News of the Week Recap of Global and Domestic Events
Peary sails back for provisions while Standard Oil battles Illinois Central control. Alice Roosevelt Longworth shifts toward politics. Bodies in Mount Calvary Portland petrified. Roosevelt bags a turkey. Mint grafts suspected in San Francisco. Duke of Marlborough economics after split from American wife. Dog gnaws a hand at a Coast mountains station. NYC orders 10 000 arrests for emergency election day. Hoar dies. Pacific coast hospital needs rise. German meat costs drive vegetarians. New York steel builders clash with unions. Russian leaders sentenced to Siberia. Boni doubts American wife divorce. Spitzbergen ownership dispute between Norway and Sweden. Taft speaks on law and order. French storm and tidal wave. Czar under pressure from grand dukes. Chicago loon licenses down. Fort Leavenworth soldier identified as escaped murderer. Mount Vesuvius mudslides harm rail and farms. Mayor Schmitz and Boes Ruef alleged graft profits. Morocco unrest. Panama Canal labor shortages. Chicago independent telephone gains right of way. German steamer collision sinks crew losses. German princess investigates Chicago under alias. St Petersburg robbers executed. Anarchists arrested in New York. San Francisco saloon licenses linked to supplier. 10 000 Chicago women workers at $5 weekly. 5 000 saloons. Montana fears Cheyenne war path. Standard Oil fined in Ohio. Chicago widows robbed by broker. Money train guarded by Cossacks. Pennsylvania railroad wage and day-demand protests.
Peary Still Aims For Pole After Fifth Attempt
A Labrador telegram indicates Commander Peary faced severe hardships on his polar quest but plans to try again. Secretary Bridgman notes Peary reached 87 degrees 6 minutes north, about 32 minutes nearer the Pole than the Abruzzi expedition, and the Roosevelt party returns home despite icebound ordeals.
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New York
Commander Peary
North Pole
H. L. Bridgman
Peary Arctic Club
Mr. Bridgman
Peary
Roosevelt
Pole
Bridgman
The
Magoon Orders Rural Guards Pushed to Restore Island Order
Havana Nov 6 Governor Magoon orders organized rural guards to pursue scattered insurrection bands and restore order across the island. American troops will replace the guards in towns where they withdraw. He vows to prevent horse stealing and to arrest and punish offenders.
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Magoon
Havana
Union Pacific Orders Ten New Motor Cars At Omaha Shops
Union Pacific has ordered material for ten new motor cars to be built immediately in Omaha shops. New machinery valued at 125000 will be used, but construction of the ten cars already offered will proceed without delay. Each car will feature 200 horsepower gasoline engines.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
Bull Baiting and Panamanian Republic Anniversary Observed
Colon observed the third anniversary of the Republic of Panama with bull baiting and other amusements in the afternoon fireworks in the evening a thanksgiving service was held and a reception by Consular officers followed.
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Colon
Republic
Panama
Reading Road Raises Wages Nationwide 10 Percent
Philadelphia news reports the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company announced a ten percent wage increase for all employees earning less than $200 per month. The move aims to boost pay across lower salary brackets for the railroad’s workforce.
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Reading Road
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
Capital Seeks Investment in Electric Railways
Oregon City reports a new growth era for Clackamas county driven by population rise from 23 000 in spring 1905 to about 30 000. Plans include electric lines from Canemah to Salem and a Molalla Wilhoit Springs branch by Oregon City and Molalla Railway Company, with construction soon. Free mail delivery starts December 1. telephone systems expanding. realty sales surge as farms subdivide.
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Oregon City
Clackamas County
Idle
N Water Power & Railway Spany
Canemah
Salem
Molalla
Wilhoit Springs
Clackamas River
Ackerman Urges School Fund Reforms For Longer Terms
The biennial report of J H Ackerman recommends basing public school funds on teachers employed rather than children. He urges longer school years, higher per capita levies, converting inheritance and some corporate taxes to the common school fund, and extending funding to sparsely settled districts.
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Salem
J. H. Ackerman
Ackermania
California
Ackerman
Railroad Petition Denied by Linn County Board
The Oregon and California Railroad asked for tax reductions from 19000 to 10400 per mile on the main line and 11000 to 5400 per mile on branches with timber land valued 7 to 3 an acre. The Equalization Board adjourned after hearing and kept the assessor’s total of 1,732,148, including 1269700 on roadbed and rolling stock and 462248 on timber land.
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Albany
Equalization Board of
Linn County
Oregon & California Railroad Company
George Seriber
Hood River Apple Shipments via Mt Hood Railroad Start
Refrigerator cars run on Mt Hood Railroad marking direct shipments of apples from east side orchards. Sidings at multiple orchard points allow loading near the fields, easing the heavy fruit haul and aiding growers as the crop remains large across the valley.
Wallowa County Fair Exhibits Impress At Lostine
Wallowa County demonstrates leadership in agriculture fruit and stock at the Lostine County Fair. Attendance is strong and exhibits span the county with fine cattle several breeds and high quality sheep and hogs noted as among the best in the state.
