Utah News Briefs Reflect Accidents and Civic Events
A Salt Lake boy David Tackretl, six, died after being run over by a wagon on Male street. Lyster Jenkins Cannon dies on mission in the Netherlands. A Salt Lake hospital patient near death after an auto crash. April Utah deaths total 267 per state health board. Elder Martin Luther Ensign dies in Brigham City at 80, early settlers 1853. A.D. Mundum, 48, injured after fall from window in Salt Lake rooming house. Home Telephone Co. placed in receivership, serving mostly Davis and Weber counties. Knights of Pythias Utah hold 28th annual convention in Salt Lake. O'Donnell injured in auto crash. two others killed. E.E. Wellman recovering from gunshot wounds. attacker J.J. Morris killed Joseph Axtell. A fish and game association forms in Bountiful. 30 deputies named. Sheep shearing near Modena yields 165000 sheep, 1.24 million pounds wool. J.W. McHenry of Murray injured in buggy collision with motorcycle. Memorial Day planned with Grand Army, Spanish American War veterans and auxiliaries. Edwin Sheets chosen to run prohibition campaign in Salt Lake. Henry Chwanthel of Provo named grand chancellor of Knights of Pythias. H. Standish to Fort Worth. August sentencing for Ray Woods case confirmed. Murray club seeds broom-corn for experimental crops. Bird species observed may aid alfalfa weevil control.
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Ballina
Hox Elder
Plummer
David Tackretl
Salt Lake
Lester Jenkins Cannon
Netherlands
Loula Phillipais
Utah
State Board of Health
Martin Luther Ensign
Drigham City
Brigham City
D Mindum
Iome Telephone Company
Davia
Weber County
Grand Lodge of the Grand Domain of Knights of Pythian of Utah
W. O'Donnell
Lund
E E Wellman
J. J. Morris
Joseph Walter Axtell
Fish and Game Protective Association
Bountiful
Messrs
Tund and
de Wolf
Modena
J. W. McHenry
Murray
Murray Commercial Club
McHenry
Salt Lake City
Grand Army of the Republic
Edwin
Sheets
J. Eb Brennan
Ray Woods
Murray Commercelal Club
Portuguese royalist plot to restore monarchy organized
A Brussels newspaper reports a serious royalist plot against the Portuguese republic. Fundraising aims to cover a military expedition from Vigo Spain to enter Portugal at Oporto. A financial group has collected about 1 000 000 for the effort and offers mining and railway concessions in Portugal if it succeeds.
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London
Brussels
Vigo
Spain
Portugal
Otho
Slaughter of Jews Feared and Publicity Call
New York The American Jewish committee urged wide publicity to avert a recurrence of massacres instigated by government rhetoric. Citing 1963 to 1906 pogroms at Kishinev Odessa and Bialystok, the statement condemns allegedly false tales from St Petersburg Kiev and Moscow about a Kiev boy’s murder as echoes of pre pogrom propaganda.
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New York
American Jewish Committee
Kishinef
Odessa
Bialystok
St Petersburg
Kiev
Moscow
Kightness
Discovery Aims to Make Alkali Australian Soils Arable
United States Consul Henry D. Baker reports from Hobart Tasmania on experiments in New South Wales by agricultural chemist R. S. Symonds. Applying nitrile acid to carbonate rich soils after artesian water borings yielded unexpectedly successful results, offering hope to convert vast alkali regions into productive farmland.
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Washington
Australia
United States
Ienry Dpd
Hobart
Tasmania
Artesian
New South Wales
R 8 Symonds
Walter
Proposed Amendment Adjusts Inauguration Date and Session
A revised draft to amend the constitution would move the president’s inauguration to the last Thursday in April and require Congress to convene on the second Tuesday in January, also eliminating the biennial short session. The proposal was presented to the House by Chairman Henry of the rules committee.
