Graft scandal moves advance in Pittsburg council
Pittsburg March 23 Nine more councilmanic grafters confessed guilt before Judge Hobert Fraser amid mass immunity for twenty nine former and current city lawmakers. Officials say additional confessions unlikely and broader prosecutions loom. Also in Washington Maine to be raised if Senate approves House bill. Senate backs fur seal lease termination at Pribilofs. Weekes bill to fund headwaters conservation advances in House committee.
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Hobert & Fraser
Greater Pittsburg
Washington
Maine
Havana
Senate
House
Pribaloff Islands
Pacific
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Oldfield Sets New Auto Speed Record at Daytona
Daytona Florida March 23 Harney Oldfield ran two miles in 66.87 seconds to set a new world speed record in the automobile speed trials at Daytona Beach.
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Oldfield
Daytona
Fla
Harney Oldfield
Chicago Hatpin Ban Misdemeanor for Women
A new public ordinance in Chicago makes it a misdemeanor for women to wear long hatpins in public places. Anyone caught wearing one may be arrested and fined sixty dollars.
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Chicago
Good Roads Convention Sparks Talk in Brownsville
The good roads convention held in Brownsville on Saturday has people thinking and talking, a gain noted by the Timen.
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Brownsville
The
Timen
Johnson jailed awaiting bail ahead of title bout
Promoter reports Jack Johnson the heavyweight champion was jailed at Tombs on a five thousand dollar bond after being charged with assaulting Norman Pinder in an uptown case. Trial was set for Monday but may move to April term as Johnson trains for his match with Jeffries. A warrant was issued for Pinder after his failure to appear. In Washington, Republicans plan a new rules committee with Dalzell Fassett Longworth Kahn Smith and Lawrence likely named as caucus fallout grows.
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New York
Jack Johnson
Tombs
Norman Pinder
Mulqueen
General Sessions Court
Johnson
Jeffries
Pinder
Liewigerdd
Washington
New Rules Committee
House
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Smith
Iowa
Fassett
Longworth
Ohio
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Kahn
California
Taft Returns to Washington After Six-Day Absence
President Taft returns to the capital after a six day absence. In an unrelated note Denmark Prime Minister Zahel breaks protocol by attending a royal reception wearing a black slouch hat.
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Washington
Taft
Zahel
Denmark
Oxford Varsity Wins Boat Race
Putner England March 23 The Oxford varsity defeated Cambridge by three lengths in the annual boat race on the Thames today. The largest orchard land sale of the season occurred at Hood River yesterday with Cleveland capitalists paying $45,000 for 30 acres of Oscar Vanderbilt’s orchard.
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Putner
England
Oxford ‘Varsity
Cambridge
Thames
Hood River
Cleveland
Oscar Vanderbilt
General Bell badly injured in tow car trolley crash
Major-General J Franklin Bell chief of staff of the army was badly injured and Mrs Herbert J Slocum wife of Major Slocum Seventh Infantry was killed in a collision between their automobile and a trolley car on the Tenallytown road near Washington. The chauffeur was unharmed. Mrs Slocum died en route to hospital after the crash near Georgetown bridge. General Bell was taken to Fort Meyer with multiple injuries.
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J. Franklin Bell
Army
Herbert J. Slocum
Slocum
Seventh Infantry
Tenallytown Road
Bell
Hindus Targeted in St Johns Labor Clash
Portland report says a mob attacked Hindu employees of St Johns Lumber Co after a Tuesday night riot. Several rioters were arrested with preliminary hearings expected. mill shut due to lack of workers. The company claims Hindus would not have been hired if white men could do the rough labor. The British consul plans a damages claim against the U.S. government.
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Portland
St. Johns
St. Johns Lumber Co
United States
Apartment House To Be Built At Sixth And Charnelton
Miss Yetta Wald has bought the Phil Miller residence at West Sixth and Charnelton and plans a two story frame apartment on the 80 by 80 foot lot. The old house will be moved elsewhere. Purchase price appears as 4000 dollars in the deed recorded yesterday. Mrs Wald, her mother, owns the Wald house at West Girth and Olive and other city residences and built two homes on Charnelton near the new property about a year ago.
