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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1906
Page
2
The week features tense Senate votes on the railroad rate bill and international shifts with Britain pressuring Turkey. Dowie returns to Zion City amid welcomes. King Edward William and Nicholas confer. San Francisco faces earthquake relief, rebuilding talks, and mass fundraising reaching over 18 million.
Woodburn Ore April 29 authorities and posses await bloodhounds from Portland to track outlaw Frank Smith believed in the brush east of Woodburn within a few miles of town. Dogs to trail through dense underbrush. posse to follow closely.
Frank Smith robs a Troutdale grocery and post office on April 22 and is arrested in Portland. He breaks jail the next day and attempts a jewelry store robbery in Oregon City, fatally shooting Policeman Hanlon. He later breaks into Canby post office, escapes again, and shoots Sheriff Shaver and Captain Henderson near Woodburn on April 27. Authorities have not sighted him since.
Major General Greeley published a wartime style relief plan for about 200000 San Francisco residents unable to provide for themselves. The program uses army officials to coordinate aid with civilian station managers and outside applicants, aiming for economical prompt service and guard against wastage and theft while prioritizing women and children.
A west of Missoula eastbound freight with forty one cars of lumber and a caboose derailed near Reid Station at six PM. Eleven lives are thought lost as fire consumes the wreckage. Engineer L D Sterne and Fireman Ed Juliette are believed incinerated. Conductor Garber cites twelve trespassers aboard, with only three found.
Oregon towns report large relief supplies including food eggs bacon rice bread cooking utensils stoves blankets and clothing. Donations of money and gifts continue with Portland aid expected to exceed 250000 for San Francisco and other California cities as trains move south to deliver aid.
In Jacksonville city hall a rapid fundraiser gathered 1250 dollars and aims to surpass 1660 as citizens donate through Masonic orders and other groups for San Francisco relief. A benefit game with Ashland is planned and the business community contributes generously.
Relief work in Eugene continues to aid the caf fetera at San Francisco with several cars of supplies dispatched. Contributions total about $3,000 and keep growing as relatives reach the city and evacuees are reported safe. Refugees arrive in the valley including a San Jose couple who lost property and have found work locally.
Astoria citizens raised about 2850 dollars for the San Francisco relief fund. Lower Columbia river cannerymen contributed 725 cases of canned salmon. Two carloads have been shipped and a third carload is planned with a goal of raising another 1000 dollars.
Roseburg citizens contribute 1500 to relief efforts for San Francisco sufferers. A carload of provisions bread clothing and tents is sent. Drain turns over a strong collection to the relief committee. Many Roseburg people are in San Francisco and are reported safe.
The citizen committee forwarded another carload of potatoes flour blankets and clothing to aid the needy. Local women organized volunteer efforts and the Oregon City Manufacturing Company contributed about $1000 in cash and blankets to the drive.
Salem residents forward four carloads of food including potatoes flour bread and breadstuffs plus two carloads of bread and potatoes. Shaw and Pratum join with provisions and potatoes. Cash subscriptions reach 3500. Prisoners contribute 75 and all blankets. Salem pledges daily supplies while needed.
Citizens at the Courthouse in Corvallis quickly form a relief effort for San Francisco. A car will carry provisions including ten tons of flour, 400 bushels of potatoes, 31 cases of eggs, 300 pounds of bacon, and 1000 loaves of bread, with more supplies to follow.
Refugees from Francisco are welcomed at the depot by Mayor Caufield and the citizens relief committee. Many men found work at the paper mill and others received positions elsewhere. The relief committee continues collecting clothing and supplies to ship to California for relief efforts.
Chemawa Indian pupils at the training school sent 830 loaves of bread for California sufferers. The consignment was arranged by Wella-Fargo and will be followed by daily deliveries as flour purchases allow baking in the school oven by Indian bakers.
A special council meeting approved sympathetic resolutions with San Francisco affenders and named a 50 member committee to secure relief contributions. The committee loaded one car of provisions including stoves cooking utensils blankets and clothing and another carload of hour.
The committee appointed to solicit funds for San Francisco relief has secured $550. A carload of supplies, mainly flour potatoes and bacon, was purchased and sent by the first train.
At a mass meeting in Arlington six hundred dollars in cash was subscribed for the San Francis county project. Mr. Smith and Smythe and Bon, sheepmen, each contributed one hundred dollars.
Wheat values ranged from 68 to 71 cents for bluestem and red varieties. Oats, barley, hay, fruits, vegetables, butter, eggs, poultry, wool, veal, beef, mutton, and pork prices are listed with regional grades and per unit costs for eastern Oregon and local markets.
Governor Par dee and Adjutant General Louek arrived in San Jose for a tour of inspection. City and county officials greeted them at the depot and escorted them through town by car. They visited hospitals and relief stations and praised local authorities before departing for an afternoon train.
The Hillsboro citizens loaded a 60-ton car with potatoes flour evaporated cream bacon beans blankets and clothing at a cash outlay of 600 for relief of San Francisco sufferers. The mayor’s committee named by Corne linus raised the funds in a few hours.
