Jury 5 Selected for Umatilla County Grand Panel
The grand jury selection in Umatilla County stands as one of the largest in recent memory, drawing merchants, farmers, a carpenter and a real estate man. The panel is expected to examine freight depot thefts and a reported local option law violation, with term terms of court to follow.
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Umatilla County
B. T. Wade
George Hewitt
Walla Walla
Willam Townsend
California
Townsend
Seiting Hauer
Freewater
Local Foremen and Supervisors Named in List
The article lists C. A. Barrett as foreman along with H. J. Taylor R. E. Talbot Jerome Gulliford Robert Laing J. M. Cook and B. K. Henry as part of the staffing roster for the project.
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C. A. Barrett
Foreman
H. J. Taylor
R. E. Talbot
Jerome Gulliford
Robert Laing
J. M. Cook
B. K. Henry
Grand jury drawn in Umatilla county for major cases
One of the largest grand juries from the Umatilla county pool convened this morning to advance indictments and review crucial cases. Members include two merchants C A Barrett and E K Henry, two farmers H J Taylor and Jerome Guilliford, a retired farmer, a carpenter J M Cook, and real estate and insurance agent RK E Tarbet. The panel will probe O R & N freight depot thefts tied to Charles Dickens, William Edwards, and Frank J Ely, plus multiple burglary cases and liquor law inquiries amid a countywide blind pig hunt. Judge Bean opened with extracts from local option libel and prize fight laws, though no firm significance.
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Umatilla County
C. A. Barrett
E. K. Henry
Barrett
Inland Grain Growers’ Association
H. J. Taylor
Jerome Guilliford
Taylor
County Good Roads Association
E. Tarbet
Robert Laing
J. M. Cook
Charles Dickens
William Edwards
Frank J. Ely
Justee of the Peace Parkes
Edwards
Ely
Grand
Grand Jury
Bean
Outlaw Chief Crazy Snake Said Killed in Oklahoma
Report claims Crazy Snake was killed and buried March 25 by a citizen posse near Henrietta Oklahoma. Col Hoff man leading troops will investigate today and doubts the tale.
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Henrietta
Okla
Crazy Snake
Col. Hoffman
Railroad Commissioner Inspects Eastern Oregon Depots
Railroad Commissioner Atchison completed a weeklong inspection in eastern Oregon visiting depots at Ontario Vale Nyssa and stock yards at Baker City and The Dalles A conference with Canyon City Prairie City and John Day delegations discussed service on the Sumpter Valley railroad in response to complaints raised in Salem April 12.
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Ontario
Yale
Nyssi
Baker City
Dalles
Salem
Atchison
Oregon
Vale
Nyssa
Canyon City
Prairie City
John Tay
Sumpter Valley Railroad
Rich Man Has Check Held Up in Portland
Arte Hover of Hover and Shifner Real Estate faced a $15,000 check marked No funds after the Baker Boyer bank transfer to Spokane National Bank left Hover abroad from Walla Walla. While Hover was away buying a car, Shifner altered the account without Hover’s knowledge. The incident caused brief worry before settling satisfactorily.
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Portland
Hover & Shitner Real Estate Company
Baker-Boyer Bank
Walla Walla
Spokane
Natonal Bank
Arte Hover
Inland Empire
Hover
Rover Bank
Shifner
Five Children Born and All Healthy in Rockingham County
Winston Salem NC April 12 reports a farmer Turner family welcomed five healthy children three boys two girls the babies weigh four to pounds each and the mother is doing well. The birth rate in the area has been normal and people from across the region are visiting Rockingham to view the remarkable children.
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Winston Salem
N.C
Rockingham County
Turner
Rockingham
High School Boy’s Crisis Ends in Self Inflicted Death
Tacoma April 12. Milard Spellman, a former high school boy, bought an automatic revolver and wrote a note to his sweetheart. He went to the girl's home last night and shot himself. The body was found this morning by Mia Mark White, the girl's mother, in an outbuilding. The cause is listed as self inflicted and possibly due to temporary insanity.
