Standard Oil Bond Raised to $29 Million Asserted
Chicago January 17 District Attorney Sims accuses Standard Oil agents of false representations and bad faith to raise the Indiana branch bond from 6 million to 29.24 million, matching a court fine. He claims assets were at least 27 million with high dividends, while agents said assets and earnings were small.
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Chicago
Standard Ol
Sims
Indiana
Standard Cl
Landis
Sima
Augustus Heine 18 Placed Under Arrest In New York
New York January 7 F Augustus Heine former copper king and President of the Mercantile National Bank was arrested this afternoon charged with the sale certification of a check on the Mercantile National Bank He pleaded not guilty to the indictment
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New York
F. Augustus Heine
Mercantile National Bank
New Employer Liability Act Seen Likely This Session
Washington January 7 Progress toward a new employer liability act appears likely this session as Congress may approve a bill with Supreme Court objectionable sections removed. The move aims to expand workers compensation coverage and define employer responsibility.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
Supreme Court
Chinese Leper Escapes From Pest House
A Chinese leper named Look Bal escaped from the pest house in San Francisco this morning and had not yet been captured as of report time.
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San Francisco
Look Bal
Warner Trial Nears Conclusion With Handwriting Experts
Circuit court activity centers on handwriting expert testimony as depositions are prepared and plaintiffs prepare rebuttal evidence. Experts examine a letter alleged to have been received by Mrs. Warner to determine its genuineness.
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Warner
Circuit Court
Drastic saloon ordinances before The Dalles council
A correspondent reports two city ordinances under consideration in The Dalles. One bans serving any malt or vinous liquor to minors and extends to hard cider or soft drinks. The other bars saloonists from serving habitual drunkards when a guardian or police officer files a written demand. The measures would create a local drunkards blacklist.
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Dalles
Italian Victim Salvidor Campisi Jr. Dies in San Jose Fight
Salvidor Campisi Jr., an Italian, is reported as the second person to die from injuries sustained in a recent Italian fight in San Jose California.
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Salvidor Campisi, Jr
San Jose
Calif
Greatest legal battle begins in Supreme Court
Washington January 7 One of the greatest legal battles in U S history opened in the Supreme Court over anti rebate laws. The Great Northern and other corporations oppose penalties under the Hepburn act arguing releases them from penalties for Elkins law violations.
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Washington
Jan
United States Supreme Court
Great Northern
General Prosperity Returns to Pittsburg Mills
General Prosperity resumes command of the industrial scene in the Pittsburg district with more than 40,000 workers returning to idle mills in Glassport McKeesport Mckeeune Monessen and Pittsburgh area. Newcastle reports 10 of 30 Sheango tin mill hot mills back. plan to run full by month end. Several plants from National Tube to Clairton and Woods mills restart, maintaining 1907 wage standards. In Cleveland, factories reopened and 10,000 workers rehired, with American Shipbuilding planning 5,000 hires as general resumption expectations spread this month.
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Pittsburg
Penn
General Prosperity
Glassport
McKeesport
Muquéune
Monongahela Valley
Monessen
Newcastle
Sheango
National Tube Works
Duquesne Steel Works
Homestead Mills
Braddock Mills
Monessen and Charleron Mills
Clairton Mills
Panora Mills
Woods Mills
Cleveland
American Shipbuilding Company
Steec
Local Chinese Laundryman Faces Deportation
The Cottonwood Street laundryman known as Ung is ordered deported for returning to the United States without proper certificate after visiting China. Immigrant officials, with Deputy Sheriff Bert Wilson, located him and concluded no alternative but removal, though he seeks more time by posting a $500 bond.
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Ung-on
Cottonwood Street
Uncle Sam
John B. Sawyer
Immigration Bureau
Ung
Pendleton
China
Sawyer
Bert Wilson
Photographer Threatened Over Harvey K. Brown Death Film
A Baker City Herald report says Louie Moomaw photographed the home of Harvey K. Brown and an ambulance used to convey him to hospital with aims to film the assassination. He abandoned the plan after threats of a lawsuit.
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Louie Moomaw
Harvey K. Brown
Moomaw
Baker City Herald
Cattlemen in Grant County File Bankruptcy
W. B. Brown and H. A. Sommerville, a noted cattle firm of Tree, Grant County, have filed bankruptcy petitions in Portland and will exit business. Liabilities total about 20000 dollars, assets estimated at 27000 dollars.
