World and national notes from the week
Gov McInnes of Yukon visits Victoria en route to Ottawa. Gen Grodekoff takes command in the far east from Gen Linevitch. Premier Witte resigns thrice last week only to be urged to stay. Iowa lawmakers criminalize firecrackers and explosives on July 4. Naval academy midshipmen vote to abolish hazing. New York insurance committee reports unanimous findings with forthcoming bills. U.S. railroad earnings 1905 reach about 1.907 billion dollars covering ~180K miles. gains exceed 150 million from prior year.
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Iowa House of Representatives
Midshipmen
Naval Academy
Chinese Outbreak Not Believed Imminent
New York reports reassurances from Methodist Episcopal missions in China about conditions there. Bishop Bashford in Shanghai and mission officials in Tientsin Nankin Central China Chungkeng West China and Foochow state all are safe with no danger apparent. No recent letters indicate trouble or fear of an outbreak among Chinese populations.
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New York
China
Lien Chow
Shanghai
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Bashford
Tientsin
North China
Nankin
Central China
Chungkeng
West China
Foochow
Hinghau
South China
Foreign sentiment in China described by Reuters dispatch
A Shanghai Reuters Telegram dispatch reports no conditions requiring US troops and no marked anti foreign feeling in Northern or Central China, indicating stability noted at the time.
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London
Reuter
Shanghai
United States
China
Rate War to Coast Likely as Northwest Rail Rates Clash
St Paul Minnesota February 19 troubling dispute grows between Chicago St Paul lines and rivals over through tourist car service from Chicago to the Pacific coast. The Burlington Great Northern move to offer a $1 tourist rate during through travel undercuts standard $2 sleeping car rates, threatening to upend the balance of power and ignite a sharp rate war across the Northwest.
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St. Paul, Minn
Chicago-St. Paul Lines
Burlington and Great Northern
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Burlington-Great Northern
St. Paul
Burlington
Fallieres Becomes President of France at Elysee Palace
In Paris on February 19 Clement Armand Fallieres assumed the duties of president of France as former President Loubet retired to private life. The transmission of office occurred at 4 PM in the Elysee with crowds cheering Long live the president and Long live Fallieres while 21 gun salutes roared from surrounding garrisons.
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Paris
Clement Armand Fallieres
France
Loubet
Elysee Palace
Fallieres
Tacoma Socialists Nominate City Election Ticket
Survey work begins on the Walla Walla to Milton electric line. Two Colfax youths are jailed for attempting to wreck an O R & N train. Wheat markets rise with Puget Sound leading exports. Florence Gage becomes state YWCA secretary. Colfax High School's Prof Parsons arrested for cuffing a pupil. Stetson and Post mill property sold to Washington Northern for 750000 dollars on Seattle waterfront.
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Colfax
Stetson & Post Mill
Washington Northern Railway
Seattle
Taft backs aid for Alaska railways
The House committee on territories advances a Lovering bill to guarantee 4 percent interest on 30 million dollars in bonds for Alaska railway construction. Secretary Taft, via Major Richardson, signals strong support. In Minnesota, reports claim Harriman interests control the Duluth St Paul Glencoe Mankato line with Illinois Central to operate upon completion, linking head of the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Washington
Lovering
Alaska
House Committee On Territories
Taft
Major Richardson
Alaska Road Commission
St. Paul
Pioneer Press
Mankato
Minn
Duluth, St. Paul
Duluth Warehouse Fire Destroys Grain as Loss Reaches Million
A Duluth elevator warehouse owned by F H Peavey Co burned Saturday destroying about 1,000,000 bushels of grain mainly wheat. The total loss, including the building, is estimated at 1,000,000 dollars and is fully insured. No wind toward neighboring waterfront districts prevented greater damage.
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Duluth, Minn
Duluth
F. H. Peavey & Co
Minneapolis
Chile Plans Water Supply for Several Cities
Santiago reports the government will establish water supply systems for Concepcion Taola and other cities at an aggregate cost of 7 500 000 dollars.
