Oregon Leaders Convene to Reform Rail Rates
A joint committee of the State Development league and the Willamette Valley Development league, headed by Thomas K. Campbell, meets in Portland to draft new railroad rate and tax laws. The panel, with members from McMinnville, Salem, Grants Pass, and other cities, aims to present a draft at the September Eugene gathering and seek legal remedies to curb high freight charges and improve traveler facilities across the state.
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State Development League
Wilamette Valley Development League
Portland
Willamette Valley Development League
Thomas K. Campbell
Pacific Timber Company
Cottage Grove
John Wortman
McMinnville
J. G. Graham
Salem
W. B. Sherman
Grant'n Pass
Stephen A
Eugene
J. A. Ruperle
Jeffereon
O. A. Hurley
Independenes
H. F. Senes
Toledo
Lengie
Willamette Valley
Portaid
New York
Salt Lake
Bole
Towell
Lowe
Wisconsin
Oregon
Uthens of the sultan in Turkey said to be gravely ill
Berlin July 17 The Lekal Ansiger reports the sultan of Turkey is in a far more serious condition than acknowledged. Physicians state death is a matter of only a short time.
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Berlin
Turkey
Public sentiment urged state control of corporations in Oregon
Judge Lowell and two development league representatives argued railroads are essential for state growth and should be treated like private entities. They urged no radical laws but called for the state to begin controlling corporations, ending central state ownership by private intervention.
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Powalbie
Ory Rb
Petvate Enterprises
Colletedot Mallporda
Harrinas
Ander
Conilltone
Ratironda
Oregon
Lowell
Staten
Police end strike, redress mobilizes wagons in Chicago
Chicago on July 17 reports three hundred policemen withdrawn from strike wagons to resume duties at street crossings. Freight station routes mapped for strike-bound firms. Streets take on a formal air as the city shifts to renewed enforcement and logistics.
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Chicago
Elevator Fall Injures Four In City Building
An elevator in a Philadelphia building plunged eleven floors during morning service. Victims included City Solicitor Henry T Kingston with both legs broken, District Attorney Bell badly injured, and messenger William Barna crushed and near death. Inspectors had certified the elevator as safe on June 22, raising questions about possible collusion. Mayor Weaver calls a full overhaul of the building and elevator department.
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Philadelphia
Henre T
Kingston
Bell
Williamn Barna
Weaver
Department of Inspection
Remains of General Blackmar Transferred in State
The body of General Blackmar, embalmed and encased in a metal casket, was moved to the Grand Army hall and placed on view this afternoon. Mrs. Binckmar departs tonight with the remains for Boston. The Phil Sheridan post and Boise G.A.R. officers facilitated the transport and in charge arrangements.
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General Blackmar
Thoston
Haine
Phil Sheridan
G. Alk
Boise
Grand Army Hall
Binckmar
Boston
Senator Clark Recovers After Second Operation
Senator Clark of Montana underwent a second operation for mastoiditis on Saturday. He spent a comfortable night and was much improved this morning, though still not out of danger.
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New York
Senator Clark
Montana
Victims electrocuted in Sing Sing murder case
Oxstening N Y July 17 Charles Jackson colored and James Breen white were electrocuted in Sing Sing this morning. Jackson killed a man during a hold-up in New York Breen murdered in a barroom row in New York.
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Oxstening
N. Y
Charles Jackson
James Breen
Sing Sing
Jackson
New York
Breen
Gunboat Dubuque Ashore in New York Harbor
The gunboat Dubuque ran ashore in the Horseshoe, lower New York. The vessel is in no danger and no casualties are reported.
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New York
Horseshoe
Portland politician faces land fraud trial cross examination
In Portland admissions surfaced as 1% Congress member Williams testified, denying conspiracy charges. Hite denied all charges morning. Cross examination yielded lines suggesting corroboration of government theories. Demurrers overruled in Hendricks subpoena perjury case and related conspiracies involving Watson, the Butty Creek Lumber Co, and Binger Hertuitan et al.
