Veterans Annual Reunion Plans In Eugene Highlight
The Lane County Veterans Association committee met at J. Gates to arrange the June 15 2 reunion in Eugene inviting Spanish American War veterans and urging business and residents to decorate. J F Gates named decoration chair as wartime veterans C C Hammond and J Hull join decoration and reception committees. Ladies from the W R C and L O G A R assist. Officials aim to surpass prior reunions in attendance and interest.
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Lane County Veterans’ Association
Eugene
J. ¥. Gates
J. F. Gates
Cc. A. Baker
R. H. Miller
C. J. Dodd
OC. C. Hammond
J. Hull
Veterans’ Association
Cottage Grove Bank to Erect New Brick Building
Cottage Grove officers let the contract for a 25 by 60 foot brick bank building with plate glass front. Work to begin this week with opening planned in sixty days. railway work continues as rails spike to ties and grade progress proceeds amid material delays.
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Cottage Grove Bank
Hubble
Gradtm
R. E Walker
Walker
J. H. Chambers
Chambers Lumber Company
Dorena
Mesurs, Russell
San Francisco
West
Russian doume adopts ply to czar speech amid peasant unrest
Report notes the doume finally adopts a mode of address to the czar despite strong peasant protests. An eight quake震 shock is recorded across San Jose Oakland and BF point with no damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doume
San Joss
Oakland
BF Point
City Council Moves To Grant Electric Street Railway Franchise
Last night the council debated a proposed ordinance granting Willamette Valley Co a franchise to build and operate an electric street railway from depot to university with center street tracks. Extensions include a 16 trips daily window, graveling streets, time limits 11 pm to 6 am, new deposits for good faith and city revenue terms, and construction deadlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willamette Valley Co
Chambers, Hengen, Wood and Paxton
Willamette Valley Company
Bean
Miss Woodruff Crowned Queen at Made in Oregon Fair
The Portland fair officials named Miss Gertrude Woodruff as Queen of the Made in Oregon exposition. Also listed were Miss A P Porter as Mount Hood queen, Miss Ruth Burkhart floral queen, Miss Leona Way Willis Oregon queen, Miss Elsie Woodruff Progress queen, Miss Emma Tell Sacajawea, and attendants Miss Ada Rhodes and Miss May Strein.
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Oregon’ Fair At
Portland
Gertrude Woodruff
Oregon’ Exposition
A. P. Porter
Queen Mount Hood
Ruth Burkhart
Leona Way Willis
Ore
Elsie Woodruff
Queen Progress
Emma Tell
Sacajawea
Ada Rhodes
May Strein
Mayor Proclaims Clean-Up Friday For Eugene May 25
Eugene’s mayor issues a proclamation designating Friday May 25 1000 as clean-up day urging all citizens to tidy both public and private premises. He calls for school dismissal and strongest cooperative effort to set a citywide example and involve children in the effort.
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Eugene
Wilkins
Gene
Why Chamberlain Should Be Re elected
A Salem Daily Statesman rebuttal lists reasons for Governor Chamberlain to be re elected citing loaned 750000 school funds yielding 44 per year for children, state land department reforms, owed deeds from non residents, cancellation and re sale of certificates, removal of graft by land brokers, and reform of lieu lands with higher value. It notes land actions saved the school fund from losses and uncovered forged applications leading to convictions.
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Chamberlain
Salem Daily Statesman
Oregon
Lou
State Land Department
Allen
Letter List Eugene May Seventeenth Names and Firms
A fragmented letter list from Eugene dated May seventeenth includes individuals such as Campbell Ernest Curtis Nancy L Davis Mrs Clara Donaldson S J Gulf Lambert Co care John Deland Kingsley Eugene Knowlton Mrs Harry Parrott H G Price Hugh Whittaker A E Wood W Raymond J L Page P M. The text also advertises Apilleter’s Rocky Mountain Tea touted as a great baby medicine with unclear claims and garbled pricing.
Fewer Rations at Army Relief Stations in San Francisco
San Francisco reports a drastic cut in daily rations from 200000 to 5000 and a reduction in supply stations from several to smaller numbers as community kitchens replace raw food distribution. Twenty kitchens will meet city needs within a week, signaling broader aid reduction.
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San Fancisco
Ferry
San Francisco
Pardee
Freedom Plea for Mitchill Echoes from Cot age Grove
From Cot age Grove Oregon a young wife appeals to Seattle papers for the release of George Mitchill who avenged his sisters by slain the Holy Roller leader Creffield. Her mother once devout but influenced by Creffield abandoned sober life under his spell. She describes the preacher’s vile doctrine of free love and perverse sermons drawn from biblical tales.
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Seattle
Wash
Cotage Grove
Holy Roller Greffield
George Mitcheill
Creffield
Christ
Ann
Mary of Old
Joseph
Joseph of
Old
Mitch ‘Ll
Holy Rollers Reach Corvallis After Coast Stranding
Covallis May 17 The Holy Rollers stranded at Creffield's camp on the coast arrived in Corvallis late last night in apparent good condition though tired Frank Dart left the camp Friday after a week long raid of flour rice and groceries Hart arranged for supplies and the party proceeded to Seattle Monday Victims named include Mrs Bert Starr of Port and Mrs Frank Hart and her baby along with Olive Sandell Miss May Hart and Miss Alte Brug
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Covallis, Or
Crefield
Corvallies
Frank Dart
Corvallis
Hart
Seattle
Creffieldiam
Mra
Bert Starr
Port
Frank Hart
Baby
Her Jeter
Mise Olive Sandell
Miss Maylart
Miee Alte Brug
Forest fires devastate northern Michigan structures
Escubana and Escanaba reports describe fires sweeping a 100 square mile area in northern Michigan with no confirmed fatalities due to communication gaps. About 600 people are homeless as three trainloads arrive for aid while the blaze advances toward Peshtigo Wisconsin and Alger county. A relief train was lost, and a report confirms three children burned at Quinnesec amid ongoing search and rescue efforts.