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Yetta Wald
Mary Wald
Phil Miller
West Sixth
Charnelton Streets
Hume Estate Is Sold For 350000 In Oregon
Portland buyers Keasey Humason Jeffery purchase the Hume estate in Rogue River Valley for 350000. The holdings include 15000 acres of land with fishing rights salmon canneries water power part of Wedderburn timber land sawmills fruit canneries and farm lands in southern Oregon.
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Portland, Or
Rogue River Valley
Oregon
R. D. Hume
Rogue River
Wedderburn
Portland
Keasey, Humason & Jeffery
Hume
Southern
Grain Prices by City and Date Reported
Tacoma reports Milling blue stem 109 club 99 export blue stem 112 club 104 red Russian 102. Chicago notes May 1 113 3-4 uly 108 1-2 September 106 3-4. Portland says Wheat unchanged. J. W. Kays returns from Portland last night.
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Tacoma
Chicago
Gasoline motor service to run Springfield to Albany
A Southern Pacific agent announced that starting Monday March 28 a gasoline motor train will operate on the east side branch between Springfield and Albany. The new service aims to improve passenger travel toward the north, with cars seen en route to Medford for further extension to Grants Pass and Ashland. Schedule details were not released.
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A. J. Gillette
Southern Pacific Company
East Side
Springfield
Albany
Eugene
Medford
Grants Pass
Ashland
Coburg
Right of Way through Malheur Canyon for Boise & Western
Ontario March 22 The Boise and Western railroad, likely a Hillroad, has secured almost all right of way along Malheur canyon from Yale to the canyon mouth 125 miles west. Scrip paid on government land, $150,000 spent, with condemnations pending on several small sections. The line aims Boise to Marshfield Oregon with a two-track canyon and a 300 mile water grade from Ontario to the interior, offering easy grades to Ontario summit and onward to Portland Coos Bay or San Francisco. Coos Bay harbor expected to grow, aiding seagoing traffic.
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Ontario
Boise & Western Railroad
Malheur Canyon
Yale
Malheur Gap
Northern Pacific
Boise & Western
C. E. 8. Wood
Portland
J. W. McCulloch
William Hanley
Burns
Vale
Oregon
Boise
Marshfield
Coos Bay
Malheur
Snake River
San Francisco
Northbound Local Train to Stop at Eugene for Lunch
A new Southern Pacific schedule starts Monday March 28 with little change to Eugene arrivals and departures. No. 20 noon northbound local will stop twenty minutes daily for lunch, arriving 12:18 and leaving about 12:40, expediting lunch previously delayed until Albany after 1:30. Douglas county mineral deposits expected to yield wealth soon per Roseburg Review.
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Eugene
Albany
Douglas County
The
Roseburg Review
Ford machine makes splendid run to Martins Rapids
A Ford automobile driven by Capt. W. Moon and Abe Gilbert completed a difficult Eugene to Martins Rapids test drive in three hours and forty minutes. They faced mud and poor road conditions, yet arrived ahead of schedule and continued to Martin's Rapids to await the return stage. The pair reported no damage and praised the machine's performance.
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Ford Machine
Martin’s
Eugene
Martin's Rapids
McKenzie River
Capt. W. 8
Meyers Becomes LaGrande Mayor As City Plans Reform
F L Meyers succeeds M K Hall as LaGrande mayor. The new administration faces a near beer license hike to 1000 dollars per year. City projects include a 40000 dollar sewer system, 22 blocks of Ostalible paving, and 27 miles of macadam streets.
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F. L. Meyers
LaGrande
M. K. Hall
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House Committee On Agriculture
Oxford
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Cell Chie
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J. W. Kays
Springfield and
S. P. Company
Ofeneral Arnmry
Boise and Western
Idaho
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