Naval display at Bosphorus as powers act
London reports say powers ordered a naval demonstration before Constantinople with Italian British and other ships rushing to the Bosphorus. Amid streets patrolled by troops, fighting subsides and reports of the sultan's dethronement surface but are denied. Diplomats foresee efforts to keep Adrianople and Aegean islands, with no immediate hostilities.
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London
Bosphorus
Constantinople
Enver Hey
Adrianople
Aegean
Pastor Horn 18 Arrested Again in Desertion Case
Richmond Cal Jan 25 Rev Frank Horn former pastor of First Baptist church dodges officers over desertion and bigamy charges. Accused by Eva Mae De Tovrea of San Francisco of marrying her in September 1910 while his wife lived in Everett Wash. He maintains a twin brother married the woman.
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Richmond
Cal
Frank Horn
First Baptist Church
Khim
Horn
Eva Mae de Tovrea
San Francisco
de Tovrea
Everett
Wash
Norwegian Cabinet Resigns. Knudsen Reforms Norway’s Government
The Norwegian cabinet under General J. K. M. Bratlie resigned after losing October elections. King Haakon entrusted Gunnar Knudsen, premier from 1903 to 1910, with forming a new government.
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Christiania
Norway
J. K. M. Bratlie
King Haakon
Gunnar Knudsen
Berger to push inquiry into New York garment strike
Congressman Berger announced he would seek a congressional inquiry into the New York garment workers strike. He is gathering data as thirty big hotels face crippling service with about a thousand workers out and leaders predicting up to twenty thousand more by the weekend.
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Washington
Berger
New York
Wilters
Wealthy real estate operator found dead under assumed name
Portland January 25 The body of Charles A Lang a rich real estate operator once missing from Chicago since March 17 was exhumed from the grave of August Bland Lang had lost about one hundred thousand dollars in Goldfield mining stocks He came to Portland with a few hundred dollars registered at the Tieton hotel as Bland and died by his own hand on November 17 His true identity was proved by letters found on his person
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Portland
Charles A. Lang
Chicago
August Bland
Lang
Tieton Hotel
Warrant Issued Against General Sickles for Fund Theft
Albany reports Justice Rudd issued a warrant for General Sickles charging him with converting public funds for personal use. Attorney General Carmody carried the warrant to New York for service. Involved sum: twenty three thousand dollars, related to his role as chairman of the New York state monument commission overseeing Civil War troop positions. An earlier finding showed a shortfall exceeding thirty thousand dollars prompting a state comptroller investigation.
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Albany
Sickles
Rudd
Carmody
New York
New York State
Rockefeller Examination Scheduled by Committee
Washington January 25. Plans for the examination of William Rockefeller were discussed by Attorney Untermyer for the committee and Attorney Garver for Rockefeller, chairman Pujo said Rockefeller will be examined next week.
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Washington
William Rockefeller
Untermeyer
Garver
Rockefeller
Pujo
Men Wander Two Days In Snow While Hunting
Cushing Baker of Walla Walla and L Gacht a settler seven miles beyond Toll Gate wandered two days in heavy fog after a hunting trip near the Umatilla. They kept moving hoping for shelter and only arose from the snow when the fog lifted to reveal the headwaters. Both carried small provisions. The Toll Gate report notes the snow depth about twelve feet with daily new falls.
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Umatilla
Cushing Baker
Walla Walla
L. Gacht
Toll Gate
Pendleton
Baker
Tanks
Weniha National Forest Reserve
Gacht
Levee Break Forces Mass Evacuation in Beuls Miss
In Beuls Miss residents flee as levee breaks sending waters a thousand feet inland. The disaster echoes last year’s breach at the same site. About five hundred convicts rushed in to assist repairs as authorities battle flood threats.
Marshall and wife choose hotel life in Washington
Vice President elect Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs. Marshall will not take a house in Washington but will live in a hotel during their four years here after March 4. Accommodations were engaged by Mark Thistlewalt in a hotel within three blocks of the White House. The decision signals minimal entertaining, a note of mourning in capital society.
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Washington
Thomas KR. Marshall
Marshall
Mark Thistlewalt
White House
Capital Society
Baker City Mayor pledges power plant if bond passes
Baker City Oregon January 5 Mayor Palmer promised a municipal power plant will be built if the $165,000 bond election carries with voters to decide future bonds for replacing and extending the system. The pipeline question for the city also draws interest as the municipal lighting plant topic grows.
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Baker, Ore
Palmer
Baker Wlll
Pendleton City seeks dismissal in paving case
The city of Pendleton has answered James Johns suit over Jackson Street paving fees and asks dismissal. The city details prior steps, notes Johns appeared before the council in 1912 requesting half the expenses, and claims Johns was aware of the work and did not protest defects or illegality. City agents say proceedings were legal and acted in good faith. (Continued on page eight.)