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Escubana
Mich
Michigan
Goose Lake
Escanaba
Peshtigo
Wisconsin
Stambaugh
Alger County
Quinnesec
English Women Demand Suffrage March to Premier Ban derman
Nearly 400 women suffragists escorted by forty parliament members presented their claims to Premier Campbell Bannerman who refused to pledge when women will be allowed to vote.
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London
Campbell Banderman
Presbyterian relief for disabled ministers debated in Des Moines
Des Moines reports the Presbyterian assembly considered relief for 052 disabled ministers of the organization. It was voted to levy each member ten cents to raise 24,000,000 for a fund for the ministers and their families.
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Des Moines
The
Presbyterian Assembly
Fuller Hanged at Butte Montana
Butte Montana May 18 Miles Fuller 65 was hanged for the murder of Harry J Callahan in October 194. Fuller claimed kinship with Chief Justice Fuller and had long been known as a bad man. The victim was a mining hermit.
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Butte
Mont
Miles Fuller
Harry J. Callahan
Fuller
Vietim
Anarchist Prisoner Alexander Darkman Freed After 14 Years
Pittsburg May 18 Charles Darkman, held fourteen years for shooting and injuring H C Frick, was released today from the workhouse. His head was shaved to mark him as an anarchist and aid recognition by police.
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Pittsburg
Alexander Darkman
H. C. Frick
Ohio files suit against Standard Oil decoys
Columbus Ohio May 18 Attorney General Ellis has begun proceedings against the Standard Oil Co by enacting the Vacuum Oil and Manhattan Companies for alleged violations. Both are alleged to be Standard decoy companies fighting the real independents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ellis
Standard Oil Co
Vacuum Oil
Manhattan
Standard
Typhoon raging in Philippines
Manila reports severed telegraphic links with provinces as a violent typhoon sweeps the islands. Early dispatches indicate damage in Manila is light but no clear reports from provincial areas have arrived.
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Manila
Railroad Line Huntington to Lewiston Planned
The Oregon Short Line announces the Northwestern Company has purchased the old right of way. Engineers are in the field and construction is anticipated soon from Huntington Oregon to Lewiston Idaho.
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Salt Lake
Oregon Short Lineneadquarters
Northwestern Company
Way of
Northwest Company
Huntington
Oregon
Lewiston
Idaho
Senate Passes Railroad Rate Bill After Lengthy Debate
Washington May 19 After seventy days of delib eration the Senate passed the railroad rate bill by a nearly unanimous vote. Foraker Morgan and Pettus were the only negatives. The measure drew heavy attention since the repeal of the Sherman act clause and prompted long speeches, some lasting more than a day.
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Washington
Tite
Foraker
Ohio
Morgan and Pettus
Alabama
Senate
Congress
Dusiness
la Follette
Wisconsin
Daniel
Virginia
Bailey
Lodge
Raynor
Dolliver
Combination mine sold at Bohemia in Oregon
The Combination mine on Martin creek Bohemia district was sold to Sherman Clarke and PL W Hopkins representing the Combined Mines and Mill Company. A Wilde mill with a Wilfley table will be installed and work on a new wagon road to the property will begin soon. Over 1000 feet of development tunnels exist with the main tunnel at 600 feet in good ore. The company plans a complete concentrating plant and mill to process the ore. The property lies below the Great Eastern and two miles below the Star Consolidated properties.
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Martin Creek
Bohemia District
Sherman Clarke
PL W. Hopkins
Combined Mines and Mill Company
Dean Cabin
Great Eastern
Star Consolidated
Cottage Grove Nugget
Italian Cabinet Resigns in Rome
In Rome on May 18 the Italian cabinet tendered its resignations today, signaling a major political shift.
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Rome
Cabine
Mrs Davis Improves Amid Turbulent Divorce Case Notes
May 18 report notes Mrs Emerson Davis shows improvement while Levis Hartley, connected with Cor a Hartley and Clorge Mitchell, involves a sensational divorce action in Renton county circuit court. A witness paper supports Mitchell in Creffield following a shooting, as legal proceedings unfold amid public attention.
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Levis Hartley
Erger
Clorge Mitchell
Crefield
Poly Roller
Renton County
Cironit
Cora A Hartley
Creffield
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East
Eugene, Oregon
Cottage Grove
City Council
East Fifteenth and
High Streets
Miss Woodruff
BIG Fair
Deng Co
Selby
Rocky Mountain
Liam Brug Co
Cian Bere
Committee On Transportation
Pacific Coast
Greffield
Goadeulon Sete
Chai
Uber
Marquette
DesMoines
Presbyterian Tesembly
Cumberland Assembly
Decath
Montana
Barkman
Typhon
Philippines
Senate Today
Commission
Rayner
Teller
Charles S. Sperry
Bohemia
New York
Ifmerson Davis
Chambers
Thrtleara
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