Final rallies arrange for county campaigns in Oregon
Local partisans prepare closing campaign meetings with monster rallies. Judge Henry F. McGinn and R. R. Butler headline Republican events at Portland theater. Democrats plan O Day stops at Portland and Milton with Coshow and Amith. Young Republican club to hold two meetings before election.
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McGinn
R. R
Henry F. McGinn
Portland
R. FR. Butler
Republicana
Thomas O'Day
Ong
Oregon
Judge McGinn
R. R. Butler
Taft
Sherman
Young Men's Republican Club
Wii M. Peterson
Milton
Judge O'Day
O. P. Coshow
Hermiston
C. J. Amilth
Coshow
Senator Emith
Wimo Petersen
Will Journey Sixteen Thousand Miles to Wed Bride
Los Angeles news notes Miss Blanche Donnell sails on an eighteen thousand mile journey to Africa to marry C. E. Knoecht, a mining engineer. She is widow Horace John Donnell's daughter and tennis champion heir.
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Los Angeles
Blanche Donnell
Africa
C. EB. Knoecht
Horace John Donnell
Brutal murder in San Francisco hotel area reported
In San Francisco on Oct 2 a robbery left Frederick Kauffman, an Oakland Gas Co. employee, unconscious in a sandlot with severe head and facial injuries and a cut throat. Police seek suspects as the victim fights for life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Frederick Kauffman
Oakinat Gae Co
Austrian torpedo arrests British steamer near Antivari
Berlin. Met. 21 An Austrian torpedo enables the Burtipesrt correspondent of the Tagblatt to report the arrest of a British steamer near Cottaro on the bay of Antivari. The vessel was laden with arms and munitions destined for Montenegro.
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Berlin
Burtipesrt
Tagblatt
Cottaro
Bay of
Antivari
Montenegro
Kern's Son Leaves Syracuse After Telegram News
In Syracuse on October 21 Kern, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, departed quickly for his home upon receiving a telegram indicating his son was seriously ill. The message prompted abrupt departure as the campaign and local officials monitored developments.
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Kern
Syracuse
Grain Elevator Fire Destroys Denver Mill
In Denver Colorado on October 21 a Hungarian flour mill grain elevator burned, caused by incendiary fire. Loss about half a million dollars, with four hundred thousand bushels of wheat destroyed. Police seek three suspects seen near the engine room before the blaze.
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Denver
Col
Democratic wind blows in Lincoln Nebraska banner destruction
Lincoln Neb Oct 21 the wind storm of last night finished the destruction of a large Taft banner on a prominent Lincoln street. The banner had been strung by the republican central committee around the time Mr Bryan was nominated at Denver. Lincoln hosted visiting democrats and a political commotion followed. Vandals damaged the banner, Bryan denounced the act. The banner was replaced and stood until the storm ruined it again.
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Lincoln, Neb
Taft
Lincoln
Republican Central Committee
Mr. Bryan
Denver
Bryan
Shot Down in Own Dooryard in Portland
Fortland October 21 Police lack clues to identify the assassin of Harry Butterworth a prominent jeweler of St John Portland who was shot dead in front of his home last night He left his shop at 9 Then a few minutes later family heard a shot on the front porch found him wounded in the heart He died without a word His clothes bore powder marks indicating a close range shot The killer likely followed him home and stole a ring from his finger Butterworth was brother of former Alderman William Butterworth of Chicago.
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Assissin
Fortland
Harry Butterworth
St. John
Cuburh
Portland
Nia
Clowk
John
Butterworth
Hutterworth
Ber
William Tutterworth
Chicago
Washington town ignores primary law in nominating candidates
Bemingham Oct 21 The city of Blal will disregard the new direct primary law and nominate municipal candidates by the old convention system this year. An assessor treasurer attorney clerk and four councilmen are to be chosen. No provision has been made to nominate from either party as yet. The city attorney and comptroller say they can sustain the old primary legally.
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Bemingham
Blal
Myer
Cfty Fittorney
Representative Tom Roberta Visited Pendleton For Balfour-Coutheo Business
Tom Roberta a Helix representative for Balfour-Coutheo conducted business in Pendleton yesterday meeting local officials and discussing regional matters.
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Tom Roberta
Helix
The
Balfour-Couthre O
Pendleton
Good Roads Meeting Hears Plans for Oregon Roads
Tomorrow in the court room judges Scott of Salem and Webster of Multnomah will discuss building two major Oregon roads from California to Portland and Portland to Baker City. A Good Roads association will push for statewide road legislation as committees plan a large welcome for visitors and a procession prior to the session.
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Oregon
California
Portland
Baker City
Good Roads Association
Scott
Salem
Webster
Multnomah
Umathia
Grim Reaper and Harvest Toll Across Deathly Fires
A series of fatal incidents unfold as five Panama laborers are blown apart by a hidden dynamite charge in the Culebra Cut. Four men die in a shipyard fire aboard the steamship New York. Two others perish from injuries sustained in the Oregon Short Line wreck near Newburg. A third fatality follows a collision involving a returning special train from the fair grounds.
