Protection Needed on Mexican Border Amid Yaqui Valley Disturbances
Washington reports disturbed conditions in Yaqui valley Sonora prompting the state department to ask Mexican authorities to station troops to protect American lives and property. El Paso notes Rep Hudspeth says Acting Secretary Polk may reconsider allowing Mexican troops to pass through the United States and urged influence against permit.
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Washington
Yaqui Valley
Sonora
State Department
Mexico City
el Paso
Charles Davis
Hudspeth
Polk
United States
Mexican Foreign Minister Aguilar visits Nuevo Laredo on official business
General Candido Aguilar, Mexican minister of foreign relations, arrived at Nuevo Laredo across the border on June 3 on his way to Washington. Officials say the purpose of the trip is official business.
Counties rally for Idaho irrigation project drive
Major Reed reports strong county turnout including Payette Washington Gem and Canyon as Idaho Reclamation association pushes a half million dollar irrigation appropriation. Governor Davis leaves for Washington with Frank Gooding and B P Shawhan to advocate the measure with talks of a Salt Lake meeting with Utah and Nevada delegates.
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Fred
Idaho Reclamation Association
Major Reed
Payette
Washington
Gem and
Canyon
D. W. Davis
Congress
Frank R. Gooding
B. P. Shawhan
Snake River
S. E. Brady
The
Reclamation Association
Salt Lake
Utah
Nevada
Mondell Soldier Settlement Bill Aims at Rural Homes for Veterans
Congress considers the National Soldier Settlement Act to provide employment and land for veterans. The plan creates a fund, requires 5 percent down, and allows 40 year amortizing payments at 4 percent interest. Loans up to 1200 dollars for improvements and 800 dollars for livestock are included.
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Mondell
Public Lands Committee of
Congress
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
House
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
United States
Aides Named by Committee for Bannock County 4th of July
An executive committee for Bannock county Fourth of July events met at D C McDougall's office. Chairmen named for Publicity Chas Sumner Parade R S Tsehudy Dinner Mrs W E Trapp Athletics N B Adkison Finance Alec Campbell John Hood John Harvey Transportation Jesse R S Budge Decorations Thos Jenkins Dance C C Bowerman.
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Bannock County
D. C. McDougall
W. H. Cleave
Wm. Whitaker
Ezra Merrill
Chas. G. Sumner
R. S. Tsehudy
W. E. Trapp
N. B. Adkison
Alec Campbell
John Hood
John Harvey
Jesse R
Budge
Thos. Jenkins
C. C. Bowerman
Alaska 1918 Deaths Surpass Births by 179
Juneau reports 842 deaths and 663 births in Alaska for 1918, per vital statistics released by the territory secretary. The figures highlight a mortality excess amid the year.
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Juneau
Alaska
Stork
Grim Reaper
Labor group urges Burleson removal to President Wilson
The American Federation of Labor executive committee passed resolutions calling for the removal of Postmaster General Burleson over what it terms autocratic management. The resolutions were sent to President Wilson after the AF L meeting in Chicago on June 3.
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Chicago
Burleson
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Government controlled roads costly to operate
Washington reports that the government controlled railroad system can only meet expenses with higher rates, though the Director General Hines opposes increases now. The bill authorizes soldier settler loans, state cooperation on rural homes, and a $500 million appropriation to implement the act.
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Washington
Hines
Railroad Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Treaty Copies Sold by Paris Delegation In Paris Dated Scandal
Senator Lodge said business interests in New York had a copy of the treaty with Germany given out by an American representative in Paris but withheld by the State Department from the Senate. The disclosure comes as the Senate foreign relations committee scrutinizes the matter.
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Washington, D. C
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
New York
Germany
Paris
State Department
Quick Finish to a Strike at Coblenz
German workers in the American zone began a four hour general strike to protest the Rheinish republic report. The strike ended when Americans warned deportation to unoccupied areas if workers did not return by 1 PM. All workers resumed work after the ultimatum.
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Vancouver
Coblenz
Associated Press
Rheinish Republic
WIRE LINES TO BE RETURNED AT EARLY DATE
Senate interstate commerce committee favors bill by Senator Kellogg to return telegraph and telephone lines to private ownership. The plan would keep telephone rates for sixty days after final action, but no telegraph rate continuation is provided. Burleson increase upheld by the Supreme Court, and Postal President Mackay urged immediate wire return with a promised twenty percent rate cut.
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Washington
Kellogg
Minnesota
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Burleson
Supreme Court
Mackay
Postal
Congress
Former Kaiser makes 2000th tree cut in Amerongen history
June 3 Amerongen reports former Emperor William sawing his 2000th tree in the castle grounds. The blocks inscribed 2000 W. IL were shared with seven Amerongen friends. At the castle the ceremony honored Count Bentinck’s youngest son Herr Hohenzollern’s sawing partner with a gold tie pin. Local talk questions the former ruler’s presence and future.
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Amerongen
William
Bentinck
Count Bentinck
Herr Hohenzollern
Petrograd Taken by Allied Forces Report
Copenhagen reports a nonconfirmed telegram stating that Estonian and Finnish forces have captured Petrograd, received by the National TIDende.
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Petrograd
Copenhagen
Vardee
National Tidende
Reds resume fiendish work in large cities headline in bold
Justice department agents and police nationwide hunt an anarchist group after a night of explosions in Washington Pittsburgh Cleveland Boston Philadelphia Paterson New York and Newtonville. One victim a watchman killed in New York. Washington blast injures several and destroys homes in a fashionable district.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Boston
Philadelphia
Paterson
New Jersey
New York
Newtonville
Massachusetts
Palmer
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