Engineer begins survey Monday for big irrigation ditch route
Civil Engineer L A Pickler starts preliminary survey work Monday with a three man crew from the Oro Dell dam northward to map the main ditch path and identify land to be affected. He may later trace the second route through La Grande and adjacent lands as part of an exhaustive report for the irrigation project.
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Oro Dell
Big Ditch
Sandridge
la Grande
Commercial Club
English lord disappears in Spokane mystery deepens
Mystery surrounds the disappearance from the Auditorium hotel of a man calling himself Lord Herbert Russell of Bridgeport England. His wife a former Spokane showgirl fears publicity and has returned home. He was carrying a large sum of money and was in America regarding English investments. Local police received a letter from the wife.
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Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
Lord Herbert Russell
Bridgeport
England
Spokane
Russell
America
Rear Admiral Coghlan Dies Sudden in New Rochelle
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan retired and living in New Rochelle New York died suddenly of heart disease at his home. Born in Frankfort Kentucky in 1844 he graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1863 and served as an ensign in the Civil War. He rose quickly to rear admiral in 1902 and commanded the Northeast fleet for two years. He gained national fame for composing and reciting at a banquet a ballad titled Hoch der Kaiser.
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Joseph B. Coghlan
Coghlan
Frankfort
United States Naval Academy
Portsmouth
Nortu
Baird
Valentie
Ban Francho
Green
Apple Crop Moving In Grande Ronde Valley
Grande Ronde Valley apple shipments rise with continuous packing. Ramsey-Oldenburg firm reports 36 carloads shipped and 7000 boxes awaiting packing. Prices range from 80 to 90 cents per box, with a county value around 168 000 dollars placing Union County’s crop well above a quarter of a million annually.
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Ramsey-Oldenburg Company
Muay Park
la Grande
Ft Os
Applea
Union County
Worthing
National Apple Show Near at Hand in Spokane
Spokane hosts the National Apple Show with judges from America endorsing the event. Premiums totaling 35 000 are offered for top grown apples as grocers promote Apple Week with displays and tastings. Experts urge radical changes in culture to prevent import dependence and boost domestic production amid past crop losses.
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Spokane
America
Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Europe
North America
Plactieady
Roosevelt backs Chamberlain for U.S. Senate in Oregon
President Roosevelt meets with Oregon officials Governor Chamberlain and J N Teal and Miss Currie Leo Chamberlain. He says he would have preferred a Republican but supports the people ruling and Chamberlain as senator. The crowded executive office session included Senators Lodge Warren and Cummings.
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Washington
Governor Chamberlain
Roosevelt
Oregon
Chamberlain
J. N. Teal
Portland
Mies Currie Leo Chamberlain
Miss Chamberlain
Lodge
Cort Warren
Cummings
Jim Hearing
Bar Association to Question Supreme Court in Olympia
Seattle Dec 5 The Bar association committee investigating the Root Gordon scandal will meet next week in Olympia. It is understood witnesses will include supreme court members who have been shown documents in the Harris Great Northern case. If the documents are unavailable their testimony will be material.
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Seattle
Bar Association Committee
Olympia
Supreme Court
Supreme Judges
Arkansas River Commission Holds Meeting on Navigation
Little Rock delegates from major commercial bodies gathered to discuss making the Arkansas River navigable from its mouth to Murekoogee Oklahoma. Officials claim it would save costs for shippers in central Arkansas and Oklahoma. The session also addresses the ongoing foot and mouth disease concerns during the footwell season.
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Yall
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas River Commission
Arkansan
Murekoogee
Central
Arkansas
Oklahom
Fatal Seattle streetcar collision leaves several injured
In heavy fog on Lake and Holgar streets two fully loaded street cars collided head on. Motormen Sue Olson Charles Bolling and John Blandel died or were severely injured as passengers suffered broken limbs and trampling. Misread block signal blamed. Outbound car carried 70 passengers and inbound 120.
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Lake
Holgar
Sue Olson
Charles Bolling
John Blandel
Loge
Transcontinental carriers clash with freight association over delivery method
A bitter dispute erupts as the Phone Ling Freight association pushes to require original bills of lading to move goods to California shipments. The three carriers threaten to divert shipments from contracting shippers to purchasers, risking reduced fruit shipments and altering delivery paths.
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Chicago
Dev
Phone Ling Freight Association
Byer
California
Noetero Frudta
Odin Mor
Billy of Lading
Palata
Yffenwold
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Pickler
L. A. Pickler
Ganization of
Lad, “Hoch, der Kaiser
New York
New Rochelle
Ual
Apple
Grande Ronde Valley
Vasily
Union
U. S
San Francisco
Valencie
David J. Baird
Dodie
Valencia
Arkansas River Meeting
Day
Cheage
Syniagus
Newlin Drug Co
la Grande, Ore
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