National convention of Daughters of the American Revolution
The D A R meets in Washington for their national convention this week. San Francisco reportedly faces a major gas war with Claus Spreckels and the Addicks Rockefeller group as leading figures. A Japan India treaty signed, enabling reciprocal tariff goods. Abandonment of Esquim— wait, the Esquim naval station sale completes the disposal of stores. A Hungarian customs district movement grows amid Austro Hungarian tensions. Union Railway warns staff against saloon and race track visits with instant dismissal. Union Pacific expands safety appliance compliance to all cars. Finnish miners and farmers near Red Lodge Montana, socialists, plan a colony near Havana to practice socialism.
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Red Lodge
Mont
Havana
Cuba
Geology of Alaska survey to begin northern field work
Washington April 17 The geologists and topographers of the geological survey to study six localities in Alaska this year under Alfred H Brooks with general supervision. Sites include Seward peninsula Yukon Tana region Prince William sound Mantanuska Controller bay coal fields Yakutah coal fields and Southeastern Alaska. F L Mays will examine Cape York tin deposits and E D P Grant will study Prince William Sound. Wrights will focus on Admiralty Island gold and copper deposits.
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Washington
Geologic
Alaska
Alfred H. Brooks
Seward Peninsula
Yukon-Tanana
Prince William Sound
Mantanuska
Controller Bay
Yakutah
Cape York
F. L. Mays
Solomon River
E. Dpd. Grant
Northwestern University
F. E. Wright
C. W. Wright
Admiralty Island
Carnegie Denies Beloit Request but Plans West College Grants
Beloit Wisconsin April 18 Andrew Carnegie rejected Beloit College request for a million dollars and similar sums for four Western colleges yet Beloit is to share in a forthcoming distribution. The plan envisions 12 500 000 to 50 colleges in 17 states west of New York with presidents Bradley and Knox preparing details for Carnegie’s approval. Seattle April 17 John H Robertson said Walter S Fulton named general counsel for United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company with headquarters in Seattle maintained though many Pacific coast cases run from San Francisco.
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Beloit
Wis
Andrew Carnegie
Beloit College
Wade
Carnegie
West Sun
Bradley
Lows College
Knox
Galesburg
New York
Seattle
John H. Robertson
United States Fidelity and Guarsity Company
Baltimore
Walter S. Fulton
Fourth Squadron to Head East in Great Naval Preparations
St Petersburg reports grand mobilization as the fourth squadron prepares for an Eastward dispatch. Many naval officers have joined the voyage, with readiness underway and a departure date yet to be fixed.
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St. Petersburg
Far East
Washington News Highlights Across the State
A Twisp creamery and Seattle steel pipe plant are announced. The state highway board organizes and starts operations. Oroville real estate booms due to Great Northern’s planned summer build. Del Stimson appeals a Spokane gambling conviction. Port Ludlow sawmill nears completion with 250 jobs. State Bankers meet in Portland July 20 to 22. Grant authorizes 38.15 million feet of Philippine lumber to St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co.
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Great Northern
Oroville
State Bankers’ Association
Portland
Association
Seattle
Quartermaster Grant
Washington City Authority
Philippines
St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company
Tacoma
Exposition travel rates and new cement mining permits announced
Seattle reports set to stage special Lewis and Clark exposition fares with one third fare round trips from Washington Oregon and Idaho to Portland and a seven dollar sixty cent Seattle round trip. Additional East to Portland Puget Sound routes set daily from May 23 through September 30 with various city pair rates and party tickets offered. In Alabama C S Bacheller and W H McIntyre receive state permits to mine cement near Mobile for reservoir output and canal shipments.
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Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Portland
Birmingham
Ala
Bacheller
Salt Lake City
W. H. McIntyre
St. Louis
Alabama
Mobile
Gulf
Panama Canal
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists prices for grains hay eggs poultry and livestock from local dealers. It covers wheat barley corn bran oats alfalfa and cow hog sheep beef cattle hides wool and dairy products with varied rates by grade and region including Puget Sound Eastern and Western Washington values.
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Bastern Washington
Puget Sound
Washington
Washington Oreamery
Toc Ranch
Ee Hexs
cCerney Wheats
Carley
Oran
Railway Congress to Convene With Global Delegates
Washington on April 17 reports nearly a thousand delegates from 44 countries will attend a ten day international railway congress starting May 1. The gathering aims to study technical transportation topics and inspect U S equipment and shops after formal proceedings at the White House.
