Pacific Coast News Signals Steady Growth Across States
News from Astoria Pendleton and The Dalles notes improved prospects, with a cascade locks season opening and high water receding. Emigrant wagons travel through Lakeview while Lake County builds a Salmon Creek bridge. Grasshoppers devastate Lexington crops. Corvallis college class drops to 17 due to extended four year program. Pioneer relics appear at Weston reunion and a Massachusetts pocket rifle draws attention.
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Pendleton
Cascades
Er City
Harper
Umatills
Winans Bros
Dalles
Lakeview
Indiana
Nebraska
Rogue River Valley
Astoria
John Day’s
Knappa
Lane County
Lane County Court
Crib
Salmon Creek
Lexington
Corvallis College
Morrow County
Weston
Thomas Spence
Massachusetts
Mr. Spence
CUBANS ON THE AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENT NEAR HAVANA
A Havana dispatch says General Gomez plans a decisive action next month. He concentrates forces in Havana province and may demo near Havana. General Bandera with 1,600 Orientals arrived at Melina and marches through Matanzas. Weyler to leave Havana next week. Rebels active in Puerto Principe. An 800 strong Spanish column under Colonel Reuter was attacked near Santa Cruz. he was wounded and 38 Spaniards killed. Rebel losses unknown.
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New York
Havana
Gomez
Bandera
Melina
Trinidad
Matanzas
Gomes
Weyler
Guanabacoa
Puerto Principe
Reuter
Santa Crus
Reyter
Save Rivera's Life Prompted Effort to Intervene
A World dispatch from Washington reports that Cuban junta official Senor Palma relayed that the prosecutors seek death for Ruiz Rivera and Bacajalo. Senators Morgan and others moved to urge intervention by Madrid and the president, with Secretary Sherman pressed to obtain assurances. If action stalls, Senator Morgan may push a Senate resolution.
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New York
Washington
Senor Palma
Quesada
Legation
Ruiz Rivera
Bacajlao
Morgan
Sherman
Madrid
Taylor
Senate
Rivera
Free Textbooks Defeated in Mount Vernon Election
May deaths in Seattle numbered eighty eight with eight children and two drownings. Walla Walla school election rejected free textbooks 31 to 14. Spokane hires Winfield Scott Rich as principal at 1200 dollars yearly. All late laws without emergency clause take effect. Bemis shingle mill to restart after Toutle river jam. Olympia fines bicycle sidewalk riding during dry season. Seattle wheelmen rode 154 miles to Olympia round trip. Atlas Lumber adds engine. over 70 carloads shipped east last month. Lewis county delays funding bonds to salvage debt. Shelton receives 4000 foot steel wire cable rolls for Simpson camps. Kititas miners start season. Baker creek holds 25 million gallon water dams planned.
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Mount Vernon
Gray’s Harbor
North River
Seattle
Walla Walla
Winfield Scott Rich
Cambridge, Maso
Spokane
Washington
Bemis
Cowlitz County
Toutle
Olympia
Atlas Lumber Company
Murray
Lewis County
Shelton
Mason County
Simpson
St. Louis
Swank
Kittitas County
Baker Creek
Butte Gateway Not Opened by Oregon Short Line
Denver dispatch June 21 reports S W Eccles general traffic manager for Oregon Short Line says the Butte gateway has not opened and will not be opened presently. If opened it would spur competition among Great Northern Northern Pacific and Rio Grande Western and Union Pacific to curb through rates Ogden to Butte, potentially freezing out Oregon Short Line. Also notes Brasil frontier landmarks commission and Rio Janeiro dispatch on Canada recapture by rebels. In River Falls a balcony collapsed during Lemon Bros circus parade injuring several spectators.
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Butte Gateway
Denver
Colo
S. W. Eccles
Oregon Short Line
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Utah
Rio Grande Western
Union Pacific
Oregon
Ogden
Butte
Missouri River
New York
Herald
Buenos Ayres
Rio Janeiro
Canada
Brasil
Peru
River Falls
Wis
Lemon Bros.’ Circus
Monument to Cabot to Rise in Bristol England
Bristol residents plan a monument to John Cabot the navigator to mark the 400th anniversary of the North American discovery The summit of Brandor Hill in the city center has been donated for an ornate tower designed by architect W W Gough Brimel supports the project from the famous port that sent Cabot and his crew aboard the Matthew on the voyage that reached the continents shores in 1497.
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Bristol
England
John Cabot
Brimel
Cabét
Matthew
Brandor
W. W. Gough
Engibb
Self Operating Pump On Exhibition Near Hagerstown Indiana
Oscar Jones a young farmer near Hagerstown Indiana shows a self operating pump designed to conserve water. The device mounts on a large drive wheel with a trough rim and bucket chain system that by water weight powers motion, drawing water into buckets and discharging into a trough for later use.
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Young Indiana Farmer
Oscar Jones
Hagerstown
Ind
Haggerstown
Ita
Pumpatock Fc Ja
The Tombs Prisoner Executions and Origins of a Phrase
A historical note describes the Tombs prison scene with multiple executions and suicides, recounting a death by hanging in 1232. It explains the phrase not worth a raw, tracing it to old rush flooring and social ranks.
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Buiride Haslao
Peace settlement favored by Porte and powers
Athens reports the peace conference and the Porte have accepted a settlement offering Turkey either Ligaria near Milonia or Nezeroe north of Larissa. The Athens Chronicle note says the Porte abandons delay and agrees with powers’ advice.
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London
Athens
Daily Telegraph
Turkey
Ligaria
Milonia
Nezeroe
Larissa
The
Chronicle
Debs Co operative Colonization Society renamed
In Chicago on June 21 the Debs group chose The Social Democracy of America as the new title for the cooperative colonization society. Debs argued the reasons for the name gained majority delegate approval.
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Chicago
Debs’ Co-operative Colonization Society
The
Social Democracy of America
Debs
Whch
The Use of Matches in Daily Life
An average of eight matches for each man, woman and child is needed daily in the United States. The note highlights widespread consumption and potential hazards in household use.
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D States
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