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James Johns
Jackson Street
City of
Pendleton
Johns
Charles Carter
James A. Fee
Predicted Wilson Move to Repeal Free Tolls
In Washington on January 25, Chairman Adamson of the House Interstate Commerce Commission forecast that one of President Wilsons first requests to Congress will be to repeal the canal law provision that grants free tolls to American coastwise ships. He argued that Secretary Knox denies the exemption is a subsidy and warned England may object to unequal subsidies while asserting the core issue is not foreign policy but robbing the public to enrich coastwise interests.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Adamson
House Interstate Commerce Commission
Knox
Grey
Poultry Show 10 Close Tonight At Last Crowning Night
The local poultry show ends tonight at 10 o clock with crowds expected. Attendance was high yesterday and last night as visitors viewed prize winners including the Snow Princess white Orpington. A game bird display and quail bantam cross attracted attention, with children invited to enter birds free of charge in a new department. Officers were elected for the next year and committees appointed to set dates and draft regulations opposing House Bill No 1 to preserve county funding for shows.
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J. FE. Duke
Tom Baker
Umatilla-Morrow
Association
J. A. Best
D. (. Gurdune
J. R. Cromb
James Brown
Third View
B. F. Williames
I. E. Young
D. C. Brown
Earl Williams
FE. F. Averill
D. ¢. Brown
London suffragists hold mass meetings
Militant suffragettes held mass meetings across London in preparation for Monday's House of Commons debate on extending the ballot to women. The gatherings aim to pressure MPs as the struggle for women's suffrage continues.
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London
House of Commons
Immigration Bill to Be Contested in House Fight
Washington January 25 bitter war fire in the house is expected over the new immigration bill from Congressman Harnett. The amended measure imposes a literary test and requires certificates of character from governments before admission to the United States. Jewish organizations pledge to oppose the clause and align with La Follette who denounces the certificate provision as closing the door to political refugees.
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Washington
House
Harnett
United States
la Follette
Almerich
Bank Teller Confesses to $12000 Embezzlement in Oakland
Frank I. Seara, teller at Union Savings Bank of Oakland, admitted stealing funds to buy for his infant son and then bet on Juarez races, ultimately embezzling $12,000. He carried out the thefts by diverting deposits and falsifying records.
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Oakland
Cal
Frank I. Seara
Union Savings Bank of
Sears
No National Park Move Fails for Oregon Caves
Washington January 25 The department of agriculture approved Senator Bourne s bill to protect Portland s water supply and rejected his bill to create the Oregon Caves National Park The department favors waiting for a general law governing national park creation
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Oregon Caves
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bourne
Portland
Millionaire Marries Dad's Pretty Nurse in Secret
In San Francisco, Norma Anderson, famed as the city’s most beautiful trained nurse, wed Ernest Rochat, son of a millionaire furniture and real estate dealer, after a romance that began at her bedside tending his father. The couple, who kept their engagement private, departed for Santa Barbara for their honeymoon.
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San Francisco
Norma Anderson
Ernest Rochat
Santa Barbara
Anti Capital Punishment Bill Debated in Senate
Olympia January 25 The senate adjourned after 15 bills were heard with Goss introducing in the house an anti capital punishment bill proposing life imprisonment for murder and treason.
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Olympia
Senate
Goss
State Land Board Opposes Security for School Loans
In Salem on Jan 25 the House Ways and Means committee introduced bills to spend 371000 for the University of Oregon and 317000 for the agricultural college for new buildings equipment and maintenance. The state land board also opposed a bill to have the board accept mortgages on desert lands within irrigation projects as security for loans to the common school fund, warning it would resemble a first mortgage. Malarkey announced committee assignments for investigations of state institutions, with Hollis and Ragsdale named to probe penitentiary management after a governor West request amid reports of conditions. The Senate met for about twenty minutes.
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State Land Board
Bull
State Capitol
Salem
University of Oregon
Agricultural College
Ways and Menns Committee
Ore
The
Smith
Common School Fund
Malarkey
Hollis
Ragsdale
West
Senate
Prince of Pilsen Composer Gustave Luders Dies
Gustave Carl Luders a leading American composer of comic opera and musical comedy died suddenly of apoplexy at age 45 while visiting friends in New York. His popular works include The Zurgomaster Prince of Pilsen and The Fair Co ed.
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Gustave Carl Londers
New York
Coustav Carl Luders
America
Special train carries 300 insane patients to Pendleton asylum
A special Oregon state hospital train left Salem at 5 am carrying 300 insane patients to the new eastern Oregon asylum near Pendleton. The journey aims to complete in one day, with baggage cars loaded yesterday and no delays. About 25 officials and attendants accompanied the patients aboard two baggage cars, two Pullmans, and five day coaches.
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Salem
Oregon State Hospital
Eastern
Oregon Asylum
Pendleton
Pendleton Mourns Tom Milarkey A Local Young Man
Tom Milarkey a Pendleton native and longtime bookkeeper died at age 30 after a five year battle with tuberculosis. Born September 7 1882 he lived in the same city most of his life and was a Pendleton High School graduate who played football. He never married and is survived by his father T M Milarkey and sister Mrs Joseph Murphy both of Pendleton. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 AM at the Catholic church where he was a lifelong member.
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Dedith
Pendleton
Tom
Tom Milarkey
Garden and Court Street
Frst
People Warehouse
Pendleton Auto Co
T M_. Milarkey
Joseph Murphy
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Washington Society
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