Inauguration Week Opens as Wilson Expected Monday
Washington prepares for President elect Wilson with arrival Monday afternoon at the Capitol. A festooned Pennsylvan ia avenue hosts a carnival foretaste while military units converge on the city. Suffragists from New York join a tea with General Jones and plan a feminine parade featuring marching and riding clubs. Bryan also to be greeted on Monday.
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Webb liquor bill becomes law after veto override
Washington report states the Webb bill prohibiting shipment of liquor from wet to dry states passed the House 244 to 95 over President Taft's veto. The Senate override yesterday makes the measure law.
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Strikers Testify Before Investigating Committee Akron
Thirty strikers from the rubber mills testified before the legislative committee probing the strike in Akron Ohio on March 1. Chairman Green threatened to subpoena the books of the big factories and the committee will examine the officials on Monday.
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Boy Believed Lost In Harbor Island Sawmill Fire
Seattle on March 1 reports Phillip Graham fourteen grandson of O K Graham night watchman at Harbor Island sawmill is believed to have perished in a mill fire not seen since the blaze. The loss is placed at fifty thousand dollars.
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Money Trust Found to Exist and to Be Curbed
Washington reports that the money trust exists and should be checked by federal rules on national banks, clearing houses, and stock exchanges. The Pujo committee includes two bills to regulate stock exchanges via trading bans and to curb bank involvement in clearing houses, tightening national banking conduct.
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Nine Believed Dead in Omaha Hotel Fire
Omaha Neb Mar 1 Not more than nine persons perished in the burning Dewey Hotel according to City Commissioner Kugel No additional bodies were found by noon The body of a woman burned crisp was recovered this morning bringing the known total to six More estimates place those buried in the rubble from five to twenty The only identifying marks on the body were earrings and fur coat portions
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Suffragettes Stage Self Denial Week in London Streets
Militant suffragettes began a self denial week in London to fund the suffragette cause. They play barrel organs in the streets and sell souvenirs candy and pictures. Two street organ players were mobbed on Shaftesbury Avenue and their instruments destroyed.
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Oregon Battleship Goes Into Drydock at Bremerton
Bremerton Wash Mar 1 amid the boom of guns one of the world's greatest drydocks is dedicated at the navy yard with the battleship Oregon to be prepared to lead the great naval parade through the Panama Canal when opened
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Oregon Forest Reserve Worth a Million to State
Dan P. Smythe, forestry board member, says legislation backed by Governor West will make the Oregon state forest reserve worth about a million dollars. Land traded to the government for Santiam reserve timber was largely valueless, Smythe notes, but the plan is seen as financially and educationally beneficial. a coyote bounty law amendment also expands how hides may be submitted and sold, increasing hunters’ profits without raising state payout.
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Cardinal Gibbons Opposes Woman Suffrage Movement
Baltimore on March 1 Cardinal Gibbons denied favoring woman suffrage saying he was not in favor and did not urge Congress to hear the marchers plea He said he did not compare their sacrifices with Joan of Arc nor promise to push their cause at Washington.
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Counts Heart Beats as He Slowly Dies
Philadelphia March 1 Carl W Schnei der, surgical instrument manufacturer, pierced his own heart with a steel lance and recorded the dying beats on paper until he could no longer. The final count noted was twenty six.
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Alderman’s Speech Arouses National Education Conference
Professor L. R. Alderman state school superintendent of Oregon stirred Philadelphia crowd by claiming 25,000 American girls are going wrong due to lack of cooperation between parents and teachers.
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Taft Opposes Philippine Independence In Tribune
President Taft writes in the New York Tribune that independence for the Philippines is unwise and dangerous. He argues the native population is not ready for self government and urges successors to pursue McKinley era policies instead.
