Pendleton Commercial backs ast Umatilla project letter
The Pendleton Oregon Commercial Association board urged Secretary Hitchcock to approve the ast Umatilla irrigation project. They argued the plan is small, cost efficient, boosts settlement, soil cultivation, and rapid transport via Oregon Rail and Navigation, Great Northern, and Northern Pacific lines, and would demonstrate federal reclamation work while countering private delays and uncertainty.
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Memorial
Oregon
Board of Managers of
the Commercial Association
Secretary of the Interior
Umatilla
Reclamation Service
J. F. McNaught
A. C. Crawford
D. ‘Teel
Echo
Fande
Hmitchcock
A. Lowell
Pendleton
Ore
Searriary
Oregon Railroas & Navigation
Colwenbla
Great Northern
Aireum
Reclamation Bureau
Amtume
Montana wins timber land claims in public buildings grant case
Butte reports that the government land office in Washington ruled in favor of John A Boohus et al. regarding 40 timber lands in the Little Belt country. Montana will gain timber lands valued at about $100 000, establishing a precedent involving public buildings grants.
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Butte
Governt Land Office
Washington
John A. Boohus
Montana
Miners Proposals for Education and Federal Mining Aid
A long article covers miners resolutions seeking state school support and federal funding for mining research, plus a proposed federal levy to fund schools and reclamation. It also reports Portland industrial expansion with Willamette Iron and Steel Works plans and notes a dramatic blind actress in Des Molinos.
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Miner Om
Trogienss
Expose Details of Legal Expenditures in Mutual Case
Legislative investigators reveal widespread payments labeled legal services and expenses connected to the Mutual life affair. Vouchers show $14,166.68 to San Francisco lawyer Chickering, $250 monthly to the insurance commissioner’s brother, and similar sums to New York Life and the Mutual. The probe highlights alleged rotten practices and resistance to reform without new legislation.
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Penses
San Francisco
McCurdy
Andrew J.quanie
California
Clanle
Equitable
Chickering
Pillsbury
Society
Comntesoner
Ries McCurdy
Budd
New York
New York Life
The
Mutual
Turbulent U S Short Line Inquiry Reach Oregon
Officials question whether Oregon Short Line employees carry insurance and with which company. The probe aims to influence Harriman proxy moves to aid Thomas Lawson. In Walla Walla a man is stabbed in a tavern by a stranger. the victim’s supposed legacy figures in tensions. Ballots in New York debate protest habitations as voting issues loom.
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Aal
Lake
Oregon Short
Avid
Harriman
Thoms Lawson
Birth Announcement for Mie Hower Leavitts Daughter
Bryin's daughter Mie Hower Leavitts gave birth to a son last night. It is her second child, reported from Denver on November 17.
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Keyan
New Grande
Denver
Bryin
Mie Hower Leavitts
Hon
Alimony Suit Decided In Cincinnati Case
Judge Swing awards the wife permanently $250 monthly alimony and $6500 for court costs and attorneys. The ruling ends the alimony suit between the wife and John E. Madden. The case reflects 1908 family law standards and court handling.
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Cincinnati
Segregation of Money Allocates Funds to Schools and Roads
A completed segregation of funds paid yesterday by the O. kh. & 8. company will be deposited to the Treasuer Sommerville. Of the total amount 192,059.71 goes to the general fund for warrant redemption, 8054.24 to the road fund, 57.54 to soldiers and Indians funds, and 11,322.25 to cities and school patrons for district debt taxes. City and district allocations follow for Pendleton and Adams, Athens, and numerous school districts with various amounts. Superintendent Welles says most will fund school improvements or supplies, some for general school purposes, and another apportionment of 14,692.95 may come in a few weeks, not immediate.
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Showiish A.C. Punk
Treteurer
Sommerville Tome Arrow
Pendleton
Adama
Athens
Welles
Flight over Hell Gate ends with forced return
A vessel from Fay Waver broke its jawlight en route to New York. After a crash and repairs, Captain Warren and crew faced a mutinous passenger revolt aboard. A gale battered the ship as the crew returned to dock amid tense aboard tensions.
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New York
Hell Gate
Fay Waver
Machioney
Cuapitade
Herview
Weasel
Ran Francia
Wrt
Eagetelty Tewes
Catin
Drakenbollorr
New Military Buildings Planned for Rose Idaho
Joseph Turner, U S Army construction quartermaster, authorized to advertise for bids on 22 new buildings at Fort Bol barracks. Plans include regimental HQ for colonel and major, four troops of cavalry, a hospital corps, a 49 piece band, stables for 50 horses, hospital and citadel units. Brick and stone with flat roof, fireproof. Estimated cost 460000. Completion targeted July 1, 2006.
Death by Own Action at Ogden in Jilted Lover Case
E T Mc Mahon of Ontario Canada shot himself this morning in Ogden York after being jilted. He left a deposit certificate and arranged for his remains to be shipped home. The note mentions a broken romance with a woman who ran off with another man.
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New York
Legisative Investigating
Frank B. Jordan
The
Equitable
Thomas D. Jordan
Canada
Sampel & McCurdy
Alexander
Ogden
York
E.T. McMahon
Ontario
Aho
Murder Story: Oliver Pierson Found Dead in Morrow County
Oliver Pierson, a 25 year old Swede and longtime Morrow County resident, was found dead in a hotel water closet with a knife wound to the throat. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by self-inflicted wound, with no motive established. Local business interests noted Pierson’s plans for a Lonte livery stubhe, and acquaintances described him as cheerful and talkative before the incident.
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Morrow County
Lone
Tone
Severnls Oliver Plerenon
A. Ford
Fivehet Company
Portland
Fort
A. Reid
T. J. Mahoney
HL Averitt
Coghran
Ploraon
Lexington
LL Jordin
Lonte
Howe
Milord
TJ Carte
Workingmen After Results Express Suspicion of Prime Minister
The Dalw mayor warns the peony revolt cannot be appeased by promises. Reports from St Petersburg on Nov 17 note mutiny in the Manchurian army with heavy casualties and executions of 45 officers. Witte appeals to strikers, while factory notices urge workers to resume toil. The cruiser Minneapolis is ordered to Baltic waters in case Americans need evacuation.
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Dalw
St. Petersburg
Tiia
Petersburg
Witte
Hewalt
Novikoff
Baku
Cxar
Croleer
Washington
Minneapolis
Chester
Baltic Sea
Kronstadt
St Petersburg
Alate
Prohibition Case Fines Ed Hart in Sunday Saloons
Ed Hart was fined 100 dollars and ordered to pay 106 dollars in poling court for allowing a minor to enter his saloon on Sunday. The trial featured testimony from Officer Woatwick, Joe Abrahwma, City Clerk Teal, Violet Amer, and employee Ed Warner, with Hart denying the girl entered the premises. The judge’s ruling followed testimonies about the Sunday closing hours and the aloon’s operations in Centralia, Washington.
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Ed Hart
Poling
Shell
Chet ML Rahn
HW Hark
Hike
Hart
Divarse Congres Hutte Mont We Have A Senator Kyte
Fragmentary OCR notes show a political reference involving a congress, a senator named Kyte, and locations in Montana. The readable bits mention butte and february, suggesting a legislative or electoral context. Core names and places are partial and uncertain due to the damaged text.
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Hutte
Mont
Poole
Teepen
Werner Phy Hacker
Pritoniveitin
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