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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
2
Train timetables list daily departures from Independence and Monmouth to Dallas Airlie and return. Services include Nos 64 68 70 and 71 78 with morning and afternoon runs, plus reverse trips Nos 65 69 61 62 72 detailing departure times and arrival times for connections at Monmouth and Airlie.
Leaving Independence at 7 30 a m and 3 30 p m the rider reaches the McNary crossing in time to connect with east bound and both directions trains. Return at 4 49. Fare 50 cents per trip.
International Correspondence School reports a Scranton case naming Reed of 238 Alder Street as the representative. The brief notes a civil action involving plaintiff Reed seeking redirection or service of process from the International Correspondence School branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
John W Gates suffers illness as a fleet of 12 torpedo cars heads from San Francisco to Portland and Seattle. A Hu a Wash prospector finds a long lost mine near Badger Lake after 28 years. A clash over male versus female leadership rages in the National Educational association. Seattle plans another expedition for the Cocos Island treasure with about 100000 dollars recovered previously. A derailment near Shearer's Bridge leaves one dead and many injured. An Oregon City woman loses a $1000 diamond ring while pear picking. search efforts fail. A Tacoma Italian citizen case ends with him renouncing allegiance. Salem hosts a cherry fair as Taft visits the Mayflower. American archers scout British Columbia wildlife. Heat waves scorch the East with highs: Chicago 61 New York 44 Philadelphia 14 Boston 43. Portland logs 500 loaves of brown bread burned while hunting for the ring.
A dense catalog of prices for farm commodities, including Bluestem, corn, barley, oats, and oats products. fresh fruits such as strawberries, cherries, and cantaloupes. vegetables including asparagus, beans, cabbage, and lettuce. poultry, butter, pork, veal, wool, and cattle. Prices cover ton, hundredweight, per box or crate, and per pound figures with numerous company and measurement details.
The coroner jury blamed Engineer Thomas Myles of train No. 102 for the Oregon Trunk wreck near The Dalles. The six victims included a six month old child and residents from Warm Springs, Ellsworth, Sheridan, Seattle, and a Warm Springs Indian school student. Officials cited excessive speed and orders to slow for the Shoo Fly curve.
A series of fires devastate Bay City and nearby towns. Au Sable and Oscoda face wild destruction with refugees moved by steamer and trains. Cheboygan, Alpena, Lewiston, Alger, Turner confront blaze origins from sawdust piles and slab yards. Michigan Central lines suffer heavy damage near Grayling.
In Viterbo Italy Captain Fabioni of the Carabiniers denounced the Camorra as the world’s most despicable crime ring. Erricone, a leading prisoner, sprang at the bars as Fabioni testified, shouting incoherently, and a clash with defense lawyer Bovio was averted only by court attaches' intervention.
The Federal Express wreck in Bridgeport results in twelve deaths and 44 injuries as a 20 foot embankment pile blocks debris. Four victims remain unidentified while the coroner's office handles inquiries from across the country.
Reports indicate talks on revising the Anglo Japanese alliance have been under way for weeks. Britain may seek to modify mutual aid clauses so the agreement would not apply if either nation is at war with a country already bound by an arbitration treaty.
Seattle Mayor Dilling orders Chief Bannick to ensure orderly sailors receive proper treatment in all city amusements after a complaint from R L Ghormley flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Southerland about three sailors being barred from the Rathskellar Friday night. Management disclaims responsibility.
George Mortimer of New York tells the convention that plans for a 100 story building standing 1200 feet high have been drawn and a structure of such height is a near future probability in New York City.
The Santa Rosa of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company ran aground at Point Argillon early Friday. The vessel split in two with 284 aboard. three officers and several crew died, while many passengers are unaccounted. Rescue efforts spread through night as boats and nets saved women and children amid heavy surf.
An effort to force woman suffrage upon the National Education Association is proposed by a man, John Frutela Murray, ex-State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Colorado, at the convention. The move targets teachers and argues for suffrage as a boost to education policy.
Denver secretary of the Colorado-Wyoming Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Louis I Heilman, was arrested on a federal indictment from the Northern Illinois grand jury. Conspiracy to interfere with interstate trade is the charge and he is held on $5000 bond. Report says over 160 lumbermen in Colorado and Wyoming may be involved.
The Venezuelan Government sends two battalions on the warship General Loquito to the Guajira Peninsula to counter any Castro landing as Cipriano Castro remains exiled and a potential danger.
A board of naval experts is to study the hull of the damaged Maine in Havana harbor as water is pumped from the cofferdam. Navy officials expect the examination to clarify findings of the Sampain board about the cause of the explosion, while General Dix reports unwatering may not determine the origin of the magazine explosion.
Cincinnati prosecutors accuse Judge Tickvon of mutilating Cox perjury case rewards and seek a confrontation to settle the quarrel. The judge allegedly offered personal combat as a settlement while Avery and another prosecutor confronted Judge Dickson after he quashed the Cox indictment and altered the bill of exceptions meant to advance the case to the state Supreme Court.
In a symbolic race from Coney Island a donkey and an elephant head toward the White House to forecast the 1912 election. Several hundred Democratic backers rally to the donkey while Republican supporters back the elephant as the trail passes through Trenton Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Thomas Fisher was fined after arraignment on a disturbance charge for tooting a large bass horn in public on the Fourth. An arresting officer called Fisher’s noise “an awful” disturbance during the hearing involving Mayor Sawyer and the Yankee Doodle tune.
Chicago faces a sweltering week with a death toll rising by about fourteen daily losses, infant mortality doubling, and thousands seeking aid as heat and drought devastate crops. Oklahoma reports near-total crop losses while Galveston notes cattle deaths from drought.
California produce prices soar as frost and heat reduce crops. Early potatoes faced frost, boosting home and export demand. Government contracts drained local supplies. current costs to the government reach 2.63 dollars per hundred, up from 1.14 last year, with fruits likely to follow Eastward demand.
Hartford City residents faced an ice famine as the final 140 pounds were distributed to families with illness. No ice had been sold for two days in residence districts while grocers, butchers, ice cream makers, soda fountains, and saloon owners pleaded for shipments but were refused by suppliers in other cities.
In South Bend Washington the first six woman jurors were summoned to Justice P. W. Rhodes court to hear a Chicago advertising firm’s lawsuit against a local merchant alleging contract violation. The jurors, among the city’s most prominent women, expressed satisfaction at serving.
Clement Bayard IV began a 24 hour trial at 10 50 PM Saturday between Compeigne and Soissonnais, landing at 2 45 PM Sunday, beating the airship record for time and distance on a fixed circuit.
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