Bidding Brisk at Brown Sugar Case Auction
A sale at the federal building featured brown sugar seized in raids, plus corn meal and five guns. Deputy Revenue Collector F L Mann auctioned the items as bidders drove brisk demand, sugar selling in 19 sacks for 318 dollars, with prices as low as 13 dollars per sack. Corn meal fetched 5 dollars, while five shotguns and rifles brought 30 dollars. Sugar and corn meal were taken from Mrs Nellie Murphy and the guns from George Boan.
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Federal
F. L. Mann
San Francisco
Nellie Murphy
George Boan
McGrath Declares Candidacy for Clerk Post
Emmet McGrath, chief deputy to Clerk of Court Otis Lee, announces bid for the clerk position on the Democratic ticket. Lee will not run and endorses McGrath, known as Watchie, a former bookkeeper and World War I veteran who served with the 111th trench mortar battery and saw combat from the Argonne to Metz.
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Emmet McGrath
Otis Lee
McGrath
France
Lee
the Argonne
Metz
Welcome Strangers at Y M C A Luncheon
Strangers in Butte will be welcomed at a fellowship luncheon in the Y M C A dining room this afternoon at 5 30. Principal Bruce F E Millikin of the high school will speak at 4 o'clock on The Art of Teaching a Bible Class.
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Butte
Association
Bruce FE. Millikin
Jury rules O Hara died from battle wound effects
A coroner's jury ruled Michael O Hara died on January 20 from meningitis caused by a wound to his right side after being struck by a bar on January 2 at the Leonard mine. The autopsy results were admitted as evidence during yesterday's proceedings.
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Michael O'Hara
Leonard Mine
Destructive Fire Destroys Pittsburg Oil Warehouse
A warehouse belonging to Atlantic Refining in Pittsburg holding 300000 gallons of lubricating oil burned late today. The fire caused explosions every few minutes and the loss was estimated between 300000 and 600000 dollars. Firefighters faced delays in suppression due to ongoing blasts.
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Pittsburg
Atlantic Refining Company
Intervention policy opposed by Mexican affairs witness
Washington Jan 24. Manuel Wh Espena a former Diaz Madera and Huerta consul warned before the senate foreign relations sub committee that American intervention in Mexico would be bad for both nations and spark years of ill feeling with Latin American countries.
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Washington
Mexico
Manuel Wh. Espena
New York
Philadelphia
Porfirio Diaz
Madera
Huerta
Carranza
Senate Foreign Relations
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Atwell
Francis Atwell
Crown
Daly Bank Bldg
Park and Main
BRTCK
Mgrath
Y.M.C. A
O'Hara
Piume
FICME
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Riccardo Zanella
d'Annunzio
Fiuman People's Party
Italy
RELI
Europe
United States
South
Central America
pan-American Financial Congress
Vernis Martin
China
Naa Ie
Kersey
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