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Newspaper

La Grande Evening Observer

Location

La Grande, Oregon, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1906

Page

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Fire destroys Salt Lake Tribune plant in morning blaze

Salt Lake Tribune Telegraph plant in Salt Lake City burned early today with losses estimated at 40000. Other city piers offered space for operations as the former senator Thomas Kearn’s paper faced past Mormon tensions. Also reports from San Francisco note the schooner Altha ran aground near Golden Gate but no danger Then a train wreck near Macksburg caused one death and Mary Kyles 8 confessed causing the crash. Wheat and corn prices from Chicago market updated.

Scripps News Association Salt Lake Ut Salt Lake Tribune Evening Telegram Tribune Thomas Kearn San Francisco Altha Coos Bay Golden Gate Thomas Wand

Price of Brooms To Be Raised At National Meeting

A special meeting of the Broom Manufacturer's Association of the United States and Canada opened in Chicago to consider raising broom prices. High insurance on broom corn, factory costs, and freight rates are to be discussed. Separately, Sears Roebuck and Company paid a twenty thousand dollar incorporation tax for a forty million dollar corporation in Albany.

Scripps News Association Chicago Ill Meet’ng Broom Manufacturer's Association of United States Canada Albany N. Y Sears Roebuck and Company of Chicago

Navy midshipmen set sail from Annapolis for summer cruise

The Navy Department-ordered cruise for Naval Academy midshipmen began in Annapolis and will run along the North Atlantic coast from June to late August. Seniors were excluded from this cruise to stay at the academy for a special course preparing them for February graduation.

Scripps News Association Annapolis Navy Department Naval Academy North Atlantic Nex

Car Signs Decree Dissolving Douma Rumor Flows

In St Petersburg on June 16 rumors spread that the Czar signed a decree dissolving the Douma but the order date was left unspecified. The report notes uncertainty about the action and its timing.

Scripps News Association St. Petersburg

Sheep Shipment Props Up Large Mutton Bands

Pater Boudan started two bands of mutton sheep totaling 5000 animals for Elgin on Sunday. They were sent in parts to Colorado and Wyoming according to Joseph Hiraid.

Pater Boudan Elgin Partis Colorado Wyorming Joseph Hiraid

President Scores Victory Over Inspection Bill

Washington reports Roosevelt admits error in underestimating inspection provisions in the bill. Cannon yields and supports Roosevelt interpretation as Congress moves to fund inspections, with Gov ernment paying costs. Statehood bill signed. tensions ease as White House wins key point.

Service News Washington House Cannon Wadworth White House Roosevelt Wadsworth Gonnon

Prosecution Closes in LeDoux Trial in Stockton

The LeDoux murder case in Stockton is nearing closure as the prosecution prepares to rest this afternoon. The defense will not introduce new testimony beyond cross examination of witnesses. Earlier evidence showed the defendant in the city on good terms with McVicar, while prosecutors claim the motive was to hide bigamous relations after her husband learned of them.

Scripps News Association Stockton Cal LeDoux Tial Ross McVicar LeDoux

Massacres Reported as Jewish Riots Rage in Bialystok and Warsaw

Berlin reports state actions banishing political prisoners to Siberia while rioting Jews face a deadly assault in Bialystok. Eighteen Jews barricade a house as hundreds attack, with two hundred feared dead and many wounded. mass killings and looting continue into Warsaw and Botary as troops struggle to quell the violence.

Scripps News Association Berlin Voorwarts Russia Siberia Bialystok Jewish Association Warsaw Botary

Circus logistics impress Army observers in Washington visit

Army officers touring Barnum & Bailey operations saw a highly organized system with over one thousand staffers and about four hundred horses moving efficiently. They praised the precision of administration amid railroad delays and noted army staffing limits and short-term postings hinder consistency.

Scripps News Association Washington, D. C Army Barnum & Bailey Circus Washington

Octagonal Barn Contract Awarded to Pater Bosquet

The contract for building L. E Cav iness octagonal barn was awarded last Monday to Pater Bosquet. He is currently building a courthouse in Enterprise for McCully Wade and Knapper.

L. E Caviness Pater Bosquet Bosquet Enterprise McCully, Wade &Knapper Herald

Tieavy Logging Train Drives Logs Toward North Powder Mill

The North Powder Co. tested a 50 horsepower traction engine on its first trip up Anthony Creek with four 12-foot steel trucks attached. The crew expects to haul about 16,000 feet of logs per trip and foresees frequent delays until the mill begins operation about the first of next month.

North Powder Co Anthony Creek

Countess Murri Banmartini Freed On Ticket of Leave

Turin reports the Countess Teodolinda Murri Banmartini, after three years and eight months of a ten year penal servitude sentence, has been released on ticket of leave. The Bonmartini murder case, once highly famed, involved Teodolinda Murri and her associates in a complex political crime that spanned Bologna Cuneo and Turin, with Tullio Murri convicted of murder and other defendants credited with varying roles.

Scripps News Association Turin Teodolinda Marri Banmartini Bonmartini Bormmartini Bologna Murri Tullio Murri Teodolinda Murri Secchi Pio Naldi Rose Bonetti Tullio Cuneo Aesnion Naldi Seach Rosa Bonotti

Corner Stone Laid for Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort

In Frankfort at noon Governor Beckham laid the cornerstone of Kentucky's new Capitol building as thousands of visitors looked on. Former governors Buckner Knott Leslie McCrary Badie attended, delivering brief addresses while the ceremony included music and patriotic songs. Excursion trains from Louisville fed crowds, with most visitors returning by three o'clock for a five o'clock reception in Central Park.

Scripps News Association Frankfort Kentucky Capitol Louisville Beckham Capitol Commission Simon Bolivar Buckner Proctor Knott Preston H. Leslie James B. McCrary William C. Badiey Central Park

Yachts Race for Kaiser Cup Off Dover

Four British and three German yachts started the race to Heligoland for the Emperor William silver cup commemorating his wedding anniversary. It is noted with disappointment that no American yachts compete in the event.

Scripps News Association Dover Heligoland William

Elgin Seeks Palmer Lumber Co Mill Site in 160 Acres

Elgin residents press to host the Palmer Lumber Co big mill. A 160 acre site south of town, owned by J A Masterson, is offered with abundant water and pond land. Rail access is a concern, but expect through lines within a year or two. Elgin rivals La Grande with superior advantages and strong local backing. Mrs. Fred Schilke visits Bellingham.

Palmer Lumber Elgin Recorder Elgin Commercial Club Palmer Lumber Co Millee Ente ‘Elgin Palmer Co Grande Ronde Lewiston Oregon

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