State Rights Are Supreme In California Question
Washington April 19 State rights are supreme in the California question except for the exclusion of Japanese from the state President Wilson takes that view and has telegraphed Governor Johnson seeking an open line with Japan He saw no visitors today and Secretary of State and other aides discussed the issue by telephone largely.
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California
Wilson
Tokio Mimite
Washington
Johnson
Bryan
White House
Lergan
State Department
Tokio
Jin- Boece
Canal resolution sent to Wilson
Wallace R. Struble, secretary of the Columbian and Snake River Waterways Association, forwards the Pendleton convention resolution advocating free tolls at the Panama Canal to President Wilson and asks arbitration before Congress action. He warns tolls would subsidize railways and hurt U S waterways improvements, naming Joseph N. Teal of Portland to present the case. He argues free tolls would threaten Pacific coast shipments and require broad taxation through waterways.
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Lewiston
Idaho
The
Columbia and Snake River Waterways Association
Wallace R. Struble
Wilson
Pendleton
Struble
Brady
Tewiston
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Washington, D. C
Ous Holilog
Panama
Pacific Coast
Josenh N. Teal
Portland
Oregon
Arbitration Commission
Panama Canal
United States
Villard Hotel Burned at Pasco
Pasco Washington April 19 Fire of unknown origin today destroyed the Villard hotel. The loss is $60000. Many persons escaped in their night clothes.
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Pasco
Wash
Villard Hotel
Woman Kit as Children Then Shoots Herself
Elgin Tl April 19. A bullet hole in her head and the necks of her little ones crushed. Bodies of Mrs Maude Sleep and two children Orville age two and Sarah age four found in an abandoned cistern on the Sleep farm. A revolver lay at the cistern edge. Broker personal crisis reports. Oakland April 19. Duray Smith, a prominent realty broker, killed himself in his office by shooting himself through the mouth.
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Elgin
Oakland
Duray Smith
Children of Dancer Die in Seine Accident
Parla April 19 The six year old son and four year old daughter of Isadora Duncan the famous dancer were drowned in the Seine when an automobile they rode in crashed through a railing on the Courbevoie bridge. The governess also drowned and the chauffeur was thrown clear and escaped.
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Parla
Isadora Duncan
Seine River
Courbevole Bridge
Escoed
S S Convention Held at Baker
The Oregon State Sunday School association holds twin conventions next week in Baker and Oregon City. The first three days cover Baker sessions with notable speakers including William A. Brown of Chicago speaking on "Three Great Superlatives" Monday at 9 20 PM. Mrs L A Danenhower will preside over the elementary session Tuesday morning. Each Umatilla County Sunday school may send two delegates with special rates.
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Oregon State Sunday School] Association
Baker
Oregon City
Oregon
Umatilla County
William A. Brown
Chicago
L. A. Danenhower
Portland Grades Union
Umatilla
Income Tax Battle Looms Over 2500 Amounts
Washington April 19 opposition to the reciprocity treaty grows as Democrats push to tax incomes over twenty five hundred dollars. The caucus backed four thousand dollars as minimum, opposing a five percent bounty on imports. Underwood leads the Ways and Means fight, aiming to open tariff debate on the House floor Wednesday.
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Washington
Democratic House
Fimporta Carrie
Underwood
Wiss and Means Committee
New Ater Thuyn
Police seek another in Dietz murder mystery
Chicago detectives press a new lead in the Dietz murder case, asserting Mrs Dietz and her alleged lover George Nurnberg did not kill Waabund. A third man is sought as the actual slayer, with police insisting the crime was not feminine and that motives and methods fit a male suspect.
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Anotiter
Dietz
Chicago
Carlson Wins Marathon at Boston Race
Boston April 19 Frite Carlson of Minneapolis won the annual marathon under the Boston Athletic Association. Andrew Sockalexis of Oldtown Maine finished second and Harry Smith of New York third. Carlson clocked two hours twenty five minutes and fourteen and four fifths seconds.
