News Notes of Current Week
The senate probes suffrage parade riots amid Europe war rumors and a Scotland explosion. A British ship wrecks on a Florida reef with $1,000,000 in cargo. Massachusetts hats law fines women for hatpin points. Friedmann serum shows TB patients improving. Women storming King George’s coach jailed in London. St Louis meat cold storage limits may raise prices. A US cavalryman wounds an officer at Ysleta and kills himself. Allied Turks likely to be exterminated at Scutari. San Francisco thief loots totaling $50,000 hidden at St Francis hotel. Tacoma finds 18 opium tins on ship cook and 230 more, worth $10,000. Railroad combines unmerging plans discussed. Bryan evasive. Mexican troops move to rebels from Agua Prieta. Friedmann inoculates consumptives with anti TB serum. Porter Bros buy 102,000 acres in Linn county for $4,000,000. Portland officer to seize embezzlement suspect from Dublin.
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King George
London
St. Louis
U. S
Ysleta
Tex
Portland Markets Show Wide Ranges Across Agricultural Items
Wheat and barley prices listed for Club, bluestem, red Russian and more. Corn, millstuffs, hay, oats, apples and onions with varied prices per ton, sack, or crate. Poultry, eggs, butter, pork, veal, hops, wool, cattle, hogs, sheep quotes included with ranges and specific grades.
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Oregon
Timothy
Arkansas
Baldwin
Choice
Rome
Ben Davis
Desperate fight erupts in Parral Chihuahua siege
Belated dispatches report a 50 hour battle at Parral with heavy casualties as 1500 constitutionalistas clash with about the same number of federal troops. Rebels briefly retake hills then abandon the city amid street fighting and mob violence.
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el Paso
Tex
Parral
Chihuahua
Huerta
Santa Barbara
Chihuahua City
Mercado
Castro
Constitutionalistas
Wilson Is Canada's Friend and Neighbor
The British ambassador to the United States told the Canadian club that President Wilson's attitude toward Canada is friendly and that future U S Canada relations are likely to be more intimate. He urged keeping Canadian and British politics in separate compartments and warned against wide scale armament as unnecessary between neighboring nations.
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Montreal
James Bryce
Woodrow Wilson
Canada
United States
Bryce
Great Britain
Big Farms Are Not Typical in Iowa Testimony
Farmers, dairymen and implement dealers testified for International Harvester in a government monopoly case. Attorney Grosvenor presented Iowa data showing only 214 of 217000 farmers own over 1000 acres. George W. Crossly, a farmer witness, said harvesting gear is a small share of total farm machinery and that $350 of his $3000 machinery value is harvesting equipment.
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Omaha
International Harvester Company
Iowa
Grosvenor
George W. Crossly
Crossly
Veto Delay Hints Amnesty Bill Standstill in Havana
No official word on President Gomez vetoing the general amnesty bill. Government likely to delay publication to avoid anti American indignation and allow a leaders conference to craft a new bill removing features objectionable to the American government.
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Havana
Gomez
Wilson teetotal policy sparks debate in British papers
London editorials rebuke President Wilson for aiming to appear a crank as the London Standard condemns the move. The Daily Mail notes about 100 teetotalers in the House of Commons and argues Wilson’s ideas would not suit most British and Irish members.
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London
Wilson
White House
London Standard
Daily Mail
House of Commons
Utah Senate Passes Teachers Pension and Workers Act
Salt Lake City teachers would retire at age 60 on half pay under a new pension bill funded by a 1 percent salary deduction. The measure also creates a pension fund and passes an employers stability and workman’s compensation act.
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Salt Lake City
Senate
Utah
Friedmann Holds Clinic On Tuberculosis Vaccine
Dr. Friedrich Friedmann treated seventeen tubercular patients at a private New York clinic with a vaccine he claimed could cure tuberculosis. The Berlin physician announced the clinic after earlier fears over his treatment led to cancellation of a demonstration at People’s Hospital. Eleven pulmonary cases, two knee, two kidney and bladder, one hip, and one gland were among those treated. A Washington health official will oversee forthcoming tests, with several physicians present from distant states.
