Rebel Against Phone Rates In Pendleton
City council voices outrage over Pacific Telephone rate hike from 31.25 to 1.40 monthly for four party lines. Citizens fault service quality and earnings, consider franchise to Home Telephone Co of Portlain. Debate over new deposit rules and taxes, with city attorney to report next meeting.
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Pacific Telephone Company
Pendleton
Home Company
Home Telephone Company
Portlain
Cigares
Met
Counel St
High Prices Slump in Old New York
New York on April 21 reports a living cost slump as retailers begin cutting prices on staple foods. Flour potatoes eggs and canned goods drop while salted meats are expected to fall before week’s end.
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Old New York
New York
Monster Oil Tank 3 Burns In San Pablo Bay
One of the world’s largest tanks with a 400000 barrel capacity is ablaze in San Pablo Colif on April 21. The tank was full of oil and may take days to extinguish. Fire crews and workers struggle to protect surrounding property as dense black smoke spreads over the bay area.
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San Pablo
Colif
Bay Region
Imperial airship review opens in Berlin
Berlin reports the first imperial review of army airships today. Emperor orders three zeppelin class cruisers to Hamburg in squadron formation after maneuvers at Cologne. The airships Zeppelin Tf Parseval II and Greson left Cologne before daylight to reach Homburg by 11 o'clock.
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Berlin
Cologne
Hamburg
Homburg
Five Convicts Escape From Leavenworth Prison
Five federal prisoners at Leavenworth Kansas overpowered a switch crew and forced the engineer to drive the locomotive through the yard gates into the country. Two were recaptured. three remain at large. One man named Frank Grishware, a tin robber from Omaha, is among those who fled after a sensational breakout that included using the engine to batter down gates. The escape is described as one of the most dramatic in the prison's history.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Kareas
Frank Gri¢ware
Omaha
Idaho
Tiret
New Jersey Rep Fowler Proposes Two Committees to Appoint Committees
Washington April 21 Representative Fowler of New Jersey introduced a resolution to strip the speaker of powers beyond presiding and to create two house committees, one from each party, to appoint all standing committees. The plan would split the country into seven census sections for selection. Democratic and Republican groups would each pick seven members for their respective committees. The move triggered immediate parliamentary confusion and Fowler signaled no rush for quick action.
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Washington
D. C
Cannon
Fowler
New Jersey
Forty Miners Entombed After Mulga Mine Explosion
In Birmingham Alabama on April 1 a Mulga mine explosion trapped forty miners. Gas filled the shaft, flames rose 400 feet, and rescuers struggled against gas fumes. Fifteen workers were white and the rest Negro. No survivors expected as officials rushed gear and air pumps to the scene.
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Ala
Birmingham Railways
Coal Campany
Hitle
Escual
Tentestens Mining Company
Mutten
Enelos
James Bennimin
Coa & Tron Company
Mulea
Trare
Reacuers
Depew Declines Immediate Reelection News
New York April 21 Senator Chauneres M Depew arrives from Washington and denies immediate retirement plans. He says he will invest effort and funds to back a Republican state ticket and legislature this fall. If the legislature is Democratic he will not run, but if Republican, actions depend on the selections. He turns 74 this Saturday and feels strong.
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New York
Chauneres
M. Depew
Wrehington
Boltie
Aldrich
Hale
Aberdeen City Attorney Ousted After Police Critique
Aberdeen Washington April 21 City Attorney AMM Wade was removed by a city council vote following a clash with the police department. Wade had criticized police methods amid a theft case where a prisoner was released on order from the officer in charge, triggering further remarks and the mayor’s intervention.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Amm. Wade
Bennett
Actio
Wade
Taft to Offer Supreme Court Seat to Governor Hughes
New York report states President Taft will nominate New York Governor Hughes to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat caused by the death of Justice Brewer. The Sun cites the decision as likely and outlines potential implications for the court and politics.
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NEW York Sun
Hughes
New York
Taft
Supreme Bench
Tusticn Brewer
Puzzler Por Figh Pan San Francisco April 21
From Jeffries training camp the Ringsider notes a contrast between the fighters during work and after, praising the Viktor shown in training but describing Jeffries as unsteady and weary afterward. The writer asks what causes this apparent instability and fatigue.
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San Francisco
Jeffries
Ringsider
Viktor
Jeff
Seta
Cold Snap Ravages Midwest Farms Causing Major Loss
Cincinnati reports a five million dollar damage total from a cold wave sweeping Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and southern Indiana over five days. Berry and a mal erage digie nearly wiped out fruit operations. Truck gardens and small farmers suffer ruin as snow lingers in northern Kentucky.
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Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
Torrential Rains Devastate Serbia Across Kragujevac
Belgrade reports torrential rains flood Serbia with Kragujevac area hardest hit. Twelve deaths confirmed at Kragujevac and Lapovo, widespread property damage. The country from Kragujevac to Lapovo, about 24 miles, resembles a vast lake with many villages inundated and fears for people and livestock including thousands of sheep and cattle.
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Belgrade
Srvia
Servia
Kragujevatz
Lapovo
Another Defeat For Hyde's Attorneys In Court
Judge Latshow ruled the defense not entitled to letters from Chicago toxicologists to Paxton administrator of Colonel Swope estate. Keillor testified about Colonel Swope's death and Hyde's bleeding operation. Twyman warned Hyde he was drawing too much blood and knew of a man who bled to death from similar treatment. Conkling said detectives were assigned to trace how grand jury records reached the defense.
