Lower Chesapeake Bay Open Sea Battle Involving Florida Crew
On May 27 near Thimble Shoal the Florida remained offshore while 20 men and Commander Quimby stood by as 12 inch shells from the Arkansas bombarded the target. No injuries or distress reported. the crew endured heavy hits behind turret protections. Gloucester reports 12 died in a schooner and steamer collision off Massachusetts. Oklahoma tornado hits Alva. 17 killed and many injured with severe property damage.
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Chesapeake Bay
Thimble Shoal
Lower
Chesabay
Fortress Joe
Quimby
Taunsig
Monitor
Arkansas
Florida
Harry Denbaugh
Gloucester
Mass
Fame
Boston
minion-Atlantic Line
Masaachuts
Oklahoma City
Alva
Okla
City Marshal Shot in Oakland Bandit Raid
City Marshal John Beckley was wounded in the shoulder by bandits who tried to steal the city’s cash after looting a post office and hardware store. The trio fled from a furniture store when Beckley opened fire. they returned fire, and a bullet struck him, ending the pursuit.
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Oakland
Org
John Beckley
Beckley
Cove Loses Championship After Narrow Defeat in Final Game
Cove relinquished the county title after dropping the deciding game 1 to 0 in a tense afternoon contest. The close finish kept the championship in doubt until the last inning. Birth records note a May 26 birth in the city to Mr and Mrs Ray Logan, a son.
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Cove
Vaceoe Siewerhant
Ray Logan
Thin City
Mey
Tents Sent Into Wallowa County For Extension Work
La Grande reports a busy summer planned on the Wallowa extension with a car of tenting sent to villages for laborer accommodation as McCoy, who built coal bunkers here last summer, targets work June in La Grande and then moves to Wallowa to build bridges, signaling activity though completion to Joseph this year remains in question.
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Wallowa
Putore
Bullier McCoy
la Grande
Harriman
McCoy
Riparia
Wallowa County
Joseph
Enthusiastic meeting in the Elas Hall last evening
Republican Senate candidate Ben H. M. Cake spoke at Elas Hall detailing his tariff stance. He defended his 1906 and 1908 positions on direct primary and proposed tariff revision to reduce excess profit while preserving protection for American labor and industry.
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ELAS
Ben. H. M. Cake
Elke
Thig City
Thig
Union County
Naion
Cake
Elks Lodge Home Progress Nears Completion
The Elks' new home advances with carpentry near finish and paper hanging underway. Carpets arriving, first floor to be ballroom ready with hardwood floors and a platform for a 60 piece orchestra. Second floor houses Elk rooms including a lodge, reading area, billiard room, kitchen and janitor quarters.
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Elks
Elke
Auto behind time delays Nelsons Portland run
Fernando W Nelsons party reached Medford at 7 40 and left for Portland at 8 35 aiming to arrive at 10 30 this evening. A 40 minute rock road stretch in Pitt River country caused slow progress and a joint on at Simon diverted the machine 60 minutes from the route. Nelson remains confident of meeting schedule on a second trip once roads are known.
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Medford
Fernando W Nelson
Portland
San Francisco
Bare Rock
Pitt River
Simon
Limeter Road
Nelson
Opening of Umatilla irrigation project in Hermiston
Floodlit ceremony marks formal opening of the Umatilla irrigation project valued at a million dollars. Mood gates opened and water poured into canals at 11 o'clock as Pendleton residents attend, anticipating economic benefits from land development.
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Hermiston
Ore
Pendleton
Dead Engineer at Throttle Sets Chicago Speed Record
A Chicago steam train, the Price Flyer Breas, roared at record speed on May 27 with engineer Albert Cauvins dead at the throttle. The fireman noticed the danger only when the train neared Byron and halted the run just before disaster, saving passengers.
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Chicago
Price Flyer
Breas
Friato Flyer
MM. & St PL
Albert Cauvins
Byron
New Trial Sought in Lord Larceny Conviction
Salem May 27 Judge Burnett hears ex Governor Lord press for a new trial after J Thorburn Ross courthouse argument. Lord convicted of larceny by conversion of state school funds while president of the Title Guarantee Trust Bank of Portland.
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Tions
Salem
J. Thorburn Ross
Burnett
Lord
Title Guarantee & Trust Bank of
Portland
New Smuggling Scheme Kills Twelve Chinese Arrivals
Washington May 27 Twelve Chinese migrants died in a new border smuggling method that shipped bodies to New York from Mexico. Officials say a plot, unearthed on the Texas border, involved loading corpses into express shipments and hauling them across the river. An inspector and interpreter aided authorities as details emerged from El Paso and Seattle reports.
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New York
Espres
Mexico
Smaggie Orientale
Washington, D. C
Emugglore
Larned
Texas
Inspector Babcock
Quong Dou Yen
Express Company
Quéng
el Paso
Fing Ming
Washington
Thene
Examiners Consider Grading Tonight for Eighth Grade Exam
The Board of examiners plans to finish grading papers tonight and by tomorrow noon determine how many of the 120 eighth graders from the country echoole passed the examination.
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Buon
Board of Examiners
Echoole
Trace of House Wrecker Tied to Gallagher Graft Plot
Oakland May 27 Police have information that may lead to arrest in the dynamiting of three unoccupied houses owned by former Supervisor Gallagher who turned state evidence in graft trials. A watchman Frank McVaugh reported no warning 10 minutes before the blast. Gallagher's residence was dynamited April last. a $7,000 deal is noted.
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Oakland
Gallagher
Soond
Frank McVaugh
Track Team Sends Contingent to Corvallis Prelims
La Grande and Island City squads depart to Corvallis for preliminaries with multiple athletes entered in events. Contingents include Carpy Jump Petey Barts and Pears in jumps, hurdles, and sprints. Reynolds Jon and Miie boost quarter mile and relay hopes. Walters Perry Irwin and Fred Young miss events due to injuries.
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Pi Goriel
la ‘Otends Wah
Corvallie
Barts
Pears
Kul Mile
Perhapa
Reynolds
Jon
Miie
Island City
Walters
Perry
Webite
Irwin
Fred Young
la Grande
North Carolina Votes to Ban Liquor Manufacturing and Sale
The North Carolina legislature adopts a prohibition measure with a margin of about 46 000 votes, effective after January 1 next year. The outcome ends liquor production and sale in the state as reported by Raleigh dispatches.
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United States Senate
United States
Oregon
State of
North Carolina
Raleigh
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