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Tacoma
Milard Spellman
Mia
Mark White
Boy of Twenty Is Electrocuted at Sing Sing
Ossining April 12 Barnard Carlin aged 20 was electrocuted today at Sing Sing prison for the murder of his mother on April 8 last year. He killed his parent because he believed she was responsible for his being born with weak eyes.
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Ossining
Barnard Carlin
Sing Sing Prison
Eaten HS Recall Threat Linked to Wu Ting Fang
Pittsburg April 12 recall threat involves Wu Ting Fang Chinese minister in Washington tied to a mining swindle. Police expert Richard Kelly claims letters from Wu threaten deportation to secure testimony. Lo Si Ki and Yip Yen, Chinese business figures, were arrested March 29 and later discharged through Wu's influence.
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Wu Ting Fang
Pittsburg
Lanters
Mator
Washington, D. C
Knox
Richard Kelly
Police Department
Lo Si Ki
China
Yip Yen
Payne tariff bills trimmed by Senate finance panel
Washington April 12 The Payne tariff bills amended by the Senate finance committee were ordered reported to the Senate today. Rates are largely lower than House figures, with about three reductions for every increase. Many common-use articles are removed from the dutiable list and restated as free trade. Lumber rate remains a dollar per thousand feet, reduced from the Dingley level. Hard woods are freed, sugar schedule largely unchanged, but sugar biscuits and wafers cut. Lemons duties rise to one half cent per pound, pineapples cut, and other citrus largely unchanged. The bill’s agricultural schedule stays near Dingley rates, with some reductions. The committee favors increases on luxuries, not necessities, and wine duties rise. Aldrich notes the cotton schedule extends rates but not ad valorem increases. Raw flax is taxed again. wood pulp rates undecided. coal and hides await action. Free list mostly unchanged, with art works free by general provision expanding antiquities over a century old.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Aldrich
Standard
Joseph Petro buried after Black Hand murder in Palermo
New York reports the burial of Joseph Petro Sino, lieutenant in the local police force, assassinated by the Black Hand in Palermo, Italy. An enormous crowd attended the burial at Calvary Cemetery after services at St. Patrick's Church. Flags were lowered to half mast. Two police regiments and a battalion of firemen led the funeral procession with fire and police officials in attendance.
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New York
Joseph Petrosino
Poace Force
Palmero
Italy
Calvary Cemetery
St. Patrick’c
Fire and Police Departments
Apportionment of County School Funds Tops Six Dollars Per Pupil
The largest apportionment in Umatilla county is over $38,000 about $6 per pupil. Prompt tax payments boosted the distribution while districts failing to meet minimum school months lose funds. Two districts forfeit all funds due to insufficient school months. three others lose varying amounts.
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Umatilla County
Welles
Fai
Thousands Attend Last Rites For Noted Actress
Thousands gathered in Los Angeles to pay homage to Helena Modjeska as funeral services conducted a solemn requiem mass at Vivian's Cathedral. The crowd pressed before nine in the morning for the rites marking the actress's memory.
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Los Angeles
Helena Modjeska
Vivian's Cathedral
Shah of Persia Threatened With Death in Tehran
Shah of Persia in abject terror as assassins threaten him in his palace and Tangistan tribesmen threaten revolt. A British cruiser off Bushire is ready to protect Europeans if a massacre occurs, and the shah has asked Russian troops to occupy Teheran amid Anglo Russian tensions. War seems imminent.
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St. Petersburg
Teheran
Escaped Soldiers Evade Guard From Alcatraz Sentence
Vancouver Washington April 12 Private Barber of Company H and Private Matell of the First Infantry who were under sentence to serve terms at Alcatraz military prison escaped after knocking guard Private Evans senseless in a gravel pit. A posse is in pursuit as they fled into the woods following the alarm.
