County Lands On Cash Basis Amid Warrant Shortfall
Umatilla County treasurer warns warrants remain outstanding though cash advances exist. A call for every road warrant is issued, with about $50,000 in general and road funds insufficient to cover all claims, while more than $145,000 remains in the treasury but segregated by fund. The semi annual financial statement shows cash on hand of $263,423.27 and a ledger of liabilities totaling $442,879.23, including warrants outstanding at $81,814.12 and various county funds.
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Amadia County
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Umatilla County
Robert Brown
Tal Red
T. D. Taylor
County School Fund
Ition Ve
Keke Gesitest
Fish and Name Fund
Little Walla Walla Irriga
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State Road
Forest Reserve Oosence
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TOCA
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Rae
Justice Court
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Coroner's
Court House
Buffalo Bill to be buried on Cedar Mountain with marble statue
Chicago April 7. Buffalo Bill Cody plans to be buried atop Cedar Mountain in the Big Horn range Wyoming. A forty foot marble buffalo statue with electric eyed lights would stand over his grave, visible for miles. Charlies Heath reported the plan in a Geographical Society talk in Chicago a year ago.
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Chicago
Buffalo Bill" Cody
Cedar Mountain
Big Horn Country
Wyoming
Cody
Charlies Heath
Geographical Society
Indictments for Hindu Race Riots Near St Johns
Nine men including St Johns mayor and justice of the peace, and two policemen, were indicted by the county grand jury for neglect of duty and for participating in riots that drove Hindu laborers from St Johns on March 21. The indictments accuse them of riotous assembly, burglary, larceny, assault and battery, and robbery. Bonds ranged from 1 000 to 35 000.
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Portland
St. Johns
Tutu
J. F Hendricks
St. Johin
Elthridge
Dunbar
Dickey
Vande Bogard
St. John
Jeffries Resumes Strenuous Training in April Hike
Rowardeman reports cool weather allowing Jim Jeffries to renew his demanding regimen. He hiked mountain roads for ten miles and planned this afternoon to box Berger Armstrong and Papke, continuing his preparation for competition.
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Rowardeman
Jeffries Neain
Berger Armstrong
Papke
Prominent Washington Politician Dies in Seattle
Seattle April 27 John Y. Terry a Democratic National Committee member and renowned state political figure died at his home from rheumatism of the heart. His death was sudden and unexpected.
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Seattle
John Y. Terry
Democratic National Committee
Rivalry Buildup as Democrats Preps for Indiana Convention
In Indianapolis on April 27, delegates gathered amid a bitter preconvention skirmish between Thomas Taggart and Governor Marshall. Lamb backs Marshall’s plan for convention endorsement. Taggart seeks endorsement or floor vote. Senator Shively seeks compromise but prospects for a Senate endorsement remain doubtful as factions prepare to press their positions at the convention.
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Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
Marshall
John FE. Lamb
Shively
Senate
Lamb
Taggart
Friends of Marshall
Movte
Roosevelt Witnesses Paris War Game And Flight
In Paris on April 27 Colonel Roosevelt watched a sham battle near Versalles as French forces tested for his visit. An aviator Emile Dubonnet attempted a flight in gale conditions and narrowly escaped injury after a brief, dramatic takeoff. Roosevelt congratulated Dubonnet and later received the academy of sports gold medal as honorary president.
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Vretel
Roosevelt
Paris
Berlin
Versalles
Emile Dubonnet
Rootzevelt
Tssy- Jea-Moulineaux
Academy of Enorte
Dubonnet
M. de Villeneuve
Academy of Sports
Academs
Unearth Municipal Graft in Chicago
Chicago April 27 The commission probing municipal graft today moves to prosecute. New evidence shows the city lost over fifty five thousand dollars in twenty months through crooked transactions including forged contracts mutilated coal records and payments for coal never delivered.
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Chicago
Come Inhelon
Noell Gow Wins Derby at Newmarket Race
April 27 Lord Roeberry's Nell Gow, favorite in the Derby, won a two thousand guinea race by a neck today at Newmarket. The Wilher was ridden by Danny Maher, the American jockey.
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Noell Gow
Newmarket, King
D Lord Roeberry
Nell Gow
Wilher
Danny Maher
Jorkey
Hughes Appointment Makes Teddy Political Dictator
Washington April 27 That the appointment of Gov Hughes to the supreme bench leaves Roosevelt the political dictator of New York is the belief of politicians here. The move is seen as making Roosevelt the head and front of the New York republican organization and the only man who can dominate politics in New York.
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Washington
Gov. Hughes
Supreme Bench
Roosevelt
New York
New York Republican Organization
District Manager vows phone service upgrades
District Manager Van Houtte of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph promised improved local phone service at a joint conference with the city council Commercial association and a joint committee. He discussed rates for four party lines, said assessor figures were wrong, and promised to provide valuation and payroll details later while planning another meeting.
