More Probing at Olympia Insurer Refuses to Resign
Olympia May 14 and legislative agents expect a special session to probe state offices after Insurance Commissioner Schively refused to resign and vowed to defy the investigating committee. Mason County’s W M Beach prepares charges against officers incurring last biennial deficits. about 32 officers could face civil and criminal action. Portland judge James W. Robinson doubts Schively can be held under law, citing weak Washington insurance statutes and unexamined expenses as factors in the scandal.
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Olympia
Legislative Investigation Committee
Ths
Olympian
Schively
Legislative Committee
W. M. Beach
Mason County
Ttme
Nerre
Portland
J. S. Schively
Washington
James W. Robinson
Washington Supreme Court
Nichols
Schively Ia
Beveridge Targets Tobacco Trust In Senate Speech
Washington May 14 Senator Beveridge of Indiana denounced the tobacco trust as a compact private monopoly and urged an amendment to the tariff bill to raise duties on tobacco. He claimed $184,009,657 in lost revenues over eight years and said the measure would add about $21,461,064 annually. The plan would raise rates on smoking and chewing tobacco, fine cut, snuff, and cigars, with minimal impact on cigars sold cheaply. Cigarettes would face steeper per package taxes under the proposal.
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Washington
Tobacco Trust
Beveridge
Indiana
Senate
Portland Business Men Arrive at Marton
Portland business men arrive on special train at Marton and are greeted by locals in a morning reception. The event showcases regional commerce ties and features brief remarks by local officials and business leaders.
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Portland
Marton
Matton
Portland Businew
Soldiers clash with mob at jail in Tyler Texas
Dallas May 14 report says soldiers clash with a mob at Tyler Texas as residents try to rescue jailed citizens linked to the May 3 lynching of Jim Hargis. Troops guard the jail amid the confrontation.
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Dallas
Tex
Tyler
Texas
Jim Hargis
Matton Town placards advertise local businesses
In a depot area scene Matton business men displayed placards bearing their names and trade, the town band provided music, and Portland visitors borrowed placards for photographs showing their names and line of business.
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Matton
Heinze Reindicted on Bank Misappropriation Charges
New York May 4 Heinze was re indicted by the federal grand jury on misappropriation of Mercantile National Bank funds with intent to defraud. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bond of 59000. The indictment lists claims totaling 4927500 with half alleged as total losses. The case mirrors the earlier indictment leading to banker Charles Morse Wig’s conviction. Former U S Judge Wallace and John C Tomlinson represented Heinze, with plea change rights reserved within a week.
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New York
Heinze
Mercantile National Bank
Whitch
Charles Morse Wig
United States
Jinige Wallace
John C. Tomlinson
Fight Over Wool Freight Rates at Salem Hearing
Oregon wool growers and Portland manufacturers argued before the state railroad commission in Salem that carload rates from Portland to Boston are cheaper than less-than-carload rates from eastern Oregon to Portland. Senator Tom Kay led the defense for the wool interests, seeking to restore a prior $1 straight rate on scoured wool sacks and push for Oregon cartload pricing to boost eastern Oregon wool shipments to western mills.
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Portland
Boston
Oregon
Umatilla
State Railroad Commission
Salem
Tom Kay
Salem Woolen Tills
State Wool Growers’ Association
Mass
Southern Pacific
T. B. Kay
Salem Woolen Mills
Woolgrowers’ Association
Harriman Lines
Pendleton
Sa Jem
Kay
Willamette Valley
Payne Bill Revioues Up Compared With Dingley Tariff
Washington, May 14. Senator Culberson releases a tabulated comparison showing higher duties under the Aldrich bill than the Dingley tariff on hundreds of articles. Ferro tristen jumps 4200 percent from four dollars a ton to twenty percent ad valorem. ferrochrome 1240 percent. other metal items up to 225 percent. Grains and foods see 25 to 100 percent increases. old wines and spirits 15 to 71 percent.
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Washington
Senate
Culberson
Texas
Salmon money to be put in real estate
San Francisco May 14 Announcement was made today that the R D Flume company which recently sold for two million welfare the vist hold inge in Oregon and Washington intended to invest heavily to San Francisco rent estate.
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San Francisto
R. Dflume Company
Vist
Oregon
Washington
San Frantisco
Spokane installs new mayor in city
Spokane Washington May 14 The new city administration headed by Mayor N. & Pratt democrat was installed today The mayor s message stressed increasing the water supply by thirty percent Two Dead in Shaw Pight San Angelo Texas May 14 Two dead a third wounded and authorities in pursuit of another result of a deadly fight at a West show tent last night The shooting followed the performance
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Spokane
Wash
N. & Pratt
Shaw Pight
San Angelo
Tex
Governor and wife join Roseburg strawberry festival
Governor Henam and wife along with Attorney General Crawford visited Roseburg on May 14 to take part in the strawberry festival activities.
