Athena High School Loses Appointed Principal
Professor E J Klemme formerly of Walla Walla High School and elected Athena principal for the coming year has been offered a chair at Ellensburg. He accepted the Ellensburg post at 1500 dollars yearly, the same salary he earned at Walla Walla. The Athena board, unsettled by his late resignation request, now faces reappointing the head of the school amid other strong candidates.
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Athena
Ellensburg Normal
E. J. Klemme
Walla Walla
Athena High School
Washington State Normal School
Ellensburg
Klemme
Athena School
Fire at Waitaburg hotel kills three men
A blaze at Farmers' Lodging House in Waitaburg Washington destroyed the building at 1 am Sunday. Three men burned to death while sleeping in upper rooms. The owner Maurice Land had no insurance. A woman helped others escape from lower floors. Names include John Frey of Cottage Grove Oregon Wallaburg officials were to hold bodies for instructions. A man linked to M Green Frevert Company of Spokane had no identified details.
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Waitaburg
Lo’elock
Dan Nail
The
Honge
John Frey
Cottags Grove
Ore
Forresters of America
Wallaburg
Lodge
George Burkhardt
Redmond
America
Ebret Brothers
Gilbert Declines Westward Track Club Appearance
Pole vault great Al Gilbert, winner at London Olympia, will not join the Multnomah club at Seattle nationals. He reports a permanent ban in New Haven while on hospital staff, a Portland paper notes. Bend reports ongoing railroad construction activity along the lower Deschotes as days advance.
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al Gilbert
London
Seattle
Gilbert
New Haven
Bia
Portland
Oregon Rail Line Hope Grows for Central Areas
Public mood lifts with optimism that a neglected railroad section will finally gain transportation. Citizens await larger crews to rush a railroad into central Oregon and pray for a day of deliverance.
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Oregon
Big Land Suit 16 Decided By Circuit Judge Bean
Circuit Judge H J Bean hands down a pivotal ruling in a land case involving Umatilla reservation grazing land. The decision reverses department rulings, upholding J H Lawrey’s 1903 purchase at $1.25 per acre and challenging the government’s prior contest. The ruling impacts the Umatilla land trends cases and related indictments against local men.
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H. J. Bean
Umatilla
J. Raley
Pendleton
J. H. Lawrey
Charles Hanna
Umatilla Reservation
Lawrey
Hanna
Land Office
Office
Secretary of the Interior
Circuit Court
Land Department
Bean
Department
Ita
Umatilla County
Wolverton
Government Wins Utah Fuel Case Settlement Report
Federal government ends key suits against Utah Fuel Co after $73 000 paid for coal extracted plus reconveyance of 800 acres valued at 40 000 as part of a broader settlement. Attorney General Wickersham indicates further prosecutions possible if other illegally acquired coal lands are found. Farmers urged to save straw for fall distribution as straw day nears with 4000 available for moving straw.
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Utah Fuel Company
Carbon County
Utah
United States
Wickersham
District Court
Anna
Department of Justice
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Distriot Court of the
Secretary of the Interior
Utal Peel Company
Walla Walla Valley
Guard Fires Twice in Prison Fight at Walla Walla Mill
A guard at the Walla Walla penitentiary shot two convicts during a mill fight over grain bag production. Fred Stall fired a .82 caliber Winchester rifle, killing John Allen and wounding Joseph Rood in the right forearm as the men battled with scissors in the jute mill toilet.
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Fred Stall
Walla Walla Penitentiary
John Allen
Joseph Rood
Aliia
Alex Bene
Allen
Morelng
Rood
Roo
Warner
Oregon Caves Monument Proclaimed in Southern Oregon
President signs proclamation declaring Oregon Caves National Monument near Cave Mountain in Josephine County. Describes marble and limestone caverns in Siskiyou National Forest, explored since 1874, with depths up to 2,000 feet and multiple floors opened in 1877. Also notes other local items and a sensational hospital report from San Francisco.
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Oregon Caves of
Marble Halls
Josephine County
Oregon
Siskiyou National Forest
Grant
Para
Cave Mountin
Cave Mountain
Oregon Cave
Elija Davidson
I. M. Nickerson
Kerby
Ore
Lincoln's rebuke to a visitor who would not meet his gaze
A vivid scene recounts President Lincoln as he reads a paper when a nervous visitor sits opposite. Lincoln suddenly points and asks what's the matter with him, accusing him of avoiding eye contact. The man stammers, denies, and Lincoln insists, leading the visitor to retreat.
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Lincoln
T. B. Bancroft
McCture’s
Witty exchange on age and adulthood in a Chicago joke
A humorous dialogue where a father and son discuss what constitutes being grown up. The son asks about a ripe old age and the father answers it is the age when a man is willing to admit he is not the only one to eat the apple in the pantry.
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Willie
Chicago News
The Doctor's Orders and Mrs O Harrigan Phey Missed Notes
A jumbled OCR fragment mentions doctors orders about a baby and bottle feeding, with names Mrs Carey and a judge. The text references neighbors and a Towne, implying a small town scene or domestic dispute without clear events or outcomes.
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Tum-A-Lum Lumber CO
A. M. Johnson
Preston-Parton Milling Company
Waitsburg, Wash
R. J. Boddy Wholesale Butcher
K, T. Kidder
McArthur
City Meat Market
J. H. Stone
Main Street
Waitsburg
Central Oregon
Dell Brothers
BIG Land Suit
Judge Bean
Interior Department
Rob Grave
Apothese Empire
Coos Bay
Indiana
Empire
Graham Furniture
East Oregonian
Roserance Companies
W. R. Graham
Joseph Basler
Wheeler County Schools
H. J. Simmons
Wheeler County
Browora
J. Campbell
Hoge
Joe Reed
Southern
Lhat
Kate Powers
San Francisco
Mrs. Powers
Hue
Davia Kaser
Lir
Man
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