Bryan’s Answer to President Taft on Campaign Funds
United Press reports Bryan’s Bryanesque reply criticizing Taft over campaign funds. He questions Rockefeller and Standard Oil ties, demands full disclosure of contributions, and argues trust influences in the 1906 fund and party politics. cites Haskell and relief from accusations.
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United Press
Island
Need
Frest
Bryan
Haskell
Taft
Akell
Citaa Trust
Rockefeller
Ohio
Busi
Father Is Killed Son Severely Hurt In Clay Cave-In
John Orsini fifty and his son Dominico twenty two were buried when ten tons of clay split from a thirty foot embankment at Third Avenue and Madison Street and collapsed. Both men were rushed to Providence Hospital. the father died en route from internal injuries. The younger man was rescued with minor injuries. Supervisor H Carter warned of cavern dangers prior to the accident. Police records show eight similar cave-ins killed workers in six months.
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John Orsini
Dominico
Thirday
Madison Ar
Oreial
Providence Hospital
Orsini
Masa
Providence
Uiman Ald
Seattle
Italy
H . Carter
Chewing Policeman Ends Family Rumpus in City Jail
Patrolman Arthur N Ma yau intervened in a domestic quarrel between Henry and Mrs. Howard of 117 Maynard, was bitten on the knuckle by Mrs. Howard, and both were later held on disorderly conduct charges. Both prisoners are colored.
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Arthur N
Arthur
Henry Howard
Maynard Ay
Mra. Howard
Hubby
Gotch
Doc Roller
Mayon
Tate & Deep
Henry
Government wireless expert selects White Shed Point site
An official wireless expert returned from a northern mission reports Southeast Alaska selects White Shed Point seven miles from Cordova as the station site. The new installation will complete the chain from Ordova to Nome.
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Alaska
White Shed Point
Cordova
Ordova
Nome
Burglary Charge Filed Against Charles Harney
In superior court this morning an information charging burglary was filed against Charles Harney. It alleges that on September 26 he broke into a Northern Pacific railway car.
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Charles Harney
Barney
Northern Pacific Railway
Hold Up at Yukon Saloon in Fort Gibbon Robbery
On September 15 two masked highwaymen robbed the Yukon saloon at Fort Gibbon near the Tanana and Yukon rivers. They entered at 11 pm with 16 patrons present and the night bartender Pete Clum. They looted the cash register and safe, then absconded with about $6,000 in cash and gold dust, including $200 from H. McGrew of Georgetown.
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Yukon
Fort Gibbon
Tanana
Yukon Rivers
Pete Clum
H. McGrew
Georgetown
Riot at Valdez Jail Involves 20 Japanese Poachers
United Press report from Valdez Alaska describes a fierce clash in the jail between 20 Japanese seal poachers and U S Deputy Marshall Drebelbis and his three officers. The riot sent townspeople armed to restore order. Lead attackers were jailed. Deputy Hutterworth sustained facial injuries.
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Valdez
Alaska
Bering Sea
U. S
Mageshal Drebelbis
Fred Butterworth
Drebelbis
Hutterworth
Death of Evelyn Pur Event at 6624 65th Avenue
Two year old Evelyn Pur event died after playing with a carriage door lever, the door unlocked, and the carriage turning suddenly. She fell onto a streetcar rail and fractured her skull, dying at Dr. Mc Lear's office.
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Evelyn Pur
Ellensburg couple found dead in room
A Seattle article notes the public works board will not issue more house moving permits without consent from the street car company. The Seattle Electric Co attorney said the city would be held liable for any financial penalties due to street car service disruptions when houses cross tracks.
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Board of Public Works
Seattle Electric Co
Sleeping potion kills Mrs Lathrop at hotel in Aidorf
Mrs Harriet Lathrop wife of Cathrop died after an overdose of bromidia at the Aidorf hotel 704 Pike J. E. last night. Coroner F M Carroll classified death as an overdose. The body was taken to Bonney-Watson undertakers. Mrs Lathrop had recently been discharged from a sanitarium for brain trouble.
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Harriet
Cathrop
Aidorf
Pike &J
Bonney-Watson Company
Lathrop
Echoes of American Fleet Visit to Australia
U P reports from Urne Australia Sept 2 that the battleship fleet visit spurred unprecedented public acclaim across Australia. The piece frames America’s Pacific sea power as affirming white Australia and foreshadowing a Britain–America alliance to police the Pacific and deter any Asiatic aggression.
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ECHO
Australia
H. Lee Clotworthy
United Press
U. S
Georgia
Mall
San Francisco
Urne
Firebane
Atshas
Commonwealth
Tas
Australasian
Pacific
America
Britain
Reforms Planned for Public Market At City Conference
At a conference with Acting Mayor Gill and Councilman lie yesterday, reforms for the public market were decided. Wagons will be fed from Pike street, handcarts under east side sheds, stalls numbered and matched to farm sacks, Goodwin shed wagons moved north, and peddlers must display a peddler sign. The changes aim to use both street sides and reduce congestion, reflecting features from farmer and Duemens petitions.
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Act
Gill
Pike St
Pike Place
Runaway Mail Wagon Hits Driver at Colman Dock
John Hexstrom, United States mail wagon driver, was knocked down and run over by frightened horses at Colman dock just after 10 this morning. He was taken to Wayside Emergency hospital with injuries described as serious but not fatal. The horses dragged the wagon onto him before bystanders halted them.
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John Hexstrom
United States Mail
Colman Dock
Hexstrom
Missing 17 Year Old Belle Nichols Sought by Police
Belle Nichols aged 17 is missing from 1617 17th Ave since last Sunday. Police have been asked to locate her. Her father suspects she may have run away with another young woman.
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Belle Nichols
Double tragedy at Frisco Hotel ends in suicide
In Seattle the bodies of George Foster and Bertha Kapp were found in room 18 of the Frisco hotel on Fir Street. Foster, a former U.S. Army deserter, and Bertha Kapp from Ellensburg reportedly died by self inflicted gunshot wounds after attempting carbolic acid, with investigators noting the revolver fired a third time to end Bertha’s life and then Foster killed himself. Authorities uncovered letters and local connections to Ballard and Ellensburg as friends and relatives arrived.
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Frisco
Firat Av
Cedar St
George Foeter
Elensburg
Peeter
Charles Anderson
City
Adams
Foster
Northern Pacific
Bertha Foster
Ellensburg
Wath
Char Kapp, Jr
Ballard
G. A. Bergstrom
Kapp
Nalicing
Dayton
Wash
Bertha Kapp
United States Army
George Ireland
Charles Kapp
Seattle
Sues Owls for Salary in Superior Court
Charles B. Wood sues the Grand West of the Brotherhood of Owls for 1466.69 claiming unpaid salary since November 22 1906 as grand secretary including 1116.09 for salary and 350 for office expenses and special services in preparing a ritual.
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Grand West
The
Brotherhood of Owls
Charles B. Wood
End of Strike Now in Sight at Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg Sept 30 The whistle signals misled many into thinking the CP mechanics strike ended. Union officers expect Montreal word at noon no official action yet. Arbitration has a compromise: two of five questions agreed, leaving union labor as the undecided issue. Open shop understood as the settlement basis.
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United Press
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Mechanics
Montreal
Arbitration Board
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