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Salem
Henam
Crawford
Roseburg
Bandits Crack Bremerton Postoffice Safe for Stamps
Seattle reports a bold daytime postoffice burglary in Bremerton. Bandits arrived by launch, blew open the safe, and fled with an estimated five to six thousand dollars in stamps and two hundred fifty to three hundred dollars in cash. Mall sacks were scattered and used to muffle the blast.
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Bremerton
Seattle
Would-Be Ouster of Knox in Trouble
Columbus Indiana May 14 Charles Caldwell the attorney who recently tried to oust Secretary Knox from office was arrested after a posse of about a hundred men with two bloodhounds pursued him He is accused of writing to a 16 year old girl inviting her to leave home Caldwell was mud covered when found in his law office He requested to be jailed at Elizabethtown Mrs Caldwell filed divorce suit charging sensational offenses Caldwell first gained notoriety when he
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Columbus
Ind
Charles Caldwell
Knox
Bema Romy
Caldwell
Elmabethtown
Famous Thomas Flyer Pathfinder in Pendleton
The famous Thomas Flyer arrives in Pendleton at 12 30 PM after days behind schedule. H J Miller of Buffalo drives the car toward Walla Walla, with C W Eaton and others aboard. The vehicle, a travel veteran, carries gear and a Winchester, marking the path for a world auto race from New York to Seattle.
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Thomas Flyer
Pathfinder
Pendleton
Walla Walla
H. J. Miller
Buffalo
New York
Paris
C. W. Eaton
L. W. Reddington
New York Herald
J. M. Fily
Kansas
Wyoming
Seattle
Meacham
Athena
Milton
Spean
Secur
Woman Dies After Robbery On Bigelow Gulch Road
Spokane May 14 Miss Ida Smith aged 46 died last night at the Insane asylum at Medical Lake from insanity caused by an encounter with a highwayman four months ago on the Bigelow gulch road near Spokane. She was a poor farmer and left children after robbers took her money and she never recovered.
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Spokane
Ida Smith
Insane Asylum
Medical Lake
Bigelow Gulch Road
Petition Seeks Knox Ouster Over Salary Vote Charge
A petition to Washington calls for Phiander C Knox to be removed as Secretary of State claiming ineligibility for voting to raise his own salary while a senator. Ouster papers were returned to Caldwell for improper drafting. Knox has practiced law here about a year.
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Washington
Phiander C. Knox
Caldwell
Night rider indictment grand jury member hangs self
Union City Pa May 14 Mansfield Harleson a grand jury member who indicted a hundred men for night riding hanged himself to a rafter of his barn last night. The body was found by K Carmack who slept at Harleson s house at his request to assist against night riders whom he feared.
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Union City
Senators Will Wigit Projects Itinerary Released
A Washington announcement outlines a senate irrigation committee tour from Chicago August 31 to early October visiting numerous sites. The itinerary includes an entire inspection day September 24 at the Umatilla project in Hermiston Oregon and a split toward Klamath Falls after arriving in Sacramento.
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Chicago
Oregon
Umatilla Project
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Pinatilla County
Washington
Umatilla
Hermiston
St. Paul
Glendive
Billings
Huntley
Cody, Wy
Cody
Corbett
Powell
Helena
Great Falls
Vaughn
Fort Shaw
Yakima Valley
North Yakima
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Boise
Nampa
Minidoka
Heyburn
Pendleton Wins Debate in Easy Victory Over Newberg
Pendleton high school debaters defeated Newberg by unanimous judge decision to advance to the final at the state university. The event at the Methodist church drew a half-filled audience, with Mote schenbacher leading the affirmative and Harold Warner starring for the negative.
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Pendleton
Eugene
Pendleton High School
Neweberg
The
State University
Newberg
J. R. Raley
Misa Hutchns
Sadye Ford
Katherine Bryan
Frank Engdah
Dale Trew
Motschenbacher
Roy Rowland
Warner
President French
Eon
German envoy meeting in Mexico City signals ambassadorial move
Ding received German Minister Baenz in private audience in Mexico City yesterday. Baenz delivered a Maltogragh letter from the German Emperor stating the German representative here had been mulled to an ambassaidor.
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Ding
Bocny
Mexico City
Karl Baenz
Maltogragh
eMmireror
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Insurance Commissioner
August Steinze
Dingley
Payne
Stowe
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Thomas Pathfinder Garotopo
Istangs
W. T. Moteschenbacher
Harold Warner
Young Warner
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