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Vancouver
Wash
Barber
Matell
Alcatraz Military Prison
Evans
Two suicides in Tacoma inmates from hospital death
Tacoma April 12 Ole Braget 22 a former student of Pacific Lutheran academy and Olive Mead 65 inmates of Western Washington hospital for the insane committed death by own action yesterday by hanging Braget killed himself in his uncle's barn and left a note saying he had not slept since Christmas and admitting that he was a great sinner Mead hanged herself by tying a noose from her shirt to a bed post
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Tacoma
Ole Braget
Paclific Lutheran Academy
Olive Mead
Western Washington Hospital
Braget
Mead
Board Cannot Prescribe Admission Standards in Oregon
Salem April 12 Attorney General Crawford rules that the board of higher curricula cannot set admission standards for Oregon Agricultural College or University of Oregon. The act creating the board limits it to prescribing general courses.
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Salem
Crawford
Board of Higher Curricula
Oregon Agricultural College
University of Oregon
Chicago wheat sale pressures Patten's position
Chicago wheat prices moved to 1.26 and an eighth at noon as the market broadened. Patten received the flow, unloading substantial quantities and shaping the trading today.
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Chicago
Patten
Oregon factories sued for inspection fees
Salem April 12 Over a hundred forty factories and mills in Oregon have not paid labor fees. A complete list prepared by Labor Commissioner Hoff and filed with the secretary of state shows last year's fees due. Attorneys will pursue action against those still unpaid and in some cases collections may follow.
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Salem
Gon
Prepr
Hoff
Wred Bytriat
Applaud Speech Never Delivered by Hamer
Representative Hamer of Idaho sought to print his maiden speech in the congressional record after asking permission. Six pages of the record show bracketed Applause and Laughter as the speech, which would have lasted two hours, was not read. The clerk inserted Applause where it would have appeared, and Hamer thanked the clerk.
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Hamer
Washington
Representative Hamer
Idaho
Standard Oil Jokers Found In Tariff Bill
Washington on April 12 a tariff bill draft caused excitement as crude petroleum and many oil products were mislisted. Observers note a parliamentary error that would exempt those items from the 20 percent ad valorem duty, benefiting Standard Oil interests and provoking tariff managers to explain the mishap.
Married Twice Within Months Points to Legal Maze
Edward and Mable Begg wed for the second time within three months after a prior divorce, with Justice Joe H. Parkes presiding. The couple, connected to Walla Walla and Umatilla, faced questions over timing and eligibility under state law.
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Edward
Mable Begg
Justice of the Peace
Joe _H. Parkes
Columbia students build airship near Jay Gould boat house
New York paper notes Columbia University Aeroclub students designing and constructing an aeroplane airship in the boat house of Jay Gould. Three led planning and execution with others assisting in bolting parts. Aimed at capturing aerial honors in America in the near term.
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New York
Columbia University Aeroclub
Jay Gould
America
Great Northern Fights Salary Loan Sharks
Spokane April 13 The Great Northern began a fight on salary loan sharks by refusing to pay an assignment of wages made by F W Lambert an employee to the Standard Loan company The railroad answering the loan companys suit declare the claim is based on usury and demands a ruling by the court They say they must protect their employees.
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Spokane
Great Northern
F. W. Lambert
Standard Loan Company
Railroad
Ketchel to Fight Johnson Opponent Confirmed
San Francisco April 12 Ketchel accepts Crof froth proposal to fight Johnson. Tele gram to Will Jacobs sporting editor from Willis Britt manager for Stanley Ketchel confirms the bout plan.
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Ketchell
Johnson
San Francisco
Croffroth
Will Jacobs
San Francisco News
Willis Britt
Stanley Ketchel
Sixteen Fainting Incidents At Easter Service
New York April 12 sixteen persons fainted at Easter services at St Bartholomew s church amid a flower heavy atmosphere. It was described as the largest crowd in the church s history with sixteen people carried out unconscious.
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New York
St. Bartholomew’s Church
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