World News Briefs Include Fires in Alaska and Assassination Attempt
Updates report Alaska forest fires subdued. An attempt to assassinate the Dowager Empress of China is noted. The Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo plans a Portland gathering on September 9. The Volant schooner wreck near Kusgakim caused total loss. crew rescued. Hidden tunnels found beneath Gramercy Park’s Tilden mansion during renovations. US secret service warns of a counterfeit five dollar note from 1889 series Lyons register. Panama hat industry promotion under Consul General Lee includes a government supported school and scholarships.
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Alaska
China
San Francisco
Wilkie
United States Secret Service
Lyons Register
Roberts
Lee
Panama
Arraijan
County Boards May Change Assessment
Olympia reports county boards of equalization may raise or lower real estate assessments this year. A state tax commission letter cites precedent from 1898 and explains assessors list values in odd years while boards review in even years, allowing adjustments for disasters or sudden value changes.
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Olympia
County Boards of Equalization
State Tax Commission
County Board of Equalization
Chehalis County
Thomas M. Vance
County Board
Chinese in Portland to raise ten thousand dollars for boycott
The Tele gram reports Portland’s Chinese community aims to raise 10 000 dollars to fund a boycott of American goods in China. Two meetings decided each Portland Chinese must contribute at least 2 dollars. The effort is linked to a secret San Francisco group. A local merchant said all Chinese worldwide were asked to donate 2 dollars.
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Portland, Or
Portland
China
San Francisco
Sanger of New York Seen as Assitant Secretary of State
A Stockbridge report says William Sanger of New York will become assistant secretary of state, succeeding Francis B. Loomis. Sanger, currently in Labrador with Secretary Root, previously served as assistant secretary of war under Root and was invited to join the Labrador trip by his former chief.
Foreclosure Proceedings Began on Port Angeles Railroad Mortgage
In Seattle on August 17, the Knickerbocker Trust Company filed to foreclose its mortgage on the Port Angeles Pacific railroad in federal court.
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Seattle
Port Angeles Pacific Railroad
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Washington News Highlights From State Developments
Reports from Washington state mention a fire destroying St Patrick Catholic church in Tacoma, the laying of a cornerstone for a Masonic temple in Walla Walla, and a September 5 meeting of state officials in Olympia. Kirkland residents win election rights for incorporation, compulsory factory inspection is upheld with a $10 fee, and Walla Walla electrician Arthur Lembeck receives a patent for an improved insulator. Seattle to host a new factory, Yule Spinning and Twine Company, capitalized at $500,000, aims to run twine and weaving mills.
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Arthur Lembeck
Walla Walla
Seattle
Yule Spinning
Conger to Lead Semi Diplomatic Mission to China
Edwind H. Conger, former U S minister to China and recent ambassador to Mexico, plans a near term return to China in a semi diplomatic capacity to ease appeals against American goods. He held eight years in China and is influential with Beijing officials and Japan amid the boycott issue.
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Oyster Bay
Edwind H. Conger
Iowa
United States
China
Mexico
Conger
Peking
China Boycott Reports Hint at Shanghai Focus
Dispatches to the state department indicate Shanghai is the only place where the boycott against American goods has reached a serious level. Canton shows some progress but elsewhere the movement remains largely unsuccessful. Information came in response to instructions to Minister Rockhill and the consular officers to monitor progress.
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Washington
State Department
China
Shanghai
Canton
Rockhill
Transport Lawton Arrives From Honolulu and Orient
The naval transport Lawton has arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu and the Orient, reporting a voyage from the Pacific theater. The arrival confirms the ship's deployment and movement in wartime logistics.
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San Francisco
Naval
Honolulu
Orient
Seattle Market Prices Through Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists current producer prices for grains oats barley wheat and corn plus hay eggs poultry wool live stock and meats. Prices shown include oats 27 25 per ton hay eastern Washington 14 50 alfalfa 9 10 eggs ranch 26 27c poultry live hens 18 13 8c ducks 12 180 geese 9 12c wool eastern Washington 19 21c western 24 25c hogs 6 64c steers 4 41 0 cows 3a 31440 calves 4 61c lambs 2 50 3 per head and more with regional variations across Washington Oregon and Puget Sound markets.
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Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Oregon
Washington Ranch
Roosevelt seeks urgent talks with Russian envoy on Portsmouth peace
President Roosevelt directs a confidential message to Assistant Secretary Pierce to summon Baron Rosen to Oyster Bay for a sounding, with Baron Kaneko visiting as a Japanese contact. The talks center on the Portsmouth negotiations, with possible modifications to articles on Manchuria, indemnity, and Sakhalin as the conference nears its final phase.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Japan
Russia
Baron Rosen
Washington
Pierce
Portsmouth
Peace prospects amid Russo Japanese talks at sea frontier
Portamouth New Hampshire reports a flurry of diplomatic activity as President negotiates via telegraph with Assistant Secretary Pierce and remains in touch with Japanese officials. The dispatch suggests a Russian envoy may be sent to Oyster Bay to advance peace efforts and urges a final compromise before a Monday crisis.
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Oyster Bay
Baron Kaneko
Roosevelt
Japan
Takahira
Washington
Griscom
Tokyo
Sakhalin Article Postponed in World Peace Talks
Portsmouth, N H Aug 16 The peace conference nears deadlock as two more articles are settled Article 4 pledges open trade and Chinese integrity while Article 6 covers surrender of naval leases to Port Arthur Dalny and adjacent islands Discussion on Article 5 Sakhalin cession is deferred at Japan s insistence signaling a life or death struggle over the crisis to end this week or next.
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Russia
Sakhalin
M. Witte
Japan
Washington
China
China Eastern
Harbin
Port Arthur
Dalny
Newchwang
Shanhaikwan-Tientsin
Manchuria
Transsiberian
Usuri
Vladivostok
Karborovsk
Associated Press
Danny
Pacific
Far East
Portsmouth
N. H
Liaotung Peninsula
Blonde
Elliott Islands
New Bellingham Bank Opens in Fairhaven Quarters
Arrangements are under way for a new bank in Bellingham named the Northwestern State Bank of Bellingham. Quarters prepared in the Fairhaven hotel room formerly used by the old First National Bank of Fairhaven. Capitalization set at 100000 dollars with several prominent local business men as subscribers.
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Bellingham
Northwestern State Bank of
Fairhaven
First National Bank of
Bristow Retires From Panama Railway Post
Washington reports Gen. Joseph L. Bristow has finished his duties as special Panama railway commissioner and departed for Kansas, where he owns two newspapers.
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Washington
Joseph L. Bristow
Panama Railway
Kansas
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