World News Wraps Items Across Continents
Work on the electric line between Portland and Salem continues. No strike by Lackawanna firemen after amicable settlement. Chinese commissioners tour Chicago stockyards factories and attend a banquet. Alaska seeks Judge Wickersham as governor. Brazilian turretship Aquidaban sinks. 800 feared dead. Major General Woods to command Philippines forces February 1. Corbin to sail February 9 for Korea. John Willis Baer named president of Occidental College in Los Angeles.
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Leonard Woods
Corbin
Philippines
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Korea
John Willis Baer
New York
Christian Endeavor Society
Boston
Presbyterian Board of Missions
Occidental College
West
Los Angeles
Governor Mead Leases Convict Labor for Spokane Roads
Spokane officials accept Governor Mead's offer to supply up to fifteen convicts for county road work as an experimental program. Highway Commissioner Snow says a bill will be introduced to authorize convict labor and guard housing medical care and bedding will be provided. Convicts are to be put to work at the county rock crusher and quarry to macadamize roads.
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Spokane
Albert Mead
J. M. Snow
George W. Collins
Washington Earnings Report for Northern Pacific Rail
The first annual report to the State railroad commission shows 28 percent of Northern Pacific gross earnings come from Washington. Systemwide gross earnings reach 50,771,670. The state accounts for 1,535 miles of track with 14.13 million dollars in Washington revenue, 2.177 million passenger fares, and 5.294 million tons of freight. Operating expenses in Washington were 3.5 million, with two deaths and thirty-eight injuries from train accidents in state. The company owns 15 locomotives, 33 passenger cars, and 33,137 freight cars. The total system cost to 1905 is 322 million, with 293 million in funded debt outstanding.
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Olympia
Northern Pacific Railway
Washington
State Railroad Commission
State of Washington
Passengeer
T&s
Ses.oos
SS Company
Frei
Chelan to vote on new school house proposal
Washington news notes Chelan voters face a decision on a schoolhouse proposal while Kennewick sees heavy real estate sales. Lummi Indian boys from seven to seventeen are sent to Tulalip. County auditor lists Whatcom property at 12 890 421 dollars amid litigation over tide lands. Lieut governor Coon acts as governor during Mead's Salt Lake trip. William Hickman Moore seeks Seattle mayoral bid with Democratic backing. Kid White’s hanging is postponed to March 2 to allow appeals for clemency.
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Chelan
Kennewick
Pacific Coast Company Stock Transferred
A San Francisco dispatch reports ten million shares of Pacific Coast Company stock moved to Harriman or Hill interests in New York. The transfer is believed to fund Harriman's plan to secure Seattle Union Pacific terminal facilities. Nearby tide land acquisitions by Harriman reinforce the connection to Pacific Coast Company waterfront holdings in Seattle.
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Seattle
Dispatch
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Harriman System
Pacific Coast Company
New York
Harriman
Hill
Union Pacific
Insurance Reform Urged by State Insurance Commissioners
Insurance commissioners from several states conferred with New York lawmakers here urging immediate reform. Senator Armstrong said the committee’s report would reach the legislature in about two weeks after two weeks of conferences and investigations.
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New York
Insurance Commissioners
Armstrong
Seattle Market Prices and Tacoma Quotations Snapshot
Market report lists producer offers in Seattle and Tacoma for grains hay and feedstuffs with per ton prices for oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn and hay Eastern and Western Washington wool tallow and poultry and meat prices for live and dressed products. Figures show wide ranges across commodities including oats 26 27 per ton barley 22 23 per ton and bran 19 per ton with livestock prices such as live hens 13 13 1 2 c per lb and dressed poultry prices.
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Seattle
Shorts
Washington
Puget Sound
Tacoma
Wheat—Club
Tlic
Bluestem
Ickens
Washington Creamery
Eastern
Washington Bee
Government Printing Reforms Cut Unnecessary Reports
President issues rules to all executive departments to trim reports and cut excess material. Committees will edit before printing, condense statistics, and reduce illustrations, with strict guidelines on content and format for annual reports. A general commission on bookmaking will study form and binding to improve efficiency.
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Washington
United States
Librarian of Congress
Keep
Indian Bill Passes to Finalize Five Tribes Affairs
Washington Jan 22 The House passed a bill for final disposition of the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory directing enrollment and land allotment amid numerous restrictions. Debate centered on 750000 dollars in Chickasaw nation attorneys fees deemed highway robbery by Mr Mann and explained as a contingent fee to purge enrollment rolls.
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Washington, D. C
Frigate Constitution
House
Indian Territory
Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish
Mann
Illinois
Lacey
Iowa
Riis Predicts Great Class War Led by Roosevelt
Jacob Riis, speaking in Toledo, predicts a historic conflict against the money power and special privilege, with Roosevelt leading the people to victory. He compares it to Washington and Lincoln's struggles and casts it as a fight for righteousness beyond party lines.
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Toledo
Jacob Ri
Roosevelt
Mr. Riis
Washington
Lincoln
South
Riis
Hepburn Rate Bill Soon Reported by House Committee
Washington D C Jan 22 Republican members of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee held a capi tol conference to discuss the Hepburn rate bill The caucus agreed on a phrase to define the maximum rate a carrier may charge and aimed to report the bill to the House this week in a modified form Senator Delivery of Iowa attended and joined in the review of provisions
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Washington, D. C
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Capitol
House
Delivery
Iowa
Hepburn
Washington oats declared best by official test
The agricultural department tested oats grown in California, Washington, and Minnesota at the request of the quartermaster general. Results show Washington oats superior to samples from Minnesota and California in a protest over Philippine forage contracts.
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Washington
Weshington
California
Minnesota
Agricultural Department
Quartermaster General
Army
St. Paul
Waston
Panama City Celebrates 223rd Founding Anniversary
Panama City marked the 223rd anniversary of its founding by De Contera with civic and religious demonstrations. The municipal government declared a holiday to observe the occasion.
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Panama
Panama City
de Contera
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Tulalip Indian School
Whatcom County
Gov. Coon
Gov. Mead
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William Hickman Moore
King County Superior Court
Kid White
White
Seattle Market Report
RIS
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East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewitt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Brice Painters
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Nature
Aberdeez
H. L. Cook & CO
E. Heron St. Tel
Kenilworth
Mo Lupton
Mgr
Aberdeen Steam Laundry
R. B. Porter
Choice Brands of
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C. C. Sargent
Prop
Meney Arouit
Cullen
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