Iwo Special City Elections Ordered After Last Night Meeting
A city council meeting last night decided on two special elections set for May 10 and June 34 to submit questions to taxpayers. One seeks authority to condemn rights of way for a power canal, the other to approve several charter amendments including water works and city hall debt, plus council salary changes and paving plans. A water fund repayment issue was discussed as cash was redirected to the water fund. bids for street sprinters were ordered and East Tenth Street paving approved.
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Maquor
Roach
Kelanor
General Fund
Water Board
Water Fund
Oregon Avenue
East Tenth Street
Willamette
Pearl
Sheriff recovers suspect after brush chase in Oregon woods
Sheriff W J Russell of Josephine County drove from Grant Pass to seize Harry Hawkins who fled toward Goldson's mill after an assault accusation. Hawkins eluded capture by hiding in thick brush near a relative’s home before dawn. The pursuit spanned timberland overnight with Hawkins found asleep and arrested at Bill Jones’s residence.
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W. J. Russell
Joseph
Ine County
Grant Pass
Harry Hawkins
Hown
Lane County
Hawkins
Goldson’s Mill
Eugene
Down
Bill Jones
Secretary Ballinger orders water power site scrutiny
Washington April 27 Secretary of the Interior Ballinger directs the director of the geological survey to investigate water power sites outside national forests and not within reclamation withdrawals. He aims to prevent monopolistic or speculative interests from gaining control and will report findings to Congress.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Ballingerta
Geological Survey
Pallinger
Congress
Kodol for relief of simple stomach ailments promise
An old advertisement touts Kodol for dyspepsia and indigestion as a remedy taken occasionally to relieve current stomach ailments. It notes the product is sold by all druggists and implies prevention of more serious future issues.
New Sultan Proclaimed Ruler of Ottoman Empire
Constantinople April 27 Mehemed Reshad Effendi was proclaimed Sultan of Turkey this afternoon in succession to Abdul Hamid II. Fifty Turkish officers have been arrested at Erzurum by their troops and sent under escort to Trebizond. A salute of 110 guns announced the change. Rumors say Abdul Hamid is dead. troops allegedly moved him from the palace and found him unconscious in the harem.
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Constantinople
Mehemed Reshad Effendi
Turkey
Abdul Hamid II
Erzercum
Trebizond
Reshad Effendi
Ottoman Empire
Abdul Hamid
London
Grand Jury Meets to Probe Ada Lynching
Ada Okla April 7 The special grand jury called by Governor Haskell to probe the lynching of James Miller Jesse West Joseph Allen and W T Hurrell cattle men for the murder of U S Deputy Marshal A A Bobbitt met today Talk of another lynching centered on Oscar Peller and Edward and David Johnson who were returned from Tecumseh The Peller boy is held as an alleged accessory to the murder of Rebbett and it was his confession that is believed to have sparked the sentencing of the four cattle men The Johnson brothers face murder charges for the January killing of I H Putnam at Allen
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Ada
Okio
Haskell
James Miller
Jesee West
Joseph Allen
W. T. Hurrell
A. A. Bobbitt
United States
Oscar Peller
Edward
David Johnson
Tecumseh
Peller
Rebbett
Johnson Brothers
I. H. Putnam
Allen
Oregon seeks share of Rockefeller school fund
Portland April 27. Oregon college presidents meet to protest Rockefeller board ruling that Oregon schools do not share in a 43 million fund because territories overlap. The dispute follows weeklong correspondence among state university and McMinnville Willamette Pacific Dallas and Albany presidents to plan action. A portion of the fund would ease debt burdens on small Oregon schools.
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Portland
Oregon
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
The
State University
McMinnville
Willamette
Heney Serves Notice During Calhoun Trial in San Francisco
In San Francisco on April 27, F. J. Heney told Judge Lawlor he would not tolerate attacks on his character as Patrick Calhoun trial arguments continued. Byington interrupted, accusing Heney of making untrue statements while defense attorneys pressed for admission of Galway testimony. The judge intervened to avert a possible clash.
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San Francisco
F. J. Heney
Lewis F. Byington
Patrick Calhoun
Byington
Lawlor
Heney
Henry Act
James L. Gallagher
Joseph W Babcock Dies at Capital in Washington
Washington April 27 Former Wisconsin Congressman Joseph W Babcock longtime chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee died at his home here aged 59 He served fourteen years in the house and was a prominent party figure for many years
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Washington
Joseph W. Babcock
Wisconsin
Congress
National Republican Congressional Committee
Seattle Lawyer Offered Judgeship
Washington April 27 Ell wood C Hudges a Seattle lawyer for twenty years has been offered by President Taft the appointment to the newly created federal judgeship in Washington state.
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Washington
Ellwood C. Hudges
Seattle
Taft
Washington State
Roosevelt and Kermit Begin Game Slaughter
Nairobi April 27 Roosevelt and son Kermit today shot a Grant s gazelle and a hartebeest Smallpox among the porters of the Roosevelt caravan has been checked.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Mr. Roosevelt
Kermit
Grant
Roosevelt
Dean's Kidney Pills Advertised As Cure For Kidney Ailments
A Eugene woman testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved her backache weakness and kidney distress after other remedies failed. The ad claims the pills cure backache, headaches, and urinary troubles linked to kidney disease, with a 50 cent price and Foster-Milburn Co. as U.S. agents.
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Eugene
Bright
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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