Forest Fire Rages in Coeur d'Alene District
More than a thousand lumbermen and farmers fight a forest blaze that has raged 48 hours and remains uncontrolled. Losses are estimated near 4 million dollars with a second fire in the Mica Bay district reported controlled after causing about 50 thousand dollars in damage. Everill Harriman reported injured, though unconfirmed. Searching parties scour for campers and lumber seekers imperiled as backfiring aims to curb the flames.
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Coeur d'Alene
Everill Harriman
Mica Bay
Controlica
Farmore
Everi
Forest Fire On Coeur d'Alene Spreads Loss Estimated
Aug 21 Apokane reports say the great forest fire on the Coeur d'Alene is controlled this afternoon. Sawmill workers note heavy losses but the area destroyed is about 9 square miles of select white pine with an approximate value near 34 million dollars.
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Apokane
Coeur d'Alene
Fire Threat Envelops Grano Forks and Roseberry Area
A forest fire in Grano Forks BI C threatens destruction after two days of flames. Roseberry nearby town was destroyed and hundreds escaped. The blaze sweeps toward Hatton as foresters recruit firefighters and equipment.
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Winnipeg
Man
Grano Forks
BI. C
Roseberry
Hatton
Baby Girl Stolen From Topeka in Kidnapping
Topeka Kansas August 21 gunfire aimed at a boy guarding a kidnapped five year old girl Marion daughter of Mrs Charlotte Blakley Tina is believed held for ransom Two women claim the child as theirs and police pursue leads in the case
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Topeka
Kas
Marion
Charlotte Blakley
Tina
San Francisco Hosts Big Athletic Tournament
San Francisco holds a major track and field event at Golden Gate Park stadium this afternoon with teams from New York Chicago and local clubs and several independent champions entered to compete against the world’s greatest athletes.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Cluba
New York
Chicago
Passenger Engine Plunges Through Bridge at Dart Weeh
Spokane, Ate 21. A passenger engine plunged through a bridge at Dart Weeh on 8 F and N today. The engineer is reported killed.
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Dart
Spokane
Ate
Weeh
Four Convicts Escape From Penitentiary
Salem Aug 21 Penitentiary guards search for four short term convicts who escaped yesterday afternoon from the brickyard adjacent to the prison. Three worked in the yard on trusties and one carried water. Escaped through tall grass when guards weren t watching. Convicts named Tony Williams Yamhill forgery year and a half Fred Rossington Washington county larceny year and a half Frank Weyer Gillam county larceny one year Clarke Davis Columbia county larceny year and a half.
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Salem
Suarda
Yarda
Tony Williams
Yamhill
Fred Rossington
Washington County
Frank Weyer
Gillam
Clarke Davis
Columbia County
Morgan Financier Purchases Chicago & Great Western Rail for 12 Million
Fred H. Gardner and George W. Stevens, representing J. P. Morgan, bought the Chicago & Great Western railroad at foreclosure for twelve million dollars. Morgan paid the secretary of state 96047 dollars for articles of incorporation. The reorganized company will have capital stock of 46000000 dollars.
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St. Paul
J. P. Morgan
Fred H. Gardner
George W. Stevens
Chicago & Great Western Railroad
Morgan
Barney Oldfield Captures 25 Mile Race Victory
Barney Oldfield won the 25 mile race at the Indianapolis motor speedway driving a Benz. He claimed the first trophy awarded to a driver rather than the car maker, as the event concluded this afternoon.
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Barney Oldfield
Indianapolis
Barney Odfield
Motor Speedway
Violinist Paul Schmidt Dies After Hungarian Performance
San Francisco Aug 21 After theater diners at Techau tavern applauded Paul Schmidt first violinist under Gypsy Rigo for a brilliant Hungarian melody his bow fell from his hand and he died on the floor as the crowd remained spellbound. The crowd continued to applaud until the end.
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San Francisco
Techau Tavern
Paul Schmidt
Gypsy Rigo
Schmidt
Vilder Jones Will Buy But Never Manage
Portland Ore Aug 21 Wheen shown the dispatch from Cleveland saying that his name is prominently mentioned in connection with the management of that club Pielder A Jones now of this city former manager of the Chicago league club sold to the United Press There is nothing in it I have received no offer from Cleveland It is true I am in the market to buy a controlling interest in a major league club but I will never go back into the baseball business as the manager of any club
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Portland
Ore
Explosion Proves Serious At Onaka blast
Tokyo August 21 reports from Onaka indicate yesterday's magazine explosion was far more serious than first carried. Investigators found 88 tons of dynamite and 26 tons of powder exploded. A score of people were seriously injured in addition to those killed. The blast shattered 1620 buildings and officials believe spontaneous combustion caused the disaster.
