Current Week News Notes Span Wars and Markets
A patchwork of items from the week covers tariff debates on wool, stock exchange penalties, and prison sentences for crooked operators in New York. Reports include an unidentified airship near Fort Stevens, fines for English tourists in New York, and a note on cotton tariff reductions. Also noted are Carnegie, Morgan, and steel price claims, the Northwest lumber ban, and reactions to Prohibition era policies.
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Concee
Northwest
Andrew Carnegie
Steeltrast
Sulzer
New York
Chicago
Arizona
Washington
Wilson
Seattle
Fort Stevens
Clatsop Beach
Stockholm
Portland Markets Grain and Produce Prices Across Oregon
Prices listed for wheat, barley, oats, bran and shorts, timothy and alfalfa hay, fresh apples pears and potatoes. Dairy, poultry and meat rates noted with regional figures for Portland Oregon markets, including cattle hogs sheep and wool prices and 1912 1913 crop terms.
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T . Hag
Mixgdy
Oregon
Timothy
Interstate Span Assured Bridge Plan Gains Bipartisan Backing
Oregon and Washington senators pledge support for a cross state bridge project. A secret meeting between representatives from both states discusses financing and likely use of bonds via a Multnomah county method. Washington backs a six member interstate commission to lead the effort after launch.
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Washington
Oregon
Jr He Og
Multnomah
Interstate Commission
Interstate Columbia River Bridge Urged as Northwest Key
At a Portland Commercial Club dinner, Senator Ralph Nichols of Seattle and other Oregon Washington lawmakers urged the Columbia River interstate bridge project as the most necessary highway link for regional development. Portland leaders echoed the stance calling the bridge the greatest recent Northwest upbuilding effort and a likely reality.
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Portland
Columrbia ‘River
Oregon
Washington
Ralp Nichols
Seattle
Commercial Club
Columbia River
Vancouver
Hoboes Run A foul of Laws Delays National Hobo Meet
New Orleans authorities disrupt the annual convention as delegates from Mississippi Alabama and Arkansas face vagrancy arrests in the city Police insist suspects provide full self accounts or await Mardi Gras James Eads Howe and Jefferson Davis pursue a new venue to hold the gathering after failed rental attempts
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Alabama
Arkansas
Jefferson Davis
Workers of America
New Orleans House of Detention
Reynol
James Eads Howe
St. Louis
Hobo
Davis
O'Gorman Speaks on Free Tolls Policy in DC
Senator O'Gorman of New York indicates that the incoming Wilson administration should follow the Democratic stance on free tolls for the Panama Canal. He notes that Democrats who back restore of free tolls must wait for a national convention declaration, recalling the last convention’s unanimous support for free tolls.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
O'Gorman
New York
Gorman
Girls donate skin to aid burns victim in Oklahoma blaze
Kansas City girls aged up to 16 volunteered to donate skin to treat 10 year old Reba Hainds who survived a Christmas fire that killed her parents and baby sister and destroyed the Hainds farm near Arnett Oklahoma. More skin grafts from ten additional volunteers are needed to complete the operation amid widespread facial burns.
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Kansas City
Reba Hainds
Hainds
Arnett
Okla
Fright Cause of Death in Milwaukee Saloon
In Milwaukee a saloonkeeper William Youngquist died during a break in when his son in law and a friend tried to enter the building to clean up. A gunshot was fired after Youngquist refused entry. He died on the floor though the bullet did not strike him.
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Milwaukee
Wis
William Youngquist
Youngquist
Collision sinks Pangani. 26 crew perish in English Channel
Twenty six crew members die as the German bark Pangani sinks after a fog collision with the French steamer Phryne in the English Channel. The Pangani goes down Wednesday, leaving only wreckage and rescued survivors.
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Havre
Phryne
Suffragists Take A Hand In Oregon Public Affairs
Salem reports that Oregon women with voting rights are showing interest in public matters. Members of the house received 12 to 20 letters from ladies aid societies and social clubs opposed to a bill by Schubel of Clackamas. The letters, sent by a timber interests lobby, urged legislators and were remailed to the lawmakers.
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Salem
Oregon
Ain
Schubel
Clackamashh
Nlae
Paper makers visit Salem to oppose Dimick eight hour bill
A large group from Oregon City's mills traveled by special train to Salem to testify before the senate committee on industries. Residents, officers, stockholders, and mill employees said there is no desire to reduce hours, citing good health and high wages versus British Columbia and Washington mills. Chairman Smith challenged Hawley mill for an 18 hour weekly shift.
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Salem
Oregon City
Senate
Dimick
British Columbia
Washington
Smith
Hawley
Preferential Ballot Bill Aims to Clarify U S Senate Election
Salem discussion explains a house bill by Representative Lawrence to use a preferential ballot for governor, senators and representatives. Voters rank candidates in columns. if no first choices exceed 51 percent a combined tally of first second and third choices yields the winner by plurality.
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Salem
Lane
United States
Lawrence
Multnomah
Salem Senate Reconsiders State Institutions Inquiry
In Salem a Senate move to reconsider a wholesale investigation of state institutions is debated amid charges and counter charges. The governor’s forthcoming message on penitentiary scrutiny is read, with calls for a thorough, fair probe rather than perfunctory inquiries. Senator Wood and Senator Miller weigh in on the process.
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Salem
Senate
Lewelling
Wood
Miller
Smith
Coos
Curry
Oregon Senate Debates Electing Road Supervisors by People
The Salem senate session centered on Senator Dimick’s bill to elect road supervisors by voters rather than appoint by County courts. Dimick rebuked many senators for opposing the bill while the previous day they celebrated elections of United States senators by the people.
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Salem
State Senate
Dimick
United States
Salem Legislative Appropriations Grow Through Week
Appropriations requests in Salem climb as lawmakers tally 3.4 million already with more bills in sight. Total demands reportedly exceed 9 million if future requests are not trimmed, with highway and irrigation projects among the largest asks and pruning promised to curb excess.
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Salem
Legislative Assembly
van der Hellen
Columbia Southern Irrigation Project
Weekly Pay Day Proposal Aims to Enforce Weekly Wages
Salem bill seeks weekly pay for workers across many industries including mining, quarrying, lumbering, canning, iron and steel, lumber, machinery, and mercantile trades. The measure covers railroad and street railway workers and those in building trades or public works.
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Salem
Thompson
Vetoed Bills Pass Across Legislature In Rebuke
Both houses rejected the governor’s stance on the Thompson bill as five vetoed measures passed despite his objections. In the House votes ranged from 55 to 4 to 46 to 9 and 65 to 2 with many absentees. in the Senate 27 opposed the governor while only Mc Culloch Miller and Van der Hellen supported him amid a crowded lobby.
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Salem
Legislative Assembly
Thompson
Senate
House
Senate Chamber
McCulloch
Miller
van der Hellen
Salem Senate Narrowly Divides Over Home Rule Amendment
The senate debated repealing the 1910 home rule amendment with Calkins and Miller presenting minority and majority reports respectively. An effort to make the subject an especial order faced and then secured passage later in the session.
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Salem
Senate
Calkins
Miller
Salem Expresses Free Parcel Delivery Bill Introduction
Salem express firms would deliver free parcels to all parts of Oregon towns if Representative Parsons of Lane succeeds with his bill. The measure would apply to express parcels addressed to residents in towns with an office or depot.
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Salem
Oregon
Parsons
Lane
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