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Washington
Congress
House
Henry
Committee On Rules
Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping in Las Vegas NM Case
Las Vegas New Mexico on Thursday Rogers pleaded guilty to kidnapping Waldo Rogers, a three year old grandson of Judge Henry L Waldo and Jos Wiggins, an ex convict and alleged accomplice. Wiggins pleaded not guilty.
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Las Vegas
Wiii Rogers
Waldo Rogers
Henry L Waldo
Santa Fe
Jos Wiggins
Rogers
Yellow Fever Epidemic in Cucaramanga Colombia
An outbreak of yellow fever hits Cucaramanga the capital of Llanander department in Colombia. The interior town reports sixty cases with ten in advanced stages and the disease developing a week ago. The population of Cucaramanga is about 1800.
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Nogota Colombia
Cucaramanga
Interior Town
Department
Llanander
Japanese Emigration Shifts Seen by Knowland in House
Representative Knowland of California said more Japanese are leaving Hawaii and the United States than entering, revealing a shift in emigration patterns during the hearing.
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Washington
Hawaii
United States
Knowland
California
First Sherman antitrust suit targets lumber trust
The Justice Department filed a suit in federal court against ten lumber trade groups and 160 individuals, alleging a conspiracy to restrain the lumber trade and seeking a permanent injunction. The action, led by Attorney General Wickersham, aims to dismantle alleged price‑rigging and blacklist schemes affecting retailers, wholesalers, and industrial firms.
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New York
Standard Oil
Department of Justice
United States
Lumber Trust
Wickersham
Egg Story From Pueblo Window Draws Crowds
A Pueblo tale recounts a hen named Biddy seeing visions after a night with whisky. The hen laid an egg molded into the shape of a rattlesnake, then placed on display in a downtown window to attract curious crowds all afternoon and evening.
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Pueblo
Golp
John Barleycorn
Biddy
Allee Wolcott
Daughter of Mayor Gaynor Elopes in Wilmington
New York society reports Gaynor family elopement as Miss Gertrude Emily Gaynor wed William Seward Webb Jr in Wilmington Delaware. The marriage marks the third elopement in Mayor Gaynor’s family in thirty months, highlighting a pattern of high profile nuptials.
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Gaynor
New York
Gertrude Emily Gaynor
William G. Gaynor
Wilmington
Del
William Seward Webb, Jr
Seward Webb
Wm Ho Vanderbilt
Alameda County Assessor Dalton Indicted for Bribe
Alameda county grand jury returns two indictments against Henry A Dalton assessor charging receiving a bribe and asking and agreeing to take a bribe Dalton was arrested Thursday and indictment announced Friday night in Oakland California
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Oakland
Cal
Alameda County
Henry
A Dalton
General Booth Reelected at Volunteers of America Convention
At the convention in Cleveland Volunteers of America nominated General Ballington Booth of New York to succeed himself as president, effectively an election to retain leadership.
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Cleveland
Convention of Volunteers of America
Ballington Booth
New York
Mob Kills Black Prisoners Near Lake City After Fake Officers Arrive
A mob of more than a dozen men posing as officers abducted Black inmates at the county jail and forced release to a bogus posse. They were driven a mile outside town where shooters fired on them for about half an hour, killing several and leaving others gravely wounded at daybreak. Authorities identified I B Smith of Wadesborough as a key suspect in a separate charge.
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Tallahasse
Lorimer Senate Bribery Report Prompts Critique
Springfield reports the field senatorial committee returned to the senate with findings criticizing Judge Petit over a habeas corpus ruling linked to Tilden, Cummings, and Benedict. The panel concludes William Lorimer’s election would not have occurred without bribery and corruption.
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Springfield
William Lorimer
United States Senate
Wos
Senate
Petit
Tilden
Cummings
Benedict
Wiliam Lorimer
Missouri Pacific Shopmen Strike in City
Two hundred fifty union machinists boilermakers blacksmiths and pipemen employed by the Missouri Pacific railway in the east bottom shops walked out Friday afternoon alleging the company violated a December 21 St Louis agreement regarding transfer of strike-breakers.
