Condensed News Recap from The Week in 1909
Summary of events including Colima eruption devastation and treaty between Buchanan and Venezuela. Montana to take up Japanese exclusion. Cleveland shippers critique Harriman lines. Elks seek protection for Wyoming elk herds. Waters-Pierce to duel with Standard in Missouri courts. Harriman tours South and West. Taft calls for executive cooperation. World voyage fleet homecoming. Canadian stance on Japanese exclusion. Preacher halts train for wedding witnesses. Russia-Great Britain protest potential over Portsmouth treaty. Wool buyers form a combine. Mexican riots claim lives. San Francisco bribery case jury secured. Tornadoes kill and destroy in Delaware and Pennsylvania. California fruit rates dispute. Taft era sea-level canal debates. 2,000,000 unemployed per AFL leader Gompers. New Orleans hosts Taft visit. British army beef contract awarded. Hawley probes Corvallis Yaquina road bill. Sea-level Panama canal discussed. more land fraud indictments. Berlin peace banquet marks pledges. Fire at Missouri Kansas & Texas creosoting plant. Ruth Swift-Evere story from Chicago. Battleship Mississippi museum addition noted. Currency controller cites Coal Belt defalcation. Garfield and other officials discuss limits.
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King Edward
William
Berlin
Missouri, Kansas & Railroad
Greenville
Texas
Seneee
Ruth May Swift-Evere
Chicago
Gusfrom
Ber Haband
Ernest He Biverss
Sy Salen Gatbeen
J. C
Fremont
United States
Mississippi
Washington Navy Yard
Taft Says Most Advisers Have Been Tentatively Chosen
Washington date Feb 16 reports that eight of the nine cabinet officers have been conditionally chosen and seven have signified willingness to join if formally tendered. State, Treasury and other portfolios remain to be finalized with possible changes allowed before inauguration. Names cited include Philander C. Knox, George M. Reynolds, George von L Meyer, and Richard A. Nagel.
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Taft
Washington
Philander Co Oy Cenee
the Treasury
George M. Reynolds
Illinois
Navy
George von L. Meyer
Massachusetts
Interior
Richard A. Charles Nagel
Missouri
Niagara Falls Runs Low As Ice Chokes Flow
Niagara Falls New York reports a tiny, slow current on the American side due to a northeast wind. Ice buildup stretches from Point nearly to Bath Island with a wall through Goat Island and reduced flow on the Canadian falls. This marks only the third such occurrence since white settlement, following 1848 and 1903 dates.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bath Island
Goat Island
Italy Thanks America for Aid and Guidance
Italian ambassador at Washington Mr Baron des Planches says Italy values not only monetary help and sympathy but also the scientific information and hints from the United States Geological Survey. He notes Messina plans to rebuild with lessons learned from San Francisco and will follow different lines.
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Baltimore
Ing
Baron Des Planches
Washington
United States Geological Survey
Italy
Messina
San Francisco
Winter Wheatgrowers Association Forms Across Three States
Hastings Neb Feb 16 Organizing action closes a three day meeting unites Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma farmers to control winter wheat prices. About 200 sign pledge not to sell next crop below set price with 30 days notice to directors. A $500 fund launched to advance the effort.
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Hastings
Neb
Winter Wheatgrowers’ Association
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Scrop
Iowa House to Debate Sweeping Anti-Trust Law
Des Moines Feb 16 meat sweeping anti trust measure to stamp out grocers coal ice and doctors trusts penalties include imprisonment from one to ten years for violations of the law aimed at fixing excessive prices and other restraints.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Doctors’ Trust
Storm Bains Disrupt Midwest Transport and Wires
A heavy sleet and snowstorm with high winds disrupted transportation and interrupted wire communications across a large Lake Michigan district. Central West regions including Illinois Indiana Missouri and Kansas reported widespread outages as the storm stretched from Merthags to surrounding areas tonight.