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Kansia City
Latshow
Hyde
Chicago
Paxton
Swoon
Keillor
Swope
Wodn
Mosg
Recall of Papal Nuncio Unfounded Says Vatican
Rome reports from April 21 state that Monsignor Granito di Belmonte Pontanelli the papal nuncio in Vienna was not recalled and has not been blamed by the Vatican. The Holy See notes no incident occurred from a courtesy call on Ambassador Kerensky and meeting Mr Roosevelt. The nuncio is expected to stay in Vienna until the next consistory when he may be named a cardinal, unlikely before year’s end.
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Rome
Monsignor
Granito di Belmonte Pignatelli
Vienna
Vatican
Holy See
Ambassilod Kerens
Roosevelt
Motormen and conductors ordered back to work in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on April 21 the strike leaders ordered all motormen and conductors to report for duty this morning at the city barns of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. They cited assurances of fair treatment by the company as the basis for the return.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Family in Collision Near Thcorn Washington
A family of four sustained injuries in an April 21 crash when their car collided with another vehicle at a street intersection. The car was thrown about forty feet. the mother, L G. Willa, likely fatally injured, while the infant child and other occupants suffered non fatal hurts. The report notes the collision involved a street or road and lists the injured as a mother and child with other occupants also hurt.
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Thcorn
Wash
L G. Willa
Wallace
Death of Charles O Hara sporting writer Billy Blunt
Cincinnati April 21 Charles T O Hara aged 83 an illness of several months ending last night. O Hara known as a sporting writer and used by the pen name Billy Blunt. He worked on local papers and contributed to publications nationwide.
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Cincinnati
Charles T. O'Hara
Mr. O'Hara
Billy Blunt
Can't Fix Scale Protest Threatens 40000 Miners Strike
Altoona April 21. Operators and miners in the central bituminous district failed to agree on a wage scale today. If no result is reached tomorrow a strike is likely, potentially keeping 40,000 mine workers idle indefinitely.
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Altoona
Indians Seek Consent to Open Reservation Roads Toll Freights
Major Swartalander on Umatilla Reservation works to circulate petitions among male adults to abolish tolls charged when white stock crosses the reservation. If signed, the Indian department could approve opening the roads to county maintenance, with Indians to benefit from improved highways and potential damages from stock depredations. Commissioner Valentine cites a 1906 agreement to charge tolls, urging Tahtin consent before proceeding.
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Umatilla
Indian Department
Swartslander
Washington
Valentine
Indian Bureau
Railroad lands taxed under new senate bill
Washington April 21 the senate committee on public lands aims to tax unpatented railroad grant lands within forest reserves. Senator Hughes reported the Nelson bill requiring railroads to fund resurveying. About four to five million acres lie in the grant, two million in Montana and none in Oregon, with states unable to tax and railroads benefiting from non taxation.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Hughes
Senate
Nelson
United States
Montana
Oregon
Mark Twain in Restful Condition Amid Illness
Mark Twain remains weaker though resting comfortably as of April 21 in Reding Conn. The notable author shows signs of improvement but continues under careful monitoring.
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Mark Twain
Reding
Conn
Attorneys frame defense in Tacoma rail death suit
Northern Pacific lawyers argue Lafayette Trottle son was nervous about his upcoming marriage and less careful, as his son Bartle, employed by the railway, was crushed between an engine tender and a stack of wood beside the track in the Tacoma incident seeking 1985 dollars in damages.
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Tacoma
Northern Pacific Railway
Lafayette Trottle
Young Bartle
Roosevelt Arrives in Paris Receives Warm Welcome
Colonel Roosevelt lands in Paris from Budapest to a great throng. He visits the American Ambassador's home, then calls on President Fallieres and Foreign Minister Pinchon, who praise him for his friendship to France and his peacemaking ideals. French papers publish eulogies and plan a banquet and lecture at Sorbonne.
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Viste
Parle
Roosevelt
Budapest
Roosevelta
Bacon
American Statesman
President Fallieres
Pinchon
Fallieres
Paris
Sorbonne
Parie
Matin
France
Theodore Roosevelt
Egyptian Assassin Comes Up For Trial
Cairo April 21 The trial of Ibrahim Wardan charged with the assassination of Premier Boutrous Pasha began today. International interest centers on the affair due to Itan Roosevelt's speeches here denouncing the murder and angering Egyptian nationalists. Soldiers stand ready at the barracks to quell any demonstrations surrounding the trial.
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Cairo
Ibrahim Wardan
Boutrous Pasha
Itan Roosevelt
Roosevelt Endorsement Reported by Taft Adviser
A Taft adviser says Roosevelt will support the present administration from the ground up upon returning to America. The claim follows news that Senator Root plans a European trip and may meet Roosevelt, heightening political interest in Washington today.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
America
Taft
McMillen Announces Senate Candidacy in Tennessee
Nashville April 21 Henton McMillen former governor and longtime Democratic House leader announced his candidacy for the United States Senate subject to the June 4 Democratic primary to succeed James B Frazer whose term expires next March Frazer said he would not run for reelection
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McMillen
Nashville
Tenn
Henton McMillen
Tennessee
House of Representatives
United States Senate
James B. Frazer
Fraser
Weston Arrives in Palmyra After Rochester Visit
Weston arrived in Palmyra on April 21 at 9.96 from Rochester aboard Welvek Jase night travel. The passenger Edward Payson Weston was noted in local transit records as making the outbound journey through the city.
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Weston
Palmyra
Palymra
Edoward Payson Weston
Rochester
Prices fall on Pacific coast foods in Portland market
Portland reports today a general drop in foodstuffs with front prices down sixty cents per barrel from three weeks earlier and meat averages down about half a cent per pound.
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Portland
Pacific Coast
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