Girl found murdered during manhunt in Angeles park
Police traced a case in May as Annie Pollera disappeared near an Angeles park. Martin Baumeister testified he spoke to the girl on the road before a Mexican man avoided his greeting and fled. The Mexican suspect remained at large as authorities pressed the hunt.
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Tae Angeles
Annie Pollera
Whriing
Martin Baumeister
Baumeister
Ermo
Italy
Ploggio Puccio
Basel
Imassin
Puoelo
Leutenant
Petrosine
Quarrel Over Road Ends in Fatal Shootings Near Milton
Long standing neighbors dispute over a road led Mike Ryan to shoot at Jacob Shubert and Dixon, who were with Shubert. Dixon died from a bullet wound after stepping between Ryan and Shubert. Ryan fled, a posse surrounds the house, and Sheriff Taylor takes up the case as questions of self harm or capture linger.
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East Oregonian
Milton
Ryan
Taylor
Iryon
Dixon
Shubert
Hudson Bay
Will Dixon
Jacob Shubert
Mike Ryan
Geer Springs
Walla Walla
Ryan Ine
Plucky Seattle girl fights burglar in home
Clara Anderson, a servant at Leo Schwabacher’s Seattle home, awoke to a gas odor and found a prowler in her room. She armed with a baseball bat and knocked him down with a sewing tool, losing the fight briefly before the burglar fled, dropping jewelry valued at two thousand dollars and escaping with thirty dollars.
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Seattle
Clara Anderson
Leo 8
Schwabacher
Schwabacher Hardware Co
Friend of Petrosino Murders Spark Police Probe
In New York on May 21 police suspect a motive linked to a close friendship with Lieutenant Petrosino, whose assassination prompted a case marked by threats and a fatal shooting amid ongoing investigations.
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New York
Petrosino
Pel
Senate panel to cut finished lumber rates report
Washington May 21 The senate service committee decided to reduce proposed rates on finished lumber with the concession not declared It hinges on action on rough lumber Senior Culbertson attacked the protective tariff claiming higher living costs exceed wage gains and accused the DIL of aiding trusts He said the bill lets American protected manufacturers undercut foreign rivals and warned the Republican party pushes centralization of power in Washington.
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Washington
Senate Service Committee
Culbertson
Wid
Republican Party
Murdered Prineville Woman Engaged by Letter
Ruth Leroy of Prineville Oregon, murdered by husband L H Worley who then killed himself two days after their marriage, had become engaged to him by correspondence while living at Sprague Nebraska. She left Sprague two weeks before the tragedy and worked as a domestic for Dr W E Lamb in Lincoln Nebraska. Long distance correspondence connected her with Worley, and friends advised returning home if the husband proved unsatisfactory. She instead married him.
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Lincoln, Neb
Ruth Leroy
Pear Prineville
L. H. Worley
Sprague
W. E. Lamb
Lincoln
Twenty-first
M Streets
Worley
Mall
Mother and Child Die in Oil Lamp Fire at Atlanta
Bolse May 21 Fire from an oil lamp explosion killed Mrs. Charles Breyer and her two year old son at the Atlanta mining town forty miles east of Boise. The mother escaped and died three hours later after seeking help. only a few bones remained of the child. Breyer worked the night shift in the mining mill.
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Bolse
Charles Breyer
Atlanta
Boise
Breyer
Woman Kills Three Children Then Herself in Connecticut
Middleton Conn May 1 Heartlessly cutting the throats of her three children aged ten months seven and sixteen years Mrs Lewin Carstein 35 committed death by her own action in the same way today John aged 7 is expected to die before night and the other two are dead Temporarily insane it is supposed the woman was enraged by some act of the children and seized a familiar weapon to begin her fatal act.
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Middleton
Conn
Lewin Carstein
John
Polly and Dolly Wedding Trip Pocket Stingy Remark
Dolly notes his return from the wedding trip with only 2.95 in his pocket. Polly derisively calls him stingy, prompting a sharp exchange captured in a brief social moment.
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Dolly
Polly
Funeral for H. H. Rogers Halts Standard Oil Machinery
New York on May 21 records the worldwide slowdown of Standard Oil as H. H. Rogers is laid to rest. Rev. Robert Collyer eulogizes the deceased at the Unitarian church of the Messinh, noting the church crowded with his colleagues and the casket heaped with flowers. The body is to lie in state in Far her en before interment tomorrow.
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New York
Standard Oil Corporation
H. H. Rogers
Robert Collyer
Unitarian Church
Peace advocates urge world arbitration at Lake Mohonk
The May 21 Lake Mohonk peace conference adopted a platform for a world arbitration system and a court of arbitration. It urged limiting armed forces and war budgets, and urged President Taft to lead nations toward concurrent arms reductions. J Allen Baker urged Britain’s Dreadnaught program and warned the world’s peace rests with the United States Germany and Great Britain. Businessmen from 58 chambers of commerce across 19 states and Canada supported a Taft initiative to curb armies and navies.
