Meeker’s Pioneer Campaign To Mark Old Trail In Pendleton
Ezra Meeker arrives in Pendleton with ox team to raise funds for a public monument and city park along the old emigrant trail. He plans lectures and a stereopticon show to secure support, expecting to travel east via the Meacham road and Pine Mountains with two hired men and camping gear. He notes strong local patriotism and prior monuments in The Dalles and seeks $7000 for permanent stone marker near the city.
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Pendleton
Umatilla
Tutullla
Ezra Meeker
Indiana
Kunkel
Cottonwood
Pine Mountains
Meacham
Nimoon
Aetizated
Mae
Dresa
Pioneer retraces emigrant train route with monuments planned
Rera Meeker will lecture tomorrow night at the courthouse at 7 o'clock. He presents over 100 views with an atereopticon, showing scenes from the old trail he will traverse this season with an ox team. The journey aims to preserve the route of the old treaty and honor those involved. attendees urged, small admission to cover travel expenses.
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Rera Meeker
Court House
Gonson
Meeker Pioneer Drives Quest to Save Continental Highway
Mr Meeker, 1852 pioneer, travels across the continent from Bentile via Portland to Indianapolis to rescue the great highway. He funds the journey with his own expenses, offering entertainments and lectures along the route. Visitors are invited to his camp near the Kunkel Implement store.
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Khoki
Meeker
Bentile
Portland
Indianapolis
Maorka
Oregon
Meeher
Kunkel Impement
Perkins in Court on Habeas Warrant
Justice Greenbaum of the state supreme court issued a writ of habeas corpus and certiorari for George W. Perkins claiming he is imprisoned and restrained without a proper order. Officers were ordered to bring Perkins to court immediately. The arrest warrant charged larceny and Perkins was released to his counsel without speaking.
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New York
Justice Greenbaum
State Supreme Court
George W. Perkins
Perkins
Six Italians Murdered in Minneapolis Hovel Why Bodies Multiplied
Minneapolis report of a brutal double murder and four more found hacked in pieces in a southside hovel. Nine men rented the house. no robbery evident though a 3500 Italian coin hoard and a 376 check to Nicoll Demtric were taken. Greek Catholic priest robes and varied passports surfaced in found grips. Seven Greeks later arrested. officials suspect political or religious motive rather than Italian culprits.
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Minneapolis
Tenth Avenue South
Wirtime
New Salem
Kreleten
Rovkn
N. 10
Arno Demetri
Dalton Caponi
Cam Yeay
St. Paul
Knox Attacks Hepburn Bill in Senate Speech
Washington March 28 Senator Knox in a rate bill speech argued the Hepburn proposal is clearly unconstitutional and warned the measure repeats a tyrant’s prerogative. He urged explicit judicial review and condemned the bill’s constitutional overreach amid broader naval and consular service news from the same day.
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Smoot
Naval Hill Calix
Navy Yard
Washington
Knox
Perrons
National Rifle Match to Open at Sea Girt in September
Washington March 28 1906 The Great National Rifle Match will begin September 4 at Sea Girt New Jersey with about 1000 marksmen expected from across the United States including teams from nearly every state Puerto Rico Hawaii and the armed services. The ranges have been expanded and improvements made to speed competition and accommodate assistants markers and officials. Some board members favor moving the 1907 event to Fort Riley Kansas for central location.
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United States
Washington
D. C
Sea Girl
N. I
Sea Girt
National Board For
Fort Riley
Kaw
Operators and Miners Debate Wage Scale Inquiry
The Indianapolis session on March 8 resumed J. H. Winders' motion to adopt the current wage scale with basing police at Danville and Hocking Valley. The debate was acrimonious as Moorehead alleged miners breach agreements, Mitchell pressed for disclosures on company railroad ties, and statements surfaced about railroad ownership. An advocacy for a Roosevelt or miners committee inquiry sparked calls to examine company books, with the likelihood that all mining branches will be investigated.
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Indianapolis
J. H. Winders
Danville
Hocking Valley
A. J. Moorehead
Walker
Illinois
Moorehead
le ‘Anole
Mitchell
Hammond
Ill
Roosevelt
Rock Island
Return of Pioneer A Stockman to Umatilla County
A Stockman, early settler of Umatilla County born in 1859, has returned after years away and plans to settle in the northern part of the county. He first came in 1459 and lived on the Hudson Bay ranch owned by W. S. Goodman, later selling it for two yoke of oxen. He recalls the county seat dispute favoring Pendleton, noting suspicions of double voting. After stints in Kanes and Idaho, he now seeks a new home in the county’s north at age 77.
