Congress Hurdles Over Taft Budget Veto Looms
Washington Aug 12 House leader Underwood warned Congress would adjourn unless President Taft vetoes the budget bill. If vetoed adjournment would be indefinite. Rep Fitzgerald said the wool bill would be pushed if the veto stands. Taft reportedly plans to veto the budget bill over its commerce court abolition.
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Taft
Washington
House
Underwood
Congress
Fitzgerald
New York
Commerce Court
Senate adopts road aid plan with new highway commission
Washington reports the Senate by 37 to 21 approved a substitute to the house post office bill providing federal aid for highway improvements. The amendment sets up a commission to study a comprehensive good roads system while the house plan called for 15 million dollars annual federal aid. Senator Bourne's parcels post zones proposal passed without debate. TJ Wag prepared a leather parcel post measure amid house activity.
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Washington
Senate
House
Bourne
Oregon
Fire destroys feine plant at Pasco in massive blaze
Pasco Washington August 12 the feine plant of the Northern Pacific was destroyed by fire yesterday causing an estimated loss of 100 000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The plant was the largest of its kind between St Paul and the coast.
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Pasco
Wash
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Coast
Local dealer finds 1877 coin wedged in creek rock
Jake Welch, a clear dealer, claims to have found an old gold coin minted in 1877 while sitting on a stone in Meacham creek. He secured a mineral claim hoping the discovery marks a rich vein, while friends suggest the coin was dropped by a fisherman long ago.
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Jake Welch
Mysan F
Meachiin
Meacham Creek
Mowntain Resort
Gattay
Heese y of Prussia Named to Represent Kaiser
Berlin reports the Kaiser will send Prince Henry of Prussia as his representative to attend the funeral of the late Emperor Mutsuhito in Japan next month.
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Hesey
Prussia
Kaiser
Berlin
Prince Henry of
Mutsu- Hito
Japan
Presidential stance on platform topics remains unclear
Cenoratic Platform notes Governor Wilson declines to comment on a single presidential term. He says he will later state his position on all platform items after addressing topics he deems most pressing. The remark follows questions about a horseback argument and the party line.
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Sea Girl
Wilson
Democratie
Prisoner Bam Schopps Heads to New York Case
New York officials ordered close watch on Bam Schopps as district attorney Whitman sent assistants to Hot Springs Arkansas to extradite him for alleged complicity in the Rosenthal murder. Schopps warned he would not survive NY police custody if returned, while Hot Springs authorities agreed to send him under guard.
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Whitthwn
Robert Thubin
Robert Stewart
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Bam Schopps
Rosenthal
Ark
Sam Schepps
New York
Lilstriet Attornes Whitman
Pittsburgh man shoots wife then kills infant in crisis
Frank Renger, at Pittshore Pa, fatally wounds his wife and a months old daughter before turning a revolver on himself. The baby is gravely wounded with no hope for recovery. No motive is known.
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Pittshore Pa
Frank Renger
Racing motor boat sinks during international regatta
Chicago reports the Reliance TUL power boat sank in Lake Michigan during the international championship power boat regatta. One person was drowned in the accident.
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Chicago
Reliance Tul
Michigan
Milchesan
McKinley Denies Corporate Donations in 1908 Campaign
Congressman McKinley of Trinity testified before the senate campaign contribution investigating committee in Washington that no penny was received from corporations during the 1908 Republican congressional campaign in the state. The record shows a woman spoke of a loan she cannot explain or repay.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Contribution
McKinley
Trinity
Alleged Plotters Arrested in Hayti Plot Suspects Deported
In Santo Domingo on August 12 authorities arrested several Haytians suspected of inciting plotters to topple President Victoria's government. Taft announced the decision to commute the death sentence of Mattie Lomas, a DC convict, noting she was the first woman executed or condemned there since a prior Lincoln era case.
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Santo Domingo
Victoria
Taft
Tfe
Mattie Lomas
District of Columbia
Mrs. Surat
Abraham Lincoln
Will Commute Sentence of Colored Woman
Washington, Aug. 12. President plans to commute the sentence of a colored woman as part of a clemency move. Details on her case and potential implications were not disclosed.
Americans and Rebels Clash at Texas Border Smuggling Probed
In El Paso on August 12 a group of Mexican rebels attempted to smuggle ammunition across the line from Columbus New Mexico. U S soldiers engaged the force. one American soldier was wounded and one Mexican killed as the rebels fled leaving behind 560000 rounds of ammunition captured by American forces.