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Oregon
New York
New Orlens
Culebra
Colon
Panwine
Newburg
Boles
Daniel Lawler
Martin Bisek
Injerjew
Fair Grounds
Three Die in Third Tenement Fire This Month
In New York three tenants were buried to death as a fourth major tenement blaze in a month raged overnight. Many residents jumped from windows clogging stairwells while firemen rescued women and children near certain death, with the rear shop igniting the air shaft and flames rapidly spreading. Officials suspect incendiary origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Southern Pacific to retire its preferred stock
New York, Oct. 21. Federal announcement says Southern Pacific will retire its $4,160,000 in preferred stock. Management expects to save about 1.5 million yearly by the move, but the method remains undecided. The issue was issued in 10 when dividends were paid, with a second issue last year. The 7 percent cumulative stock is callable at 115 until July 1910 and convertible into common stock at the holder’s option.
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New York
Southern Pacific
Yar
Heartbroken nurse found dead at Roosevelt Hospital
The body of Hihel J. Bottimer a Roosevelt hospital nurse about 25 years old was found hanging in a bathroom at the Berkeley institution. A note indicated heartbreak over a sweetheart named WII and that she intended to write to him. She traveled from Helena Montana with her parents Shyo.
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Berkeley
Cal
Hihel J. Bottimer
Roosevelt Hospital
Helens
Mont
Threat Letter Demands Money at Moody Church
Chicago October 20 A Black Hand letter threatened to blow up the Moody church at Chicano and La Bulle avenues. Rev A DIXON acting pastor received the note which demanded $1000 be left in a cigar box on the church porch, police report indicates.
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Chicago
Moody
Chicano and la Bulle Avenues
A. ©. Dixon
Woman Injured In Exploding Firecracker Incident
In Lincoln Nebraska on October 21 Mrs Sophia Brehm mistook a giant firecracker for a candle. She lit it and descended to the cellar as the cracker exploded tearing off her thumb and forefinger and ripping flesh from the back of her hand.
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Lincoln
Neb
Sophia Brehm
Bryan Attacks Trust Officials Creates Big Sensation
In Vernon Ohio on October 21, William Jennings Bryan denounced Vanderbilt roads officials General Manager Van Wichle Vice President Schaff and Assistant Superintendent Tagails as coercing employees to vote Republican He warned that corporate threats could trigger another panic and pressed for Democratic gains in Ohio as he planned multiple speeches including a New York stop and a tour through West Virginia Maryland and New Jersey unlikely to visit the other states.
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MI. Vernon
Vanderbilt Roads
Bryan
van Wichle
Schaff
Tagails
Belle Fontaine
Ohio
Bryan Sais
Toft
Torom
Charles Tatt
New York
Elvine
West
Taft Returns to Cincinnati After Exhausting Campaign
Cincinnati Ohio October 21 Taft arrived after the hardest campaign days since nomination. He will rest at his brother's home before beginning an Indiana tour viewed as a doubtful state. Taft is very tired and his voice nearly failed last night.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Taft
Indiana
Portland Wheat Shipments Put City Third In U S
Portland ranked third among U S whea t shipping ports in September by exporting 7,000 bushels, per labor department figures. Galveston led, followed by New York, as Portland earned its place in national prominence.
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Portland
Portand
United States
Galveston
New York
Prank Dies in Bear Country Misfire Near Roseburg
Roseburg October 21 Alec Prank a Southern Pacific brakeman was mistaken for a bear and killed by his friend Charl Weber while hunting near Tid dle 22 miles from Roseburg. The pair had separated when Weber fired on a moving object in the brush striking Prank.
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Roseburg
Alec Prank
Charl Weber
Neue Tiddle
Weber
Om Beank
Presbyterians Forsake Church for Methodists in Naokenek
In Bellingham on October 21, Presbyterians in Naokenek could not lift a debt of 675 dollars and pay their pastor. They abandoned the Presbyterian church and are joining the Methodists, who have contested the Presbyterian property.
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Bellingham
Naokenek
Forty Mile Gale Spreads Fire Across District
Sault Ste Marie Mich Oct 21 Hundreds of residents fight forest fires as a forty mile gale drives flames in all directions. Sugar Island with about 1000 residents is ablaze end to end. Near Detour 16 square miles burned. Gladys Eckerman Shelldrake Whitfish Point surrounded. Brimley reports a narrow escape as a village building is destroyed while flames are driven back by wind shifts.
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Sault Ste Marie
Mich
Sugar Island
Gladys
Eckerman
Shelldrake
Whitfish Point
Brimley
Oklahoma Governor Haskell Criticizes Roosevelt Taft in Texas Speech
Governor Charles N. Haskell addressed a large crowd at the fair grounds praising Texas and Oklahoma and denouncing President Roosevelt Taft and Senator Beveridge. Amid cheers someone yelled Hearst and Haskell responded noting a name better left unmentioned, invoking Henry W. Grady.
