| Article: | Years ago ... in The World € 102 years ago (Feb. 8, 1902, Weekly Coast Mail) - The paper was filled with miscellaneous news briefs from around the world. In Utah, the Southern Pacific planned to bridge the Great Salt Lake with 23 miles of rail line, 12 miles of which would be built on trestling through deep water. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations favored the purchase of the Danish West Indies for $5.7 million. The North Atlantic squadron, which included the Alabama, Kearsarge, Potomac and Indiana, were set to sail to Guantanamo Bay over concerns of insurgency in Venezuela and Colombia. |