Fulton Wins Out Surprises on Final Day of Session
In a last minute twist Kor ty third ballot of the session produced the result Fulton clinching the outcome at the end of the legislative session.
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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1903
Page
3
In a last minute twist Kor ty third ballot of the session produced the result Fulton clinching the outcome at the end of the legislative session.
In Salem Oregon this noon Charles W Fulton was elected United States senator after a dramatic forty third ballot in the legislature. George C Brownell rapped the session to order as Fulton gained votes from Multnomah and Geer supporters in a swift late swing. Fulton thanked supporters and pledged to represent the entire state.
Chicago reports 10 below zero as the coldest of the winter across the region. Temperatures ranged from 1 above in Louisville to 24 below at West Superior. Cities from Peoria to St Paul show frigid readings while western areas moderate. No direct deaths reported yet. relief committees work hard. Coal supply shown as ample with surplus stock.
A British parliamentary return shows 317 municipal corporations in England excluding London, with 299 operating productive undertakings. Total capital reaches 1.055 billion dollars, average annual income 65 million, and average annual expenses 41.25 million. In Manchester sheriff brings requisition papers for ex Mayor Ames, under surveillance awaiting a governor hearing.
Washington reports a Caracas decree raising duties on all imports by 30 percent as a wartime measure. Officials note the move shifts the indemnity burden onto foreign merchants who handle Venezuela’s import trade, with the 30 percent rate matching the duties at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello.
The Western Alaska Construction Company of Chicago filed maps and surveys with the interior department for a Council City and Solomon River railroad in the Seward Peninsula Alaska. The New Jersey incorporated firm with $1,000,000 capital aims to connect Solomon River mining zones with tidewater at Good Hope Bay and surrounding harbors. General manager J Warren Dickson says construction will begin early spring and attract Chicago New York capitalists.
Thousands of Chicago tenants may face cold and disruption if landlords do not sign the Flat Janitors union wage scale by Saturday noon. A union vote shows strong support for walking out. about 1,800 janitors belong to the union, and only those in buildings with nonsigning owners would strike. If the strike goes ahead, coal, groceries and other home comforts controlled by the union could be cut off.
The interior department will continue enforcing penalties for sheep pasturage on forest reserves despite Judge Hanford Seattle ruling that such regulations would defeat water storage aims. The department cites the 1897 act authorizing regulation of forest reserves as justification.
A tornado struck the passenger steamer Olive at 9:30 p.m. as it ran between Franklin Virginia and Edenton North Carolina. The vessel sank at Wooley's pier between Mount Pleasant and Oliver's wharf. Seventeen people drowned and others were seriously injured. Captain Withrey and five others were rescued from the pilot house after waist deep flooding.
Die Information reports Turkish troops who had no pay or rations plundered Erz ingdam. In one village twenty men and women were tied to trees in a nearby forest and left for wolves. The next morning only bones remained.
Washington February 20 Justice Shiras has presented his resignation to the president to take effect February 24 William R Day former secretary of state of Ohio has been chosen as his successor replacing Shiras on the high court
In Olympia on February 18 the house clashed over the Dix railroad commission bill. Speaker Hare ruled it indefinitely postponed, then allowed a roll call to restore it to the calendar amid wild disorder. Commission members clashed with railroad supporters in a chaotic adjournment attempt.
The Ninth cavalry stationed at Walla Walla will be mounted after a months long stay from the Philippines. A contract for three hundred horses at 117 dollars each has been let to Herman Matesger of Portland. Deliveries must be completed within 60 days and most stock is expected to come from Eastern Oregon ranges.
Republican senators held a caucus in Washington on February 18 and agreed to continue Senate consideration of the Panama Canal treaty until disposition. The plan preserves the statehood bill’s favorable position and commits to executive session for ratification as needed.
Washington on February 18 government formally accepts the Panama Canal Company offer to sell canal property and all rights to the United States for 40 million dollars. The agreement is subject to ratification of the pending treaty with Colombia and extends the option beyond March 4 until both nations ratify the treaty.
Miners at Nanaimo quitted work with about 800 employees against Western Fuel of San Francisco. They seek 75 to 80 cents per ton raise, 25 cents daily for safety lamps, and $1 extra per ton for mining in the lower sea level. Separate item notes a naval magazine explosion at Fort Lafayette, New York bay, causing multiple fatalities and injuries.
The mail pouch reported stolen with $75,000 in corporate paper was located among other pouches in Indianapolis. Authorities say the pouch and its contents are intact and an investigation is underway.
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