Oregon News Notes of General Interest
Oregon news notes of general interest cover livestock conventions, school health, university sports, and state projects. Highlights include Oregon Federation of Labor activities, naval militia integration, highway surveys, and the appointment of a Salem hospital architect. Also noted are stock market trends, irrigation district votes, and local agricultural efforts across multiple counties.
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Southern Pacific
Simon
Arrose Umatilla County
Uni
Oregon
Oregon Federation of Labor
Balen
Astoria
Oregon Naval Militia
National Naval Volunteers
Secretary of Agriculture
Funde
Douglas County
Roseburg
Umpqua
Secretary of War
Linnton
Vancouver Barracks
Cryder
Umatilla National Forest
Salem Hospital Association
Salem
Haker
Grant
Union County
Grand
South Side Irrigation District
Rogue River
Mount Angel
Hich
French Prairie
Gervais
Wall Street Files Show News Leaked Telegrams On White House Note
Congressional inquisitors revealed leaked telegrams from major brokerages signaling a probable market reaction to President Wilsons peace note. The messages, including a December 28 forecast from KF Mutton Co and data from F A Connelly Co, suggested insider awareness before public disclosure. Other firms Clem Clement & Co and Curtle & Co also reported pre note communications. The testimony named K W Halling, Wilsons brother in law, as a partner in Connelly, while Hulton described general rumor as the basis for the information.
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New York
Wall Street
Witeon
KF Mutton & Co
Hecretary Lansing
Thenagee
Edward F. Hutton
Clem
F. A. Connelly
F. A. Connelly & Co
Washington
K. W. Halling
Wilson
Hulton
Ital Connelly
Hutton
Clement, Curtle & Co
Chicago
Counely
Mayor Hiram Gill Indicted In Seattle Bootlegging Case
Mayor Hiram Charles Gill Chief of Police Charles L Rockingham and cashier Robert T Hodge among others indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts for conspiring with the Billingsley bootlegging ring in the city. Indictments allege payments to Gill to dismiss city actions and shield violations. Gill says he anticipated the move due to bootlegger threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillingsleys
Beckingham
Hodge
Gill
Bandits Beaten After Border Skirmish Near Stone House
Mexican cattle runners clashed with U S cavalry along the border at Stone House. No U S soldiers were killed or wounded after a Friday to Saturday battle that ended with Mexican forces fleeing at about 10:80 oclock Saturday morning. Brigadier General Plummer said the bandits resisted cowboys trying to recover stolen cattle.
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Tucson
Ariz
United States
Stone House
Plummer
Mawson pictures Weston Chautauqua feature Antarctica
Mawson pictures report Antarctic life with penguin scenes captured during explorations. The film shows tame birds and a live team. notable for being among the era’s rare wildlife sequences. The feature costs 21,500 esc at local stores and offices for Weston Chautauqua dates February 17 to 20.
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Boon
Mateon
Weston Oregon Normal School Tax Opposition Letter
Weston Oregon residents oppose a proposed 125 000 appropriation for a new Eastern Oregon normal school plant. They urge restoring Western plant with a 0.04 mill tax and note the state already owns a 75 000 facility in the region, arguing it should reopen with modest annual funding. They advocate a millage plan submitted to voters for reopening and maintenance at Weston.
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Oregon
State Senate
Weston
Oregon State Normal School
Pittsbur gh fire causes $2 million loss in retail district
A large fire swept through a Pittsbur gh retail area causing about $2,000,000 in damage. Other items note a $49,000,000 rivers and harbors bill passage, electrification plans on a Puget Sound rail line, and various legal and military updates.
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Pittsburgh
House
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Puget Sound
Washington
Pacific Coast
William J. Burns
Seymour & Seymour
New York
F.C. Oxman
Durkee
Jesti
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Ac Wally
Ips
Mexico
War Department
United States
North Takota
Ure
Most Nuceasary. A bridle for the tongue in a wee fury
A brief note suggests restraining sharp speech amid a small outburst, advocating measured discourse. The fragment hints at caution in conversation and temperate expression during a moment of irritation.
War News Roundup From Front and Balkans
British raids on the French front and Mesopotamia clash over Kut el Amara while Russian Riga fights fuel repulses reported by Berlin and Petrograd. Verdun gains reversed by Germans, Dresden arsenal casualties claimed, Austro Italian artillery, Macedonia raids, and a Russian attack piercing German lines on the Bukowina frontier near Jacobent and Kimpelung.
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Mesopotamia
Kutel Amara
Russia
Riga
Berlin
Petrograd
Paris
Verdun
Dresden
Lis
Macedonia
William
Germany
Bukowins Roumania
Jacobent
Kimpelung
Fisk Denies Leak Ties With McAdoo In Cabinet Trio
New York banker Pinny Fisk refutes Lawson’s claim he plotted with Secretary McAdoo and a senator in a joint stock deal. Archibald White says Lawson’s tale was romanticized. Oregon troops on the border are ordered home. about 165 in Battery A and 104 in Troop A return.
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Treasury
New York
Pinny Fisk
Thomas W. Lawson
McAdoo
Archibald G. White
Manneter
Lawson
Fisk
Oregon
Portland
George E. Chamberlain
W. W. Wilson
President Wilton vetoes immigration bill over literacy test provision
President Wilton vetoed the immigration bill passed by Congress citing the literacy test clause. The measure had cleared the House last March by a 308 to ? margin and the Senate in December by 4 to 7. Germany announced a policy of sabroariuing.
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Washington
Wilton
Congress
House
Senate
Senate to Expand Senate Sessions for Peace Address Debate
Washington reports that the Senate Democratic Steering Committee will extend daily sessions from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting February 1 to press forward on President Wilson's peace address and the Cummins resolution on foreign alliances. The House Ways and Means Committee advances a revenue measure projected to raise about 524 million to fund military and other projects. Republicans oppose the motion to table the discussion, while Democrats split on supports amid a heavy legislative agenda.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Cummins
Mouros
Jefferson
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kitehia
Danish West Indies
Yeadera
Hitchcock
Williame
Foreign Relations Committee
Martine
New Jersey
Four Children Slain Father Arrested in Auburn Fire
Tacoma report details four children killed in Auburn early Sunday as their beds and room were saturated with kerosene and the house set ablaze. Father 5. A. Hewett, a Northern Pacific brakeman, was arrested by King County sheriff. He claims one child woke him. fire alarms and a garden hose were used in a failed rescue. Coroner notes skulls crushed and beds bloodstained. mother had left the home last week.
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Tacoma
Wash
Auburn
A. Hewett
Northern Pacific
King County
Seattle
Hewett
James
Pledges Exceed $500,000 for Belgium Relief Fund in New York
More than $500,000 was pledged to the relief commission for Belgium by Rocky Mountain club members in New York. The funds were initially subscribed for the citys planned $1,000,000 home.
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Belgium
New York
Rocky Mountain Club
Fortifications Won by Allied Forces Across Roumania and Nearby Fronts
War office notes Allied troops have breached Austro German fortifications east of Jacobent and southwest of Kimpelung near the Roumenien front. Weather report notes windy conditions prevailing in the area.
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Roumania
Petrograd
London
Rusalas
Jacobent
Kimpelung
Roumenien Front
War Office
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Hvestock Men
Halem
Oregon Blaze Grocers
Assooia
Hatem
Ween
Prairie City
Pacific University
Oregon Normal School
Mommerit
Portland Dealers’ Motor Car Association
Hunpecked
Hiram Gill
Mawson Pictures
Weston Chautauqua
Miwon
Mawson
Weston Normal School Committee
State Board of Regents
Or, Zimmerman
Alfred Zimmerman
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