Ex-Congressman Carman A Newcomb Dies at 78
Obituary notes the death of former congressman Carman A Newcomb at his St Louis home on Sunday aged 78 years. Also reports Montana mining figure Peter Lund died suddenly in Neihart from heart disease and the U S Savings and Loan Co plans liquidation under Public Examiner Johnson.
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Carman A. Newcomb
St. Louis
Peter Lund
Montana
Neihart
United States Savings & Loan Co
Minnesota
Johnson
Washington State News Roundup From Across The State
A Palouse post office safe was blown open with about $600 stolen. Bremerton hosts organize a Grand Army post named Gen Terry. Seattle man William Ward killed by an electric shock near Yesler Way. Mrs McKenzie bears triplets two boys one girl with one boy dying soon after birth. Marine Fred Norman drowns after falling from the Manning at Puget Sound navy yard. Pullman faces housing scarcity. Lincoln pioneer Abraham Ensley dies from blood poisoning. Klanskat wreck injures none as fourteen flat cars pile up. Spokane plumbers strike over master rules. Northport man James Bennett drowns at Santa Monica body washed ashore. Olympia votes on street railway franchise for Olympia Development Company backed by Eastern capital. Company owns 4000 acres waterfront. 1000 within city. road to be completed in 18 months with a 6000 bond.
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Palouse
Bremerton and
Gen. Terry
William Ward
Seattle
Wright
Yesler Way
McKenzie
W. A. McKenzie
Moxie
Fred Norman
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Pullman
Abraham Ensley
Lincoln County
Olympia
Olympia Development Company
Butterine Tax Sparks Chicago Protests
Chicago says butterine production, dominated by local firms like Swift & Co, would halt if a proposed Harris tax of 10 cents per pound becomes law. Edward W. Swift warns no one could make butterine under such a levy.
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Chicago
America
Harris
Edward W. Swift
Swift & Co
the Chronicle
Death Toll Rises From Ibrox Stand Disaster
Glasgow reports 21 killed and 250 injured in the Ibrox park collapse during the Pottall game between England and Scotland. Nearly 200 seriously hurt sent to infirmaries for operations and treatment as many sustain broken limbs, crushed bodies, mangled flesh, and gashes. more deaths expected from skull fractures.
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Glasgow
Ibrox Park
England
Scotland
Rear Admiral Evans Arrives to Assume Asiatic Station Command
Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans has arrived from Washington to take a senior role and will depart for the Orient to become commander in chief of the Asiatic station in six months, succeeding Rear Admiral Rogers who will retire.
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San Francisco
Apri
Robly D. Evans
Washington
Orient
Rogers
Asiatic Station
Miss Bessie Mackay To Represent College In Oratorical
Miss Bessie Mackay of the class of 1902 will represent Washington Agricultural College in the intercollegiate oratorical contest against the University of Idaho Whitman College and the Washington Agricultural College in May.
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Pullman, Wash
Bessie MacKay
Washington Agricultural College
University of Idaho
Whitman College
Walla Walla
Big Irrigation Scheme Withdraws Montana Townships
The president declared more than 70 townships in Northern Montana withdrawn from public entry for the St. Marys canal and Milk River project irrigation scheme.
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Washington
Montana
St. Mary's Canal
Rifles Seized from Samoa Sold at Mare Island Yard
In San Francisco on April 7 the government sold 3500 rifles seized from Samoan natives at Mare Island navy yard. The firearms fetched 35 cents each at auction to a local department store.
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San Francisco
Samoa
Mare Island Navy Yard
Fireman badly hurt in Great Northern wreck near Winchester
The Great Northern eastbound passenger train wrecked near Winchester between Wilson Creek and Wenatchee. The fireman, unnamed, was injured internally. engineer Depew had minor injuries. A box car blown onto the track caused the crash at fifty miles an hour, tearing the track and delaying service about fifteen hours. A wrecking train was sent from Spokane and the fireman’s condition remained unclear.
