Happenings of the week across regions and politics
Victoria elects A J McCandless mayor. Wells-Fargo and Pacific Express form a combine. Alaska reports its warmest winter. Military bill reports favorably. Tommy Ryan stops Billy Stift in Kansas City. Pedro creek placer strike. 4714 dead, 43112 houses burned in Andijan quake. Submarine torpedo inventor M Goubet dies. Cuban ex-soldiers demand pay or revolt. Philippine constabulary chiefs bill advances. Champ Clark minority leadership bid. DeArmond backs Clark. Desperate convict Grimay escapes Dawson. threat of arson. N G Gonzalez shot in Columbia. Tillman suspected motive political. Gonzalez likely to die.
Morris Barrett Dead Pioneer of Northwest Printing
Port Townsend Washington January 14 Morris Barrett a pioneer in the Northwest printing industry is dead Born in Aurelia New York in 1835 he worked as foreman at the government printing office in Washington married the adopted daughter of William H Seward later moved to Oregon and in 1889 wed Emma Molloy an evangelist He had resided in Port Townsend for ten years.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Morris Barrett
Northwest
Aurelia
N. Y
Washington
William H. Seward
Lincoln
Mr. Barrett
Oregon
Emma Molloy
Capote Recommends Unamended Reciprocity Treaty Ratification
Domingo Mendez Capote, president of the senate and foreign relations committee member, reports that the reciprocity treaty should be ratified in full without amendment. The full committee will receive the report and is expected to present it to the senate this week with little discussion anticipated.
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Havana
Domingo Mendez Capote
Senate
Associated Press
Toto
Senor Capote
Pleiades Reaches Yokohama After Fears of Loss
The Boston Steam ship Pleiades, missing for two weeks, has reached Yokohama. The only detail given is that she called at Dutch Harbor for coal before arriving. no further information on her condition or voyage was released.
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Seattle
Boston Steamship Company
Pleiades
Yokohama
Guam Harbor Improvement Fund Proposed in Naval Bill
Senate Frye proposed an amendment to the naval appropriation bill to allocate 1.5 million dollars for the principal harbor on Guam. The measure targets harbor improvements on the island’s coast.
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Guam
Washington
Senate Frye
Peoria Council Urges Factory Closures Over Coal Shortage
The Peoria city council on January 14 named a committee to approach owners of major factories with a request to close plants for two days to help relieve a coal famine.
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Peoria, Ills
Virginia Congressman Proposes Philippine Coinage Plan
Representative Jones of Virginia introduces a bill in the House to extend the U S coinage system to the Philippine islands, outlining a framework for minting and currency use there.
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Philippines
Washington
Jones
Virginia
United States
Philippine Islands
Legislature Opens With Bills And Mourning Honors
The state Senate convened at 10 with Tolman introducing a Tolman railway commission bill and an adjournment planned for 2 pm for a joint session with the House to hear Governor McBride. The House offered no bills, instead noting memorials and adopting new session rules.
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Senate
Smith
Badger
Tolman
House
McBride
Thue
McKinley
Rogers
Alaska Canneries Merge Under San Francisco Firm Control
Fourteen southeastern Alaska salmon canneries united at the Cecil hotel and placed under Griffith, Darney & Co. of San Francisco effective yesterday afternoon. The merged output of 600000 to 800000 cases annually will be controlled from Seattle with Henry F. Allen of San Francisco investing over 1000000 dollars to manage the Seattle operations. Joseph Darney of San Francisco led the deal and announced the merger after the meeting.
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Seattle
Alaska
Cecil Hotel
Griffith, Darney & Co
San Francisco
Henry F. Allen
Joseph Darney
Oregon Inaugural Governor Chamberlain Names Manning to Multnomah Vacancy
Salem Oregon January 16 George E Chamberlain was sworn in as governor in a joint session. He immediately named John Manning of Multnomah county to fill the vacancy created by his own resignation to become governor. Both houses passed the Portland charter bill detailing radical city government changes.
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Salem
George E. Chamberlain
Oregon
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists prices offered to producers for delivery in round lots on the dock or car. Grain oats at 24.25 per ton, barley 24, chicken feed 25, bran 17, shorts 18.40. hay Puget Sound 8.11, Eastern Washington 16, alfalfa 10. eggs strictly fresh ranch 32 cents per dozen. poultry live hens 14 cents per lb, old roosters 8, ducks 13-14, spring chickens 13, geese 9. livestock beef cattle cows 4, steer 43-44, sheep 4, hogs 6-6.5, calves 5-7, spring lambs 4. wheat Bluestem 2, club 72. cattle steer 4.75 per cwt, cows 3.50, sheep 4.50, hogs 6.50, veals 7-9. oats 25.50-26.50, rolled oats 26.50. barley feed whole grain 25, rolled 26. timothy east of mountains 17-18 per ton, clover 15.50-17, alfalfa 15-16, wheat 26.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Timothy
Tarife Off Coal Free List Bill Clears House
The House passed a coal duty rebate bill by 258 to 5. Republicans Cushman Jones Gaines Mondell Patterson voted no. The Senate adopted a committee amendment to prevent duties on anthracite after the rebate period. The House later concurred, sending the measure to the president for signature.
