Southern Pacific to Build New Klamath Route via Weed
Special to Daily Guard Portland Aug 26 The Southern Pacific abandons through freight plans over the Siskiyous and buys the California and Northeastern railroad from Weed north to Klamath Falls. The 100 mile main line will shorten trips, cut costs by about half, and link Eugene to Coos Bay and Ashland, with Willamette bridge completion guiding Oregon junctions. The Weed road, built a decade ago, is being rebuilt as part of the priority route.
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Eugene Klamath Road
Southern Pacific
Portland
Southern Pacific Company
Siskiyou Mountains
San Francisco
California & Northeastern Railroad
Weed
Klamath Bulls
Oregon
Natron
Klamath Country
Enogene
Coos Bay
S. P
Eugene
Willamette Bridge
Achland
Ashland
Weed Road
Weed Lumber Co
Klamath Falls
Klamath Malls
Klamath Route
Shasta
Wm. Keld
Woodburn
Damaging Testimony Against Mays in Land Fraud Trial
In Portland on August 2 in the federal land fraud case against Franklin Pierce Mays, A G King former Malheur county clerk testified he circulated petitions to create the Blue Mountain reserve and was promised land he never received. He said Mays paid Forest Service inspection bills. W D Penton led the defense’s opening, denying a government conspiracy and portraying the case as a straw man argument about a purported plot. The audience and jury observed the defense’s strong showing as proceedings closed with confidence in Hinger Hermann.
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Portland
F. P. Mayas
A. G. King
Malheur
Blue Mountain Reserve
Mays
Ormaby
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Francis J. Heney
Blue Mountain Forest Reserve
Oregon
Knight
la Mancha
United States
Bristol
Fenton
Blue Mountain Forest
Hener
Mr. Hristo
Siuslaw Real Estate Values Jump in Florence Area
Real estate around Florence shows rapid value gains with the R. B. Mille property sold in July for a small sum and a month later worth over 1000. Joaquin Miller and associates reportedly doubled their money on investments there within six months.
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Oregon
Siuslaw Real Estate
R. B. Mille Place
Florence
Joaquin Miller
Insurgent Leader Slain by Rarales Near Havana
Havana reports Genery Bande Ras, known as the negro insurgent, slain in a morning clash with the Rarales between Martinon and Hoyo Colorado. Two followers died. Bande Ras identified posthumously. Also an abortive assassination of Gov. Emilio Nunez occurred as he entered his home, a would be killer arrested after a witness cried out. Washington dispatch notes Gen Cheeley urging abolition of division system and brigade posts, citing delays and failed San Francisco relief ops due to current structure.
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Havana
Generi] Banderas
Martinon
Hoyo Colorado
Banderas
Emilio Nunez
Nunez
Washington
Cheeley
San Francisco
Not Enough Rain to Kill Santiam Fires
Albany Oregon August 24 not enough rain has fallen in the Cascades to extinguish the Santiam forest fires. Up to noon yesterday scarcely any rain fell and although heavier rain began, it failed to halt the fires. Most fires remained burning last night and a heavy downpour is needed. Smoke settles into the valley reducing visibility and blanketing the mountains and foothills.
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Albany
Cascades
Santiam
Richest Girl to Wed Poor German Envoy in Romance
Berlin reports Franlein Hertha Krupp, owner of Krupp gun works and Essen magnate, will marry Dr. Gunth von Bohlen und Halbach, secretary of the Prussian legation at the Vatican. Krupp, reputedly the world’s richest woman, runs a vast empire with 40,000 employees and owns towns, mines, churches, and museums. The match blends wealth and nobility as her public life shows simple tastes and concern for her people.
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Berlin
Franlein Hertha Krupp
Krupp
Germany
Gunth«v von Bohlen Und Halbach
Vatican
Kesen
Miss Kropp
Essen
Rainfall Breaks Record at Kansas City
Kansas City reports the greatest rainfall ever recorded with trains blocked and Seventeenth Street six feet deep in water. Floods washed corpses from graves into a sewer ditch, with many feared washed away into the Blue River. Reburials were conducted as authorities attempt to limit distress to owners and relatives.
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Kansas City
Seventeenth Street
Blue River
Northwestern to build Omaha Pacific coast link
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway plans a direct Omaha to Pacific coast route with a Portland Southern Pacific connection. A stockholders meeting in Chicago on October 18 will hear director plans for 2 miles of new Wyoming track linking existing lines and increasing capital stock from 100,400,000.
