Tax muddle looms over Yamhill case decision timeline
The State Supreme Court likely will be asked to move the Yamhill county tax dispute ahead as Judge Galloway’s ruling prompts sweeping changes. Strain, guardian of the assessment roll, leaves valuations off the roll to fit an unsettled law, protecting the county from overpayment while awaiting court action and potential legislative fixes. Pendleton and Multnomah counties loom large if the Galloway decision stands, with widespread implications for valuation, levy, and equalization procedures statewide.
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Supreme Court
Galloway
CC. P. Strain
Strain
Yamhill County
C. J. Smith
Multnomah
Umatilla
Hall
Board of Equalization
Alice Longworth Barred From Convention Guest List
Columbus Ohio July 16 Alice Longworth daughter of President Roosevelt will not attend the national prohibition convention now in session as a guest of the Kentucky delegation because delegates say she is not the proper kind of woman to have as a guest. A cited incident involved a tack placed on a neat in congress causing a fat man to reel.
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Columbus
Alice Longworth
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Alice
Congress
County's tax levy debate heads to charter election
The article notes that a maximum city tax levy under the charter of nine mills on a one third valuation would not raise enough to run the city. It discusses whether Judge Galloway's decision should be sustained and if the county should revert to the old basis, potentially requiring a special charter election. It cites Yamhill county residents who challenged the levy and suggests the outcome remains uncertain.
Mrs Matlock Granted Divorce and Property Return
In Eugene Oregon Judge Harris granted Mrs Sarah Matlock a divorce from Mayor J D Matlock on cruel and inhuman treatment claims. She kept the property owned before marriage.
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Eugene
Ore
Harris
Circuit Court
Sarah Matlock
J. D. Matlock
Matlock
Adams Not Guilty in Telluride Mine Superintendent Murder
Grand Junction Colorado July 15 Steve Adams was found not guilty this afternoon of the murder of Arthur Collins the Telluride mine superintendent who was blown up with a bomb.
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Grand Junction
Col
Steve Adams
Arthur Collins
Telluride
Final Horror in Tabriz as Cossacks Seize City
Vienna reports the end of Tabris revolts as Cossacks paid by the shah bombard and massacre the Umirath quarter. About a hundred killed as streets were swept with bullets and the quarter destroyed, ending bread riots and the revolution.
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Shah
Vienna
Austria
Tabris
Umirathi
Tabriz
Coseachd
11 Year Old Girl Tries Suicide Over Credit Refusal
Louise Jansen, age 11, attempted to kill herself after being refused credit at a San Francisco butcher shop. Medical aid saved her life. Her father perished in the earthquake. her mother struggles to care for three younger children. Louise left a note to explain her actions and asked it be given to her mother.
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San Francisco
Louise Jansen
Louise
Mamma
Benton Harbor man commits death to escape posse
Benton Harbor Michigan August Groesa who shot and fatally wounded James Kirk an 80 year old meat peddler for no known reason was found dead on the floor of his barricaded house after a surrounding posse forced entry tonight Groesa had shot himself during the night Kirk is alive but critically hurt A half brother Fred Groess also lay dead in the house authorities weigh whether he was killed by the posse or by his brother or took his own life
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Benton Harbor
Mich
August Groesa
James Kirk
Groess
Kirk
Posse
Fred Groess
August
Condon County to Open High School in Court Rooms
Following the June vote on site for the county high school at Condon the county court moves to establish the school. With no funds yet, the district will run it until January or until funds are raised. The court pledges reimbursement for all apparatus and teacher costs if patrons guarantee against loss over legality questions. Two rooms in the courthouse to be used as quarters and two more teachers added to those already chosen.
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Condon
Ore
Court House
Pendleton
Bryan the farmer drives Fairview crops plan at Lincoln
Fairview Farm Lincoln July 16 Bryan the candidate was Bill Bryan the farmer. He went out early to oversee field work lagging during convention excitement and showed personal interest in the crops directing the men himself. He will likely spend the afternoon outlining his acceptance speech.
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Fairview Farm
Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
Bill Bryan
Forest Fires Raging Across Snohomish Logging Works
Forest fires plume from old logging areas around Snohomish Washington drifting in several directions. Air thick with smoke, no damage reported so far.
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Snohomish
Wash
California oil fields blaze outside Orcutt
Two men died and about 60 000 barrels of oil burned in Orcutt California as a fierce fire spread through the Santa Maria oil fields. Volunteers fought the flames to protect a 25 000 barrel tank while a locomotive spark started the blaze.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Orcutt
Santa Maria
Indomitable Collides With Barge Off Portsmouth
The New British battleship Indomitable with the Prince of Wales aboard collided with a barge off Portsmouth today. The battleship sustained slight damage while the barge was a total loss.
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London
Porthmouth
Ruel Struggles Deepen as Assessor Sets Tax Basis
San Francisco July 15. Ruel Ruef faces renewed trouble as the assessor accepts sworn bond statements as the tax basis this year. Property assessments of Ruef’s bondsmen to rise 50 to 100 percent, with one bank increasing from 600 unsecured property to 15,000. Bondsmen protest, calling on Ruef as delegations seek relief and clarification on who pays the difference.
