World Happenings Condensed Briefs
Winnipeg street car workers strike. Ohio raises saloon licenses from 350 to 1000. Edna Wallace Hopper loses Dunsmuir estate. Roosevelt nominates Bristol for Oregon U S district attorney and Endicott for yards and docks chief. New York firm buys 10 acres near Eburne for glass works. Interior seeks Omak creek townsite. Chicago packers cases date set. Bonaparte accepts Merriwether resignation and suspends sentence. Metropolitan Museum buys 100 ornate keys enlarging its medieval collection.
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Roosevelt
William G. Bristol
United States District Attorney
Oregon
Admiral Endicott
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Assay Office Shortage Prompts Commissioner Investigation
Senator Piles introduced a bill after Justice Department consultation to appoint a commissioner to investigate the defalcation of Cashier Adams at the Seattle assay office. The commissioner will take testimony, determine amounts due to each claimant, and file findings within six months. The report would bind claimants and guide Congress to settle the claims if Adams estate proceeds are insufficient.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Piles
Attorney General
Adams
Seattle
Congress
Salmon Review Details Pacific Coast Pack For 1905 Season
The Trade Register issues its annual salmon review for 1905. The 52 page edition covers the catching packing and marketing of salmon and aims to answer any question about the Pacific salmon industry. Coast total pack for 1905 reached 4 696 976 cases compared with 3 310 668 last year and 5 056 980 in 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Trade Register
Pacific
Committee plans coast trip to study lighthouses and life saving stations
The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce will visit the North Pacific coast during the summer recess to examine lighthouse needs, life saving stations, and related matters. Some members may miss the trip due to campaign duties, but the majority will go.
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Washington
House
North Pacific Coast
Congress
Hawthorne Manuscripts Damaged by Yonkers Fire
Fire at Julian Hawthorne's Yonkers home destroys and damages original manuscripts by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Notable works affected include The Scarlet Letter The Blythedale Romance The Marble Faun Twice Told Tales and Septimus Felton with water damage noted on several other pieces. The loss is reported from New York dated March 28.
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New York
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne
Yonkers
Septimus Felton
Senate Judiciary Committee Endorses Interlocutory Appeal Bill
Washington March 29 The senate committee on judiciary reports favorably a bill allowing appeals from interlocutory orders or decrees. The measure mirrors a bill recently approved by the house.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Judiciary
House
Gambling houses ordered closed in Renton
Washington news items report Renton gambling houses ordered shut down and a long list of local developments. The president nominates K P Allen as Pullman postmaster and a bill to create an Elk preserve in the Olympic forest reserve moves in the House. Monroe to gain a cannery and box factory once buildings and machinery are in place.
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Olympic Forest Reserve
Monroe
Half Million Miners Are Now On Strike
Indianapolis March 31. The United Mine Workers of America national convention adjourned and authorized officers to sign a wage agreement at the 1908 scale for two years. Wages rise 5.55 percent in Illinois Indiana Ohio and Western Pennsylvania while the Southwest district seeks a 3 cent per ton advance. Operators resisted arbitration. Mines in multiple districts require uniform signing. About 509 500 miners will stay on strike until settlements are signed.
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Indianapolis
National Convention of
United Mine Workers of America
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Southwest
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Squirrels threaten Palouse crops amid vast outbreak
In the Palouse country ground squirrels appear in unprecedented numbers with millions flooding the area. Wheat growers fear extreme damage as the Grange organizes a joint plan to exterminate the pests. Farmers deploy poisoned wheat, free ammunition, and tail bounties from 1 to 5 cents per tail.
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Spokane
Grange
Philippines Gubernatorial Elections Shift Toward Immediate Independence
In Washington on March 31 details show the party backing immediate independence gaining several governorships. Allies of this stance won, while proponents who urged awaiting U.S. judgment secured few victories.
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Washington
Philippines
United States
Seattle Market Report Prices for grain and livestock
Market news shows Seattle delivery prices for oats barley wheat and feeds. Fresh meats poultry eggs and dairy prices from Eastern and Western Washington, with pigs lambs cattle and sheep rates and hay and grain figures across regions.
