Readers sense cautious optimism amid wage readjustment anxieties and potential flood costs.
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New York City
Amalgamated Copper Company
Montana
Decision Regarded as Victory for Mine Owners in Nevada
Reno judge Farrington grants a blanket injunction in the Merger mines case against the miners union. The ruling, described as an unqualified victory for the Consolidated Mines company, bars the union from any act that could be construed as interfering with mine interests.
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Reno, Nev
Farrington
United States District Cour
Goldfield
Consolidated Mines Company
Emma Goldman Not Wanted in Chicago
Chicago police barred Emma Goldman from public speaking after strict orders to hall owners and managers left her with no venue. Despite the injunction, Goldman did not violate the ban and made no public address.
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Chicago
Emma Goldman
Wealthy horseman killed in runaway near Independence
David Waldo, a nationally known wealthy horseman and former race track owner, died in a runaway near Independence Missouri Sunday night. His body lay in the road beside a wrecked buggy. he was a Washington and Lee University graduate and father of noted jockeys Jed and William Waldo.
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Kansas City
David Waldo
United States
Independence
Tlis
Washington and Lee University
Virginia
Jed and
Willam Waldo
Grief Follows Fire Tragedy At Lake View School
Funeral processions for 167 children killed in the Lake View School fire move through Cleveland streets from morning till night. Mourners fill the crowd, including janitor Hitter and his sons, as fifty burials occur over Friday and Saturday and many remain unidentified. Teachers’ heroism is praised while testimony notes doors were locked and rescue efforts failed after the initial crush.
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Cleveland O
Lakeview
Collinwood
Slitter
Hitter
Tully
P Whitney
Heroic Rider Thomas J Callan Dies in Yonkers
Yonkers mourns Thomas J Callan who rode to summon reinforcements for Custer at the Little Bighorn. He carried the dispatch through hostile lines, led the relief party back to the battlefield, and received a congressional medal for bravery. Callan left the army 23 years ago and later worked in Yonkers.
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Yonkers
Thomas J Callan
Custer
Little Dighorn River
Montana
Callan
Congress
Pastor Charged With Defamation of President’s Character
Rev George A Cooke of Brandon Methodist Church files defamation charges against Rev Dr J R Day of Syracuse University alleging Day damaged President Roosevelt’s character. Charges presented to Rev Dr P M Watters, presiding elder of the New York church conference to which Day is attached.
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Brandon
George A Cooke
Methodist Episcopal Church
J R Day
Syracuse University
Day
Roosevelt
P M Watters
New York Church Conference
The
Methodist Church
Socialite confesses jewels theft to fund private schooling
New York woman charged with stealing jewels valued at 320000 from Mrs Jeanette Neumann of Stratford house in the city. Police report she confessed her motive was to send her son to a private school and uphold her social standing. The jewels belonged to Mrs Evelyn Bell of Central Park West.
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New York
Jeanette Neumann
Stratford House
Newmann
Mra Evelyn Bell
Central Park West
Tragedy in Waterbury: musician and son die after acid act
In Waterbury Connecticut Montrezza Montrezza a noted local musician and his 6 year old daughter were found dead after carbolic acid poisoning. A younger daughter survived nearly dying. authorities believe the father killed himself after harming the children while the mother worked in a factory.
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Waterbury Conn
Marunetti Montrezza
William
Montrezza
Miners Accept Tonopah Scale After Referendum
Goldfield Nevada after a referendum the Western Federation of Miners voted 455 to 256 to accept the Tonopah wage scale for several mines while the Mine Operators' Association refused any advance. Thirteen cases agreed to pay the Tonopah scale set at 6.54 cents below the old Caldfield rate but 6.5 cents above the operators’ recent scale. The strike remains in effect against all Lig mines and miners elected a conservative president by a 4 to 1 vote.
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Goldfield New
Western Federation of Miners
Caldfield
Mine Operators Association
Mine Operators’ Association
Trouble in the Orient over Latsu seizure by China
Japanese public opinion rises after China seizes the steamer Latsu at Mrco in February. Jiji reports China offers release and apology but keeps cargo for a tribunal probe. Hayashi refuses any compromise and calls for unconditional restoration, as Tokyo papers urge firm policy to defend dignity and interests.