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Ruel
San Francisco
Ruef
Mania for Robbery Plagues Palo Alto Stenographer
San Jose July 15. Misa Jessie Turner a Palo Alto stenographer, suffers a nervous breakdown and confessed to Sheriff Langford that she robbed Mrs. Mabel Seale’s home and tried to murder the victim when help was sought. She claims to be an orphan and believes she has a mania for robbery. Turner said she entered by a found key and took valuables, aided by her sister’s similar crime and took Arthur Crane’s boy to open the house.
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San Jose
Col
Misa Jessie Turner
Palo Alto
Mabel Seale
Langford
Seale Home
Mise Turner
Arthur Crane
San Francisco
Crane
Atlantic fleet due in Honolulu for holiday celebration
The Atlantic fleet is expected to arrive tomorrow morning per a wireless from the Connecticut. Honolulu proclaims July 15 a holiday with business suspended. Thousands will gather at Diamond Head at daylight to glimpse the first white ships on the eastern horizon. The San Jacinto national forest in California will be renamed Cleveland national forest in honor of the late president, a move approved under Roosevelt’s administration.
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Honolulu
Connecticut
Diamond Head
Washington
San Jacinto National Forest
California
Cleveland National Forest
Roosevelt
First National Forest
Testimony All In in St. Dennis Haris Case
Testimony concluded in the St. Dennis Haris case with arguments pending. Attorneys disagree on timing for final arguments. It emerged during trial that 80 acres of St. Dennis land are allotment land, making the lease to Haerras informal and unapproved by the department. St. Dennis sold the 80 acres of non-reservation land.
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St. Dennis-Haris
St. Dennis
Haerras
Perringer Lawyers Seek Dismissal of Injury Injunction
Attorneys for Roy V Perringer prepare an answer to Ratey Richards Ratey suit for Marion Jack. They will move to remove the temporary injunction granted by Judge Bean and the Jack Perringer case will be ready for trial on its merits.
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Messrs
Lowell
Eight men killed in Williamsburg colliery explosion
Pittsburg July 15 Eight men were killed in an explosion on a shaft of the Williamsburg colliery operated by the Susquehanna coal company. Eight others were rescued with severe burns likely to prove fatal. More men remain trapped and the death toll may rise as rescuers battle flames.
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Pittsburg
Williamsburg
Susquehanna Coal Company
Wife Poison Plot Emerges In Washington Mystery
Castle Rock Washington July 15 police arrest Mrs Kunart and friend Reinhold Greenwald on a sworn information from a neighbor. Kunart died last Friday from alleged hiccups but doctors doubted a natural cause. An inquest exhumed the body and sent tissue to Portland for poison analysis. Jury dismissed awaiting results. Damaging evidence includes Mrs Kunart buying poison and their alleged close friendship. She has three children.
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Castle Rock
Wash
Godfrey Kunart
Hiccoughe
Kunart
Reinhold Greenwald
Bird
Hubbells
Kalama
Portland
Italian killer hunted after camp killings near Oroville
Marysville July 15 Sheriff Chubbuck and three posses scour the hills 25 miles east of Oroville seeking Gus Adolph an Italian who Tuesday night murdered two men and wounded three others in a Western Pacific camp. Adolph previously left the camp in March after quarrelling and vowed vengeance on the entire camp. He is believed heavily armed and familiar with the area.
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Marysville
Cal
Chubbuck
Gus Adolph
Oroville
Adolph
Wool market shows active demand and firm prices
Boston reports strong interest in quarter and half blood fleeces and staple clips with sustained advances. Territory wool especially Oregon Cloth ing wool lags with prices steady around 18 to 19 cents for No 1 staple. Foreign wools remain active in trading.
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Boston
Territory
Oregon
Illinois theft suspect requisitioned by governor Mead
Washington governor Mead grants Illinois demand to transfer Louis Rankenburg, sought in Chicago for alleged theft of 1248 dollars. He remains jailed at Colfax pending extradition.
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Mead
Washington
Illinois
Louis Rankenburg
Chicago
Colfax
Pendleton Seeks Growth Through Asylum Branch and Electric Lines
Pendleton aims for major expansion with a state asylum branch for 600 to 800 patients, electric streetcar lines, and new large houses to rent to curb housing shortages. The effort hinges on united action by the Commercial association and Umatilla county delegation to attract capital and plan for the next three years.
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Northwest
Pendleton
Ingane
Umatilla
Commercial Association
American Athletes Wave an Off Day at London Olympics
Sweden's B W Leming won the final javelin with 178 feet 7-1/2 inches. In the three mile team run England's M W Deakin led. Americans took second, France third. In the 660 yard cycling, Pongland's Johnson won with 61-1/5 seconds, Rambage of France second, Numan of Germany third. Bonitza of Greece took second in javelin. Halse of Norway third. English team members and American lineup listed.
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London
B. W. Leming
Sweden
M. W. Deakin
England
France
Deakin
Johnson
Pongland
Rambage
Ond
Numan
Germany
Bonitza
Greece
Halse
Norway
H. A. Wilson
A. J. Johnson
J. B. Beakin
N. F. Hallows
W. Coates
George Y. Bonhag
G. A. Dull
J. L. Bisle
HL Trbuo
Harvey W. Cohn
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August Groces
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