World Happenings Resume Highlights Diverse Global Events
Buyers pay up to 22 cents for Oregon hops. Russian emigration exceeds 250000 this year. Canadian Pacific to electric branch lines near Vancouver. Major railways cut Minnesota grain rates by 10 percent. Eastern railroads face trainmen shortages amid fall season incentives. Actor Lewis Morrison dies at New York. famed for Mephisto in Faust. Roosevelt proclaims Crazy Mountain forest reserve in Montana. Alaska election results set Frank N. Waskey and Thomas Cale for terms. both miners. Chicago bank scandal reports exceed one million dollars. First spike on Valdez Yukon railroad driven. native copper spike. Queen Alexandra departs London for Norway and Denmark aboard the Albert and Victoria.
Cannon Presidential Boom 15 Launched
Danville Illinois August 20 The convention of the Eighteenth Illinois district renominated Joseph G Cannon for the eighteenth consecutive time with acclamation amid strong support for a presidential endorsement. Cannon urged unity and discussed conditions and labor questions while noting a nationwide election to follow in November and the coming 1908 campaign.
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Danville
Ills
Illinois
Joseph G. Cannon
Cannon
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Turko Bulgarian clashes rise near frontier post
Dispatches report a dangerous Turko Bulgarian phase with a collision at the Schdre paiza frontier post in Kustron. Athens dispatch notes King George to Marienbad to seek King Edward's intervention for Greece against Bulgarian actions.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Sofia
Kustron
Schdrepaiza
Athens
George
Marienbad
Edward
Linn County Horticultural Society Sets Prune Price and Cannery Talk
Albany Oregon August meeting set five cents per box for Italian prunes. Members discussed forming a stock company to build an Albany cannery and appointed a committee to study feasibility.
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Albany
Linn County Horticultural Society
Washington News Highlights From State Activities
State projects begin with Okanogan irrigation work while Seattle hosts a tennis tournament and a proposed Seattle exhibition day. The First Bank of Pasco plans to open, Eagles hold a 1908 convention in Seattle, and Claire Hunt is named special locating agent in the Spokane Indian reservation. Spokane reports a discovered ice mine eight miles from the city.
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Bank of
Pasco
Claire Hunt
Colville
Spokane
Seattle Commercial Club
Seattle
Business House
Threatens to Abdicate
A semi official source reports Czar Nicholas told King Edward he would abdicate unless other powers aid Russia. Assurances since the Edward Kaiser meeting aim to dissuade this. Edward plans to dispatch a special envoy to St Petersburg to discuss conditions with the czar.
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London
Nicholas
Edward
Russia
St. Petersburg
Rugssa
Cazr
County road contracts seal Nisqually canyon link to Rainier
Tacoma reports the county commissioners awarded contracts to build a Nisqually canyon road that will join the Tacoma Eatonville and Elbe routes. The new link will enable automobile travel from Tacoma to Longmire springs with a January 1 completion deadline.
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Tacoma
Nisqually Canyon
Mount Rainier
Eatonville
Elbe
Nisqually Valley
Rainier Forest Reserve
Longmire Springs
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists f o b Seattle round lot prices for grains hay eggs poultry wool and live stock. Grain oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay eastern and Puget sound alfalfa eggs live poultry ducks geese turkeys spring chickens wool sheep hogs steers cows calves lambs with various price ranges per ton or per pound and per head across eastern western Washington and ranch markets. Contains multiple commodity quotes and unit prices for regional producer deliveries.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Agricultural Price List Snapshot From Local Market
The listing shows prices for Wheat-Club 680 bluestem 70c and red 67c. Oats $26.00 to $29.00, rolled oats $27.80. Hay includes Alfalfa and Timothy with multiple per unit prices. Feed components cover Corn $28, Wheat $25, barley varieties, bran and shorts. Poultry prices list dressed turkeys 25c and dressed chickens 21c. Live hens 14c, spring chickens 15-16c, ducks 1c, geese 12c. Butter Washington creamery 26c. Eggs Washington ranch 28c.
