Indictments Loom Against Railroads Over Oil Trust
Chicago Aug The confidential Kellogg report on Standard Oil implications for dissolution is to be presented by Attorney Kellogg with emphasis on dissolving the corporation. Indictments against railroads for rebates and concessions to Standard are being drawn by government experts. Washington Aug The Interstate Commerce Commission warns Northwest residents of a coming fuel famine and urges immediate coal and wood purchases as coal prices may soar to 25 per ton in Montana.
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Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
Acton i
Corporation —Interstate Commerce Commission
Isms Oo
Northwest
Chicago
Landis
Washington
Kelloge
Aulta
Department of Justice
Bonaparte
Interstate Commission
Montana
Forest receipts rise. shares to states listed in table
Total receipts from national forests for the year ending June 30 reached $1,029,017 with the 10 percent share to state and territorial funds totaling $163,091.79. Western states including Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming see large gains, while Montana Idaho Oregon and Alaska receive boosted allocations. Efforts to secure a $16,000 ball for Mrs Annie Bradley, player of Senator Brown of Utah, have failed.
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Gove
Aisc
Rags Oo
Washington Dispatch
Arizona
California
Utah
Colorado
Mornina
Oregon
Washington
Wyoming
Congress
Montana
Idaho
Alaska
Nevada
New Mexico
Annie Bradley
Senator Brown
Williams Selected U S Senator Nominee in Mississippi City
The Democratic State Executive Committee declared Williams as party nominee for United States senator from Mississippi. Williams secured a majority of 648 votes.
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Jackson, Miss
Democratic State Erectlive Committee
Williama
United States
Barney’s Body Found in Telluride Mine Grave
Steve Adams testified that W. J. Barney a timberman who vanished in June 1906 was exhumed near the Alta mill and moved to Telluride. Adams claims Barney incurred union enmity by working after the 1901 strike and his body was buried stripped of clothing before burial.
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Steve Adama
Telluride
Colo
W. J. Barney
Alta Mill
General Welle
Steve Adams
Barney
Adams
Korean heirs apparent and cabinet reshuffle in Seoul
Seoul Aug 8 The emperor's youngest brother named heir apparent and all vice ministers will be Japanese. Olga Moliter arrested in Baden Baden after Baron Lindenau claims Olga killed her mother in a letter to the prosecutor of Carlaruhe two figures are under arrest or sentencing in related cases.
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Seoul
Olga Moliter
Berlin
Baron von Lindenau
Carl Hau
Olga
Baden Baden
Carlaruhe
Chicago missionary reports famine riot in Tabriz
Loretta Vaunhock, a Chicago missionary in Tabriz, Persia, recounts a violent incident where a merchant who refused to sell 2,000,000 pounds of wheat to starving people was dragged from his home. He was beaten, stabbed, and his ear was cut off while alive. His family later donated 1,000,000 pounds of wheat to recover the body.
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Chicago
Grim
Chiktngo
Loretta Vaunhock
Tabriz
Persia
BOLLERMAKERS ON STRIKE AND RAIL RELOCATION
The boiler makers at Bakersfield Sacramento Oakland and San Prarie connected with the Southern Pacific walked out amid Los Angeles strike action. Walla Walla firm secures 4800 quarts of blackberries for Freewater cannery with 55 cases ready and rest to follow. Heavy rails moved from Drain for Southern Pacific Coos Bay extension, with substitutions planned and 86 pound rail for Klamath Falls line. Mrs Agnes C McElory appointed matron of the Yakima Indian school.
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San Francisco
Aug
Bakersfield
Sacramento
Oakland
San Prarie
Cisap
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Agnes C. McElory
Yakima
Naval Mobilization to Protect Pacific Coast from Japan
Washington reports a guarded plan to mobilize a Pacific fleet under Rear Admiral Dayton. Four divisions with heavy cruisers will join by December, totaling about 159,966 tons each, to defend the Pacific coast if Japan attacks Evans’ Atlantic fleet via the Far East.
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Washington
Pacific
Dayton
Manila
Navy
Evans
Dayton Eet
Atlantic
Fuexs
California
Daytona
West Virginia
Colorado
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
South Dakota
St Louis
Charleston
Milwaukee
Chicago
Japan
Philippines
Far East
Explorers Drown Near Garden British Columbia
A Smithsonian expedition group drowned in Cold Stream River near Garden BC when their canoe capsized. The party fought to stay with the craft but were swept away as the boat shattered. Names of the explorers were not learned.
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Vancouver
Smithsonian Institute
Cold Stream River
Columbian River
Garden
Must declare themselves in California primary law
San Francisco August. The state supreme court sustains the validity of the primary election law enacted by the last legislature. The law requires the voter to announce his position before registering.
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California
San Francisco
Aug
Laborer Crushed in Bayshore Cutoff Tunnel Incident
San Francisco report says Antone Chetran labourer for Southern Pacific was found injured in a Bayshore cutoff tunnel this morning and died later. Authorities believe he was starved.
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San Francisco
Antone Chetran
Southern Pacific
Bayshore
Grain elevator destroyed in Baltimore blaze
A grain elevator of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway caught fire this morning and was destroyed along with its contents. The loss is estimated at about 150000 dollars. Fire officials reported the blaze caused extensive damage to the building and its heavy contents.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Onio Railway
New Zealand Bill Lets Women Stand for Upper House
Wellington Aug 8 A bill to allow women to be elected to the upper house passed its committee stage today. The measure advances in Parliament as reform for gender participation in politics.
