Prohibition Party Names Ticket for Oregon Offices
The Prohibition State Convention in Portland named A. E. B. Eaton for governor N. A. Davis for secretary of state Leslie Butler for treasurer George B. Platt for Congress in the Second District. The platform criticizes liquor dealer conventions and argues that higher saloon standards worsen harm.
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Prohibition Party
Portland
Prohibition
Leslie Butler
Hood River
Congress
George B. Platt
President signs proclamation removing vast Wallowa lands Oregon
The president eliminates 203635 acres from Wallowa National Forest Oregon after a USDA study found open grassland and largely alienated timber with impracticable administration. Unappropriated portions will be restored to settlement after interior department notices.
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Portland
Wallowa National Forest
Oregon
United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Secretary of the Interior
Willamette Valley Wagon Road lands go on sale in full
The Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road land grant is offered for sale entirely. President Watson P. Davidson says every acre is for sale and settlers may make small down payments with the balance due in five or more annual installments at 6 percent interest. The company favors actual settlers over investors.
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Prineville
Willamette Valley
Cascade Mountain
Watson P. Davidson
McDuffy seeks county boundary changes to Multnomah
Salem reports C S McDuffy of Portland filed a county initiative petition to detach parts of Washington Clackamas and add to Multnomah. He also handles Otis Williams county petitions and Orchard county petition, totaling five proposed boundary changes.
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Salem
McDuffy
Portland
Washington County
Multnomah
Otis
Williams County
Clackamas County
Multnomah County
Orchard County
Crazed herder kills employers near Plush
In Lake County two young sheepmen Wal ter Newell and Herbert Newell were shot from ambush by discharged sheepherder Bolivar. Deputies Arthur and Snider led armed posses toward the scene as the crime shocks the community. Victims aged about 21 and 23, praised for sobriety and industry. killer reportedly insane under liquor.
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Lakeview
Walter
Herbert Newell
Plush
Lake County
Bolivar
Arthur and
Snider
Uquor
Man Survives 60-Foot Fall at Hood River Cliff
At Devil's Punch Bowl in Hood River a visitor fell sixty feet from a cliff into an icy pool. Roy Blagg of the valley survived after surfacing and reaching stones above the falls, where spectators rescued him.
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Hood River
Devil's Punch Bowl
Roy Blagg
Episcopal convention closes in Eugene with three day session
The annual Episcopal church convention met at St. Marys Parish in Eugene from June 15 to 17. In Grant county the Redboy post office was closed on June 15 and mail will be handled from Granite thereafter. Albany prepares a bold Fourth of July celebration with active planning. Portland staged its rose festival parade featuring 2000 grammar school children.
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The
Episcopal Church
St. Mary's Parish
Eugene
Redboy
Grant County
Granite
Portland
Alfonso
United States Circuit Court
Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
New York City
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Hawley
Ellis
Navy Department
Yorktown
Astoria
Hillman
Crook County
Redmond
Ervin A. Cleland
Secretary of State
North Powder
Elgin
Union County
Mear-Beer
Grand
Grand Lodge of Masons of Oregon
Royal Arch
Order of the Eastern Star
Valley of Portland
Oregon
Dallas College
A. A. Winter
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad
Associated Oil Company of California
North Bank
United Railways
Tillamook
Pacific City
Nestucca Bay
Oregon National Guard
Finger
Clackamas Station
Digest of Washington actions on Idaho lands and rail issues
Grand jury indicts Western Union for 42 bucketshop law violations. Idaho land surveys get $100,000 funding. Heyburn backs amended sundry civil bill. Arbitation with Mexico over the El Paso boundary advances. Civil Service reshapes western district with Seattle HQ. Oil-fired rail changes and Pendleton wool sale highlighted.
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Washington, D. C
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bernhard Boggild
United States
Cornell University
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota
State College of South Dakota
Idaho
Senate
Heyburn
Hamer
House
Mexico
el Paso
Civil Service Commission
Oregon
Washington
Montana
Wyoming
San Francisco
Washington Senators
Seattle
Amalgamated Copper Company
Governor Haskell confirms Oklahoma City capital move
Governor Haskell states his force will stay in Oklahoma City as the capitol location bill nears passage. Early returns from across the state show a 30 000 to 35 000 majority for the bill with Oklahoma City leading Guthrie and Shawnee by about 65 000.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Haskell
Guthrie
Shawnee
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J. L. van Blaricom
C. F. Held
E. L. Evans
S.E. Watkins & Son
Allen Smith & Co
Pete
A. E B. Eaton
Union
N. A. Davis
Milton
Taft
Lorimer
Wayman
Illinois
Albany
Department of Agriculture
Charles B. Merrick
Portland Land Office
John C. Young
Senator Bourne
Pendleton
Pilot Rock
Siletz
L.E. Brown
Chehalem Valley Mills
Newberg, Oregon
Newberg Manufacturing and
C. B. Cummings
Newberg, Or
J. H. Wilson & CO
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