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Tokyo
Todiy
Advicnws
Onaka
Melroy's Band to Play at Third District Fair
McElroy's 25-piece band is engaged to provide music for Pendleton's Third District Fair from September 27 to October 2. The group, which also played Salem State Fair and the Pacific National Fair in Portland, will tour to Pendleton with the same lineup led by W E K McElroy, son of educator E R McElroy.
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McElroy
Furnioh Nypete
Molvey
Pendleton
Salem
Portland
Pendleton Fair
Focas Fair Board
Mckilroy
Satem
Northwest
Morey
W. EK. McElroy
E. R. McElroy
Resolution Calls for Division of Lands at Trans-Miss congress
At Denver on August 21 delegates debated forest reserves amid Pinchot tensions. A Patterson resolution urged dividing agricultural, mineral, and forest lands. Gowdy amended to praise forestry policy. Both resolutions passed, seen as ending the forestry dispute. Other resolutions urged income tax law, expert tariff panel, grazing land regulation, Alaska territorial legislature, federal liquor license prohibition, and aid to American shipping. Governor Hadley of Missouri linked rail rebates to trusts and praised inland waterways navigation.
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Denver
Colorado
Gifford Rinchot
Trans-Misalasippi Congress
Congress
Senator Patterson
Pinchot
Frank Gowdy
Patterson
Mr. Pinchot
Gowdy
Tariff Commission
Alaska
Hadley
Missouri
Roosevel
Hey
Aviation Week Opens in Rheims Grand Prizes Ahead
Aeroplanes paint a vivid show for about 16000 spectators at Rheims with Curtiss Latham and Bleriot praised for flights. Two minor crashes marked practice day as Wright team pilots Lefevre and Lamdberg showcased ease of handling. Grand prize incentives total 40000 dollars with eight events planned and large open air stands ready for the weeklong meet.
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Bleriot
Latham
Glenn H. Curtiss
Curtisa
Hubert Latham
M. Blericht
Gt Aviation
Rheims
America
England
Austria
Italy
France
Prises
Louis Bloriot
Engin Ch
Met
Flathead Winner Killed Riding Brake Beams
Spokane report says Frank Kelley of Spokane drawn No 61 in the Flathead reservation at Coeur dAlene was killed under a Northern Pacific train this morning. He rode the freight and fell, his number earned him a quarter section of land.
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Spokane
Frank Kelley
Flathead Reservation
Coeur d'Alene
Northern Pacific
Fire attack at Pressed Steel Car plant and ferry crew strike
Pittsburg August 21. Unknown persons attempted to start a fire inside the Pressed Steel Car plant. Burning excelsior bundles were thrown over the mill fence but extinguished by guards. Hearing threats of dynamite from strike sympathizers the ferry steamer H H Phil carrying workers quit to avoid explosion risk.
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Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
H. H. Phil
Oklahoma bids for Jeffries Johnson fight
New York reports Joseph C. Miller of the 101 ranch in Oklahoma offered up to seventy five thousand dollars for the Johnson Jeffries bout at Bliss Oklahoma He pledged to deposit twenty five thousand dollars immediately as proof of good faith and to guarantee the arrangement
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New York
Joseph C. Miller
101 Ranch
Oklahoma
Bliss
Miller
General Reyes Surrounded as Mexican Troops Monitor Turmoil
General Bernardo Reyes governor of Nuevo Leon and opposition vice presidential candidate is encircled by government troops in the mountains near Galeana Nuevo Leon. No overt act reported, Reyes held under surveillance. Arrests of Regist party members at Torreon and nearby areas on disorderly conduct charges. Reyes birthday celebration planned for Monday.
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Mexico City
Bernardo Reyes
Nuveo Leon
Galeana
Nuevo Leon
Senor Reyes
Regist Party
Torreon
Coachuila
Xoenimilo
Mexico
Hill's Son Forged 10 Sleep in Haystack
In Great Falls Montana on August 21 Louis W Fill son of James J Will president of the Great Northern, spent a night in a haystack after a driver refused shelter. He was traveling from Helena to Great Falls in a stalled automobile near Fort Shaw and faced delays seeking help. A settler refused lodging, even after learning he was the preacher's son.
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Great Falla
Mont
Ottler
Louis W. Fill
James J. Will
Great Northern
Haystack
Helena
Great Fatle
Fort Shaw
Triple murder suicide in St Louis shocks city
A man killed his wife and infant at Horsenhor Take then took his own life at a nearby street. Police report the bodies found when investigators arrived and the presumed motive remains unclear. A second body was found later in the water, with authorities treating the incident as a murder suicide.