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Wallowa County
Lostine
Salmon egg harvesters finish season on Columbia river
Workers at the government fish station on the Clackamas River report the salmon egg take at the mouth of the White Salmon River is the smallest in years, ending a season of preservation efforts.
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Clackamas River
White Salmon
Columbia River
Timber Tract Sale Under Study Near Gold Hill
Four thousand acre timber tract at Foots Creek head is being cruised for Idaho and Ashland capitalists. Sale would boost Gold Hill with major road construction to connect with the S Railroad at Foots Creek mouth.
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Gold Hill
Foot’s Creek
Idaho
Ashland, Or
Portland market prices list includes grains fruits and vegetables
Grain and feed items range from wheat and oats to barley and corn with per ton and per cwt quotes. Domestic fruits and fresh vegetables include apples grapes peaches pears cranberries cabbage cauliflower lettuce tomatoes and many staples with varied price bands.
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Bluestem
U. S
Hay—Valley
Eastern
Oregon
Oregon Burbanks
America
Buffalo Bill Heads to Sheridan for Ute Conference
Colonel William F. Cody better known as Buffalo Bill travels from Cody to Sheridan with Colonel Breck and aides after a bear hunt. He plans talks with the Utes before they march to Fort Meade to serve with the Sixth Cavalry. Fears of a broader Indian uprising rise as messengers urge northern tribes to drive out whites. Cody aims to map countermeasures with military authorities.
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Cody, Wyo
Willam F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Breck
Big Horn Mountains
Sheridan
Wyo
Fort Meade
Sixth Cavalry
Appah
Black Whisker
Cody
Famine Ravages Kiang Su Province in Northern China
Advices from Shanghai report famine of desperate scale in Kiang Su's northern region with ten million people of 21 million in the province in severe want. Crops fail and food riots grow, while officials delay relief and governors curb movements to stop unrest. A Presbyterian missionary cites thousands starved and warns of an appalling death toll without aid.
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Shanghai
Kiang-Su
Competition urged for Yellowstone Lake boat service
Major John Pitcher, Acting Superintendent, reports the Yellowstone Lake Boat Company monopoly for tourists from Upper Geyser Basin to the Thumb is a problem. He recommends competition or allowing stage lines to run boats, and notes a $3 per head fare for an 18 mile trip. Franchise expires July 21. He also urges increasing Fort Yellowstone to four troops.
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Washington
John Pitcher
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Lake Boat Company
Upper Geyser Basin
Thumb
Major Pitcher
Pitcher
Fort Yellowstone
Exports and imports of iron and steel rise in nine months
A Department of Commerce and Labor bulletin notes that iron and steel exports increased about 25 percent in the nine months ending September, with imports rising by a similar amount. Growth in front and steel operations exceeded any comparable period, the report states, with a gain over the year-ago period of more than 24 million dollars.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Black Hand Bomb Aims at Brooklyn Tailor Messina
Unsuccessful extortion attempt by the Black Hand Society targets Francisco Messina a Brookyn tailor. A dynamite blast at his tenement caused 8000 dollars in damage but no injuries. Detectives arrested two suspects as the investigation continues.
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Blank Hanhd
New York
Francisco Messina
Brooklyn
Black Hand Society
Messina
Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Mining Company Formed in Kentucky
Mine Diamonds In Kentucky Lexington Ky November 6 With a view of mining diamonds in Eliott and Carter counties Samuel Pearson of Scranton Pa and W J Rice of San Juan Puerto Rico have organized the Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Mining Company with a capital of $100 000 Pearson who spent years as an engineer in the diamond fields of South Africa says the indications for diamonds are better in Kentucky than in South Africa.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Eliott
Carter
Samuel Pearson
Scranton
W. J. Rice
San Juan
P. R
Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Mining Company
Pearson
South Africa
Pirates Seize Launches in West River Fight
Reports state Chinese pirates captured a British launch and two Chinese boats on the West River after a running fight. They escaped with about $10,000 in booty and no casualties were reported.
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Hongkong
West River
Oregon Legislators Visit Jute Mill and Weston Normal School
Governor Chamberlain and 33 Oregon lawmakers toured the Walla Walla jute mill site and Weston Normal School in Pendleton after examining the plant, with debate over replacing a stove foundry. Speakers praised the Weston institution, highlighting its reach beyond Weston and urging Columbia River cooperation.
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Pendleton, Or
Oregon
Salem
Walla Walla
James
India
Washington
Chamberlain
Mead
M. F. Kincaid
Walla Walls
Weston
Normal School
Pendleton
Commercial Association
Weston Normal School
Robert C. French
French
Normal
Davey
Marion
Vawter
Jackson
Smith
Umatilla
J. H. Raley
Seattle
Columbia River
Utes Reportedly Moving West from Indian Camp toward Tongue River
Luther Dunning of Otter Creek arrived from the Indian camp near Bear Creek to say Chief Kannapah and his people refuse removal to Utah and prefer fighting. The latest reliable report places the Utes about 70 miles from Sheridan, moving westward toward Tongue River.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Luther Dunning
Otter Creek
Kannapah
Utah
Dunning
Bear Creek
Tongue River
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