Fraud graphophone scam targets ranchers in Pocahontas District
D B Kretsner of Pocahontas District recounted how two men posing as graphophone agents sold machines for five dollars on a five month note. After collecting several notes, they vanished and letters from a Frank Black of Cornell Buffs demanded $165. A Pendleton attor ney named Sweet appeared asking for $155, but Kretsner refused and alerts spread that the scheme had prior coverage in the Baker City Democrat.
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Hart & Smith
Baker City
D. B. Kretsner
Pocahontas
Kerotener
Met
Wr. Krotzner
Sweet
Pendleton
Graphophone Company
Graham for Congress from Baker County
Baker City Herald profiles James Harvey Graham, a Baker district mining man, announcing his candidacy for Congress from the Second district on the Democratic ticket. Born in Paola Kansas, he is 35, educated locally, admitted to Kansas bar in 1888, later moved to Cripple Creek Colorado where he led mining interests and chaired the Colorado senate committee for two years. The passage notes a separate fraud involving altered notes and a Pendleton attorney alongside Swindle suspects.
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Baker County
Baker City
James Harvey Graham
Congress
Baker District
Grohe
Oregon
Paola
Kan
Kinwie
Cripple Creek
Col
Colorado
Ste
Navigation hopes and hazards for Clearwater river barges
Reports by government engineers on Clearwater river navigation surprise residents from Kamiah to Lewiston. They find barge navigation problematic due to rapids and low water, risking logs, rafts, and even rowboats. Shipments back would worsen issues, and bridges, not barges, are needed to improve valley commerce. The piece argues Congress should declare the river unnavigable and enable bridge construction to replace ferries.
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Clearwater River
Itw Cours
Kamiah
Lewiston
Sumer
Oddien
Iit
Congress
Mearwater
Kamlih
Fearful Fate and Murder in Seattle Shack Death
An Iowa man Harry Colson extols Bucklow's Arnica Salve for piles and injuries in a Boston advertisement style claim. In Seattle a cook named Thomas Hopkins was found dead in a shack with a bowie knife driven through his body, with evidence of a drunken spree.
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Harry Colson
Masonville
Iowa
Bucklow
Tallman & Co
Brock and McComas
Druggiata
Thomas Hopkins
Seattle
Sheepmen Gather to Discuss Umatilla County Road and Dipping Vats
A county woolgrowers meeting in this city on Saturday December 23 will address opening a public road from the southern part of the county toward Kamela or Meacham, building or leasing dipping vats, dipping sheep, and securing shipping pens with the O R & N for mountain shipments. Every sheepman is urged to attend to voice his views as these actions affect all. An earlier informal meeting planned preparations for spring, with the road through Starkey road near The Saddle long discussed. Snow fell about five inches in Grant County, stockmen expect to feed, and cattle in mountains are not feared. Monument Enterprise notes life expectancy figures, citing only about one in 100 reaching 65 with half dying before 16.
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Meacham
Woolgrowers Association
Umatilla
Kamela
Umatilla County
Starkey
the Saddle
Grant County
Monument Enterprise
Doll furniture and baby items collection on display
Splendid collection features doll beds, doll houses, go carts, and baby buggies patterned after the large size. All pieces described as well made and attractive for display or play.
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Portland
Sumpter
Graham
Clearwater
Idaho
Beecham
Beechi A AM
Oneepmen
County Association
DEA
Goodman-Thompson Hardware Co
Main Street
Dolltown, Oregon
Doulltown
Frazer's
Dolltown
Germany
Mach
Dolltown Furniture Store
Dolltown Furnishing Parlor
Dolltown Jewelery Store
Cial
Frazier’s Book Store
Hothlay Trade
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