Balcony Collapse Injures Sixty At Seattle Armory Meet
A balcony railing collapsed at the new national guard armory during a Seattle athletic meet. Sixty injured, none fatally as of report. Captain Maurice W. Thompson and his wife in critical condition. Several prominent locals among the injured. many students of the estate university. The fall occurred 170 feet from the gallery to the cement floor as the marathon finished directly beneath. The armory cost two hundred thousand dollars and seats six thousand in the drill floor. The railing was deemed improperly installed. city inspectors had not approved the structure.
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Seattle
New National Guard
Maurice W. Thompson
State of
Wash
Murray
Cecil Thornton
Providence Stal
O. F. Spriggs
Wilfred Duhamel
Cecil Hatfield
Teller Washington Trust Co
Gustav Havers
Seattle Horse Show Ass'n
Ross E.hibbler
Commission
C. A. Rutherford
Estate University
Francis Grant
Grant
First Wireless Messages Sent From Eugene
The piece reports the first wireless messages received by The Guard in Eugene Oregon. It notes messages from Portland Salem and Eugene and mentions Mayor Matlock returning from the McKenzie trip and sending a message to Salem’s mayor with no reply due to travel in British Columbia. Col E Hofer is cited as well.
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Salem
the Guard
Eugene, Or
Willamette Valley
E. Hofer
Matlock
The
McKenzie
British Columbia
First Wireless Telegraph Station Signals In City
The first official messages from the new wireless telegraph plant went out this afternoon after repairs. Dr. L. L. Whitson, president of the Commercial Club board, sent a message noting operation is ready and inviting residents to inspect the plant Sunday afternoon with Operator Weed on hand to explain details.
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L. L. Whitson
Board of Governors
The
Commercial Club
Matlock
Tom Richardson
Portland
Jackson
Portland Journal
Weed
Belasco Ends Long Dispute Over The Devil's Auction
New York May 6 David Belasco the theatrical manager who has already spent 1 000 000 in resisting Klaw and Erlanger to collect 6 000 of the profits of The Devil s Auction has signed a peace agreement with his old time enemies and the appeal from the judgment against Belasco has been taken out of court This is considered the last echo of the long war which was waged between the producing managers and the settlement of which was effected a few days ago.
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New York
David Belasco
Klaw & Erlanger
Belasco
Reverend Plambeck to Leave for Danish and Illinois Visit
Rev Plambeck departs Saturday for a church convention in Illinois then plans a year away visiting his parents in Denmark. He will be absent about one year and return around next spring, as community notes count. Carl Hansen of Tyler Minnesota spoke at the Dane hall Wednesday night, a recognized writer and author among Danes. Julius Neilson of Point Terrace visited this week with old friends and plans to visit his former home in Denmark.
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Plambeck
Illinois
Denmark
Carl Hansen
Tyler
Minnesota
Dane Hall
Julius Neilson
Point Terrace
Bridge Builder Sees Summer Resort Near Detroit
The man who built the new North Santiam bridge near Detroit predicts a summer resort future for the area. He notes the bridge opens access to a top camping ground, one of the best in the country.
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Detroit
Santiam
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw May Face Jail Over Fine
New York Mary Evelyn Nesbit Thaw could be jailed for contempt of court after an order was issued to arrest her for failing to pay a $250 fine from last week. A detective will escort Mrs Thaw to Ludlow Street jail for confinement until the judgment of $253 against her by a milliner is settled.
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New York
Mary
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Freshmen Team Overwhelm All TS Opponents
Oregon Freshmen dominated a field of rivals on Kincaid field winning 92 of 122 points in the academic meet. Hill Academy was second with 13, Salem third with 12, Eugene last with four. Kay of Salem swept the sprints, and Davis led the mile race as Garrabrandt aided him by drawing Burns early. Oregon athletes claimed a series of events including the hammer, pole vault, hurdles, shot put, and the 220 and 440 dashes, with Kellogg and Bailey among the top performers for the Eugene High and Oregon squads.
