Kellogg Attacks Standard Oil Defense in Trite Argument
Frank Kellogg, the trust buster, opened in St. Louis on April 10 by praising defense smarts then pinpointed flaws in Standard Oil attorneys' arguments. He highlighted Rockefeller and Archbold memory gaps over a three million dollar matter and argued the firm could not inspire invention or progress benefiting the world.
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Frank Kellogg
Standard Oil
Mat Rockefeller
Archibald
Kellogg
Wrecked Schooner Chase Falk to be Sold at Auction
Aberdeen April 10 All efforts to save the schooner Chase Falk wrecked on Coplass Rocks are abandoned. The ship will be sold intact at public auction Monday. First Officer Holmes denies deliberate wrecking by Second Officer Shutts who has requested an investigation. No insurance exists, so no profit from the wreck.
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Aberdeen
Chase Falk
Coplass Rocks
Holmes
Shutts
Mexican Steamer Subsidy Bill Likely to Pass
Mexico City April 10 indications are the bill for a subsidized line of steamers between Seattle San Francisco Pacific coast ports Mexico and Central America will pass. The proposed one billion will receive 4 authority of five thousand dollars per month. It will carry Mexican mails free and each ship will have two naval apprentices each.
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Mexico City
Seattle
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Mexico
Central America
Famous Necklace May Be At Panama
San Francisco police chase a clue claiming Jonnie Croker's thirty thousand dollar necklace may lie in Panama. The St Francis hotel ballroom was robbed February 22 during a ball for San Francisco's social elect. A letter to the chief hints the jewel is in Panama.
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San Francisco
Jonnie Croker
St. Francis Hotel
Fanama
Dynamite Explosion Kills Seven at Pennsylvania Mine
Johnstown April 10 seven men died and three were injured after a dynamite blast at the Berwind White company mine near Johnstown. Inexperienced miners placed charges in rock holes and misjudged the blast radius, failing to retreat enough from the holes.
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Johnstown
Berwind White Company
Death Forecast by His Sweetheart In North Yakima Tale
Charles Dunn, aged man from Sharp, Pa, found dead in Kittitas Canyon near a Northern Pacific train, after a presumed ride. A letter from his Fargo, North Dakota sweetheart Annie claimed she foresaw his death and mourned him, reading I dreamed you were dead and I could see you no more.
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North Yakima
Charles Dunn
Sharp
Kittitas Canyon
Northern Pacific
Fargo
N. D
Annie
Anarchists Threaten U S Deportation of Emma Goldman
Chicago report cites Ben Reltman, ally of Emma Goldman, warning that anarchists will attack the U S government with bombs daggers and pistols if the plan to deport Goldman proceeds. Reltman asserts public anger will trigger serious trouble if deportation is attempted.
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Chicago
Ben Reltman
Emma Goldman
United States
Reltman
Modjeska Grants Charity From Fortunes Left
Los Angeles April 10 Madjeska actress leaves fortune totaling about 120000 including jewels and personal property remaining from the million earned on stage. Most goes to charity with a hundred thousand given to an industrial school for girls founded in Cracrow. Funeral planned for Monday with body moved to Knights of Columbus home and Calvary cemetery pending Polish burial plans.
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Puneral
Los Angeles
Madjeska
Cracrow
Knights of Columbus
Calvary Cemetery
Poland
Pacific University man wins prohibition contest
W B Gwynn of Pacific University Forest Grove easily won the Intercollegiate prohibition oratorical contest in Salem with The Last Stand. W A Schmidt of Willamette University placed second on Personal Liberty vs the Rum Traffic. Gwynn will represent Oregon in the Interstate contest and potentially the national competition.
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Willamette University
Salem
W. B. Gwynn
Pacific University
Forest Grove
Gwynn
W. A. Schmidt
Willametty
Oregon
Pacific Slope
Appointment to Take Evidence in Yakima Joe Case
Attorney C. J. Ferguson has been commissioned by the federal court to take evidence in the Yakima Joe versus Tols-lap Sa-ahit-wa ne and John J. McKain case. The last named was formerly an agent on the reservation. The suit seeks rightful heirship lands on the Uma til a reservation.
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C. J. Ferguson
Federal Court
John J. McKain
Seattle Woman Dies After Living a Century
Seattle April 10 Mrs Angelina Taylor Moore a hundred years and eight months old died at the home of her daughter Mrs Putnam. She was born in Waterford Vermont.
