Clallam Inquiry Sheds Light on Engineer Neglect
Seattle testimony from the Clallam disaster probe indicates Chief Engineer De Launay delayed reporting flooding to Captain Roberts, possibly costing 54 lives. Witnesses describe water reaching three to four feet in the hold and pumps failing to function, hindering timely evacuation.
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Seattle
Scott de Launey
Clallam
Roberts
United States Marine
Whitney
Turner
de Launay
Dungeness
de Lannay
J. W. Doney
L. Meyers
William Cox
Captain Roberts
Dungeness Shoals
Boers Plan Montana Colony Amid Settlement Talks
St Paul reports nearing completion of plans to found a Boer colony in Montana. Land will be chosen along the Shields or Milk River valleys with immigration expected in spring. General G Joubert and Captain W S O'Donnell lead preparations, while J J Hill helped select Montana over Mexico due to yellow fever concerns.
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St. Paul
Montana
Shields River
Milk River
America
G. Joubert
W.S. O'Donnell
Mexico
J. J. Hill
Elk National Park Proposed for Olympic Mountains
A bill to create a national park in Washington state would set aside a thirty by twenty mile tract near Lake Crescent as Elk National Park. The area, part of the Olympic forest reserve, is home to the Roosevelt elk and will be introduced in the House by Representative Cushman.
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Washington
Olympic Mountains
Cushman
Lake Crescent
Elk National Park
Olympic Forest Reserve
Senate panel backs Blackburn bill paying Liliuokalani
Washinon Jan 18 The senate committee on Pacific islands reports favorably on Senator Blackburns bill to pay Liliuokalani former queen of Hawaii two hundred thousand dollars in full satisfaction of all claims to the former crown lands in Hawaii.
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Washinon
Senate Committee On Pacific Islands
Blackburn
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Russian order for 1000 wagons to Russia
A local manufacturer has received an order from the Russian government for 1000 wagons to be shipped mostly to Omaha and forwarded with consignments of wheat and meats from that city. Five hundred wagons are ready for shipment.
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Russia
Sauk Center
Minn
Omaha
Strike Proclaimed by United Mine Workers at Steel Mines
Pittsburg January 19 The United Mine Workers convention at Moorhead Hall ends with a declaration of a general strike at United States Steel Corp mines in the region after wage reductions. District No 5 officers vow to oppose all cuts bitterly.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
United Mine Workers’ Convention
Moorehead Hall
Steel Trust
MacArthur Assumes Command of Pacific Division
Gen. MacArthur in San Francisco announces Major General has taken command of the Pacific division.
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Gen. MacArthur
San Francisco
MacArthur
Division of the Pacific
Codlin moth control outlined by Northwest growers
Tacoma January report notes A Van Holderbeke’s account of a Northwest fruit growers convention in Portland. The group established a district specific orchard treatment plan for codlin moth eradication, stressing timing, monitoring by worm milestones, and tailored spraying to local climate for seasonly success.
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Tacoma
A. van Holderbeke
Portland
Northwest
van Holderbeke
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
British Columbia
Swift packers buy land to fuel southern cattle feeding
Chicago reports say Swifts Armour Nelson and Sulzberger along with the Louisville and Nashville Railway group acquired 10 million acres in Southern Alabama and Northern Florida for 3.75 an acre total 3.75 million. The plan aims to create the world’s largest cattle feeding ground on swamp and pine lands to cut freight costs and fatten cattle on cavassa with a 1 million acre cavassa plantation and mills for starch.
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Chicago
Swifts
Armour, Nelson and Schwarzchild & Sulzberger
Stockyards
Alabama
Florida
LaSalle Street
America
Louisville & Nashvilel Railway
Great Chicago
South
Montana
New York
Cavassa
Alabama Agricultural Commission
Noted Oddities and River Roanoke Saga from Historical Clippings
A Kansas editor receives a humorous plea for a husband notice amid a collage of anecdotes. The text recounts a Heidelberg banker’s self-inflicted death after curiosity about the heart, Twain’s Whistler chat, and a prolific Lecky Irish tale. It ends recalling the Roanoke steamer’s 1860s voyage perils and Bixby’s later river work.
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Kansas
Adolf Kussmaus
Sr. Nuhn
James McNeil Whistler
Mark Twain
Whistler
London
William Lecky
Mr. Lecky
Washington Great Timbers Arrive for St Louis Fair
Giant Washington state timbers arrive at the world fair grounds and are staged on the plateau. Four sections measure two by two feet with lengths of 100 and 110 feet. They will form a pyramid in the Washington pavilion rising about ninety feet, supporting a six story building on concrete footings. Two sides will be planed and polished while two remain rough.
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St. Louis
Washinon State Building
Washington Pavilion
First rubber extracted by machinery from Colorado plant
Denver in 191? report notes the Colorado rubber plant yielded the first mechanical extraction without chemicals. The rubber is comparable to Para rubber and avoids coloring matter from leeching. The new method costs under ten cents per pound and could scale production.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Korea to Open Yon gampho and Jikoho Ports
London dispatch reports the Korean cabinet has decided to open Yon gampho and Jikoho ports. The decision will be issued after the empress dowager's mourning period ends.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Tokyo
Yongampho
Jikoho
Buffalo Blocked a River With Ice and Buffalo Herds
Capt. William R. Duvall, former Mississippi and Missouri river pilot, visits Warrensburg Missouri. He recalls guiding Grant’s army transport to Pittsburg Landing in 1862 and the Roanoke up the Missouri to Fort Benton in 1865. He describes vast buffalo herds crossing the Missouri and Sioux threats on the way to Montana.
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St. Louis
Benton
Missouri
Bixby
Hale
William R. Duvall
Mississippi
Warrensburg
Kansas City Star
Grant
Pittsburg
Tennessee River
Shiloh
Duvall
Horace Bixby
Buffalo
Popularity of Songs and the Meeker Side of Life
The piece muses on enduring tunes like McGinty Dooley and Hiawatha and recalls a Welsh hillside memory of Mr Dooley. It then shifts to light verse about flaxseed and mustard poultices and a Paris night chorus. A Panama Revolt anecdote ends with a wry jab at political patronage.
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Mr. Dooley
North Wales
Penmaenmawr
New York
Paris
Champs Elysees
Meester Dooley
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Aberdeen
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Norm & Hartung
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A. I. McCall
J. H. McFadden
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