Oklahoma Tank Steamship Sinks After Storm Sighting
Reports from Jan 5 state the American tank steamship Oklahoma sank near Sandy Hook during a brutal storm. Captain Alfred Guenter and seven crew were rescued by Hamburg America Bavaria. 32 crewmen are believed lost. Other vessels aided, including Calve, Bavaria, and Carribbean, but lifeboats failed amid heavy seas.
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New York
Oklahoma
Sandy Hook
Bavaria
Alfred Guenter
Manuel Calve
Philadelphia
Boston
J. M. Guffy Petroleum Company
Port Arthur
Texas
Calve
Georgia
Seneca
Ononadaga
Gresham
Winifred
Bogeton
Sinnott pledges hard work to secure Pendleton federal building
Congressman Sinnott, during a hurried Pendleton visit, promised to push a federal building for the city housing the post office and federal court. He favors a $60,000 appropriation with $122,000 total for construction, prefers a two story stone building of about 6000 square feet, and seeks formal support letters from local leaders to bolster emergency funding prospects. The plan hinges on committee decisions and potential expedited Senate aid for architect plans. He departed for Baker after a club meeting with local officials.
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Pendleton
Washington
N. J. Sinnot
The
Commercial Association
Congress
Agaiest
Sinnott
Federal Court
Brown
R. &. Bean
Feder
al Court Room
House
Senate
Dalles
Tallman
Cranston
Baker
Government to Inquire into Michigan Strike
Grand Rapids Mich Jan 15 Acting Federal District Attorney Bowman was directed by Attorney General McReynolds to determine if federal laws are violated in Michigan copper mining districts. Bowman will personally investigate the situation.
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Grand Rapids. Mich
Bowman
McReynolds
Oregon seeks income tax positions in four posts
Washington Jan. 5 More than 150 applicants seek Oregon income tax positions. Three places pay 1200 dollars per year, others 1600 and 1200 for expenses. Applications have been sent to the commissioner of internal revenue, who will appoint four officials early in January.
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Washington
Oregon
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Wrecks Hold Back Ocean Threat to Jersey Shore
Severe Jersey shore storm wrecked cottages and toppled timbers along the sea front. Schools closed as children helped clear debris. only the Octagon hotel and smashed cottages prevented wider destruction. War Secretary Garrison’s Normandie home harmed. undermined houses risk collapse if seas rise. Wisconsin forms statewide emergency center with 72 towns joining.
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Sea Bright
N. J
Jersey Shore
Octa- Son
Normandie
Police Captain Reilly to Be Quizzed in Wire Tap Fraud Case
District attorney of New York County prosecutes a major wire tapping fraud inquiry. Retired Police Captain Dominick F. Reilly, once a confidential aide to the chief of detectives, is among officials to be examined. Wire tappers admit paying police 10 percent of their winnings, with hundreds of thousands taken in three years.
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Reilly
New York
New York County
Dominick F. Reilly
Hellly
States may tax inheritance on safe deposit holdings
Washington report notes that safe deposit companies may be held responsible by states for inheritance tax collection on securities kept in patron boxes. The Illinois legislature had passed a law challenged as unconstitutional, with the state supreme court ruling it constitutional and the federal supreme court upholding. The brief also states China’s first cotton mill, built in 1891, now has 34 in operation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
In &Ault
Illinois
Illnois Supreme Court
Federal Supreme Court
China
Would Have Federal University in Capital
Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois, drafts a bill for a federal university in Washington. The plan calls for a presidentially appointed board to govern the school and an advisory board with a delegate from each state to form policy. A preliminary appropriation of 500,000 pounds is requested.
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Edmund J. James
University of Illinois
Washington
House of Representatives
James
United States
Burroughs Buys Logal Planing Mill From J A Borie Co
Announcement after noon states J A Borie Co sold the planing mill lumber yard and entire business to Ben L Burroughs. Burroughs to take charge of operations immediately as the inventor of the property is being taken.
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Ben Burroughs
Logal Planing
J. A. Borie CO
J. A Borie
J. A. Borie Company
Ben L. Burroughs
Mr. Burroughs Willl
Two More Die in Centralia Typhoid Epidemic
Centralia Washington reports two more fatalities from typhoid fever bringing the death toll to 15. Lee Pickard an Eagle and cigar store proprietor and Glenna Herring daughter of railroad man M P Herring are named as the latest victims. CW Bruitn who developed typhoid and died in Tacoma hospital was a night yardmaster for Northern Pacific in Centralia.