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Texas
el Paso
Columbus
New Mexico
United States
Portland Oriental Line Urged as Vital to Eastern Oregon Mills
Mrs Sophia Byers McComas of Byers flour mills warns that halting Portland Oriental steamship service imperils eastern Oregon industries. She cites dual outlets via GWR and Northern Pacific, threatened mill closures, farmer losses from reduced wheat purchases, and rising demand from China and Japan. without ships, Peacock mills in Milton and other mills would suffer.
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Eastern
Oregon
Oriental
Portland
Sophia Byers McComas
Big Byers
Byers
G,w, R
Orient
China
Japan
Portland Linn
Peacock Mills
Milton
Minh to Try Alaska Coal Cases in Tacoma Court
Tacoma Wash August 32 R D D Townsend special government prosecutor faces a panel of Pacific coast lawyers led by ex Senator Piles of Seattle in the preliminaries of the Alaska coal fraud trials If Townsend wins the argument to set the case despite defense technical objections trials likely in September
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Tacoma
Wash
R DD. Townsend
Cushman
Pacific Coast
Piles
Seattle
Alaska
Townsend
Alleged Bank Robber Remanded For Mor Trial
New Westminster August 12 Charles Dean arraigned yesterday on a charge of complicity in the robbery of the Branch Bank of Montreal here last September when nearly 300 000 was stolen He was remanded to August 18 for further proceedings against August Shaty.
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New Westminster
1. C
Charles Dean
Eve Tliy
Bank of
Montreal
Rail rates suspended on coal shipments in 1918
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended cent rate changes on February 12, 1918. The measure affects coal shipments from the Walsenberg district in Colorado to Kansas, Oklahoma Territory, and Texas via the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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Washington
Anglia
Atvhiwa, Topeka and
Santa Ke
Inerste Commerce
Walsenberg
Colorado
Kansas
Pookahomea
Texas
Wisconsin Grocers Meet at Fond du Lac Convention
The twelfth annual Wisconsin Grocers' convention opens in Fond du Lac with delegates discussing methods to obtain retailers' cooperation and improving the stability of business in the wholesale grocery trade.
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Wisconsin Grocers
Fondy Lac
Wis
Wisconsin Tennis Grocers
Bemai
Manitoba Tennis Tourney Opens At Winnipes Club
The annual open lawn tennis tournament for Manitoba's championship began today at the Winniper Lawn Tennis Club. Eight events are scheduled besides trophies, with prizes to be awarded for the major events.
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Manitoba
Winnipes
Winniper Lawn Tennis Club
Record execution week opens in New York prisons
Albany August 12 Today begins a record execution week in New York state prisons. At Sing Sing several inmates including Angelo Giottisto Vincents De Marco and Salvatore De Marco were executed for the murder of Mrs Mary Hall on a Westminster county farm. Also executed were Joseph Ferrone and John W Colling for related crimes. At Auburn John Marticzowski was put to death for killing Buffalo policeman Charles E Schaffer.
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Albany N.Y
Sing Sing
Ancela
Giottsto
Vincents Conn
Filipe de Marco
Lorenszo Laborlo Call
Salvatore de Marco
Mary Hall
Westminster County
Joseph Ferrone
New York City
John W. Colling
Michael Lynch
New York
Auburn
John Marticzowski
Charles E. Schaffer
Buffalo
Indian to Write of Modoc War Brother of Carly Hatred Jack
A full blood Modoc of the Rou nh reservation Major Lee Mawr Olle plans to publish the Indian side of the Modoc war of 1872 73. He recalls hiding in the lava beds with his people, details the capture and death of Lieutenant Sherwood, and explains his mission to outlive the lava beds where the conflict lasted nearly two years.
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United States Army
Lytetary
Lee Mawr Olle
Thie City
Fie
Oregon
California
Curly Haired
Jack
Sherwood
Hood
Quapaw Mission
OK “Ham
Haskell Institute
Carlisle
Klamath Reservaton
Heaas
Matty
United States
Red Mans
Eil- Woubeal Modoc
Turnip spectacle on reservation crops attention
Rev. J. M. Cornelison, a Presbyterian missionary, reports a giant pink top turnip grown behind his house at the Tina mission. Weighing 14 pennys and measuring 1 ioeches around, the weeded vegetable thrived without cultivation or irrigation. The missionary hopes irrigation could unlock larger harvests for Indian lands.