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Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Spectacular Troop Review at Camp Tacoma Near Coast
Briga dier General Frederick Funston reviewed about 6 000 troops including regulars militia cavalry artillery and infantry before 8 000 to 10 000 spectators. The brigade assembly featured khaki uniforms parade discipline and a dust free day as Oregon national guard remained for two more days.
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Tacoma
Frederick Funston
Country Club
Oregon National Guard
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Fights Joint Wheat Rate
The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. will oppose a joint wheat rate between Northern Pacific and the O R N. They plan to file for a U S court injunction in Tacoma asserting unconstitutionality of the Washington railroad commission order setting the port rate. Judge Hanford in Seattle will hear the case.
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Portland, Or
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Northern Pacific
Portland
The
Sound
Washington Railroad
United States Court For the Western Division of Washington
Washington Railroad Commission
W. W. Cotton
Harriman Advisers
Northwest
Tacoma
Hanford
Seattle
MAY ABOLISH CONTRACT WORK
Washington Aug. 20. Failures of contractors on the Shoshone and other irrigation projects followed by confiscation of their outfits may lead to a full reorganization of reclamation methods. The interior department is conducting a thorough probe into contractor practices and promises notable disclosures. Officials note high profits and question the viability of continuing the contract system, weighing direct government work as in the Panama Canal project.
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Washinon
Interior Department
Panama Canal
WILL EXTEND ALASKA CABLE
Washington August 20 Commercial receipts from the Alaska cable and telegraph lines reached 24000 in July, surpassing all prior months. The government will duplex the cables with the Burnside ship to install the apparatus and lay 200 miles of new cable from Sitka to Juneau.
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Washington
Alaska
United States
Burnside
Seattle
New York
Ketchikan
Sitka
Juneau
Cape Fanshaw
Wrangell
Hadley
Prince of Wales Island
Port Simpson
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Henry W. Stamford
Signal Corps
Disaster at Valparaiso Surpasses Frisco Destruction
Aug 20 Valparaiso and nearby towns report wreckage and fires after a series of shocks. Fifty to sixty percent of the city destroyed, hundreds killed, and 100000 homeless. Martial law enforced, relief in progress, rail links ruined, seas the main supply line. Other Chilean towns including Santiago Los Andes Quillota and Liay Liay suffer severe damage and loss of life.
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Valparaiso
San Francisco
Aconguava Valley
Chile
Talcahuano
Concepcion
Talca
Zone
Seaboard
South American Telegraph Company
Buenos Ayres
Associated Press
Plaza del Orden
Prat
Santiago
Los Andes
San Felipe
Andes
Quillota
Liay Liay
Illapet
Vallenar
Jenin
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Canadian Pacific
Vancouver
Great Northern
Soo Lines
Minnesota
Eastern Railroads
Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Roosevelt
Crazy Mountain
Montana
Frank N. Waskey
Thomas Cale
Illinois State Bank Examiner
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago
Stensland
Valdez-Yukon
Valdez
Royal Gunnison
Queen Alexandra
Norway
Queen Maude
Denmark
Albert
Victoria
Greece
Washington News
Okanogan
Seventh Day Adventists
Chambers Creek
Steilacoom
Idaho
British Columbia
State Railroad Commission
Halbert P. Gillette
New York City
King
General Indian Institute
Pacific Coast Indian Teachers’ Institute
First Presbyterian Church
Gov. Mead
Wright
Kaiser
King Edward
Czar
Mt. Rainier
Seattle Market Report
American Lake
Frisco
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Ninemire
A. E. Hoefer
Sec. & Treas
Butchers and Packers
Beef, Pork
MA Ninemire Packing Co
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Rider
C.O.D
Express
Ak Taka Anaki
EAD Cycle Company
Dept. “Jl
Chicago
Ill
MacLafferty & Sons
Heron
Hayes
Ee, J. Bradley President
C. W. Miller Cashier
State Bank
N. E
Heron and
H Streets
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