World News in Brief from Across the Globe
A wide trove of early 20th century items notes Boston spending six million on beans, the death of American Consul General Parsons in Mexico City, exits of Gould and Hyde from Oregon Short Line, U S Supreme Court tax ruling on South Carolina liquor shops, and the assassination of Lieut Gen Sakharoff in Saratoff. It also covers Roosevelt ousting Pettijohn over land frauds, rail pass policy by IC C, bond holdings by banks totaling 1.77 million in bonds, Poland martial law repeal, railroad receiverships, mergers of National and United Lead companies, fears for steel mills over ferro manganese, Cunard Carmania maiden voyage, civil service exam stats, Harriman rail expansion, Yerkes revenue reports, and related fiscal data.
Northern Pacific plans Spokane tunnel and other Washington items
Washington brief covers the Northern Pacific project to tunnel under Spokane for through track at an estimated $2,000,000. D. F. Allen attends a Washington D C conference on forest rules. treasury proposes $8,000 to transport $3,000,000 in gold bullion from Seattle to Philadelphia. Everett school board adopts free text books. state education board to issue a library catalogue. coal found at Ashford and talc strike at Loomis. North Yakima ships horses east. Tacoma real estate transfers near $2,000,000. Spokane and International road half finished. Lind burglars Burroughs and Fletcher jailed for five years. new Vancouver flour mill planned. land office appointment pending. congress bills for Bellingham and Everett buildings. Spokane building cost limit raised. Dix ready to ship 2,500,000 feet fir lumber to Manila. lumber bids opened in Seattle.
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Manila
United States Army
Dix
Seattle
Orient
Philippines
Quartermaster Grant
Assay Office Thefts Traced To 1901
Seattle reports Director Leach of the San Francisco mint has proven Adams stole from the assay office as early as January 1901. Total losses are estimated near $170,000 with $60,000 already seized. Officials expect Congress may be needed to cover the gap between recovered assets and shortages.
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Seattle
Leach
San Francisco
Adams
Secret Service
Congress
Chinese boycott grows in southern China says Captain Baker
Capt. A C Baker of the Raleigh, studying China’s trade, warns the boycott will not end. He cites 71 guilds that control southern Chinese trade and refuse American goods, with Australians and Japanese filling the gap. He notes Chinese exclusion laws will not be rescinded and fears further losses in kerosene and steel markets.
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San Franciso
A. C. Baker
Raleigh
China
Mandhruia
Orient
Washington
Capt. Baker
Canton
Korea
Nobel Prize Awards Goal Reported to Sienkiewicz Koch
Stockholm reports the Nobel prize committee is understood to have decided to award the literature prize to Henry Sienkiewicz and the medicine prize to Prof. Robert Koch.
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Stockholm
Henry Sienkiewicz
Robert Koch
J H Mitchell Dead Amid Dental Extraction Complications
United States Senator John H Mitchell died at Samaritan hospital after complications from the removal of four teeth at a dental office the previous morning. A rare hemorrhage, following his long-term declining health, led to his demise. a successor to be named within a week.
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Portland
United States
John H. Mitchell
Food Samaritan Hospital
John Hipple Mitchell Oregon Senator and Legal Career highlighted
John Hipple Mitchell born June 22 1835 in Washington County Pennsylvania. He moved to Oregon teaching law and politics, served as Portland town counsel and state senator, and was repeatedly elected U S senator despite fierce opposition. His conviction in a land fraud case ended his political influence.
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John Hipple Mitchell
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Butler County
Butler Academy
Samuel A. Purviance
Mitchell
Senate
Portland
United States
A. H. Tanner
United States Senate
Oregon
Governor to name Senate successor after review
Portland December 9 Gov Chamberlain plans to appoint a successor to Senator Mitchell within a week. He said he has not yet chosen and will thoroughly review the situation before selecting a man equal to the occasion. The state needs strong representation at Washington.
