Smaller Towns Under Water After Floods
Severe floods along the White and tributaries flood the valley towns in the Auburn Kent Renton O'Brien Oriellia region. Three lives lost as men drowned trying to break log jams to save rail lines. Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway service suspended. towns evacuated. workers stranded at Renton clay works.
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Oriellia
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Congress of Commercial Bodies to Push River and Harbor Improvements
A national congress of American commercial bodies focusing on internal waterways will meet in Washington December 6 7 to urge a fifty million dollar annual appropriation for river and harbor improvements. The Oregon delegation from the Portland chamber will attend. The meeting will discuss bar removals at Oregon and Washington harbor entrances and press to aid farming and mercantile communities.
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Oregon
Portland
Texas
Rivers and Marbers Congress
Congress of the Nation
Floods Leave Oregon and Washington Cities Devastated
Nov. 16 reports from Castle Rock North Yakima Wenatchee and Portland describe major floods across Oregon and Washington. Homes bridges and rail lines are ruined with many left homeless as rivers rise to historic levels and areas face isolation and widespread property damage.
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Wash
Ocowlite
Cowlitz
Olequa
Yakima
Naches
English Teachers Study U S Education System Ideas
New York Nov 15 After two days inspection English teachers visiting to learn U S methods identify strong points including medical inspection, compulsory evening schooling for 14 to 18 year olds, easy discipline, and aspects of kindergarten work. More teachers arrive this week.
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New York
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England
President Roosevelt Homeward From Colon Voyage
The first presidential trip abroad was completed when the battleship Louisiana with President Roosevelt and his party anchored in Colon Harbor at 1:30 PM. It arrived ahead of schedule and was escorted by the Tennessee and the Washington through a heavy downpour.
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General William G. Ely Dies in Norwich at Home
General William G. Ely of Norwich Connecticut died suddenly at his home from heart trouble last night. He commanded the Eighteenth Connecticut volunteers in the Civil War and later served as a brigadier general.
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Relief Fund Looting Report Expands Fraud Inquiry
San Francisco reports a new phase in the graft scandal over relief funds for calamity victims. Investigators including F. J. Heney and about 100 federal agents probe diverted state mail and express shipments, with potential forgery charges and a total theft estimated near one million dollars.
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the Chronicle
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Express Companies
Wells-Fargo
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New Zealand tariff favors Canadian goods over U.S. imports
Ottawa reports that New Zealand's new tariff gives substantial preference to Canadian products. United States goods face 20 to 30 percent higher duties in many classes. U S items such as bicycles, gas and oil engines, gum boots, printing paper, rail and tramway gear, sailcloth, canvas, and some instruments will be taxed at 20 percent while Canadian goods enter duty free.
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Canadian Commission
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Bodies To Be Exhumed After Rail Wreck Death Toll Rises
Zaslaw Palovicz who was injured in the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Woodville Ind died today raising the fatalities to 51. Survivors protest lack of religious rites for most Catholics. Local church officials plan to have the bodies dug up and reburied with rites.
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Zaslaw Palovicz
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Woodville
Ind
Total Wealth of United States in 1904 Report
The census bureau reports the nation’s total wealth in 1904 at 106,881,415,000 dollars, compared with 65,037,001,197 in 1890 and 88,528,948,798 in 1900.
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Washington
Wa Eescol
Two Trains Collide Killing Immigrant Passengers in Indiana
Chicago report details a Baltimore & Ohio crash near Woodville Indiana where 47 of 165 passengers died or burned. Survivors lost baggage as 38 injured and 80 unhurt. blame unclear. immigrant train carried Russian Jews Servians and Poles bound for Chicago.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Woodville
Ind
Baltimore
Babcock
Burke
Moste
General Shafter Dies Near Bakersfield California
Major General William Rufus Shafter retired United States Army died at 12 42 pm yesterday at Captain W H McKittrick ranch 20 miles south of Bakersfield after a seven day illness He contracted a chill last Tuesday while returning from the polls and declined despite medical care Doctors Herzstein Thorne attended the case but an operation was deemed too risky and he did not recover The veteran war hero passed away after a sinking spell shortly after midnight with physicians concluding no hope of saving him.
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Cal
William Rufus Shafter
United States Army
W. H. McKittrick
California
M. H. Herzstein
San Francisco
I. W. Thorne
Hergstein
Thorne
Herzstein
Hernstein
Government to Probe Standard Oil Under Sherman Act
Report states government plans to file anti trust proceedings against the Standard Oil Company under the Sherman Act. Seek a court order to dissolve the company as it exists and to redistribute stock among the 75 to 80 constituent companies while preventing further collusive contracts or understandings.
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Ile No
Federal Jury Impaneled Over Coal Holdings Probe
A federal branch jury was impaneled in Salt Lake City and will begin sittings tomorrow. Rumors say presentments may be based on Interstate Commerce Commission evidence from the Union Pacific coal holdings case and Utah Fuel Company land dealings, but officials have not disclosed witnesses.
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Federal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific Coal Holdings
Utah Fuel Company
Iroquois Theater Company Discharged From Bankruptcy
The Iroquois Theater Company of Chicago, whose theater burned three years ago with many deaths, was discharged from bankruptcy today by Judge Lanning in the United States court in Trenton New Jersey. The liabilities are stated at about 2,000,000.
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Iroquois Theater Company
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