Rate hearing prep underway over unfair passenger rail fares
Oregon and Washington commercial interests unite to oppose allied Southern lines in a rate dispute. Washington Public Service Commission chair and Oregon commissioner met to prepare for a Tuesday hearing where Interstate Commerce official Examiner Watkins will hear testimony on alleged Northwest fare discrimination. Southern Pacific mobilizes its defense with executives traveling between Vancouver and here. The 1914 Great Fleet tonnage stands at 2,939,796.
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Southern Lines
Washington
Washington Public Service Commission
Joan Reynolds
Ostrander
Examiner Watkins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwest
Southern Pacific Railway
F. BE. Battours
C. W. Durbrow
C. J. McDonald
Vancouver
B.C
Seattle Woman Charged in San Francisco Auto Bill Case
Mrs Harold H Johnson a Seattle prominent figure and wife of a former navy officer faces charges in San Francisco for unpaid auto rental and servant bills totaling 179 dollars. Warrants issued but she remains at large. Her son and daughter in law allegedly escorted by Mrs Johnson’s mother May Searles Johnson.
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Harold H. Johnson
Navy
San Francisco
Mra May Searles Johnson
Harold Johnson
Mra. Johnson
Russia
Electric Boat Co
Johnson
Port Townsend
Henry Ward Beecher
Capt. H. Beecher
Puget Sound
C. C. Moore Company
Two Prominent Men Disappear in Washington State
May 6 report on the mysterious disappearances of Clarke county residents W. R. Canfield and L. T. VanOver. Canfield, a rancher, vanished after leaving Vancouver for Portland on April 19. VanOver, 53, boarded a Portland steamboat and has not been seen since, with fears of foul play.
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Portland
Clarke County
Washington
W. R. Canfield
Vancouver
L. T. VanOver
Ridgefield
Wash
Embezzler Oliver Cline Sentenced To Walla Walla
Oliver H. Cline former Pacific Coast Co employee will be sent to Walla Walla to serve a five to 15 year sentence after confessing to stealing about 145000 dollars over ten years. He turned over roughly 15000 dollars in cash bonds and real estate to the company. He is 42 years old.
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Oliver H. Cline
Pacific Coast Co
Seattle
Walla Walla
Ronald
Cline
Prohibition delegates frame campaign for drought aid
Prohibitionist leaders frame their campaign to elect congressmen to back national drought relief. The state convention in Ellere hall will hear speeches from J Hall of Kansas City and Deacon Sizer of Milwaukee. Hall speaks Sunday in Little's hall and Temple Baptist church, then Swedish Methodist church Monday. Sizer speaks at Prighton Presbyterian church Sunday at 11 a.m.
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Kanaan
Ellere Hall
J. Hall
Kansas City
Deacon Sizer
Milwaukee
Hall
Little's Hall
14Th Ave. N. E
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Temple Baptist Church
Swedish Methodist Church
Sizer
Prighton Presbyterian Church
Don Adams Nearly Frees Final License At Wedding Try
Don Adams vaudeville actor in a quiet wedding at Pantages Theatre forgot his name while obtaining a marriage license from the county auditor. He and Mildred LaRue, in a comedy sketch, proceeded with vows after Mildred prompted him. Rev. Green officiated. Fillie Batchelor served as best man.
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Pantages Theatre
Mildred LaRue
Ocean Beach
Don
Rev. Green
Fillie Batchelor
Mildred Eo
Rioters Loot Charlottenburg Butcher Shops After Card Scandal
In Charlottenburg on Thursday night rioters looted and wrecked butcher shops after discovering meat was withheld from poorer residents with meat cards and sold to the wealthy at higher than the official maximum. They also damaged signs and windows of other stores, reflecting public outrage over rationing abuses.
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Berlin
Charlottenburg
Ford named defendant in libel suit over preparedness
Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, was made the defendant today in a libel suit for 100000 dollars by the Navy League. The suit rests on alleged libel in Ford's published statements against preparedness.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Detroit Automobile N Manufacturer
Navy League
Ford
Yale alumni vote to fund annual Seattle scholarship
At the University Club in Seattle the Yale alumni Friday elected Judge Everett Smith as president and approved making permanent a scholarship that sends one Seattle boy to Yale each year.
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University Club
Seattle
Yale
Everett Smith
British Editorials Dismayed by U S Reply to German Note
London papers denounced Washington's likely acceptance of the German note reply as failing to meet American demands. Editors warned the move could embroil the two nations and prolong the war, noting only Germany’s concession to prevent longer conflict was satisfactory to critics.
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ED L. Keen
United Press
London
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Germany
America
the Post
the Chronicle
Urge Wilson to Act in German Reply Containing Peace Feature
American circles on May 6 urged President Wilson to seize the peace feature in Germany s reply to the submarine note. They believed he could hasten an end to the war and some urged Col House to again visit European capitals.
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Carl W. Ackerman
United Press
Berlin
Wilson
Col House
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