Weekly News Roundup of Global and Domestic Events
Recap of posts from the past week notes pope appointing ten cardinals next fall. Reports on labor unrest in France, Roosevelt policies, and Castros diplomatic moves. San Francisco auto magnate Spaulding dies in Yuma desert. Mine disaster near Scranton kills one, injures two. Bryan campaigns. hot Reno coal pile fire. Philippines railroad expansion. Panama fears US annexation. Eastern railroads limit work hours. Northwestern buys cars for harvest season. American car in Paris race lauded. bank thefts in Kenosha and Seattle revealed. Typhoon in Hong Kong tolls. calls for anti corruption sweep in Turkey. Gould's finance, Hariman help, Cortelyou governor talk, and wartime fleet notes. Four half ounce gold nuggets found in Los Angeles district. Nan Patterson expelled from Pittsburg.
Families Separated By Fire Ravaging Fernie District
A Fernie dispatch reports Spokane readers that over 7,000 people lost homes in the fire area with up to 100 dead feared. Two thousand sent west to Cranbrook and Elko, 1,500 fled northward, and trains carried evacuees west. Losses top $2.5 million with about $1.5 million insured. About 3,000 housed yesterday, 3,500 more to need shelter and food.
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Spokane
Wash
Fernie
B. C
Spokesman- Review
Cranbrook
Elko
Great Northern
Hosmer
Fernie Fire Devastates Towns In Canada Wildfire
Fire roars through Fernie British Columbia as a vast blaze consumes 100 square miles. More than 100 lives feared lost including 74 in Fernie. Railways bridges and rolling stock destroyed. Communication cut off, fires spread by strong western wind.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Fernie
B. C
Michel
Hosmer
Sparwood
Canadian Pacific
Great Northern
Apang
Canada
San Francisco
Elk River Valley
Atlantic fleet views Tutuila Samoa as it passes Suva
The United States Atlantic fleet moved from line to single column near Tutuila island then steamed along the coast for a clear view of the island. Annapolis passed off Pago Pago while Ajax arrived at Suva. The fleet continued toward Auckland at nine knots in fair heat.
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Suvia
Fiji Islands
Auckland
Tutuilia Island
Samoa
Annapolis
Pago Pago
Ajax
Dutch cruiser Gelderland reports refused shore contact in Venezuela
Willemstad reports the Gelderland arrived from La Guira Venezuela. The commander says a shore boat with an officer was refused contact and letter bags and an official note to the German minister in Caracas were declined. He says Venezuela is mobilizing forces and suggests Holland may act.
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Willemstad
la Guira
Venezuela
Caracas
Holland
Mob Prevents Lynch Threat As Local Man Fights For Life
Deadwood South Dakota August 4 George Corey of Terry a mining camp near Deadwood faced a mob after being accused of wife beating. Arrested and jailed the mob broke in and forced him to run a gauntlet with blacksnake whips. Women prevented lynching.
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Deadwood
George Corey
Terry
Corey
Miner Dies Beneath Sutro Tunnel in Nevada
In Virginia City on August 4 a miner named C Pucillini was found dead half a mile underground at a depth of 8 000 feet from the Sutro tunnel entrance. His four mules also perished from the oppressive heat in the mine.
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Virginia City
C. Pucillini
University of Oregon Regents approve frame shop building and faculty hires
The board authorized a nine lot frame building costing about 5 dollars to serve as a shop after this year. President Campbell to travel East to hire geology economics civil engineering psychology and a fee. New faculty include Alderman Koehler Pennel Clark Haines Mozelle Hair Mabel Cooper Miriam Van Waters. $10,000 books ordered for the library and Mary at Home girls project to be finished and furnished. Assistant in public speaking decision delayed.
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University of Oregon
The
of Regents
Fairmount
Campbell
L. R. Alderman
Hugo Koehler
Ella Pennel
R C. Clark
Haines
Mozelle Hair
Mabel Cooper
Miriam van Waters
Mary At Home
Klamath Falls Bid Opens for Th Branch Canal Extension
Bids were received for extending seven miles of the main canal linking to the Adams ditch near Merrill. Two bids covered the full contract while others were for partial sections. The board of engineers will decide soon and bidders are ready to begin work, with water likely to flow through the Adams system by next year.
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Klamath Falls
Klamath
Adams Ditch
Merrill
Board of Engineers
Timbered land blocks homestead claim at Lakeview
United States land office decisions at Lakeview deny several contest cases between homesteaders and timber and stone claimants. O. B. Newton loses to Nell Boyd Yaden as land deemed heavily timbered and residence required not fulfilled.
