Spotted Fever Strikes Baker County in Interior Sheep Country
Baker City Herald reports two serious spotted fever cases in the Baker County interior, a young schoolteacher at Tronside and a man near Lockhart ranch. Doctors warn the disease, spread by a sagebrush tick, can be fatal if not treated promptly, though early care may save lives. Names and locations listed reflect local reporting and public concern.
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Sayls
Baker City
Heral
Tronside
Lockhart Ranch
Bitter Root
Moentans
Thie Valley
Montana
Year of poor hay yields reported across regions
The Chicago Livestock World notes a great year for those with feed yet reveals a hay crop of 289,670,0000 acres with 41 percent condition, predicting 48,000,000 tons yield the smallest since 1495. The eastern region faces the biggest shortage while last year’s crop reached 40,000,000 tons as New York and Pennsylvania produced 11,000,000 tons.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Chicago Livestock World
Real Estate Listings North Side River Properties
Real estate ads describe north side river houses with modern features and attractive terms. Properties include a two story ten room home with 18 lots near the new school, priced around 2100 with $500 cash down and mortgage balance, and other parcels from 2000 to 2100. Also offered are vacant lots, non resident properties, and groom era house with three lots near Pendleton. payments include monthly installments and mortgage secured balance.
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New School House
Week of mixed weather across Oregon with warm days
The week in Oregon was mostly dry and warm with cool nights in places. Pacific to the coast saw cloudy mornings and light rain rare. the Willamette Valley hit highs above 30 and southern Oregon over 90 on hot days. Winds were light and NW, with heat concentrated east of the Cascades and in Sherman and Umatilla counties.
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Cascade Mountaine
Oregon
Willamette Valley
Cascade Mountains
Columbia River Valley
Hood River
Wasco County
D. N. Byerlee
Grass Valley
Sherman County
Agt
Columbia Southern Railroad
Pendleton
Umatilla
H. F. Johoson
Weaton
Umatilla County
Maud M. Haker
Willowa
Wallowa County
la Grande
Union County
Miy
Maker County
Walla Walla Begins Work On City Chain Gang Plan
Police start a program to form a chain gang to clean streets and remove vagrants. The plan targets unemployed men who loaf the streets and seek night lodging, aiming to keep Spokane free of such characters with a working gang and assigned wag es.
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Walla
Walla Walla
Spokane
Man Killed, Car Door Injures Man Near Semthe
Jack Hudson died when a door of a refrigerator car struck him as he leaned from a smoking Northern Pacific train near Semthe. Carl Herbert was badly injured in the same incident.
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Jack Hudson
Semthe
Northern Pacific
Belong
Carl Herbert
Plaice
Manner
Glycerine in Dr Pleres Medicines Promoted for Coughs
In Dr Pleres’s Golden Medical Discovery glycerine enhances medicinal extracts and acts as a nutritive antiseptic and anti ferment. It supports Black Cherrybark Golden root Stone root and Queen’s root in chronic coughs and bronchial ailments while offering limited help in acute cases.
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Pleres
Pierce
BR. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Pierer
Adi de
E. V. Pieren
Bierce
Pole Amily
River Boats and Railroads Unite for Traffic
W D P Lyman of Whitman college discusses river and rail traffic on the Columbia and Mississippi models. He argues open rivers boost overall commerce, with both water and rail benefiting from expanded routes and reduced monopoly power, citing historical shifts from steamboats to rail and back. The piece urges inland empire cooperation to connect with the open river and frontier markets.
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W. Dpd Lyman
Whitman College
Wat Walla Fittesman
Rall
Ohio
Mississippi
Norenes
Calle Randa
Columbia
Pacific Ocean
Multiple Disparate News Items From Early 1900s Salt Lake Paper
A scattered digest reports injuries from a balloon fall in Salt Lake City involving aeronaut Joseph Medan. It notes a divorce granted to the wife of Wilkin Elite Corey, head of United States Steel, with custody of a 14 year old son. John J. Voss is under arrest in Chicago for suspected involvement in his wife’s death found in a burned home. Ferdinand Reese, aged 112, dies in Laporte as a Polish Catholic, born 1744, with three marriages. A fire at the Palace hotel in Blaine Washington destroys hotel and adjacent structures. Insurance losses total 12 000 and 5 0500. Berlin hosts an international wireless telegraph conference starting October 3 with American government representation. A pleasure boat accident on Lake Hopatcong results in drownings of Gatt, Keklemmerer, Smith and three others. four rescued. Two private yachts collide off New Jersey. several drownings and a missing man. In Cleveland on July 25 a burial service leads to a fatal accident for two drivers. Chicago public trade shows a 4 percent first-half increase in business, with rail and labor data for 1906 and 1908. A new house in Dayton Washington burns with total loss and no insurance.
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Salt Lake City
Joeseph Medan
Fauinlg
Orm
Wilkin Elite Corey
United States Steel Corporation
John J. Voss
Chitago
Beineg
Mre Ferdinand Reese
Laporte
Blaine
Wash
Love
Turbulent Northwest News: Fires, Crimes, and Strikes
A scrambled summary of incidents across Washington and British Columbia. Wheat losses near Great Nouthern affect Quincy and Vulcan. A tramway accident near Grind Forks nearly killed A. D. McPhee. Tydid of Theorie, Spokane, dies from streetcar injuries. Saunders County experiences legal actions after a fire. a damage claim tops 1200. Fire nearly consumes Black Bear and Sinhe without water for bucket brigade. Hembree murder trial ends with manslaughter verdict after overnight deliberation. Burglar Love sentenced to Robe penitentiary escapes. Four Turkey Prisoners discharged. Government may fund 2000 for Cowitta wagon raid aftermath. Spokane electric discharge damages thousands of phones and lights, mainly at Spokane-MEVIew building. John McLean, half-breed, charged with nine murders, linked to Judge Lewis killings near Almera.
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Nouthern
Quincy
Vulcan
Waeh
Erin
King
A.D. McPhee
Grind Forks
Huw. Po T. Barrow
Spokane
Saunders County
Mount
Hembree
Titemook
Hembroe
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Hotel
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Sootc Joseph
O. C. Carston
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T. C. Benson
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Fred S. Young
Chicago
Mra
HH. Curmmings
North Yakima
Pendieton
W. H. Rogers
Boise
Co. M. Heacock
Moro
Sample Real Estate
E. T. Wade & Son
Plateau District
Pacific
He 'Ile
James Withycombe
Oregon Agelcultural College
Wallace
Insertion
Alexander
Graham Furniture Co
General News
Berlin
Lake Hopatiig
Chierge Gatt
May Keklemmerer
Mertha Smith
Early
Privure
New Jersey
Frederick Fincher
Herbert Hammell
Walter Snyder
John Fogarty
J. Starkey
Jerry Donohue
Samuel Londerly Mizaing
Cleveland
Abelitning
John CO. Cylinky
Frank Moon
Dayton
Sultiuwest News
Awe
Robe
Vuirde
Turakey Frobineon
Joseph Prill
Dewitt
Wiliam JA Koger
Cowitta
Herne
Yakima
Washtington
Bpokesman-Meviow
Johnoin McLean
Half Breed
Fishman & Peters
J. L. Vaughan
Downey
Lehman Springs
Tallman's
Pendleton Planing Mills
R. Forster
W. C. Minnis
Henning
Malin
Lee
Colesworthy
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