Seven New City Laws Passed by Local Council
The city council enacted seven ordinances including condemning right of way for West Court street and opening Ash between Alta and Court. A garbage and yard cleanup ordinance was approved with a 48 hour deadline for compliance. An ordinance allowed Bancroft bonding to offer 10 year payment options for improvements, with ten day application for instalment plans. Tax assessments followed for Main Street paving with numerous property owners listed. A water spout in Lyons, France, killed thirty with at least forty dead.
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Court
West Court Street
Curt
Janerd
Harvest Is Now On Wheat Yields In Walla Walla County
Harvesting is in full swing across Walla Walla county with threshing crews active in nearly every area. Reports from Puget croek neighborhood indicate yields averaging 49 bushels per acre, with some farms lower and others higher. Along the Mt. Pleasant line and south of Walla Walla wheat runs around 40 bushels per acre. Eureka flat notes grain damaged little by winds, and yields are still better than farmers expected. A labor shortage for harvest hands is hindering gathering this year's crop.
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Walla Walla
Walla Walle County
Miny
Puen Croek
Eureka Flat
Rail travel fatalities rise in early 1908 accident bulletin
The Interstate Commerce Commission’s bulletin for the three months ending March 1, 1908 records 16,206 total casualties among passengers and employees on American railroads, with 1,126 killed and 17,170 injured. It notes 274 killed among passengers and employees in train accidents, and 3,490 total collisions and derailments, including 259 collisions and 147 derailments affecting passenger trains.
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Washington
Aecident
Interstate Commerce Enommirelon
Parkenger
Pacific Coast Baseball Scores From Yesterday
Portland and Seattle split a game as Portland edged Seattle 2 in Al Langue while Oakland beat Los Angeles 4 to 1 in California. Fresno defeated Oakland 2 to 1 in Frese California on July 26.
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Portland
Egho Livery Barn Fire Claims Horses and Worker Burns
Fire at the Egho livery barn destroyed the building and inflamed surrounding structures in Riverside. Five horses escaped before perishing. employee Al Wright suffered severe burns rescuing them. Fire officials battled flames amid strong wind and a broken city pump. Insurance covered barn and contents for $1800. no horse coverage.
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Wis
Rehan Jones
Alsa den al Wright
Riverside Lumber Company
C. W. Bonsney
William de Weese
J. M. Bentley
Thin Eliy
Revolt Rise and Police Colonel’s Death in Warsa w
Dense revolutionary activity reported from Warsaw, Odessa, and St Petersburg. Police Colonel killed in Warsaw. mutinies feared as troops become disaffected. Protests spread through Sebastopol and Stepoval Street amid growing terrorist threats and government repression. New cabinet forming discussions in St Petersburg as Douma members face arrest and radical influence.
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Salam
Imowly
Odessa
Odenan
Stepoval
Black Hundred
Tropa
St. Petersburg
Cheir Lo
Moscow
Workingrmen'es Council
Sebastopol
Father Koyarhort
Kharlamoff
Aftanwaletf
Dispersal Douma Gets Tickets and funds
In St Petersburg July 24 the government urged pacification by sending each dispersal douma member home with first class tickets and $5 for expenses. Police arrested sympathizers who cheered. Signer Viborg did not appear. Lwoff may join the cabinet. Milenu and Shipoff seek invitations, while a liberal government is hoped for without civil war.
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Hing
Viborg
Lwvoff
Maoutohkoff
Shipoff
Picious
Milenuhow
University of Chilwage
Esnbieh
Indictment of Labor Leaders in Chicago Unfolds
A Cook County grand jury charged 28 labor leaders with conspiring to run Chicago businesses into loss and committing criminal acts. The 126 page indictment names Cor nelius P Shea Hugh McGee Charles Dollie Edward Nockles and other Teamsters and union officers and alleges murders and assassinations as part of the alleged conspiracy. Authorities say the case aims to influence politics and back a labor party in the next election.
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Chicago
Cook County
Cornelius P. Shea
Hugh McGee
Charles Dollie
Edward Nockles
Teamsters’ National
Loon
Busines
Nagalnet
Marshall Field
Montgomery Ward & Co
Cilengo
Labor Lendora
Southern Pacific Second in U S Rail Revenue
Julius Kruttechnitt prepared a preliminary statement on Southern Pacific ground receipts for the year ending June 10 last. The report shows $100,000,000 gross income, confirming the company as the second greatest railroad in the United States after Pennsylvania. Revenue rose by about $5,000,000 from the prior year and by $22,755,000 from 1901.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
San Francisco
Fulius Kruttechnitt
Southern Pacific Company
San Francissco
Southern Pacific
United States
Pennsylvania
Briggson Gossip: Local Marriages and Moves
Miss Bessie Johnson and Thomas Larkine wed at the Johnson home on Sunday the 14th with few relatives present. Mrs Stewart, ill, was taken to Walla Walla hospital last Saturday. George Storey plans to move with the Shy family to Figin, Oro, to settle there permanently.
