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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
3
Marshfield plans a 350 foot wide boulevard from the city west end through timber to Tarheel Point with a central roadway. City officials seek cooperation and land donations from Southern Pacific Southern Oregon Company and Coos Bay Water Company to secure the route.
Sheriffs R Odell of Malheur and A K Richardson of Harney nab two men in Goshen six miles south of Eugene after a 450 mile chase by car and trains from Yale. Ivan Ware and Hamilton are accused of stealing 60 horses from William Isaacs of Sucker Creek Malheur County. The suspects held 40 head in a corral at the time of arrest.
James Gwinn files an attachment suit against Pendleton academy. Instructors unpaid raise claims were assigned to Gwinn and attach Brown Hall and the administration building.
Great activity in submarine work at Fort Stevens. The river is laid out with 80 submarine mines aligned to block approach paths. Mines triggerable by electric shore control or by contact create instantaneous wreckage and water whirlpools for attacking vessels.
Eugene report says J. H. Gregg arrested by Ranger Farrington in the Cascade forest reserve east of Eugene on a charge of starting a fire. Examiner W. W. Calkins bound him over in 2500 to await trial in Portland federal court with government testimony placing him at the scene.
Crater national forest fires blamed on suspected squatters says M L Erickson supervisor. He cites evidence linking individuals and plans to press charges soon. Erickson notes the discouragement of battling blazes and recalls six fires near Oat Hill. Local troops have returned to Washington barracks.
Hood River report by Dr. W. R. Colley notes eight 14 year old trees produced 261 boxes of Graven atern apples. The fruit sold at 1.50 per box equals 47.06 per tree. Extrapolated, an acre with 60 trees would gross between 2500 and 1000 dollars.
Charles K. Hamilton set a world circular mile record of one minute but his Curtiss biplane the Hamiltonian crashed on the Sacramento state fair race track in front of about 20 000 spectators. He was seriously injured with possible fatal wounds and the crash occurred immediately after the record run.
Lieutenant governor and speaker sign a law making radical changes to state penitentiary policy. Whipping in the third incorrigible class is restored. The act marks the last official action of the fourth special session of the Texas legislature.
A federal grand jury in Chicago returns indictments against ten high officials from Swift Armour and Morris packers. Each faces three charges: combination in restraint of trade in fresh meat conspiracy and monopolizing the trade by unlawful means. Judge Landis leads the inquiry.
Beverly report says a team of experts will be assigned to Washington to locate leaks. President Taft seeks to determine how much of the $300,000,000 Aldrich claims could be saved by running the Government on business lines.
Maine elected Frederick W. Plaisted a Democrat as Governor in a surprise election that could yield a Democratic Senate and House. The GOP faced a historic sweep with possible party gains in at least two, maybe all four congressional districts and a looming Senate successor to Hale. Harris M. Plaisted was Maine’s last Democratic governor in 1871.
Ludington Mich thirty lives are lost as Pere Marquette ferry No 18 sinks in Lake Michigan while en route from Ludington to Milwaukee. The vessel valued at 400 000 with cargo worth 100 000 to 150 000 and totals over 500 000 insured. Survivors report an opened headlight allowing water to flood the after compartment leading to bulkhead failures.
Western delegates to the National Conservation Congress complain they were barred from the program and discussions. They say a resolutions clause on conservation was promised, included in reading, but omitted from the published draft.
Dr. C. C. Carroll a Pennsylvania bacteriologist reports hookworm detected in substantial numbers in New York milk and butter during laboratory tests conducted in the city.
United States Senator William Lorimer quits his longtime membership in Chicago's Hamilton Club after former President Roosevelt declined to attend a club banquet if Lorimer would be there. In London the steerage crowding on transatlantic steamers rises as 6000 to 7000 passengers depart for the United States.
Wheat prices for Bluestem and Club range from 85 to 91 cents with red Russian at 82. Barley at 22 dollars per ton. Oats at 28 dollars per ton. Hay values vary by region from 19.20 to 22 dollars per ton for Timothy, alfalfa around 15. Prices for creamery butter 36 cents, ranch butter around 24 cents. Eggs candled 30 cents. Wool in Eastern Oregon 14 to 17 cents per pound. mohair 32 to 33 cents.
The final armed opponent to Gen. Estrada’s regime in Managua capitulates with General Fernando Maria Rivas surrendering along with about 1000 men and 11 cannons marking the end of active resistance in Nicaragua.
The New York investigation committee heard charges that thousands of dollars were deposited to the ex-Senator Goodsell of Orange County by representatives of street interests.
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