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United States
Court of World Arbitration— Peace of World
United Sates
Germany
Great Britain
Lake Mohonok
N. Y
Peace Conference
Sage Tribunal
J. Allen Baker
M. P
Mohonk Lake
Haker
England
Taft
Chambers of Commerce
States
Canada
Heney Still Special Government Prosecutor
Attorney General Wickersham sent a full statement to District Attorney Langdon of San Francisco detailing Heney's government ties and the amount paid to him in connection with the United Railroads case. The statement responds to a telegram from Patrick Calhoun. Heney remains on the rolls as special assistant attorney general and Wickersham urges all attorneys involved in the Calhoun trial to review it.
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Washington
Wickersham
Langdon
San Francisco
Heney
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Calhoun
Aged Mother From San Francisco Reunites In Pendleton Jail
Mrs. J Moran arrives from San Francisco to post bail for her son Jerome Moran known as Jack Murray, jailed for selling liquor to an Indian. He had a five day sentence that would extend twelve more days due to lack of funds, but the mother's arrival brings hoped freedom as she offers money to end his confinement.
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J. Moran
Jerome Moran
Jack Murray
San Francisco
Pendleton
Sgo Md
Murray
Moran
Moren
Jack
Freaidom
Etsy
Northwest Railroads Seek Puget Sound Connections
A. W. Trenholm, GM of Chicago St Paul and Minneapolis and Omaha, touring the northwest, hints Vanderbilt system plans to extend to Puget Sound cities. Reports say Chicago Northwestern will push to the coast via the Black Hills line from Lander Wyoming, with Idaho work underway and Spokane to coast line under Northwestern backing.
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Northwest
Puget
Chicago
Northwestern
Black Hills
Spokane
Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific
A. W. Trenholm
Black Hills Line
Lander
Wyoming
Idaho
Northwestern System
North Coast Line
Deschutes Right of Way Delayed by Ballinger Review
Washington May 21 Land Commissioner Dennett said the office cannot act on E H Harriman s request for the Deschutes railroad right of way for the upper 60 miles until Secretary Ballinger rules on a motion to review the protest by private power companies against any right of way up the Deschutes canyon The motion cannot be acted on before June 6 and maps for the upper stretch cannot be approved while the lower stretch issue awaits decision Ballinger has held private power companies lack grounds to protest and is expected to deny the motion.
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Washington
Dennett
E. H. Harriman
Deschutes Railroad
Ballinger
Deschutes Canyon
Harriman Wins Fight With Hill in Portland Gateway Case
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled for Harriman in the Portland gateway dispute, requiring Northern Pacific to join U R N and Union Pacific to sell through tickets via Portland between Puget Sound and eastern points. The long contest, spanning a quarter century, now allows eastern cities to route to Puget Sound with tickets reading via Portland. Prior travel via Portland required an additional ticket upon arrival.
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Portland
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hill
Puget Sound
Harry Orchard Hard at Work in Pen
Boise May 21 Harry Orchard star witness for the prosecution in the Haywood Pettbone case is serving life for Governor Steunenberg’s murder He is now in the shop department under Warden Whitney and has been moved from commissary duty by Snook the new warden to hard labor treated like a life prisoner
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Boise
Harry Orchard
Iife
Steunnenberg
Whitney
Snook
Prescott Agent Herbert Bryant Visits Pendleton on Way to Heppner
Herbert Bryant formerly an O. R. & N. agent at Prescott and later telegraph operator at Heppner was in Pendleton today en route to Heppner after visiting Spokane. He expects a soon transfer to the Waltington division near Spokane on the O. R. N. line.
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Herbert Bryant
Prescott
Heppner
Pendleton
Spokane
Br. Brymie
Waltington
Seventeen to Graduate at Pendleton High School
The Pendleton high school will hold its annual graduation at the Methodist church at 8 o'clock tonight. Seventeen seniors will receive diplomas, with Miss Warner valedictorian and Miss Dahlgren salutatorian. The program includes music by the high school chorus and band, readings, and several orations by graduates, with Dr. C. J. Smith presenting the diplomas.
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M. E. Church
Warner
Dahlgren
de. C. J. Smith
J. R. Dickson
Pendleton High School
Methodist Church
Charles Quinney
Evelyn Ford
Eeeuessaey
Stretzkl
C. J. Smith
H. R. Palmer
Mary
Walker
Frank BE
Engdahl
Daisy McPherson
G. A. Weagle
Gertrude Jordan
Harold J. Warner
Cora Warner
Cyrus C. Sturgis
F. DeWitt Binney
Ina Rippey
Anita Slater
Eeeer Eunlee Vogel
City reservoir breaks blocking traffic in Everett
A reservoir break in Everett Washington releases one and a half million gallons of water rushing down a gulch and covering the Great Northern main line tracks to several feet deep. Traffic is completely blocked with no other damage reported. Leaking pipes undercut the reservoir wall caused the breach.
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Everett
Wash
City
Great Northern Railway
Taft Returns to Washington for Cabinet Meetings
President Taft arrived in Washington on May 21 to attend cabinet meetings after a trip. He was greeted by officials and proceeded to a series of discussions on policy and administration.
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Washington
Taft
First carload of cherries shipped from Sacramen to New York
A Sacramento dispatch reports the season’s first carload of cherries sold for 4144 dollars in New York. The shipment left Sacramento in May and arrived in New York in good condition.
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San Francisco
Sacramento
New York
New Yorte
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Harold Johnson Warner
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