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New Zealand
Wellington
Fighting at Casa Blanca in Tangier brings massacre and fires
Two thousand extra troops have landed at Casa Blanca and street fighting rages as the Jewish quarter is sacked with many killed. Warships shells set Moorish streets ablaze while distress grows among the poor as stores stay closed. Europeans remain safe, but fear of Andjerras tribesmen near Tangier looms.
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Tangier
Casa Blanca
Tangiers
Tobacco Unions Vote On Nationwide Strike Action
A near consensus vote is received at International Tobacco Workers' union headquarters on whether ten tobacco unions nationwide will strike against American Tobacco. If the AFL backs the action, up to 70,000 allied trades could be involved in a stoppage.
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Lavalsville
Aug. S
American Tobacco Company
International Tobacco Workers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
Allied Trades
Union Pacific Declares Quarterly and Semiannual Dividends
New York reports Union Pacific declares a regular quarterly dividend of 2 1 4 percent on common and regular stock and a semiannual dividend of 2 percent on preferred stock.
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New York
Union Pacific
Brewery blast at Santiago claims forty killed and wounded
A carbonic acid pipe explosion at a Santiago brewery today destroyed the building and killed and wounded about forty people. The casualties include spectators police and firemen among the dead and injured.
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Santiago
Chill
Aug
Steamer Alliance Rammed by City of Panama at Willamette Mouth
The steamer Alliance on the Tillamook-Portland run was rammed by the City of Panama near the mouth of the Willamette River in fog. The Alliance received a large stern hole and was beached at a sandbar, but no passengers or crew were injured. Both ships carried many passengers, raising excitement among witnesses.
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Alliance
Willamette
Panama
Portland
Aug
Columbia
San Francisco
City of
Wilamette River
Murder Trial in Montana Tribe Over Delusion Killings
In Winnipeg on August The two Cree chiefs face trial for the murder of their daughter in law amid hundreds of Indians present. They stand accused of killing 20 Indians under a colonial belief that delirious fever possession by an evil spirit justifies murder. The government vows to end the savage practice.
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Winnipeg
Priest shoots two men amid Irish strike unrest
In Pittsburg Aug in a disordered incident a detached Polish priest Ludwig Szezlel shot brothers Andrew and Stephen Sturejewsky. Stephen died and Andrew is in critical condition. Szezlel, said to be crazed by troubles of his own, caused a chaotic scene during the Irish coal strike. Separately the Belfast strike ends with troops retaking streets and factories as work resumes.
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Rimenta
Pittsburg
Andrew
Stephen Sturejewsky
Ludwig Szezlel
Stephen
Andrew Fo
Szezlel
Belfast
Ireland
Wheat and corn close higher after opening gains in grain market
The Grain Market Chicago report for August 5 shows Wheat opening at £5 and closing at 658 percent, corn opening 64 percent and closing 643-4, oats opening 44 and closing 463-8. Prices moved higher across the board with strong demand noted.
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Chicago
Telegraphers Strike Over reinstate dispute and walkout
Los Angeles August 8 Telegraph operators walked out after Western Union refused to reinstate a discharged operator Ryan. Six men remained at work this morning as management handled business with possible delays. District Superintendent Lamb denied union claims and called the telegraphers statements a tissue of lies.
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Los Angeles
Western Union
Lamb
Ryan
Lambmys Ryan
Women Form A Colony in Colorado Under Carey Act
Ruth O Owens of Denver forms a women led colony to claim 1280 acres in the Little Snake reclamation district under the Carey act. The group plans to settle September 6 and relies on crop income and rising land values rather than land agents to achieve financial stability.
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Colorado Girl
Little Snake River
Iilley
Colorado
Denver News
Mise Ruth O. Owens
Williams Street
Denver
Miew Owens
Alabama Governor Faces Southern Railway Rate Plea
Governor Comer says he will answer tonight to the Southern railway offer to drop suits and restore the road's charter if Alabama does not enforce revocation. He argues the state is entitled to the specified lower rate and cannot legally negotiate it away.
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Conner Hew
Montgomery
Ala
Comer
Southern Railway
Alabama
Mexican Jewish Colony Negotiations For 10000 Acres
In Mexico City Philip Shabin Abraham Dyslatoff and Effin Aurin of Los Angeles negotiate for a Jewish colony of 160000 on 10000 acres. Two thousand come from California and the rest from Russia.
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Mexico City
Philip Shabin
Abraham, Dyslatoff
Effin Aurin
Los Angeles
California
Reat
Russia
Hop Pickers Needed as Krebs Plans Oregon Yard Operations
Conrad Krebs announces he will open headquarters to hire about 1500 hop pickers for the season in the Willamette valley. Picking starts around September 1 with families earning up to $20 a day in some yards. Revival meetings will be held by preachers at Independence yards during three weeks of picking, with other yards offering different recreation.
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Conrad Krebs
Willamette Valley
Portland
Independence Yards
Portland's Savings Deposits in Portland Banks
The Oregon Daily Journal estimates Portland savings deposits at 50 to 60 million dollars. The funds come from the middle class and reflect Oregon’s prosperity and the equitable conditions among Portland’s working people.
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Portland
Oregon Daily Journal
Oregon
Denver man to choose defense attorney tonight
Denver reports that Moyer will likely decide tonight which attorney will defend him. He is conferring with Darrow today and, if left to Moyer alone, Darrow will be the selected counsel.
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Denver
Moyer
Darrow
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Tian
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