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Boston
Frite Carlson
Minneapolis
Nauspikcea
Boston Athletic Club
Andrew Sockalexis
Oldtown
Maine
Harry Smith
New York
Carlaon
Bill seeks $200,000 for California building at San Diego Fair
Sacramento April 19 A bill appropriating 200000 for the California state building at the Panama California Exposition in San Diego in 1915 is before the f in ines Committee of the senate. The bill has already passed the assembly.
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Sacramento
San Diego
Finines Committee
Senate
Assembly
Rome News Debates Pope Health Improvement Claim
Rome reports the pope much better and convalescent after another day of nourishment and no fever. Physicians say two more such days of stability could confirm recovery, even as many still doubt the Vatican bulletin amid secrecy concerns. The Vatican postponed a May 11 Pentecostal celebration in memory of Emperor Constantine due to his health.
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Rome
Vatican
St. Peters
Constantine
Seniors Win Track Meet in Interclass Event
The high school seniors won the annual Interclass track meet at Reonnd-up Park with sophomores second, freshmen third, and juniors last. Cecil McDonald swept the 50, 100, 220, and 440 yard dashes, while Harold Reek and Ralph Koeh pressed him in several races. Skips omitted events due to time and facilities as Pendleton youths prepare for Athena county meet and a big eastern Oregon meet May 2 to 3.
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Reonnd-up Park
Astaiir
Oregon
Cecil McDonald
Harold Reek
Ralph Koeh
Cliff Jordan
Hupert Williamson
Arnold Minnis
Williamson
Orson Straughan
Dunlap
Morris
Hassell
Oscar Ferguson
Jordan
Roach
Pendleton
Athena
Texime
Uvat Fey
Courteay
Pendleton team to finish practice season with Walla War In
Tomorrow afternoon Pendleton meets Pacific Power and Light of Wall War In at Round-up Park for a 2 pm practice finale. McKune’s proteges will likely field two pitchers against a fast Willi Walla Twilight league lineup. Next Tuesday they sail for Walla Walla to open league play against last season’s champions, with many supporters already planned to attend.
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Pendleton
Pacific Power and Light
Wall War- In
McKune
P. P. and L. Company
Willi Walla Twilight League
McKine
Leaii
Resemblance of Frontier Days Seen on Main Street
Baker Oregon April 18 an elderly woodcutter and his rural son with a shaggy horse and a rattle trap wagon drew attention. They had traveled three days from Burnt River country to take a log cutting contract nine miles up Sumpter Valley. The old man praised his chopping prowess while the horse carried the heavy wagon over rough roads.
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Main Street
Baker
Ore
Burnt River
Sumpter Valley
Commissioner says judge erred in divorce case ruling
Kanes City reports Commissioner Crow states Judge Guthrie erred in ruling Colonel Nelean editor of the Star Ih contempt for criticizing the court decision. The opinion says a newspaper may construe actions reasonably as long as it does not impinge on court motives or charge matters tending to bring the court into disrepute.
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Kanes City
Apel
Chreuit
Guthrie
Nelean
Star Ih
Crow
Atmte Supreme Court
Pendleton Triumph Capped Twilight League Pact
In Paterson New Jersey on April 14 permission to carry revolvers was granted amid striker protests. Business leaders seek expulsion of Haywood the industrial organizer as Pendleton clinched a 3 2 Twilight League win.
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Paterson
N. J
McBride
Haywood
Sunday School Convention Begins Next Monday
Baker Oregon April 18 The twenty eighth annual convention of the Oregon State Sunday School association opens a three day session April 21 to 23 at the Methodist church Lewis church workers announce a crowded program with several banquets and a royal welcome planned for hundreds of delegates from Eastern and Western Oregon with parallel meetings at Oregon City and Baker ready to host visitors next Sunday evening services.
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Baker
Ore
Oregon State Sunday School Association
Methodist
Lowis
Oregon
Oregon City
Aynonne
Srenkota
Northwest
Baker Pooire
Presbyterian Church
Whitney Town Under Investigation For Moral Conditions
Baker Oregon April 18 A grand jury report on Whitney moral conditions finds municipal officials in a deplorable state though no indictments were returned. Witnesses examined show lax enforcement of Sunday liquor sales gambling and other vices. Report to be sent to the city council to inform officials of ongoing investigation.
