Northwest Deaths and Damages Lead Northwest News Roundup
A Benton County sawmill fire causes $2,000 loss plus 15,000 feet of lumber. Kendrick gains a second rural delivery route starting September 1. President Roosevelt plans irrigation forestry remarks to the national irrigation congress in Boise. Alex McDonald drowns on the St. Joe river near Harrison. Lewiston land office adds an clerk and G Orr McMinimy named attorney. Major O Connor promoted to lieutenant colonel for Ninth Infantry. Washington Power Co lights Post Falls plant, 2,000 HP on line. Gilbert farmers form a threshing cooperative opposing a threshing trust. S D Boone files on 60,000 acres under the Carey act. Boise barracks to be rehabilitated at $110,000. Perry is killed by an approaching train near a railroad track. Klausen wreck fatally injures R C Stagger and Brakeman Lockerman. Brakeman Sam Wiley hurt. A Sumpter Valley train windstorm damages the post office at Austin. New Oregon City archdiocese vicar general appointment announced. Ethel Hooker 18 commits suicide at Plainsview.
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Decker & Allen
Congress
Alex McDonald
St. Joe
Charles M. O’connor
Fourteenth Cavalry
Boise Barracks
Ninth Infantry
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Washington Water Power Company
Post Falls
Gilbert
D. Boone
Hailey
Blaine
Fremont
New York
Austin
Sumpter Valley Railroad
Archdiocese of
Oregon City
Monsignor
F. X. Blanchet
Alexander Christie
Ethel Hooker
Plainsview
Montana notices mix of crime, estates, and weather
Montana report covers the murder charge against Henry Reslip in Superior over Katie Smith’s death, a large Butte estate distribution for James Tuohy, hail damage near Plains, and royal visitors en route to Yellowstone Park. It notes a Los Angeles murder arrest, a Gamer ranch transfer to the Masonic order, and regional events in Helena Anaconda Dillon Wingston and Great Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Smith
Superior
Henry Reslip
Montana
James Tuohy
Butte
Bourquin
District Court
Plains
Maharaja Gaekwar
Prince
Baroda
India
Maharina
Sempatraro
Livingston
Yellowstone Park
Dillon
Ernest G. Stackpole
Los Angeles
Joel Schreck
Schreck
Gamer Ranch
Great Falls
Masonic Grand Lodge Charity Associaon
Scandinavian Brotherhood of America
Helena Thursay
Oregon Notes Engineer Killed on Logging Railway
Oregon notes report that engineer David H. Grow, employed by the Grande Ronde Lumber Company, was killed while working on the logging railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
David H. Grow
Grande Ronde Lumber Company
Washington items from the era of the Holy Rollers and rail posts
Esther Mitchell, 18, jailed in King County for killing her brother George amid scandal with Mrs. Creffield involved in vengeance. Judge George Meade Emory’s funeral attended by lawyers and Elks. cremation followed. Reports note carpenters needed in Colfax, a wounded horse thief, a hurricane near Valley, night plowing in Palouse cove, and fevers in North Yakima kept at bay by sanitation. Secretary of War Tait to inspect Fort Wright and related posts. Spokane lands the Baptist Young People’s Union convention for 1907.
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Esther Mitchell
George
King County
Elks and Loyal Legion
Colfax
Fet
Valley
Palouse
Yakima
Kalotus
Tait
Fort Wright
American Lake
Fort Lawton
Washington
Spokane
Baptist Young People's Union
Omaha
New
S. B. Nelson
Washington State College
Sol U
Supreme Court
Clarke County
Micheal Burns
Asotin
Clarkston
S.ecretary of the Interior
Hitchcoc
Okanogan
Tieton
Sunnyside
Columbia River
Great Northern
Wenatchee
Oroville
Kristan Johnson
Ontario
Seattle
Lake Charles Race Incident Sends 150 Black Residents Away
Dispatches describe a mass removal of about 150 Black men and women from Lake Charles Louisiana to a passenger train bound for the parish line. White townspeople and militia reportedly invaded Black quarters forcing residents from their homes in night attire and placing them aboard the train. some guards rode with the group as fare was paid to the parish line.