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New York
Friedrich Friedmann
Berlin
People's Hospital
Friedmann
Washington
E. C. Thrash
Atlants
Oregon Moves State Printing Under Board Control
Oregon legislature closes with House Bill 422 placing state printing under the state board of control. Gov vetoes fat salary repeal and state printing expert, both effective January 1 1915. The new act creates a state printer with 1800 dollar salary and requires board approval of all copy.
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Ihs
Board of Control
Staw
Oregon
Apple Shippers Move Toward Hood River Amalgamation
About 45 Hood River stakeholders including directors bankers and growers voted to instruct shipping firm boards to meet and plan a unified amalgamation of agencies Some favor a full merger under one board while others push for a selling agency model to cover the valley district The move aims to salvage the district amid a weak apple market and heavy crop levels in Atlantic Coast and Middle Western markets.
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Hood River
Citizones
Spokane
Washington
State Commission Hearing Over Bridge Charges Dispute
The State Railroad Commission has received a formal complaint from the North Bank railroad asking for equitable adjustment of charges for using the new Willamette River bridge at Portland. Harriman system roads seek 19 percent annual rental and proportionate maintenance costs, while Hill roads contest the basis of charges.
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Salem
Rabiotad Commission
North Bank Railroad
Willamette
Portland
Harriman System
Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Harriman
Sheep raisers optimistic on range and wool outlook
Sheepmen report feeding more this winter amid severe cold yet foresee bright prospects for range and flock. Melting snows and warm rains suggest abundant spring range and favorable lambing and shearing conditions. High wool prices are expected, with brokers negotiating the 1918 clip.
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Fendleton
Blue Mountains
Umatilla County
Annexation Move for Isle of Pines Urges US Possession
Thomas J. Keenan president of the American Association of the Isle of Pines announces a petition to President Wilson and the Senate to annex the Isle of Pines. The plea notes 6000 Americans with land or interests on the island seek permanent U S possession. The Isle of Pines is described as an American colony with US citizens owning over 95 percent of land and forming a majority population.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas J. Keenan
American Association of the
Price of furs soars as pre Easter sale tops prior year
London fur sale shows prices up 20 to 50 percent from last year with demand strongest for Russia purchases. A 500 otter skin lot may be permanently banned, a skin sold to Russia for 2400 dollars and silver foxes up about 50 percent. Blue foxes set records while lynx declined about 40 percent.
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London
Russia
Oregon Apples In Europe
Liverpool dominates English apple imports with a large role in distributing American and Canadian apples across the British Isles and re exporting to France Germany Norway Sweden and South Africa. Auctions set prices under custom practices with about 80 percent sold by public sale. January prices show California Newtown and Oregon varieties per barrel and per box across several grades.
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Oregon
Europe
Liverpool
England
British Isles
France
Germany
Norway
Sweden
South Africa
H. L. Washington
California
Newtown
Washington
State rich in coal fields
Ashland Our Southern Oregon mountains hold semi bituminous coal veins four to eleven feet thick awaiting capital and mining experience to profit and supply coal at low prices. Coos Bay field could supply the coast for centuries and a larger field lies northeast and southeast of Coos Bay in a fault-light Coast Range. Three veins three to six feet thick are open southwest of Elkton at about 1800 feet elevation. Geologically the region appears the most promising for a wide oil and gas field in Oregon.
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Ashland
Oregon
Coos Bay
Coast Range
Elkton
Oregon Electric officials visit Eugene terminus
Eugene President Joseph Young and other Oregon Electric officials visited Eugene on Friday to acquaint Traffic Manager W. D. Skinner with local business leaders and conditions. President Young stated skinner’s trip is his first to the southern terminus and that contracts will be let for the Eugene passenger station as soon as weather permits.
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Eugene
Joseph Young
Oregon Electric
W. D. Skinner
Skinner
Young
McAdoo Swamped With Secret Service Applications
Washington Treasury officials deny a sensational report that Secretary McAdoo sought 30 000 applications to fill 50 Secret Service posts. With no vacancy, about 8000 applications have arrived since March 4. The service guards the President and protects currency from counterfeiters.
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McAdoo
Washington, D. C
United States Secret Service
Treasury
Coal supplies for Willamette Pacific construction near Gardiner
Marshffield Coos Bay mines furnish coal for steam shovels and locomotives on the Willamette Pacific project near Gardiner. This week the Roscoe hauled two barge loads of 500 tons each.
