Baker City Faces Bitter Accusations of Officials’ Corruption
A Baker City pamphlet accuses city and county officials of corruption and misconduct including drinking after memorial services, gambling den idleness, and Sunday rink openings. Mayor Johns and Judge Smith deny or dodge some charges as ministers organize a response. The flare begins with an anonymous letter to a local pastor.
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Baker City
Harvey Brown
First Baptist Church
Oregon
Baker
Portland
Ike Baker
Supreme Court Rules Erdman Act Discrimination Clause Unconstitutional
In Washington on January 7 a Supreme Court decision held that a section of the Erdman Act prohibiting railroads in interstate commerce from discriminating against employees belonging to labor unions is unconstitutional. Organized labor faces a hard fight as unions mobilize today.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Three Fire Disasters Hit Baltimore Portland and Chicago
Three fires raged from midnight to morning in Baltimore, Portland Maine, and Chicago causing heavy damage. Baltimore’s tanks burned with one death. Portland’s blaze damaged a business district with nearly 400000 dollars in losses. Chicago saw a fatality, twenty injured, and 600000 dollars in losses including the Dunn printing building.
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Baltimore
Porthand
Les
Chicago
Standard iI Company
Portland
Uremin
W. P. Dunn & Co
Florence
New
Car Exchange
Two Japanese Spies Foiled Entering San Francisco Armory
Sentries fired on two men attempting to breach the National Guard armory in San Francisco where military maps and defense plans are kept. The attackers, suspected spies, fled after bullets were exchanged. another attempt occurred the previous 24 hours and a Sunday effort followed. Authorities say the intruders were not ordinary burglars and the incident is being investigated as a security breach.
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San Francisco
Cal
National
Girl Student Takes Carbolic Acid In Apparent Suicide
Two Japanese burglars invade Bellingham armory in Washington stealing $40 worth of revolvers. In the ensuing gunfire one intruder is shot during the Saturday raid dated January 27. Local report notes the case as a grave incident with limited details available.
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Bellingham
Wash
Postponement in land fraud cases delays court
In Portland on January 27 Judge Hunt noted likely delays in the Hall Mays case and the Binger Hermann land fraud indictment. Prosecutor Heney, Judge Hunt, and Brecker plan a conference to resolve travel and procedural questions as attorneys seek more time to familiarize with Oregon rules.
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Honey
Francisso
Brocker
Portland
Hermann
Hall-Mays
Hont
Heney
Brecker
San Francisco
Hunt
Montana
Brooker
Oregon
Binger Hermann
Washington
Prevent
Tragic College Despair Ends In Milton Suicide
Bernice Coe, a Milton resident and Columbia College student, drank carbolic acid after fearing failing finals. She died shortly after at her parents home in Milton La Grande. The death was reported to Bridge Superintendent J F Campbell and his wife who had cared for her earlier.
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Columbia College
Milton
Ore
Bernica Cou
la Grande
J. F Campbell
Mert
Campbell
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Meldrum
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