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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
2
A roundup of notable events from across the country and abroad includes political shifts and health concerns involving governors elect and world leaders, transport and industrial updates, accidents in coal mines and on waterways, legal cases and inquests, and military logistics updates.
Nov 24 Pekin reports heavy guards at city gates and gendarmes at approaches to foreign legations. Chinese officials post detachments after rumors of an insurrection in the south and a prior edict demanding swift arrest and beheading of conspirators. An investigat ion is ordered into Nang Puei province unrest.
In Battle Mountain Reno November 24 a Mexican gunman robs the Court saloon injures Night Policeman Coon and Deputy Sheriff Titsworth before fleeing. A manhunt draws Cowboys miners and residents with lanterns chasing the suspect who is later shot in the leg by a deputy.
A world spanning man hunt ended when detectives aboard the steamer Mongolia arrested L. E. Knollins matching the North Carolina embezzlement suspect L. E. Hancock. Knollins denies being Hancock and claims ties to Courtland Babcock & Co. of 44 Pine Street New York. He awaits extradition to North Carolina.
A U S engineers unit under Major Winslow arrived on the Sheridan and began fortifications. They map the island, plan a large drydock at Pearl Harbor, and deepen the channel. Local contractors have gone to Washington for dredging bids to be opened in December.
Albany reports the 30000 acres in Benton and Lincoln counties sold to Minneapolis interests. Yaquina Valley Fruit and Land Co plans 10 20 and 40 acre tracts for fruit dairy and nut farming. The Minneapolis group led by J B Streeter Co and partners will market from Portland with head office in Minneapolis.
Dump cars and engines arrive in Klamath Falls and move to the Hot Springs addition railroad camp. Men will winter on the cut and fill to prepare yards and switching grounds for track laying. Two steam shovels are at work near the city.
Land buyers from Oregon and Washington have gathered in Eagle valley with few sales yet. Prices range from $100 to $300 per acre, reflecting modest figures. The Snake River railroad boom drives the rush and future closings are anticipated.
Judge John H. Scott president of the State Good Roads league will preside at a good roads convention in Ashland on Tuesday November 23. R. P. Neil chairs the permanent Ashland organization with H. F. Pohland as secretary. Executive committee members include Benton Sewell L. L. Mulit F. D. Wagner J. Dodge and G. W. Dunn.
The Michigan Oregon Logging Company with $300000 capital has purchased about 3000 acres of timber in Tillamook County. The timber will be held as an investment and not cut now. Incorporators are R. V. Jones, E. B. Clark, and Wallace McCamant. Headquarters will be in Portland.
State Senator R A Booth of Eugene helps add 525 to the University of Oregon student loan fund, bringing total to about 2200. The funds aid needy students at a low interest rate, enabling continued study. Portland business leaders provided the donation anonymously.
A report from Durkee states natural gas was found while boring an artesian well on Albert Hindman’s property a half mile above Durkee. Hindman is drilling a well on his own land and is down 300 feet. Oil indications are claimed about a quarter mile from his place.
Condon Gilliam County Improvement Association formed to secure an experimental farm station for Gilliam county. A 300 to 400 acre site is sought to be rented or bought and given to the state. An executive committee and officers were named to organize and anticipate incorporation under state law.
Pendleton reports that 11 inspectors under Dr. S W McClure of the federal bureau of animal industry found no scabbies or other disease in Oregon sheep after two weeks of work. Inspections continue until every hand is examined, with only isolated cases previously in Lake and Douglas counties treated promptly.
Waldport resident James Monroe of Tide Water harvested three quarters of an acre of carrots planted last spring. He delivers the crop to Waldport market this week at 12 dollars per ton, with 14 tons ready. The dense growth along the riverbank let harvesters toss carrots into a scow, cutting labor and cost.
Stockmen of the John Day and Burns country praise the Sumpter Valley line after the first stock train runs from Austin to Baker. Large yards at Austin will handle bigger herds from the interior and future shipments are planned over the line.
A fragmented list shows market prices for grains fruits vegetables and meats in Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon. Wheat and barley prices mix basis tiers while apples pears grapes quinces cranberries and other fruits list per box or barrel. vegetables and dairy show per dozen per pound figures.