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Spokane
Great Northern
Winchester
Wilson Creek
Wenatchee
Depew
Australians Linked to Mass Killings by Bushveldt Trooper
A former Bushveldt Carbineers trooper in Liverpool says convicted Australian officers in the corps killed 35 to 40 prisoners. He recalls three Dutch children aged two, 12 and their sister queuing for food, then being shot. the two boys killed as one carried his brother away. The girl died soon after. London reports list multiple British casualties in concurrent actions near Vreikuil and Leeuwkop with dozens killed or wounded.
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Liverpool
Bushveldt Carbineers
Carbineers
Berlin tariff clash tests agrarian grain duty bids
Count Posadowsky Wehner returned to Berlin after surveying state governments on the tariff issue. All reports support the imperial stance against higher grain duties, and agrarians may need to accept the government position or risk losing the tariff bill.
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Berlin
Count Posadowsky- Wehner
Empire
Force under Gen Botha advances toward Natal frontier
Brussels dispatch says Laurento Marques reports the Botha force moving toward the Natal frontier. Durban dispatch notes general traffic north of Tugela River halted and town guards at Ladysmith Dundee and Newcastle mobilized to full strength.
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London
Brussels
Morning Post
Leyds
Transvaal
Laurento Marques
Botha
Natal
Durban
Tugela River
Ladysmith
Dundee
Newcastle
Powderly Resigns as Immigration Commissioner
Washington April 8 News that T W Powderly has handed his resignation as commissioner general of immigration to the president Frank P Sargeant named to succeed him though not expected to assume duties for over a month the resignation likely not to be accepted immediately.
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Washington
T. W. Powderly
Immigration
Powderly
Frank P. Sargeant
Exclusion Bill Passes House Tightens Chinese Strictures
The House approved the Chinese exclusion bill after amendments that extend exclusion to Philippine and other possessions, ban employment of Chinese sailors, and re enact existing laws. The war revenue tax repeal conference report was adopted and sent to the White House. A separate measure to extend national bank charters faced a brief Senate bill motion and passed amid a sparse, late session.
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Washington
House
Philippines
United States
Philippine Commission
White House
Fowler
New Jersey
Senate
Irrigation Bill Prospects Bright After House Report
Washington observers report the house committee has backed the Mills irrigation bill with president endorsed amendments. The measure, backed by the National Irrigation Association, aims to block land grabs by corporations and remove state control objections. Supporters say passage is assured this session if the speaker allows a vote.
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Washington
Friends of Irrigation
House Committee
National Irrigation Association
American sportsman injured after horse falls with hounds
Foxhall Keene an American sportsman rode with the Querne hounds at Borough hill Melton Mowbray when his horse fell at the first fence and rolled on him He was unconscious for a while and then transported to Danby Hall residence of the foxhounds master for treatment
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London
Foxhall Keene
Querne Hounds
Borough Hill
Melton Mowbray
Market Price List for Seattle Area Farm Commodities
Local dealers quote delivery prices in round lots on the dock and in the car at Seattle. Grain oats 27.50, barley 11, wheat, chicken feed 22 22.50, bran 16, shorts 17. Hay Puget Sound 11 12, timothy 15, alfalfa 11.50 per ton. Eggs strictly fresh ranch 15 lie. Poultry live hens 12 12'sc, old roosters Toc, live turkeys 12 15e, ducks 10 1le, spring chickens various sizes. Geese 8 10¢. Live stock beef cattle cows 33 4e, steers 4 5e, sheep 4 44ie, hogs live 6 64gce, calves 5 7e. Hides pelts wool heavy salted steers over 60 lbs 7 9c, medium sound per lb 7 9c, light under 60 lbs Te, cows sound all weights Te, stags bulls oxen 5c, salted kips 8c, calves per lb 8c, dry hides 13¢, dry culls luc, summer deer per lb 20 25¢, winter deer dry 14 20c, papery deer 12 16, dry elk 8 10c, green elk 4 5c, sheep pelts 25c l, shearlings 15 40c, Eastern Washington wool 7 9c, Western Washington coal 13c, dirty timber stained 10 llc, tallow 234 43gc, grease 14 2c.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Wasllington
Rumors on Peace Talks Amid Boer Influence
New York report of April 5 notes many rumors about peace negotiations but little solid information. It cites possible Dutch Premier Kuyper seeking German favor for the Boer cause, limited Boer agent activity in Europe, and identifies Mr. Steyn as the most influential figure at that moment.
