Seventeenth Union County Fair Opens Amid Busy Steam
Gates open for the Union County fair and race meet with Exhibits in arts and livestock fields. Secretary Holmes handles duties solo as officials are scarce. Main draws include Grande Roide fruit, Jassamine cattle, English Shire horse, and the four horse cowboys relay race across four days. A Sept 26 Seattle note cites a temporary injunction in the Creffield Mitchel case with October 26 Supreme Court appearance.
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Union County
Holmes
Ben Zubrick
Wit
Chas Smith
la Grande Nursery Company
E. J. Conrad
Jassamine
Ed. Reynolds
Geo. Wade
Sam Brooks
Ed. Hawley
Gotswell
J. A. Woodall
W.G. Hunters
E. W. Bartlett
C. H. Prescott
Union
B. E. Keeney
North Powder
James Spain
Chas. Dustin
Baker City
la Grande
Scripps News Association
Seattle
Creffield Mitchel
Pee
Supreme Court
Tailor H C Hoeiber Dies by Own Action in Hotel Room
Seattle reports the death by suicide of tailor H C Hoeiber aged sixty last evening. He left a wife and married daughter and had taken a room in a downtown hotel where the act occurred.
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Scripps News Association
Seattle
H. C. Hoeiber
Perry brakeman loses leg in logging train accident
Jack Smith, once a Perry livery stable owner, now on the logging road, was found on a flat car when a backing train ran him over. He had his right leg amputated below the knee and the left leg fractured. doctors later amputated the knee joint as well. He is hospitalized in La Grande, about 26, single, with parents in New York.
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Perry
Jack Smith
Mr. Smith
la Grande
Bacon
Hall
New York
Parry
Demand Ren Priests At French Catholic Convention
At St Ann's Theatre Woonsocket the national convention of L union St Jean Baptiste d Amerique opens for three days. Delegates discuss pushing Vatican recognition for French speaking priests in New England and potentially routing Peter's Pence funds through a society committee. Felix Gatineau presides as sessions run daily with a closing open air high mass and street parade planned.
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Scripps News Association
Woonsocket, R. L
L’union St. Jean Baptiste d'Amerique
New England States
St. Ann's Theatre
Vatican
New England
Deniar de
Felix Gatineau
Southbridge
St. Ann
Cumberland Street
Father Luanda
Jesuit Society
Bloodshed in Brownsville Georgia Spurs Mass Arrests
In Brownsville near the Negro seminary armed troops arrest hundreds of Black residents after a lynching and riot. Two hundred seventy taken this morning amid crowding of police courts. two more Black men killed after an armed pursuit. Authorities seek more troops and deputies as violence escalates.
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Scripps News Association
Atlanta
Brownsville
Negro Seminary
W. CT U U Meets in Tacoma for State Convention
The annual state convention of the Federation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened at the First Baptist church in Tacoma. It runs four days and promises to be unusually unsuccessful.
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Scripps News Association
Tacoma
Federation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
First Baptist Church
New York politics ferment asHearst and Jerome vie for governor
In Buffalo the 1904 New York political scene heats up as Hearst and Jerome contend for the governorship at the Democratic convention in Albany near a tense party split. Conservative forces support Jerome while Hearst faces strong opposition from Tammany and interior counties.
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Scrippe News Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Saratoga
Greater
New York
Cord Meyer
State Central Committee
Hearst
Jerome
Murphy Ovenly
Kimbet Shehan
Drunk worker slashes fellow crewman in street attack
On Jefferson Avenue a drunk G Mayers attacked W B Smith with a knife after a dispute over a prior abuse claim. Smith was wounded near the heart but survived after prompt medical care from Dr. Molitor. Meyers, jailed on assault charges, has two U.S. Army discharges and faces trial as authorities investigate motives.
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Jefferson Avenue
W. W. Smith
Hilgard
L. Robertson
Meyers
G. Mayers
Smith
Marshall Regourn
Justice Hough
Myers
United States Army
Nebraska
56Th Infantry
Illinois Bankers Association Opens Meeting in Springfield
The Illinois Bankers Association opened in Springfield with large attendance. A key topic on the program is the best method to protect depositors from recklessness or dishonesty by bank officials.
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Scripps News Aviation
Springfield
Lll
Illinois Bankers’ Association
Official changes on the short line
The Deseret News reports circulars will announce A. B. Stevenson as superintendent of the Montana division of the Oregon Short Line with headquarters at Pocatello, replacing T. J. Duddleson who resigned. Stevenson becomes effective Sept 25 while still trainmaster. successor unnamed. The shake up follows a recent wreck at High Bridge Montana that killed two tramps and caused about $50,000 in damage.
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Argentina
Argentina Department of Agriculture
Buenos Ayres
Santa Fe
Cordoba
Entre Riros
Pamps
Deseret News
A. B. Stevenson
Montana
Oregon Shortling
Pocatallo
T. J. Duddleson
Stevenson
Highbridge
Mont
Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry Holds Eleventh Reunion
Butler Tennessee hosts the eleventh annual reunion of the Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry Association. President Henry Lineback of Lineback Tennessee leads the gathering as members arrive with families for an enjoyable event.
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Scrippa News Association
Butler, Tenn
Thirteenth
Tennessee Cavalry Association
Henry Lineback
Lineback, Tenn
Santos-Dumont Flight Achievement Reported
Santos-Dumont reportedly flew the Bird of Prey after lifting it several yards into the air and then crashing to the ground damaging the propeller and frame. He escaped unharmed, with contemporaries noting the unhurt inventor.
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Andrews
Georgia
Washington W. CT
Clark
Pocatello
Illinois
Offigal
Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry
Santos
Dumont
Newlin Drug CO
Oregon
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