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Portland
Congressain Williams
Hite Morning
Ad~iniering
H. H. Hendricks
JIM HILL URGES REVIVAL OF AMERICAN BUSINESS STANDARDS
Lenox Mars July 17. President James J. Hill denounces quack political theories and Panama Canal debates. He says the nation lacks merchant ships and protective laws, vows never to build another ship under the American flag, and calls for a great revival in business and higher commercial standards before becoming a world power.
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Panama Canal
Lenox
Mars
James J. Hill
Great Northern
Berkshire Hills
Deadly Heat Grinds Twin Cities and Nebraska
July 17 reports from Lincoln and St Paul describe extreme heat reaching 99 degrees with no relief overnight. The heat contributed to nine drownings in St Paul and Minneapolis and three additional deaths from heat in the Twin Cities amid scorched crops and fatalities across Minnesota and Nebraska.
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Mhchigo
Orop Scorcho
Lincoln
Neb
Nes Driska
Twin Cities
St Paul
St. Paul
Standard resumes oil trade activity in Kansas territory field
The Standard reports in Chanute Kansas that oil grades are now being accepted in the Kansas territory field. The article notes a month old amendment in Rewirdinee and that the company has started relaying pipeline connections to oil prospects previously torn out after the federal order in February.
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Vis Chanute
Kan
Kansas Territory
Bert Wounded in Chest Found on Porch
Eugene Bert president of the Pacific Coast baseball league was found with a bullet wound on his residence back porch Saturday. He is resting well today and expected to recover.
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San Francisco
Eugene Bert
Pacific Coast Baseball League
Fire at Poor Farm Burned Infirmary Complex
July 17 Salt Lake county poor house and infirmary partly burned this morning. Inmates were rescued by employees, 320 bedridden women carried out. Water scarcity left the women’s quarters hospital state rooms and superintendent’s residence gutted. No injuries reported.
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Salt Lake
Mutinies Sweep Army Navy and Czars Kin Exiled
War dispatches report mutinies aboard the battleship Imperator Alexander and a regiment at Ekaterinburg, with casualties and arrests. Grand Duke Constantinovitch is banished for contact with revolutionaries. A French syndicate offers to back indemnity up to 600 million. A Warsaw detective sergeant is shot, and a Korean loan in Japan is heavily oversubscribed.
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Grand Duke
Constantinovitch
France
Rusea
Japan
Jays
Exhume Ordered in Brooklyn Wife Poison Plot
New York July 17 The supreme court granted District Attorney Clark authority to exhume the body of Mrs Carlton wife of F E B Carlton now jailed on charges of wrongdoing and attempt to poison Mr Carlton Relatives of the deceased accuse Carlton of plotting with tetanus bacteria to fake a death insurance claim in his favor.
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New York
Supreme Court
Clark
Brooklyn
Carlton
F. EB. Carlton
Lockjaw
Chicago Wheat Market Quoted Amid Slumping Prices
Chicago July 17 wheat prices drifted lower as the greatest wheat market in the Wasted States showed corn at 56% and oats at 10% in a struggling trading session.
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Chicago
Receiver ousted as Peopl e United States bank receiver
Judge McElhinney of St. Louis county circuit court in Clayton removed cox- Judge Spencer from his role as receiver for the People's United States Bank. In Milford Connecticut Mrs Janet L Wilson killed herself with a pistol shot to the side.
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St. Louis
McElhinney
St. Louis County
Clayton
Spencer
Peoplea’ United States Bank
Milford
Conn
Janet L. Wilson
Fire on Mount Tamalpais threatens Mount railway peak
Mount Tamalpais western peak is on fire with winds fanning flames toward Mount railway station. Campers started the blaze. Several parties have been dispatched to fight the fire. Paris financier Emile Arton committed suicide by cyanide today, linked to the old Panama sandal affair.
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Mount Tamalpais
San Rafael
Cal
Mount
Paris
Emile Arton
Panama
Portage grain freight rate meeting eyed for month end
The board will likely set a freight rate schedule between Lewiston and Portland as grain moves. A proposed Portage line rate of 3 per ton could raise farmer profits but may trigger adjustments by competing lines, with Dunbar and Moore awaiting Governor Chamberlin’s return for a final meeting late this month.
