Sugar Supply Exhausted in La Grande Markets
Sugar made by the Amalgamated Sugar Company factory at La Grande is exhausted in local markets. The plant will restart late September with production expected to be larger than ever. In Marshfield Oregon the Price ship yard at Bandon, a top coast plant, is to be sold after a hearing that was continued to Saturday. In Coos Bay outside interests plan borings for an oil field with Perkins Mundy of Douglas County and another firm considering starting before month end. In Ione Oregon Louis Kinney of Heppner committed suicide during a domestic crisis while visiting in the mountains with his family. The body was moved to Heppner for an inquest. Kinney formerly city engineer of Lone.
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la Grande
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Marshfield
Ore
Price
Bandon
Oregon Coast
Coosa Bay
Perkins-Mundy Company
Douglas County
Heppner
Ione
Louis Kinney
Kinney
Japanese Merchants Fined Five Dollars in Hood River
Chief of Police Lewis secured evidence that Yasui Brothers, Japanese merchants of Hood River, sold cigarettes to minors. They appeared before Judge A. C. Buck on a warrant sworn by Mr. Hunt and were fined five dollars.
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Hood River
Ore
Lewis
Yasui Brothers
A. C. Buck
Hunt
Whitman county fair set for Colfax October 4 to 9
Preparations for the annual Whitman county fair in Colfax, Washington, are nearly complete. John Bloom is named manager with assistants including John C. Wicks, William Pointer, Hert Kuhn, and J. L. Strevy.
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Colfax
Wash
John Bloom
John C. Wicks
William Pointer
Hert Kuhn
J. L. Strevy
Hop Picking Begins in Brownsville Willamette Valley
Hop picking is set to start next Wednesday across most yards in the Willamette valley with crops in excellent condition and a big yield expected. Some owners have contracted hops for 10 cents per pound, likely limiting payments to about 46 cents per box.
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Brownsville
Willamette Valley
Photographer John Drake Missing in Silverton Case
Salem residents hunt for John Drake a Silverton photographer whose sudden failure to return home last night alarms his friends and wife Mrs Drake who fears serious danger. A search is under way in Salem as authorities review the disappearance.
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Salem
Ore
John Drake
Silverton
Mr. Drake
Mra. Drake
Fugene to Have Canal Planned After Court Ruling
Judge Harrie denied a new trial motion in the case of city of Hu fone we, Oscar Millican, over a power canal right of way. Jury awarded Millican $14,000 and the city was ordered to proceed with canal construction, aiming to complete the power plant early next year.
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Circuit Court
Hufone
Oscar Millican
Millican
Ecity
Japanese Visitors to Tour Hood River in September
A group of 26 prominent Japanese visitors will arrive in Hood River, Oregon to tour the area. They are scheduled to depart Portland on September 10 aboard the Harvest Queen for a trip up the Columbia River.
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Hood River
Ore
Hood River Stopups for Inland River Trip Party
The Japanese delegation and the Commercial Club will escort the party from Hood River over the valley upon arrival, then at 6:20 they cross the Columbia and board the North Bank train to Spokane. Hood River will be the sole stop between Portland and the inland river.
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Hood River
Columbia
Spokane
Portland
Inland River
Colfax Barn of Y G Mansfield Destroyed by Fire
A barn ten miles west of Colfax belonging to Y G Mansfield and valued at 10 000 dollars with hay grain and farm equipment burned. A threshing outfit owned by J W McDonald of Wattsburg and 8000 bushels of oats were also destroyed. The barn was noted as the largest in the state with storage for 400 tons of hay and facilities for thousands of bushels of grain and 80 horses.
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Colfax
Wash
Y. G. Mansfield
J. W. McDonald
Wattsburg
Italian factory owner killed by live electric wire
Rafael Scarpelli, an elderly Italian resident and macaroni factory owner at 2012 Sprague Avenue, died instantly after his team hit a live wire lying across Pacific Avenue between Napa and Denver streets. The wagon lurched, throwing him from his seat and breaking his neck when he struck the ground. The horses halted soon after.
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Spokane
Pacific Avenue
Napa
Denver
Rafael Scarpell
Scarpelli
Sprague Avenue
Invention Traps Flies With 10,000 an Hour
Kansas City reports R. E. Howard has created a machine claimed to exterminate flies at a rate of 10,000 per hour. The device features a nine cylinder wheel within a box, a fire cage, and a feeding setup using sugar syrup to attract flies. Flies are drawn into a cage then into a gasoline bath for disposal.
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Kansas City
R. E. Howard
Fr. Heaughin
Howard
Red Sea
Attempted Fraud Leads to Important Discovery
Seattle August 30 a tale of a fraud attempt by western lumbermen who hid unfit hemlock logs in a shipment to the Philippines. They milled them as first class fir lumber for Uncle Sam. The government later ordered more of the same, uncovering the deception and a wood the ants would not bore through. Hemlock logs were then saved for government use.
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Seattle
United States
William Geddes
Philippine Islands
Uncle Sam
Philippines
Mormon Choir Refuses Admission Lockout Decides Seattle Contest
Salt Lake’s Mormon Tabernacle Chorus refused to pay admission fees for each contesting member in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition chorus contest. The $1000 prize was reduced to $750 and awarded by default to Seattle’s St. Mark’s Chorus after a dispute over entry charges. The Salt Lake group held an indignation meeting outside the Auditorium and was dispersed by expedition police.
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Seattle
Mormon Tabernacle Chorus
Salt Lake
St. Mark's Chorus
Mormon
Roanoke Woman Births Child With Winged Arms Reported
A Montgomery county report states a Roanoke woman has given birth to a child with wings instead of arms. A Roanoke man returning from the county recounts meeting a young woman who asked for a ride. She claims to have left a home where a baby was born with feathered arms and says she has seen the child.
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Roanoke
Montgomery County
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