Tariff Plans Stir Senate as Taft Trip Circles Alaska
Washington coverage notes that tariff legislation will be the sole revenue measure for the bill, with Democrats urging an income tax and economists warning of insufficient revenue. Ex-lieutenant Burns accuses the Pacific Coast Revenue Cutter Service of mismanagement and Alaska seal protection aiding a private company. President Taft plans a Westward tour including Alaska, funded by travel allowances, with Mrs. Taft accompanying.
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Pacific Coast Revenue Cutter Service
Washington
iIt
Senate
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Daniel
Middle West
South
James A. Burns
Revenue Cutter Service
Pacific Coast
Secretary of the Treasury
Burns
Alaska
American Commercial Company
Valencia
Revenue
Treasury Department
San Francisco
MoeCullough
Taft
Congress
Roosevelt
Northern Territory
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission to Probe Harriman Merger
The Interstate Commerce Commission will investigate the Harriman merger of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific lines on May 3 in Portland Oregon. Hearings before a federal court referee are set in the post office building. Portland residents with information are being summoned to testify. Senator Aldrich, chairman of the Senate finance committee, is noted among participants in tariff discussions.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Portland
Bread price rise looms as bakers face crisis
Chicago April 20. Bakers announce that bread and biscuit prices will rise by one to possibly two cents before May 1. The Master Bakers Association president says bakers must charge more or face bankruptcy after many locally closed shops due to material costs and sanitation enforcement.
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High P
Chicago
Jewish Bakers of
Master Bakers’ Association
War Department Cites State Jurisdiction on Santa Barbara Oil Pollution
The city of Santa Barbara sued Union Oil over water pollution from pipelines and tanks. Protests were filed. the Engineering Department and the Attorney General both said no remedy. The Secretary of War now says the matter must be handled by the state, as the War Department has no jurisdiction.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Santa Barbara
Union Oil Company
Department
War Department
Mob lynches four white men in Ada jail incident
At 3 o'clock this morning a mob of about 200 men stormed the Ada county jail and overpowered the sheriff. They lynched four white men named J. B. Miller of Fort Worth Texas and D. B. Burrell Jesse West and Joseph Allen alleged accomplices in the murder of A. A. Bobbitt, a local wealthy cattleman.
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Ada
Okla
J. B. Miller
Fort Worth
Tex
A. A. Bobbitt
D. B. Burrell
Jesse West
Joseph Allen
Portland Market Prices for Wheat Barley and More
Portland markets list wheat prices for Club red Russian bluestem and Valley ranges, barley feed rolled and per hundredweight, oats by grade, hay values for Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon, butter eggs hops and wool quotes. Seattle Yakima region prices include Bluestem wheat oats barley hay butter eggs and potatoes with per ton and per hundredweight figures.
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Portland
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
White River
Turmoil in Constantinople as Asia Minor uprising turns deadly
In Constantinople and Asia Minor violence erupts as Salontea troops challenge Abdul Hamid's regime. Reports say more than 1000 killed in Asia Minor including two missionaries, with foreigners taking refuge in consulates while Moslems raid Salonica and nearby farms. A British warship heads for Alexandretta amid rising fear.
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Asia Minor
Supreme Court Limits Recovery in Theft Case Shipper Loses Large Sum
Olympia April 19 The state supreme court rules Maurice Windmiller can recover only $1 per pound for furs valued at $1920 after he paid $5.05 freight and released the shipment to New York. The shipment’s box was broken and furs stolen and replaced with magazines.
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Olympia
Wash
State Supreme Court
Maurice Windmiller
Northern Pacific
New York
Seattle
Windmiller
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Smith Launched in Philadelphia
A new fast torpedo boat destroyer named Smith was launched in Philadelphia. When completed she is expected to be the fastest ship in the U S navy with greater speed and wider steaming radius than any existing destroyer on the naval list.
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Philadelphia
United States Navy
Smith
Avalon Seiner Hooks Unusual Nine Inch Fish
Avalon California reports a seinman catching a nine inch fish with a beard under its mouth blue eyes and a countenance like a sheephead fish on April 18 in the Catalina Islands.
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Avalon
Catalina Islands
Cal
Secretary Dickinson Sails for Panama on President's Yacht
Secretary Dickinson and his party departed Charleston on the President's yacht Mayflower for Panama. He expects to return to Washington around the middle of May.
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Dickinson
Panama
Charleston
S. C
Washington
Cabinet of Cure: Chamberlain Remedies Praised
In Maple Landing Iowa Mr J Eggleson recounts severe grip after winter illness. He credits Chamberlain Cough Remedy and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for relief and urges others to use the products amid the illness episode.
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Mr. J
Eggleson
Maple Landing
Iowa
Chamberlain
Columbia Armae
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Upper National House
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Wain
Abdul Hamid
Tottering
Turkey
Asis
Constantinople
Committee of Union and Progress
Young Turks
Salontea
Salonica
Ladies Home Journal
Finley
Kennewick
Bradley-Metca
Mitchell
Moreland & Sasse, Inc
Finley, Washington
Treadwell
Don
Kennewick Trading Co
Omar W. Rich lavCe
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