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Salon
Cewleein
Portland
Chamberlin
Oo. R. & N. Company
Lewiston
Portige Fond
Dunbar
Moore
Upper River Boat Line Planned By The Dalles People
The Dalles Commercial Association pledges capital to extend portage from Big Eddy to The Dalles and to establish a river boat line to handle this year's crop from the upper Columbia. A Great Southern network would connect portage with The Dalles and spur traffic to a developing wheat and fruit district, with rail and river links planned.
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Pollut
Open River Association
Portland Boat Companies
Portage
Great Southern
Dalles
Pature
Columbia River
Dale
Commercial Association of the
Bie Addy
Dufur
Thie
Lawtston
Hanaford
Ripurit
Earthwarth
Halles and i
Bute
Government probes cotton statistics leak widen to New York
United States District Attorney Morgan Beach, urged by Attorney General Moody, heads to New York to interview brokers Van Riper Price and others as part of the cotton statistics leak investigation in the agricultural department. The move follows the recent report to secret services that led to the discharge of statistician Holmes.
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Fruting Tate
Washineto
United States
Morgan Beach
Moody
Scana
New York
van Riper
Price
Secret Services
Holmes
Child injured by splinter in Collingebure village
The son of J. J. Owenby was struck by a splinter between the upper lip and jaw in the afternoon. Dr. T. M. Henderson treated the wound. the injury is painful but not dangerous. The village of Collingebure reports 150 cases of typhoid fever near Pittsburgh.
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J. J. Owenby
T. M. Henderson
Collingebure
Lear Pittsbure
Weston Normal to Close and Appoint Custodian
Regents meet to order closure of Weston Normal school due to inability to secure funds for operation. Notes signed as collateral are faulted, and funds must be drawn to banks, risking signers’ responsibility if referendum ends the normal. President French hoped for a strong year despite the setback.
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Koarl
Westen Normal School
Board of Regents
Han
Thie
Oregon
French
Girl Bertha Cla riche Committed for Murder in New York
New York July 17 The coroner s jury committed Bertha E Cla riche a French girl charged with killing Emil Gergron to the Tombs without bail Seven jurors declined to find self defense. Later the grand jury indicted Gergron for enticement and forcing the girl to dive for him by waite of shame.
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America
New York
Bertha E. Clariche
Emil Gergron
Gergrom
Ammerson
Waite
Wanted evidence in Fanilable investigation turned over
New York on July 17 reports that a sought after copy of evidence collected by State Superintendent Hendricks in the Fanilable inquiry was delivered to District Attorney Jerome’s office this morning. The material will be reviewed to determine if any person connected with Equitable can be held criminally responsible under state laws for the affairs exposed by the inquiry.
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Japan
Tokio
Paladu
Pobeldu
Poltarn
Port Arthur
New York
Hendricks
Jerome
Equitable
Ciselon
Warrant for Arrest Issued in French Pretenses Case
A warrant is issued for the arrest of Charles W. French, a railroad promoter, who returned from California to Akron. He is indicted in Summit county on charges of securing 17000 dollars from Nathan Beck under false pretenses regarding a planned gigantic steel plant. Authorities are seeking French.
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Akron
Charles W. French
Oho
California
French
Summit County
Nathan Beck
Aberifé
Frenely
Boycott Extending in Penang and Perak
Chinese merchants in Perak and Penang today joined a growing boycott movement against American goods. The action expands the protest across Straits Settlements as authorities monitor tensions with the United States.
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Penang
Straits Settlement
Perak
Malay Peninsula
Godle
Anarchist Arrested in Rome on Kings Victor Emanuel Plot
An anarchist named Barberi was arrested in Rome on July 11 amid allegations he intended to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel. Authorities say the suspect traveled to the capital with that aim in mind.
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Rome
Therither
Barberi
Victor Emanuel
Baltimore man becomes G A R commander in chief after Idaho death
Washington July 17 John R King of Baltimore senior vice commander of the G A R assumes command as chief following the death of General Blackmur at Boise Idaho yesterday.
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Washington
John R. King
Baltimore
Blackmur
Boise
Idaho
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