Rankin Steel Strike Sparks Congressional Interest
Washington reports Chairman Stanley of the house committee probes the steel corporation amid Rankin Pa strike talk. Morrison and Gompers in contact as Flynn predicts a massive union fight after Rankin and Braddock actions. Labor fear blacklisting espionage and forced servitude by steel interests.
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Rankin
Corporation
Stanley
Company
Washington
Jan
House Committee
Steel Corporation
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Pttsburg
Federation of Labor
Thiry-One
Thomas Flynn
Labor Federation
Rankin and Braddock
American Steel Wire Company
Steel Trust
Flynn
Gompers
Braddock
Hunter Is Fined For Killing A Companion
Goldendale Washington January 30 W R Smith a rancher near Wah kakus who accidentally shot and killed Lewis W Carnahan mistaking him for a deer while hunting in the Big Klickitat Canyon last November was fined 250 dollars and costs in the supreme court at Goldendale. Smith pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree under a special statute making it a felony to shoot another while hunting wild game
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Goldendale
Wash
W. R. Smith
Wahkakus
Lewis W. Carnahan
Big Klickitat Canyon
Supreme Court
Smith
Action Aganst Smith
Mothers Pension Bill Poised for Passage in Legislature
Sacramento reports that with the administration backing a mothers' pension bill and allies united for a bill embodying its best principles, there is strong certainty a mothers' pension law will pass the legislature.
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Sacramento
Cal
Committees Named for Roundup Ball
Committees to prepare for the big ball and concert to be given Monday evening at the Eagle-Woodman hall by the Round-up Cowboy Band were named this morning. General committee Ralph Folsom chairman. Reception committee Roy T. Bishop chairman L. G. Frazier Mark Patton Henry W. Collins A. J. McAllister. Advertising committee C. B. Cheshire chairman Joe Parkes and John Rude. Decoration committee R. W. Fletcher chairman C. W. Lassen Carl Power Lester Whipple Joe Ritter Robert Patton Cal Malone and Gilman Folsom. Floor committee Lee D. Drake chairman Glen Sturdisant. Music committee Chauncey Haines chairman Frank Hays J. C. McConnell Robert Barney Al Malone and D. B. G. Waffle. Doorkeeper Dean Tatom.
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Eagle-Woodman Hall
Ralph Folsom
Roy T. Bishop
L. G. Frazier
Mark Patton
Henry W. Collins
A. J. McAllister
Cheshire
Joe Parkes
John Rude
R. W. Fletcher
C. W. Lassen
Carl Power
Lester Whipple
Joe Ritter
Robert Patton
Cal Malone
Gilman Folsom
Lee D. Drake
Glen Sturdisant
Chauncey Haines
Frank Hays
J. C. McConnell
Robert Barney
al Malone
D. BG
Waffle
Dean Tatom
Wilson to back banking currency bills in extra session
President elect Wilson met with Glass as drafts for banking currency legislation were discussed. He indicated he would not announce policy until reaching Washington, citing distance from key lawmakers, and noted administration support for the measures may follow.
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Congress
Washington
Wilson
Glass
House
State Guard
Jack Mosby Escapes Navy Yard Jail Break
Seattle Jan 30 Jack Mosby the American adventurer famed for actions in the Mexican border during the Madero revolution escaped from the guardhouse at the Puget Sound navy yard where he was held awaiting court martial. He pried a board from the cell floor to gain freedom with officers suspecting outside help.
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Seattle
Jack" Mosby
United States Navy
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Martini
Mosby
Navy Yard
Water use urged as benefit to irrigation case
Herbert D. Newell, engineer for the Umatilla project, testified that irrigating bottom lands on the reservation would not injure Byers mills and would increase summer river flow. He said water would return to the river, extending its flow when most needed, and no harm would come to government or private projects. Indian witnesses supported farming on lands. Joe Craig, national secretary of the Brotherhood of North American Indians, provided testimony on lands farmed.
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Umatilla
Byers
Herbert D. Newell
Newell
George T. Cochran
Relskin
Lumpkin
Fee
Joe Craig
Craig
The
Brotherhood of North American Indians
Home Rule Bill for Ireland Ready for Lords Vote
London January 30 The home rule bill for Ireland which passed the Commons will come to a vote in the Lords tonight. Debates drew diplomats peace plenipotentiaries and a notable gathering of fashionable personages.
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Ireland
House OF Lords
London
House of Commons
Bate
Sewage Question Again Discussed
At a brief session the council debated septic tank use for city sewage after receiving a letter from a supplier. A letter from the free order of La Grande noted the tank in that city cost about $7000. Also discussed were salary increases for Dr Temple and city bookkeeper, street grading for Irvington Heights, and street sweeper pay amid recent snow. Recorder FitzGerald filed his annual report.
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Couneh
Sharon
Sewer Committee
City Free Order of
la Grande
JT. A. Temple
Charles Cowan
Irvington Heights
Jackson Street
FitzGerald
V. Bibee
Wanted Horses 10 Pull Shasta Train
A Portland tale mentions an inmate of a branch hospital, a man named Arent who escaped from Salem asylum and bought draft horses to pull the Shasta limited through snow between Ashland and Dunsmuir. The horses were ordered by Jacob Arent and scouted by Sheriff Bodine before Arent’s recapture. Also reported is the first death at the branch hospital, Ernest Krater, from pneumonia after long illness.