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University of Oregon
Kincaid Field
Hill Academy
Salem
Eugene
Bailey
Abshire
Albany
Davis
Burns
Garrabrandt
Kay
Hawkins
Latourette
Preha
Oregon
H. M.A
Lafourette
Olson
Meyer
Roberts
H. M
Meanz
Henderson
Kellogg
Watson
Sweaney
Ayshire
Gammans
Prehn
Main
Kaiser
Johns
McDaniels
Meyers
Means
Harpham
Neuman
Gabriel
Nickson
Baer
Hickson
McDaniel
Banker Killed in Boise Baseball Game
Boise May 8 Milton Bush 27 assistant cashier of the Boise State Bank died from injuries suffered in a baseball game last evening. He was struck on the head by a ball and was a member of the bankers team.
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Boise
Milton Bush
Boise State Bank
Bush
Bankers
Broken rail causes train wreck near Williford Arkansas
In Springfield Missouri on May 8 a broken rail derailed the Southeastern Limited southbound on the St Louis and San Francisco near Williford Arkansas. Eleven people were injured none fatally.
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Springfield
Southeastern Limited
St. Louis & San Francisco
Williford
Ark
Crop report shows strong wheat and rye conditions nationwide
Government crop report places winter wheat at 83.5 percent good condition and rye at 88.1 percent as of May 1, with a harvest area of about 27.9 million acres for winter wheat. Chicago notes wheat futures rebound after early profit taking, with July at 1.16 1 58 and other months showing gains.
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Washngton
V. C
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Joseph Cannon Turns Seventy Three in Washington
Washington May 7 Speaker Cannon is seventy three today receiving congratulations from House Senate and Democrats and Republicans. Born May 7 1836 in Guilford North Carolina he rose from grocery clerk to lawyer and politician. He served as state’s attorney in 1861 and moved to Danville Illinois later elected to the Forty third Congress in 1873 and has been Speaker since 1903. If he serves through this Congress he may surpass Henry Clay as the longest serving presiding officer. Andrew Steven-
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Washington, D. C
Cannon
House
Senate
Danville
Illinois
Indiana
Cincinnati
Tuscola
Ill
Cannon the Longest Serving Speaker in House History
The text notes Joseph G. Cannon serving his eighteenth term and potentially thirty eight years from 1873 to 1911 if he outlives the Sixty first Congress. It compares Reed heirs, John H. Ketcham, and lists states that furnished speakers, including Illinois’ unique contribution and a roster of other states with multiple or single speakers.
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Son
Virginia
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
Cannon
House of Representatives
John H. Ketcham
New York
General Ketcham
Schuyler Colfax
House
United States
Theodore Sedewick
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Macon
Georgia
Senate
Illinoia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Indiana
New Jersey
South Carolina
Tennessee
Maryland
Connecticut
Iowa
North Carolina
Preachers Prove Great Eaters At Basket Dinner
At a Saturday basket dinner in Monmouth, religious leaders outpaced others in appetite, with smaller guests unable to match the portions of their larger counterparts and filling pockets with extra.
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Monmouth Enterprise
Hood's Sarsaparilla Aids Cures Cited By Use
Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised for curing many hard cases through a formula that blends known medicinal ingredients. The ad claims balanced proportions and process target blood, stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, asserting it stands apart from similar medicines and can produce results others cannot. It offers liquid or Sarsatabs with 100 doses for a dollar.
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Hood
Local men buy Ingham Vinegar Plant
The Ingham Vinegar factory on Pearl street near the Southern Pacific grounds was sold by owner E. H. Ingham to W. J. Williams of Williams Transfer Co and J. B. Taylor, formerly Southern Pacific night operator. They will operate it this year, with E. J. Frasier handling the sale. Ingham started the plant four to five years ago and, though profitable here, has expanded to a larger Portland plant, but the local facility has long supplied farmers with dollars from apple products.