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Baker, Ore
Whitney
Erand
Baker Schools Observe May Day in Baker Oregon
Baker public schools will hold May Day exercises on the high school campus from April 19 to May 2. The program is not finished but will include novel features. Younger children practice daily in folk dances and songs while winding the May poles. The event will last about two hours in the afternoon.
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Baker
Ore
Baker Public Schools
Pearl Cornwell Seeks Divorce From C C Cornwell
Pearl Cornwell has filed for divorce alleging cruel and inhuman treatment by her husband C C Cornwell, initiating a legal action in the family court.
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Pearl Cornwell
C. C. Cornwell
Japan Opposes War Hype and Land Law Clash
Tokyo and Sacramento dispatches report government and conservative papers rebuffing war talk with the United States despite California anti alien land bills. Officials predict lax enforcement if passed, while protests fail to sway lawmakers. President Wilson and Bryan urge omitting ineligible to citizenship phrasing in land laws, favoring a citizen based limit.
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California
Japan
United States
Sacramento
Senate
Assembly
Mrs Storey Chosen Head of D A R
Mrs William Cummings Storey of New York was elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution on the third ballot defeating Mrs John Horton of Buffalo. The vote was 600 to 49 with seven vice presidents-general also elected to complete the officers.
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Washington
Wiliam Cummings Storey
New York
The
Daughters of the American Revolutin
Mire John Miller Horton
Buffolo
Storey
Thomas Kile
Ohio
Det. Goode
Alabama
John Swift
California
Allen P. Perley
Pennsylvania
Ben Fgraxsedr
Missouri
Harriet J. Lake
Town
John Lee Din- Woodle
Indhina
Matthew T. Scott
Bosan
New View
Scott
Storey Enda
Society
University of Washington Wins Oakland Regatta Title
The University of Washington eight won the annual Pacific inter-collegiate regatta on the Oakland estuary. Stanford finished second, 42 seconds back, with California in third. The race covered three miles in eighteen minutes and one second. Stanford won the freshmen race over California in two miles in twelve minutes and forty-three seconds.
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Oakland
University of Washington
Stanford
Washington
California
Peace in Balkans Seen as Likely After Allied Acceptance
London April 10 reports peace in the Balkans believed near as representatives of the powers await formal Allied acceptance of the latest peace proposals. A Sofia dispatch says Bulgaria has accepted with slight reservations, understanding Bulgaria will speak for all the allies.
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London
Balkane
Sofia
Bulgaria
Coroner Visits Tornow Cabin After Fatal Ambush
Aberdeen Wash April 19 The bodies of outlaw John Tornow and his victims Louis Mink and Charles Lathrop killed in the battle at Tornow's cabin will not be brought to the Simpein logging camp until Sunday Coroner BL PF Hutter returned from the scene where a bloody retreat left only adhe niles from the camp A rough trail through the woods exists and four men will carry each body as one hundred loggers hew a path to move them out
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Aberdeen
John Tornow
Louis Mink
Charles Lathrop
Tornpews Cabin
Simpein
PF. Hutter
Tornow
Another Policeman Convicted In Graft Case
Thomas F Robinson, a trooper, was found guilty of extorting protection money from restaurant keeper Ludovico Tancredi as the price of keeping his case from reopening. The conviction ties him to former Inspector Dennis Sweeney, who faces 13 indictments, while another officer under Sweeney is already in Sing Sing for perjury.
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Thomas F. Robinson
New York
Patroinian
Thomas F Robinson
Robinson
Dennis Sweeney
Sweeney
Sing Sing
Vler -Cra
Ludovico Tancredi
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Kitas
Seine
S. S
Carlson
Mass
Merry del Val
Behoound Pendleton
Department of State
Citiczens
U. OF W
Balkans
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