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A. Stockman
Ameanla
Mr. Stockman
Hudson Bay
W. 8. Goodman
Stockman
Pendleton
Umatilla
Kanes
Idaho
Botre
Fnally
Delinquent Tax Payments Reminder Next Saturday Limit
Taxpayers must pay at least half of their taxes by next Saturday evening to avoid delinquency. Deputy Funk notes payments this year are near last year except O L & S company has paid ahead. The statute outlines penalties including 10 percent added balance and 12 percent annual interest from the first Monday in April, with sheriff sales of lands and certificates if unpaid by March 1 of the following year.
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Cajeshalf
Teeputy
A. C. Funk
Traces of Poison in McVicar Trunk Murder Case
Coroner Southworth reports traces of poison in the stomach of McVicar, victim of the trunk murder. Preliminary analysis by a chemist indicates a weight alkaloid reaction supporting the theory that McVicar was drugged before being placed in the trunk and suffocated. Mrs Ledoux cried in court as Jaffier Benjamin and his wife observed the scene.
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Stockton
Mareh
Mra
Ledoux
Jaffier Benjamin
Southworth
Eee
Polmen
McVicar
Thi
McVicar Wie
Chicago Wheat Market Quotation From Great Center
Chicago Wheat Market reports close wheat at 77 cents, corn at 44 1 8, eats at 408 8. The Phippses will remarry. Denver reports Lawrence Phipps, the noted multimillionaire, reconciling with his divorced wife and planning to remarry in California.
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Chicago
Phippses
Denver
Lawrence Phipps
Atoe
California
Phipps
San Francisco
Time
Steeple Jacks Die After 104 Foot Fall at Dayton Church
George Al Hoon and Charles Saunders died when they fell from a church steeple during morning work at Dayton Ohio. The 104 foot drop killed both men instantly and shocked the local community.
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Dayton
George al- Hoon
Charles Saunders
Meeting of Commercial association to discuss monument
President Cohen calls a meeting of the Commercial association at 4:30 tomorrow in the association parlors to devise ways and means for erecting a monument on the old Umatilla train point. Nelson, B. C., purchases three and a half acres for a city park.
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Cohen
Commercial Association
Umatilla
Nelson
B. C
Callahan Denies D A Oregon Change
Baker City March 29 Col Emmett Callahan of this city expressed confidence there would be no change in the United States district attorneyship for Oregon and said he is vot candidate for the office. He is a personal friend of the president and helped recruit troops for Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He also campaigned for Roosevelt in New York State.
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Cine Callahan
Baker City
Col
Emmett Callahan
United States
Oregon
Col. Callahan
Montana
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
New York State
Business Trespasses Burned in Johnstown Fire
Fire this morning destroyed three business blocks in Main Hadford and Clinton streets Johnstown Pa March 28 It was controlled at oclock with a loss of 600000 The Swank Hardware company six story building led the losses and others were damaged by the blaze.
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Johnstown
Main
Hadford
Clinton
At & O'Clock
Swank Hardware
Malin Loms
High School Literaries Set for April Declamatory Oratorical Shows
Pendleton high school forms two literary societies Philomathian and Nautilian with names and members chosen for a declamatory team and an oratorical squad. Tryouts start in April with events at assembly hall on April 9 and 13, local winners to compete at Walla Walla on May 17 and Union in May. Field work and athletic practice also begin for upcoming events.
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Walla Walla
Union
Pendleton High School
Assembly Hall
Lucile Rader
Ruth Gibson
Harry Chandler
Gertrude Jordan
Ethel Starkes
Eva
Orville Reeves
Cora Warner
Early Hults
Dalsey
Bessie McPherson
Dave Hill
George Strand
Javina Stanfield
Dean Goodman
Elmer Storie
Frank Pierce
Edna Zimmerman
Ray Vogel
Gerald Stanfield
Societien
Tre
Philomathean
Oregon
Search Discloses Nothing in Sawmill Explosives Case
Pocatello March 28. Up to noon today the search for concealed explosives in the abandoned sawmill described in Steve Adams confession has yielded no important findings. Workmen dug around the ground and found only a bottle residue and tin bucket remains. Adams swears he buried the package but cannot recall the exact location. The building now serves as a stable and changes in the area hinder his memory. The search will continue until the surrounding ground is fully covered.
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Pocatello
Steve Adams
Adams
Woh
Adames
Black Hand Featured At Fraser Theater Tonight
Fraser Theater presented Old Virginia to a fair sized audience last night. Tonight the Black Hand, a company favorite, will be repeated by special request. The company has enjoyed a successful engagement here and is encouraged by strong patronage. The Binck Hand melodrama of the Kentucky mountains is also praised as particularly thrilling.
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Virginia
Fraser Theater Company
Binck
Kentucky
Cedar River Flood Destroys Waterloo District
Cedar River rose seven feet this morning flooding Waterloo’s business district. Levee broke, YMCA and stores and residences cut off. hundreds homeless as rail lines and roads flooded. Estimated $100,000 in damage at Cedar Falls. Authorities say the worst is over.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Cedar River
Cedar Falls
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