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W. 8. Brown
H. A. Sommerville
Tree
Grant County
Portland
Brewery vat explodes in Colfax injuring two men
A beer vat at the Colfax Washington brewery exploded Saturday night during a lighted match investigation. Both employees were seriously injured and hospitalized.
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Colfax
Wash
Night Riders Terrorize Tobacco Country in Kentucky
Night riders attacked Bethel Sherbourne and Jackstown under cover of darkness causing arson and destruction. They burned the post office warehouse and general store in Bethel and destroyed 100000 pounds of tobacco in Sherbourne while cutting telephone wires and stopping tobacco carriers in Jackstown. The governor may call out state troops.
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Carlisle
Bethel
Sherbourne
Jackstown
Attorneys Seek 66 Day Delay for Appeal to Roosevelt
Helena Jan 7 Attorneys for Augustus Heinze ask Judge Hunt for 66 days grace in paying a $60,000 fine imposed by Judge Beatty during the copper war with Amalgamated. The delay would allow an appeal to Roosevelt. The case stems from Heinze invading Amalgamated property.
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Helena
Gounse
Augustus Heinze
Hunt
Heinze
Roosevelt
Beatty
Amalgamated
Priest Father Heinrich Pased Away in Baker City
Father Heinrich Pased, vicar general of the diocese of Baker City, died at St Elizabeth's hospital at 3 p m Sunday. Rt Rev John Heinrich and local clergy attended. Funeral Wednesday at 10 from the pro cathedral with Bishop O Reilly delivering the eulogy. He had lived in Oregon 38 years, born in Austria 60 years ago, educated at Louvain, and served in Portland Roseburg East Portland Beaverton and Baker City.
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John Heinrich
Baker City
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Marx
O'Reilly
Reinrich
Northwest
Oregon
Austria
American College
Louvain
Belgium
Portland
Blanchet
Archdiocese of
St. Michael's College
Roseburg
St. Francis Church
East Portland
St. Mary's Home For
Beaverton
Ore
Restraining Suit Filed Over Beckhausen Stallions
Thom as Thompson, administrator of the J. L. Beckhausen estate, filed suit to restrain M. C. Biggerstaff from selling three stallions that formerly belonged to Beckhausen. Biggerstaff, a Beckhausen salesman, asserts a lien on the animals.
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Thomas Thompson
J. L. Beckhausen
M. C. Biggerstaff
Beckhausen
Biggerstaff
Hotel Project At Klamath Falls Planned By Klamath Improvement
The Klamath Improvement company advances a plan for a $260000 hotel building to be erected in Klamath Falls soon, outlining a major local development project with the expected launch in the near future.
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The
Klamath
Thaw Trial Veniremen Examined as Jurors Enter Court
New York Jan 7 jurors walked into the Thaw trial courtroom smiling as the veniremen were examined. Mrs Holman Evelyns mother refused to testify and voiced support for not guilty while Thaws husband Josiah Thaw sat nearby. Those not answering their names faced a 250 fine each as the selection continued with juror five named and rejected for bias.
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Pittsburg
Thaw
Peabody
Josiah Thaw
M. H. Thayer
Evelyn
Thayer
C. G. Goss
Wealth and sorrow shadow Mrs Thaw amid trial news
Mrs William Thaw lies ill in Pittsburgh as Harry Kendall Thaw faces a second murder trial for Stanford White. Her daughter Alice seeks a nullification of marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth. Friends say her heart is crushed by troubles, including scandals and family tensions surrounding Thaw’s escapades, a chorus girl, and the famed murder case.
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Pittsburg
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
Alice
Earl of Yarmouth
William Thaw
Beechward Boulevard
Michigan
Countess of Yarmouth
Mrs. Thaw
DUMEUBEL NOMINATES SCHUEBEL FOR U S DISTRICT ATTORNEY
A White House notice from Washington states Christian Schubel of Oregon City has been nominated by the president as United States district attorney for Oregon. The pick aisles Bourne’s candidate, likely swelling Bourne’s influence over Salem’s Bingham plan, surprising Ellis Fulton and Hawley who expected Bingham’s backing.
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Washington
East Oregonian
Chritatian Schubel
Oregon City
United States District Attorney
Oregon
W. C. Bristol
Schuebel
Bourne
Bingham
Salem
Schubel
Ellis
Fulton
Hawley
Scheubel
Thaw Jury Split Over Verdict as Mother Faces Crisis
The text describes a divided jury on the Thaw murder case with votes for conviction and acquittal. A mother faces deeply painful decisions amid hopes for acquittal on unwritten law and insanity pleas while advising divorce actions for her daughter. Her son endures a murder charge, pursued by relentless prosecutor William Travere Jerome.