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Marshffield
Coos Bay
Willamette Pacific
Gardiner
Roscoe
Timber cruise contract awarded in Clatsop County
County clerk signs a contract with Nease Timber Company of Portland to cruise timber and piling in Clatsop County 2,000,000 feet or 200,000 linear feet thresholds to prepare assessment records for value adjustments requested by County Assessor Leinweber.
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Astoria
Leinweber
Clatsop
Nease Timber Company of
Portland
Hollow Horn Bear Receives Gun Back From Indian Affairs
Washington. Chief Hollow Horn Bear an Ogalala Sioux six feet three inches tall who gave up his gun twenty years ago when the government ordered guns taken from Indians in the Bad Lands received it back Saturday in the office of Acting Commissioner Abbott. He recognized the weapon by a rawhide wrapped barrel.
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Washington, D. C
Hollow Horn Bear
Abbott
Blind Singer Guides Theater Crowd to Safety
In Worcester Massachusetts Edward F Boyle a blind singer continued singing as fire spread through the balcony a crowd of about 500 people filed out safely Joseph L Rogers the pianist shouted directions and led Boyle to a rear exit avoiding panic and injury
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Worcester
Mass
Edward F. Boyle
Joseph L. Rogers
Tax delinquency case reaches Oregon Supreme Court
County Clerk J C Clinton of Clatsop County paid over $5159 in delinquent state taxes. The matter went to the Oregon Supreme Court, which issued a ruling adverse to the county.
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Salem
van Winkle
J. C. Clinton
Clatsop County
Supreme Court
Redfield Quits Outside Jobs As Commerce Head
Washington D C Secretary Redfield resigns from outside business links to focus on duties as head of the department of commerce. He resigns from a directorship at Equitable Life, the presidency of the American Manufacturers Export Association, and a directorship at the American Blower Company of Detroit.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Refideld
Equitable Life Assurance Society
American Manufacturers’ Export Association
American Blower Company of Detroit
Rebels Mass at Border Camps Near Navozari and Agua Prieta
Rebels gather within striking distance of several border towns with 8600 constitutionalist troops resting on Sunday. Federal garrisons strengthen rebels while Navozari’s telegraph wires go dead. Agua Prieta sees protests, desertions, and citizens fleeing to Douglas as rebels mobilize.
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Douglas
Arix
Dhatane
Navozari
Agua Prieta
Americana
Maytorona
Guaymas
California
Hermosillo
Magdalena
Southern Pacific
Nogales
Arizona
Cananea
Sonora
Huerta Ia
White House to be dry in Wilson Marshall era
Washington reports the Wilson Marshall administration will be a white ribbon era with no wines or liquors at official entertainments. The President and Mrs Wilson and family join Vice President and Mrs Marshall and others in abstaining.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson-Marshall
Wilson
Marshall
Biryan
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Bryce
John B. Henderson
Washington
Henderson
Tonge War Resumes in San Francisco Chinatown
San Francisco Chinatown sees renewed hostilities between the Suey Sing and Bing Kong tongs. One man is dead and another wounded in an attempted killing. Suspects are in custody as police round up noted gunmen. The first victim was T Mizuhara, a four year member of the Bing Kong tong.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Suey Sing
Bing Kong Tongs
Bing Kong Tong
T. Mizuhara
Man Suffragist Punished in Fire Set Protest
London Hugh A. Franklin was sentenced in Middlesex sessions to nine months in prison for setting fire to a railway carriage as protest against government treatment of suffragettes. He vowed to continue hunger strikes. In 1910 he had received six weeks for an assault on Winston Churchill.
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London
Hugh A. Franklin
Middlesex
Franklin
Winston Spencer Churchill
National Anti Opium Congress Plans Funds Drive
The Pekin based National Anti Opium congress announces a worldwide appeal to Young Men's Christian Association and missionary societies to raise funds to buy and burn as much opium stock as possible at treaty ports in China.
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Pekin
National Anti-Opium Congress
China
Young Men’s Christian Association and Missionary Societies
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Tacoma
Porter Bros
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Coast
County
Redfield
Nacozari
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