Convicts Sentenced in Postal Fraud Case Across Several Figures
Wm G Crawford convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government in postal fraud receives two year sentence with execution suspended for appeal. Co-defendants Machen and Lorenzo already serving penitentiaries. A separate Rome report notes a blast at St Augusta Foggia injuring few. Also Corry Pennsylvania reports Coal Oil Johnny John W Steele dangerously ill with pneumonia.
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Chicago
Wm. G. Crawford
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Machen
Lorenzo
Toledo
Torme
Geripps News Association
Corry. Penn
John W. Steele
Roosevelt Letters and Fitzsimmons Invite Amid Capitol Wanderings
Roosevelts letter to Fitzsimmons invites contact if the pugilists travels lead him to the capitol. The note contains no ring talk or mention of Fitzsimmons recent performances. An Iroquois bank robbery netted $200 this morning after a safe was blown open. The Merchants Exchange in San Francisco reports the schooner Advance ran ashore on the jetty though no lives are at risk.
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Ring
Fitzsimmons
Scripps News Association
San Francisco
Merchants Exchange
Gequin
Alaska gold output likely exceeds fourteen million dollars
Washington reports Consul Randal Dawson estimates Alaska gold production in the past season at over 14 million dollars, up from 9 million last year, driven mainly by Tanama Valley. In Rome, a Vatican note says Princess Ena of Battenberg, soon to wed King Alfonso of Spain, will visit Rome in January to be received into the Catholic Church at St Peters.
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Washington
Randald Dawson
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Tanama Valley
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Alfonso
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Conditions in Russia worsen as cities burn and refugees flee
Scripps News reports from St Petersburg that Sormova shows the town burning and Moscow refugees say hardly a house escaped destruction with many killed or wounded. Police yards overflow with corpses as reports emerge of wider chaos and disaster.
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Sormova
Syzean
Moscow
Dillei
Thieves Detected and Other Local News Items
District court clerk A. McKean of Yura county Colorado was found guilty of security timber culture fraud and sentenced to ten years in Leavensworth. Stearns and Horsaneil convicted of securing fraudulent land office deeds in South Dakota received prison terms and fines. North Powder News notes electric lights coming, Christmas travel by locals to La Grande, business trips, and upcoming residential improvements.
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Washington, Das
A. A. McKean
Yura County
Colorado
Akron Lam
Leavensworth
W. West
la Grande
C. Olson
Hart Pearson
Henry Pearson
E. E. Lewis
North Powder
A. P. Hunter
Dr. Barnes
Walter Goldsberry
Navy hazing board eyes midshipman trial at Annapolis
Admiral Sands confirms a board of inquiry probing hazing at the Naval Academy will likely try Midshipman Carroll S Craves of Spokane Washington once Decatur case ends. Many first class men may plead guilty as a group, risking navy staffing needs on ships to be commissioned next February.
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Spokane
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Thought policies too large and rebate scheme exposed
New York reports describe Joel G. Vancise testifying that executives argued against large policies and deferrals while Harry R. Hyde sought dividends. George H. Sickles cites Tarbell’s alleged 85 percent first year commission rebate, with calls Tarbell the prince of rebaters. The Civil Service Commission notes Pendleton clerk carrier exams postponed to January 10 1906 due to few applicants.
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New York
Joel G. Vancise
The
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Harry R. Hyde
Alexander
Hyde
George H. Sickles
Buffalo
Tarbell
Bufalo
Chicago
United States Civil Service Commission
Pendleton
Ore
Ralph Howland Focal
New Year Rest Marks Ossarvan People in 1906
A fragmented item notes Ossarvan people begin the New Year by resting and plan to compensate with extra effort through 1906. An odd 1906 reference follows about a cable company announcing in New York that all seen HR Reels Saeed Utes were cut off.
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Changes at Navy Board as Reiter is Detached
Rear Admiral Reiter commanding the Philippines has been detached and ordered to Washington to report for duty Captain Dayton becomes president of the board of inspection succeeding Reiter with the rank of admiral
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Washington, D. C
Reiter
Philippines
Washington
Dayton
Board of Inspection
Diphtheria At Sumerville Affects Local Family
The son of Mr and Mrs H G C Rinehart near Roeper Street is ill with diphtheria. A report from yesterday says he is improving but fears remain for more cases as children from the same house attended school and public events. Precautions are being taken to prevent spread.
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H. GC. Rinehart
Roeper Seetyt
Vickers Welcome Crawford Guests From La Grande
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Vickers invite guests for the holidays, their son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Crawford of La Grande Oregon. Mrs Crawford was Miss Nan Vickers, noted in the young social set. The Vickerses return from San Francisco with the Crawfords. Mrs Vickers to entertain Thursday afternoon with a tea in honor of her daughter.
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West Twenty-eighth Street
Clarence H. Crawford
la Grande,Or
Crawford
Nan Vickers
Vickers
San Francisco
Los Angeles Times
Roosevelt plan rate bill faces delay in New Orleans
In New Orleans on December 30, critics denounce the Esch Townsend railroad rate bill as a Roosevelt plan. The Interstate Commerce Commission is challenged over a statement deemed misleading in a DC lawyer R T Newcombe address defending Elkins law.
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Scrippa News Association
New Orleans
American Association For the Advance of Science
R. T. Newcombe
District of Columbia
Comptroller Ridgley Wed Katherine Doring in Washington
William Barrett Ridgley comptroller of currency wed Katherine Doring daughter of a late navy captain. They will honeymoon visiting Florida and the West Indies before returning.
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Scripps News Association
Washington
William Barrett Ridgley
Katherine Doring
Navy
Florida
West Indies
Local Tax Rates in La Grande This Year
The district levies seven mills for school tax and the city adds nine mills, totaling 16 mills. The county court will set the county tax next week and the grand total will be known. Last year La Grande property was taxed 67 mills. with increased valuation the rate should be lower.
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