News of the Week Condensed For Busy Readers
A roundup of political clashes, international tensions, and social notes includes Senator Platt criticizing Oregon law, heat deaths in Chicago, U.S. and Mexico talks on Honduras, Taft and Bryan politics, Bryan seeks shared White House, the steamer Ohio reaches Nome, and Japan China tensions. Also: Peary Antarctic plans, Venezuela Holland rift, dock fire loss, and other brief items.
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Platt
Oregon
Chicago
United States
Mexico
Bryan
White House
Obaldia Elected Panama President After Quiet Elections
Panama on July 14 reported peaceful presidential elections across the Isthmus. Jose Domingo de Obaldia, former US minister and acting president, won the majority as Ricardo Arias abstained from voting. observers noted orderly balloting and broad support for Obaldia. Crowds greeted the result with music and cheers, reflecting a notable sense of harmony.
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Panama
Jose Domingo de Obaldia
United States
Amador
Ricardo Arias
Obaldia
Senor Obaldia
The
Republic
Arias
New Charges for Adams in Colorado Mining Murders
Grand Junction Colorado July 14 evidence for the defense will start today in the trial of Steve Adams a Western Federation of Miners member charged with murdering Arthur Collins mine superintendent at Telluride The case ties to broader killings and disappearances during Colorado mining troubles with potential re arrest on accusations including the murder of Detective Lyte Gregory or the Cripple Creek depot bombing.
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Grand Junction
C Dlo
Steve Adams
Western Federation of Miners
Arthur Collins
Telluride
S Shackelford
Adams
Colorado
Lyte Gregory
Denver
Cripple Creek
Wales Comes to Quebec Pageant Plans Thriller
Quebec planners stage a historic military pageant for the tercen tenary of founding with a royal visit. A battlefield dedication and a large mobilization of thousands of soldiers will unfold on July 24 as ships from the United States England France Germany Spain Japan and Argentina gather in port.
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Quebec
Ont
Canada
Amuel de Amplain
United States
England
France
Germany
Spain
Japan
France Denies Germany to Protect Turkish in China
Paris July 14 M Constans French Ambassador to Turkey denies reports that Germany would assume protection of Turkish subjects in China He states France has kept the protectorate and has had no indication that a transfer was planned The Porte and the French representative in Constantinople regularly exchange views on important matters but no discussion of such transfer has occurred.
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Paris
M. Constans
Turkey
Germany
China
France
Porte
Constantinople
Watch Captors Figh Los Angeles Cross Border Duel
Captors in a border crossing near Calexico engage in a revolver duel with immigration inspectors Ames and Chandley and a Mexican guide. After about 15 shots, the Mexican disappeared near the irrigation canal and is believed drowned.
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Los Angeles
Calexico
Ames
Chandley
Hayti Tensions Rise After Hospital Fire
Official dispatches from Port au Prince report growing unrest among Haitians after the French hospital blaze. Hostility toward foreigners increases as the French cruiser Chasseloup Kubat remains the sole warship in the harbor.
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Haytiens
Paris
Port Au Prince
Chasselou-Kubab
Rebels Beg for Amnesty in Tehran Dispatch
A Teheran special to the Daily Mail says Rachin Khan with a large force and several batteries is bombarding Tariz while revolutionists mass in the Khiavana quarter. The rebels telegraphed to the shah begging that amnesty be granted.
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London
Daily Mail
Teheran
Rachin Khan
Tariz
Noo
Khiavana
Corean Independence Convention Draws Global Delegates
Denver hosts a Con yen gathering as 886 delegates from around the world convene to map a path toward Korean independence. The delegates are noted as highly educated and deeply devoted to the cause.
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Corea
Denver
Lin
Gusael Cond
Enereer
Willamette Valley Chautauqua Opens In Oregon City
The 15th annual Willamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly opens with ideal weather and a record crowd forecast. Dr. R A Heritage leads the music program as Forty thousand people are expected on the grounds spending at least one dollar each. Noted performances include Handsome Bill as the Judge in Trial By Jury and Eugene E Garlicks as the defendant tenor formerly with Frank Daniels' company. Edna Browning of Enterprise will sing the plaintiff's role, with a chorus of over 100 singers planned.
