Normal Schools Slandered as Legislature Cuts Funding
Senator C J Smith laments the legislature’s removal of state normal schools praising cost efficiency and arguing that education was harmed. He notes 8600 students affected, with only 1200000 allocated for two years, about 75 dollars per student annually. He cites lower per student costs at normal schools vs universities and warns teachers must seek training in other states.
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C. J. Smith
Atute
Senate
Pendleton
University
Agricultural College
Normal
Oregonien
Eastern
Oregon Normal
Oregon
Oihierwse
Smith
Experiment Station
Portage Road
Crowton
Mann
Barrett
Normal School
Bar
Bourne Wins Over Ful in Postmaster Appointment
Washington D C February 24 The translation of John Young as post master for Portland was ordered reported vocably by the central committee of post offices.
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Bourne
FUL
Washington, D. C
John Young
Poreland
Barret Praised for Portage Road Extension Effort
Senator credits Barett for active work benefiting county and eastern Oregon. Representative Barrett authored the portage road extension bill and pushed it during the session.
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Eastern
Oregon
Portage
Branch Asylum
Artsian
Representaive Barrett
Barerett
Barrett
Impaled by Ice Spikes at Burke Idaho Saloon
In Burke Idaho a swamper known as Shorty toiled to knock large icicles from a saloon and dance hall. A falling spike pierced his left cheek, creating a hole over an inch wide and injuring his tongue. Another chunk struck his knife, bruising it and leaving him unable to walk.
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Spokane
Waash
Burke
Idaho
Shorty
Ripley Sees United States as Oligarchy Over Railroads
Ripley of the Santa Fe charges Roosevelt has yoked the rails and says the nation now lives under an oligarchy. He warns business depends on Taft's stance toward railroads and tariff policy. He says the country stands between autocratic rule and pure democracy as Taft's approach may revive economic activity.
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Ripley
United States
Taft
Lon Angeles
Calif
Roosevelt
Santa Fe Railway
Immorality raids target rooming houses in Portind case
Portind February 23. Fourteen men and women including a police officer and a fireman will appear before Judge Van Zante in police court today on immorality charges. They were arrested in raids on six rooming houses across the city between 6:30 and 7:00 Sunday morning following tips from a stool pigeon. Sergeants Kaw and Kleine led the operation with assistance from Appolitoes TV. Patrolman Dick Stuart and Jes Jones face preliminary charges. Charles Pamir tot of Eugene, a fireman, was taken from an East Side boarding house.
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Portiind
van Zante
Varion Pitts
Avelonk
Kaw
Kleine Af Savoy
Washington Electors Vote on Woman Suffrage Message
Cympia Washington Feb 23 The house passed the woman suffrage bill by a decisive senate-ignored vote of 30 to 0. The measure, introduced by Bell of Pierce and steered by Piper of King, will submit a constitutional amendment to the voters at the next election granting women the right to vote. The session also saw passage of a police pension bill and a university regents streetcar clearance bill, while a challenged voters party declaration bill was defeated.
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Senate
Bell of
Pierce
Piper of
King
Liquor Furnishings in California Capitol Spark Outcry
Rev D M Gandier of the anti saloon league claims California lawmakers daily drink gallons of liquor supplied within the capitol by local option opponents. Buffet setups behind sergeants arms offices reportedly serve beer and whiskey, with estimates of 25 to 89 dollars worth consumed daily and ongoing for weeks.
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San Francisco
Calif
California
Capitol Building
Capitol Grounds
Rev
D. M. Gandier
Los Angeles
Anti-Saloon League
Capitol
Sergeants-St Arms
Assembly
Senate
TRUSTS LOSE ANOTHER ROUND IN TN COURT BATTLE
Washington Feb 23 The Supreme Court held the Fakins act rebate provisions constitutional and ruled against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in the sugar rebate cases. The Central was fined 18000 and Traffic Manager Pred. Pomeroy 6000 for granting rebates to sugar interests.
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Supreme Court of the United States
New York Central
Hudson River Railrowd
the Central
Pomeroy
Carmack Murder Trial Continues in Nashville
Nashville February 23 The cross examination of John D. Sharpe co defendant in the Carmack murder case yielded no new evidence for the prosecution Col Duncan Cooper another co defendant was called by the defense He testified he brought Carmack to Nashville many years ago An editorial writer was mentioned in the record
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Nashville
Tenn
John D. Sharpe
Warmick
Duncan Cooper
Carmack
Aro
Former President Castro Running Relupe in Dresden
Dresden February 25 Cipriane Cas by fortier president of Venzieli plans to return to the country and resume the private oilman role. He previously sent a note to President Gomes explaining his intent to retire but has not received a reply.
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Dresden
Cipriane Casby
Fortier
Venzieli
Totter
Gomes
Minister quits ministry to sell automobiles in Sheridan
Rev. Ferid inand S Reockwell of the Sheridan church left the ministry to sell automobiles after stating that funding the gospel cannot support his family. He said preaching the gospel does not pay and that money is needed to avoid crime and evil.
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Ochiewsy
Feridinand S. Reockwell
Sheridan Wrk Methodist Church
Moma
Roosevelt Attends Funeral Op Nephew in New York
President Roosevelt and Wise depart at night for New York to attend the funeral of Stewart Dingus Robinson, Roosevelt's nephew, who died after falling from a Harvard dormitory window Saturday night.