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Washington
Jan
House
Cushmand
Jones
Gaines
West Virginia
Mondell
Wyoming
Patterson
Pennsylvania
Senate
Might Seize Mines Resolution Proposed by Judiciary
Washington January 15 The judiciary committee chairman introduced a resolution authorizing the committee to investigate and report on the power of Congress to declare necessity for taking possession of all coal and coal mines in the United States and all transportation lines and assets needed to move coal If power is found to exist the committee would report a bill detailing occasions modes conditions and agencies for such appropriations to exhaust Congress power in that regard
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Washington
Judiciary Committee
Committee On Judiciary
House
Congress
United States
Spokane Falls and Northern Railway Changes Route
Colville Washington January 14 from reliable information the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway will change its line between Colville and Marcus to bypass heavy grades. About ten miles of new track to be built leaving Hall's siding five miles west of Colville then along the Colville river to the old Catholic mission two miles east of Kettle Falls then up the east bank of the Columbia to Marcus. Muliken Bros hold the grading contract and work will start about March first. The new route may create a town at the old mission and shifts Meyers Falls eastward by nearly a mile.
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Colville
Wash
Spokane Falls & Northern Railway Company
Marcus
Hall’s Siding
Old Catholic
Kettle Falls
Columbia River
Meyers Falls
Old Mission
Muliken Bros
Senator Mason Withdraws from Senate Seat Contest
Springfield Illinois Jan 14 United States Senator Mason has announced his withdrawal from the contest to be his own successor admitting the impossibility of his re election Representative Church of Chicago the father of the move to elect a Chicago man to succeed Senator Mason has also lost all hope of succeeding in the undertaking and Congressman A J Hopkins of Aurora will probably be chosen without opposition
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Springfield
United States
Mason
Representative Church of
Chicago
A. J. Hopkins
Aurora
Fire damages Gould home tapestries in mysterious blaze
In New York on January 14 a fire started mysteriously in the woodwork of the north hall at George J. Gould’s home. The blaze damaged tapestries and several paintings on the broad stairs with losses estimated at 10000 dollars while Gould and family were away.
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New York
George J. Gould
Pension for General Sigels Widow
The house committee on pensions favors a bill granting a pension of $100 a month to General Sigels widow.
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Washington
House Committee On Pensions
Sigel
Taft Declines Supreme Court Seat Acceptance for Philippines
Washington reports Taft will remain civil governor of the Philippines after the president offered the U S Supreme Court seat and Taft declined. Judge Day of Canton Ohio is expected to accept the associate justice post if offered.
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Cleveland
Washington
the Leader
Taft
Phillippine Islands
William R. Day
Canton
Ohio
Day
United States
Sixth
Philippines
Philippine
Root
Luke E. Wright
Supreme Court of the United States
Roosvelt
Philppines
Supreme Bench
General Wright
Wright
Manila
Islands
Supreme Court of the
Supreme Justiceship
Agreement Reached on Transvaal War Contribution
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and Johannesburg mining leaders agree on a Transvaal war contribution of 150 million dollars and a 150 million dollar imperial loan for public works. Chinese labor importation to mines discussed as part of the labor settlement. London papers applaud the equitable compromise easing Rand industry uncertainty.
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Johannesburg
Chamberlain
Transvaal
Orange River
London
Lincoln apartment house to become new hotel in Seattle
The Lincoln apartment house at Madison and Fourth in Seattle passes to A A Wright, El L Bowers’s son in law and Hotel Portland manager. Work to convert it into a first class American plan hotel will start. The new name is undecided yet, possibly Knickerbocker or Bowers hotel, and it aims to open around March 1.
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Seattle
Lincoln
Madison Street
Fourth Avenue
A. A. Wright
el. L. Bowers
Portland
Toledo Work House Freezes Coal Theft Prisoners
The work house board orders release of all prisoners jailed for stealing coal from railroad cars and tracks in Toledo Ohio on January 14.
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Toledo
Ohio
The
Workhouse Board
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Victoria
B. C
Wells-Fargo and
Pacific Express Companies
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Tommy Ryan
Billy Stift
Kansas City
Pedro Creek
Tanana Country
Circle
Andijan
Russian Turkestan
M. Goubet
Philippine Constabulary
Missouri
Champ Clark
DeArmond
Clark
Thomas Grimay
Dawson Penitentiary
Klondike City
N. G. Gonzalez
Columbia State
South Carolina
Columbia
James H. Tillman
Gonzalez
the State Legislature
John R. Rogers
President Roosevelt
Mt. Baker Forest Reserve
Committee On Rules
Alaska Canneries
Frisco
Seattle Market Report
Tacoma
Cushman
Spokane & Northern
Gould
Wood
Mindanao
Division
Federal Supreme Bench
Justice Shiras
Johannesberg
Lincoln Hotel
Aberdeen Brewing Co
Telephone
W. B. Lowrie
C. M. Demeree
Washington Abstract Company
Chehalis County
Grays Harbor
G Street
Aberdeen State Bank
Aberdeen
H Street
St. Louis
Maman SN
M. P. Benton
Pioneer Square
Seattle, Wash
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
Prop
Pacific Hotel
H. A. Tereda & CO
Zelasko
Star Meat Market
James Barrett
Propr
F Street
Aberdeen Livery and Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
Prepr
Harbor
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