Walla Walla Fights Milton Peddlers Fee Fight
Walla Walla passes a 200 per year peddlers license to deter Milton fruit peddlers from selling in the city, provoking editorials about regional business exploitation. Milton residents are urged to market produce in Pendleton while concerns over interurban trade and outside capital loom large. A local ad for a hemorrhoid remedy ends the piece.
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Milton
Walla Walla
Milton Fruit
Garden City
Pendleton
Milton Eagle
Oregon
Evans
Washington
Penitentiary
Walla
Freewater
Wallin Walla
Oldest Telegrapher John Wild Claims United States Record
John Wild, 57, employed as a fishwasher at the Club Cafe on Front Street, contends he is the oldest press telegraphist in the U S He was a press operator in New York in the 1870s and says many historic events passed through his hands He arrived in Nampa about four days ago with a lifelong career pounding brass.
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John Wild
Club Cafe
Front Street
United States
New York
Nampa
Federation Secretary Denies Malice Toward Ex Sheriff
William D. Haywood secretary of the Western Federation of Miners in Denver says there was no Federation involvement in ex Sheriff Brown’s killing at Baker City. He defends his group’s sentiment as friendly toward Brown and notes no known Feder ation member would harm him. The interview touches on Oregon concerns and Bureau of Solis activity in farming and mineral land statistics.
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William D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Col
Brown
Baker City
Boise City
Haywood
Federation
Wallace
Bureau of Solis
McMurray
Chamber of Commerce
California
Test soils of Oregon exhibit visit by Harriman official
William McMurray, general passenger agent of the Harriman lines in Oregon, toured California for a congress and met W. W. Mackie and G. C. W. Dorsey of the Bureau of Soils, Department of Agriculture. They examined Oregon photographs in an exhibit during the trip.
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Congress
Sacramento
Mackie
Bureau
California
Dorsey
Washington
McMurray
Oregon
William McMurray
Harriman Lines
W. W. Mackie
GC. W. Dorsey
Bureau of Soils
Department of Agriculture
Oregonian
Rose City land values rise as Portland tax base expands
County Assessor Sigler notes a 10 to 30 percent rise in Portland business property valuations and a jump in the Jet’s assessment at Sixth and Washington. Four corner lots share the same value, now $190,000, reflecting progress on Washington street, while C A Alisky’s Third and Morrison lot climbs from $170,000 to $190,000 for 1907.
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Portland
Sixth
Washington Streets
Sigler
Oregon Daily Journal
Washington Street
C. A. Alisky
Third and
Morrison Street
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Wredonian
Delta
St. George
Rogers
East Oregonian
A. C. Koeppens Brow
A. C. Koeppens Bros
Carrier
Gilmner
Bourne
Secretary of Agriculture
Test Soils OF
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Federal Bureau
Portland Realty
ELKS
W. H. Behnke
Portland, Oregon
THE
Pendleton, Oregon
M. B. Gwinn
T. J. Morris
J. W. Maloney
T. G. Montgomery
Asst
Pendleton Business College
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