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Centralia
Wash
Lee Pickard
Glenna Herring
Mr. Pickard
Miss Herring
M. P. Herring
CW. Bruitn
Tacoma
Northern Pacific
Sinking in heavy seas near Sandy Hook claims crew
General news item reports the tank steamer Oklahoma sinking off Sandy Hook with most of the crew aboard while heavy seas thwart rescue. other coast events include wrecks at Moclips and Sea Bright, New Jersey, and a rise in militia and political actions along with local notices and crimes. Jessie McCann’s body found on New York beaches, and various local incidents such as divorces and public concerns are noted.
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N. J
Jersey
Ellsworth Cottrell
Plum Taland
Ruperta
Ocean City
Matthews
Oklahoma
Sandy Hook
Veel
Pacific Coast
Sea Bright N. J
Mother Jones
Colorado
Colonel Lawson
Copperfield
West
Federal Supreme Court
Jessie McCann
New York
Suit Brought For Contempt By Saloomen
In Copperfield saloon men press contempt actions against Colonel Lawson for defying a court order on liquor. Deputy Herbert to serve injunction papers. Governor West threatens to expand martial law to Huntington and other towns if laws are not enforced.
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Lawson
Huntington
Guernor West
Militah
Baker
Nichols
Copperfield
Herbert
Salem
Ore
West
Holman
Portland
Whitney
Haines
Two men charged as accomplices in cattle theft
Roy Pambrun and Joe McBane, residents of Adame, were arrested by Sheriff Taylor and jailed as accomplices of Hert Pixter in a case involving eight head of cattle stolen from the reservation. Pixter, jailed in Walla Walla, faces trial here. Ralph McBane connected, brother of Joe, is in federal custody.
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Hert Pixter
Roy Pambrun
Joe McBane
Taylor Find
Pixter
Walla Walla
Pambrun
MecBane
Pixler
Northwest
Union County
Thorn Hollow
Ralph McBane
Seattle Tax Authority Upheld on Tideland Improvements
The Washington Supreme Court affirmed Seattle’s right to tax improvements on leased tidelands. Lower courts had permitted taxation of buildings on leased land, and the appeal was dismissed by the state’s high court. The final note mentions an unrelated line about a company and singing.
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Washington
Seattle
Supreme Court
Courts of
Moclips resort wiped out by heavy seas
Hoquiam Washington reports mountains of waves washing away the Moclips townsite destroying the big hotel and cottages after a weeks of storm. The vacant resort area now shows only wreckage and beach as winters pass without residents. In San Francisco a collision between the steamer Umatilla and the ferry Berkeley narrowly avoids disaster amid a crowded Bay ferry.
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Washington Coast
Hoquiam
Wash
Moclips
San Francisco
Umatilla
Southern Pacific
Berkeley
Oakland
Seattle
Long Homestead Battle Ends In Frasier’s Title Victory
Stevenson Washington记 on January 5 reports Robert B Frasier who moved from Iowa to California to Washington died aged 78. His wife died 73 days earlier. He homesteaded north of the town, fought a 20 year legal battle after a homestead denial and finally secured the deed to his land.
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Stevenson
Wash
Robert B. Frasier
Towa
California
Frasier
Frazier
Washington
Mother Jones Deported Vows Return To Colorado Coal Fields
Deported by Colorado militia from the coal mine strike region, Mother Jones declared she will return to Trinidad to assert her constitutional rights. She said General Chase may jail her, but she will not be robbed of her rights. She arrived in Trinidad from El Paso and was met by militiamen before being sent to Denver.
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Mother Jones
Colorado
Denver
Trinidad
Chase
el Paso
General Chase
Dr Best Fails to Mention Church Subscription in Tardy Campaign Filing
Dr James A Best was fined for filing his campaign expense statement 14 days late for the Dec 1 city election. He listed 63 dollars in expenses including printing and voter registration, but omission of a $100 church subscription and bar expenditures raised questions about full disclosure under Oregon law.
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DR. Best
James A. Best
City Water Commission
Thomas FitzGerald
Joe H. Parkes
Harry E. Bickers
Dr Best
Oregon
Best
Frederick Steler
Christian Church
City Officials Climb Aboard Water Wagon
Pittsburg January 5 officials establish municipal Water Wagon to honor the new Jackson district attorney Smoketown. All district attorneys detectives and clerks join the wagon ride, resigning as papers handed to Jackson. Armstrong returns to power after Magee steps as mayor in the Reentrance era.
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Pittsburg
Pittabureh
St Jackson
Smoketown
Jackson
Joseph C. Armstrong
William Magee
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