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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1903
Page
3
The Washington house approved the Lewis bill making gambling resort operations a felony with imprisonment of one to three years. The vote was 49 to 26 with 19 absent or no vote. Debate stretched nearly 45 minutes as lawmakers split on the gambling issue and warned of a possible senate fight.
Representatives Jones Lacey and Mondell met with President Roosevelt by appointment to discuss appointing a committee to investigate the public domain. Roosevelt is greatly interested and a joint resolution to create the commission may be pursued.
Chicago February 16 at the Chicago Alumni banquet of the University of Michigan Angell predicted an invasion of American universities by European students within a few years He questioned the Cecil Rhodes bequest arguing it would have been better if it allowed English youth to attend American institutions He noted Oxford lacks scientific teaching
A cold wave brings snowfall across Southern California with heavy fall in the Los Angeles valley and in San Bernardino Riverside Pomona Redlands Colton and Pasadena. Lowlands melt quickly while temperatures approach danger levels and smudge fires are reported in valleys.
Lieutenant General Miles arrives in New York aboard the Lucania after five months abroad on a world tour. He and his wife appear well and refuse to discuss the contents of the forthcoming report to the president about the Philippines.
Bathan Doros, a Philadelphia diamond broker, lost $7000 in diamonds within ten minutes after stepping off a train in Chicago. He boarded a street car, traveled several blocks, and was pickpocketed in a crowded car. In Manchester, Sheriff Dieger arrived with requisition papers for ex Mayor Ames of Minneapolis, who remains under surveillance awaiting a governor's hearing.
William J. Bryan declares he will not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. He calls himself a plain worker in the Democratic ranks and emphasizes opposition to renomination. He identifies trust, imperialism, tariff, and money questions as key issues of the moment.
Treasury report details Alaska commerce for the six months ended December 31 1902. Domestic trade amounted to 28 720 894 with a substantial foreign share of 2 071 764. Total Alaska commerce totaled 30 792 658 with a domestic balance in favor of the territory at 21 570 246.
Governor McBride named R B Albertson to the fifth judge seat of the King County Superior Court. At 43 he is a North Carolina native and University of North Carolina graduate who settled in Seattle twenty years ago and started his own practice in 1886 after clerking with pioneer firms.
Reports from Placerville Idaho say two Thunder Mountain mail carriers are lost in deep snows with three others returning to report 18 to 35 feet of snow and two unknown prospectors dead. In St Paul the state suit against Northern Securities Company proceeds with rebuttal timing requested and granted.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Root studied a globe in the cabinet room and learned that the Alaskan boundary line, as marked, supports the United States stance. The globe reportedly was prepared under the direction of the British admiralty, a finding noted by observers.
Washinton Feb 16 The president naming Secretary Root a commissioner to settle Alaska boundary changes his retirement plan. Root had intended to resign within months but has decided to stay as War Secretary while serving as commissioner, reversing earlier expectations.
The Philippines commission grants Manila Railway Company the right to build a forty mile branch from Guiguinto to Cabanatuan, linking an interior hub with Manila and propelling a new era of agricultural development while safeguarding native interests.
The anthracite coal strike commission wraps up open hearings after an all day session led by Clarence S. Darrow for the miners. The panel plans secret talks in Washington next Thursday to consider the award with a potential wage increase retroactive to November first.
The senate approved an amendment to the Philippine coinage bill authorizing the president to invite gold and silver using nations to appoint a commission. The panel would devise a plan to establish and maintain a fixed commercial exchange between metals. A free silver substitute by Dubois was rejected without division.
In Washington the Elkins Bill to ban rebates to shippers passed the House 241 to 6 after a short debate under a special order. Six Democrats voted against. Maine's Mr. Littlefield did not vote. Democrats criticized the strict rule as overbearing and promised to seek amendments via the Littlefield bill. Separately, Seattle announced a March 1 through train change to Spokane and St. Paul, with new Nos. 1 and 2, while Nos. 3 and 4 remain unchanged.
In Lendhills Scotland the curfew bell remains in use guiding local time. Clocks are set by it and housewives trust its accuracy saying the clock is right on the minute for a month. Lead mining by villagers serves the Earl of Hopetoun and the Duke of Buccleuch, lords of the manor.
William L. Elkins plans a $500000 orphan girls home for Masons in Philadelphia on North Broad Street. The red brick and white marble Georgian style building will house 100 girls with trades training and a large gymnasium. It will include isolated hospital wards and dormitory rooms sized by age. Elkins, a 30 year Mason, funds what is deemed the world’s finest facility of its kind.
President Roosevelt appoints William H. Lewis of Boston as United States Attorney in the modern Athens. Lewis, Amherst and Harvard Law graduate, served in the Massachusetts legislature from Cambridge and has a noted football and debate record. Born 1868 in Virginia, he built a Cambridge practice after 1905.
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