Brief News of the Past Week Highlights From Outside the State
A kaleidoscope of national and world events unfolds with the Southern Pacific racing toward a transcontinental speed contest, Akutan volcano erupting violently, and war talk echoing from Britain and Germany. Reports touch on Taft, Ballinger, and Pinchot, unrest in labor and politics, naval expansion in Japan, earthquakes in Mexico, and explorers like Cook staking claims to polar milestones. The round of strikes, floods, rail orders, and curiosities from hats to ratle skins paints a busy week across continents.
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Southern Pacific
Akutan
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Lord Northcliffe
Germany
Great Britain
Harriman
Peary Doubts Cook And Amundsen Questions North Pole Claim
In a dispatch from New York on September 4 Captain Peary challenges Cook's voyage with Eskimos claiming no distance north of land was reached. Amundsen, in Christiana, suspects Peary found no Cook trace and notes both explorers used minimal instruments and stresses comparing their reports.
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New York
Indian Harbor
Labrador
Cape Ray
Melville
Stone
Associated Press
North Pole
Cook
Robert E. Peary
Christiana
Roald Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Peary
Policemen Save Lives in Fire at Vendome Hotel
In San Francisco a blaze gutted the Vendome hotel at Pacific and Montgomery, destroying the building and causing $60,000 in damage. Over 60 occupants, awakened by Policeman J. J. Manion, were guided to safety as oil tanks fed flames and smoke, with officers risking the ascent to rescue guests on upper floors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific and
Montgomery Avenues
Barbary Coast District
J. J. Manion
Oregon News Roundup Albany to Colorado Duck Shipment
Albany reports a record shipment of 2600 Cotswold ducks bound for Colorado breeding markets. The birds were gathered from Willamette valley points by stockman B. S. Hecker, with 1000 near Albany and the rest from McMinnville and west side locales. A special train carried 26 single deck cars plus a special consist, led by Hocker and assistants, for Denver transport. In other notes, Oregon clover seed yields rise in McMinnville area, while Rogue River water rights proceed under the new state law with multiple creek determinations under board review.
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Albany
Colorado
Willamette Valley
B. 5
Hecker
McMinnville
Hocker
Denver
Oregon
Salem
State Water Board
Rogue River
A. B. Sayling
F. Y. Allen
Applegate Creek
Little Butte
Althouse Creek
Quines Creek
Williams Creek
H. L. Holgate
Bonanza
Klamath Falls
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Hemispheres
Wyoming
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Ohio
Taft
Ballinger
Pinchot
Mitchell
Encape
Cincinnati
W. C. Herron
Japan
Clyde Fitch
Mexico
Chicago
Hrntiah House of Jorda
China
Pressed Steel Car Company
Pittsburg
Ihs
United States
Russia
Matcolm
Ala
California
Catalina Islands
Col
Admiralty
Terment
Count Zeppelin
Amerman
The
American Locomotive Company
Indiana
Lenmark
Wickersham
Java
Roosevelt
Canal
New Orleans
Panama Canal
Panama
T. W. Harrison
Columbus
Harrison
Africa
Porter
Secret Service
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Dept. S
Bays
Pine and Sansome Streets
Virginia Ee
Commercial Street
Bradbury
San Rafael
Cal
William BK. Bradbury
Corte Madre
San Quentin
State OF
Janaac Johnson
Henry Gee
Hubert Bernard
Medford
Bartlett Pear
J. G. Gore
Bartletts
Eaeinetts
Sunflower
Bartlett
E. B. Waterman
Pendiewr
Hendley
Pendleton
Wallowa County
Granta Pass
E. W. Shattuck
Union
Wallowa
Salem Board of Trade
J. W. Gleason & Sons
Gleasons
Coos
Oregon Caves
Siskiyou National Forest
Congress
Brownsville
Portland Markets
Hutter
Oregon Ranch
Monroe
Forehard Company
Jorehard Company
Siuslaw
Leonard
Eugene
Florence
Tor
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, Oregon
C. R. Bonney & Sons, Props
Mell Norman
Ceeeeteers
Mullin & Stewart
Oregon Journal
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