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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1903
Page
2
Brief weekly summary notes Miss Alice Roosevelt’s nineteenth birthday celebration. It also reports Montana’s suffrage bill defeated 41 to 24 and mentions conferees approving a general staff bill. Other items include a Vistoka river ferry disaster in Austria with 50 deaths and notable fires in New Orleans and Hutchinson, Minn.
The secretary of the treasury declares Valdez a subport of entry opening to foreign vessels. Orca customs offices will be removed due to negligible activity. The move follows a claim that about 5,000 people will visit Valdez this year and shipping activity will grow.
A Kansas Medicine Lodge dispatch reports Ex-Governor William Stanley declined a seat on the Dawes commission to replace the late Senator Dawes. He cited unfamiliar duties and tenure, returning to his law practice and rejecting any minor post. He wired his declination this morning after earlier remarks he would accept.
Victoria B C Feb 13 General Manager Lawless of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company plans to recommend launching a line of steamers between Sound ports and Victoria after negotiations with the board of trade.
Admiral Dewey is confined to his home for a week due to a severe cold and cough. He has cancelled all engagements on his physician's advice.
Salem Oregon February 14 The house passes McGinns senate bill to prohibit the employment of children under 16 during school hours and those under 14 in shops factories or as messenger boys
State house and senate met in joint session to pay tribute to John B. Allen. A new elective railroad commission bill was introduced by Senator Tolman and referred to railroads. Appropriation requests for normal schools and state universities were outlined, with specifics for Whatcom Cheney and Ellensburg normals, the state agricultural college, and the state university. The apportionment bill for Jones was recommended for passage. A special order set for Monday at 2 30 p m covered university and college appropriations.
The president named Elihu Root Henry Cabot Lodge and George Turner as U S representatives on the Alaska boundary commission. Root and Lodge bring deep legal standing while Turner, a rival of some policies, is seen as a Pacific Northwest nod with his Senate term ending March 4.
Fernie special reports Crow's Nest coal miners in Fernie on strike at Michel Morrissey and Coal Creek locations. Workers cite wage cuts and Chinese labor in one mine as among grievances. Fernie remains center of action with all three collieries idle.
Salem Oregon February 12 The house passed a senate bill requiring that executions occur at the penitentiary and a senate bill allowing the state board of medical examiners to grant licenses to physicians who already hold licenses in other states.
The Navy Department reports that the protected cruiser Chattanooga, built by Lewis Nixon at Elizabethport New Jersey, will be launched on March 7.
Seattle buyers post dock and car delivery prices for grains and feed including oats 24.25 per ton barley 24 per ton wheat and chicken feed 85 per ton and bran 17 per ton shorts 18.40 per ton hay Puget Sound 8 to 11 per ton Eastern Washington 16 alfalfa 10 eggs ranch 2 cents per dot live poultry prices hens 14 cents per lb roosters 8 cents ducks 13 14 cents per lb geese 9 cents per lb livestock beef cows 4 per lb steers 4 1/2 cents per lb sheep 4 cents per lb hogs 6 cents per lb calves 5 to 7 cents per lb spring lambs 4 cents per lb.
Wheat Bluestem two center club 72 cents. Cattle steers four dollars seventy five cents per cwt cows three fifty. Sheep four fifty. Hogs six fifty. Oats twenty five fifty rolled oats twenty six fifty. Barley feed whole grain twenty five roll ed twenty six timothy east of the mountain seventeen eighteen per ton clover fifteen fifty seventeen alfalfa fifteen sixteenths sixteen wheat twenty six.
In Olympia the senate moved to indefinitely postpone the Tolman railroad commission bill by a 25 to 17 vote. The house sent its draft to the committee of the whole, where chair J T Johnson guided debates on sections and amendments, leaving the measure stalled amid calendar and procedural questions.
Washington reports that after ratifying the Alaskan boundary treaty the Joint High Commission will reconvene in spring to resume talks on Canadian reciprocity. Senator Fairbanks leads the American side and Sir Wilfrid Laurier heads the Canadian delegation as they seek closer trade relations.
In Butte Montana on February 12 the eastbound Burlington express No. 6 was stopped by two mounted men eight miles east of the city near Homestead. They uncoupled the engine and mail and express cars, ran them ahead, and blew the safe with dynamite. The safe reportedly contained nothing. The robbers seem to be novices. A special train with penitentiary bloodhounds has departed Deer Lodge. Authorities fear the suspects may flee into nearby mountains.
In Butte Montana on February 14 Detective Murphy arrested William McCullagh on suspicion of belonging to a Northern Pacific train robbery gang. A belt containing $485.90 was seized as evidence.
General William Booth and his son-in-law Commander Booth-Tucker, heads of Salvation Army activities in the United States, joined President Roosevelt for luncheon. Cabinet members Hay Root Moody, Senator Hanna, and other public figures attended as guests. Roosevelt expressed strong interest in the army’s work and discussed its impact in the US and England.
Dr Randall Davidson is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral London February 13. The ceremony fills the cathedral with church dignitaries civil naval and military officials in full robes and uniforms. The archbishop takes the customary oath and the clergy promise obedience. Bonsteel S D February 13 stockmen report cattle perishing from deep snow west of here with two feet of snowfall over 100 miles hindering feeding.
Official notice states the Saxon court has granted a divorce to the crown prince. The wife fled with the French tutor Giron and is found to be the guilty party, bearing the costs.
Berlin reports Guatemala has been declared in a state of siege after dispatches from the capital. The move signals heightened military and political control across the republic amid ongoing tensions.
Helena Montana February 14 The Northern Pacific company posts a reward of 5000 dollars for the arrest and conviction of the men who held up the Burlington express east of Butte.
Rear Admiral Basil Cochran claims in the London Times that guards regiments flog subalterns for social or military faults. He cites coercive court martials, vicious caning from six to forty blows, and witnesses forced to strike. He notes Captain Levison-Gower’s flogging and Major General Oliphant’s harsher punishment leading to resignation. Parliament to address the issue. Also: gunboat Bennington to be commissioned at Mare Island and join the Pacific squadron under Rear Admiral Glass.
Adelaide reports unofficial estimates of a six bushels per acre wheat yield with an exportable surplus of 130 530 tons. In St Louis the Olympian Games 1904 are confirmed by cable from France with Secretary Stevens announcing everything settled for the event.
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