Portland lumber trust challenged in court over discrimination
W E Jenkins a building contractor employing union labor sues in the state circuit court to declare the City Retail Lumber Company an unlawful monopoly and to stop its alleged price control and discrimination against him for employing union workers. He names Inman Poulsen Co Day Lumber Portland Lumber Eastern Western Jones as principal mills.
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Portland, Or
Portland
City Retail Lumber Company
W. E. Jenkins
Builders’ Exchange
Inman, Poulsen & Co
Day Lumber Company
North Pacific Lumber Company
Portland Lumber Company
Eastern & Western Lumber Company
Jones Lumber Company
Jenkins
Master Builders’ Association
Master Painters’ Association
Master Builders Association
Navy fleet to sail for Puget Sound and Mare Island overhaul
The Boston and Bennington will sail for Puget Sound early this week. A week later the flagship New York plus Marblehead and Ranger will head to the Northern station, with New York to enter drydock. Yorktown and Princeton are due at Mare Island for overhaul from Manila.
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San Francisco
Boston
Bennington
Puget Sound
New York
Marblehead
Ranger
Yorktown
Princeton
Manilla
Mare Island Navy Yard
Dam age suit against Great Northern settles for 19000
Everett May 25 The $30000 damage suit brought by heirs of Thomas Hetherington against the Great Northern Railway Company has been settled out of court with the company paying the plaintiffs 19000. Hetherington was the engineer killed February 17 at Mount Vernon when a trestle over the river collapsed and the locomotive plunged into the water.
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Everett
Great Northern Railway Company
Thomas Hetherington
Hetherington
Mount Vernon
Justice Hagner Halts Change In Mail Privileges
Justice Hagner of the district supreme court issues a temporary restraining order directing the postmaster general to continue to accord second class mail privileges to the New England Railway Publications pending further court proceedings.
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Washington
Justice Hagner
District Supreme Court
Postmaster General
New England Railway
Indian Maiden Sells Freedom to Pay Father Debt
In a Kiowa village in Indian Territory an educated Native woman named Singing Swan auctioned herself to the highest bidder for $25,000 to honor a debt her late father Iron Talk owed. The act, publicly known among settlers and tribes, aimed to relieve the debt haunting her father’s memory and protect her family’s honor.
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Indian Territory
Lion Talk
Castle to Be Thespians Home Miramount Castle
Miramount Castle at Manton Oregon is to be turned into a free sanitarium for consumptive actors and actresses if current plans succeed. The project aims to treat tuberculosis among theater professionals with a pine forest climate and sea breezes aiding recovery. Prominent actors managers and theaters back the effort with substantial pledges and about 100000 dollars already subscribed.
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Miramount Castle
Manton
Ore
Singing Swan Auctioned by Kiowa Chiefs for Five Thousand
In a dramatic market scene the Kiowa chiefs auction Singing Swan a young woman. The winning bid comes from Six Killer, a Cherokee, who offers five thousand dollars in gold. The girl seeks funds to pay debts owed by her father Iron Talk and to ease her people’s poverty. She vows to become a good wife to her buyer if treated well.
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St. Louis
John McRae
McRae
Singing Swan Sells Self in Kiowa Village Auction
A Kiowa trading community tale centers on Singing Swan, an 18-year-old woman facing debt. She offers herself for sale to satisfy a moneylender, with bidders among white traders, Indians, and gamblers. Jim Crow drives the bidding to $25,000 before claiming her as property and guiding her to his house.
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Singing Swan
Jim Crow
Sing- Ing Swan
Old Jim
Jim
Mr. Injin
Miss Singing Swan
Mr. Crow
John McRae
Iron Talk
Mr. McRae
Descent from Jungle Fowl Shapes Domestic Poultry
An excerpt discusses how common poultry derive from jungle fowl of India and, despite domestication, retain ancestral traits such as a drive to fly. It notes instinctual impulses in roosters and references evolution and historical observations. The piece also includes anecdotes about a Wichita soldier in the Philippine army and other short items.
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India
Ile
Himalayas
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America
Offera
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Jake
Philippine Army
Forty-ninth Infantry
Sipa
Interior Provinces
United States
McKinley
Kansas City Journal
Ned
Jack
THE
Aberdeen Brewing Co
Telephone
A.B. C. Prima
Lowaid
Co. M. Bembreb
Washington Abstract Company
Chehalis County
Grays Harbor
Heon Street
Aberdetn
Wash
Thomas KR. Hayes
Bellefonte
Penn
Harry A. Hayes
Hayes & Hayes, Bankers
Aberdeen, Wash
Spence
J. G. Lewis
C. W. Miller
Aberdeen
State Bank
George L. Hilton
San _ Francisco Examiner
R. P. Porter
Choice Brands
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
Prop
Office
Pacific Hotel
H Street
Montesano
W. E. Crist
Palace Restaurant
S. Baretich, Prop
Heron Street
W& Royal Restaurant
M. Francescovich
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Walters
Heron
Wishkah
Cor, H and
Hume
Fred Redinger
Barbir Shop
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