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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1905
Page
2
News of the week items note the Grand View hotel at Nelson British Columbia burned to the ground. Other items report a Chilean subsidy for sugar beet producers and the death of Archbishop Chapelle from yellow fever in New Orleans.
Secretary Tafts party focuses on work amid discussions of sugar needs and agrarian stagnation in the islands. Senators Dubois Foster and Representative McKinley push for independence memorials and greater native authority while a royal reception at Malacanang draws 3000 attendees.
Olympia reports Washington state population at 874,310 from George M. Allen's estimates in the forthcoming State Year Book. The total marks an 35,646 rise from 1900 census figures, a rate of 88.4 percent, with Franklin county up 850 percent and Skamania down 163. King county up 77.7 percent to 195,574. Seattle's population is 154,708. Tacoma 71,000. Spokane 95,854. Everett 25,000. Bellingham 246,000.
Seattle officials introduce an ordinance setting charges by the municipal lighting plant. Downtown areas would see rates similar to private firms, while residential districts would pay about a third less than current charges.
Kennewick plans a city water plant and a light plant while coal veins near Wenatchee show strong prospects. La Conner residents seek a drawbridge over Swinomish slough. Fire at South Bend destroys Hazeltine block. losses total 9000, with 2000 insurance. Lighthouse site reserved at Point Granville near Moclips. Steamship Minnesota sails to the Orient from Seattle with 25000 tons cargo. Elbert Hubbard to lecture at state university next fall. Douglas county records survived a recent fire. vault intact. Puyallup fruit cannery began canning last week. two carloads contracted for Chicago and Tacoma. Washington and Oregon universities meet in Seattle November 18 for the 4th annual football game. Gray Stone Fire Brick Co orders 17050 dollars of machinery. plant to produce 35000 bricks daily. Washington marine laboratory ends summer work at Friday Harbor with a 12 scientist UW team starting Puget Sound survey. Sound shrimp study promises scientific and commercial value.
St. Petersburg reports say the Russian national assembly will be proclaimed Saturday. Emperor Nicholas approved the commission’s project after a lengthy Peterhof session, with ministers, grand dukes, and senators present.
The Northern Pacific general passenger department orders agents to stop issuing passes and granting reduced rates to influence traffic. The move follows resolutions by the Transcontinental and Western Passenger Association at a Chicago meeting on August 4, pledging strict adherence to tariffs and regulations.
Barons Komura handed M. Witte the peace terms at the Portsmouth navy yard session. Key demands include reimbursement for war expenses and the Sakhalin cession, with no fixed sum and two main Russian objections. Other terms call for Port Arthur Dalny leases ceded, Manchuria evacuation, open door, Siberian fishing rights, and limits on Russian Far East naval power.
King county board of equalization votes to raise timber land assessments about 25 percent per acre, hitting Weyerhaeuser and Port Blakeley Mill holdings. The panel also moves tax certificates of delinquency into personal property bills and plans franchise valuation hearings for public service companies. In St Louis, a federal appeals court rejects a widow’s claim for death damages, ruling a co worker’s negligence bars recovery.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on August 12 the Russian reply to the Japanese terms of peace will be delivered by M Witte to Baron Komura. The text exists in French and English and states an absolute non possimus on indemnity and the cession of Sakhalin. Some points are accepted for discussion while others are accepted conditionally.
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