Roosevelt Accepts Pinchot Invitation To Speak
Theodore Roosevelt accepted Ford Pinchot’s invitation to address the National Conservation League on his return to America, a sign that his sympathies may align with Pinchot in the Ballinger controversy. Francis Heney and Seth Bullock were reported to meet Roosevelt in Europe to discuss political matters.
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Forester
National League
America
Heney
Bullock
Pinchot
Porto
Maurizio
Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation League
Roosevelt
Ballinger
Francis Heney
Seth Bullock
Europe
Carew Villa
Senate Approves Roosevelt Greeting Committee
Albany April 11 The senate adopted a resolution to appoint a committee of several senators and ten assembly members to assist in ceremonies and represent the legislature in the greeting to be extended to Theodore Roosevelt.
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Albany
Senate
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Invitation for Tablet Ceremony in Saint Die
An invitation was sent to Mr. Roosevelt to attend the tablet ceremony at the old Ringmans Cosmographic Introduction house where Amerigo name origins were discussed. In Vienna on April 11, Roosevelt’s audience with Emperor Francis Joseph is set for 2 pm in the emperor’s private apartments, not the usual audience chamber.
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Roosevelt Manor
Saint Die
France
Roosevelt
Ringman
New World
Americus
Amerigo
Land
Americua
America
Vienna
Mr. Roosevelt
Francis Joseph
Thousands of Armenians Starving Prompt Aid Appeal
New York April 12. Twelve thousand Armenians are starving and many will die unless aid is sent from this country, according to a cablegram received today by the American Relief association. An appeal for funds has been sent out by the association.
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New York
American Relief Association
Earthquake Felt at Gonzaga College
Seismograph records a severe quake at Gonzaga College in Spokane last night estimated to have originated about two thousand miles away. Geophysicists confirm the event and note the distant epicenter.
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Epokane
Gonzaga College
Girl's Smile Leads to Missing Thousand Dollars
Chicago on April 12 reports Frank Franta's request for police help after a pretty girl smiled at him. A thousand dollars in bills, saved over years, vanished from a handkerchief he waved away, leaving the sidewalk area as the scene of the loss.
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Chicago
Frank Franta
Miner Finds Wall Paper Worth Thousands
San Francisco on April 12 Henry Brink of Melrose began removing wallpaper from his room and uncovered mining certificates after an inquiry showed his claim was worthless. An area report says porcelain clay was found at the old mine site making Brink's wallpaper worth several thousand dollars.
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San Francisco
Henry Brink
Melrose
Chinese saloonman and retired general linked to Pekin family
Vallejo Calif April 12 It was learned today Hoop Hi owner of a local saloon who died Saturday was a retired general in the Chinese army. The coroner received a cable from the Chinese government requesting shipment of his body to his family in Pekin Norename.
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Vallejo
Calif
Hoop Hi
Pekin No Renanie
Sharkey to Challenge Jeffries Johnson Fight Winner
New York April 12 Tom Sharkey announced his intention to challenge the winner of the Jeffries Johnson fight. He said he would begin training next week and believed the beating from Jeffries had drained his will to fight.
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New York
Tom Sharkey
Jeffries-Johnson
Sharkey
Jeffries
Stanfield Becomes Incorporated Town in Umatilla County
Stanfield is now an incorporated town after court action. First city election will be held soon, with citizens awaiting the court to set the date. The rapid growth highlighted, and bids were ordered for bridges across the Umatilla River at Hermiston and Umatilla as part of western end development. The April term has adjourned.
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Firewines
Cumatilia
Hermiston Bridges
Stanfield
Coury Court
Oee Horn
Standel
Umatilli
Lonpe and Bounds
Court of Interest
West End
Eation
Umatilla
Hermiston
Kern rules out Senate bid again in 1901 note
Indianapolis April 1 John W W Kern national democratic candidate for vice president in the current national election today issued a statement reiterating his intention not to enter the United States Senate race. He cites business duties and family obligations plus pressure from brewery interests as the reasons, saying a bid could provoke a contest akin to the defeat two years ago under secret ballot.
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Indianapolis
John W.W. Kern
United States Senate
Kern
Iom
Pittsburgers Move Toward Commission Government
Pittsburg voters react as council resignations prompt graft allegations. The Pittsburgh Board of Trade adopts a resolution to abolish council bodies in favor of commission government, seeking nine city offices and an $8000 annual salary. A move to dismiss three mayoral cabinet members is tabled after a speech by ex-public works head K M Bigelow.