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Oregon City
Willamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly
R. A. Heritage
College of Music
Willamette University
Chautauqua
Will H. Varney
Eugene E. Garlicks
Frank Daniels
Opera Company
Edna Browning
Enterprise
Bandon Gathers Fund for Coquille River Breakwater
Ban don businessmen raise money independently from congress to build a breakwater across a lagoon near the Coquille river mouth. Engineers say the barrier will confine water to the main channel and keep sand from forming bars while federal grants fund entry improvements. A push seeks a $500000 appropriation at the next congressional session.
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Bandon
Congress
Coquille River
Regularia E Regular
Coquille
Forestry Experiments Continue Across Coast
Dr Bowles, department expert, has moved to Everett to study waste products from mills and logging. He will also visit Vancouver and later return to Astoria to finish work before testing in Portland. Hawley’s findings are sent to Washington for public release. Hawley will then head to Montana to study large forest waste products.
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Astoria
Bowles
Everett
Vancouver
Portland
Hawley
Washington
Montana
Rail survey maps new line to Hillsboro
United Railways reports its first Hillsboro survey since control changed. Line would run from Linnton over Cornelius Pass through Resnane Phillips West Union dairying belt, crossing the Tualatin plains to reach Main Street Hillsboro three blocks east of town. Survey highlights rich dairying area.
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Hillsboro
United Railways
Linnton
Tualatin
Better Telephone Service Plans in McMinnville Area
Representatives of the DeVarney Waggoner company met with the McMinnville Local and Long Distance Telephone directors to announce active construction on the line linking McMinnville to Portland. Poles have been purchased and will be delivered along the route. Construction starts at Sherwood with crews moving toward Portland and toward McMinnville.
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McMinnville
DeVarney- Waggoner Company
Portland
Sherwood
Gervais Oils Streets Benefit City Council Order
The streets of Gervais were coated with crude oil by city council order to control dust. Now in its third year of use the practice is praised as easy to apply cheap and long lasting with little odor. A second application is rarely needed but desirable later in the season.
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Gervais
Petition Seeks Free Rural Mail Route for Local Fans
Citizens of the county section forward a petition to Washington DC asking for establishment of a free rural mail delivery route. Farmers across Buetter Creek Meadows country sign the list, with the route planned to begin within four months.
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Washington, D. C
Ston
Tiss Peepee
Buetter Creek
Meadows Country
Lane County Court Eyes Portable Sawmill Purchase
Lane county court schedules this week to consider petitions from various sections urging purchase of a portable sawmill. The device would aid building plank roads and bridges in outlying road districts across Lane County.
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Eugene
Lane
Asan
Marion county cherry growers plan new cannery due to low prices
Salem reports Marion county fruit men seek a mutual cannery after rejecting three year contracts with Mutual Canning now controlled by a single owner. Growers pledge funds and plan a fall start, with Liberty precinct ready to build a packing plant this summer and expand next spring to handle all fruit. California canneries pay 6 to 8 cents a pound, outpacing Marion county offers.
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Salem
Marion County
Mutual Canning Company
Liberty
E. C. Armstrong
Liberty Growers
Tual Canning Company
California
Corvallis Sees Growth in Post Office Revenues and Dwellings
Corvallis reports a near 25 percent rise in post office receipts for the year ending June 30, with housing activity up about 9 percent since January and an expected 16 to 20 percent annual increase by December 31. Residence prices have doubled over three years in many cases, and new residential activity continues. Echo reports J E Murphy of Portland starting a fireproof cement and steel mill building for alfalfa meal with 25 tons daily capacity, costing about 25000 dollars, leasing Henrietta mills to operate with the mill.
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Corvallis
J. E. Murphy
Portland
Wheat and Flour Prices in Various Grades and Regions
A list of prices across commodities including wheat types Club and bluestem. flour patents and straights. barley categories such as feed and brewing. hay Timothy in Willamette Valley. fresh fruits like apples cherries apricots peaches and plums with per box or per crate rates. berries including strawberries raspberries and gooseberries. onions garlic root vegetables and assorted vegetables with regional notes and per unit prices.