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Horsenhor
Bnet
Washington Senate defeats direct primary reform bill
Olympia August 21 A reform bill to nominate Supreme Court justices by direct primary was defeated in the Washington Senate by 19 to 11. The vote fell short of the required majority of 82.
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Olympia
Supreme Court
Senate
Travel of Captain Teheauple Reports Shipboard Accidents
Astoria, Or August 81 Captain Teheauple of the French bark Batin Chevaye arrived today from Antwerp reporting a Clerce gale near Kirkland Islands. He says two sailors went overboard and three were severely injured with broken arm broken thigh and fractured skull among the injured.
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Astoria
Oro
Teheauple
TSS Ays
Antwerp
Kirkland
Admiral to Advise on Canadian Navy Plan
Lemion Aug 8 The admiralty line is in Canada. A naval officer will proceed to the dominion to advise on the work of commissioning the new Canadian navy in accordance with the plan discussed at the imperial defense conference.
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Lemion
Admiralty
Canadaa
Dominion
Canadian Navy
Imperial Defense
Marsh wins marathon at Vancouver
Vancouver August 21 John Marsh of Winnipeg won the Vancouver professional Marathon in easy fashion finishing over 11 minutes ahead of Aleck Howman of Nanaimo Calgary Peter Terway was third Marsh time 2 43 54 Conrad Hubenette of San Francisco was fourth Carl Birch of Aberdeen fifth Will Stanley of San Francisco sixth
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Vancouver
B. C
John Marsh
Winnipeg
Aleck Howman
Nanaimo
Peter Terway
Calgary
Marsh
Conrad Hubenette
San Francisco
Carl Birch
Aberdeen
Will Stanley
Mazons Join In Attack Upon Spaniards
Madrid reports Moorish women join Rift tribesmen in assault on beleaguered Spaniards at Melilla. Women described as fiercer fighters than men. Spaniards resort to hand grenades in slings. blasts kill and injure tribesmen.
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Mazons
Madrid
Melilla
Open River Co-opts Farmers for Cheaper Wheat Freight
Open River Transportation Company chief Dorsey B. Smith meets with farmers union officials in a closed session to discuss a cross belt electric railway to the Columbia river. The firm already offers lower wheat freight rates and plans barges to reduce costs further. Smith notes Pendleton deliveries are five cents per hundred cheaper than rail and that 200 400 pounds have moved to Umatilla for inland shipment this month. The conference outcome remains awaited.
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Open River Company
Pendleton
Raifboaus
Dorsey B. Smith
Open River Transportation Company
Wheat Belt
Columbia River
Tidewater
Umatilla
Farmers Union
Vancouver Pitcher Gilligan Sold to St Louis Americans
Seattle August 21 President Dickson of the Vancouver club in the Northwestern league announced the sale of pitcher Gilligan to the St Louis Americans for 2000 dollars. He pitched a 22 inning game recently but has shown solid work this season.
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Seattle
Dickson
Vancouver Club
Gilligan
St. Louis Americans
Anarchist Plot to Kill Czar Amid Visit Fears
Moscow reports anarchists flocking to Italy as Emperor Nicholas II prepares for a planned visit. Police claim to have uncovered a plot to assassinate the Russian monarch, heightening security concerns ahead of his travels.
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Moscow
Italy
Waratah search abandoned as Menurandra overdue
Capetown reports the government and admiralty have ended the search for the missing steamer Waratah which left Port Natal for London with sixty people aboard on July 26. A faint hope remains that Waratah may be found if the overdue vessel Mentandra from Madagascar to Fast London is involved.
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Capetown
Admiralty
Port Na
London
Madagascar
Oregon Man is Honored in Trans-Mississippi Congress
In Denver on August 21 Isaac T. Pryor of Texas was elected president of the trans-Mississippi congress. A. C. Trombo was chosen as vice president, and Arthur Francis of Missouri was re-elected secretary.
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Denver
Isaac ‘T. Pryor
Texas
trans-Mississippi Congress
A.C. Trombo
Oregon
Arthur Francis
Missouri
Harvest Hands File Liens on Wheat for Wages
Reprisals in Helix area as John Smiley skipped threshing pay, three farmers Monroe Parrish Chris Breeding and Myrick face wage collection. Twenty eight tons of crop liens filed. Smiley left country after taking payment and leaving crews unpaid. Attorney J B Perry represents the workers seeking wages.
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John Smiley
Smiley
Detion
Monroe Parriah
Chris
Myrick
Helix
Hmiley
J.B. Perry
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Wilbur Wright
Inney
Count Lambert
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