Burglar trio captured after multi state chase
Sheriff Taylor and Deputy Wilson captured three notorious Northwest burglars J A Murray M Clarke and Michael Burke after a cold pursuit across several counties and two states. The men blew a safe at Weaton store and set a fire causing about $5000 damage, with only $5 recovered from the safe. They were taken near Wallula and were to be returned to Pendleton for trial.
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Saxe Station
Umatilla
Sim Culley
Weaton
Taylor
Bert Wilson
Wallula
Pendleton
J. A. Murray
M. Clarke
Michael Burke
Northwest
Tenat
Wewton
Wilson
Walla Walla
Adams
Weston
Freewater
Witton
Hilli ker Comes to Spokane Trial
Oakland reports F H Hilliker of Spokane arrested on an indictment for embezzling 18400 from the defunct Pacific Livestock association. He waives extradition to face charges. Sheriff Pugh will return with Hilliker after R C Brown, wanted on a similar Los Angeles charge, arrives.
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Oakland
F. H. Hilliker
Spokane
Pacific Livestock Association
Tle
Pugh
Fisiiker
R. C. Brown
Los Angeles
Pendleton Busline Transfer Noted In Valley Residents
W. C. Barbour of Eugene is among Willamette valley residents transferring buslines in Pendleton today.
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W. C. Barbour
Eugene
Willamette Valley
Pendleton
Box cars looted in Frisco investigation expands
Four men were arrested in San Francisco for looting Southern Pacific freight cars valued at fifty thousand dollars. The alleged ringleader is a veteran railroad employee. The case stems from numerous complaints of missing freight from various parts of the country.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific
Votes $26,000 for new Echo school building
Echo Ore April 26. Special election results show 32 voting for bonds totaling 25 000 with 4 opposing. Of 276 000 for school needs, 5 000 goes to old debt and 20 000 to a new central high school building, likely six rooms and modern, with old high used for grades.
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Echo Ore
Echo
Harriman Rivals Clash Over Lolo Cutoff Fight at Missoula
An altercation between Harriman and rival engineers at Lolo Creek near Missoula erupted over the Mixsouth Lewiston cutoff. Fists and rocks flew as the Harriman team, surveying along the Lolo River west of the Bitter Root mountain pass, faced a clash with the North Bank party after the Harriman engineers were ordered off.
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Vicktui
North Bank
Columbia
Trauble
Tiarriman
Missouli
Harriman
Violetee
North Bank Road
Loloore
Mixsouth
Lewiston
Idaho
Northern Pacific
Lolo River
Bitter Root Mountain
Lund
Canadian Roads Meet Out On Export Wheat
Montreal April 26 The Montreal Transportation company which exports the bulk of grain shipped through this port to Europe announces that the reduction in the rate of the American trunk lines to flag for grain carried from American lakes to ocean ports will be met here by a corresponding reduction. The rate already agreed upon for the opening of navigation here is 61 1/2 cents from Fort William to Montreal and this will be lowered if necessary.
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Montreal
Montreal Transportation Company
Europe
Fort William
Fear Japanese in Panama canal project prompts Dickinson trip
Washington April 26 The fear that Japanese colonization of the Isthmus of Panama is to observe canal work and destroy it in war prompted Secretary of War Dickinson’s Panama trip. The matter is delicate and kept quiet in official circles while Dickinson gathers data on Japanese in Panama.
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Washington
Panama
Dickinson
Roosevelt Party Assembling for the Hunt at Pease Ranch
Nairobi April 26 Roosevelt party gathering today at the Pease ranch on the Ath river. Reporters from Heatley's ranch say a hunter counted 160 buffalo in a single day.
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Nairobi
Roosevelt
Pease Ranch
Ath River
Heatley
Bond Sentenced Five Years for Killing Indian Fisher
Red Bluffs Calif April 26 Deputy fish and game warden D M Bond was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of killing an Indian he caught fishing out of pens.
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Red Bluffs
Calif
D. M. Bond
Fish and Game
Penson
Port bill carries overwhelmingly in Marshfield election
Marshfield Oregon voters approved the port bill by a wide margin of 894 to 162 with three small precincts yet to hear from. If final totals align with current pattern the statewide vote will approach six to one in favor.
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Coon Tay Port Bil
Marshfield
Ore
Oregon College Presidents Plan Action Over Rockefeller Ruling
Oregon college leaders announce a week of meetings to protest Rockefeller board decisions they say unjust. Small schools face crushing debt and possible closures. consolidation talks surface but provoke debate on federation and growth prospects for Oregon’s higher education system.
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Oregon
Rockefeller
Dehn
Pew
Porthind
General Educational Board
Oregon Gehooly
The
State University
McMinnville College
Willamette and
Pacific Universities
Dallas, Albany and
Pacific Colleges
Past of Kidnapers Exposed in Pennsylvania
Mercer April 76 Reports on the past life of Mrs J H Boyle, jailed in the Whit kidnapping case, have been given to District Attorney Lainger by detective Schuffler. The report names her as the daughter of William and Kate Farquar McDermott, notes Chicago death of Mrs McDermott, and lists aliases including Mrs Frank Yorke Helen Yorke Helen Parker Mrs Frank A Minsi Helen McDonough Mrs R G Walters and Mrs Jones. It claims she adopted these names within three years of leaving her parents.
