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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
3
Reports detail cannons and colonial ambitions of Germany, U S naval moves, Colombian Venezuelan clashes, and strikes in San Francisco and Chicago. Aerial disasters and ship losses include the Alaska steamer Islander and powder train explosions. Kruger links peace efforts, and notable events touch politics, crime, mining, and industry.
Governor Rogers states the courts must decide Nordstrom case without intervention. He cites Washington's murder trials, calls lynching unacceptable, and notes extra legislative session aimed at closing escape routes for murderers. He affirms the 1901 court judgment will stand.
San Francisco reports discoveries that may prove wholesale smuggling of Chinese from British Columbia into the United States via Santa Barbara. The McCulloch has patrolled the Santa Barbara channel for weeks as officers gather evidence on ships routing Chinese crews through Puget Sound to Southern California and back, with abalone fishing downsized crews and possible opium smuggling cited by officials.
United States commission leaves Manila for a northern trip. Civil Governor Taft calls for courts to make a good impression and urges parental clemency for native first offenses. Harbor improvements contract signed, cost about 1.6 million dollars, work to start immediately. Superintendent Atkinson plans a reception for 600 American teachers arriving soon, with 15 launches to Luneta and transport to the Spanish exposition building turned temporary educational colony furnished by the army.
A Washington overview reports a new circulating library planned at Everett, a grain fire near Dayton destroying $1400 of wheat with no insurance, and steel rails on the Northern Pacific between Prosser and Yakima City completed. Whitman county yields an enormous wheat harvest, averaging 40 bushels per acre.
Forest fires along the British Columbian coast burn on several small islands stripping trees and leaving wood extremely dry. Reports from up the coast describe rapid spread from mainland fires and widespread property risk in Vancouver and surrounding regions.
News from Vladivostock reports Lieutenant Wallace Bertholf of the United States Navy has begun shipping 1 200 reindeer from Okhotsk ports to Alaska. The move aims to bolster supply and potentially aid transportation across Alaska's challenging terrain.
A mortgage for 150.6 million dollars was filed in Jersey City to secure a 4 percent bond issue not to exceed 150 million by the Consolidated Tobacco Company of America to Morgan Trust Company. Dated June 15, the instrument carried revenue stamps totaling 75 thousand dollars.
A long list of Seattle dealer offers covers hides pelts tallow wool livestock poultry butter eggs grain hay and seeds with rates for weights sizes and conditions. Additional items report a California onyx discovery a rapid Pacific voyage Yokohama to Vancouver and a planned exploration of a 200 mile Rocky Mountain section between Northern Idaho and the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Five men died and several were injured when a fire destroyed a temporary water works crib two miles off Cleveland harbor. Twenty six workers escaped to rafts and boats. 18 were rescued by the tug R Sprenkle. The crib and machinery of Shailer and Schweinla u suffered losses over 200000 dollars. A tunnel below the shaft trapped workers and caused additional fatalities.
A pamphlet published yesterday in Manila attacks the United States Philippine commission. Signed by the Centro-Catholic, it calls on people to oppose Judge Taft and the civil government, accusing officials of waging war against God. The commission members deny any connection and suspect local press fabrication to spark a sensation.
The navy department will shortly advertise for bids on four new structures at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, expected to cost about $1,000,000. The program includes a large coaling pier at the cob dock and several ordnance dock buildings, totaling roughly $2,000,000 in new work.
Isador Raynor the Maryland attorney general has been retained as counsel for Rear Admiral Schley in his court of inquiry hearing. He accepted the commission after receiving Admiral Schleys letter Sunday requesting his services.
Three men entered the Marlow post office while the guard was away. The guard returned, a gunfight followed, and one robber named John Gray of Kansas City was shot in the head and breast and died soon after. The other two fled.
The Islander struck an iceberg at 2 AM near Douglas Island and sank with 55 to 60 aboard. Survivors reach Victoria aboard the Queen reporting boilers exploded as the ship went down. Captain Foote went down with the vessel and 107 passengers plus 71 crew were aboard. A fortune in gold valued at 275000 dollars was aboard.
New York dispatch describes a 26 hour battle at Las Pilas La Parada and Pirinos with heavy losses on both sides. Venezuelan General Resendo Medina and four colonels were killed or wounded as 1100 casualties mark a harsh engagement amid rebels advancing in Tolima and other departments.
Ashland reported the worst Southern Pacific derailment in Oregon as Extra freight 2192 split near tunnel No 7 north of Glendale. A rear section loaded with dynamite exploded, igniting acid and dry brush, wreckage streaming into Cow Creek and trapping unknown numbers of passengers and crew.
An explosion of 10 tons of molten metal at the National Steel Company in Youngstown Ohio killed three workers and injured eleven. The molten metal released when a ladle connecting mechanism failed and dumped into a water vat.
New York dispatch states the insurgents in Colombia have a fighting strength of 28,000 men per the latest bulletin. The message, received here, confirms the rebel force size amid ongoing conflict.
Victoria B C August 17 H M Icarus sloop of war will sail Friday to England calling at San Diego and Panama then preparatory actions follow. H M S Warspite the Pacific flagship will be replaced by Grafton as the new cruiser. Troops from remote provinces are concentrated while telegraph to coast points is interrupted and reinforcements are awaited at Colon as patrols continue along the Isthmus.
In Kingston Aug 17 government troops suffer many wounded and rebels attack persists. The Namouna cruiser is ineffective after bungled heavy guns mounting. Colombia negotiates to buy Bernard Hall. Darlen brings 46 passengers fleeing conscription. Guards guard Panama-Colon trains amid atrocities.
Raids persist along the line between Colon and Panama with no military protection. Matachin was raided, government sympathizers lose cattle, two women were kidnapped at Gorgon station, and Chinese residents suffer pillage. About 50 armed guards accompany each passenger train as provisions move toward Panama, worsening shortages and suffering.
A mob of about 50 men forced entry to the Tuscaloosa jail at dawn aiming to lynch Henry Pratt for alleged assault on Sallie Dice. Sheriff Kyle, armed with a shotgun, blocked the crowd stating they would have to kill him first. the mob dispersed. Rumor said another prisoner from Coaling was sought.
A blaze late last night in the Nie haus Bros. planing mills engine room at West Berkeley destroyed three acres of buildings lumber piles and finished products. The fire also damaged Everding starch works Hare & Co. Eldorado Oil works T Haywood lumber yards and Everding’s grist mill and residence. Loss estimated at 120000.
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