Conference of Interparliamentary Union Defines Contraband
The Interparliamentary Union conference in London adopted a resolution urging The Hague conference to define contraband as restricted to arms munitions and explosives. It also held that captured ships should not be destroyed and private property should remain immune even between belligerents. It favored discussing ways to reduce armament expenditures at The Hague.
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London
The
Interparliamentary Union
Enidtws
Hague Conference
Fairbanks Man Tagged in $50,000 Fort Gibbons Gold Robbery
Accused of major gold theft, Fairbanks Alaska July 25. A man dubbed Hard Luck Charlie Tague was arrested on suspicion of the Fort Gibbons robbery and George Raphael was detained on suspicion of complicity.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Charlie Tague
Fort Gibbons
George Raphael
Veggem en Blow Safes in Brown Building Heist
Two young men blew sixteen safes and robbed offices in the Brown building this morning. They secured 800 dollars and were captured and jailed.
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Rockford
Brown Building
Fire in Klondike Hall at Helix Oregon
A fire at Klondyke amusement parlor in Helix Oregon caused interior damage estimated at 500 dollars. proprietor Th Bott was closing the place when a gas lamp or machine ignited a flame triggering the blaze. The stock and building belonged to Bott and were uninsured. City water and prompt efforts prevented total loss.
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Hall
Helix
Ore
Th. Bott
Ice Trusts Hit Seattle Firms for Unlawful Fees
Citizens of Seattle petition Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh to dissolve Diamond Ice & Cold Storage and Seattle Ice Co on grounds they have formed trusts and set fixed prices. Petitioners L. H. Wheeler J. A. Noble E. H. Starkey L. M. Rushton and Mr Bowers of Queen Anne filed Saturday. Noble may be exception. Complaint alleges prior management under Charles B. Crane secured prevailing fees, now companies refuse any fee.
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J. A. Noble
EH. BE. Starkey
LM. Rushton
Mr. Bowers
Queen Anne Kul
Mr. Noble
Diamond Ice & Colt Storage Company
Seattle Lee Company
Charles B. Crane
Trades Council Calls for Punishment of Sluggers in Labor Disputes
Chicago unions pressed for punishment of all sluggers in labor disputes. Packing Trades council, formed by Butcher Workmen locals, urged elimination of violent men from labor. Albert Woeckel, beaten and drowned after a clash with Rudolph Jones, not a member of the union, prompting calls for action.
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Packing Trades Council
Butcher Workmans Union
Albert Woeckel
Rudolph Jones
Butchers Organization
Woeckel
Jones
Johnson Shifts City Tracks Ruling on Fulton Street
In Cleveland on July 26, Milor Johnson led city workers and police to rip up the Fulton street tracks of the Cosatitated Street Railway from Lorain to Franklin to clear space for Municipal company rails. Johnson ignored an injunction and pledged to allow the rival line to lay tracks on another side street once municipal work advances.
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Sheepmen sue Northern Pacific for $9928 damages
Vestey McRae Company files suit in Spokane against Northern Pacific claiming $9928 for losses from delays in railroad cars. About 24 sheep near Lewiston were ready for shipment to Newport Wash on May 16, cars failed to arrive for 14 days, 374 sheep died, and the firm seeks almost $10,000 in damages.
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T Mg
Vesser-McRae Company
Policeman Fatally Shoots Man in Cincinnati Duel
A Cincinnati incident after a hymn led Policeman Riewster to order a stop. Moses drew a revolver and fired. the officer shot him dead. The chief of police and magistrate ruled the policeman justified.
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Riewster
Moses
Tod Juet
Portland’s New Sensation Over Bruin Ouster
Portland reels as Judge Fraser ousts Captain Patrick Bruin for missing civil service exams, triggering mass employment fear. Mayor Lane ponders temporary reappointment to allow a fresh exam, while staff brace for potential layoffs and reshuffles across fire, water, street, and engineering departments.
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Frazier
Patrick Bruin
Fraser
Oskar F. Taakson
Lane
Isakeon
Oskar F. Teakwon
Wwe
Department
Rejain Bruin
Tte
Bruin
Police Commission
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Itan
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Froner
Judeo Frazer
One of the worst wrecks on Oregon Short Line near Green River
A head on collision between a reeoche and an exitr at Review west of Green River last night caused a major wreck on the Oregon Short Line. The main track was blocked as crews jumped clear. several men were injured.
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Green River
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