Railway and city news with accident and project notes
Freight and passenger train details for West and East routes. interline ticket advisories. A fatal track accident near Rut Peauhoh Avenue claims Frank Hull of Tacoma, with fifty-five injured. City to acquire Northwest Light & Water plant for 310000. Oroville Brewster branch work starts with camps built. engineers on site.
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Ad Mart
Smetile Binewte Company
Walllegford
Alete-Eteb Pawwenters
Peauhoh
Frank Hull
Tacoma
City Bays Public Utility Works
North Yakima
Northwest Light & Water Company
Brewster
Oroville
Oroville-Brewster
Great Northern
A. Guthrie & Co
Odd Length Lumber to Save Carloads in Northwest Mills
Washington dispatch notes a Northwest lumber push to market odd length stock to reduce waste. About 150 mills signed a pact to sell odd lengths, estimated to save 57,000 carloads of lumber yearly. A monument for late Rep. Francis W. Curbinas is planned by the association.
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Tacoma
Northwest
Pacifi Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association
Oregon
Washington
Itwan
Francie W. Curbinas
George Ling
May
Everett Griggs
J. H. Mtoedel
Griggs
Association
Castelan
Local option fight heats Colfax petitions battle
In Colfax the bitterest petitions fight in the town’s history continues ahead of next month’s local option election. The Colfax Commercial Club has joined the controversy opposing the Whitman County Civic group in a heated public dispute.
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Colfax
Colfax Commercial Club
Whitman County
Five Million See Hudson Fulton Parade in New York
Reproductions of Henry Hudsons Half Moon and Robert Fultons Clermont led the Hudson Fulton celebration parade that began September 25 and runs to October 9. War ships and a thousand merchant and pleasure craft followed, drawing an estimated five million spectators along a four mile parade route.
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New York
Henry Hudson
Robert Fulton
Train Crash Kills Ten in Chicago and Injures Many
Ten men died and sixteen more likely fatally injured when a southbound Pennsylvania line passenger train crashed into the caboose of a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul cattle train near Chicago. The engine pierced the stock train caboose and debris caught fire, endangering surrounding cars.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania Road
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Open Door Policy Protest Over Manchuria Rail Treaties
The government plans a protest over the Antung Mukden railroad dispute between Japan and China affecting the open door in Manchuria. Washington awaits full details of the Japan China agreement before shaping a formal stance, with diplomats reporting piecemeal information and imminent exposition.
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China
Japan
Manchuria
Hay
State Department
Antung-Mukden
Far East
Way Keene Took on Rail Officials and a Priest
A reminiscence recaps Keene’s feud with railroad bosses after a mudbound train refusal. He toppled officials, secured control of the line, and later met a familiar conductor who bragged of stock gains. A second tale recounts Mr Spurgeon’s youth and a wag’s wry comeback about birthplace and sinners.
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Keene
New York
Aittle Jerkwater Road
Pines
Toms
Talented Sawyer Sisters Open Musical Series in Stanfield
Mrs A W Sawyer and Miss Blanche Sawyer arrived from Vargo on the Fargo Special. Miss Sawyer, a graduate of the New England Conservatory, plays piano and sings. They have already given an impressive concert with Mrs J L Parker, another skilled pianist. The community enjoyed the prelud e to a winter series of musicales by young musicians.
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A. W. Sawyer
Blanche Sawyer
Vargo
Fargo- 1
Miss Sawyer
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston
Listing Irrigated Lands in Umatilla County
Data collection in Umatilla county for listing irrigated lands moves to State Engineer John Lewis of Salem. Deputy R D Cooper and a three man party have surveyed Hermiston to extend the effort, aimed at supplying information to the state engineer and state board of water commissioners.
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Umatilla County
John Lewis
Salem
R. D. Cooper
Lewis
Hermiston
State Board of Water Commissioners
Man Boasts on Beach After Drinking
A Camden county man, visiting Goose Egg Cove on the New Jersey side of Delaware Bay, drank too much and challenged men on the beach including couples. He was beaten into submission by a family man and, rising, declared that he and the little fellow could lick any man on the beach.
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Goose Egg Cove
New Jersey
Delaware Bay
Camden County
Salem County
Camden
Peary blocks Dr Cook records from Roosevelt voyage
Commander Robert B. Peary refuses to allow any Cook records or instruments aboard the steamer Roosevelt. He keeps the items in a cache at Etah Greenland. The disclosure comes via Harry Whitney a New Haven sportsman in a dispatch to Dr Cook.
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Whitney
Roosevelt
New York
Robert B. Peary
Dr. Cook
Etoh
Greenland
Harry Whitney
New Haven Sportsman
Cook
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Onegon & Wash
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Hunter
Washington News
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Bet In
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Civic League
Hudson
Fulton
Africa
Walsett
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Astung
Say
Troy
Spurgeon
Rt. Paul
Mr. Spurgeon
West Heart
Union Pacific
Salt Lake
Denver
Kansas City
St. Louis
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Walla Walla
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Thomas H. Brents
R. H. Johnson
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