Two Bridges Gone as Floods Cut Main Line in Oregon
Floods in the Santiam and Mollala rivers washed away two Southern Pacific bridges and left the main line blocked for likely weeks. The Santiam at Jefferson was carried away, the South Santiam bridge near Woodburn washed out, and the Mollala bridge deemed unsafe. Trains routed via Corvallis routes. Portland freight north of Albany halted. A wrecking crew battled the rising waters as the Overland faced a near-miss and further falsework failed, sending a new bridge span into the river. Local service maintained Port land Jefferson, with continued flooding risks and expected more damage before subsiding.
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Woodburn Natron
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California
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Corvallis & Eastern
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Jefferson
Woodurn- Natron
Lebanon
Rescue of White Wings Crew Off Ocean Drift
The Nova Scotia barkentine White Wings and its captain M. J. McLeod and mate Alexander Luscombe were rescued at sea as her bulwarks ran near awash with 200 000 feet of lumber drifting aboard. The German tank steamer Mannheim towed them to New York arriving from Shields on November 8.
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New York
Nova Scotia
Barkentine
White Wings
Mannheim
Shields
M. J. McLeod
Alexander Luscombe
President orders Civil Service for IRS employees
The President announced an order bringing all Internal Revenue Service employees under the Civil Service. This action expands federal personnel protections and standardizes hiring and promotion rules across the IRS.
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Civil Service
Washington
Navy
Internal Revenue Service
Roosevelt sails to Isthmus for four day visit
President Roosevelt departs on the Mayflower for the Panama trip aboard the Louisiana convoyed by Tennessee and Washington. He will meet Panama’s Amador and officials at Colon and spend time at La Boca Ancon and the canal sights. Lieutenant Frank Evans will use wireless aboard the Louisiana.
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Washington
President Roosevelt
Washington Navy Yard
Panama
Anatennsarine
Rappahannock River
Chesapeake Bay
Louisiana
Isthmus
Tennessee
Frank Evans
White House
Colon
Amador
Shonts
Canal Commission
la Boca
Ancon
Roosevelt creates four new forest reserves in Idaho
President Roosevelt signed a proclamation expanding Idaho forest lands by 7 406 556 acres and enlarging existing reserves. The Coeur d Alene reserve tops the changes at 2 250 000 acres, with Lemhi and Salmon River reserves also expanded and Sawtooth additions totaling 1 371 760 acres.
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Roosevelt
Panama
Idaho
Forest Service
Heyburn
Coeur d’Alene
Shone
Kootenai
Lake Bend d'Oreille
Coeur d'Alene
Lemhi
Custer
Montana
Lemhi River
British Columbia
Rocky Mountains
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Cassia
Oneida
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Harriman Lines Order $21,000,000 Freight Cars for 1907
Chicago dispatch reports the Harriman lines have placed orders totaling $21 million for refrigerator, box, flat and gondola cars to be delivered before next year’s heavy traffic season. The total undelivered orders amount to 16,600 cars, including 6,600 refrigerator cars of the latest design.
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Chicago
Harriman Lines
One Fight Would Finish All Coast Fort Guns
Brigadier-General William Crozier Chief of Ordnance says the 12 inch gun now in use at most U S coast fortifications would not last two hours in an engagement. The statement was released with his annual War Department report today in Washington.
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Washington
United States
William Crozier
Ordnance
War Department
National Assembly Bans Gambling in Panama
The National Assembly unanimously approves a bill prohibiting gambling in the republic. It will not be signed by President Amador and gambling will be a thing of the past. Gambling is already banned in the canal zone.
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Panama
National Assembly
Republic
Amador
Canal Zone
Gale on Atlantic Four Men Swept From Life-Raft
Halifax dispatches report vessels wrecked and ships driven ashore along Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The Norwegian bark Adeena lost, five of twelve crew drowned attempting shore. seven aboard and in danger. Four crewmen missing from Torridon after wreck near Meiners Island. Captain Landon and others rescued.
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Nova Scotia
Cape Breton
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Turret Bell
Northumberland Strait
Adeena
Rexton
N. B
North Reef
Alexander
Windsor
N. S
Omega
Fox Point
North Sydney
Gaspe, Que
Torridon
Landon
Gaspe
Meiners Island
White Men Claim To Cherokee Lands Rejected
The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Claims ruling in the White Man’s Case. It held tribal lands are not communal. whites who gained citizenship by marriage before 1875 have equal interests, while those married after that date may gain rights only by paying 500 dollars. White husbands who abandoned Cherokee wives forfeit citizenship and land sale rights.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States Today
Court of Claims
Daniel Redbird
The
United States
Utes Change Plans for Relocation to Fort Meade
A messenger from Arvada reports the Utes will be moved by rail from Arvada rather than marching to Fort Meade. They are expected to arrive tomorrow evening. Authorities suspect Ute treachery altered the removal plan amid continued resistance to removal from Powder River Valley.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Arvada
Tenth
Sixth Cavalry
Fort Meade
Powder River Valley
Engineers seal Colorado River break. new channel scoured
River in Old Channel New York reports engineers closed the break in the Colorado River directing flow to the Imperial Valley and Salton Sea. The old channel is being scoured to handle normal water, and a nine mile dam and levee will be completed to control floods above extreme high water.
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Old Channel
New York
Southern Pacific
Colorado River
Imperial Valley
Salton Sea
Wireless Link Planned Between Tonopah and San Francisco
Postmaster C L M Mushet announced plans are practically completed for wireless telegraph service between Tonopah and San Francisco. A wireless plant is to be installed in Tonopah and is expected to work directly with San Francisco.
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Tonopah
M. Mushet
San Francisco
France to send squadron for Exposition opening
Paris Nov. 6 report says France will dispatch a squadron of warships to attend the opening of the Exposition on April 26. The move signals strong official support and international interest in the event.
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Jamestown
Paris
France
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