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Washington
International Railway Congress
United States
Brussels
Milan
Paris
St. Petersburg
London
Congress
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
White House
A. J. Cassatt
E. H. Harriman
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Lakes
Gulf
State Printing Plan Moves Plant to Capitol Basement
Olympia April 16 State Printer C W Gorham has bought the old Gwin Hicks plant from G C Corbaley of Spokane and Al B Howe of Tacoma. The plant will be moved to unfinished basement rooms in the capitol new wing with about $400 of Gorham’s funds spent to fit the space. He has also let Seattle based Metropolitan Printing Company a contract for printing revised laws worth about $3000 to expedite the work.
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Olympia
C. W. Gorham
Gwin Hicks
G. C. Corbaley
Spokane
al B. Howe
Tacoma
Gorham
State Capitol
Metropolitan Printing Company
Seattle
Chicago Men Coming to Seattle Visit
A. Nadean, general agent of the Northern Pacific, received word that representatives of the Chicago Commercial Association, bound to Seattle and other Northwest cities, left Chicago in a private car and will reach Seattle Sunday morning, April 23, with an itinerary altered en route.
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Seattle
A. Nadean
Northern Pacific
Chicago Commercial Association
Northwest Coast
Chicago
Burlington
Nadeau
Log rafting venture to span Pacific coast waters
A new large scale log rafting company plans operations from Puget Sound and Oregon ports to California with Eastern capital. Led by Capt. Robertson of Portland, the project will invest about 5 million dollars in plants and haul roughly 30,000,000 feet of logs annually, envisioned as the world's largest rafting project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Oregon
California
Capt. Robertson
Portland
San Francisco Bay
Former Senator Foster Settles In Tacoma Residence
The report notes Addison G. Foster, long a Tacoma resident and former U S Senator, seeking a permanent home in the city. Details are scarce due to the fragmentary transcription.
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Tacoma
Addison G. Foster
Wishin
Rockefeller Gift Accepted by American Board of Missions
The Prudential Committee of the American Board votes to accept 100000 from John D Rockefeller despite Protestant clergy objections. The supplementary report argues returning the gift impossible legally and would condemn the donor, noting half the gift was already used on Feb 14.
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Boston
Prudential Committee
O Committee
Rookefeller
Oncw
American Board
Prudential panel accepts Rockefeller gift sparks church dispute
In Columbus on April 17 Rev. Washington S. Gladden stated the prudential committee would receive gifts regardless of the giver or his methods, declaring the committee’s decision demanding an appeal to church consciences and Christendom.
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Columbus
Prudential Committee
Rockefeller
Washington S. Gladden
Congregational Churches
Christendom
Ice Breaks Up Early at Nome as Open Water Appears
Nome reports an unprecedented early ice breakup with vast open water visible along Bering Bay. Since January 1 only seven days were below zero and the mean temperature in forty days rose to fifty above. Mining yields rise with milder winter, and Little Creek cleanup is estimated at over $1,000,000.
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Nome
Bering Bay
Norton Sound
Bay
St. Michael Bay
Little Creek
Trust Men Indicted In Beef Trust Probe
Four men including three Schwarz child and Sulzberger employees and a corporate attorney were indicted by a grand jury investigating the beef trust. They allegedly obstructed Deputy Marshal Bach while serving a subpoena on Edwin B. Fish who had just returned from Canada. The indictment says Fish was to be sent to Canada and aided in leaving the jurisdiction.
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Chicago
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Company
Grand
Beef Trust
A. A. Bach
Edwin B. Fish
Canada
Fish
Bach
Cansds
Aod
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Claus Spreckels
Addicks-Rockefeller
Japan
Bsquimalt Naval Station
Hungary
Union Railways Company
Union Pacific
Geology OF
Washington News
Twisp
State Board of Highway Commissioners
del Stimson
Stimson
Supreme Court
Port Ludlow
Alabama Cement
Seattle Market Report
Railway Congress
State Printing Plan
Commercial Association
Foster
Dr. Gladden
Isaac Stevens
Thas
Hotel Northern
Banboo Furniture
J.P. Nelson
Prop
East Wishkah
Aberdeen, Wash
H. A. Tereda & CO
South G St., Zelaska Brock
Aberdeen
F. Street
Aberdeen Transfer
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Phil S. Locke
J. W. Draper
F. C. Collins
A. B. Calder
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Steamer Harbor’ Belle
Montesano Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
Hoquiam Aberdeen Cosmopolis
Aberdee
Montesano
Hoquiam
Miaa Ie
Westport
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Fred Hewitt
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Tpos. Morgan
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Patterson & Locke
Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
Nature
Italy
DeMwet
Saisav Peters
Macacla Rsr
Aseroeen
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