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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1910
Page
6
A plumbing contractor urges a chance at a new residence to install bath fixtures and complete plumbing work. The message emphasizes readiness to handle all bathroom upgrades and related plumbing tasks for the project.
Settlers on the Big Creek of the St. Joe River in the Coeur d Alene district Idaho report being driven from homes by forest fires and Joseph Burszinsky and wife are missing. Rain has begun after dynamite-armed trees were exploded near Wallace to induce rain. Fires in Wenaha reserve and Elk City district are described as the worst in years with high winds fanning the flames.
W N McArthur speaker of the Oregon House and secretary to the Governor travels to Salt Lake City to represent Acting Governor Jay Bowerman and the state at the Western Governors Conference on August 18, following Governor Hay of Washington's suggestion.
Beverly Massachusetts September 30 Taft will address the national league of Republican clubs at Carnegie Hall New York Analysts expect the speech to serve as a campaign keynote outlining Republican gains since his administration began and set aims for the future amid a tense political climate.
Washington reports a record 36 governors to be chosen this fall with Oregon joining the field. Thirty two races occur in November general elections while Vermont Maine Arkansas vote next month and Georgia elects in October.
Sacramento notes Governor Gillette seriously considers a special legislature meeting to present at the fall election a 5 million bond issue for the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 and to let San Francisco amend its charter to raise bonded indebtedness to vote 5 million more on top of existing issues.
Sulphur Oklahoma details of a scheme by which land grabbers enrich themselves at the expense of minor Indians were related at a congressional investigation into Indian affairs. A case cited showed an 18 year old Indian lost 2075 more than property sold, described as a disgrace to Oklahoma.
Indiana farmers will launch the most comprehensive self interest drive within 30 days with paid organizers across the state. A central depot in Indianapolis will handle millions of dollars of grain, with elevators and buildings to sell directly to shippers and consumers, a plan modeled after brewers’ campaigns in Kentucky and elsewhere.
A vast blaze engulfed the 1910 Belgian Exposition in Brussels. Officials estimate losses near 100 million dollars with two dead and about forty injured. Thieves looted exhibits as a soldier was stabbed while attempting to stop three robbers. The fire started in the telegraph building and swept across the 200 acre site.
Portland markets list wheat prices for Club bluestem red Russian at 8c 96c and 85c per unit Barley feed and brewing at 24 dollars Oats No 1 White 32 per ton Timothy hay in Willamette Valley 18 19 and Eastern Oregon 20 22 alfalfa 13 14 Butter Extra 33c fancy 3c ranch 23c Eggs Ranch candied 23c Hope 1909 crop 10 13c olds nominal Wool Eastern Oregon 14 17c Mohair 32 23c
Red Russian wheat at 90c, Wheat Bluestem 4c. barley 24 per ton. Hay Timothy 22 per ton, alfalfa 14 per ton. Butter Washington Creamery 83c, ranch 22c. Eggs Selected local 3k. Includes club 926 and Oatse 6833 per ton references.
Brief news items report a 320 by 20 by 147 foot bridge element in New Zealand nearing completion. Other notes include the Dry Farming Congress calling for its fifth session in Spokane October 3 6 and labor tensions with New York cloakmakers facing an injunctive action over an open shop. Also cited are rising Japanese immigrant threads to San Francisco and Manila sugar labor groups stirring anti oriental leagues in Honolulu.
President Samuel Gompers announces the AFL convention opens in St Louis on November 14. Colonel Roosevelt prepares speeches in the West for the national conservation congress in St Paul on September 6. Mrs Margaret Emerson McKim wins a Reno Nevada divorce on cruelty grounds. James J Jeffries shifts to laundry business after mortgaging Reno fight earnings. Senator Cullom of Illinois turns 81 next November. General B J Viljoen, Boer war veteran now in New Mexico, offered assistant minister post in South African protectorate.
The Duke of Edinburgh with 750 crew struck rocks near St Catherine Isle of Wight in dense fog. Across the empire cholera outbreaks surge in Russia with thousands dead, Tokyo floods devastate the city, and a meteorite damages a Montrose house. Indictments name James A Patten and others in a Sherman anti trust case connected to a cotton pool.
BAN FRANCISCO. A complaint filed in federal court charges William J Burns graft prosecutor with suborning perjury in connection with the recent Snell indictment. Burns allegedly induced Charles P Snell to testify falsely before the grand jury.
CHICAGO. Joseph Cannon says he will be a candidate for Speaker of the next House. He also denounces reports of a planned Republican party reorganization as originating with insurgents and Democrats.
Reports indicate the Bristol Bay district and the Karluk and Uyak areas on Kodiak Island will produce a salmon pack well below the seasonal average. Assessments suggest reduced runs impact fishermen and regional supply.
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