Various World Events and Crises Highlight Weekly Brief
A sweeping week in review notes Roosevelt's health operation, looming summer inquiries, Montana crop strength, O R & N train robbery in Ogden, a sensational prizefight in Cleveland, and bankers Schiff and others commenting on financial strain. Reports include China’s imperial decree, a New York tong war, Diaz's reelection in Mexico, labor abuses at Bethlehem Steel, and Ballinger and Ballinger-related vetoes. Also covered are naval races, a Korean/Chinese border incident, a Louisville torpedo death, a Mississippi river excursion fire, census returns, Chicago indictments, Chicago heat deaths, a derailed train, and various frontier political shifts plus a Navy town vote and Yale anniversary funding.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Jacob Schiff
New York
Kiel
Germany
China
Sixth Annual Session Open at University of Oregon
The sixth annual summer session at the University of Oregon in Eugene opens under Professor Simon with a six week program ending August 5. About 160 students are expected including regular students taking extra work toward graduation and others seeking time outside winter terms. Courses span botany chemistry education English languages history mathematics and physics with Henry David Jay of Stanford directing the English department.
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Oregon University
University of Oregon
Eugene
H. She
I Profe
Simon
Jane
Reat
Henry David Jay
Leland Stanford University
Gray
Northwest railroads brace for crop shortage reports
Chicago alarms over crop reports push Northwest line managers to impose strict retrenchment. Experts warn wheat yields across Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota may fall below half, with plowed acreage to flax and hot winds drying soils. Construction halted and track work cut back.
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Northwest
Chicago
Western
Canada
Northwestern
North
Kansans Respond to Harvest Rush Across 60 Counties
Topeka reports a call for 40 000 harvesters for wheat fields across 60 Kansas counties. About 25 000 workers are available with alfalfa cutting profits noted. Eight hour limits do not apply in wheat fields and some 16 hour days are common. Sunday work is accepted to protect crops as labor shortages flood local agencies from Kansas and Oklahoma.
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Topeka
Kan
Kanaan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Conspirators Fined in Cotton Department Scandal
Moses Haas of New York and Frederick A. Peckham of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to conspiracy to misconduct in office in the cotton leak case. The judge fined Haas six thousand dollars and Peckham three thousand five hundred dollars, with both paying and being released. Remaining indictments against them were not pursued.
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Oregon
Salem
Secretary of State
Western
Oons Maas
F. A. Packham
Washington
D. C
Moses Haas
New York
Frederick A. Peckham
Cincinnati
Department of Agriculture
Deit of Agriculture
Justice Hd
Hass
Peckham
Sing
Haas and
Edwin 8. Holmes, Jr
Haas
Holmes
Hi. Price
Appeal to the United States on Nicaragua filibuster stop
A report says a large weapons shipment for the Madris army sailed from New Orleans to Nicaragua aboard the steamer Columbia. The Estrada faction requests U S warship help. launches marked J L were to be sunk near Pearl Lagoon and bound for Julian Trias as plenary commissioner. A State Department protest is planned.
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Washington, D. C
Milape
Nicaragua
New Orleans
Estrada
United States
Columbia
Terday
Hi Fields
Madris Army
Women Ride in Airship Over German Industrial District
The Zeppelin conducted a four hour excursion over Dusseldorf district, landing safely. It carried 32 passengers including 10 women, of whom one hour at speed was noted. The flight ran from Bis to Dusseldorf Dortmund Bochum and back, encountering rain, wind, and a storm without incident.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Wth
Deanclang
Igh Ae Mllee
Bis
Dusen Dortmund
Bochum
Ion
Deutschland
Roosevelts Tennis Cabinet Gatherings At Sagamore
Theodore Roosevelt plans renewed informal sessions with old friends at Sagamore Hill amid a period of rest while burglars strip a Roosevelts home of silverware and furniture. A California assault case and a timber theft suit in the United States Circuit Court also appear in the scattered report.
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Roosevelt
Sagamore Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Real
Amore
Gifford Pi
A. B
Francisco
United States
States
Vande Beloe
Hammond
Concarne
Taft Congress Study Recaps Historic Session Reforms
Washington reports a conciliatory session where President Taft secured most of his legislative program. The interstate commerce bill creating a court of commerce and expanding the ICC, the postal bank law, and other reforms passed, while only the anti injunction bill failed. Roosevelt’s policies faced mixed reception as successors advanced key measures. Bluefields and Wis. notes follow, with brief battlefield and local updates.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
Roosevelt
Congrenao
Congrena
Ingly
Congres
Court of Commerce
Cangrose
Diaz Sends Best Troops to Suppress Uprising at Cananea
Mexican authorities deploy rurales and trained units under President Diaz to quell disturbances along the Cananea border. Troops guard customs houses while arms searches and house to house sweeps intensify, with reports of smuggling, evacuations, and cross border incidents at Naco and Eagle Pass.
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el Pano
Texas
Dias
Naco
Sonora
United
Staten 1
Ien
Mexico
Arizona
Cananes
Cananes Company
Cananea
Commanaanrto Cubicles
Kosterlitnsky
Bonora
United States
San Jose
Ruralesa
Eagle Pans
Duty on Lemons Evaded at New York Docks
Washington customs officers monitor June traffic at Manhattan and Brooklyn docks where Brazilian lemons are unloaded. Reportedly importers pay full duties on fruit deemed unfit. Investigations seek whether fruit estimates are overstated and rebates tied to California growers aim to raise Semana prices. Also notes Meade and Oldfield set automobile speed records in St Paul.
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New York
Washington
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Eeeeeh Sra
Jamon
Tie Iev
Macy
California
Anid
First Ship from Nome Beating The Senator Arrives
The vessel Beatle The Senator sailed from Nome and reached port after navigating the Bering Sea since last fall. It departed Nome on June 17 and brought the Veena to safety amid early summer conditions and sea routes.
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Nome
Beatle
Veena
Bering Sea
Noms
Wreck Near Percy Injures Many in Train Collision
Des Moines reports a double wreck on a road near Percy at 8:00 o clock. Twenty five people were injured with two possibly fatally, as a water spout and bad weather contributed to the crash. Authorities promise $2000.
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Cette Rele
Sine Des Moines
Percy
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Diaz Ia
Ramon Corral
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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
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Loufek
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National Conference of Govern
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Mise Eleanor
Butler Alexander
Shi
Aeee and Wang
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Rogue River Irrigation &Power Company
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Pt Iegnin Company
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Tressurer
Caroline Ladd
Sete
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Rat
Central
Burne
Southern, Pacific Company
Thewell
Formel Company
Ued
Willamette Valley
New
Calelde Aoe Creamery
Aioe
Prion
Genheim Gmeltee Company
Ita
Ban Mateo
Cal
Mrs. Allen
Jamal
Puter
Wis
Nsident
Porpirio Diazarp
Cea Rocertad
Diaz
Meade
St. Paul
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Glenn H. Curtis
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