Express Company Protest Over Tax Assessment in Lane County
The Eugene Guard reports an injunction suit filed to stop Lane County from taxing Express and Wella-Fargo Express on transportation rights and privileges over 75.90 miles valued at $15,180 plus personal property, totaling $291.40. Snow and McCamant of Portland represent the plaintiff, asserting no interest in railway lines or Oregon and California Railroad properties and asserting improper double taxation.
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Wella-Fargo Express Company
Keeney
Lane County
Fe Gompany
Eugene Guard
Yald
PIANC
Unea
Oregon & California Railroad Company
Southern Pascific Company
Lnes
Lake County
Oregon &Alifornia Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Company
Progress of Work on The Seattle Exposition Buildings
Seattle August reports six main structures finished at the exposition and six more nearing completion as ground work nears 50 percent. Additional pavilions and united states government buildings are planned this fall with Discovery Day on August 56 1909. Pay Streak preparations for twenty attractions include Burning of Prairie Belle and Trip to Hood's Canal along with extensive concessions and exhibits planned by Henry Dosch and A W Lewin.
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Seattle
Oregon
California
Washington
Foreign
Forestry
Machinery Annex
Transportation
Missouri
New York
United States
Klondike
George Carmack
Carmack
A. W. Lewin
Hood's Canal
North Pole
Henry E. Dosch
Hie Pia
Coffee Grocer Promises Refund If Grind Fails
Advertises that the grocer will return money if the coffee does not meet expectations. Mentions heat and Schillings, implying a currency or pricing note. No specific dates or locations provided.
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Schillings Heat
Russians Explore Aleutian Islands On Rich Expedition
A Vladivostok launched schooner carried an eighteen member scientific team to the North Pacific. Financed by Moscow merchant M Riabushinsky, the nearly $100000 expedition visited Kamchatka and the Kuriles, with ethnographer, meteorologist, botanists, geographers, zoologists and geologists studying Kamchatka and the Aleutian and Kurile Islands.
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Alaska
Attu
Aleutian Islands
Unataska
North Pacific
Vladivostok
Kamchatka
Kurile Islands
M. Riabushinecgy
Moscow
Aleutian
Wanted at Once Rags Market Price Paid
East Oregonian office seeks clean rags for resale with market price paid. Apply at Reni Store room on Main Street in the East Oregonian building. Submit at this office.
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East Oregonian
Reni
Main Street
Fake Dairy Inspector Swindle Reported In Western Locality
A pair of con artists posing as state dairy inspectors deceived dairymen by declaring healthy cows diseased with tuberculosis. One con man inspected herds and condemned cattle, advising concealment, while a second actor bought the supposedly diseased stock for shipment. Farmers were paid about twenty dollars per cow before learning the deception, with recovery of losses unclear. The incident warns neighbors to verify identities before engaging strangers offering official inspections.
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Hanis
Yield Report From Union County Wheat Field
Tom Johnson reports from Cove farm near La Grande a threshing success. From 33 acres of red chaff wheat, 808 sacks at 14 pounds each produced 1885 bushels, averaging over 57 bushels per acre. Local notes hint at other farm activities and idle chatter.
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Tom Johnson
Cove
la Grande
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Expreso Company
Wells Fargo Company
Lane Cony
Southern Pacific Railroad
Snow & McCamant of
Portland
Seattle Exposition
Circle City
Henry FE. Reed
Parmet
Fakir No. 2
Sile
The
First National Bank
Pendleton, Oregon
Levi Ankeny
W. F. Matlock
J. S. McLeod
W. S. Byers
G. M. Rice
Cashier
Geo. Hartman, Jr
Ass’t. Cashier
T. C. Taylor
Union County
Annie
Helle
Minta, Ga
Cron
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. Fe
Enat
Denver
Omaha
Kansas
St. Louis
Chicago
Louisville
Cincinnati
Cleveland
F. J. Quinlan
Pendleton
Ore
Wm. McMurray
Byers
Arnan
Pendleton Roller Mills
City Steam Dye Works
Sullivan
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