New Light on Panama Deal Exonerates Cromwell and Taft
New York dispatch reports consulting engineer Ward assumes full responsibility for canal zone work and exonerates Cromwell and Charles Taft from complicity in Panama negotiations. Ward challenges Rainey to propose a fairer development plan, amid political fault lines between Roosevelt administration and eastern papers. Little Rock faces a $219000 suit against Iron Mountain railroad for alleged headlight compliance violations.
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Rookevelt
Panama Canal
Thandolph G. Ward
Canal Zone
United Press
Ward
William Nelson Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
Charles P. Taft
Carrie Nation Goes Vaudeville in London This Week
Carrie Nation, famed American vaudeville smasher of saloons, tours London theaters Paragon and Canterbury this week. Her act blends a lecture on alcohol evils with a sale of pamphlets and hatchets after the show, drawing crowded houses. she will then perform in Wales at Cardigans after London engagement ends.
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London
Carrie Nation
America
Paragon
Canterbury
Currie
Boose
Bucey
Carrie
Cards
Wales
Cuban Flag Is Unfurled Over Free Cuba
Havana reports the Cuban flag raised over the palace signaling Cuba Libre and independence as President Jose Miguel Gomez and Vice-President Alfredo Zayas assume offices. Governor Magoon leaving Cuba and Gomes takes oath in a ceremony setting the stage for U S guardianship to end.
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Jose Miguel Gomez
Alfredo Zayas
Bogus Money Makers Caught in San Francisco Duel
Robert Bradley and Josie Livingston living as man and wife were arrested after a struggle with three secret service men. Two sacks of counterfeit half dollars and quarters were found at their Ocean highway bungalow and in the city home. They will be arraigned tomorrow.
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Secret Service
Josie Livingston
Bradley
McMahon
Ocean Highway
Livingston
Sheepmen Push Bills in Oregon Legislature
Eastern Oregon sheepmen and the Sheepowners Association officials attend the Salem session as lawmakers consider measures affecting the industry. They back the 12,000 Slusher bill appropriation for the Oregon board of sheep commissioners and press a 40,000 scalp bounty to curb undesirable animals. Dr. W M Shure outlines actions under the Slusher bill before the Ways and Means Committee. Lumber interests urge passage of the timber cruiser bill now before the Oregon Senate.
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Oregon
Sheepowners’ Association
Bureau of Animal Industry
Oregon Board of Sheep Commissioners
W. Mc. Shure
Idaho
Washington
House
Senate
Mixed train wreck on CL and ER line at Shelburn
A mixed train between Albany and Detroit on the CL and ER road was wrecked late yesterday afternoon near Shelburn. Six cars were smashed. a passenger car stayed on the track and one person named Novone was injured.
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Albany
Gfe
CL & ER
Detroit
Shelburn
Stud Poker and Booze Troubles Stir Enterprise Case
In Enterprise Oregon on January 28 Deputy District Attorney Eberhard filed against J B Wheat a jeweler for running a stud poker game. The case drew a large crowd and mixed public support as witnesses faced delays. A local option charge was also brought against another man who drank heavily at the game but was later discharged. The affair stirred town interest as the prosecutor pursued the case to a grand jury.
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Enterprise
Ore
R. Eberhard
J. B. Wheat
Eberhard
Marry On Trial Ends Five Years With Planned Separation
San Francisco reports A. W. Robins, a local restaurateur, and his wife will celebrate their wooden wedding next Saturday after five years of marriage and then separate. They signed a trial marriage agreement with a clause for a mutual lease if the trial succeeded, though renewal is not planned.
Roosevelt presses anti alien bill amid Japanese question in California
President Roosevelt keeps White House Sacramento wires hot as he presses Assemblyman A M Drew to delay action on the anti alien bill banning Japanese land ownership. He mails a Japanese question letter to Governor Gillette while Senator Caminetti introduces a popular choice ballot bill for U S senator, mirroring Oregon law.
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Sacramento
Roosevelt
White House
Burzing
A. M. Drew
Preane
California
Rooosevelt
Gillette
Women Witnesses Describe Nantucket Collision Bravery and Fear
Mrs. C. A. Beverance, wife of an interstate commission attorney, disputes official death counts in the Republic and Florida wreck off Nantucket. She recalls women sacrificing space for life, notes some men showed cowardice, and cites a financier claiming his life is worth more than a hundred women. A young officer restrained a man with a pistol as panic spread during the disaster.
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Erance
Republic
Florida
Nantucket
Mass
Arma
New York
Phelps
Scarlet Fever Strikes Latte Daughter of Hunlocks
The latte daughter of Dr and Mrs Hunlock is ill with scarlet fever. She has a well defined but not dangerous case marked by a red flag decor ates the front gate.
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Mra. Hunlock
Hanson race track bill stalls in senate as public morals panel eyed
Olympia January 28 Hanson race track bill passed the house yesterday but faced a senate setback as progressives urged referral to the public morals committee led by Senator Graves of Spokane. Graves argued the code already covers the matter and that prosecutors should handle enforcement. a Senate vote was expected this afternoon with Cosgrove to sign it. A heated debate also rose over the eight hour law for women.
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Olympia
Hanson
House
Senate
Public Morals Committee
Graves
Spokane
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Panama
Cromwell and
Taft
Light Prom Administration
Chal
Lenges Rainey
Ilinois
Himaelf
Eastern News
Rainey
H. T. Trainey
Senator Lodge
Little Rock
Ark
Ita
Iron Mountain Railroad
Magoon
Cuba
Morrow
Cnele Sam
Gomes
Havana
Cuba Libre
Frisco
San Francisco
Robert
Manship
Eastern Oregon Insane Asylum
The
Commission—Great
Houwse
Inter
Salem
Novone
the College
Derby
Fedora
the Fair Store
Joseph
Eputy
Dasenk
Robins
His
Robina
Anthony Caminetti
United States
Flosipa
Pacific Coast
Manlice
Fire
Pittsburg
C. A. Bev
Bill Jolted
Rere
Tenn EN
Newlin Drug Store
LA Grande, Oregon
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