Pendleton Board Reelects Most Teachers In High School Additions Planned
The Pendleton school board voted to reelect most staff in a quiet annual teacher election. Landers remains Pendleton superintendent and A C Hampton returns as high school principal for a sixth year. Domestic science and manual training departments will be added with Mira Christi Moore leading the former. Several transfers and new assignments fill grades across Lincoln Hawthorne and Fields schools as the Fields annex nears opening.
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Landers
Pendleton
A. C. Hampton
Mary Harvey
Lincoln School
Mary Zurcher
Corps of Instruction
Katherine Sharp
Hawthorne
Zurcher
Mona Nagh
Washington School
Sharp
Washington
Emma Richardson
Leone Matthews
Neva Laine
Fields School
Haseen
Haseen Tranferred To the Washington School and Miss Angela Schroeder
Lincoln
Mira Christi Moore
Oregon Agricultural College
7. S Landers
Co. c. Huth
A. A.asbahr
Mary EE
Elder
Ella Posten
Une Jones
Ruth Wise
Louise Wise
Christin Moore
Manuel
Lula George
Prin
Miss Angeles
Mary
Nobles Amid Titanic Inquiry Over Evacuation
London May 17. Amid a fashionably gathered hearing before the board of trade Sailor Henderson testified that the Duff Gordons urged him not to return to the sinking liner as cries for help rang out Lord and Lady Duff Gordon denied the charge saying she was too seasick to protest and that he believed all the women were taken off when he entered the lifeboat
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London
Asquith
Lord
Duff Gordon
Board of Trade
Henderson
Hfe
Lady Duff Gordon
One Judge Fines Another For Contempt In Chicago
Superior Judge McKinley fined County Judge Owens Chief of Police McWeenney Assistant Chief Schuettler and Election Commissioner Czarnecki six hundred dollars each plus costs for contempt of court after they helped breach an injunction by storming the Seventh Regiment armory to disrupt the county Democratic convention. The judge warned that a court’s authority hinges on obedience to a higher court.
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Chicago
Seventh Regiment
McKinley
Owens
McWeenney
Schuettler
Czarnecki
Owens Left His Bench and Went To the Convention Hall
La Follette to charge three millionaires over Roosevelt
Chicago May 17 Senator La Follette said before departing for Bowling Green Ohio that he would charge at the campaign stop there that three millionaires tied to big business raised one million dollars to finance the Roosevelt effort. The men named were George W Perkins of J P Morgan & company Judge Garry of United States Steel and Dan R Hanna son of the late Mark Hanna.
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Chicago
Bowling Green
Ohio
la Follette
Roosevelt
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan & Company
Judge Garry
United States Steel Corporation
Dan R. Hanna
Mark Hanna
Bandit Escanes Bank Heist Probe Continues in Nevada
Bandit Escanes remains at large after the Nevadi bank robbery in Grass Valley California May 17. He forced two men and a woman into the vault at gunpoint and escaped with about $2000 in coin. police report no trace found as the manhunt continues today.
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Bandit Escanes
Grass Valley
Calif
Nevadi Bank
Submarine Tuna Grounded Near Egg Harbor Shoals
Submarine Tuna runs aground in fourteen feet of water off Egg Harbor shoals near Atlantic City on May 17. Captain Dannhaur Lieutenant Hyatt and four others aboard. Life savers cannot approach due to night conditions and safety fears for those aboard.
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Atlantic City
Tuna
Egg Harbor Shoals
Dannhaur
Hyatt
Another Mabel Warner 3 New Sensation Will Case
Susie B. Young of Alhambra California mails a letter claiming a second Mabel Warner exists and alleging possible fraud in the famous will case. She provides family trunks and a genealogical tree to the county clerk, asks for verification, and warns of potential misuse of the name to gain property.
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Mabel Warner
Warner
Saling
Susie B. Young
North
Flint Street
Alhambra
California
Alpheus
Young
Mabel Young Warner
Michael
Sam
Thaw son’s court hearing sparks family contact hope
Reports from New York on Evelyn Thaw planning to withdraw from visits with Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, as he faces a sanity hearing with sheriff approvals. Friends doubt the move, noting Thaw enjoyed wide access to his family in White Plains and that the baby born in Hamburg last spring may be his heir.
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Kiorn
Europe
New York
Evelyn Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan
Evelyn
Harry
Thaw
White Plains
Hamburg
Wm. Thaw
Floyd Allen Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Floyd Allen of the Hillsville gang is convicted of first degree murder after hours of deliberation. The court scene included armed detectives to avert a repeat of the Hillsville tragedy. Judge Staples will defer sentence until other gang members are tried.
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Wythesvilles
Floyd Allen
Bandito
Hillville
Allen
Staples
Shipwrecked and Marooned Honeymoon Tale From South Seas
Captain and Mrs. Thomas Endresen recount a brief South Pacific honeymoon aboard a tug boat near Papeete. After a wreck they were cast on a coral island for three weeks, entertained by a dusky monarch, before arriving in San Francisco. Mrs Endresen, born Anne De Lateur of Pendleton, is well known locally and in Raymond, Washington.
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San Francisco
South Sea
Papeete
Inter
Thomas Endresen
Endresen
Anne de Lateur
Pendleton
Slays Brown Bear Captures Two Cubs in Campaign
Professional hunter S. W. Purdy and farmer William Swant descended from mountains to exterminate predatory beasts. They found two brown bear cubs, about two weeks old, in a tree and captured them. The cubs are exhibited in La Dow & Peterson hardware window with a tree limb and branches. One grown bear’s hide and meat were also taken.
