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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1902
Page
2
Weekly digest from outside Washington recaps Montana wool growers session in Miles City, mentions Sutton’s Chicago gift bequest to Dowie, a valet stealing diamonds from The Band, and other assorted notes on actors coronations and politics.
Report from Kansas City notes President Roosevelt ordered an immediate investigation into the beef industry. Major William Warner, U S district attorney, will oversee a federal grand jury sessions starting next Monday. Pack lure and meat prices rise while local dealers debate the trust and market practices.
The Rosecrans will be sold by the government with proposals to be advertised by the army transport service in San Francisco. Sealed bids are due by 12 noon April 24, 1902, at the general superintendent’s office. The vessel will be delivered to the winning bidder in San Francisco.
Senator Fairbanks, head of the senate committee on buildings, reported a bill to construct a government building for the executive, state, and justice departments. He consulted President Roosevelt who approved housing the executive offices in the new structure.
A. D. Hayes district attorney of Ogden Utah will be appointed to succeed Judge Arthur H Noyes of the Alaska district court.
Seattle area dealer listings show round lot delivery prices for grains and feeds, eggs and dairy, live stock, hides and pelts, wool and tallow. Items include oats 27.50, barley 22, wheat 22.50, hay Puget Sound 11 to 12, Eastern Timothy 15.50, alfalfa 11 per ton, eggs 15 16c, butter 13 16c, live poultry prices, beef cattle and hogs bids, and various hides and wool values across regional markets.
Daily shipments of vegetables depart Walla Walla while stockman Isaac James faces arrest for stock theft. Seattle club president re elected. lineman Frank Oxender dies from live wire contact. Receiver appointed for Tontine Savings. counterfeiters sentenced. Eastern Washington teachers conclude meeting. 300 plus in attendance. Immigration expert Arthur Gunn predicts 50 000 settlers this summer. Dr F Walter Morrison files bankruptcy petition in federal court. Recent postmasters named in Norman Waterville Crays River Clyde and Zindel.
Labor unions in Washington state vote to unite under the Washington State Federation of Labor and apply for a charter to join the American Federation of Labor. The move aims to strengthen union influence as a national working factor.
Washington April 15 official statement from the White House says the president after full investigation and hearing from many men supports Governor Dole. The governor, a White House caller, plans a brief Boston visit and then will return to Honolulu in about two weeks.
Knoxville report says a sheriff's posse met outlaws in Scott county Virginia Friday afternoon. Five posse members were killed, two were wounded, and Jim Wright an escaped murderer from Hancock county Tennessee was shot and captured.
Judge Kelly grants Herbert W. Pearson $400 for unpaid salary and orders payment of costs in the suit against the Great Northern Railway. Pearson claimed wage entitlement and a share of coal field profits found in Montana and Washington, alleging employment to locate fields. San Francisco cable to land near life saving station will run underground to Postal Telegraph office with first link to Honolulu expected before next Thanksgiving.
The Democratic congressional campaign committee announced its executive committee lineup with Ben T. Cable of Illinois as chairman and members Lewis Nixon of New York David Overmeyer of Kansas Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis Richard Olney of Massachusetts and Daniel B Lamont of New York.
Champaign Illinois April 12 President Draper of the University of Illinois injured in a Sunday runaway is not expected to live through the day. A leg with a burst artery was amputated last night.
Amsterdam dispatch says Paul Kruger is seriously ill with influenza. Members of his entourage fear the worst as his health has been fragile for months and officials monitor the situation closely.
Washington April 15 Representative Newlands of Nevada introduced a bill to remove all duties on beef imported from foreign countries.
The Supreme Court heard Washington v Northern Securities on stock and control of two interstate railways with Stratton arguing for the state. Reports from Pretoria and London say Boer leaders seek peace terms as Kitchener and Milner exchange dispatches and ministers meet at Chamberlain’s house.
The Evening News reports Boers ready to accept limited independence, seek a future international government, cancel banishment and property confiscation, restore confiscated property with compensation, recognize prewar debts, agree on language, grant amnesty, release political prisoners, set a date to return prisoners of war, and invite one or two friendly powers to oversee peace terms.
Dr. Talmage died at 9 last evening after a week and a half of illness in Mexico and the United States. Cerebral inflammation ended a long life of work as a clergyman. The funeral will be held at 4 PM Tuesday at the Church of the Covenant with simple services followed by interment at Greenwood cemetery Brooklyn Wednesday morning.
A Paris cable reports Prince Eugene of Sweden will renounce all succession rights to his father's throne to wed Miss Helen Gorman Wild of Baltimore New York. The bride is Catholic and not of royal rank, prompting the private Paris ceremony.
Indiana will bear the heaviest locust infestation this summer, with Illinois Ohio and Kentucky also affected. Geologist Blatchley predicts first emergence around May 1 after the last Indiana appearance in 1885. He urges limiting new fruit trees this year due to expected widespread damage.
President Roosevelt told Representatives Calder head and Scott of Kansas that Eugene Ware would not be sworn in as commissioner of pensions for two or three days. The remarks were delivered during a discussion on the administration’s personnel decisions and the timing of a final appointment.
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