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Pittsburg
Pitteburo Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce
William A. Magen
K. M. Bigelow
Bigelow
Chicago
Garden City Men Here Visit Pendleton Welcome
Garden City leaders arrive by special train to Pendleton. A procession from the depot to Faghe’s Hall includes Walla Walla and Pendleton groups, with a luncheon served by Christian church ladies. Speeches by Mayor Murphy Judge Lowell Ezra Meeker and others praise regional cooperation and a proposed highway.
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Faghes Hall
Wallan Walli
Pendleton
Garden City
Thompecon
Commercial Club
Forminwg
Walla Wallin Commercial Club
Main Street
Court
Eagles-Woodmen Hall
Ladies of the Christian Church
Mre
Rees
Pendleton Orchestra
Frank Carruth
W. L. Thomperon
Murphy
Lowell
Walla Walla
Morrow
Ezra Meeker
Holore
Northwest
W. HM. Kirkman
Walle Walla
Ro & N
Donor Revealed Behind Hungarian Language Fund
In Vienna on April 11 the donor behind a $120,000 gift to promote Hungarian studies and foreign language research abroad was identified as Count and Countess Suebens. The fund will endow professorships at universities abroad.
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Vienna
Academy of
Clehees
Count
Countess Suebens
Lightning Strikes Crescent Mine Crushing Shaft House Fire
A shaft house at the Crescent mine on Raven Mountain was hit by lightning today, destroying the bulliting and mining machinery in a fierce blaze. The Tribly and Joe Dandy mines also reported lightning strikes but suffered no major damage.
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Cripple Creek
Crescent Mine
Raven M
Tribly
Joe Dandy
Wil Will Get Choice Plum in New York Race for Supreme Court
Washington April 12. Governor Hughes of New York and Jude Van deventer of the United States circuit court appear as favorites to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Brewer’s death. Taft may ignore prior rulings or involvement in pending cases when selecting a successor. New York pressures for recognition and names like Louis Marsnail, Judge Hiscock, Judge Andrews, Judge Tompkins, Judge Frane, Judge Swayze, Judge Deamer, and Judge Hook are cited as possible appointees and supporters.
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Washington
Hughes
New York
Jude Vandeventer
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Bench
Justice Brewer
Supreme Court
Standard of
Tebaccs Companies
Vandewenter and Sanborn
Solicitor Bowers
Justice Etrewer
Bowers
White House
Taft
Dar
Lorton
Peckham
Louis Marsnail
Guggenheim, Catermeyer ,& Marshall
Hiscock, Andrews, Tompkins and
Frane
New York Estate
Swayze
Patterson the millionaire socialist sued for dam ages in Chicago
Chicago April 12. Joseph M Patterson the millionaire socialist and author faces a fifty thousand dollar damage suit by Eugene Quirk, a newspaper man. Quirk claims Patterson's best selling book The Fourth Estate was plagiarized from a book called Drifting written with his wife.
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Chicago
Joseph M. Patterson
Eugene Quirk
Quirk
Patterson
Electrocution of Worker Warned Others at Nooksack Plant
Oscar Brown, an employee of the Nooksack power plant in Wash., was electrocuted while watching a transformer he had warned others about. He touched the live wire by accident, succumbing to the shock.
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Oscar Brown
Nooksack
Steamer Sinks Off Ostend Killing Nine Sailors
An unidentified steamer collided with a pilot boat off the West Linden lightship near Ostend Belgium resulting in the vessel sinking and nine sailors drowning. The incident occurred on April 11.
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Ning
Ostend
Belgium
West Linden
Era Meeker visits Pendleton in old pioneer fashion
Ezra Meeker, the famed Oregon Trail pioneer, arrives in Pendleton with the Walla Walla excursion to assess snow barriers at the Blue Mountain pass. He plans to bring his ox team and prairie schooner in about a week and revisits monuments he helped fund along the old trail.
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Ezra Meeker
Pendleton
Walla Walla
Meeker
Oreon Trail
New York
Broadway
Old
Pullman Company to Challenge ICC Berth Rate Ruling
Officials of the Pullman company said they will contest before the courts the Interstate Commerce Commission action lowering berth charges to the coast. They argue current berth rates are nearly the same as twenty years ago while hotel rates have risen 50 to 100 percent.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Catania Eruption Brings Mixed Blessings to Village Folk
In Catania and nearby villages the eruption of Mount Aetna is reported to have caused damage yet spurred trade gains. Fruit growers suffer heavy losses while many residents report a swift economic upturn from new commerce and migration to safer regions. About 400,000 people are said to have rushed to the Mietriet for refuge and opportunity.
