Storm Delays Trains Across The Cascades In Uma hla County
A severe wind storm yesterday blocked tracks and halted trains on the O W. I. and W N lines between Walla Walla and Spokane. Crews cleared drifts and dirt piles while traffic rerouted via Umatilla. The 4:46 Spokane to Pendleton train halted briefly near Adams before continuing.
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Pendleton
Umahla County
Walla Walla
Adames
Milton
Spokane
Adams
Umatilla
Americans Targeted By Foreign Shipping Interests
In Washington on January , William Douglass and President Astell of Douglass Shipping Co New York testified before a House committee probing the shipping trust that German and British firms in New York formed a combination discriminating against American companies.
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Washington, Jan
Wiliam Douglass
President Astell
The
Douglass Shipping Company of
New York
House
Shipping Trust
Electrical Men Strike Across Northwest Cities
A noon called general strike of electrical workers in the Stone and Webster Interests sees about three hundred men out. The action spans Seattle Tacoma Everett and Bellingham with organizing rights and a uniform wage scale as the central issues. John Morgenthaler leads the Pacific district council of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers directing the strike.
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Gentile
Jan
Stone and Webster
Northwest
Seattle
Tacoma
Everett
Bellingham
John Morgenthaler
Pacific
Council of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Record attendance at new high school boosts numbers
With the handsome new high school building opening and the second semester starting, attendance hits a historic high of 228 students. This reflects a gain of 60 students from the previous roster, including 26 promoted from grades and 13 from country communities.
Citrus Crop Damaged by Cold Frosts in California
Los Angeles reports forty to sixty percent of the citrus crop is lost due to heavy frost, with total losses expected around twenty million dollars. Bean and small vegetable prices rise as truck garden losses mount. efforts to thaw fruit to save some. Pomona notes smudge fires saved much of the orange crop, aided by women keeping fires burning overnight.
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Los Angeles
Jun
Pomona
Cal
Man Hogue Hangs Self in County Jail Cell
In Los Angeles on January date a man identifying as Thomas Hogue hanged himself with a necktie in a county jail cell after arrest for drunkenness. The incident occurred this morning and authorities are investigating the circumstances.
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Los Angeles
Thomas Hogue
Aldrich Currency Plan Attacked In Hearing
Former treasury secretary Leslie M. Shaw testifies before a House Currency Committee subcommittee arguing the Aldrich plan would let Wall Street control national finances for fifty years. He calls for a currency system that appears when needed and retires when not, reducing dependence on big financial centers.
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Washington
Jan
Leslie M. Shaw
Aldrich
Wall Street
Ex-Gov Hoch to Speak Tonight at Lyceum
Ex-governor of Kansas Hon E W Hoch arrives in the city to deliver a lyceum talk at First Christian Church this evening on the lyceum program. A reception at the Commercial Club follows with local officials and citizens hosting and meeting him before the lecture.
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First Christian Church
E. W. Hoch
Kansas
Hampton
Messrs. Hampton
Roy T. Bishop
W. C. McKenney
M. R. Cheasman
Pullman
Washington
J. P. Winter
Will Moore
James A. Best
Winter
Governor Hoch
Lyceum
Car Jumped Rails. One Man Is Dead at Rex
A baggage car on a Big Four passenger train jumped the track at Rex twelve miles from Lafayette Indiana early this morning. One man, name not released, was killed and several others were seriously injured as the crash sent the other coaches over an embankment.
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Lafayette
Ind
Rex
Prosecution Begins in Archbald Trial
The impeachment trial of Judge Archbald opened at 1 PM with Representative Clayton of Alabama to present the prosecution. Attorneys Worthington, Martin and Simpson were expected to speak for the defense.
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Washington
Archbald
Clayton
Alabama
Worthington
Martin
Simpson
Bank reports sought by probers in assets case
The money trust probe committee may meet late today to press the comptroller of currency for national bank reports. C. G. Henry, who testified about California Petroleum assets, plans to answer a contempt charge as the federal attorney for the District of Columbia weighs action.
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Washington, Jan
Money Trust
Comptroller of Currency
National Bank
C. G. Henry
Calfornia Petroleum Company
District of Columbia
Henry
Valuable Painting Stolen by Strangers in Los Angeles
A well dressed man and woman visited art collector Mrs. W. H. Robinson in Los Angeles asking to view paintings. They left briefly, and a solid silver framed painting valued at three thousand dollars disappeared within ten minutes.
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Los Angeles
W. H. Robinson
Property tax in city may exceed last year's increase in school tax
Umatilla County faces higher city and school levies despite state reductions. Seven mill county tax is projected, total local tax near 22 mills, city nine mills, school nine mills up three. Road tax will add about four mills to city and school, total county obligations well above last year’s $570,000 raised.
