Current Events Of The Week Condensed For Busy Readers
Germany borrows again in New York while Seattle brokers quote 10 cents on a $100 Columbia Orchard bond. The president names Chan cellor Pitney for the Supreme Court. Iron workers union resolutions tied to explosions are alleged by government agents. Aviator Atwood advances a hydro aeroplane to cross the Atlantic with one fuel stop. Taft brother subpoenaed over Paymaster Bay inquiries. Washington court rules stenographer not a mechanic under eight hour law. Judge Gilbert says corporations may not block homesteading prices. Knox cancels Central America trip due to Panama site tensions. A masked robber takes $600 from a Maryland sleeping car. Lumber dealers blame mail order houses for lumber trust talk. Seattle forms $6 million mining concession company for Peru. Japan’s ambassador signals cooperation on China. Rockefeller interests lose bid for Waters-Pierce control. A Pennsylvania train wreck claims three lives. Ironworker charges cite knowledge of dynamiting. Skagway grand jury indicts 17 businessmen for wharfage monopoly. Maine wreck rescuer chloroformed by a country doctor.
Market Prices for Wheat to Livestock This Season
Grain and produce prices list Bluestem at 90c, red Russian 85c, valley barley 86c, bran $22.50 per ton, middlings $30, rolled barley $38. Hay values show No 1 Eastern Oregon timothy $17 18, alfalfa $18, clover $11, corn new $34 ton, oats No 1 white $32 2 33 per ton. Livestock quotes cover cattle, hogs, sheep with ranges for steers $60 76.60, hogs $6.50 6.75, yearlings $4.50 4.75, lambs $4.75 5.0, etc. Prices for fruits and vegetables include Rome beauty apples $2.50 box, Spitzenbergs $2.75, cabbage 1 llor per pound, pumpkins 2c per pound, and onions $2.25 per sack.
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Oregon
Valley
Burbanks
Onions—Association
Baldwin
Ben Davis
Aviator Sandt Survives Lake Erie Crash Walks to Shore
Earl Sandt, first US Great Lakes flyer to Canada, crashed ten miles west of his Northeast route on Lake Erie. Injured, he regained consciousness, walked ten miles to Northeast shore aided by a compass, then was taken to Erie by special car amid crowds and band music.
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Erie
Earl Sandt
Great Lakes
United States
Canada
Lake Erie
Northeast
Sandt
Worl
Whitman Aids Billiard Tables At Billings Hall
The Whitman College YMCA moves to install billiard and pool tables in Billings Hall dormitory to spare students from visiting pool halls. Local donors back the project with funds. George Cole, senior and student manager, leads the effort and faces past Methodist conference issues but remains a top athlete and popular leader.
Brigand sieges Macheng as authorities strike down outlaws
In Macheng, a Chinese town attacked by brigands. armed bands enter and exit while residents stay inside walls. Authorities recently captured and severely harmed nearly 1,000 brigands as efforts to stamp out outlawry continue.
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Tientsin
Macheng
Railroads Agree to Issue Clean Bills of Lading
San Francisco attorneys for 35 railroads have agreed before the State Railroad Commission to issue clean bills of lading. Previously railroads avoided responsibility for shortages when carrier agents did not personally check goods. Shippers demanded the check, and the agreement meets that demand.
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San Franccisco
State Railroad Commission
High Cost of Living Probe Announced by New York Magistrate
Magistrate Murphy will investigate the high cost of necessities with District Attorney Whitman likely prosecuting many speculators. The inquiry initially targets butter and eggs and is expected to involve about 150 defendants in criminal actions.
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New York
Murphy
Whitman
Morse on Way to Recovery in Atlanta After Pardon
Charles W. Morse, formerly jailed banker and recently pardoned for wrecking a New York bank, is expected to recover enough in Atlanta to return to Wall Street, says his personal physician Dr. A L Fowler after two years of a 15 year sentence.
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Atlanta
Charles W. Morse
New York
Wall Street
A. L. Fowler
Morse
Gomez Directs Mexican Reels as siege looms near Torreon
Emiliano Vasquez Gomez announces provisional Mexican presidency in exile in San Antonio. He backs the plan of Tacubaya and urges neutrality in the Mexican conflict while arguing the Madero government must fall for not enacting San Luis Potosi. Rebels threaten Torreon amid rail disruptions and looming looting fears.
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San Antonio
Tex
Emiliano Vasquez Gomes
Mexico
Tacubaya
Gomez
America
Madero Governent
San Luis Potosi
Wickersham Pushes Easier Impeachment for Judges
St Louis attorney general William Howard Wickersham urged simplifying the impeachment process for judges in a City Club address on national stability. He argued independent judges guard duty despite clamor, and called for workable machinery to try charges, noting discontent with legislative bodies and support for direct popular election of officials.
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St. Louis
Wickersham
City Club
Mr. Wickersham
Dogs Convey Delegate Herron Heads to Cordova Rally
Nome delegate Herron with 60 proxies begins a 2000 mile dog team journey to the territorial Republican convention in Cordova on March 30. He is instructed to cast Taft votes in Chicago and may travel by horse stage or dog team via Chitina and the Copper River railroad, aiming to finish by dog teams.
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Nome
Charles Herron
Nome Judicial District
Cordova
Taft
Chicago
Fairbanks
Pullman reports steady sleeping car travel and earnings
The Pullman company states that sleeping car travel remains strong and earnings break even despite last year’s berth rate cuts. They note a larger volume of first class travel than a year ago and say comparisons with the prior year look more favorable this month and in the months to come.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
London-Graham Gilmour Killed in Aeroplane Crash
British aviator London-Graham Gilmour died when his monoplane buckled and fell from 380 feet near Brooklands. He had started a flight from the Brooklands aerodrome at about 60 miles per hour when the accident occurred.
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London
Graham Gilmour
Broocklands
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Huististlac
Emilio Zapata
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el Paso
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Orozco
Juarez
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