Initiative Bill 10 Defeat Prohibition Initiative in Olympia
Ferdinand Schmitz of Seattle circulates a proposed liquor bill to repeal prohibition. It would permit brewery operation and sale, allow hotels with 80 plus rooms to sell to guests, and set home consumption limits of 42 to 48 quarts. Bill would take effect Jan 1, 1916. requires 2000 petition signatures before legislative session.
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Olympia
Wash
Ferdinand Schmitz
Seattle
I. M. Powell
Ang
Tita
Leiter Won’t Have To Pay For His Purchase Of Grain
Chicago December 14 The jury verdict clears Joseph Leiter of paying 880 853 in notes to interior and Monarch elevator companies for grain used in his alleged wheat cornering scheme in 88. The defense argued Frank H Peavey and C A Pillsbury of Minneapolis conspired with Leiter to withhold wheat, a failure to keep the plan blamed for Leiter’s losses.
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Leiter
Chicago
Joseph Leiter
Interior
Monarch Levator
Frank HH
Peavey
C. A. Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Engineers' Perils Brought Up By Witnesses In Hearing
Chicago December hearing on wage demands of Western railroad enginemen. Canadian locomotive engineers testified to trains held up and a fatal snow slide incident with sixty lives lost and delays of fifty to sixty hours. Judge Pritchard noted the railroads admit cost of living rise since 1910 but deny wage increase proportion. Mention of McGinn clemency cable and three men accused of forged mortgages in a separate case.
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Chicago
Beng Duried
J. C. Pritchard
McGinn
Tudge McGinn
Matthes
W. 3. Summers
Robert J. Snow
Snow
Summers
California
Holland Concern
Sentenced and paroled over bank forgery plea in Portland
M J W Mat thes, once a local representative of the International Mortgage Bank of Apeldoorn and ex Netherlands vice consul in Portland, pleaded guilty to attempted forgery and drew a sentence of one to ten years. Independence, Missouri reports Frederick M. Smith, first counsellor, was named temporary president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints following Joseph Smith's death, with a permanent leader to be chosen at a general conference. Also noted are a Centerville wedding, postal stamp rules for foreign mail, and northern China oil exploration by U S geologists.
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Portland
Ore
J. W. Matthes
International Mortgage Bank of
Apeldoorn
Holland
Netherlands
Independence
Frederick M. Smith
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Joseph
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