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Thaw
William Travere Jerome
Mount Royal Reaches Queenstown After Storms
Mount Royal enters Queenstown port under its own steam after a harsh voyage from Antwerp. The captain says adverse storms and a first day engine failure plagued the trip. He declined help from several steamers, and the ship had been reported lost.
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Queenstown
Ireland
Mount Royal
Antwerp
Rich man in jail pleads guilty to fencing public lands
Amos D. Harden of San Francisco pleaded guilty before Judge Farrington in federal court to fencing public lands. He received a 24 hour jail term and a $1000 fine, serving his sentence at the Winnemucca Jail in Reno on January 7.
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Reno, Nev
Amos D. Harden
Bohemian and
Pacific Union Clubs
San Francisco
Farrington
Winnemucca
Raley Declines Congressional Candidacy Despite Backers
Friends proposed Colonel James H. Raley of Pendleton as a Democratic candidate for Congress, joining W. R. Ellis and T. T. Geer. Raley told the East Oregonian he would not consider running under any circumstances due to private business commitments.
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James H. Raley
Congress
W. R. Ellis
T. T. Geer
Raley
Pendleton
East Oregonian
Parker Death Prompts Local Funeral By Modern Woodmen
Alex Parker of Irrigan died at Hot Lake last night. His body will be brought here for burial arriving tonight. Services will be at 2 pm tomorrow at Rader undertaking parlor under the auspices of the local Modern Woodmen camp. Several Irrigan residents and the deceased’s family, including A Bennett, will attend.
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Alex Parker
Irrigan
Hot Lake
Rader Undertaking
Kansas
Woodmen of America
A. Bennett
Hounds Capture Coyotes in Eastern Oregon
The Baker City Herald notes Dr. Dodson trains the best hounds in eastern Oregon who captured four coyotes without aid. The dogs are long winded fellows and the race begins they are almost to bet on the hounds rather than the coyotes.
Ben Weat Stands Trial for Donnelly Slaying at Cornucopia
Ben Weat, accused of killing Milliard Donnelly in a case stemming from an incident at Cornucopia, faces trial on the offense tied to the Baker City location, with proceedings beginning in November.
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Ben Weat
Milliard Donnelly
Cornucopia
Baker City
Levy Set for Sir Mill Tax by Court in Pendleton
The Pendleton county court set the annual levy at six mills based on a full valuation of 42 055 866 48 dollars, higher than last year due to state taxes and road and bridge needs. The levy funds state and county operations, roads, schools, and libraries with a total of 962 985 82 dollars, including 3 one-sixth mills for state and county and 1 23 thirtieths mills for roads.
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Old Basin
General County
Cesese
Record shipment reaches Manila with war munitions
The transport Sherman sailed for the Philippines carrying the second 2000 ton installment of war munitions and supplies to Manila. The first installment went a week earlier on the Chinga. This shipment sets a new record for munitions sent to Manila and includes material to fortify Corregidor Island and the forts at Bubel Bay.
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San Francisco
Sherman
Philippines
Manila
Ifi
Ching
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
Buble Bay
Booze purveyor Blevins jailed for hiding bottle for senator
Blevins received a 12 day sentence in city jail after being tried in police court for supplying Senator Mitchell with liquor. Evidence from Mitchell and Marshal Gurdane proved strong though Blevins denied guilt. Police observed a bottle hidden under a Christmas tree near Alta street, later recovered by Mitchell.
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Bill
Blevins
Church of the Redeemer
Mitchell
Sheriff Dolan to Treat Convicted as Ordinary Inmates
San Francisco January 7 sheriff elect Lawrence J Dolan announces ex Mayor Schmitz and Louis Glass convicted of graft and bribery will be moved from their current quarters to ordinary cells. He vows no special persecution of Ruef and Schmitz but says Ruef will also come under his jurisdiction and care.
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San Francisco
Lawrence J. Dolan
Schmitz
Louis Glass
Ruef
Schmits
Abe Ruef
Dolnan
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Howard Nesbit
Ida Simonton
Mother
Ben Call
Harry Kk
Bougtt
Pioneer Attorney
Pendleton Citizens
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