Idaho Rail Extensions Promise Shorter State Route
The Boise Capital News reports plans to extend the Northern Pacific from Grangeville to Meadows and the P I N extension from Evergreen to Meadows, linking northern and southern Idaho. Work involves 500 teams and 600 men near White Bird with grading to enable operation next year, plus possible further lines to Emmett and Long Valley. The move would cut travel miles across the state and create direct rail communication between remote regions.
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Boise Capital News
Northern Pacific Railroad
Grangeville
Meadows
Idaho
P. & i Wis
Boise
Northern Pacific
Evergreen
White Bird
Salmon Valley
Salmon River
Payette Lakes
Emmett
Rai
Pastor Goes East to Baptist Association in Pachuts Miss
Weston July 15 Rev Rogers of the Baptist church traveled to Pachuts Mississippi for an association meeting, his old home, likely to enjoy the trip. Mrs L B Wood visits Pendleton relatives for several days as rain cools the area after heat near the grain fields. Miss Grace Edwards of Pendleton is mentioned.
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Weston
Rogers
Baptist Church
Pachuts
Wood
Pendleton
Grace Edwards
Coffee or steak choice hinges on value and cost
A reader weighs a middling steak against middling coffee with first-rate coffee and steak, urging focus on cost and value to decide which pairing yields better overall quality for the price.
Woman Begins Summer Term at Basket Mountain School
A woman opened her summer term of school at Basket Mountain on Monday after a highly successful winter term in the mountains.
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Basket Mountain
American killed in Peruvian railway clash near Cerro de Pasco
William McCully reports from Cerro de Pasco Peru that during revolutionary fighting an American named O B Chaleen superintendent of telegraphs was killed after taking an engine to repair lines. Rebels advanced to 100 miles from the city but were halted and defeated. Foreigners hid in the telegraph state building as bullets shattered the structure.
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Yakima
Wash
William McCully
J. A. McCully
Cerro de Pasco
Peru
Cerro de Paseo
O. B. Chaleen
Chaleen
Cerro
Elegraph Company
Panic Seizes 40 Horses Aboard Vancouver Steamer
The steamer Henriette of Mackenzie Brothers ran aground on a sandbar near Nanaimo harbor at 2 yesterday and panic seized 40 tethered horses on her forward deck. The fighting, kicking mass caused many deaths and fatal injuries as crew could not reach the animals. By daylight many were shot. only about 20 of 50 horses remain fit to forward to Prince Rupert.
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Vancouver
B.C
Henriette
Mackenzie Brothers
Protection
Newcastle Islands
Nanaimo Harbor
Panie
Prince Rupert
Examination for Rhodes Scholarship in the Fall
The Rhodes examination moves to autumn starting next year to give winners more time to arrange study at Oxford. The fall 1909 exam will likely be at the University of Oregon Eugene. Oregon will have two scholars at Oxford next year Edward Winans of Willamette and Wister Johnson of the University of Oregon.
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University of Oregon
Eugene
Oxford
Rhodes
Oregon
Edward Winans
Willamette University
Wister Johnson
Senator Platt at 75 Defies Decline in Mind and Life
New York July 15 Thomas Col ler Platt United States senator from New York is 75 today. Once a national party leader he faces reduced influence and domestic entanglements. Yet his mind remains clear and active despite aging.
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Platt
New York
Thomas Coller Platt
United States
Solon
Timber Wolves Victimize Timber Buyers In Oregon Scam
Portland reports over a dozen timber land buyers duped for sums from two to four hundred dollars each. John McCourt and Walter E. Evans move to prosecute, with J. C. Burke and O. M. Stafford to be questioned by a U S commissioner about false timber claims affidavits. Victims from Portland Albany Roseburg Eugene testified that false site monuments and witness trees were used to secure locations, with markings altered to mislead buyers. The scheme has drawn complaints from dozens of locals, including widows and girls, prompting government action to halt the fraud.
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Portland
United States
John McCourt
Oregon
Willamette Valle
Evans
United States District Attorney
Salem
Albany
Roseburg
Eugene
Model Village at Montreat Dedicated in North Carolina
Montreat North Carolina near Black Mountain about 25 miles from Asheville will be formally dedicated today after transfer to the Presbyterian synod. Distinguished clergymen and educators will attend the ceremonies. Montreat, founded by John Wanamaker John B Huyler and others as a religious assembly and retreat, will now host the Presbyterian Sunday school convention missionary conferences and other church meetings with a large auditorium planned as a memorial to John Calvin.
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Montreat
North Carolina
Presbyterian Church
Asheville
WN. C
Blackmountain
Presbyterian Synod
John Wanamaker
John
Huyler
Presbyterian
John Calvin
Daring Young Robber Holds Up Three Ranchers
A lone highwayman, aged 16 to 20, masked with a handkerchief and armed with a pistol, halted Frank Reynolds Moberly and Mosebar on the Selah road near Dimmick’s hopyard at 10 o’clock Thursday night. He forced them to surrender $6 from their pockets while they rode in a buggy returning from the city.
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Frank Reynolds
Selah
Moberly
Mosebar
Dimmick
Yakima Republic
Rent available for store and office room in East Oregonian building
Fine retail and office space for rent in the East Oregonian building. Enquire at the offices for details on layout rates and occupancy terms.
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East Oregonian
Hood River County Emerges as Wealthy New Oregon County
Hood River County, created from Wasco, reports 1907 assessed valuation of 2.76 million, population about 7500, and 40 000 acres of uncultivated fruit land. Hood River is the largest town. Cascade Locks is second. New high school valued at 30 000 and 20 more schoolhouses planned. Boundaries span 31 miles east to Mount Hood area with Cascade Mountains to the west.
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Hood River
Wasco County
New County
Cascade Locks
Mount Hood
Dee
Wyeth
Viento
Portland
Spokane
Hood River County
Mosler
Rock Ereek
Dalles
Clackamas County
Cascade Mountains
Clackamas
Multnomah
Columbia River
Hood River Valley
Charles Pierce Returns to Lead Balloon Route Ventures
Charles Pierce, brother of Walter Pierce and former Pendleton resident, traveled with his family to a northeastern Oregon mountain camp for a four months vacation. He plans to expand Balloon Route tours across multiple cities, with aim to employ about a thousand workers. The trip includes visits to principal U.S. cities, Florida, and the South after the camp.
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Charles Pierce
Walter Pierce
Pendleton
Weston Mountain
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles
Cr. M. Pierce
Mr. Pierce
Callifornia
Oregon
Walla Walla
Wash
Florida
Pierce
Household sale notice in Oak dresser and chairs bid
In a fine oak dresser and a plain china closet with six oak leather seated dining chairs oak stands rockers Victor phonograph and 60 records and all metal bed springs All new inet fall Will sell very cheap if taken right away M M Heacock 606 Garfield Street Phone red 2661
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M. M. Heacock
Garfield Street
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