The Rhode Island government contender Horace Voz selected a chestnut fed turkey weighing 26 pounds as the best of a lot of candidates for the White House Thanksgiving table. The bird was sent to the execution block today and will be shipped to Washington tomorrow for the holiday feast.
The Oregon railroad commission finished its inquiry into the original costs of the O. R. N. and the Corvallis & Eastern. It finds the O. R. N. cost $33,297,828 and the Corvallis & Eastern $4,250,000, per the Railroad Age Gazette.
Seven hundred head of ownerless sheep, valued approximately at 2000 dollars, found by E. B. Carlile of Unity Baker county. They are being held for the owner as no local woolgrower has claimed them yet.
Word arrives that the Daily Graphic balloon ascended from London Wednesday morning in an attempt to reach Siberia and break the distance record. It was forced to descend in a gale near Novo Alexandrovsk Russia on Thursday night after traveling about 1350 miles.
Bandon’s Timmons salmon cannery closed for the season after canning about 10,000 cases this fall. The plant’s total output nearly doubled from last year despite an early season fishermen strike.
A Vienna dispatch reports Servians crossing the Bosnian frontier near Severnik repulsed by Austrian troops. Seventeen Servians were killed while Austrian forces lost three men.
A Portland company buys 1000 acres of timber on Woods Creek and plans a large sawmill and flume to connect with the C. and E. railroad located about one mile west of Philomath.
The discovery near here is claimed as the first bog iron find in the United States. An immense ledge is described as highly valuable on the Wilson farm.
Boston unveils a new 5,676 foot Washington street tunnel designed to relieve downtown congestion. The fireproof, steel and concrete structure carries Boston Elevated Railway trains while Tremont street remains for surface cars. Built by the Boston Transit commission, the project cost over 10 million dollars and features triple independent power sources for uninterrupted current.
An ex-British Royal Navy officer now a civil engineer for the Japanese government asserts there is no law protecting white men in Japan. He notes property ownership requires naturalization and cites school troubles in San Francisco as a predictor of hostility toward Britons.
South Chicago rejoices as Illinois Steel announces full operation by December 1. About 12,000 workers will return to the vast plant, many of whom have been idle for over a year due to scarce orders. Reopening promises relief to local merchants as well.
In St. Petersburg on November 23, Czar Nicholas appeared in uniform as a naval admiral and walked behind Grand Duke Alexis's royal casket. Troops lined the streets as the funeral cortege moved through the capital, with the czar seemingly indifferent to danger.
Budapest reports Austro Hungarian patrols on the Servian frontier are being strengthened after alleged Servian firing across the Danube at a party of Austrians. Further details are unavailable.
An explosion at a Gold Street water main project in Brooklyn caused a collapse that buried about 15 to 25 workers under earth and timber. Dozens more were unaccounted as rescuers dig through 50 feet of debris to reach entombed laborers and determine total casualties.
In San Francisco on November 21 Chief Biggy faced questions at the coroner inquest into Morris Haas’s death by self inflicted gunshot in his county jail cell. Testimony showed Biggy ordered Haas searched and rode with Haas to the jail, raising questions about search thoroughness and potential charges of inefficiency. An expert testified the derringer could not have been carried in Haas's shoe without rust, contradicting claims Haas had the weapon in his shoe.
John D. Rockefeller endured more than five hours of questions from Frank Kellogg in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil. Cross examination targeted rebates and the company's early practices. Rockefeller said 1907 dividends reached 40 million dollars, with earnings and surplus totaling several hundred million, as Kellogg claimed near half a billion in eight years.
Strangles from smoke in Montana mine as flames race through the Northwestern Improvement company's No. 2 slope drift. Three men die, six are missing with little hope of escape as property losses mount into thousands. The blaze started from lights on miners caps at 10 yesterday morning and swept rapidly through the fourth drift east.
Paris reports a revolution in the southern Haitian region as General Simon, former southern troops commander, seizes Les Cayes and nearby areas. The telegraph line is cut and government forces are surrounded by rebels.
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