Soldiers at American Lake in camp near Tacoma
Regular Army troops and Washington and Oregon National Guard are under canvas at Murray Station near Tacoma. The force includes 2584 enlisted Regulars and 113 officers plus full Washington and Oregon Guards, engineers, signal corps, cooks and bakers to feed and organize the camp. Guard units stay until August 12, then Montana Idaho and North Dakota regiments arrive. Regulars stay the month in the field. A Prohibition nominee notification event is set for August 18 in Chicago Music Hall.
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Washington
Oregon
Tacoma
Wash
Washington and
Oregon National Guard
Murray Station
National Guard of
Engineers and Signal Corps
Engineer Corps
L. H. Watkins
H. T. Ferguson
Motorman slain by four highwaymen at city line
In Tacoma on August 4 a 28 year old motorman Frank L. Brown was shot to death as he stepped from his seat to start the car at the end of the P street line. Conductor G R Wilson was robbed of $15 as four youths, all under 20, halted a second car and warned of interference with a sister. Police pursue motive as possible mistaken identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Frank L. Brown
South 39Th
G. R. Wilson
Brown
Eureka
Cal
F. H. Potter
Mason
Potter
Bishop
Fannie Snyder
California
TEC Beer Agricultural CO
Farmont
Generatalatina
Agricultural Mpany
N. P. Lehr
Will Watch Railway Men in National Campaign
Omaha Aug 4 Are 5 000 000 railroad workers likely to affect the presidential race The Nebraska Railway Employers Protective Association has grown from Omaha spreading to central points and other states In Nebraska about 30 000 railway workers have joined and over 200 000 nationwide have paid 25 cents for enrollment The group may back a candidate favorably reported on before the election
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska Railway Employer’ Protective Association
Nebraska
United States
McDaniel
Association
Wade Ellis Offered as First Assistant Attorney General
Cincinnati August 4 Wade H Ellis Attorney General of Ohio has been offered the position of First Assistant Attorney General of the United States He is resting after the Taft nomination work and has asked for time to consider the appointment. Ellis helped draft the Republican platform near the convention and is said to have contributed to his prostration.
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Wade Ellis
Cincinnati
Wade H. Ellis
Ohio
United States
Ellis
William H. Taft
Iowa Senator W B Allison Dies in Dubuque
United States Senator W B Allison died of heart failure at 1 45 PM in Dubuque Iowa He was born March 2 1829 on a Perry County farm and moved to Dubuque in 1857 A delegate to the Republican convention that nominated Lincoln he helped raise troops for the Civil War and served in the House from 1863 to 1871 before becoming a U S Senator from 1873 until his death
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Dubuque
Iowa
United States
W. B. Allison
Allison
Perry
Abraham Lincoln
House of Representatives
Bottle note may free San Quentin lifer if luck holds
A bottle tossed by William Ahearn at a Press Club picnic yielded a note to a San Quentin inmate William Owens claiming innocence of murder and prompting hopes of a gubernatorial review. The tale also includes a later pardon appeal and a dramatic marriage scene in Newport Kentucky with a legless bride.
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San Francisco
William Owens
San Quentin
San Francisco Bay
Press Club
William Ahearn
Owens
Forest Fire Near Hoquiam Threatens Logging Camps
A traveler thrown lit match into underbrush caused a forest blaze 12 miles from Hoquiam Washington. The fire scorched over 10000 acres of slash piles and 15000000 feet of cut lumber, threatening Polson Logging Shaw Nelson and Stocksell camps. About 1000 men fight the blaze as losses top 250000 dollars.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Hoquiam
Polson Logging Company
Shaw & Nelson
Stocksell
Pettibone Dies After Cancer Operation in Denver
George A Pettibone longtime Western Federation of Labor leader dies at St Josephs hospital following an operation for cancer He had been ill since his Idaho penitentiary confinement before the Steunenberg murder trials in Boise Pettibone was tried and acquitted in that case.
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Pettibone
Denver
George A. Petibone
Western Federation of Labor
Moyer
W. D. Haywood
Steunenberg
Idaho
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Idaho Penitentiary
Boise
Lincoln Birthday Celebration Planned in Springfield 1909
Preparations are under way for the 100th anniversary observance of Abraham Lincoln born February 12, 1809 to be held in Springfield Illinois. The Lincoln Centennial Association directs the entire program with invitations to the President and Cabinet, and ambassadors and ministers from foreign governments. Possible attendees include Ambassadors Bryce Jassurand, William Jennings Bryan, and William H Taft.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Centennial Association
Bryce and
Jassurand
William J. Bryan
William H. Taft
Transcontinental Balloon Race Planned From West Coast
Cross Land by Balloon in Chicago reports the Federation of American Aeronauts plans a transcontinental race starting from Los Angeles or San Francisco toward the Atlantic seaboard as the objective with skyward competition anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Atlantic Seabord
Federation of American Aeronauts
Portland and Seattle Market Prices Reported by Commodity
Portland markets show wheat prices for Club 88c red Russian 86c bluestem 91c Valley 88c. Barley feed 24.50 rolled 25.26. Oats No 1 white 26.50 gray 26. Timothy hay Willamette Valley fancy 14 ordinary 13 Eastern Oregon 16.50 mixed 13 alfalfa 11. Butter extra 28 fancy 25 choice 20 store 18. Eggs 24 25c. Hops 1907 crop 5 6 c. Wool Valley 14 14 c Eastern Oregon 8 16 c mohair 18 19 c. Seattle wheat bluestem 88 89c. Oats 25 26. Barley 23. Hay Eastern Washington timothy 13 14 per ton Puget Sound 9.50 10 per ton wheat hay 12.50 per ton alfalfa 9.50 10. Butter Washington creamery 28c per lb ranch 21 23c Oregon 25c per lb. Eggs selected local 30 31c per doz Eastern 22c per doz Oregon ranch 24c per doz.
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Portland
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Wool—Valley
Seattle
Washington
Puget’Sound
Eastern
Oregon Ranch
Vast Fire Devastates Crow's Nest Region in Canada
A massive blaze roared 40 miles through the Elk River Valley in East Kootenay. Fernie and nearby towns were wiped out, with deaths possibly 170 and losses estimated at 4 to 5 million dollars. Calgary and Nelson sent aid as Vancouver declared emergency help and 6000 residents were left homeless.
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Vancouver
B. C
Elk River Valley
Crows Nest
East Kootenay
Fernie
Elko
Olson
Cokato
Hosmer
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Michel
Trites
Calgary
Nelson
Canada
San Francisco
Jealousy Suspected in Rapid City Murder Case
Ernest B. Randall waives preliminary exam and is bound over to the September term of the Pennington county circuit court without bond for the July 5 killing of Marion Frank Bright. Bright was a fugitive from Everett Washington. The case centers on Winsie Bartonne as the rival for Bright’s affections.
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Rapid City
S. D
Ernest B. Randall
Alice Randall
Tacoma
Wash
Marion Frank Bright
Pennington County
Bright
Everett
Winnie Bartonne
Randall
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American Lake
Prohibition
E. W. Chafin
Music Hall
Fine Arts Building
William Boyd Allison
Senator Allison
Newport
John B. Rapp
Pearl Ruppell
Ind
Charles Scanlon
National Prohibition Executive Committee
Eugene W. Chafin
First National Bank
J. E. Tull
Kennewick, Wash
Benton County
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company
Kennewick
Finley, Wash
the Standard Paint CO
New York
the Paraffine Paint CO
Cat
Crab Creek Lumber Company
Kennewick Courier
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