Pendleton Club backs West Umatilla extension plan
The Pendleton Commercial Club endorses the West Umatilla extension of the Umatilla project. Delegates debate water rights and government adjudication, with Steiner and Johnson leading opposing views. A ballot defeated an amendment 44 to 26, and the group reaffirmed support for extension and early government action.
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Johneon
Steiner
Br.rk
Johnson
Gotden
Johnston
Mwe
Compuink
Muile
Moasta
Steiwer
Raley
Mr. Johnson
J. P. Winter
Carter
Water Board
Stewer
Smythe
Sim R. Thompson
G. J. Ladow
Pendleton Commercial club backs West Umatilla extension
At a packed special meeting the Pendleton Commercial club endorsed the West Umatilla extension by a single vote against. Voters supported resolutions urging federal reclamation funds for Oregon and defending water users on the upper Umatilla and tributary streams.
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Pendleton Commercial Club
West Umatilla
Oregon
Umatilla
Pendleton High Opens Basketball Season With Interclass Games
Pendleton high school opens its basketball season Friday night with two interclass games. Seniors vs juniors and sophomores vs freshmen headline a lively doubleheader in the school gym at 8 o’clock. Coach Jock Kovfe leads hopefuls as training starts Monday to form a championship quintet.
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Pendleton
Chapman
Strain
Houser
Hampton
Fee
Spider McDonald
Clatuch Thompson
Sturdivant
A. Ferguson
Brock
Hamley
Krebbs Dorsey
Hock Rage
Russell
0. Ferguson
Krkpatrick
Jock Kovfe
Pendleton Club Fights West Extension in December Hearing
Pendleton Commercial Club debates western extension urged by Western Poonle supporters. Local opposition from Stanfield area grows while Upper River users seek unity with Stanfield residents. A special meeting December 12 at Oregon Theater features speakers from all factions as hearings set to argue merits and protection of upper river water rights and welfare.
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E. B. Aldrich
West Extension
Upper River
Jack Keefe
Roscoe St. Johnson
Tie
Oregon
Pendleton Commercial Club
Neo Ae
Stanfield
Stanfeld Folk
Pen- Meton Commercial Club
Opmore
Oregon Theater
Able Sperkes
Pendle
Early USAction Prompting Russia On Jewish Rights
Washington Dec 14 Early recognition by Russia of American Jews rights to avoid abrogation of the treaty is expected after congressman Sulver's resolution passes the house. It is understood President Taft warned Russian diplomats he will not sign until diplomatic negotiations with Russia are concluded.
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Wrshington
Russa
United States
Sulver
House
Taft
Russia
Two Labor Leaders To Be Indicted In Times Plot
Federal grand jury will indict two San Francisco labor leaders connected to the Times dynamite case. Names kept secret but warrants issued. Caplan and Schmidtz two others likely to be arrested soon. District Attorney Ford said arrests for complicity in the Time explosion are imminent.
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Los Angeles
Federal Grand Jury
San Francisco
James McNamara
Times
United States
Mareini
Ford
Caplan
Schmidtz
Missing San Francisco union men may be located by feds
In San Francisco Olaf Tvnemoe secretary of the Building Trades council and companion Antone Johannsen have been missing two weeks. Federal authorities want them to testify before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. Loretta Johannsen died suddenly at their Corte Madera home. Tvlet’s attorneys say he will be here by Christmas.
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SIL
San Francisco
Ttm
Olaf Tvnemoe
San Francisco Building Trades Council
Antone Johannsen
Los Angeles
Johannsen
Iele
Loretta
Corte Middera
Tvletoes
Titianapolis Probe Begins
Indianapolis on December 14 reports secret investigations by a United States grand jury into dynamiting plots involving the McNamara brothers. Government employees only allowed within 300 feet of the jury room as Detective Burns is slated to testify. Ortie McManigal, the star government witness, is expected to depart for Indianapolis soon.
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Titianapolis
Indianapolis
United States Grand Jury
McNamarae
Burns
McMontgal
Los Angeles
Guant
Ortie McManigal
Star
Ikely
Federal
Gooding Attacks Pinchot Free Wool Policy
Omahi Dee 14. Gooding president of the National Wool Growers Association at a convention here denounced former chief forester Pinchot as ruinous to the sheep and wool industry. He blamed conservation policies for large forest fires and urged tariff reform arguing that free wool would destroy U.S. wool production.