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Round Lotal
O. B
Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washinon
Washinon Creamery
Eastern Creamery
Washington Ranch
Irrigation Projects Approved for Washington State
Washington confirms final approval of Sunnyside and Tieton irrigation projects under the reclamation act. Assistant Secretary Ryan signs after legal opinions, with Yakima river valley works set to begin this summer and major sub projects like Treton and Sunnyside planned. Representative Jones hails the action as a watershed event for state growth and declares water rights definite and perpetual.
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Washington
Ryan
Sunnyside
Tieton
Okanogan
Yakima Valley
Secretary of the Interior
Washington Irrigation
Washington Irrigation Company
Jones
Yakima
Treton
North
Kittitas County
Yakima River
Reclamation Service Sets Fast Timeline for Yakima Irrigation
Washington March 29. The reclamation service pledges dirt will fly in Yakima valley by August 1. Preparatory work to draft irrigation specifications will finish in two to three months. Bids for construction to follow, then contracts. Interior department closed the contract purchase of Washington Irrigation Company interests for 250000 dollars to transfer to government.
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Washington
Reclamation Service
Yakima Valley
Interior Department
Washington Irrigation Company
Quartz in Klondike yields Twenty patents issued for quartz claims
Dawson March 28 Twenty patents to quartz claims in the Klondike have been issued within the past month. The ground spans about 3000 acres across Le Pine Bonanza Eldorado and Indian River areas. Major firms eye quartz as exploration advances with tests sent to smelters outside.
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Dawson
Klondike
Klonaike
Lepine
Bonanza
Eldorado
Indian River
West Dawson
Yukon
Chinese Revolutionists Plan Coup in Peking
Dispatches from China report revolutionaries gathering for an anti-dynastic coup at Peking. Armament caravans bought in Tientsin are moved toward Mongolia, bombs found at the railway station cause alarm, and foreign troops are bolstered in the palace area as panic spreads in the capital. The Kokumin notes American concern but predicts no wide disturbances, while denying Japanese anti foreign engines.
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Victoria B. C
China
Peking
The
Kokumin
America
Japan
Tokyo
Freight via Tehuantepec opens new Isthmus service
Seattle March 29 details of inaugurating the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company railroad linked freight line across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec are announced. Daily capacity will start at 1 000 tons across the isthmus by Sept 1 1906 and rise to 3 000 tons before year end. Fleet distribution places seven ships on the Pacific coast and four on the Atlantic, with named vessels and two hulls under construction in San Francisco for the Pacific run.
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Seattle
Tehauntepec
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
Steamship Company
Railroad Company
American-Hawaiian Company
Pacific
Atlantic
Tacoma
Isthmus
San Francisco
Alcohol as Fuel Promises Very Cheap Energy
The free alcohol sub committee reports a free alcohol bill to the full committee. It removes the internal revenue tax on denatured domestic alcohol for technical uses including lighting heating and motor fuel. The act would take effect three months after passage with treasury details left to admin. Alcohol would undercut kerosene and gasoline and can be produced from any starch source.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Fuil
Internal Revenue Tax
Treasury Department
Bill to regulate log rafts towed in waters
Washington March 28 Senator Piles introduces a bill authorizing the secretary of commerce and labor to set raft size limits. Licensed masters and pilots would forfeit licenses for violations of the law.
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Washington
Piles
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
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California Supreme Court
Edna Wallace Hopper
Dunsmuir
Westminster
B. C
Eburne
Pogue
Hitchcock
Omak Creek
Federal
Chicago
Packers
Bonaparte
Minor Merriwether
Naval Academy
Academy
Meriwether
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bill
Commerce Committee
Hawthorne
Washington News
Renton
K. P. Allen
Pullman
Western
Walla Walla
A. E. Loder
Office of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Seattle Market Report
Wheat—Club
Bluestem
Red
Tanscomt Metal
ACHE
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Pred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke
General Insurance Agents
Portland
All Points East
Ocosta
Point E
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
N. P. Ry. Co
Portland, Oregon
Canadian Pacific
F. C. Collins, T.P.A
John Halstead
Phil
Locke
Nature
E. J. Bradley
CW. Miller Cashier
State Bank
N. E
Heron
H Streets
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
Wash
Wemlnt Aig
Forakeba
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Wiehkab
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