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Texas
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Fair Grounds
Roosevelt
Taft
Beveridge
Haskell
Hearst
Henry W. Grady
Drunken Salem Murder Ends With Wounded Husband
In Salem a plasterer Silas Timmons aged 37 killed his wife of 18 with a faca last night in a rooming house and then cut his own throat. He is thought to survive. The couple came from Portland about five weeks ago and the murdered girl had warned the landlady of threats while in their room.
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Salem
Silas Timmons
Fayer
Timmons
Portland
Reorganization at Seattle Exposition Office
Seattle Oct 21 James A Wood named successor to Henry E Reed as director of exploitation at the Yukon exposition will assume duties Monday morning He plans a thorough reorganization of the department and staff resignations are expected to be tendered under his leadership
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Seattle
James A. Wood
Henry E. Reed
Oregon Chief Justice rules conspiracy to suborn perjury not disbarable
Salem October 21 Chief Justice Bean rules Marion R Biggs cannot be removed or suspended from the Oregon bar over a federal conviction for conspiracy to suborn perjury because Oregon statutes do not recognize conspiracy as a crime and no common law crime of that description is recognized in Oregon courts. Ralph B Fisher had sought disbarment under the Oregon code based on the felonious charge.
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Salem
Hecause
Inwa
Bean
Marion R. Biggs
Oregon Bar
Oregon
Blege
Ralph B. Fisher
The
Bar Association
Hundred P ers by Cloudburst Strikes Oklahoma Farm Areas
At least one hundred people killed as a cloudburst and flood hit west of Shawnee Oklahoma. Telegraph and telephone lines are down and communication with the flooded district is impossible. Farmers fled to tree tops to escape rising waters as bridges across the region were destroyed.
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New State
Mlooded
Shawnee, Okla
Lawyers Taken From Bed and Murdered in Night Ride
Two prominent Trenton lawyers Col R Z Taylor aged 66 and Capt Quinten Rankin were abducted from their hotel by masked riders at Reelfoot Lake in the early hours. A fish hauler named Powell was forced to accompany the mob, which carried about 60 members, and no trace of Taylor or the surveyor named is yet found.
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Union City
Tenn
Reelfoot Lake
R. Z. Taylor
Quinten Rankin
Trenton
Colonel Taylor
Powell
Hickman
Rankin
Salmon King of Orfgon Lost in Shipwreck
Marshfield Oregon October 21 A searching party on Curry county beach seeks Hon R D Hume wealthy drummery man and farmer ex legislator and two companions aboard a gasoline schooner wrecked near Gold Beach during July s storm A brief wire message received before wires failed left fate of the three men unknown here
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Marshfield
Ore
Curry County
Tt. D. Hume
Drunneryman
Frmer
Thouard
Gold Beach
Sumbly
Presidential fight narrows to key states says Dix
Washington Oct 21 Senator Dix of Montana conferred with Roosevelt and declared the presidential fight centered in Ohio Indiana and New York. He says Bryan cannot carry Wyoming or Utah and will win a few states west of the Mississippi. He predicts Taft carries New York by 100000 and Minnesota by 600 to 120600.
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Washington
Dixon
Montana
Roosevelt
Ohio
Indiana
New York
Bryan
Wyoming
Uiah
Mississippi
Taft
Minnesota
Express Robber Caughr In Wichita Capture
Wichita sheriff catches an express robber while arresting a bootlegger. Reward of 1400 dollars offered. Jail records list J B Humphreys as one of four men who held up and robbed an express agent at French New Mexico about two months ago, with packages totaling 45000 dollars.
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Wichita
Kas
Cogdell
Express
J.B. Humphreys
French, N. M
Fire destroys trunk factory in Newark area
Sailors Paundonet Newark N J October 21 fire destroyed the five story trunk factory of Louis Goldsmith and Son and threatened a block of buildings. Loss 100000 pounds.
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Newark
N. J
Louis Goldsmith & Son
Bloeck
Bulldines
Registration Closed For Pendleton Election Day
Registration books are closed with the note that those not registered may only swear their vote when attempting to cast a ballot for President in Pendleton on the upcoming November third. Deputy Clerk Thrown fe begins receiving registration books. about 250 to 940 voters changed residence requiring new registration. In Freewater, 60 names were recorded though totals are not yet finalized.
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Pendleton
Cowie
Pendivion
Freewater
Humber
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H. E. McGinn
P. Coshow
TN County
SAN Francisco Robbeies
Nebraska
Taft Banner
Howdies
Diamond Ring
Washington Town
Judge Scott
Judge Woblster
Condon
Condon Monday and Resulted In the Organization of A Good Fonds
Grim Reaper Agh Harvest
Panama
Idaho
Panama Call
Shi
TRUST
Vanderbilt Railroad
Democratic
Lauer
Sailor
Manu
Rio de Janiero
Bordeaux
Min
Em-Loyer
Presbyterians
Porsake Church
Ioin
Methodist
Michigan
Shlem
Plasterer
Silas Tinomons
Uzor
Draken
Marion Biggs
Trenton, Tenn
Orfgon
Salmon King
Paundonet
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