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Willamette Valley
Oregon
California
Poona
South Carolina Battleship Launched at Cramp Yard
The all big gun battleship South Carolina was launched at Cramp shipyard on the Delaware River amid cheers. Gov. Ansel’s daughter Miss Erica Calvert Ansel christened the ship, with officials, navy staff, and invited guests attending a luncheon and toasts. The vessel measures about 450 feet in length, 80 feet beam, 24 feet 6 inches draft, displaces 16 000 tons normal and 17 000 full load, powered by 17 000 horsepower, costing around 7 million dollars with eight 12 inch guns and a 30 gun secondary battery.
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Philadelphia
South Carolina
Crampa’ Shipyard
Delaware River
Misa Frederica Calvert Ansel
Ansel
Navy Department
Ettoreamosca
United States
Navy
Michigan
Camden
N. J
Milwaukee Lays Rails Toward Butte in July
Spokane July 13 The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul rails will reach Butte by mid July barring delays. Rail laying from Butte west starts July 20 with all butte roadbed ready. Engineer W E Dauchy reports the line's completion early 1909 and notes Montana floods damaged trestles and tracks delaying construction about four weeks.
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Spokane
Wash
Chicago
Butte
Portland
Puget Sound
Montana
Business activity rising across the nation says Record Herald
In Chicago and nationwide analysts report a return to normal business in commerce industry and agriculture. Crops are large, unemployment and empty rail cars are down, and post office receipts show a bright trend. About 10 000 railroad workers returned to work in six months with packers rehiring about half of laid off staff.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
United
Mormon Leaders In Big Timber Deal
Santa Cruz July visit by Smith head of the Mormon church with a delegation of church leaders to discuss timber interests in the Pacific Northwest. The party, including C W Nibley and John R Winder, owns extensive timber lands near Hodd River Baker City and La Grande Oregon.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Ingt Smith
Mormon Church
Smith
Holeae
C. W. Nibley
Sailor-Soldiers Welcome At Santa Cruz Grand Ball
After arriving by United States trains io Alert the soldier sailors of the state naval reserve were not allowed on Catalina island to dance in uniform but received a official welcome in Santa Cruz Saturday night. They were invited to attend a grand ball in their honor.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Catalina Island
State Naval Reserve
United States
Io Alert
Shah to Apologize in Teheran Move and Justice Promise
The Times reports two representatives of the shah will go to the British legation at Teheran to apologize for disturbances affecting British subjects during the uprising. The shah issues a fresh rescript and pledges immediate restoration of the courts of justice.
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Shah
London
London Times
Teheran
Courts of Justice
Bryan Nominated at Democratic National Convention
Denver July 10 delegates at the Democratic convention proclaimed William J. Bryan as the party’s presidential nominee in a dramatic session. The vote reached 1054 to 0 with Bryan’s nomination made unanimous, followed by a long adjournment and a night of uproarious demonstrations by Bryan supporters.
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Taft
Bryan
New York
Teheran
North Dakota
Canada
Denver
Colo
William J. Bryan
United States
Parker
Sheehan
Conners
Committee On Resolutions
I. L. Dunne
Omaha
Johnson
Minnesota
Winfield Scott Hammond
Judge Gray
Abraham Lincoln
I. L. Strait
Maryland
R. E. Lee
Tragic Rhine Bridge Collapse Step in Cologne
A new Rhine bridge at Cologne collapsed during construction. By noon 14 bodies were recovered and nine men rescued from the water or injured. The crane scaffolding failed, taking down the central span and several other spans. Some workers were still trapped beneath the wreckage.
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Cologne
Rhine
Roosevelt Tops Advance In Serial Terms For Africa Book
New York July 10 President Roosevelt will be paid between 60000 and 75000 dollars for his Africa hunting trip account. He will receive a high royalty on the book as serial material to be published by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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San Francisco
Denver
New York
Peary
Antarctic
North Pole
Michigan
Roosevelt
Charles Scribner's Sons
Rockefeller gives birth to third child at Bar Harbor home
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife welcome a son at their Bar Harbor summer residence yesterday. This marks the couple’s third child, following a prior boy and girl.
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New Rockefeller
Bar Harbor
Merly
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Window Glass Price Increases Across United States
Cleveland report notes window glass manufacturers agreed to raise prices by 10 and 20 percent nationwide during a meeting held yesterday. The action affects suppliers and likely passes to consumers.
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Cleveland
United States
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