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Kengal
Missouri Pacific Railway
East Bottom
St Louis
Necklace Theft Shocks Czarina in St Petersburg
A court jeweler and a squad of secret police left for the United States to pursue leads in the theft of the Romanoff diamond and pearl necklace from the czarina’s jewel box, a case made public after several weeks.
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St. Petersburg
Hiiday
United States
Chamberlain Resigns as Navigation Commissioner
Eugene T. Chamberlain, commissioner of navigation in the Department of Commerce and Labor, submitted his resignation to Secretary Nagel. He will leave when his successor is qualified. Chamberlain, appointed from New York, has held the post since 1893.
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Washington
Eugene T. Chamberlain
Department of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Mr Chamberlain
New York
Balloonists Aim For Pike’s Peak Flight Next July
Kansas City flyer Jack Cudahy and St. Louis aviator Louis von Phul plan a preparatory flight over Pike's Peak in Colorado within the coming days. They will pilot the St. Louis No. 4 balloon in the national elimination race scheduled for next summer.
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Kansas City
Jack Cudahy
Louis von Phul
St. Louis
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Peace Pact Signed Marks Government Concession in Mexico
Juarez officials and revolutionist representatives signed a peace agreement at the customs house at 10 oclock Sunday night to end six months of hostilities in Mexico The accord notes concessions by the government on key demands that sparked the revolt and signals forthcoming reforms Diaz and Corral will resign while the revolutionists gain influence over provisional governors and cabinet selections.
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Juarez
Mexico
Customs House
Ely
Diaz
Corral
Madero Leaves Army to Modernize Mexico City
Francisco I Madero Jr bade farewell to his soldiers on a monument site, announcing plans to modernize the government and build a new Meralco. The north insurrectionary army, largely from Chihuahua, began its redistribution as 1,500 insurgents departed at daylight for Casas Grandes under General Pascual Orezva and Colonel Voila.
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Casas Grandes
Pascual Orezvca
Voila
Five Reich daughters die in Roach restaurant fire
Five Wilca Kan-Diva girls aged seven to sixteen died Sunday night in a Roach restaurant blaze. Parents Jiarvey Reich and spouse were badly burned after the mother, filling a lamp with gasoline, lit a match to move to the second floor. An explosion and a gasoline can blast fed the flames, sending fire up the stairs toward the children's room.
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Wilca, Kan—Diva
Jiarvey Reich
Roach
Great Western Power Plans California Reservoir At Big Meadows
Announcement stated that Great Western Power will build a reservoir at Big Meadows in northern California. It will surpass Roosevelt dam in Arizona and Aswan dam in Egypt in capacity, storing clear water for irrigation of about 300000 acres, with eventual irrigation of large tracts in the Sacramento valley.
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San Francisco
Cal
Great Western Power Company
Big Meadows
Noosevelt
Arizona
Egypt
Sacramento Valley
Reposed King Will Make World Tour
London-Dom Menuel former King of Portugal who lost his throne last year is anglicizing. Friends say he has no wish to return to Lisbon. After an unofficial coronation guest of King George he plans a world tour following the ceremony.
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London
Dom Menuel
Portugal
Lisbon
George
Manuel
Chinaman Tortured and Executed by Rebels in Torreon
Dr J W Lim, a Chinese banker in Torreon, Mexico, was dragged by a rope around his neck by rebels until bearing numerous broken bones and bleeding wounds, then shot dead. The atrocity occurred as rebels exploited the plaza, amid ongoing unrest in the region near Laredo, Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
J W Lim
Torreon
Mexico
Entire Dodson Family perishes in Ohio railroad accident
In Newark Ohio a Sunday crash on the Newark division of the Ohio Electric Railway killed Dr. Dodson his wife and two young daughters aged seven and four when their buggy was struck by an interurban car. The tragedy leaves the Hebron family ending in sobering loss.
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Newark, O
Dodson
Hebron
Newark
Ohio Electric Railroad
Mr. Dodson
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