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Ingham
Pearl Street
Southern Pacific
E. H. Ingham
W. J. Williams
Williams Transfer Co
J. B. Taylor
E. J. Frasier
Portland
Anarchist Prospect Magazine Linked to Averbuch Death Plot
Chicago May 7 Copies of a Russian language anarchist magazine reportedly received in Chicago are linked to Jeremiah Averbuch the man who tried to kill Chief of Police Shippy a year earlier. The issue prints a purported letter from Averbuch claiming vengeance for worker mistreatment and declaring a deadly resolve.
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Chicago
Switzerland
Jeremiah Averbuch
Shippy
Averbuch
Belivelng
Eighteen Million for Good Roads in California
Del Monte Cal May unanimous endorsement from the eleventh semi annual meeting of California promotion committee to a proposed 18 million dollar bond issue for highway improvements. General Manager J P O'Brien of the O R & N company says no current plans to cross Idaho and notes surveyors are relocating for existing rights of way to preserve them. He cites rumors of Northern Pacific surveys as unfounded. Oregon Short Line may supply surveyors for a potential Oregon west from Yale with construction likely shared among Short Line Oregon Railway & Navigation and Southern Pacific.
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del Monte
Cal
California Promotion Committee
California
J. P. O'Brien
O. R. & N. Company
Lola Pass
Missoula
Idaho
Mr. O'Brien
Northern Pacific
Snake River
Snake
O'Brien
Oregon
Yale
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Southern Pacific
Death of S A Nickerson in Eugene Hospital
S A Nickerson died at Eugene hospital May 8 1909 aged 61 born in Canada. He lived in Springfield six years and leaves a wife and two daughters Mrs Stacey Russell and Miss Edna Nickerson. Funeral at Masonic cemetery Sunday with services by Eugene lodge No 11 A F and A M. Carriages from Walker's parlors at 1 30 p m.
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Eugene Hospital
S. A. Nickerson
Canada
Springfield
Stacey Russell
Edna Nickerson
Masonic Cemetery
Gordon
Eugene Lodge
A. F
J. O. Richmond
Walker
Timber land sales near Elkton to Eugene buyers
Thos. N. Grubbe sells 160 acres near Elkton to W. H. Kay of Eugene. Fannie M. Grubbe sells 45 acres of timber land near Elkton to Gardiner Mill Co. Kay now owns 525 acres on the Umpqua River near Elkton.
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Thos. N. Grubbe
Elkton
W. H. Kay
Eugene
Fannie M. Grubbe
Gardiner Mill Co
Mr. Kay
Umpqua River
Metcalf and Rich Wed in Gowdyville Cottage Grove
John Metcalf and Lillian F. Rich were married at the home of Mr and Mrs Sam McKernon in Gowdyville a suburb of Cottage Grove on Thursday evening May 6 1909 with Rev W J Gardner officiating.
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Sam McKernon
Gowdyville
Cottage Grove
John Metcalf
Lillian F. Rich
W. J. Gardner
Keep the Balance Up Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad
Truthful claim that health balance prevents trouble prompts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic. It argues the remedy preserves appetite, strength, and endurance and acts as both preventive and cure. Early use cited as wise, urging timely taken Hood's.
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Hood
Douglas County Bank Buys Roseburg Bonds
Roseburg Oregon May 7 at an adjourned city council meeting Roseburgs 25000 dollars of street paving and bridge bonds rejected last Monday by A B Leach Co of Chicago were sold to the Douglas county bank at par. Next Monday a contract will be executed with Warren Construction Company of Portland for 19 blocks of bitulithic pavement at a cost near 63000 dollars and a concrete bridge costing about 7000 dollars will be built across Deer Creek in the northern part of the city.