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Chile
Santiago
Concepcion
Taola
Seattle Market Prices for Grain Livestock and Eggs
Seattle market report lists f o b prices for oats barley wheat chicken feed bran corn and alfalfa plus live stock hogs sheep and cattle values. It covers eggs poultry hides wool hay and butter with multiple regional adjustments and per pound or per head figures.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Supreme Court rules railroads may not act as coal dealers in freight
Justice White delivered the United States Supreme Court opinion affirming a lower court ruling against the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad in a discrimination case. The decision held that allowing carriers to sell the commodities they carry would enable discriminatory freight practices and violate the act to regulate commerce.
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Washington, D. C
Justice White
Supreme Court of the United States
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
United States Circuit Court For
Western District of Virginia
Chesapeake & Ohio
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Chesapeake & Ohio Road
New Haven
Chesapeake & Ohio Company
White
Germany Ready to Make Concessions on Tariff Policy
Berlin reports the government will ask the Reichstag to grant the United States the same tariff treatment as other reciprocal nations when the new tariff takes effect March 1. The plan, likely limited to a one year period, hinges on Washington invoicing and valuation reforms. The move faces pressure from domestic exporters and a hostile Reichstag and U S Senate alike.
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Berlin
Reichstag
United States
Germany
Washington
United States Senate
Peaceful Revolution in Ireland Gains Wide Support
London reports William O'Brien stating a peaceful revolution is under way in Ireland. Conciliation is broadly accepted by nationalists and Orange democracy. West Belfast victory credited to Protestant workers, with growing alliance between nationalists and unionists acknowledged by John Redmond and former opponents of conciliation.
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London
William O'Brien
Ireland
Orange Democracy
England
West Belfast
O’brien
John Redmond
Witte or Durnovo Guar Must Choose in Russian Cabinet
Reports from St. Petersburg state a crisis in the government as the struggle between reactionary and progressive forces nears a climax. An imminent resignation of either Minister of the Interior Durnovo or Premier Witte is expected over the issue of withdrawing extraordinary powers from governors to permit freer electoral activity.
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St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Durnovo
Witte
Russia
Count Witte
Kutler
Interior
Electric line from Seattle to Vancouver seeks franchise
Seattle February 19 James A Moore will ask the city council for a franchise to build an electric railway from downtown Seattle to Vancouver British Columbia The project claims adequate capital and says the line will be fully electric with a good grade and steel construction It is not connected to steam railways nor a revival of the Whatcom Skagit Interurban effort and Col E M Day of Bellingham has also sought a franchise for the Vancouver line
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Seattle
James A. Moore
City of
Moore
Vancouver
B. C
Col. E. M. Day
Bellingham
John A. Mc Call Dies at Laurel House Lakewood
John A. Mc Call former president of the New York Life Insurance Company died yesterday at the Laurel house in Lakewood New Jersey. He had been taken there three weeks earlier for health reasons after a breakdown two months prior.
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New York
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Laurel House
Lakewood
N. J
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Gov. McInnes
Yukon
Victoria
Ottawa
Far East
Grodekoff
Linevitch
New York Legislative Committee On Insurance
Washington News
Tacoma
Walla Walla
Milton
Walla Walla County
Florence Gage
The
Young Women’s Christian Association
Puget
Dstrict
Prof. Parsons
Colfax High School
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
South
Herriman Doings
Minnesota
Seattle Market Report
Supreme Court
B.C
Tmiscontntal
Mace
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
Portland
All Points East
Hoquiam
Ocosta
All Point East
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
N. P. Ry. Co
Portland, Oregon
Canadian Pacific
F. C. Collins, T.P.A
John Halstead
F.&p.a
Phil
Locke
Nature
His
St. Phone
Ec. J. Bradley President
State Bank
N. E
Heron
H Streets
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
Wash
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Heron and
Wishkah
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