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Higher wages will be asked for girls in Chicago
Chicago March 1 In a determined attempt to force a payment of wages to working girls the white slave committee of the state Senate will examine heads of Chicago department stores and other big employers A summons was ordered by Lieutenant Governor O Hara He said testimony shows that starvation wages drive girls to ruin and department store heads must testify even if each is worth ten million dollars
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Rebels Capture Cananea Amid Border War Rumors
Refugees report Maderist forces seized Cananea Sonora while 300 loyal federals defend the barracks with machine guns in the business district. Reports from El Paso say Chihuahua police chief Augustin Labanzet and other officials were executed by federal authorities after a hasty court martial. Federal reinforcements rush to Cananea as a battle looms.
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Bonds of labor men approved
Chicago March 1 Approval of the bonds of Olaf Tveitmoe and E A Clancy of San Francisco sentenced to Leavenworth prison for participation in a dynamite conspiracy and Peter Smith convicted on the same charge was given today by the federal court of appeals. They will probably be relents within twenty four hours.
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Wilson's cabinet list reported for President elect
Washington dispatch from the Portland Journal cites a Washington bureau source naming W. J. Bryan as Secretary of State and W. J. McAdoo as Secretary of Treasury among others. George W. Glellatts is listed for War and Josephus Daniels for Navy with Burleson, Norris, Standels, and Wilson as labor and interior heads. Agriculture and Attorney General guesses circulate amid rumors of McReynolds.
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Celilo Project Bill Vetoed by Governor West
Salem Oregon March 1 Governor West vetoed Latourette s superior court and Celilo water project bills today The action halts the Celilo project and affects the state s administrative plans with no immediate alternative proposed by the governor and Latourette remains in the background as the bill author
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Harry Thaw to Be Examined Again
New York report states Harry Thaw obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the supreme court to secure another examination of his mental condition. The move follows prior assessments and aims to further determine his mental status.
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Captain Rostron Receives Special Medal From Taft
President Taft awarded Captain Rostron of the Inner Carpathia a special congressional gold medal. Rostron thanked Congress and the president in a brief speech of praise.
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Compromise Wagescale Affects Clothing Workers Across Cities
Seventy five thousand clothing workers resume work after a December strike as shop wage demands are compromised. overtime will continue until Easter to catch up on orders. Sanitary conditions and abolition of sweat shops remain key issues. Court actions dropped. hours to be arbitrated. In Boston nine thousand women garment workers walk out in sympathy, seeking higher pay and shorter hours.
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Alleged Gamblers Fined Second Time in Raid
Four gamblers jailed or fined after Round-up pool hall raid. All four appeared in court or paid fines of 75 dollars each or 37 days in jail. Ball payments covered part of the fines. one man remained jailed. E B Jamison also fined 75 dollars, paid later. Pool hall owner Mosier paid 100 dollars. Total city receipts from the raid reach 425 dollars.
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Jess Saling
Ralph Hill
John Skogland
Bert Livermore
E. B. Jamison
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Livermore
Father Kills Baby and Slashes Own Throat in Tragedy
Truckee California March 1. Joe Cashoni Italian laborer killed his six month old baby by slashing its throat with a razor then wounded himself by cutting his own throat. Authorities report he is near death and may have acted in a sudden outbreak of insanity.
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Umatilla County Teachers Decide on Separate Institute
Umatilla County teachers will not rejoin the Eastern Oregon Teachers Association this year and will hold their institute separately next fall due to spring conflict. A county meeting at the court house discussed industrial exhibits, uniform athletic standards, rural schooling, and picture work, with twenty heads of schools in attendance and a committee appointed to report on exhibits. Attendees include county officials, superintendents, and many district principals from Pendleton Athena Milton Freewater and surrounding areas.
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I. E. Young
Albert Fe, White
Milton
J. A. Yeager
Hermiston
J. S. Landers
A. C. Hampton
Pendleton
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Kyle McDaniel
Adams
J. A. Cavanaugh
Vincent
F. K. Nordhoft
Fporndale
L. W. Keeler
Echo
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