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van Houtte
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
Commercal Association
Eity Council and Commercial Association
Manger
Meters van Houtte
Moore
J. R. Raley
Conlin
Halley’s Comet Visible 55 Minutes Before Dawn
The observatory reports Halley’s comet visible to the naked eye for 55 minutes before dawn, with the body above the horizon and no trace of the tail even through a telescope. Harvard Observatory Professor Wendell says no interference expected with wires or wireless telegraphy, though government stations are asked to watch for disturbances around mid May.
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Zunch
Cambridge
Halley
J.*. Wenejl
Harvard Observatory
Wendell
Panama Canal Opening Date Predicted as 1914
Washington April 27 The Panama canal will be opened in 1914 according to the highest official authority here today However that authority refused to change the official announcement that the canal will be opened in 1915 because of the possibility of unforeseen delay and postponement
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Washington DT
Panama Canal
Pressburg Grapters Granted Brief Graft Trial Pause
Pittsburg April 27 Judge Fraser announced there will be no more graft trials for the present. The court dismissed the entire panel of petit jurors except those for the pending trial of ex-Councilliman Coffey, creating a sensation in the case.
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Pittsburg
Fraser
Counelliman Coffey
Local businessmen prepare Wednesday junket to five towns
A committee of Charles Bond Clarence Bishop and Ben Hill arranged a motor trip for May 4 to Adams Athena Weston Milton Freewater and Walla Walla. The purpose is a get acquainted excursion with stops in each town to set schedules and make the visit pleasant and profitable for all involved.
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Adams, Athena
Weston
Milton
Freewater
Walla Walla
Charles Bond
Clarence Bishop
Ben Hill
Ty Commercial Association
Commercial Association
Prosecution Outlines Heinze Trial Case Details
United States District Attorney Wise outlined the Heinze case in New York, stating the prosecution must prove over-certification of checks as Mercantile National Bank president and show a pool manipulated copper stock prices. Judge Hough ruled Heinze’s membership in the pool and the pool’s existence must be established at trial.
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New York
Charles B Moran
United States
Wise
F. Augustus Heinze
Mercantile National Bank
Heinze
Judge Hough
Amundsen Plans Seven Year Arctic Expedition
Captain Roald Amundsen intends a seven year Arctic voyage starting next year aboard the Fram from San Francisco. He will let the ship freeze into polar ice to drift, believing currents will bring him near the North Pole before the craft is freed near Greenland’s eastern coast.
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San Francisco
Roald Amundsen
Arctic
North Pole
Amundsen
Fram
Weasel
Pole
Fnally
Greenland
Hawthorne and Hub Bard Turn Ad Writers in Faction
Julian Hawthorne and Bilbert Hub bard have become advertisement writers, but have not thereby given up fiction entirely.
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Julian Hawthorne
Bilbert Hubbard
Scandal erupts as land board officials clash in Idaho
Boise April reports accuse M T Church of being scapegoated as state land board members trade charges over land appraisals. Affidavits for Payette Lumber land deals go missing while Norman Belcher claims orders to value nine thousand acres at ten dollars per acre came from top officials. Church seeks to delay resignation amid confrontations.
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Church
Boise
State Land Board
M. T. Church
Register of the
Coeur d'Alene
Payette Lumber Company
Norman Belcher
McDougall
Lansdon
Land Board
Payette Company
Peterson
Bimere
Paulhan and White Rage for Prize Flight
London April 27 Louis Paulhan started from Hempstead for Manchester to win the fifty thousand dollar prize offered by the London Mall. Claude White, an Englishman, flew later in a Farman biplane as winds delayed his start. Paulhan passed Bletchley 49 miles out and White chased from Wolverton 89 miles away. Paulhan then descended 117 miles from London breaking the work's record in a continuous cross country flight.
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London
Louis Paulhan
Hempsteal
Manchester
London Mall
Paulhans
Wolverton
Paulhean
Steel Directors Declare Dividends
New York April 26 The United States Steel Corporation directors voted a regular quarterly dividend of 11 4 per cent on common shares, raising the annual rate from 4 to 6 per cent. Chairman Gary said future disbursements will be in extra dividends. Quarter ending March 3 yielded 37,616,876 with net returns of 31,608,194, below conservative forecasts of 39,000,000.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Initiation Allegations Cripple Girl in Bridgeport Case
Bridgeport Conn April 27 Miss Ethel Clark remains critically ill after an initiation incident at Brattleboro involving a high school society. She was blindfolded and fed macaroni with oysters believed to be angle worms and pollywogs, triggering a nervous collapse. Doctors warn it may take three years for her stomach and nerves to recover.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Ethel Clark
Brattleboro
City Board of Education
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