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Finney
J. M. Cornelison
Cornelisson
Cornelison
We Thtina
Crop movement funds questioned as harvests rise
Reports from the west note bumper crops pushing bankers to consider funds for crop movement. Chicago and western money centers expect no stringency though bank demand will rise in weeks. Farmers fear transport limits as railroads may not meet peak shipment capacity.
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Chicago
Aur
Northwest
Vie
West
Delare
Explosion Drives Robbers From Royal Theatre Safe
In New Westminster British Columbia on August 11, 1902 a nitro-glycerine blast shattered the Royal Theatre safe. The robbers fled in panic, leaving seventy dollars inside. The ensuing fire was extinguished with no significant damage.
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New Westminsters
B. C
Royal Theater
Surveying Farms In This County Echo Pendleton
The Oregon Statistical Bureau and Agricultural College conduct a preliminary agricultural survey of leading farms in every county. E. B. Stanley will work near Echo August 14 to 20 and Pendleton later. Data on land value, crops, livestock, labor, costs, and farming methods will be collected, kept confidential, and used for a final state report.
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Statistical Bureau
Oregon State Immigration Commissioner
E. B. Stanley
Echo
Pendleton
Commission
Agricultural College
Oregon Statistical Bureau
Mimic War Engagements Expected To Come Today
Stratford Connecticut Aug 12 with maneuvers opening the Niue and red tirmiss begin hostilities early fuel cavalry encroements in the minke wir are expected to tome bite today Magnolia Missouri Aug 12 The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Neal Estate Exchange held today with President Taft as principal guest originally planned for here but he sent regrets due to Congress not adjourned in time to travel to the event
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Stratford
Conn
Niue
Magnolia
Miuss
Massachusetts Neal Estate Exchange
Tiwoe
Taft
Ins
Congress
Washington
Pittsburgh Electric and Manufacturing Company Formed
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania March 13 The Pitts buce Electric and Manufacturing company filed to incorporate under Pennsylvania law. Headquarters will be in this city and the firm plans to buy sell manufacture and install electrical and other supplies and equipment. It is reported Westinghouse interests back the venture.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsbuce Electric and Manufacturing Company
Pennsylvania
Westinghouse
Tottering Walls Stand After Series of Tremors
A sequence of aftershocks topples remaining fragile structures that survived an initial disturbance. Officials report ongoing shaking with continued fear of further damage as residents assess losses and brace for additional events.
Tremors Strike Turkey Kill and Wreck Several Villages
Aug 12 dispatch reports three earthquakes in Turkey causing heavy destruction in affected districts. Death toll is unknown but numerous fatalities are feared as rescuers search wrecked villages for survivors amid crumbling walls.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Atracken
Reller
Closing arguments begin in Darrow trial in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles Aug 12 Assistant District Attorney Ford opened for the prosecution in the Clarence Darrow trial. He compared Darrow to Lord Francis Bacon Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold prompting objections from Darrow and Horace Appell. Judge Hutton instructed jurors to treat Ford's remarks as argument only.
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Los Angeles
Clarence Darrow
Ford
Darrow
Francis Bacon
House of Lords
Judas Iscariot
Benedict Arnold
Horace Appell
Hutton
Round-Up to Gain Wide Notice on Northern Pacific Posters
Northern Pacific officials back local exhibition with special trains from Portland Spokane and Alberta on frontier life posters printed by O W KR N Co. Walter Adams says 2000 posters in three colors will spread the Round-Up fame with bold “Rowlit-up” lettering and advertising on diner car backs.
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Northern Pacific Company
Walter Adams
Pendleton
Adgims
Northern Pacific
Ara
Exposition of Frontier Mfe
Portland
Spokans
Adams
Pavers Strike Halts West Court Street Paving
West Court Street paving halted when fifteen workers walked out after supervisor Lonergan refused a wage rise from twenty five to thirty cents an hour. Temporary suspension persists while Warren Construction seeks replacement crew from Walla Walla and Pasco. This is the seventh strike in recent paving projects, following earlier stoppages on Cottonwood and Alta streets.
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West Court Street
O Pla Lonergan
Warren Construction Company
Work Las Neen
Wind Oe
Aia
Supt. Lonergan
Petleton
Walla Walla
Pasco
Cottonwood
Alta
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Federal
Wilton
Hayte
Portland Oriental
Ces
Mrs. McComas
Minh
Modoc War
Carly
Red Man
Oregon Statistical Bureau Gathering
Pittshbotal Corporation
Tion
N. P
Pavers
Court Street
Urea
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