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Omahi
Dee
Gooding
National Wool Growers
Haesoclition
Weannua
Ichaho
United States
West Extension Hearing Sparks Umatilla Rights Fear
At a Pendleton Commercial Association hearing on the west extension of the Vaviitta residents voiced concern that settlers in Umatilla county with vested rights in the Umatilla river and tributaries above the proposed reservoir might lose their rights and fruits of long years of labor. The opposition to the west extension was noted and continued on page playit.
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Umatilla
Pendleton Commercial Association
Wis
Umatilla County
Umatila
Tts
Thia
West
Helper engine wreck kills three on Kamela hill
Freight engine 382 blew up at Glover on Kamela hill of the Oregon Washington railway last night. Helper engine hurled through caboose killing W. BD McKinley and injuring Conductor B. T. Hancock and Brakeman Perrine. Engineers Brown and Parker and Firemen Forester and Culbertson aboard other locomotives escaped. Crown sheet failure triggered an explosion, driving wreckage into the caboose and destroying most of the car. McKinley was said to be a supervisor aboard the caboose.
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W. BD
Forester and
Culbertson
Mr. McKinley
Chandler
Hancock
la Grande
Tri
Alan
Brnakeman Perring
Glover
Nturby
J Has e Drops Dead in St George Hotel Lobby
John Hase of Furnish Ditch company dies in the St George hotel lobby Pendleton two days after consulting a heart specialist His death due to heart failure leaves his post as superintendent of the dam and reservoir vacant. The body is held at Falcon undertaking parlors.
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Furnish Ditch Company
Hotel St. George
John Hase
Hase
Pendleton
R. E B. Ringo
Furnish Ditech Company
Reclamation Service
North Yakima
Coe Wim
Furnish
E. P. Marshall
Base
Falcon Undertaking
Works Urges Civil War Pension Unity for Veterans
In Washington on December 14 Senator John D. Works of California urged the government to grant pensions to Civil War veterans and suggested that both Union and Confederate veterans deserve support. He argued such action would erase sectional animosities and forge lasting reconciliation between the North and South.
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Washington
John D. Works
California
Senate
Delhi Doomed in gale as bullion aboard doomed ship wrecks
Gibraltar authorities and Deco salvage crews using 14 tugs to battle the gale and refloat the wrecked liner Delhi carrying mass and about 1 million dollars in bullion. Delays mount as seas rage and fears grow she may founder or drift to perilous shores.
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Delhi
Gibraltar
Deco
Panama Tower Planned for Panama Pacific Exposition
San Francisco December 14 plans were accepted today for the Panama Tower at the 1916 Panama Pacific Exposition. The 16 story structure will be the tallest building in the world apart from the Paris Eiffel Tower and will be permanent, with a report to the city after the exposition.
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Panama Tower
San Francisco
Ramrod Bob Tries for Walking Record
Ramrod Bob aims to set a Northwest walking record leaving Pendleton for Spokane and back. He travels with a walking stick and crackers, plans two days in Spokane, and returns to Pendleton by December. He will walk about 10 hours daily, lacking funds and intending to work to cover expenses.
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Irant
Northwest
Pendleton Tomorry Worrie
Spokane
Spokato
Ramread
Jack Johnson Shifts Plans En Route to Parke
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson abruptly alters plans after signaling retirement and traveling by plane to Parke where he enters talks to rejoin the title picture.
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Jack
Mini
Liverpool
Jack Johnson
Parke
Battle leaves many outlaw dead in Indian territory
A report states forty two more outlaws died in a battle with a detachment of American scouts. The Americans suffered no casualties. The account notes other casualties are unconfirmed.
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Lanse
Minding
Dee
Deported poet Turkleh sttttan to Constantinopla
Deposed Sultiin yin, Berlin, Tos. 14, Alett Eunld, the poet Turkleh sttttan, was deported from the city for reasons linked to political dissent. The move follows pressure from authorities amid ongoing turmoil and calls for recovery of cultural figures.
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Sultiin Yin
Berlin
Tos
Alett Eunld
Turkleh
Crltfroily
Constantinopla
Hope Foy
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Keefe
Portand Commercial Club
C. Chapman
Secretary of the Interior
J. N. Teal
Coes
Steimer
Lad
RB. R. Johnson
Frederick Steiner
Stelwer
J. Roy Raley
Oregon Development T League
Reclamation Funda
Uma- Ulla
Pitet Rock
McKay
Birch Creeks
Umatllla
Medio
Herminton
Irrlton
Heppner
Tbinlock
Arlington
Portland
Pendlgton Association
Upwr
Mingse
Attock
Hussian
Frisco
Tvietmore and
Johansen
Suil
Kamela Hill
Midnight Railroad
Nebraska
J. Hase
ST. George Hotel
Cow Reservoir
Ramrod
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