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Roseburg, Or
Roseburg
A. B. Leach & Co
Chicago
Douglas County Bank
Ecity
Warren Construction Company
Portland
Deer Creek
Norris and Rowe Circus Attacked Over Wages Dispute
Pendleton Oregon May 7 Norris and Rowe's circus performing today under Elks auspices was attacked twice by employees unpaid their wages. Another employee sought legal action but could not finish papers in time. Master Fish Warden McAllister reports electric lights strung 600 feet below the Rogue River dam to block fishing for the fishway.
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Pendleton, Or
Norris & Rowe's Circus
Lodge of Elks
Rogue River
Grants Pass
HH. A. McAllister
Board of Fish Commissioners
Salem
Federal Judge Overrules Hemurrer in Haskell Land Frauds
Muskogee Okla May 8 Federal Judge Gampire overruled demurrers of defendants in the 40 called Mott civil Creek Indian land suits brought by the government against Governor Charles B Haskell and other prominent Oklahomans. The decision involves millions of dollars of town lots and affects about 1500 subsequent purchasers. Judge Campbell said innocent purchasers would be protected. The suits claim lands obtained by fraudulent dummy arrangements, linking to criminal prosecutions that were quashed at Tulsa. a second grand jury is to reconvene next Monday.
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Muskogee
Okla
Gampire
Charles BE
Haskell
Campbell
United States
Tulsa
Mrs Boyle Convicted in Kidnapping Case at Mercer
Mercer Pa May 8 The jury found Mrs James Boyle guilty on the second count aiding and abetting kidnapping in the Billy Whitla case She faced the verdict calmly and warned of further disclosures with her husband claiming an unarrested third party planned the operation and pled for mercy while vowing to resist injustice rather than accept prison life
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Mercer
James Boyle
Jimmy
Miller
Boyle
Boyles
Sullivan and Herve Duel Ends in Death Bed
Albany Oregon May 8 John Henry Sullivan president of the Golden Arch Mining Co Gold Creek district Was shot in the neck during a fatal duel with William Herve at Gates yesterday and died this morning Herve is also dying Sullivan 23 was imprisoned nine years ago for a vile crime against his sister pardoned five years ago He had come to Gates to meet a girl miscommunication led to the confrontation with Herve who pledged to shoot on sight Both men fired three times before falling with one bullet piercing each man's body.
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Albany, Ore
John Henry Sullivan
Golden Arch Mining Co
Gold Creek
William Herve
Gates
Herve
Aumaville
Marion County
Sullivan
Suullivan
Sullvan
Hamilton Unable to Furnish Bail
Olympia May 8 Ortia Hamilton was arraigned and waived examination. He was held to the superior court in 10000 bail that he could not furnish.
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Hamilton
Olympia
Ortia Hamilton
Mr M Cramer Returns From Oakland to Real Estate
Rt. M. Cramer arrived from Oakland today and is now working in the local real estate market.
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Rt. M. Cramer
Oakland
Man pleads guilty to manslaughter in rooming house case
Osborne Edwards pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree after being indicted for murder in the killing of Thomas J. Metalliard at the Richelieu rooming house. Judge Bromaugh ordered the plea on the record, with sentencing to be determined after further testimony. Trial postponed previously at requests from defense and prosecution to obtain depositions, Edwards’ May 1 trial date was set.
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Osborne Edwards
Thomas J. Metalliard
Richelieu
Januart
Presidin
Bromaugh
T Gram
Hronaugh
Edwards
McGwalliard
MM McGalliard
Home
John F. Logan
North Carolina
Federal judge nomination sent to Senate for Washington seat
Washington May 8 Freeo Taft sent to the senate the nomination of George Danworth for the judge of the western district Washington J B Yarnell of Mohawk in the city for a day or so.
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Washington
Freeo Taft
Senate
George Danworth
Dhair
J.B. Yarnell
Mohawk
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Eugene, Ore. Y
the Journal
Junction City Notes
Joseph Cannon
Joseph G. Cannon
Yours
Jeremiah
Castoria
Norris & Rowe Circus
Hemurrer
Mrs. Boyle
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