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Loosevelt
New York
Washington, DL
Hoosevelt
Wise
Armitlnight
Stewart Dingus Robinson
Harvard University
Daughter of world’s richest woman wed in Morristown
Sylvia Civeon, daughter of Hetty Green the world’s wealthiest woman, was married today to Matthew Astor Wilks at St. Peter’s church in Morristown New Jersey Hetty Green attended the ceremony as a witness to the union.jpg
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Morristown
N. J
Sylvia Civeon
Hetty Green
Matthew Astor Wilks
St. Peter’s Church
Hetty
Travel of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Agent
W G Lynn a traveling salesman for Barnhart Brothers Spindler a Seattle type foundry is in the city today in Disinoss capacity.
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W. G. Lynn
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
Seattle
Oregon Legislature Defers Special Session Over Per Diem
Salem February 23 to February 28 reports show House and Senate refused to reconvene without per diem. Governor plans to avoid state expense, but legislators demand pay. a deferred special session ends as conferees fail to resolve fire protection funding for the insane asylum and other state institutions. The stalled measures could cost the state $250,964 in detterments if not corrected.
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House
Insane Asylum
Salem
Senate
Ore
Griffith
Asylum
Kay
Portland
McArthur
Kaysivs
Bonebrake
Farrell
Henees
Rowertian
Famous oil trial on today in Chicago court
Crowded courtroom as second trial of Standard Oil of Indiana proceeds in Chicago United States district court Judge A B Anderson presiding. Previous 1462 counts yielded a $29,600,000 fine later reversed by the appellate court and the Supreme Court declined review. This retrial revisits a landmark anti trust case with potential testimony from John D Rockefeller unlikely. The Supreme Court ruling last month bars collection of $20,240,000 related fine as excessive.
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Supreme Court
Chicago
United States District Court
A. B. Anderson
Standard Oi Company
Indiana
Landis
Oil Trust
Appelate
United States Supreme Court
Anderson
Lkely
John D. Rockefeller
Landa
Grosseup
John PD. Rockefeller
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Roosevelt
Justie
Nelisaat
Court of Justice
Austria massing troops on Hervian and Montenegrian frontiers
A dispatch from London reports that Austria has over 120,000 troops massed on the Hervian and Montenegrin frontiers, signaling a major military buildup.
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London
Eng
Austria
Hervian
Montenegrian
Alaska railroad project hires four thousand workers
Seattle February 23 four thousand men will be needed for Alaska railroad construction this summer. M J Heney states promoters of the Copper River railway have directed construction of a hundred miles instead of fifty before cold weather. The line will run trains in winter to connect interior travel.
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Seattle
Alaska
M. J. Heney
Ton Tractor
Copper River Railway
Seattle Boosters Tour California to Promote Northwest
A Seattle and Tacoma booster party of about one hundred arrives in San Francisco to extol Pacific Northwest wonders. They visit Mount Tamalpais and the Fairmont hotel for dinner and plan to move on to Los Angeles the next day.
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San Francisco
Calif
Seattle
Tacoma
Pacific Northwest
Mount Tamapals
Fairmont Hotel
Los Angeles
Beach town smashed as waves eat resort and mill
Hoquiam Washington reports a seashore resort north of the city was largely washed into the sea by a high tide. A half mile of dyke was hammered, a land block twelve feet high by twenty wide and a thousand long vanished, cottages and contents lost, a nearby mill demolished, and part of an Indian reservation destroyed. Federal aid will be sought.
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Hoquiam Wa
Moclips
Damage suit against Roosevelt officials dismissed
Perry Oklahoma February 23 The $800000 damages suit for false imprisonment filed by Ira N Terrill against Roosevelt former Governor Ferguson and other Oklahoma officials was dismissed Terrill a former populist speaker of the territorial assembly served a murder sentence and claimed wrongful imprisonment as part of a conspiracy He was freed two years ago.
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Perry
Okla
Kansas Penitentiary
Ira N. Terrill
Roosevelt
Ferguson
Oklahoma Territory
Terrill
Oklahoma Territorial Assembly
Three Men Die In Seattle Sewer Cave-In
A collapse in the north trunk sewer near the exposition grounds in Seattle today killed three men and left fourteen others entombed twenty feet below the surface. A pipe was pushed through the dirt to supply air while planks served as a roof for the trapped workers.
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Seattle
Wash
Exposition Grounds
Bandit Shot at Washington Water Power Office In Spokane
A masked highwayman attempting to rob the cashier's office of the Washington Water Power company in Spokane was frightened off by a clerk. He fired at the clerk and fled, dropping a rubber which may help identify him.
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Spokane
Wash
Cnashier
Washington Water Power Company
Hindu laborers strike at Fraser River mills Canada
Hindu workers in New Westminster, B C, walked out for the first time since arriving in Canada. About two hundred Hindus left the Fraser River mills after their leader Adah Rem failed to secure promised wages of four dollars per day, with most workers in arrears.
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New Westminster
B. C
Canada
Frazer River Mills
Adah Rem
Pendleton Man Seeks Portland Official For Marriage Certificate
Pendleton resident H B Grost attempted to hire a Portland Justice of the Peace to obtain a marriage certificate by deception. Justice Bell recovered the incriminating letter from a wastebasket and refused the request, prompting Grost to face possible consequences. The bizarre inquiry questioned how to obtain a forged certificate and how much it would cost.
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Pendleton Man
Portland Justice
Pendleton
Oregon Daily Journal
H. BR. Grost
Mr. Grost
Justice Bell
Justce Bell
Ore
Portland
Grost
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