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Portland
Branch Hospital
Marnett
Pendleton
Arent
Evening Telegram
John M. Scott
Southern Pacific
Mr. Scott
Jacob Arent
Salem
Ernest Krater
Crook County
Tamasie
Captain Blakely 100 dies at Brownsville after centennial
Captain James Blakely aged 100, father of W. M. Blakely and Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakely, died at his Brownsville home last evening at 6 10 after months of illness. Born near Knoxville November 26 1812 he crossed plains to Oregon in 1846 and held a donation claim at Brownsville for 66 years. He fought in the Rogue River Indian War in 1856 and left a large family including four living daughters and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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James Blakely
W. M
Joe Blakely
Brownsville
W. M. Blakely
Weston
Henry Blakely
Browneville
George Blakely
The
Dalles
James Blakely, Jr
Wallowa
Carl Cooley
Merle R. Chessman
Thelma Thompson
Bery
Paul Stillwell
Captain Blakely
Knoxville
Tenn
Great Britain
Hugh L. Brown
Mississippi River
Missouri
Plains
Oregon
Sarah Dick
Pendleton
Four Die In Marco Hotel Fire In Chicago
A fire at the Marco Hotel in Chicago on January 20 killed three men and a woman, with several others seriously injured. Thirty guests escaped as the wooden structure burned rapidly, leaving victims suffocated or burned in their beds amid a panic at the exits.
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Chicago
Yakima Grocer Marries Southern Raisin Queen
North Yakima, Wash January reports Thomas Carlyle manager of Yakima Grocery Company wed at Monterey California to Mrs. A. W. Mowatt known as the raisin queen. She toured North Yakima to promote her raisins and met Carlyle there. Her first husband left her debt of 215000. now she is worth about 100000 from her own efforts.
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North Yakima
Wash
Thomas Carlyle
Yakima Govery Company
Monterey
Cal
A. W. Mowatt
Mowatt
Carlyle
Centralia to ban card playing in saloons
Centralia Wash Jan 30 The city commission passed for first reading an ordinance prohibiting card playing and dice shaking in local saloons. Saloonmen are preparing to fight its passage as a ballot measure.
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Centralia
Wash
Turkey’s Balkan demands cited in rail safety debate
Titanic wreck is used by freight lines to argue against Burgess bill requiring stock trains to average 14 mph. Officials from O W Sh N warn speed endangers safety, noting current average 12.11 mph and instances of 9 mph uphill and 15 mph downhill in eastern Oregon. They testified before the railroad commission and transportation committees in Salem.
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Salem
Railroad Commission
Senate
House Transportation Committees
Umatilla County
J. F. Corbett
M. J. Buckley
Oregon
Juarez Under Rebel Siege As Federals Rush Aid
Rebels, numbering about fifteen hundred under Generals Salazar and Rojas, besiege Juarez from three sides while other rebel columns approach El Paso residents flee in fear. Col Castro defends with trenches as federal couriers say reinforcements march from Guadalupe to join the siege. Col Hobago leads a thousand cavalry toward Juarez to relieve the city and block rebel interception.
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el Paso
Chihuahua
Juarez
Robago
Outlaw Baran Battle Ends With Deaths in Cabin
Winnipeg report says John Baran fought a sheriff s posse at his cabin near Riding Mountain after a warrant for wire desertion. Constable Charles Rooke was shot resisting arrest. A woman and infant inside the cabin were killed by gunfire amid the exchange. Baran escaped amid the chaos.
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Winnipeg
Man
Sheriffs
John Baran
Riding Mountain
Baran
Charles Rooke
Manitoba Police
Rooke
Betting Reform Leads to Fine for Minot Detective
Grants Pass, Jan. 39. Three hundred dollars was the cost to BR. Gard ner, a detective employed by the city, to bet a drink of soda with a minor. Judge Jewell imposed the sentence today. An appeal was taken.
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Grants Pass
BR. Gardner
Jewell
Renewed War Threats Raise Balkan Demands and Adrianople Fate
Constantinople reports war to resume after four days with armistice end date set. Balkan diplomats warn of larger postwar demands if Turkey refuses more than half of Adrianople. Reports from Con stantinople and Paris describe troop casualties and diplomatic standoff over Adrianople and Aegean islands.
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Adrianople
Aegean Islands
London
Turkey
Aegean
Rodosto
Midia
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Balkan
Europe
Daneff
Porte
Black Sea
Tchatalja
Constantia
Venizelos
Greece
Constantinople
Enver Bey
Vigier Shefket Pasha
Suffragists Rush Asquith Crowd at Dundee Speech
In Dundee Scotland January 30 6 a group of suffragists shouted traitor and coward and charged the crowd to reach Premier Asquith. Police intercepted the four rushes and hustled the demonstrators to the street as the mayor introduced the premier. A suffragette on the balcony railing threatened to jump into the crowd before being removed.
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Dundee
Scotland
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Shasta
Capt. Blakely
Yakima Grocer
Ias
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Outlaw
Kilda
Paris
Vienna
Asquith
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