Rome May 1 The Vatican plan for dividing 7 000 000 pect by the United States for friar lands in the Philippines has been approved by the Dominicans and agreed to by other orders. The Vatican will keep the principal with annual interest shared between Philippine dioceses and the religious orders in the islands.
A conflict at the Paint Creek mine of the Berwind White Coal Company near Ingleside resulted in a fatality and three injuries after union men were attacked by a mob described as foreigners. The incident occurred around midnight, leaving a foreign worker named Steve Pepoek fatally wounded.
At a Newberg meeting called by E. H. Woodward president of the Board of Trade two carloads of potatoes were pledged for San Francisco sufferers. A committee was formed to continue canvassing and liberal subscriptions were taken.
Medford dispatched one car of supplies to San Francisco by the first relief train after hearing the city’s need. A mass meeting was held to organize further cars and accelerate shipments as needs become known.
The Bohemian miners of Cottage Grove raised $100 and sent it to aid San Francisco residents in need. The donation arrived unsolicited. Bow River sawmills contributed a carload of lumber to accompany the relief effort.
Glendale volunteers ship a carload of scarolad provisions on a supply train bound for San Francisco as citizens rally to aid the city in need.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe Russia pressing forward in the Far East by occupying eastern Gein and Yecov ering the Baikal to Pekin railroad corridor. Russian minister to China M Pokouiloff faces obstacles in Pekin while a Russo-Chinese bank takes over the project route. A disguised ethnographic expedition ends with Col Novitsky and staff departing.
United States Senator long term John M Gearin Congressman Second District J H Graham Governor George E Chamberlain Secretary of State P H Stoat State Treasurer J D Matlock Supreme Judge T G Hailey Superintendent Public Instruction J H Ackerman Rep State Printer J Scott Taylor Attorney General R A Miller Labor Commissioner C P Hoff Rep
In mid May a Russian survey party aims to explore the Mongolian Desert near the Manchurian frontier. Though publicly under an academic banner, observers expect heavy military oversight and possible Japanese threat context. Colonel Novitzky leads a largely military mission awaiting progress by Russian forces at Urga.
Dr Devine of the National Red Cross warns the nation that San Francisco’s housing and property losses are not exaggerated and relief needs will continue for weeks. He cites telegrams and reports of large contributions and says food distributions will persist until stores reopen. Delicate patients require care for months as destroyed institutions are relocated and families aided.
Secretary of War sends urgent deficiency estimates totaling 3,387,630 to the Treasury for congress to consider. Funds cover replacement of military stores lost in the San Francisco earthquake and fire, cable repair between Angel Island and Alcatraz, and damage repair at the Presidio General Hospital.
Mayor Schmitz received numerous delayed cablegrams from around the world expressing sympathy for San Francisco after the catastrophe. Messages came from Australian cities Dublin Ireland officials New Zealand Baron Kaneko Tokyo and many other distant places.
Senators discuss the nomination of District Attorney Bristol and suspect the committee will report against confirmation. No formal action yet as the subcommittee has not reported, but a negative report would likely lead to full committee approval being unlikely without a change in sentiment.
The Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company was indicted five times by a federal grand jury in Clarksburg West Virginia for alleged violations of the interstate commerce law by failing to distribute coal cars to operators in a fair and equitable manner. Each case carries a possible fine of up to 5000 dollars if convicted.
Daniel H. Burnham, the San Francisco beautification architect, returns from Europe and says the city can rebuild itself into a beautiful, convenient metropolis. He awaits a decision on going to San Francisco at once after a message from James D. Phelan. Burnham cites diagonal streets and a grand outer boulevard as key features, comparing the chance to Louis Napoleon's Paris in 1851.
San Francisco plans rapid rebuilding after the earthquake. Notable donors including Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr pledge Rialto and Montgomery street structures. Thomas Magee to travel to New York May 1 to arrange a 12 story Market Street building. Monadnock building will add seven floors of offices in two weeks. James D. Phelan notes strong optimism for hotel and commerce revival despite disaster.
Mayors Lane and Wycoff, Iowa men, back from San Francisco, allege soldiers looted, shot civilians, and caused destruction. They recount watching uniforms pockets bulging with booty and claim they will present evidence to the war department to file charges.
Oregon relief officials visit Wilmer school converted to a hospital after the earthquake and fire. F W Leadbetter and Jefferson Myers meet Major Sternburg and the Oregon National Guard hospital corps. They also tour Harbor View Hospital with Dr K A J Mackenzie and United States General Hospital staff.
Representative Hermann says he will not face trial in Washington this city or the letterbook indictment until the fall term. He doubts an official decision before next week due to his attorney’s illness and vents strong criticism at government prosecutors.
In Havana on April 28 a House resolution proposed raising fifty thousand dollars for victims of the California disaster. The motion seeks nationwide relief funds from Cuban sources and reflects solidarity with the affected areas.
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