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Seattle
Angelina Taylor Moore
Putnam
Waterford
Dollar a bushel for advance wheat sales in Umatilla county
Umatilla county growers report two large wheat sales at a dollar per bushel. Zeph Lockwood of Helix sold nearly 4,000 bushels to Kerr Gifford company. J. Porter north of town sold almost 6,000 bushels to Puget Sound wholesale house. Prices quoted at 98 cents. Lockwood's wheat stored in Interior Warehouse’s Helix facility. brokers anticipate most county wheat sold. Virgil Moore declines to sell, expecting prices to hold until harvest.
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Umatilla County
Zeph Lockwood
Helix
Kerr Gifford Company
J. 2. Porter
Hag
Puget Sound Wirehouse Company
Lockwodd
Interior
Virgil Moore
Payne Bill 10 Senate Refers to Finance Committee
The Payne tariff bill passed by the House last night was referred to the Senate Finance Committee after prayer. Aldrich moved for referral. Cannon and Payne met President Taft who praised the bill’s progress. The enrolling clerk earned praise for swift presentation to the Senate.
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Payne
Finance Committee
Aldrich
Cannon
Taft
Sette
Washington
House
Senate
Browning
White House
Tacoma Steamer Fire Kills Second Cook in Berth
A blaze aboard the steamer Tacoma at Romstad Bay after its voyage to Alaska caused the death of Arthur Thorn the second cook. The fire destroyed most of the vessel's provisions while the ship carried about two hundred passengers, many of them Orientals, and prepared to depart for Alaska from San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Tacoma
Arthur Thorn
Cook
Thorn
Alaska
Romstad Bay
Geologist to Survey and Map Alaska Expedition
Ernest Dekoven Leffingwell, noted geologist and Arctic explorer, plans a three year program mapping and surveying northern Alaska. He is in Seattle for three weeks supervising the construction of the yawl Argo, which will transport his party to northern waters.
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Seattle
Ernest Dekoven Leffingwell
Alaska
Yawl “Argo
F Marion Crawford dies in Italy
Sorrento reports the novelist Francis Marion Crawford died at 7 30 tonight. Born August 2 1854 at Bagni di Lucca Italy he was educated at St Johns College Concord NH and Trinity College Cambridge He wrote Mr Isaacs in 1882 Dr Claudius in 1883 and produced many novels and plays including The Palace of the King and Francesca da Rimini later staged in Portland and Paris respectively.
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Bagni di Lucca
Italy
S J. Paul's School
Concord
N. H
Trinity College
Cambridge
England
Indian Herald
Allahabad
India
Mr. Isaacs
Claudius
Inland Empire Teachers Association Adopts Unanimous Resolutions
In Walla Walla the Inland Empire Teachers Association held its eleventh annual convention with record attendance from eastern Oregon Washington Idaho and even Montana. The group unanimously disapproved of the Oregon legislature for not funding normal schools and endorsed a federal bill to create a bureau of child study. They also praised the University of Oregon for sustaining its appropriation and planned to meet in Pendleton next year.
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The
Inland Empire
Pendleton
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Inland Empire Association
Northwest
University of Oregon
Bean Seen as Likely Federal Judge Choice
Washington April 9 Western senators believe Oregon State Supreme Justice Robert S Bean will receive the federal judgeship sought by ex senator Fulton White House has not released Taft plans Bean’s supporters think he will be appointed If so Judge Thomas A McBride of the Fifth Judicial district may succeed Bean on the Oregon Supreme Court McBride is highly regarded and long served in the circuit bench
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Washington
Robert 8. Bean
Oregon
Fulton
Taft
Bean
Salem
Ore
Robert S&s Bean
Supreme Justice
Thomas A. McBride
Fifth Judicial District
Washington, Claskamas
Columbia Aind Clatsop Counties
Justice Bean
Supreme Bench
Governor Libey Lying Near Death in Hartford Hospital
Hartford April 10 Governor George Libey lay unconscious since last night and his family has been summoned to his bedside. A long time figure in Connecticut politics, Libey’s condition remains critical as doctors monitor his status.
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Conn
George Libey Fa
Connecticut
Swinburne, the Port, Dies in London
London April 10 Algernon Charles Swinburne the poet died of pneumonia at his home Pudney Mo after several weeks illness.
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Swinburne
London
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pudney
Bowen Ll
Roosevelt Cheered as He Boards Steamer at Port Said
An enormous crowd cheered Roosevelt in Port Said as he rose to the deck of the steamer Admiral today, departing through the Suez Canal bound for Mombasa. He received a delegation of distinguished citizens who wished him success.