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S. W. Purdy
la Dow & Peterson Hardware
Purdy
William Swant
Hills Lose First Battle in Sait Case
In St Paul on May 17 the state supreme court ruled for the minority stockholders of the Great Northern railroad. J J All and other directors lost the initial bid to dissolve the Lake Superior holding company. Clarence Vennor, an eastern capitalist, accused the Hills and others of purchasing ore properties in 1899 for 34 million dollars using Great Northern funds in violation of the charter.
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Great Northern
Indictment of 23 in Fort Smith Lynch Mob Case
A grand jury investigating the Sanford Lewis lynching on March 23 indicted twenty three persons and blamed city authorities for failing to disperse the mob. Names of the indicted were not released.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Sanford Lewis
Local man home from important meeting
G. M. Thrce of the First National Bank returned from Portland where he attended a session of a governor formed committee to revise Oregon’s insurance code. The Oregonian report notes the State Insurance Commission organized, Paul Sroat elected secretary, and four committees named to handle insurance sectors with Ferguson chairing the insurance departments committee. The commission will reconvene after committee meetings.
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G. M. Thrce
Fishter
First National Bank
Portland
West
Oregonian
State Insurance Commission
General Commission
Paul Sroat
J. 7 Ferguson
W. H. Holds
Forest Grove
Thomas G. Greene
Paul Stoat
L. Samuel
C. A. McCargar
W. C. Hagerty
McMinn- Ville
RHS
Shaw
Mill City
Death of Midshipman Julian Bishop from barber infection
Annapolis reports blood poisoning from a virulent infection during a shave killed Midshipman Julian Bishop of New York City. A popular first class member, he would have completed the course in about four weeks and been commissioned as an ensign.
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Annapolis
Julian Bishop
New York City
Seven Darrow Jurors In Rox Adjoin Noon Recess
Seven permanent jurors were selected for Clarence Darrow bribery trial tied to the Mac Namara case when the Rox court adjourned for a noon recess in Los Angeles on May 17.
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Darrow
Rox
Los Angeles
Clarence Darrow
MacNamara
Witness Confusion Under Archbald Inquiry Revealed
Washington May 17. Ho ward Williams of Scranton retracted earlier testimony to the house judiciary committee probing Judge Archbald’s conduct. He claimed Scranton dealer William Boland influenced him to allege Boland sought Katydid coal pile sale and disputed a letter Archbald allegedly dictated. Reitman plans to seek a governor’s hearing after tar and feather incidents in San Diego.
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Washington, D.C
Howard Williame
Scranton
House Judiciary Committee
Archbald
Commerce Court
William Boland
Williams
Archhbald
Sugar Bills Favorable, Excise Tax Opposed by Committee
Washington May 17 The senate finance committee approved a favorable report on the sugar bill with the Lodge amendment removing differential rates and set to take effect in six months. The committee meanwhile reported adversely on the excise bill also called the income tax measure.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Wright brother Wilbur Wright critical with typhoid fever
Wilbur Weight TL Payton, Ohio, May 17. Wilbur Wright, famed with his brother Orville for the Wright aircraft, lies in critical condition here from typhoid fever. His temperature reached 104 degrees late this afternoon. he has been ill for about a week.
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Wilbur Weight TL Payton, O
Wilbur Wright
Orville
Wright
Bail Bonds Withdrawn Prompt Downtown Vigilance
San Diego on May 17 reports that all T. W. W. suspects are believed free on bail but may be jailed as citizens pull bondsmen from the sureties. Authorities expect compliance while downtown owners guard buildings with watchmen against possible dynamite attacks.
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San Diego
Richeson’s One Hope Vanishes in Executed Minister Case
Boston May 17. Governor Foss will not interfere with Rev. C V Richeson’s electrocation. Alienists report Richeson’s family history of insanity and that he is neurotic and somnambulistic, but conclude he was accountable for the crime. The condemned pastor awaits death with his father arriving to arrange his body for burial in Lynchburg Virginia.
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Boston
Foss
C. V. Richeson
Avis Linnell
Charlestown
Johnson
Allen
Richeson
Lynchburg
Fose
Clarence
Socialists Conventio n Expels Violent Action Members
Indianapolis May 17 The socialist convention amended the constitution to expel any member opposing political action or advocating crime or violence as a method to aid in emancipation. The clause targets those who use violence as a weapon of the working class.
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Indianapolis
Socialist Convention
Roosevelt Opens Ohio Whirlwind Tour At Ironton
Roosevelt began his Ohio stop at Ironton with a strong start drawing over five thousand listeners. He repeated that he already has enough delegates to secure the nomination on the first ballot at Chicago, eliciting cheers.
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Ironton
Roosevelt
Ohio
Chicago
Fears State Branch Hospital May Be Ready Early
Charles A Murphy, superintendent of construction, warns Pendleton may lack water when the East Oregon state hospital branch opens. He cites promises by the water commission to supply a mountain system after a bond vote, which funded the project. A main to the city has been laid, but current capacity is insufficient for both the town and asylum, delaying adequate supply for eight months.
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State Branch
Pendleton
East Oregon State Hospital
Charles A. Murphy
Branch Asylum
Captain Murphy
Water Commission
State Board
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Board of
Lord Duff Gorion
LA Pollette
Shaver Allen
Virginia
Misa Anna de Lateur
Anton de Latour
Raymond
Wash
Cumise
Antwerp
América
Debs
Ind
Eugene V. Debs
Spcialist National Convention
Seasion
Hill
Sait
Reitman
Cal
Ben Reitman
San Diego Viligantes
Copenhagen
Frederick VIII
Denmark
Germany
Christian
Alexandr
Haakon
Norway
Absolon
Keoge Bay
Christianborg Castle
Roskilde Cathedral
Alexandrion
Anarchy
Teddy
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