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Tohio
Japan
Mrco
China
Hayashi
Saich
Hajsashi
Attorney Accused of Hush Money in Bank Attacks
William R Montgomery former Hamilton bank president alleges in police court affidavit that Nathan Vidaver agreed to pay 1500 dollars last November to quell newspaper attacks on the Hamilton bank. Montgomery says Vidaver sought to suppress coverage by pressuring an attorney. Vidaver faces extortion charges.
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New York
Nathan Vidiver
Hamilton Bank
Vidaver
Jackson
William R Montgomery
Montgomery
Body Found After Fall From Catalina Cliff
The body of L L Watson a guest at the Hotel Metropole was found on a ledge 1200 feet below a cliff on Avalon Catalina Island. Guides located the body at noon Thursday after Watson had been missing several days suggesting a fall from the cliff face.
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Avalon
Catalina Island
Cal
L L Watson
Hotel Metropole
Wilson
Body of Anarchist Lazarus Averbuch Buried in Potter's Field
Lazarus Averbuch, the Russian Jewish youth who attempted to shoot Chicago’s police chief, was buried in Potter’s Field on Thursday night. Olga Averbuch, his sister, reluctantly consented to the interment amid rain and darkness, accompanied by a friend or relative.
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Chicago
Lazarus Averbuch
Potters Field
Tne
Olga Averbuch
Doc Wiley Denies Alleged Drink Remarks in Washington
In a signed statement Dr H W Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry in the Department of Agriculture vigorously denies recent statements attributed to him. He says the remark that the man who never likes a drink is a mollycoddle is unfounded and untrue and that his remarks on whiskey and alcohol were misrepresented from an address before the University Club in Washington.
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Washington
H W Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Robbery at Pedricktown Post Office Ends in Shootout
A bold raid by three robbers on Pedricktown post office near Camden ends with two captured and a third fleeing. The gang stole $250 in cash and stamps, blew open the vault, and sparked a fire. Farmers pursued, shots were exchanged, one robber wounded, another surrendered, all three jailed in Woodbury.
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Camden
Pedricktown
Thidgeport
Bedricktown
Wenonth
Woodbury
William McCoy
Boston Chinese mob murders trial verdicts reported
The trial records a Boston jury finding Charles and seven co defendants guilty of murder in the first degree for the August 2 killings of four Chinese men. A tenth defendant died in custody during the trial as gunmen fired on Chinatown merchants and laundermen in Oxford Place, killing two and wounding many. Shoy Tong testified that Watty Charries led the Hip Sin Tong plot.
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Boston
Charles
Yea Wata
Oxford Place
Shoy Tong
Watty Charries
Hip Sin Tong
Hughes Banner Bearer as NY Republicans Endorse Hughes
New York Republican state committee formally endorses Governor Charles E Hughes as presidential candidate. Resolutions presented by former Congressman William J Douglass are adopted unanimously. April 11 set for state convention at Carnegie Hall to elect delegates at large, nominate electors, and form a new state committee.
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New York
Charles TD. Hughes
Republican State Committee
William J1. Douglass
Carnegie Hall
Chicago
President backs Aldrich bill after talks with northern Senators
President Roosevelt meets with Senators Bourne Dison Piles Borah Tint and others to share his view that the Aldrich bill, while not perfect, is the only measure likely to pass this session. He favors passage over no legislation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Bourne Dison
No Room for Anarchists in San Francisco Rally Arrest
Police at Waltons pavilion arrested Carl Brown son in law of Core a noted agitator for alleged inflammatory speech to about a thousand people. He is held on a disturbing the peace charge as officers report orders to arrest anyone showing anarchistic tendencies or giving anarchistic speeches.
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San Francisco
Waltons Pavilion
Carl Brown
Core
Corey Army
Heis
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Joe Sullivan
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Doc Wiley
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