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Klamath Falls
United States Land Office
Lakeview
O. B. Newton
Nell Boyd-Yaden
Railroad Accidents at Salem June Summary
According to reports at the railroad commission in Salem four persons were killed in June in the state. Thirteen passengers were injured along with one trainman one yardman and two other employees. One passenger train derailed and two freight trains derailed. There was one collision between a passenger train and another collision between a passenger train and a freight train. The June accident summary is comparatively low.
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Salem
Railr Commission
Teachers Institute Dates Set Across Oregon Counties
The annual teachers institutes are scheduled in several counties: Coos Myrtle Point August 18 19 20 21 Walla Walla Enterprise August 26 27 28 Wasco The Dalles October 6 7 8 Columbia Rainier October 6 8 Washington October 12 13 14 Polk Dallas October 14 15 16 Klamath Klamath Falls October 21 22 23 24.
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Salem
Coos County
Myrtle Point
Wallawe County
Enterprise
Wasco County
the Dalles
Columbia County
Rainier
Washington County
Polk County
Dallas
Klamath County
Klamath Falls
Bandon to Print 10000 Booklets for Commercial Club
The Bandon Commercial club will deliver booklets and literature around August 20. C. H. Warren of Warren Publicity Co. helped raise funds. The committee exceeded the goal and decided to double the order to 10 000 booklets.
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Bandon
Bandon Commercial Club
C. H. Warren
Warren Publicity Company
Portland
Rich Mineral in Curry County Prospect
Bandon a mining expert B C Merrill has left Curry county to San Francisco and will return around August 1 with a crew to work on two mineral veins one of which he discovered. He says Curry county prospects are extremely promising and should develop into a great mining country.
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Curry
Bandon
B. C. Merrill
Curry County
San Francisco
Vale Lumber Yards Opened by Vale-The Vale Company
Vale The Vale Lumber company completed lumber yards at Vale and plans to supply timber for fifty years at current cut rate. The firm is comprised of Union mill owners and aims to strengthen Vale's business prospects.
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Vale
Vale Lumber Company
Union
Bandon Launches Publicity Campaign for Universal Country Coal
Bandon announces a publicity drive funded to promote the new universal country coal resources. Local merchants and officials unite with booster groups to back the effort and boost regional prospects.
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Bandon
Commerc
Salem County Fruit Inspector Warns Of Stricter Apple Standards
Salem County Fruit Inspector Armstrong says the law banning wormy and scaly apples and other fruit will be rigidly enforced this year after a good yield. He notes no reason for growers to ship bad fruit and mentions a state wide movement directed by State Horticulturist W K Newell of Portland and district commissioners.
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Salem—County
Armstrong
W. K. Newell
Portland
Salem Discovers Kalich Giant Cherry
Salem cherrygrowers celebrate a new Kalich Giant variety, a Lambert X Bing cross from Woodlawn Portland. It surpasses Bing and Lambert in size and lies between them in color, with potential long term value after other varieties fade from markets. A window display drew wide interest.
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Salem
Kalich
Woodlawn
Portland
Normal School Board Reviews State Property in Drain
At a meeting of the executive committee Secretary C L Starr was authorized to inspect and inventory property in Drain owned by the state. The aim is to inform the board and the legislature of exact holdings and status. President A L Briggs announced notices though Triggs travel plans are unclear from Drain.
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Saem
Normal School Board of Regents
C. L. Starr
Board of Regents
Legislature
A. L. Briggs
Triggs
Oregon Agricultural College to Drain Valley Wetlands
The board of regents met at Union to discuss scientific drainage for the valley. They will invite estimates to drain 100 acres at the experiment farm near Union, marking the first scientifically planned wetland drainage in the area.
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la Grande
Board of Regents
The
Oregon Agricultural College
Union
Experiment Farm
Albany-Jacobs Bros Plan Rebuild Oregon City Woolen Mills
Albany-Jacobs Bros owners of the Oregon City woolen mills are considering rebuilding the old woolen mill site in Albany after inspecting the fire destroyed plant of 1904. They say they will erect a big mill here if local capital shows interest in the venture.
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Albany
Jacobs Bros
Oregon City
Portland Markets Report with Mixed Prices and Commodities
Market listing for wheat, barley, oats, hay, fruits, berries, melons, potatoes, vegetables, butter, poultry, eel, mutton, hops, wool and mohair. Prices shown for Oregon and Eastern regions with range notes including wheat at 84 to 88 cents and barley around $23.50 to $26.50 per ton.
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Willamette Valley
Oregon
Oregon Alexander
United States Attorneys Plan Rehearing in Standard Oil Case
United States Attorney Sims Special Consul Kellogg and Wilkerson drafted a petition for a rehearing in the Standard Oil appeal. They argue the circuit court misread the lower court decision and misinterpreted Landis dicta. They oppose the fine of 29 240 000 as excessive, noting rebating and chronic offense.