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Portland
Chamberlain
Mitchell
Oregon
Washington
Poll tax law voided by superior court in Seattle
Judge Gilliam declares the state tax on male citizens aged 21 to 50 living outside towns unconstitutional. The ruling sustains attorney Roberts demurrer in the Daner case, finding the $2 poll tax violates uniform taxation clause of section 7 and constitutes class legislation.
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Seattle
Gilliam
Superior Court
Roberts
W. S. Daner
Columbia
Tsar Nicholas Abandons Annual Lunch for St George Decorated
Paris dispatch reports Emperor Nicholas plans to skip the yearly lunch at the winter palace for soldiers decorated with the cross of St George. The omission is seen as evidence he is effectively a prisoner at Tsarkoe Selo, the first such absence since the order began.
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Paris
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Winter Palace
Tsarkoe-Selo
Discontinue Free Transportation on Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia December 8 In light of national agitation over railway rate legislation and rebate abolition the Pennsylvania Railroad management has decided to discontinue all forms of free transport after the end of the current year.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington irrigation funding nears delegation aims
Secretary Hitchcock agrees to at least 2 000 000 for Eastern Washington irrigation with Sunnyside Treton and Okanogan projects under delegation guidance. Washington lawmakers push to meet 2 250 000 total by restoring 500 000 for Okanogan and 1 000 000 for Treton plus 750 000 for Sunnyside in line with reclamation service recommendations.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Treton
Sunnyside
Reclamation Service
Okanogan
Walcott
Geological Survey
Jones
Ankeny
Piles
Representative Jones
Hitchecock
Guard for Embassy Arrives from Minneaplis
A marine guard unit from the US cruiser Minneaplis, under a petty officer, reaches St. Petersburg to protect the American embassy. Berlin reports from Koenigsburg warn of widespread anarchic unrest in the Russian Baltic provinces with military fraternization, peasant seizures, and depopulated estates as bands rob and burn.
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St. Petersburg
United States
Minneapleis
Berlin
Preussiche Zeitung
Koenigsburg
Libau
Baltic
Million Dollars Asked for Columbia River Jetty
The Army's chief of engineers will request Congress to appropriate 1,000,000 dollars to continue the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River. Local engineers had recommended 1,250,000 dollars, saying much of the work already done would be wasted without the larger sum.
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Washington
Army
Congress
Columbia River
Cable rate cut to Alaska and Seattle merchants
Rates on cable messages between Seattle and Alaska will drop from 2 to 4 cents a word starting January 1. The reduction stems from General Greeley's Seattle and Alaska visit last summer. The change will save Alaska and Seattle merchants a considerable amount over the year.
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Seattle
Alaska
Greeley
United States Signal Service
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Boston
Parsons
City of
Mexico
Edwin Gould
James H. Hyde
Oregon Short Line Directorate
The
Supreme Court of the United States
South Carolina
Sakharoff
Saratoff
Roosevelt
James C. Pettijohn
Register of the Land Office
Valentine
Neb
Albert L. Towle
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ukase
Poland
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Pere Marquette
National Lead Company
United Lead Company
Pittsburg
Russia
Cunard Line
Liverpool
New York
Federal Civil Service Commission
E. H. Harriman
St. Anthony
Yellowstone National Park
Marysville
John W. Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Washington News
Northern Pacific
Spokane
City
D. F. Allen
Mount Rainier Forest Reserve
Washington, D. C
Conference of Supervisors
Secretary of the Treasury
Everett
State Board of Education
Ashford
Loomis
North Yakima
Tacoma
D. C. Corbin
Lind
Charles Burroughs
Anthony Fletcher
Walla Walla
Vancouver
Z. Y. Colman
Alfred C. Steinman
L. S. Howlett
Yakiama Land Office
Henry V. Hinman
Humphrey
Bellingham
Congressman Jones
Captain Baker
J. H. Mitchell
Portland Hospital
Czar
Ton
Okanogan, Sun
Nyside and
Byok
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewitt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Nature
H. L. Cook & CO
E. Heron St. Tel
J. M. Lupton
Mgr
R. B. Porter
Choice Brands of
Kenilworth
W. Heron St
C. C. Sargent
Prop
Henry Jarue
G. Cullen
S. F Street
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