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Mercer
J. H Boyle
Witte Whit
Share
Laninger
Mercer County
Schuffer
Agrencey
Scauffler
William
Kate Farquar McDermott
McDermott
Chicago
Alina McDermott
Frank Yorke
Helen Yorke
Helen Parker
Frank A. Minsi
Helen McDonough
R. G. Walters
Jones
Ellensburg Man Travels to Pendleton by Early Train
A. A. Caruthers of Ellensburg Washington spends the day in Pendleton arriving on the early morning westbound train.
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A. A. Caruthers
Ellensburg
Washington
Pendleton
Deposition Unclear As Sultan Abdicates In Palace Siege
April 24 report from Constantinople says Abdul Hamid II remains prisoner in the palace after a coup. Parliament polls show his deposition necessary while constitutional troops guard the palace and foreign ministers are barred. Four thousand reactionaries and hundreds of clerics are held as prisoners by the invaders as debates delay fate of the sultan.
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Sultanic
Wis
Ambexulor Leishman
Constantinople
Erath Visior
Tewfik Pasha
Abdul Hamid
Pate
Sultan
National Assembly
Hyietian
Hin Palace
Young Turk court martial to try revolt participants
Salonica April 26 dispatch reports the Young Turk government ordering a court martial for revolt participants following the attempted overthrow of the constitution. Americans in Constantinople are safe. all tourists left, with no Americans injured except war correspondent Frederick Moore. An American cable cites 10 000 killed in Asia Minor with 40 000 dead in Mas Dires as fighting worsens.
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Salonica
The
Young Turk
Martal
Tolay
Bpon
United States
Leishman
Wos
United Preas
Frederick Moore
Asia Minor
Lotikia
Asiaitie
Turkey
Hain
Earthquake devastates Alentejo region. 100 dead and 1000 homeless
Lisbon April 26. At least a hundred are dead and a thousand homes ruined by a Friday earthquake in the Alentejo province. The king is at Salvaterra directing rescue efforts.
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Lisbon
Alente
Salvaterre
Senate Tariff Committee May Report Tomorrow
Washington April 26 Senate tariff committee failed to report today but may do so tomorrow.
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Senate Tariff Committee
Washington
Senate
Pendleton men fight prairie fire in Alberta colony
Ernest Knight of the Pendleton Alberta colony writes that a fire sparked by Del McCarty burned grass on recently acquired land, threatening adjacent ranches. Knight brothers fought the blaze for two days saving buildings and 320 acres of pasture, while Ernest faced potential arrest for refusing to join fighting units.
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Pendleton Alberta
G. W. Knight
Knight Brothers
Ernest Knight
del] McCarty
Pendleton
Alberta
Knieht
Piace
Kolht
Ernest
Man Hurls Stone at Train Window After Repeated Boarding
Henry Henderson, denied rides by trainmen, boarded No. 1 three times and was ejected at Gibbon. He then hurled a rock through the observation car window near Pendleton, was captured by Constable Bentley, and jailed on a formal charge filed by C. T. & N Detective Wood from Portland.
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Henry Henderson
Henderson
Gibbon
Robbers Blow Up Washington Bank in Garfield Area
In Garfield County Washington on April 26 a bank at Elberton was dynamited and several hundred dollars taken. Robbers stole a team from vice president J. W. Cox’s barn, drove to Elberton, returned to Garfield, hitched to a telegraph pole, and fled on a Northern Pacific speeder. The train was later abandoned. a freight car journey to Spokane is suspected. A heavy guard is stationed at railroad stations along the line. The exact amount stolen remains unknown.
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Garfield National Bank
Elbertson
Garfield
Northern Pacific
Elberton
J. W. Cox
Spokare
New England Language Association outlines foreign language teaching shifts
The New England Modern Language Association committee on college entrance requirements prepares a report with vigorous recommendations for preparatory school language teaching. Latin remains dominant though radical changes are expected, with surveys from 176 high schools showing 16,875 Latin and 1,420 Greek students versus 19,069 French and 9,650 German in modern language courses. Harvard now recognizes speaking knowledge of French and German as equivalent to Latin and Greek.
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New England Modern Langage Association
Harvard
Spokesman-Review
President Brings Suit Dissolving Harriman Lines
In San Francisco on April 26 the president filed a suit in the U S circuit court in northern California to dissolve the financial ties between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Nearly 100 witnesses were subpoenaed. the action traces to Harriman lines and dates to the Roosevelt era, with hearings across major cities where the railroads own property and freight agencies.
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San Francisco
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
United States Circuit Court
Northern District of California
United States
Utah
Meninest
Harriman Lines
Roosevelt
Taft
Suttons Visit Walla Walla Friends in City
Mise B Sutton of Walla Walla is visiting the city for a few days, stopping to see friends and enjoy the local scenes during her stay.
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Mise B. Sutton
Walla Walla
Fire Threat on Parker Show Train Delays Ball Park Engagement
A Parker show train carrying C W Parker’s circus was delayed after a fire outbreak near Athena. Firefighters contained the blaze with equipment saved, but several thousand dollars of property and a new 20 by 150 foot animal tent were destroyed. Spectators feared animal escapes as crowds gathered, anxiety easing after the train resumed. The Pendleton engagement remains on schedule with reserve tents ready.
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Athena
Ball Park
James
Ong
Animal Circus
Athens
C.W. Parker
Parker
Abilene
Kansas
Pedleton
Pendleton
Salvation Army plans two tours and new university for humanity
April 26 in Sension reports General Booth of the Salvation Army preparing to tour America before next winter with two five week trips, first through England. In America they will consider establishing a University for Humanity, the first branch to be located in New York and Chicago.
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Sension
General Booths
Salvation Army
America
England
University For Humanity
New York
Chicago
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C. W. Parker
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