City’s books poorly kept audit urges overhaul
Spokane accountants Bland and Wilson delivered a detailed report on Pendleton city finances covering 1905 to 1911. They condemned the bookkeeping system as deficient, urged new controls, and noted assets totaling $453,020.21 against liabilities of $454,680.21 with bonds and warrants outstanding.
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Messrs. Bland and Wilson
Spokane
Finance Committee
Pendleton
City
Ftekesamont
American National Bank
Pirat National
Moessie Bland
Wilson
Water Commission
Taft expected to modify Russian treaty message may address travel rights
Washington Nov. 22 a clear report said President Taft may address Congress about negotiations with Russia to revise the 1893 treaty. The focus is on removing the rigid prohibition on the rights of travel and domicile for American citizens in Russia.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Russia
Jury Hears Tar and Feather Testimony at Trial
Lincoln Center Kansas Navy witnesses testified about an assault that tarred and feathered a young schoolteacher, Miss Chamberlain. The jury began deliberations at noon, with motive cited as alleged improper relations involving two men and criticism of married women in the town.
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Lincoln Center
Kas
Navy
Miss Chamberlain
Beattie Sees Kin for the Last Time Before Execution
Henry Beattie is slated for execution by electric chair between 7:20 and 7:26 tomorrow morning in Richmond Virginia. He will arrive at 5:20, shave, eat breakfast, and be escorted to the death chamber by two clergymen while two guards hold his hands. His father, sister, and brother bade him farewell as prayers were offered in his cell. Hoittie has grown more cheerful after embracing religion.
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Richmond
Henry Beattie
Heath Chamber
Hoittie
Hinford Girl Gives Last Interview On Beattie Case
Jeulah Hinford, in New York, says she was Beattie’s victim, denies murder knowledge, and plans to change name and hide. She claims Beattie died for a castoff and pleads for privacy as she undergoes medical work for appendicitis while under watchful care of Isador Bernstein and Rev. Madison Peters.
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Benutah Hinford
New York
Jeulah Hinford
Henry Beattie
Henry
Beattie
Beulah Binford
Isador Bernstein
Madison Peters
Worksire
Technicality May Dull Trust Probe Headlines From 19th Century
Washington reports Chairman Stanley insists on Democratic backing for steel trust investigation. He seeks personal testimony from J. D. Rockefeller and Rev. Gates to explain Merritt’s claim of being deprived of millions in mineral property. Legal objections threaten to halt hearings if congressional action is not taken.
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Washington
Stanley
Steel Trust
Jno
D. Rockefeller
Rev
Gites
Merrittsosterday
United States
Congress
Jury to act on Molinari senator investigation
Chicago November 29 federal grand jury here considered a right in inquiry into charges of perjury and testimony before the Senate investigation of Senator Torlmer. The committee chairmen and members indicated averse to grand jury action until all evidence is in and hearings finish. Adjournment until December 5 when hearings resume in Washington.
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Chicago
Chileago
Washington
United State
Torlmers
Dillingham
California judge rules women cannot serve on juries
Attorney General Webb states that women serving as jurors in California are invalid. He argues equal rights do not include jury service, since common law requires twelve free lawful men on a jury.
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San Franccisco
California
Webb
Wilson of Athena in Oregon congress bid outsized irrigation plan
Fred Wilson of Athena, Umatilla County, will seek the Republican nomination for congress in eastern Oregon. He proposes using tribal funds from the Umatilla reservation to finance irrigation projects, aided by federal reclamation funds, and advocates toll regulation of Panama Canal traffic. He supports presidential primaries and direct election of US senators, and criticizes Sherman era corporate battles while favoring government regulation. The piece also covers international dispatches on China and a Taft-Knox meeting about sending troops, with reports of foreign massacres in China and related diplomacy.
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Congress
Oregon
Umatlile
F. Wilton
Athena
Oregon Journal
Wilson
Fred Wilson
Umatilla County
Portland
Umatilla Reservation
Tonnige Tolla
Panama Canal
Pine Creek
United States
Roosevelt
Two Lepers In Philadelphia Reported Quarantined
Two lep rocy cases were discovered in Philadelphia. Mrs. Peeky Schlelman, fifty, diagnosed at Pennsylvania Hospital, is in the early stages and has been in the country twenty years. Mrs. Becky Poeder, thirty six, reported by Orthopaedic Hospital physicians, arrived in 1600s and is in an advanced stage. Both women were quarantined.
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Philadelphia
Peeky Schlelman
Pennavivania Hospital
Becky Poeder
Hankow Battle Rages On Front and Inside City
Nov 23 dispatches report a furious Hankow fight ongoing on the water front with heavy casualties. Rebels are said to be pressing inside the city as the main assault continues. A German gunboat Otter rescued 180 foreigners along the upper Yangtze Kiang. their fate without rescue is uncertain.