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New York
London
The
Tribune
Kuyper
Steyn
Whitman College Wins Debate Over Negro Suffrage Question
In Walla Walla on April 7 Whitman College defeated Washington Agricultural College by a unanimous judges’ ruling. The debate addressed the resolution that conferring suffrage on the negro was justifiable with Whitman in the affirmative.
Supreme Court allows liquor in C. O. D. packages
Topeka Kansas April 7. The Supreme court ruled express agents may deliver liquor in C. O. D. packages without violating the prohibitory law. The decision clarified that delivery in such form does not breach prohibition statutes.
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Topeka
Kan
Supreme Court
Cruel to Women: Delarey cites Boer abuses by British troops
Amsterdam reports Gen. Delarey charging British troops with brutal acts against Boers. He cites women used as human shields, killings of unarmed prisoners, and persecution of his wife and family. Affidavits support the charges, with cases of house burnings and cattle theft.
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Amsterdam
Delarey
Kierksdorp
President Goes South to Charleston Visit
The president's special arrived in Charleston at 9 30. To avoid crowds the train stopped mile and a half from the station. The party rode trolley cars to the navy yard then toured Fort Sumter and other historic sites. They lunched on a steamer and later attended a banquet at the Charleston hotel with a main speech planned for the exposition.
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Charleston
W. Va
New Navy Yard
Fort Sumpter
Here
Fort
St. John’s Hotel
Kritzinger Acquitted Amid Prisoner of War Status
London reports Lord Kitchener dispatch that Commandant Kritzinger captured December 17 at Hanover Road Cape Colony was tried by court martial for murder train wrecking and cruelty to prisoners. He has been acquitted and is being well treated as a prisoner of war.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Kritzinger
French
Hanover Road
Cape Colony
Vessel Picks Up Lifebuoy From Lost Condor
Victoria reports another life buoy from H. M. 8 Condor, thought lost in December gales, recovered by Captain Brown of the Mary Taylor about 45 miles southwest of Cape Flattery. A vein of almost pure gold found at the Kersage mine in Summit, Virginia City, with ore said to be knife-cuttable and owned by Charles Millard, son of Senator Millard.
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Victoria
B. B
H. M
Condor
Brown
Mary Taylor
Cape Flattery
Virginia City
Mont
Kersage
Summit
Charles Millard
United States
Millard
Nebraska
Boundary Fence Planned on Montana Border
Great Falls Montana April 5 Word reaches that Canada's government has appropriated 10 100 to build a barbed wire fence along the boundary from St Marys lake to the Sweet Grass hills extending into Montana authorities report this proposed fortification aims to secure the frontier and regulate cross border movement.
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Great Falls
Mont
Montana
The
Dominion
St. Mary's Lake
Sweet Grass Hills
Judge McAtee Resigns After Accepted Charge Allegations
Washington April 7 Judge John L McAtee associate judge of the Eighth circuit court in Oklahoma has tendered his resignation to the president and it has been accepted Charges have been preferred against the judge
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Washington, D. C
Stratton
State of Washington
Supreme Court
Northern Securities Company
Washington
John L. McAtee
Eighth Circuit Court
Oklahoma
McAtee
Carter Will Recover From Typhoid at Fort Leavenworth
Ex Captain Oberlin M. Carter, ill with typhoid fever in the Fort Leavenworth military prison, showed marked improvement today. Physicians say he will soon recover.
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Leavenworth, Kan
Oberlin M. Carter
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison
Miss Ellen M Stone to Deliver 100 Lectures Across U.S.
In New York on April 7 Major Pond has secured a contract with missionary Ellen M Stone for a series of 100 lectures to be presented in the principal cities of the United States. The plan aims to spread her work and ideas nationally.
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New York
Major Pond
Ellen M. Stone
United States
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