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Catania
Catanian
Aetna
Tornado Carries Negro Into Telephone Wires at Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff Arkansas reports a devastating tornado last evening wrecking a score of houses and uprooting trees. An aged negro was lifted into telephone wires thirty feet high but was lowered by ropes and unhurt.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Man Burglar Sentenced. Grand Jury Probes Gambling Joint
Eighteen months in the peniten tiary was handed to Frank Raymond for burglarizing the Scarborough store in Hermiston. He pleaded guilty after arraignment. Raymond and Frank Esperga linked to a pocket watch theft from Paul Hemmelgarn. The grand jury also investigates a gambling joint in the Matlock Brownfield basement on Main Street raided last week by Chief Gurdane and Night Officer Kearney. A separate suit by Coutts Heyes against J K Botte for a $2 00 commission on a farm sale was decided in favor of the farmer. Six men drawn for a special venire are George Nelson, L. Mann, John M Winn, Frank Rogere, F C Johnson and Bruno Weber. Philemon Smith vs Musgrove rent case proceeds over a reservation allotment tenancy.
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Frank Raymond
Scarborough Star
Hermiston
Frank Esperga
Paul Hemmelgarn
Raymond
Matlock-Brownfield
Main Street
Gurdane
Kearney
Coutts& Heyes
J. K. Botte
George Nelson
L. Mann
John M. Winn
Frank Rogere
F.C. Johnson
Bruno Weber
Philemon Smith
Musgrove
Smith
Albanian Revolt Continues Unabated Across Provinces
Constantinople reports the Albanian revolt against the Turks persists with only a small district near Preshtina showing quiet. Authorities had claimed rebels would disband, a statement contested as false, with expansion expected to other provinces.
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Constantinople
Preshtina
Pilot Boat Hirondello Sinks Drowning Ten Crew
Paris dispatch reports the pilot boat Hirondello sank between St Brieus and Frehel today with ten crew drowned. Details were not yet received.
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Paris
Hirondello
St Brieus
Frehel
Japanese and White Wrestle Three Hours to Draw
In Seattle on April 12 Matsuda and Harnden of Bellingham wrestled three hours to a draw. The Japanese fighter showed superior science while Harnden displayed greater strength.
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Seattle
Matsuda
Harnden
White
Bellingham
Would Hold Big Meet at Urbana Tus April 14
Invitations issued to 300 colleges west of Pennsylvania invite their best athletes to Urbana Tus June 14 for the annual conference meet. The graduats committee reports assurances from Stanford University and the University of California that teams will be sent.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Bes
Urbana
Tus
Tune
Graduats
Stanford University
University of California
Hughes Orders Immediate Investigation of Bribery and Insurance Scandal
Albany April 12 Governor Hughes urged the legislature to conduct a swift impartial probe into executive practices and possible improper legislative influence. He released Hotchkiss’s preliminary fire insurance inquiry report noting obstacles in pursuing leads and asking lawmakers to act to purify government.
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Hotchkiss
Albany
Hughes
New York
Indignant Mob Damages Juneau Daily Record Plant
In Juneau Alaska on April 12 a mob wrecked the Daily Record plant using sledge hammers wrecking the linotype and heavily damaging the presses. The paper had earned enmity from several town residents and United States marshal’s office rows to arrest the miscreants soon.
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Juneau
Alaska
United States Marshal’s Office
Daily Record
Students Strike For More And Better Food At Pullman
In Spokane on April 19, 129 boarders at the estate college boys dormitory in Pullman threaten to strike this afternoon unless a satisfactory reply is given to their ultimatum demanding more better and cheaper food. The dining hall operates on a cooperative plan and the resolution was presented to the board of recruits.
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Spokane
Estate College
Pullman
Board of Recruts
Earliest Halley’s Comet Viewing Times Given
Washington observers are told Halley’s comet may be seen with naked eye starting Friday April 15 at 10 am from Georgetown University lab. Through April and early May it appears in the east before sunrise a few degrees north of east, by May 17 it is too close to the sun to see in the morning and shifts to the western evening sky. By May 20 it sets after sunset as nights grow longer.
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Washington
Georgectown University Laboratory
Ministers Endorse Suffrage by Seattle Clergy
The Seattle Methodist ministers association adopted a resolution in favor of equal suffrage for both sexes. The move follows an appeal from women seeking a state constitutional amendment on suffrage to be voted on at the next general election.
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M. FE
Seattle
Methodist Ministers Association of
Rumor Abounds on Interior Secretary Appointment
Washington reports suggest Senator Flint of California will be named secretary of the interior to replace Ballinger, with Ballinger expected to retire soon. Flint may resign from the Senate to lead the department afterward.
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Washington, D.C
Flint
California
Interior
Ballinger
Senate
Department
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