World in Brief From Across the Globe This Week
A round of varied items notes deaths in Monticello and Turkey threats to Crete. Taft and La Follette political maneuverings, shipboard smuggling rumors, and witch-doctor deaths in Reading. Balloons, rail projects, and Zeppelin operations mingle with strikes in Sweden and China. Roosevelt Jr plans ballooning, a possible Illinois Central NY Central Union Pacific merger, and a large G A R encampment in Salt Lake. Weathered by unrest in Greece, Japan, and Spain with labor and international tensions shaping the week.
Pinchot Attacks Water Trust at Irrigation Congress
Spokane Aug. 11 Gifford Pinchot chief forester denounced the water power trust as the congress debated irrigation policy He warned the body is becoming a tool for corporate interests while naming committee members and urging safeguards for conservation and safe lumbering amid comments by Long Allen Griffith and others. The session also discussed a proposed 5 000 000 000 government irrigation bond and expanding waterways on the Pacific coast.
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Spokane
Gifford Pinchot
United States
Pinchot
Irrigation Congress
Congress
George 5. Long
Northwest
Seattle
E. T. Allen
United States District Forester
E. M. Griffith
Wisconsin
Canada
M. Teal
Joint Conservation Committee
Pacific
Columbia River
Columbia
Hooker
Board of Control
Session at University of Oregon Comes to Close
The fifth annual University of Oregon summer school in Eugene closed with enrollment near 100, drawing students from across the state including teachers and principals. Plans for next summer anticipate about 200 students with new courses. dormitories to be opened and affordable board and room offered.
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University of Oregon
Eugene
Ackerman
Stockton
Yoder
Cooper
Seasion
Aggin
Murray
Columbia University
Bagley
Trever
Monmouth
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Hemispheres
Albert A. Kile Manufacturers
Monticello
N. Y
Taft
Madison
Wis
la Folletet
St. Louis
Samoa
Reading
Kiel Canal
Germany
Alps
Samuel R. van Sant
G. A. KR
Atlantic City
Gorzag
Brazil
Orville Wright
China
Japan
Antung-Mukden
Count Zeppelin
Abscorn
The
Milwaukee Road
St. Paul
Greece
Crete
Austria
Turkey
Cannon
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
New York Central
Union Pacific
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Los Angeles
G. A. Ri
Salt Lake
Mobile
Alabama
Spain
Barcelona
Corbin
Great Britain
Jerome
Antung
Dentance
California
Baradena
Hurbank
Manchuria
Cleveland
Ohio
Whitla
Lord Kiteheowr
Marhal
Ty Cashiers
Moore
Zapotlan
Mexico
Coeur d'Alene
A. D. Boughman
Charlotte
Mich
Edwin L. Coy
Ellerton K. Bayles
Ukiah
Dunlean Peak
Hopland
Capetown
Cape Colony
Afriea
Aug
Boand
Lisbon
Morocco
Duario de Noticias
State OF
Oregon
Salem
J. H. Ackerman
Albany
L. Hamilton
E. W. Cooper
C. H.stewart
Baker
Baker City
Baker Interurban Railway Company
Ite
Grand Ronde
Union
Gtand Ronde
la Grande
North Powder
Farmers’ Union
Coos
Marshfield
Coos Bay
Okaland
Douglas County
Coosbay
Boise
Roseburg
Seaside
Willamette Valley
8. A. Douglas
First 1St Church
Douglas
H. G. Hurlburt
Southern Pacific
Umpqua
Cascade Mountains
Idaho
Panama
Portland
Rogue
Grants Pass
Rogue River
New Dairy Bulletin
J. H. Frandson
Dairy Department
University of Idaho
Department of Dairying
Moscow
Clatskanie
Kratz & Anderson
Hazel Grove
Wallowa
Enterprise
Wallowa County
State Land Board
Timothy
Serach
Young
Nee Young
Columbia Land Co
R. R. Wood
Frank Sloan
Portland, Ore
Pendleton, Ore
Echo, Ore
Louis Scholl Jr
Bridge St
Echo, Or
Grain
Henrietta Milling , Grain Co
Echo
C. R. Bonygy & Sons, Props
Mell Norman
Prop
Mullin & Stewart, Prop
Oregon Journal
Teleos
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