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San Francisco
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Omaha
Pacific Coast
Southern Pacific
Portland
Chicago
Marvin Hughitt
Joio
Wyoming
Hood's Pills Hood to Operate if Made by Hood
Notice reports Chicago and Northwestern stockholders meeting to approve extending the Van derbilt line to the Pacific coast. Immediate stock issue of 2.2 billion for new construction, with new preferred stock similar to Union Pacific. Current Northwestern trackage runs to Omaha and includes lines through Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin and new lines in Wyoming and Montana.
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New York
Chicago & Northwestern
Southern Pacific
Vanderbilt
Pacific Coast
Chicago Northwestern
Omaha
Elkhorn
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Montana
Unoin Pacific
Captain Ormsby testifies in Mays land fraud case
Portland reports Captain Ormsby former forest superintendent testified that he received school land certificates from Mays and sold them. He said the sale influenced his favorable government report on Blue Mountain reserve. Another witness, Colonel Wood, said Mays tried to buy grant lands before the reserve was public. Notary J L Wells testified about hiring for school land applicants.
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Portland
Bb. Ormsby
Mays
Blue Mountain Reserve
Ormsby
C. E. S. Wood
J. L. Wells
Willard Jones
Roosevelt may run again in same party ticket
London observers believe Roosevelt will seek the presidency again. The Times suggests Republicans will nominate him to counter Bryan, though Roosevelt plans to avoid using his name, he may not be able to refuse the nomination.
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London
Roosevelt
Simes
Bryan
Roosevelt endorses new spelling reform for official use
Oyster Bay reports President Roosevelt endorses Carnegie committee spelling reform for departmental documents and public correspondence. Printers and clerks ordered to unlearn traditional spelling, with a 100 word list to be distributed. London papers ridicule the move as ill-timed and harmful to language.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Carnegie Committee
London
the Globe
William the Conqueror
Forest fires blaze across mountains in Lane county
Fires burn in the mountains of Lane county with no green timber harmed so far. Geo. Kelly of Booth Kelly Lumber Co notes more fires than in years past but fire patch service by Booth Kelly and other lumber firms keeps damage to standing timber low. Valley smoke thickens. rain would help.
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Lane County
Geo. Kelly
Booth-Kelly Lumber Co
Hooth-Kelly
Beautiful camping grounds at Oregon State Fair Salem
Cleanly well supplied with good water under oak shade near post office and depot with electric car service to city. modern sanitary sewerage, whitewashed trees, electric lights. About 1300 camps, with tents leasing, inviting old timers to meet and recall pioneer days at the Northwest fairgrounds.
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Salem
Oregon
Northwest
Castors fears the God You Mase 4 ef cd cm
The fragmentary text notes fears surrounding a figure or concept referred to as the God You Mase with unclear context. No additional names, places, dates, or concrete events are readable to establish a fuller summary.
Big log drive on way down river at Albany
The largest log drive ever sent down the river is passing Albany Oregon on August 22. It aggregates millions of feet of fine timber from the McKenzie and Willamette headwaters. The drive heads to Spaulding Logging Company, which conducts this annual shipment. The lead portion had just reached Albany while the rear was approaching Corvallis, about ten miles away.
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Albany, Or
Albany
McKeniie
Willamette
Spaulding Logging Company
Corvallis
New Sawmill Planned for Marcola
Mr and Mrs Milton Bally and son Ray arrived from Carlton and report plans to build and run a new mill at Marcola with Carl Fischer. The mill is to have a daily capacity of DOM feet and machinery has been ordered arriving in days. Construction to begin soon.
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Milton Bally
Ray
Carlton
Mr. Bally
Marcola
Carl Fischer
Springfield News
Sea Wall In Galveston Safe Life Cited By Local News
Galveston’s Sea Wall makes life as safe in the city as on uplands. E W Goodloe of Waco Texas writes of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption, used five years, claiming his cough and years of decline are gone. Cures chronic coughs, grippe, croup, whooping cough and pneumonia. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed at W L DeLano’s drug store. Price 50 cents and $1. Trial bottle free.
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E. W. Goodloe
Litton St
Waco
Tex
Dr. King
W. L. DeLano
Davis held for trial in circuit court on forgery charge
Janes Davis, alleged forger, was bound over yesterday by Justice of the Peace Bryson to appear for trial in the circuit court. L Blyeu acted as counsel for the prisoner while Deputy District Attorney J M Williams represented the state. Rural mail carriers anticipate two weeks paid vacation like city carriers under the post office department policy.
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Janes Davis
Justice of the Peace
Bryson
L. Blyeu
J. M. Williams
Post Office Department
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Oregon State Fair
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Samuel Pitcher
Bears
Castor the Centaur Company
Kew YoRn
Eugene Business College
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Seld
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J. W. Quackenbush & Sons
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