Love at first sight costs girl four hundred thousand
Isabella Koening of Galveston aged twenty sacrificed an estimated $400,000 fortune to wed Wendon Phillips of Los Angeles. The aged aunt Mrs. George Elsburg, near Fredericksburg, had planned Koening as heir and disowned her for marriage within five years. The couple wed and left for California.
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Los Angeles
Galveston
Tex
Isabella Koening
Germany
George Elsburg
Fredericksburg
Hanover
Bremen
Wendon Phillips
Phillips
Unt
California
Indian Murder Near Modoc Point Sparks US Probe
Portland dispatch reports United States District Attorney John McCourt received word of a murder on the Klamath Indian reservation. Victim Quimby Chick Karkans was killed about 20 miles from Klamath Falls near Modoc Point. Suspect William Judah Jim surrendered and is jailed at Klamath Falls. a U.S. marshal will escort him after a Commissioner Richardson hearing in Klamath Falls.
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Portland
Ore
United States
John McCourt
Klamath
Quimby Chick Karkans
William Judah Jim
Modoc Point
Niamnath Falls
Klamath Falls
Richardson
Adams Tas New Business HOUSES
Alam, Ore, Dec. 16. Lia Stall repairs the Maestretta building and will add pool tables groceries and confectionery creating Adams new store. Mr. Plant buys former H Sears building to open a feed stable. Local sentiment says Adams on the boom since the election with multiple visitors and social events noted including Mrs Dupuis guesting and Dr Plamondon visiting. Henry Ferguson called to Pendleton due to his brother illness.
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Alam
Ore
Lia
Maestretta
Adams
Plant
H. Sears
Will Holdman
Pendleton
Henry Ferguson
J. M. Ferguson
Dupuis
L. L. Rogers
Walter Price
Pilot Rock
Dr. Plamondon
Athena
F. Moore
G. Woodward
Ed Wallan
Lawrence Gearhart
County
Deadman Sued by Wife in Everett Court
In Everett Washington Judge Bell's court Mrs Bertha Deadman formerly of Seattle sues her husband John Deadman a veterinary for separation and alimony. She cites a long line of misfortunes including deaths in the family and a series of accidents that left Deadman with missing eye and amputated leg.
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Man Iias
Everett
Wash
W. P. Bell
Bertha Deadman
Seattle
John Deadman
Deadman
Bear-hunting prank leaves autoist coat shredded
Matthew Van Dyck of Richfield New Jersey tied his fur coat to a tree while crawling under his car. Two men in hunting attire fired twice, claiming a bear had been shot, but Van Dyck found his $250 coat torn to pieces and the assailants fled.
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New York
Matthew van Dyck
Richfield
N. J
Jersey
van Dyck
Brookdale
Twice defties lockjaw in Altoona boy case
In Altoona, Pennsylvania, a boy named Louise Gunsallus, 12, survived two successive tetanus infections after stepping on rusty nails. Doctors used anti tetanus serum, and though jaws locked and convulsions struck twice, repeated serum treatment and strong constitution led to recovery.
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Altoona
Louise Gunsallus
Loegkjan
Californian schemes to run cat and rat ranches near Oakland
A Californian named H. T Smith proposes a get rich quick plan to establish a cat ranch with 100000 felines beside Oakland and a rat ranch with equal rodents. The scheme promises daily profits of 9400 if enough subscribers buy stock, with prospectuses and stock applications received by Postmaster Campbell.
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Chicago
Tabby
H. T Smith
Oakland
Cal
Smith
D. A. Campbell
Smiths plan for cats and pests triggers a bizarre scheme
A surreal outline claims 100000 cats averaging twelve kittens a year will produce 12000000 pests valued at 30 cents each, yielding $9800 daily. It also describes stocking 1900000 rodents that supposedly breed fast enough to yield four rats per cat daily, with each rodent fed by a quarter of a skinned cat. In a separate fragment, Earnest Trippy and a road crew escape into rain and dogs trail convicts eighteen miles to capture them, aided by prison dogs.
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Smith
Cate
Earnest Trippy
Texas Train
Hounds Catch Convicts in Dust Storm Pursuit
In McAlester Oklahoma a severe wind and dust storm hindered a state penitentiary escape. Convicts David Leach and another inmate fled briefly before being tracked by hounds and recaptured. Details on charges and subsequent arraignment were not immediately available.
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McAlester
State Penitentiary
David Leach
Cold remedy ad promises relief for exposed feet
When your feet are wet and cold and your body chilled through and through from exposure take a big dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed and you are almost certain to ward off a severe cold. For Sale by all dealers.
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Diamond
Sears
Wm. Hanscom
Crab Creek Lumber Co
Oscar Mahler
Adams Tas New Business Houses
Pacific Power & Light Company
Orpheum Theatre
Pendleton’s Popular
St. George Hotel
Bell Telephone Companies
Universal Bell System
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Keery Bell Telephone
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