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Umatilla County
Pendleton
Clark Salling
Uma- Ulla County
Sheriff's Office
Novel Northwest Junket Plan Endorsed by Round-up Directors
A 12 000 mile junket by special Pullman through Oregon Idaho Washington is proposed for June or July. Endorsed by Round-up directors and the Commercial association, with Pendleton business leaders backing the plan. Stops include The Dalles Portland Aberdeen Olympia Tacoma Seattle North Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Spokane Moscow Lewiston and more. Estimated cost 45 per person and funded by the Round-up association to cover Cowboy participation.
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Commercial Club
Northwest
Commercial Association
Pendleton
Rey W. Turner
Oregon
Idaho
Washington
Ritner
Lewiston
Seattle
North Yakima
Pasco
Walla Walla
Spokane
Moscow
Portland
Northern Pacific
Tragedy After Quarrel Ends in Double Wounding and Suicide
In Los Angeles a man named George Brumfield fatally slashed his throat and wounded his 23 year old son Sherman after a late night quarrel. Sherman was rushed to a hospital with a four inch throat wound but survived, while Brumfield died at the scene. Mrs Brumfield was not located.
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Los Angeles
Jan
George Brumfield
Sherman
Brumfield
Sugar Cane Ruling Expected Soon
Washington January hearings before the board of experts of the agricultural department on a proposed quarantine against Hawaiian, Porto Rican and Philippine sugar cane concluded that injurious insects and plant diseases could be brought into the country if shipments were unrestricted. A ruling was anticipated but not yet announced.
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Washington
Jan
Board of Experts
Agricultural Department
Man Found Dead After Gas Box Setup
O D Comber allegedly fitted a box marked Patent Applied For with a gas tube and turned on the jet. He was found dead by fellow lodgers this morning in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
O. D. Comber
Umatilla County Indians to Attend Inaugural Parade
Umatilla county will be represented in the inaugural parade before Woodrow Wilson takes the oath as president elect. Native citizens, not white, will be honored with several local Indians invited, including Joe Craig secretary of the Federation of North American Indians and Chiefs Amapine No Shirt and Billy Joshua. The aim is to have all United States Indian tribes represented in the inaugural parade.
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Umatilla County
Woodrow Wilson
Joe Craig
Federation of North American Indians
Amapine and
No Shirt
Billy Joshua
United States
Jairade
Powers anxious to end strife amid Adrianople talks
London dispatch reports the great powers threaten to intervene if Turkey does not yield to Balkan demands to relinquish Adrianople. Balkan envoys expect Adrianople to fall, while Ferdinand travels to Tchatalja for a possible conference with the sultan. The triple alliance favors giving up Adrianople but keeping Aegean islands.
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London
Balkans
Constantinople
Adrianople
Balkan
Sofia
Ferdinand
Tchatalja
Rome
Turkey
Aegean Islands
Cigar Dealers Oppose Coupons in Congress Bill
Tacoma January 8 The western cigar dealers association from Washington and Oregon will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to back a bill before Congress banning coupon giving by dealers.
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Tacoma
Western Clear Dealers’ Association
Washington
Oregon
Rosecrans Wreck Shoreline Rescue at Tioga Point
Astoria reports eight bodies washed ashore from the Rosecrans wrecked at the Columbia River bar in a heavy gale. Quartermaster Fred Peters, seven miles below, survived on a plank with others missing as Point Adams lifeboat crews search for survivors and crewmen.
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Rosecrans
Columbia River
Quartermaster
Astoria
Ore
Patterson
Associated Oil Company
Columbia
Portland
Johnson
Fred Peters
Point Tioba
Point Adams
Progressive conference planned at Seattle
Plans for a state wide progressive conference in Seattle Friday and Saturday were completed with 350 delegates expected. The state central committee of progressive editors and progressive legislators will hold separate meetings.
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Seattle
State Central Committee of
Progressive Editors
Sportsmen to Purchase Elk for Wenaha Reserve
Judge Maloney advocates a private subscription by Umatilla County sportsmen to buy elk from Yellowstone and stock the Wenaha reserve. Two carloads with forty elk per car, seven dollars per head, to be released at McKay Creek headwaters. District Game Warden Averill supports freeing the animals. sheepmen may benefit from reduced predators.
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Wenaha
Yellowstone National Park
Umatilla
Yellowstone Park
E. F. Averill
State Game Service
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Oamio
GOVER
Cascades
Great Northern Demart
Callifornia
Hoch
LFE
Oneonta
Rosecran
Tioga Point
Wash
North Head
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