Inland Empire rail rate fight sparks Oregon debate
Pendleton dispatch reports anger over freight tariffs favoring Portland with Inland Empire rail issues highlighted. Editors criticize Portland’s role in perpetuating discriminatory rates, urge terminal rates for Pendleton, Walla Walla, and Spokane, and note disappointment in a new federal era. Also touches on suffrage debates and Pendleton paving plans as local concerns unfold.
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Interlinke
Spokane
Portland
Inland Empire
Oregon
Washington
Contemplation versus Action in World Mission
Ellbert Hubbard quotes on the Kingdom of God stressing belief in prayer and works. He argues that initiation, meekness, and labor, including a clean room, are as holy as silent contemplation. The passage laments India’s starvation amid contemplative Christianity and emphasizes strenuous effort over passivity.
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Martha
Mary
India
Ellbert Hubbard
DuBois Opportunity on Mormon Issue Lectures
Senator Fred T Duhole of Tolunho may take the lecture platform to expose political corruption among Mormons in Idaho and Utah. The note compares him to Senator La Follette who educated the public on the fruitron rate fight with a lecture series.
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Fred T. Duhole
Tolunho
Idaho
Utah
la Pollette
United States
Duboiste
Sacajawea Memorial Move Urges Wyoming Legislature
Wyoming women petition the legislature to appropriate 500 dollars for a monument over Sacajawea’s grave on the Shoshone reservation Oregon women already funded a memorial there and Wyoming should honor her memory similarly The piece suggests moving Sacajawea’s remains to Portland for rest in the land where she served best.
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Sacajawea
Wyoming
Shorshone Reservation
Oregon
Cheyenne
Sacafawea
Portland
Senatorial prerogatives stir Oregon appointment fight
President Roosevelt nominated W. C. Bristol for U S district attorney for Oregon without Oregon senatorial consent amid accusations of links to land frauds. Senator Fulton vows to block Bristol, pressing the Senate judiciary committee to reject the nomination. The dispute risks broadening, complicating prosecutions and inflaming antagonisms in Oregon.
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Fulton
Oregon
Roosevelt
W. C. Bristol
United States
Hriston
United States Senate
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Brietol
Judiciary
Senate
Hrievol
Tajse
Imprisoned Creature Escapes Through Water Basin
A description explains how a creature moves from a lower bed to a higher one, seeking an exit via a shaft. Water pressure rises in the basin at the lowest point, lifting the fluid level to meet the imprisoning strata and enabling escape toward the Artace as a spring.
Cost Of Living Up 40 Percent In Washington
The state labor commissioner’s forthcoming biennial report highlights a sharp rise in living costs over recent years. Comparative tables show broad price increases for staples such as flour, coffee, rice, oatmeal, canned goods, and meats, with most items rising markedly and only a few decreasing.
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Washington
Graham Moor
Labor Commissioners
Fuel From Peat Promise for Orange County Plant
The Anthri ette Peat Fuel company has bought 62 acres of rich peat land two and a half miles north of Huntington Beach and built a peat fuel plant. Incorporated to manufacture and sell California peat fuel, it has acquired the Carpenter patent rights covering a process that blends cheap chemicals with peat soil to form a high grade fuel. The method aims to substitute coal with equal heat, while producing no smoke soot gas or clinkers and at a lower cost than coal or other fuels in use.
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Anthriette Peat Fuel Company
Orange County
Huntington Beach
Los Angeles Times
California
Carpenter
Artesian Water Name Origin Explains Deep Well Rise
The article explains that artesian water derives from Artois in France and not from a principle of operation. It illustrates with upper-story pipes where water rises to the reservoir level, noting that preceding strata may lie between impervious beds and the water percolates.
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Artois
Population counts by continent and language reach global totals
The article tabulates earth population by continent with Asia leading and Europe 280,200,000, Africa 427,000,000, South America 94,250,000, Australia 4,730,000, plus polar regions. It notes 401,700,000 speakers of Europe’s seven languages and English at 111,100,000. It also reports a Utah homicide where William Brown killed Mrs Dolphin Earl then shot himself. The piece closes with a maxim about mistakes and learning.
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Earth
Asia
Europe
Africa
South America
Austral
Polar
Boofield
Utah
William Brown
Dolphin Earl
Himsel Brown
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