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Rooosevelt
Suex Canal
Mombasan
Ife
Mistaken for Burglar and Shot in Office
In San Francisco early today Alfred Lanson manager of the Swedish-American Mercantile Co and the Cafe Du Ford was shot by a special officer Thomix Mulvaney who mistook him for a burglar Swanson’s condition is serious He was late at his desk when the officer entered and fired as Swenson approached
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San Francisco
Alfred Lanson
Swedish-American Mercantile Company
Cafe du Ford
Thomix Mulvaney
Swenson
Mulvaney
Handke resigns wife to Wunderle in love case
Chicago April 10. Paul Handke, a Thomas orchestra member, agreed to resign his wife to Carl Wunderle because they love each other. He would not contest the wife’s divorce and said he loves his wife too much to interfere. Wunderle had moved into Handke’s home seven years ago, a liaison that caused a wrecking of the household.
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Chicago
Carl Wunderle
Paul Handke
Thomas Orchestra
Gald
Wunderle
Handeke
Chinese Begin Fight on Fulton over Exclusion Attitude
Opponents among Pacific coast Chinese oppose Fulton’s ambassadorial appointment citing his speeches for rigid exclusion laws. A petition to the Chinese minister in Washington is circulating in Portland and will start in San Francisco.
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Frisco
Washington
Fulton
China
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Fulton Likely Not to Go to China
Senator Charles W. Fulton, urged by friends in Portland, is not inclined to accept the China ambassadorship. They say he aims for a federal judgeship near the ermine, not a foreign post, and will likely start a Portland law practice instead. He requested 10 days to decide, but internal indications favor declining the offer.
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Charles W. Fulton
China
The
Portland Journal
Fulton
Portland
Senate
Grandmother Palmer Celebrates 95th Birthday in Quiet La Grande
La Grande Observer notes Grandma Palmer marked her 95th birthday with visitors and family gathering. She spent the day resting in bed or seated, as relatives recalled April 7 as a meaningful date for her and her descendants.
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la Grande
Grandma Palmer
Grandma
la Grande Observer
Hill Buying in Gods Bay Franchises Sought for Electric Road
In Marshfield Oregon April 17 reports say Hill interests are securing rights of way toward Coos Bay. A Coquille mill company granted several franchises including an electric railway. Marshfield buyers on the water front are believed to represent Hill and its engineers have been in Coos Bay recently.
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Hill
Coos Bay
Coquille
Marshfield
Ore
Second costly fire at North Bend in Oregon
Marshfield Oregon April 10 The second ruinous fire of unknown origin to break out within a year in the Simpson lumber company's holdings at North Bend occurred at midnight last night when the large steamship warehouse on the waterfront was destroyed with all its contents The loss will aggregate 60000 The first fire occurred last August when the woolen mill adjoining the steamship warehouse was destroyed entailing a loss of 150000
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Marshfield
Simpson Lumber Company
North Bend
Dry farm may miss federal aid in Oregon
Washington on April 10 reports the department will not spend the $2500 allotted for dry farming in Harney county alongside the $2500 Oregon legislature appropriation. The decision shifts funding responsibility to Oregon Agricultural College to pick a station site, with Sherman county likely.
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Washington
Harney County
Oregon
Oregon Agricultural College
Sherman County
Parr and Gaston Escape Penitentiary For A Time
Attorney Will M. Peterson returned from Salem with a note that the Oregon Supreme Court granted a certificate of probable cause in the Parr and Gaston case. The two men, convicted of holding up a man and robbing him near Parr Brothers near beer joint, were given long penitentiary terms and appealed. The certificate postpones imprisonment pending appeal, ball will be asked Monday.
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Will M. Peterson
Salem
Supreme Court
Parr
Gaston
Beer Joint
Peterson
Ball
Northern Pacific Introduces Fast Chicago to Pendleton Freight
E A McKenna, traveling freight agent for Northern Pacific, announced a new fast freight service between Chicago and the West. The train began April 8, with Chicago to Pendleton in eight days and St Paul to Pendleton in six days, a one day faster service than before.
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E. A. McKenna
Northern Pacific
N. P
Chicago
West
Pendleton
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Gardners Claim On Coyote Scalp Law Sparks Debate
Rancher Gardner argues the scalp bounty bill, passed in March, incentivizes predatory acts by rewarding only scalps. He alleges hunters trapped coyotes, removed scalps, and released animals to multiply, claiming the law unintentionally fuels animal destruction.
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Calice
Marcel
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