Ex Sheriff Smith Found Guilty in Sheep Property Case
C Sam Smith found guilty after 15 hours of jury deliberation in Prineville Oregon for burning J N Williamson's shearing plant. Smith sentenced to four years. accomplice Larkin Elliott also gets four years. Counsel may seek new trial or appeal to the supreme court. First Crook county case punishing depredations on sheep property.
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Prineville, Or
C. Sam Smith
J. N. Williamson
Smith
Larkin Elliott
Thomas Huston
Supreme Court
Crook County
Murder plot unfolds in Elk hotel shooting
Spokane May 10 Mrs May North was shot at the Montgomery Hotel in Elk Washington in a case described as a deliberate plot two months in the making. H T Montgomery hotel owner and his brother H M Montgomery are named as conspirators with the latter confessing to hiring the killer. Mrs North remains in a Spokane hospital with guarded access as authorities pursue the case.
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Spokane
Wash
May North
Montgomery
Elk, Wash
HE. T. Montgomery
H. M. Montgomery
Fred C. Pugh
North
Shepherd Tells a Weird Bear Story
Charles Bills, a Keremeos shepherd in New Westminster British Columbia, faced a charging bear while herding on a mountain slope. His dog, owned by Joseph Armstrong, pursued and ended up dangling seventy five feet above ground. Bills fired nonlethal shots to injure the bear and finally killed it as the dog descended.
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New Westminster
B. C
Charles Bills
Keremeos
Joseph Armstrong
Bills
Great Northern Wreck Averted By Quick Action At Lily Lake
Lily Lake flood roared from Stemnilt Creek canyon near Wenatchee washing out about ninety feet of the Great Northern roadbed just before the Overland train arrived. The engineer halted the speeding train after spotting a man waving, preventing a possible serious wreck as passengers were jolted but unharmed.
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Wenatchee, Wash
Lily Lake
Stemnilt Creek
Columbia River
Great Northern
Great Northern Overland
Train Wrecker Faces Death Penalty
Butte Louis Ferris dynamited the Burlington Eastbound express on May 1 and was last week charged with attempting to wreck the train. A statute passed by the last Assembly provides the death penalty.
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Butte
Sinner to Pan for Gold Teeth the Precious Metal
Laporte Indiana pursues a historic murder case by testing a morgue debris pit for traces of Mrs. Gunness head. An ex miner with caveman tools digs the cellar to prove if gold in her teeth melted in a fire. Letters reveal an Chicago accomplice aiding the "murder farm" scheme and lure.
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Smutzer
Laporte
Ray Lamphere
Methodist Bishop Thoburn Seeks Retirement From Active Service
Rev. Dr. J M Thoburn missionary bishop of Bombay India asked the general conference to retire for advancing years. Delegates applauded his request. Delegate B Lee Pagett of Portland denounced as obscene pamphlet advertisements for whiskies issued as a Jamestown exposition souvenir. The books bore the greeting of a Baltimore business leader once a Methodist minister.
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Baltimore
J. M. Thoburn
Bombay
India
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Committee
B. Lee Pagett
Portland
Maryland
Government May Interfere in Strike at Illinois Tunnel
Chicago report says the U S government may intervene in a six week old strike by Illinois Tunnel Company employees over union recognition. The walkout threatens mail train service and federal authorities would act to prevent disruption.
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Chicago
United States
Illinois Tunnel Company
Admiral Evans Ends Coast Guard Career With Farewell
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas succeeds Evans in command of the Atlantic fleet as the old pilot retires. From the Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco, Evans hears the fleet’s guns and salutes, marking his first and last farewell to a life at sea. He will reach age 62 in three months and then retire by government order.
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San Francisco
Charles M. Thomas
Evans
Bay
St. Francis
Connecticut
Washington
Admiral Evans
Navy
Roosevelt asserts authority over army in Brownsville case
National Capital reports President Roosevelt claims supremacy as commander in chief in all army navy matters. Letters to three senators defend discharging colored soldiers and banishing Colonel Stewart. Senate debate looms over Brownsville actions and civil rights bills while Army pay increases are approved boosting total Army appropriation to 95 million.
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Washington, D. C
United States Senate
Roosevelt
Senate
Brownsville
Tex
William F. Stewart
Arizona
White House
Notorious woman fatally wounded by bartender in Marshfield
Mrs Bertha Etta Gordon once famous in Portland and San Francisco was shot by H Anderson a bartender on the gasoline launch North Bend at Marshfield docks. A 44 caliber bullet pierced her kidneys, she underwent surgery with little hope of recovery. Gordon had a long record as an adventuress on the Pacific Coast since 1905 including a 1906 Portland arrest for counterfeit suspicion and later claiming and then marrying Edward Sam Gordon a Coos Bay lumberman.
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Barkeeper
Marshfield
Bertha Etta Gordon
Portland
San Francisco
H. Anderson
North Bend
Portland Market Prices Report from May 12
Portland markets list wheat and hay prices for various grades and regions. Included are barley oats butter eggs hops wool and mohair quotes with values across Valley and Eastern Oregon.
Senate Proposes Land Surveys and Fish Station Funds
Senator Heyburn offers amendments to the sundry civil bill including a survey of unsurveyed public lands in Idaho Oregon Montana and California, plus 25000 for Idaho Washington boundary resurvey and 25000 to establish an Idaho fish culture station. A governors conference at the White House will feature Andrew Carnegie James J Hill and John Mitchell among speakers. The Panama Canal Zone bans rats and mice to curb bubonic plague via fleas, with canal workers instructed to kill rats and mice.
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Fulton
Columbia River
Heyburn
Idaho
Oregon
Montana
California
Idaho-Washington
Conference of Governors
White House
Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
James J. Hill
John Mitchell
The
United Mineworkers of America
Panama Canal Zone
Canal
Seattle Markets Report May 12 Prices
Seattle markets report lists Wheat bluestem at 91c a bushel Oats Puget Sound at 28 29 per ton Eastern Washington 26 29 Barley 24 25 per ton Hay Eastern Washington Timothy 16 17 Puget Sound 10 11 wheat hay 12.50 alfalfa 10 11 Butter Washington creamery 24c ranch 19 20c Oregon 24 6c Eggs Selected local 20 21c per dozen Eastern and Oregon 19c per dozen all for May 12 listings.
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Portland
Ore
Gray
Wilamette Valley
Oregon
Wool—Valley
Puget Sound
Washington
Eastern
Fire associations organize patrol to guard timberland
Timber owners across sections form associations to protect holdings from fire using ranger patrols similar to the United States forest service. In the Pacific Northwest the new Washington Fire Association has begun work with 3,000,000 acres under its area.
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United States Forest Service
Pacific Northwest
New Washington Fire Association
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