Two Railroads Battle for Elgin Right of Way
Elgin becomes the center of railroad action as two companies vie for the same right of way into Wallowa County. The OR & N and a rival led by Mr Cook race to secure land, bonds, and contracts while injunctions curb construction and fences arise along the disputed strip.
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Eigin
Cook
Elgin
Wallaeeee
OR & N Company
Pioneer Company
Thoren
Sree
OBR &N
Quok
Wallowa Valley Railroad Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Qook
New York
Wallowa County
Or&n
Jeet Baturday
Mr Cook
OR & N
Wallows Valley Railroad Company
Cook Jones
Mao Little
Jaodge Eakin
Frank Phy
Cook &I
Wallowa Valley
BR & N Company
Acre
Certein
Socialist general strike ordered in Warsaw over police chief attack
Boripps News Association reports in Warsaw that socialists called a general strike as a protest against the government for the execution of Okeseja, who tried to assassinate the police chief last March.
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Boripps News Association
Warsaw
Poland
Russia
Socialist
Okeseja
Judge H Mitchell Sentenced in Multnomah County Jail
United States Senator John H Mitchell was sentenced by Federal Judge De Haven in Portland to six months imprisonment and a $1000 fine for charges tied to fees accepted for expediting patent claims. The judge overruled immunity objections and the senator filed a bill of exceptions and bonds.
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Portland
Ore
United States
John H Mitchell
Multnomah
de Haven
DeHaven
Fteeman
Attornay
Thureton
Mitchell
United States Bonator
Land Office
Reports Denied by President in Oyster Bay
Scripps News reports the president denied involvement with the publication Wade and Fancies and rejected Col Mano's claim he supplied materials. Baron Keomura, the Japanese peace plenipotentiary, is expected in Oyster Bay before week’s end. No visitors today.
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Oyster Bay
Executive Office
Roosevelt
Col
Mano
Baron Keomura
Japanese Move Rumored Near Mongolian Frontier
A telegram from Manchuria reports rumors that Japanese forces are executing a turning movement on the right wing of General Linovitch's army, with the Japanese said to be eighty miles inside the Mongolian border.
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Scripps News Association
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Linovitch
Notorious American Shoplifter Sentenced in London
Anna Gleeson Jailea of Chicago was sentenced to three years in a London court for stealing a ten thousand dollar necklace during a Christie’s sale. The case was reported by Scripps News Association from London on July 25.
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London
Eng
Anna Gleeson
Chicago
Christie's
Destructive forest fires ravage Sierra Madre area
Destructive forest fires rage in the Sierra Madre mountains about forty miles from Dillon. Timber and saw mills, ranches, and homes are destroyed. Loss is estimated at one million dollars. Inhabitants struggle to combat the flames.
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Cheyenne Wye
Sierra Madre Mountains
Dillion
Secretary Taft Welcomed Aboard In Yokamaka Arrival
Secretary Taft and party arrived aboard the Manchuria at Yokamaka, greeted by Minister Griscom and four war department officers. The Roosevelt party joined on deck reception before proceeding to a special train for Tokyo with a detached palace car for accommodation.
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Yokamaka
Taft
Manchuria
Griscom
Child Found Living in Trunk Near Home
In New York on July 26 a six year old boy named John Marquesa, whose father vanished and mother died, spent two months living in a trunk in the alley of his former Tenth Avenue home. Neighbors saw him entering and exiting the trunk and sometimes fed him before police finally rescued him.
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Merippa Nova Association
New York
John Marquesa
Tenth Avenue
Fnally
Dead from Burns in Braddock Pennsylvania Fire
Explosion of a gasoline stove in a Braddock house during the morning fire killed a mother and an older daughter, and burned the father and two other children. Two children Harry Tagresa aged seven and Myer Dagresa aged nine died.
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Boripps News Association
Braddock Penna
Levi Togreae
Harry Tagresa
Myer Dagresa
Three Die in Bank Head Mine Dynamite Blast
A dynamite explosion at the Bank Head mine yesterday killed three miners. The victims are Thomas Smiley, David Thomas, and John Williams, with others injured in the blast reported by Scrippa News Association.
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Boof
N WT
Bank Head
Thomas Smiley
David Thomas
John Williams
Kaiser Advises Peace Talks With Japan
Berlin dispatch reports Kaiser Wilhelm in conference advising the German government to seek peace with Japan. The foreign office confirms the statement as issued today.
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Germany
Foreign Office Today
Wur
Japan
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Bigelow Johnson
Nice
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Scrippa News Association
Kaiser
Geddes
Newlin Drug CO
J. Hi. Peare
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