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Pekin
San Bi
Nun Nar
Hinkow
Nanking
Chang
Hlunkow
Wnghai
Hankow
Refi Oes
Shanghai
Est
Yangtze
Kiang
Tts
Packers aided by U S Chief Justice White
Washington D C November 9 A further delay in the Chicago pickers trial was likely as beef packers lawyers won consent from Chief Justice White to present their appeal to the U S Supreme Court when it convenes next week Justice White refused a stay but attorneys expect Judge Carpenter to continue the case until the high court rules
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Washington, D. C
Justice White
United States Supreme Court
Justion White
Carpenter
Supreme Court
Probing Express Companies Hearings Begin Nationwide
Probing express firms opened a series of Interstate Commerce Commission hearings in New York addressing remedial recommendations. Attorney Frank Lyon said the combined express business covers over 270000 miles of railway and 1103 stations, with plant valuation around 27 million dollars and operating income near 18 million, yielding about 8 percent return.
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New York
Erithejemsa Mi
Mild
Rational
Interstate Commerce Commmnirsiom
Hla
Frank Lyon
Commission
Enat
Express
Wantea
Corner Stone Laying Planned for City Insane Hospital
City officials and the Commercial association advance plans for laying the corner stone of a branch insane asylum on the city western edge. The project marks the start of construction on a major building, with preparations including road work to the asylum site and cooperation with the county for access. A firemen election slate of judges and clerks was approved, precincts may be redrawn, and final Alta street paving assessments were set by the city engineer.
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Branch Insane Asylum
Cascades
Commercial Association
Commercial Club
Aeglum
County Court
Neeting
D. D. Phelps
Ed Stanaberry
L. Dunlap
Oelerka
Alex Manning
Jess McConnell
Charles Miller
Strain Brock
Kirkpatrick
Tinal
Alta Street
Patterson Riot Breaks Out As Women Sprint Court Entrance
Denver witnesses describe a July Patterson trial riot when women surged for admission to the courtroom. Police Surgeon Mudd testified that a woman, after killing her husband, showed a facial mark from the blow and said he gave her the gun and told her to kill herself.
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Denver
Colo
Patterson Tris
Mix
Patterson Wiscilm
Mudd
McNamara Defense Faces Juror Challenges In Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on November 2, Darrow’s McNamara defense pressed juror challenges as Green and Sexton visited their homes. Green’s ill wife and Sexton’s brother were noted. Judge Bordwell weighed excuses while Bisbee, a farmer, was passed for cause. The defense argued they cannot consent to dismissing peremptories with jurors still available.
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Hall of Records
Los Angeles
Darrow
McNamara
Talesmen
Green
Sexton
da Slok
Bisbee
Bordwell
Street laborer hurt in cavein on Alta street
Harry Leese, a street laborer for the water department, was injured at 11 15 am while excavating a sewer trench on Alta street in front of Central Meat Market. A cavein fractured his small foot bones and dislocated his ankle, with the end of the bone protruding through flesh. He was pinned by dirt and rocks, but with nerve, was taken to hospital where doctors reduced the fracture and he rests comfortably.
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Alta Street
Harry Leese
Water Department
J. A. Hest
T. M. Henderun
Murder-Robber Suspect Arrested in San Francisco
A jewelry salesman was murdered for $5,000 in diamonds at a produce company basement. John Rogers, employed by the local produce company, is held by police but provides limited information. He claims to have been at home Saturday and Sunday. his mother and sisters contradict his story.
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San Francisco
Tboenjarain Cendinan
John Rogers
Focal Produce Company
Ata lecture sparks indignation over emigration quip
A renowned economics author joked that in some American regions men outnumber women and urged women to emigrate. A young woman left the hall in protest, prompting the lecturer to note the remark was not meant to be taken seriously.
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Ata
America
Labor leaders held in contempt in Washington case
President Samuel Gompers denounces District of Columbia Chief Justice Wright as unfit to judge the AFL contempt case. Wright refuses to dismiss charges against Gompers Mitchell and Morrison over listing Buck Stove and Range on the federation journal’s unfair list. Trial to be set for a new date amid protests at the convention in Atlanta.
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Washington, D. C
Wright
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Buck Stove and Range Company
United States Supreme Court
Atlanta
Justice Wright
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Samuel Gompers
Organized Labor
Killed While Showing Off For Benefit Of Lady
Oakland Calif Nov 23 Driving a machine rapidly F Saville Smith cashier of the Security Building company struck a pile of building blocks at First street. The machine and Smith were killed. A F P Waltsey superintendent of construction of the Security Building company was perhaps fatally injured. Miss Annie Carlson of San Francisco was seriously hurt. Carlson told police Smith was trying to frighten her by reckless driving when the disaster occurred.
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Oakland
Calif
F. Saville Smith
Security Building Company
Bunkle
First Street
Smith
A. F P. Waltsey
Annie Carlson
San Francisco
Strikes Sunken Wreck On Pacific Liner Luceric
Victoria B C reports the liner Luceric, nine hours out from Yokohama, struck by a heavy underwater quake and bumped over a reef like collision. Nine hours into the voyage there were several shocks that rattled the ship and woke some passengers from their berths.
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Victoria
B. C
Luceric
Yokohama
Invention of Local Man Proves Practical Wheel
A test yesterday of Tenac Jay’s spring spoked wheel, recently patented, drew praise from business leaders who rode in the car. They report reduced jolt on bumps and crosswalks, noting remaining refinements needed before final perfection.
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Tenac Jay
Total Dinekamith
Arnthaemetia
Jay
Sin
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Ning Yuan Fu
Washington, DE
Knox
China
Manila
Packers
U. S
Insane
Police
Imony Pavors
Alts
Patterson
Cavein
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