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Middle West
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Central West
Merthags
Illinois
Indiana
Issouri
Kansas
Oregon Legislature Proceedings Feb 13 18
Proceedings report Senate passage of a bill to connect lines with fewer telephones, a $20 000 maintenance appropriation for Union experiment station, and a $10 000 master fire warden salary for two years. Also notes on licenses, normal schools, forestry, and court reforms.
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Mlaan
Senate
Johnson
Salem Debates on Bills and Voting in State House
In Salem on February 12 the House amended bills affecting boxing contests and a wagon road project from Medford to Crater Lake and Klamath Falls. A $100000 appropriation for the wagon road passed 16 to 0, while the bill for Oregon City locks funding sought joint federal-state support.
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Salem
Davis
Billy
Purdin
Medford
Crater Lake
Klamath Palls
Oregon City
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Jones
Polk
Congress
Barrett of
Wash
Wastbeaches
Washington County
Barrett
Wood
Oregon House rejects joker bill on precinct beer sales
Salem February 1 1910 report shows representative Calkins McDonald Patton and others exposing a joker substitute house bill 167 on precinct elections whether beer should be sold with whiskey and other liquors leading to its defeat in the house.
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Salem
Calkins
McDonald
Patton
Committee On
McCue
Brady
House
Bones
Hatteberg
Meek
Philpott
Hart
Oregon Supreme Court
Chamberlain
Democrats
Hey
Lela
Bower
Senate
Oregon
Washington
Davis Arrested for Liquor Sale to Indian at Chemawa
Salem Warren Davis a former local bartender was arrested by a U.S. marshal and taken to Portland charged with selling liquor to an Indian from the Chemawa school. He claims no recollection of the sale and asserts the man appeared nearly white, making identification difficult.
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Salem
Warren Davis
United States
Portland
Davis
Memorial day field sports ban and district law changes
Salem debate highlights Mem orial day sports prohibition bill for field sports in Portland faced likely Senate defeat. Altman amendment passes allowing district creation when taxpayers vote anytime. Senate defeats Bailey immigration resolution and considers tuberculosis sanatorium funding with 70 000 two year total. Pardons bill appears effectively dead as postponement vote looms.
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Salem
Farrell
Multnomah County
House
Bean
Senate
Portland
Altman
Bailey
Congress
Senate Committee On Medicine and Pharmacy
Board of Pardons
Cal
Oregon Legisature Opposes Noncongress Action on Japanese Policy
A Salem poll shows 81 members oppose anti Japanese legislation by any authority other than Congress while 19 support excluding Japanese by congressional act. Senator Bingham struggles to unite supporters of an anti trust bill on a ban against all trusts.
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Salem
Congress
Oregon
Bingham
Albany Sets Stage for New Manufacturing Firm
Albany negotiations near completion to move old furniture factory operations to Portland and Tacoma producers. Articles of incorporation filed for Union Lean Manufacturing Company with A. H. Sandstrom, D. Sprague, and George Sandstrom named as incorporators and initial officers.
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Albany
Portland
Tacoma
Opera
Eee
Unior Lean Manufacturing Company
Ant
Inc Pee
A. H. Sandstrom
DE Sprague
George Sandstrom
Water payment due May as diggers halt work over dispute
Settlers warned May 1 payment due. they may halt Clearlake reservoir work until a satisfactory agreement is reached. First unit completed will deliver water this season if maintenance charges are paid. second unit and further development hinge on settlement. Engineers Murphy and Hanna reassigned to Washington and Malheur project tasks amid the Klamath controversy.
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Beeen
Clearlake
Murphy
Klamath
Washington
F. W. Hanna
Malheur
Three Robbers Loot Denver Rio Grande Mail Car Near Fort Logan
Investigators believe three men staged the westbound Denver Rio Grande heist near Denver at 3 15 AM using a rubber tired buggy and red signals. The railway crew escaped and the loot may total about 35000 with 400 in money order funds tied to the Portland Colorado sack. Police say the robbers fled toward Denver and may be hiding in the city as officers search the area.
