Fulton s Measure Highlights Capital Currency Clash
Washington reports on the Owens River Valley water rights dispute led by Smith of California and Mondell of Wyoming against Gifford Pinchot. Ridgeley resigns as Currency Controller as Murray succeeds him. Greely retires after 64 years. Japan receives 450 in damages from San Francisco violence settlement.
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Gifford Pinchot
Forestry Bureau
Smith
California
Mondell
Wyoming
Los Angeles
Owens River Valley
West
Pinchott
Pollard
Nebraska
Scott
Kansas
Foresty Service
Owens Valley
News of the State Gets Damages From Doctor
North Yakima A jury in the Superior Court on Saturday awarded Eric Swanson $1,050 damages for disability suffered through the alleged negligence of Dr F M Rossi ter of this city in the treatment of a fractured collar bone. Brown Just Wanted Fresh Air. Chehalis Tom Brown the patricide who was one of the prisoners that escaped from the jail last Tuesday walked into the Sheriff's office on Friday and gave himself up. He said he just wanted to be outdoors a few days and had gone out to the ranch west of town. No crew to the five others who got away has been secured yet.
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North Yakima
Eric Swanson
F. M. Rossiter
Brown
Chehalis
Tom Brown
Bridge Opening Celebrations Planned for Wenatchee Area
Wenatchee will host a formal opening ceremony for the Columbia River bridge once the pipeline work is finished. The event, postponed in January due to unfinished approaches, will see participation by Chelan and Douglas counties and is planned for about a week from now.
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Wenatchee
Columbia River
Chelan
Dougas
Ex-traveling man given harsh sentence for wife desertion
Frank Elise of Spokane pleaded guilty in Superior Court to wife desertion after preferring prison to supporting his wife and five children. A judge offered freedom if he pledged to care for his family, but Elise refused saying I prefer the pea.
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Spokane
Frank Elise
Oliver-Deere Plow Company
Gophers Harm Wheat Fields In Washington State
Wenatchee reports six gopher like animals from Big Bend on their way to Pullman agricultural college for inspection by Professor W E Ralston to combat wheat field damage. Scientists unfamiliar with their habits note difference from eastern gophers. Snowstorm dampens growers meeting in Colfax delaying fruit industry forum by Spokane and Inland Empire Electric Railroad and Washington State College horticultural staff with sixty five attendees at Whitman county courthouse.
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Wenatchee
Big Bend
Pullman Agricultural College
W. E. Ralston
Mars Growers
Colfax
Spokane and Inland Empire Electric Railroad Company
Horticultural Department
Washington State College of Pullman
Whitman County Court House
Pullman's Last Saloon Closes and Town Goes Dry
Pullman becomes dry for the first time since incorporation as a town after the last saloon closed Friday morning. Patrons filled the night before closing, and proprietors were sick at heart witnessing the shutdown. Temperance supporters celebrate and plan a large event to mark the milestone.
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Pullman
Grain handling changes eyed by Palouse union
Palouse area farmers led by A. Elmore of the Farmers' Co operative and Educational union plan bulk grain handling. A committee found portable steel tanks and elevator gear affordable, with about 20 cents of tank cost expected to be used in wheat fields this season. Seattle to build first Buddhist temple in the U S Begin work in two weeks on a 12000 dollar edifice on six thousand dollar land G Nakai to bring a Buddha image from Japan for services and a school for young men with a general education.
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Palouse
A. A. Elmore
Farmers’ Co-operative and Educational Union
Kennedy Ford
Seattle
United States
Buddhis Organization
G. Nakai
Seattle Japanese Society
Japan
Tragic Train Murder in Kansas On Santa Fe Express
A. D. Bailey Wells Fargo express messenger was killed on train No. 115 between Florence and Newton Kansas. Robbers ransacked safes and seized over a thousand dollars and jewelry. No trace of the outlaw, Bailey found dead in Newton with head injuries, no struggle evident, likely asleep at time of attack.
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Newton, Kas
A. D. Bailey
Wells Fargo Company
Santa Fe
Florence
Newton
Messenger Bailey
Bailey
Market prices for Wheat Oats Hay Butter Eggs and Hops
The Portland market report lists Wheat prices for Wheat-Club Valley bluestem red Russian and 83 84c 84c 85c 82c. Oats Producers' prices White 28 gray 26 27. Rye 1.40 per cwt. Hay wholesale prices Valley timothy 16 17 Eastern Oregon 18 20 clover 14 15 wheat 14 15 alfalfa 13 14. Butter Country creamery 25 30c city creamery 30c store 14% 15c butter fat 28% c. Eggs Ranch candled 15 16c. Honey dark 11 12c amber 12 13c fancy white 14% lbc. Hops 1907 crop 4 5c fh. Wool Valley 16 18c Eastern Oregon 12 16c as to shrinkage.
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Valley Timothy
Oregon
Woolfy Valley
Market Prices for Grains Hay and Dairy in Seattle
Wheat Bluestem 87 percent club 85 86 cents. Oats Puget Sound 25 26 per ton. Barley 25.50 per ton. Oats Eastern Washington 26 28 per ton. Hay Eastern Washington time thy 14 16 per ton Puget Sound hay 10 12 per ton wheat hay 10 13 per ton alfalfa 10 11 per ton. Butter Washington creamery 32c per lb Eastern storage 26c per lb renovated 28c per lb ranch 20 22c per lb fresh California 28c per lb. Eggs Selected local 18 19c per doz selected ranch 16 17c per doz.
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Wash
Puget Sound
Washington
California
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