Indicted Officials Tied to Ocean Opium Smuggling Ring
San Francisco official Robert Donaldson and customs inspector Henry Gallagher are charged in a large opium conspiracy. Indictments follow testimony from David Powers and Emil Fiedler after a jailhouse letter revealed the plot. Powers admitted meeting Donaldson and transferring 320 tins of opium from the Siberia to a coal barge.
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San Francisco
Robert Donaldsen
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Henry Gallagher
United States Customs
United States
David Powers
Emil Fiedler
Western Fuel Company
Oakland
Powers
Fiedler
Alameda County
Donaldsen
Gallagher
Grand Jury
Donaldson
Siberia
Euid Powers
Millions for timber bonds boost Portland investment drive
More than 12 million dollars from Eastern centers has financed timber bonds since January in Portland territory. Theodore B. Brown of Brown & Brown told the Portland Realty board that bond financing has kept logging active, created hundreds of jobs, and improved forest fire protection, stabilizing Northwest timber development.
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Portland
Portland Realty Board
Theodore B. Brown
Brown & Brown
Brown
Northwest
Oregon
Washington
Frog Resurrected After 100 Foot Leap From Fossil Ledge
Workmen clearing rock on the L. D. Loomis property in Santa Monica canyon unearthed a frog encased in limestone three feet below the surface. Apparent petrification reversed as the amphibian revived in the sun and leaped a hundred feet before capture. The fossil block was preserved for study.
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Los Angeles
L. D. Loomis
Santa Monica Canyon
Santa Monica
Bloodiest Tripoli Battle Near Derna Reported
The war’s most sanguinary engagement near Derna, 140 miles northwest of Benghazi, leaves Italians with 61 killed and 113 wounded while Turkish and Arab forces incur over 800 dead. Forty one prisoners, including an Arab chief, are captured after a dawn surprise attack that lasts four hours.
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Rome
Tripoli
Thuradsy
Derna
Mediterranean
Benghazi
Aviator Russell Blair Killed in Exhibition Flight
Shenandoah Iowa report says aviator Russell Blair of Kansas City died after a 30 foot fall during an exhibition flight. His aircraft tipped in a current after landing and toppled onto him, pinning him beneath wreckage. he died before aid arrived.
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Shenandoah, Ia
Russell Blair
Kansas City
Blair
One Man Causes Strike Halting Lehigh C & N Mine Work
In Pottaville Pennsylvania a single resister to union membership halts operations at Lehigh Coal and Navigation colliery sites in Panther Creek valley. Only one mine and three washeries remain active while several thousand workers stay idle.
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Pottaville
Union
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
Panther Creek
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