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Denver
Denver & Rio Grande
Regi
Colorado Springs
Portland
Colo
Fort Logan
United States Military Reservation
Goethals Sees Panama Canal Lock Plan Backed
Washington reports Colonel George W. Goethals and the Isthmian Canal Commission board of engineers, after touring Panama with President-elect Taft, unanimously favor continuing the lock canal design. He predicts completion and ship passage by February 1, 1915, and plans to brief the House on costs.
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Washington
George W. Goethals
Isthmian Canal Commission
Board of Engineers
Roosevelt
Panama
Taft
Goethals
House Committee
Eecmnerte
Plan Disaster Warnings
A report presented to the Russian Meteorological Congress in St Petersburg discusses mine disaster prevention. It notes that small strata movements weeks before may release explosive gases or signal earth slides, and urges installation of safeguards to counter these two causes.
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St. Petersburg
Meteoroloiical Congress
Ragood
Petition Seeks Revote on Iowa Prohibition Amendments
A petition signed by 10,000 residents was turned in to Senator B. Cosson asking the voters be asked again to approve or reject two state constitutional amendments for absolute prohibition. Signers hail from nearly every town and village in Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa
B. Cosson
Joint Committee to Decide on Monmouth Normal School
A Salem area normal school likely to be located in Monmouth would be the committee of ways and means recommendation, possibly cutting Westport and Drain schools from the state treasury. Monmouth's standing may influence other normal schools to push for their own appropriations, with outcomes uncertain in the legislature.
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Salem
Monmouth
Joint Committee of Ways and Means
Westpond
Drain
Fayette
Salem Fruit Union organized with growers meeting
At a Salem board of trade gathering fruit growers voted to form the Salem Fruit Union. Temporary officers were chosen and over $1,000 was subscribed on the spot. They plan to incorporate with at least $6,000 capital and may use local facilities to support a cannery proposed by Spencer and Hogan of Marion Indiana to process lower grade fruit.
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Salem
Board of Trade
Salem Fruit Union
Eaben
Cellaela
Hetune Hele Placentiie
Eek Powert
Eerste Locdiceae Nall
Fee Tosana
Spencer & Hogan
Marion
Indiana
English Duty Sparks Oregon Hop Dealers' Alarm
Local hop dealers in Salem warn that a proposed 40 shilling duty on hops in England could end the industry in the United States. They note England consumes most American hops and fear brewers there will back the levy to curb imports.
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Oregon
Salem
England
Lebanon Builds a Big Fourth of July Plan
Alban Lebanon Linn com one’s uescaichy leads in Fourth of July prep. A Lebanon Business Men's meeting this week approved preliminary plans for a large community celebration this year.
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Lebanon
Alban Lebanon
Linn. Com
One
Uescaichy
Sle
Business Men’s of
Klamath Project Work Halted After Unit One
Klamath Falls reports the reclamation service ordered a halt to all Klamath project work except for the first unit. The pause aims to finish unit one and secure payments from water users before continuing.
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Klamath Project
Klamath Falls
Reclamation Service
Portland Markets Report Mixed Prices Across Commodities
Market notes show barley and feed prices around 27.50 to 28 per ton while wheat varieties range from 94c to $1.12 per unit. Hay values in Willamette and Eastern Oregon sit near 16 to 18 per ton, with fresh fruits and vegetables listing apples at 2.75 per box and cabbage and cucumbers priced per crate or dozen.
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Willamette Valley
Oregon
Ig Breron Ranch
Herla
Mla
Young America
Angelo Ie
Stdowe
Uae
Testaeia
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Russia
Great Britain
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Pennsylvania
California
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
New Orleans
Taft Party
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Tical Southern
Greole
Interior Department
Hawley
Corvallis & Yaquina
Panama Canal
Iiet
Rocky Moun
France
Germany
R. A. Youngblood
Garfield
America
Combine
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Weston
Ashland
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Clackamas County
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Multnomsh
W. N. Gatens
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