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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1905
Page
3
Kansas lawmakers approve a $410000 project to build a state oil refinery and a penitentiary at Peru to provide convict labor. The measure, backed by Gov Hoch, faces court tests as bonds await validation from the state supreme court.
Washington report states the House adopted a resolution directing the secretary of commerce and labor to investigate the Kansas oil situation focusing on Standard Oil Company and its claimed market control. The probe aims to reveal how the company may influence price and supply.
Chicago February 16 John Maynard Harlan was unanimously nominated for mayor at the Republican city convention. A lawyer and son of Supreme Court Justice John M Harlan he comes from a prominent family with connections to Lake Forest University and Porto Rico. Previously he led an independent ticket in 1897 and sought the nomination in 1901 and 1908 but was defeated each time.
President's message to Senate argues the Monroe doctrine requires the US to ensure South and Central American republics and West Indies pay just debts. It advocates US control of Santo Domingo revenues to preserve peace and uphold the doctrine. The Santo Domingo protocol was referred to the foreign relations committee.
Portland news reports the federal grand jury adjourned after returning indictments tied to the Blue Mountain reserve land frauds involving 200000 acres and more than 3 million dollars. Indictments target John H Mitchell Binger Hermann John Williamson Franklin Mays W H Jones and George Sorenson. Former officials Hall Rees Cayler Ford and Cordano are charged with conspiring to impede justice against District Attorney Heney as he heads to Washington for a habeas corpus motion. Heney expects a month away and aims to reconvene the grand jury on return for possibly further indictments.
Seattle reports a new town named Cement City will emerge after March 1 about 28 miles east of Burlington in Skagit county on the Great Northern line. A Portland cement plant, capitalized at 200000 dollars with fully subscribed stock, will manufacture cement from local rock and clay, with Great Northern adding sidetracks and laying the town’s foundation in cement.
F A Falkenberg head consul of the Modern Woodmen of the World and president of the National Fraternal Congress died in Los Angeles from a complication of troubles. Born in 1857, he helped found the Order of Woodmen of the World in 1890 with Joseph C Root and served as head consul of the Western Division since then. He was elected president of the National Fraternal Congress last summer in St Louis.
Victoria British Columbia February 15 approval by the legislature recommending to the federal government the imposition of a protective duty on lumber to support local timber interests and industry.
Congressman Vespasian Warner, famed Civil War veteran and long-time Illinois representative, is nominated for Pension Commissioner. The column recounts his early life as a news boy, wartime service, Harvard Law graduation in 1868, and steady ascent in public affairs since the Fifty-fourth Congress.
The Alaska purchase, once opposed, transformed U S wealth through exports of gold copper tin silver fish fur and oil. By 1908 Alaska paid back many times its cost and held vast untapped mineral and agricultural potential with 30 million acres consid ered tillable and valued massive future gains for the nation.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, born July 2 1827 in Paris, heads the banking house founded by Mayer Anselm Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main in 1743. The article highlights his rise from obscurity to prominence within a storied banking dynasty and notes a fortuitous family ascent.
The article notes Alphonse Baron and his brothers rising as influential bankers across Europe linking to the Austrian imperial era. It also reports Luciano Butti’s device able to register 2,000 impressions per second enabling detailed tracking of animal movement, while Massachusetts railroads introduce hourly registering clocks for trackwalkers to aid oversight.
A boarder and the landlady spar over visitors lingering at the door. The boarder teases that twenty years in boarding houses taught him tricks, while the landlady coldly defends discipline and remarks on the temptation of admiring a man with a pretty view.
Dr Watkins of Crowther Wooding block rooms 7 and 8 postoffice block graduates of American School of Osteopathy Kirksville Mo. Office hours 9 30 to 11 30 a m 1 to 5 and 7 30 to 9 p m Tel 1884 Dentist 815 Market St Commercial Block Office Hours 9 a m to 8 p m Tel 1543 Residence 541 J C Cross Attorney at Law Will practice in state and federal courts Zelaska Block G Street
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