Sugar Trust Seeks to Hide Record in Spitzer Prosecution
New York May 15 Former treasury officials may be drawn into criminal prosecutions of Oliver Spitzer and six others tied to Havemeyer & Elder sugar refinery. Seven men indicted for defrauding the United States of millions in duties with altered scales. The Havemeyer family funds defense while some suspects earned about 1750 dollars yearly. Investigations began 1907 under George B. Cortelyou revealing the fraud method. Indictments may widen to include two or three New York Custom House staff and another treasury official.
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New York
the Treasury
Washington
Oliver Spitzer
Havemeyer & Elder
United States
Sugar Trust
Trust
Henry O. Havemeyer
Havemeyer
H. O. Havemeyer
Richard Wallace
George B. Cortelyou
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry F. Cochrane
Department of the Trust
New York Custom House
Spitzer
Urquhart Told to Pay $10,000 Plus Interest
In the Douglas county case Babcock Cornish Co. v Urquhart the Washington Supreme Court affirmed a judgment ordering Donald Urquhart to refund $10,000 paid on the lands and water right deal with interest.
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Olympia
Douglas County
Babcock-Cornish Company
Donald Urquhart
Supreme Court
Newhall Sells to Gibson Fruit Co in Chicago Transfer
A business transfer effective May 10 in Chicago moves F. Newhall & Sons fruit business to Gibson Fruit Company. The sale involves Wenatchee valley growers as both firms have long handled local products and travel there each season.
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Chicago
Wenatchee Valley
F. Newhall & Sons
Gibson Fruit Company
Wenatchee
Wireless power lights Omaha auditorium and trains control
Dr. Frederick H. Millener demonstrates wireless electricity lighting the Omaha auditorium six miles away and activating a switchboard without wires. The test, linked to the Union Pacific block signal system, uses a wireless control for train operations. Meanwhile the Strahorn Hill scrutiny awaits in Seattle as a federal condemnation case promises to reveal financiers behind the North Coast Railroad project.
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Omaha
Frederick H. Millener
Omaha Auditorium
Union Pacific
Millener
Colonel Glassford
Fort Omaha
Doctor
Seattle
Robert E. Strahorn
North Coast
James J. Hill
Federal Court
District of
Strahorn
Hill
Washington
Morgan to Visit San Francisco Amid Big California Funds
J P Morgan arrives on the Pacific coast after investing 10 million dollars in California securities. The visit is tied to Harriman rail financing and a Europe bound capital plan of 150 million dollars. Morgan may back a Protestant Episcopal cathedral with a 100 thousand dollar pledge to Bishop Nichols.
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San Francisco
California Securities
J. P. Morgan
Pacific Coast
Harriman
Europe
Morgen
Nichols
Deaf Mutes Attend Northwest Convention in Vancouver
Twenty five members of Spokane and Inland Empire organizations travel to the Pacific Northwest convention of deaf mutes in Vancouver Washington from May 30 to June 1 They will also visit the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition in Seattle and the Festival of Roses in Portland P L Axling president of the Spokane society and Northwest Farmer editor will deliver the principal address in sign language for the eastern Washington delegation
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Spokane
Inland Empire
Vancouver
Wash
Seattle
Portland
P. L. Axling
Spokane Society
The
Northwest Farmer
Washington
Large Arsenic Shipment From Ever Ett Smelter
One of the era’s largest arsenic consignments loaded aboard the Buckman bound for San Francisco. The shipment weighed 211 105 pounds.
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Everett Smelter
Buckman
San Francisco
Milwaukee road expansion tied to Aberdeen Osage lake route
Harriman lines spread nationwide as Milwaukee purchases more land delaying completion of the Aberdeen to Osage lake road and the Sole Duck river country project in Clallam county.
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Milwaukee
Aberdeen
Osage Lake
Duck River
Clallam “County
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Hami
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