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Chicago
United States
Sims
Kellogg and
Wilkerson
Circuit Court
Standard Oil
Landis
Grosscup
Ciiter
Yoron Standard Oil Company
Indiana Corporation
Fernie Plunged Into Fire After Bush Blaze Feeds City
Vancouver August 3 Fernie near total ruin as a bush fire on Elk river spread to the Elk River Lumber sawmill and Crows Nest Company offices. Within hours hundreds of miners cottages burned and two deaths were reported. Special trains rush to aid homeless residents as losses reach about 2 million dollars.
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Vancouver
B. C
Fernie
Elk River
Elk River Lumber Company
Crows Nest C Company
Heat pushes baby death toll in Chicago to new high
Chicago officials report 206 infants under one year died in the week ending August 3, a rate averaging over 20 daily as heat waves linger. Officials attribute the rise to hot weather and warn that cooler temperatures are needed to curb the deaths.
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Chicago
Overproduction Hit Hop Market Say German Barons
Baron Louis von Horst of Coburg, who has large hop interests in California, arrived on the St. Paul. He says the hop industry suffers from overproduction and that small hop farmers have faced severe straits the past two years. Demand shrank due to prohibition in the south and west and licensing bills in England and Germany, causing price declines.
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New York
Baron Louis von Horst
Coburg
Germany
California
St. Paul
England
Pettibone Cannot Live From Idaho to Colorado
George A. Pettibone former Western Federation of Miners executive who had been in Idaho awaiting trial for alleged complicity in the Steunenberg murder has cancer and is not expected to survive after an operation at St Josephs hospital in Denver. He was later acquitted of the murder charge.
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Ianmege
France
Seattle
Steel Trust
Denver
Col
St. Joseph's Hospital
George A. Pettibone
Western Federation of Miners
Pettibone
Idaho
Frank Steunenberg
France Faces Great Strike Sparks National Railroad Tensions
Paris reports a tremendous strike brewing on nationalized railroads as the government expands control by acquiring the Western railway. Government railroad workers gain leverage while living costs rise, prompting demands for a wage scale revision.
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France
Paris
Western Railway
Balloon Race Planned by Federation of American Aeronauts
Chicago August 3 announces a transcontinental balloon race from Los Angeles or San Francisco to the Atlantic seaboard as the objective point. The Federation of American Aeronauts board of directors disclosed the plan tonight.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Atlantic Seaboard
Federation of American Aeronauts
Hill Lines Abandon Pacific Trade For Japan China
St Paul Minn Aug 1 The Hill lines have abandoned the marine portion of their share in trade with Japan and China while keeping ties with Japanese steamship times. James J Hill says the Pacific trade was gone for 15 months and insists the problem is lack of profitable policy not outlet subsidies. He calls for intelligent legislation that helps ocean carriage rather than hindering it.
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St. Paul
Minn
Hill Lines
Japan
China
Japanese Steamship Times
Northwest
James J. Hill
Great Northern
Mr. Hill
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hill
Commission
America
High Seas
Paris Labor War Deepens as Government Moves
Paris reports the government will arrest leaders of the General Federation of Labor in a widening labor war. A federation call for a general strike by masons and typesetters follows, with half the masons quitting and editors facing press restrictions.
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Paris
General Federation of Labor
Federation
Masons
Vigneux
Sultan Grants Liberty Forms Special Constitutional Council
Constantinople announces a special council to implement the constitution immediately, led by Kiamel Pasha and cabinet ministers with the state council president and legal adviser to the porte. The sultan plans a rescript sanctifying the constitution as Young Turkey leaders push fiscal reform and regular official pay.
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Constantinople
Kiamel Pasha
Foreign Affairs and Interior
State Council
Porte
Turkey
Cache of Bombs Found Near Three-Country Point
Sixty bombs believed linked to revolu tionists were found in a cache about four miles beyond the Rio Grande near the tri point of New Mexico Texas and Mexico. The devices were tomato cans packed with scrap iron three dynamite sticks and primed fuses.
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el Paso
Texas
Rio Grande River
FE Paso
New Mexico
Mexico
Find Work for Women Crusade Aims 75000 Jobs by Aug Fifteenth
Thirteen women as a committee of the Women's League of the State of New York began a crusade to find work for 75000 unemployed women by August 15. They appeal to business men statewide asking firms to hire, with more than a dozen firms already agreeing to employ women.
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New York
Women's League of the
State of
Take Up Oil Case Rehearing Sought in Federal Court
United States District Attorney Sims said a petition for a rehearing of the Standard Oil case would be filed within ten days. The move aims to obtain a full circuit court argument with hopes the court will reverse Judge Landis’s 29,000,000 fine and alter the ruling.
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Chicago
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