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New Orleans
Lake Charles
Kennings
United States
Spokane Wholesale Produce and Meat Prices Feature
A detailed list from Spokane shows wholesale prices across vegetables fruits dairy and meat. Items include potatoes 60c cwt cabbage 2.50 ewt lettuce 0.20 lb and strawberries 2.50 to 3.50 per crate with many regional and farm terms cited.
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Walla Walla
California
Ford
Minnesota
Spokane
Seven Children Drown at Cedar Rapids Picnic
Eight children waded near a river bank when Lucile Sweeding slipped into a deep hole. In attempts to rescue her seven others perished. Surviver Ruth Kiersey reported the sequence of events as the group repeatedly tried to save each other. All bodies were recovered. A Russian woman may not enter a university unless she is married.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Lucile Sweeding
Hazel Sweeding
Gladys Sweeding
Josie Sweeding
Ruth Coyle
Louix City
Cora Coyle
Clara Usher
Ruth Klersey
Lucille Sweeding
Ruth Kiersey
Woman shoots brother in Seattle waiting room
Esther Mitchell killed her brother George Mitchell in the Union depot waiting room in Seattle. She alleges revenge for her sister’s alleged ruin by Franz Edmund Creffield of the holy rollers and was arrested immediately.
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Esther Mitchell
George Mitchell
Seattle
Union Depot
Mitchell
Oregon
Franz Edmund Creffield
Holy Rollers
Mitchells
George
Perry
Fred
Esther
Creffield
The Girl I Left Behind Me at Columbia Spokane
Belasco and Fyles present the military drama The Girl I Left Behind Me at the Byron Douglas Company theater Spokane. General Kennion commands a western fort menaced by an Indian uprising. Lieutenant Hawkesworth bravery rescues the garrison as Parlow falters.
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Hawkesworth
Ees
Byron Douglas
Henriette Browne
Kate Kennion
Parlow
Thomas Clark
W. J. Montgomery
Scar Brow
Tax Collector Shoots Himself in Totowa Scandal
Albert O'Brien, Totowa’s tax collector, shot himself to avoid arrest for defalcation about 4000 dollars as officers neared his home. The report notes that a man’s business and employer’s name appear on his cap in Japan, reflecting a separate observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert O’brien
Totowa
N. J
O’brien
Japan
Critics Praise Literature and Warn of Cold Season Plots
The piece surveys holiday publishing, praising new authors and lofty poetry while noting critics urge top society to shape literary fashions. It also reports Colonel Samuel Adams Drake’s death and Louise Collier Willcox’s reflections on Edith Wharton, including biographical details and commentary on The House of Mirth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Monahan
Felix Adler
United States
Louise Collier Willcox
Edith Wharton
Outlook
Italy
Goethe
Wharton
George Eliot
Flaubert
Balzac
Thackeray
Dickens
Meredith
Edward Wharton
Boston
Scribner’s Magazine
Cane-Seat Chairs Condemned As Unhealthy Travel
A Brooklyn Eagle report notes physicians denounce upholstered railcar seating as TB promoters while tests by Dr. Charles B. Dudley of the Pennsylvania Railroad show minimal infection risk from car interiors. He finds upholstery safer than bare smooth surfaces, and light exposure sterilizes germs. Fish as brain food is also mentioned.
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Chicago
St Louis
Charles B. Dudley
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Public Health Association
Dudley
Brooklyn Eagle
Roosevelt's Biggest Bear And Other News Notes
A long feature recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s duel with a charging grizzly in the Rockies, detailing a dramatic near-fatal hunt and his calm bravery. The page also notes a Erie canal expenditure comparison and a Paris report on toxic substances in eggs, explaining how digestion alters dangerous compounds.
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News OF Northwest
Washington, Idaho
Idaho Notes
Montana News
Anaconda
Utte
Wingston
Davis
U P
Lake Charles, LA
McKee Rankin
Blanche King
Dillingham
Lulu Glaser
Louise Allen Collier
Lew Fields
Herald Square Theater
Roosevelt
Mc.Clare
Rockies
West
Erie Deual
Steam Consort
Lesie
New York State
Erie Canal
Suez
Erie
Panama Canal
Sam
M. Lolsel
Paris
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