Ex Gov Swineford runs for Alaska delegate in congress
Ex Gov Swineford announces his candidacy for delegate in congress from Alaska. Judge Alfred S Moore to succeed himself as U S judge at Nome Alaska. Comptroller of the currency calls for banks condition report as of Friday April 6 1906. Senator Piles introduces 200000 for new Juneau public building for capitol headquarters. Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris dies in Portland. Norwegian parliament declines 50 000 kroner for renovating Stiftsgaard at Trondheim. Idaho land fraud cases postponed to September term. Red Cross reports over 300000 depend on outside help in Japan with relief. War department adopts fingerprinting for deserter identification alongside photos and measurements.
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Alfred S. Moore
United States
Nome
Alaska
Northwest colonist rates kept for summer travel
Seattle reports Northern lines will extend the $25 one way second class fare through the summer to aid tourist traffic and attracting laborers to the Northwest. Railroads expect heavy travel as construction attracts workers, with last trains crowded to the coast and a record likely to repeat.
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Seattle
Hill Roads
Northwest
St. Paul
Milukoff and Hessen Denied Delegates in St Petersburg Vote
The election commission nulled the Constitutional Democrats delegates Prof. Paul Milukoff and M Hessen over indictments tied to the suspension of the Svo Bodanabog. Conservative substitutes won. A new repressive regime makes spreading false reports about officials a prison offense, with harsher penalties if rioting results.
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St. Petersburg
Constitutional Democrats of
Paul Milukoff
M. Hessen
Election Commission
Svo Bodanabog
MM. Milukoff
Hessen
Milukoff
Constitutional Democrats
Chinese boycott loosens as returning visitors report demand
The bulletin notes that anti American goods sentiment in China is weakening. Returning tourists and businessmen say discrimination against American wares is fading and traders in Henan and Canton report strong interest and buyers for American goods, including Chan Ki Leung’s silk firms.
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San Francisco
the Bulletin
China
America
A. S. Lambert
Henan
Chan Ki Leung
Canton
Molson Plans New Bank and Harrington Builds Church
Washington news reports Molson to establish a bank and Harrington Baptists to construct a new church. Park in Whatcom county gains a rural delivery route. Sunday observances focus on law enforcement in Seattle churches with ministers speaking on the topic.
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Molson
Harrington Baptists
Park
Whatcom County
Seattle
Inspector Brown
Yakima County
Yakima Valley
Dowie Arrives in Chicago After Journey
Dowie, exhausted from a long trip, reaches Chicago and is met by a crowd. He refuses to enter Zion today, says he will take matters to the courts, asserts his property rights in Zion, and plans to stay at a hotel while developments unfold. He calls himself a peaceable, law abiding citizen and claims wrongful deposition and removal of property.
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Chicago
Dowie
Zion
Independent steel push eyed for Oak Point site
Lorain Ohio reports a syndicate backed by New York and Chicago financiers plans a gigantic steel plant at Oak Point near Lorain. They have bought 3,000 acres to house furnaces and tin plate mills as a move to counter United States Steel Corp. Meanwhile in Montana an Indian agent says Washington orders sale of 8,000,000 feet of blizzard blown timber from the Fairhead reservation with temporary saw mills permitted for sale products.
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Lorain
New York
Chicago
Oak Point
Here
United States Steel Corporation
Missoula
Mont
Bellew
Fairhead Indian Reservation
Washington
St Petersburg Police Equip in Mail Under Coats
The St Petersburg chief of police, after tests, outfits police and gendarmes with mail coats to be worn beneath their uniforms.
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St. Petersburg
Seattle Market Prices Reported for Grain Livestock and Eggs
Seattle market list shows f o b prices for oats and barley at 28 30 and 24 24 50 per ton respectively, wheat and chicken feed at 21 22, hay at 16 17 Eastern Washington and 10 11 Puget Sound, alfalfa 9 50 10, eggs 17c, live poultry hens 15 16c lb, ducks 14 1loc geese 10 13c, wool 18 20c Eastern Washington and 24 25c Western Washington, live stock hogs 61 2c, steers 41 4c, cows 31 4c, lambs 3 per head.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washinon
Washington Ranch
Vesuvius Erupts in Terrifying Destruction and Evacuations
Naples reports show Mount Vesuvius erupting with fire smoke and ash. Hundreds feared dead as San Giuseppe Ottajano and Sorrento suffer collapsed roofs and falling houses. Refugees flood Naples and nearby cities while authorities distribute rations and erect huts for the homeless.
Naples Market Falls Under Weight of Ashes
Naples reports a deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius with the market collapsing under ash and cinders. About two hundred people are believed buried in the ruins as the city and surrounding districts brace for further casualty estimates.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Market Monte
Ottajano
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Williams Accepts Cannon Challenge to Make Tariff Issue
Washington April 9 Representative John Sharp Williams minority leader accepts Speaker Cannon’s tariff challenge, predicts early tariff revision. He faults private interests for business instability in tariff law making and urges divorcing government from private business to align receipts with public needs. The tariff will be revised. the question is who leads and how.
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Washington
Cannon
John Sharp Williams
Congress
Williams
Republican Party
Market Prices For Farm Goods And Meats
Wheat and oats prices listed with various grades and locations. Feed items include corn wheat barley bran shorts and shorts prices. Fresh meats show cow beef steer beef lamb pork veal and poultry with dressed and live prices. Butter and eggs quoted from multiple creameries and ranches.
Democrats Forge Practical Tariff Bill Amid Real Conditions
A speaker predicts a Democratic controlled House will draft a tariff bill that reflects actual conditions. It will not be perfect or ideal but an approximation guided by current economic realities.
McCurdy Offices Despoiled and Reused by Railroad
New York on April 9 reports the richly furnished offices once used by Richard A. McCurdy as Mutual Life president have been dismantled and leased to a railroad company. Imported French furnishings valued near 100000 were stored in the Mutual Life building. Guards restricted visitors to the inner rooms finished in white and gold with medallion work. In renovation the costly gold woodwork was painted over. A Truesdale committee finding said the furniture was paid for by the Paris office and not approved by the trustees.
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New York
Richard A. McCurdy
Mutual Life
France
McCurdy
Truesdale
Paris
Board of Trustees
State Tax Commissioner Assembles Property Report Blanks
Olympia April 9 The state printer has supplied the tax commission with assessment blanks for all electric and cable street railways and electric light and power companies. The forms require 80 items of property details. the final item asks for value of franchise.
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Olympia
State Tax Commissioner
Commission
Electric Light
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Piles
Juneau
Capitol
Benjamin Wistar Morris
Oregon
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Idaho
Moscow
American National Red Cross
Japan
War Department
Hill
Washington News
Sunset Telephone Company
Bellingham
Lynden
Vancouver
North Bank
Harrington
Post Office
Independent Steel Plant
Seattle Market Report
Mount Vesuvius
San Giuseppe
Sorrento
San Guisippe
Ottajuno
San Guiseppe
Rome
Castellamar
Caserta
Victor Emmanuel
Helena
Associated Press
Tacoma
Wheat—Club
Bluestem
Red
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Nature
H St
C.O.D
Express
Mead Cycle Company
Dept
Ill
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
E. J. Bradley
State Bank
N. E
Heron
H Streets
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