Ballinger Secrecy Sparked Alaska Coal Claim Standoff
L. R. G ravis recounts in detail how Secretary Ballinger and his aide allegedly shaped Alaska coal land patents to favor Cunningham interests. He argues Ballinger pressured for patenting suspect claims, while later acting as attorney for the Cunningham group and as Interior Secretary, raising claims of improper influence and government malfeasance.
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Alaska
L. R. Gravis
General Land Office
Collier's Weekly
Richard A. Ballinger
United States
Land Office
Roosevelt
Supreme Court of the United States
Alaska Coal Lands
Cunningham Group
Cunningham
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Wickersham
Cone
Department of Agriculture
Immedi
Taft
H. K. Love
Horace T. Jones
Fred Dennett
Jones
Love
Seattle
Washington
Department of Justice
Bailinger
Dennett
R. A. Ballinger
Juneau Land Office
T Be
Dr Cook Answers Attack On His Arctic Claims
New York reports Dr Frederick A Cook, who had retired to a quiet place, issued a statement through a friend replying to Rear Admiral Chester of the National Geographic Society. He defends his records, notes alleged mislocation of the midnight sun, plans to send data to Copenhagen, and proposes joint examination of original notes and instruments with Commander Peary at the University of Copenhagen.
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New York
Frederick A. Cook
Chester
W National Geographics Society
Brooklyn
Washington
Cook
Copenhagen
Denmark
University of Copenhagen
National Geographical Society
Peary
Taft’s Long Journey Ends With Views on Banking and Navy
Taft wraps up a long tour and heads to Washington for ten hours before traveling to Middletown Connecticut to help Wesleyan College’s inauguration. He endorses postal savings bank ship subsidy merchant marine and a simplified government, saying the southern trip gained him conservative Democratic support and alignment with party elements for the coming winter session.
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Entire Nation
Wilmington
N.C
Taft
Washington
Middletown
Conn
Shancklin
Wesleyan College
Congress
Roosevelt African trip unsettles Paris social circles
Paris newspapers devote space to Roosevelt but ignore the Africa visit facts. A Rome-dated Peter Parisian article claims Roosevelt aims to push territorial aggression, using Africa as a pretext for a political campaign.
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Paris
Roosevelt
Africa
Peter Parisian
Rome
Dogs ashes not mingled with mistress dog ashes
Berkeley November 9 The body of Mrs Sarah Slaughter Delorme an artist was cremated today but her two pet dogs were not cremated with her as she requested before death. She had arranged with friends that the dogs ashes would be mingled with hers but Dr Kelsey and the undertaker refused the request and the animals were allowed to live.
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Berkeley
Calls
Sarah Slaughter Delorme
Kelsey
Swinburne Emerges As Independent Mayoral Candidate
Dr E R Swinburne likely to run for mayor on the Independent ticket after J P Winter resigns from the race. Incumbent E J Murphy-Resig remains in field with Swinburne soon to file nominating petition via attorney C J Ferguson. Swinburne long a physician in Hepprecr, now a city resident active in Knights of Pything and Elks.
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J. P. Winter
Feild
E. J. Murphy
Swinburne
Hepprecr
Knights of Pything
The
Elks
Winter
Dr. Swinburne
C. J. Ferguson
City Recorder
Los Angeles to Select Mayoralty Candidates
Los Angeles Calif November following names will be submitted to voters tomorrow to select mayoralty candidates appearing on ballots for December election Incumbent George Alexander and challengers William Mushet George A Smith Oscar Farish W Scott Lewis J C Hurley J W Jones under the commission form names appear without party affiliations on ballots
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Los Angeles
Calif
George Alexander
William Mushet
George A. Smith
Oscar Farish
W. Scott Lewis
J. C. Hurley
J. W. Jones
Commission
Besieged Russian Consulate at Ardebil in Distress
Teheran reports from Ardebil that the besieged Russian consulate will fall within twenty four hours unless aid arrives. Three thousand tribesmen threaten capture as the city is sacked and women are outraged. Reinforcements and Turkish authorities are rushing to reach Ardebil.
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Teperan
Ardebit
Ardebil
Field peas as rotation crop urged by Dr Withycombe
Dr James Withycombe advises hailing of field peas on wheat land to replenish soil nutrients and improve moisture retention. At Union station ten experiments show good yields without irrigation, predicting a profitable 2500 pounds of pork and about 200 dollars from ten yields, plus soil benefits for eastern Oregon wheat.
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James Withycombe
Corvallis
Union
Fixt
Robert Withycombe
Union Station
Withycombe
Oregon
Withycambe
Wimspecifly
Oregon Woolgrowers' Association
Woolgrowers Annual Convention Opens in Pendleton
The twelfth annual meeting of the Oregon Woolgrowers Association opened in Pendleton with over 100 delegates. City officials welcomed attendees, President Burgess spoke by proxy, and George McKnight led a lively opening in his response to welcomes. Burgess urged unity on issues of leasing public lands, tariffs, and forest policy while highlighting benefits of state cooperation and prior laws aiding wool production. Judge Lowell delivered a key address urging conservative forest management and support for sustained livestock industry.
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Pendleton
Association
J. N. Burgess
George McKnight
Yale
Murphy
J. Roy Raley
Commercial Association
Lot
Abraham
J. P. Winter
Will Moore
Raley
McKnight
Dan P. Smythe
J. N Burgess
Burgess
Congress
Oregon Association
Forest Service
Lowell
Stephen A. Lowell
Central Asia
Mediterranean
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Ead
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Mistress
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Ferguson
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Geo. McKnight
Oaties
Assembly
Ange Leasing
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